Everything was going great for Paultin, he had finally finished the song he had been working on for the last week, he had gotten to this small village without any trouble, the wine was great and the innkeeper will give him a room if he could entertain everyone.Plus judging by the drunks happy reactions and drunken attempts to sing along he was going to get that room.



Taking a break to drink his wine and rest his voice. Paultin sat down at an empty table only to be quickly swarmed by a small blond girl wearing heavy golden armor.



"Hi. I really loved that last song that you played where did you learn it?" The girl asked quickly and excitedly



"I uh wrote it. Sorry, who are you?" Paultin wasn't wearing his glasses was he?



"Oh my silly me! I forgot to introduce myself didn't I, name's Evelyn." The girl - Evelyn - apparently stared at him with....hearts in her eyes? Paultin checked to see if he was wearing his glasses.



"Paultin." Paultin taking a big gulp of his wine, he is going to need it.



"Well isn't that just a lovely name. Lathander has blessed you with the power to bring light into people's heart, that's such a wonderful ability don't you think, the Morning Lord..." the girl just kept going on and on and then it had turned into a sermon of sorts. Paultin frankly had no idea how to deal with this, so he settled with drinking more wine.



Two more people entered the inn and that seemed to get the paladin out of her sermon. Turning towards the strangers the Evelyn shouted "Diath, Strix over here. Look who I met!" Waving the two figures closer.



Great more fan girls



To Paultin's relief neither of the two figures seemed no more interested in him than a passing glance. As they approached the table Paultin could tell that the two strangers were a human male and a female tiefling. The male was thin and athletic, a short sword was visible at his belt. The tiefling wore tattered robes and a large staff was strapped to her back, she looked small and slightly frightened by the number of people in the Inn.



As soon they reached the table, Evelyn launched into a rant telling her friends everything that she had learnt about Paultin.



"Oh I forgot to introduce you to my friends, Paultin this is Strix," the paladin gestured to the tiefling,"and Diath." This time she gestured to the man. "They are just so full of light and frie-"



"I think he gets it Evelyn, blah, blah, light, blah, butthander, blah." the tiefling said in a very put out manner. She had apparently been through this a lot. The two girls fell into a...friendly fight?

"So Paultin, have you been in town long?" Diath asked as he sat down in an empty chair at table. He was serious, Paultin briefly wondered what was wrong before deciding that it didn't matter unless it threatened the wine.

"uhh, no I just arrived this afternoon." Was Paultin drunk enough to deal with this? No seemed like a good answer so he had more wine.

"Really?" Diath sounded surprised, "did you run into any bandits, by any chance? Like maybe the ones over at that table?" The rouge pointed to a table behind him that must have filled while Paultin was talking to(trapped by) the obsessive fangirl of Lathander (and him too now).

"Huh, Can't say I was. They look pretty cool though." Paultin looked over Daith's shoulder. the table was filled with five tall and rather manly looking human barbarians each either wielding large war hammers or claymores. Paultin decided that he was Drunk enough.

"Cool is one way to put it, Hey Strix isn't there six bandits." Diath pulled the two girls out of their conversation.

"Uhhh, yeah five humans barbarians and a half-orc sorcerer." The Tiefling began to look around and squacked in surprise when she noticed the table behind Diath.

"Huh, like that half-orc over by the bar?" Paultin pointed over to the bar. The Half-orc was definitely shorter then his friends, a wild looking staff was strapped to his back and he seemed very pissed.

"Yes"

"AHHHHHK"

"Why aren't you the sharp one! Good Job Paultin!"

At that moment all hell broke loose. The Half-orc threw a fireball at the bar setting all of the alcohol on fire and at the same time the barbarians stood up and charged at Paultin's table.

Evelyn was the first to react, charging back at the barbarians weilding her axe two-handed. She manged to get two good looking swings at one of the bandits.

Strix Screeched and casted a giant fireball that engulfed most of the tavern, Paultin flinched as he was surrounded by flames. The part of the tavern that wasn't already on fire was now.

"Time to go."Diath shouted as he grabbed Strix and ran to the exit. Paultin couldn't agree more and began to follow the man out of the tavern, his path to the door was blocked by the pissed half-orc.

"You, you're with them." He growled out

"Fuck it." Paultin casted Dissonant Whispers and ran around the half-orc as it fell down died. He went over to where Diath and Strix were standing and watched as Evelyn followed him. The Tavern was now just a huge blase, only a few of the patrons had managed to get out.

"We are never getting waffles."Strix said looking at the ground and kicked a pebble.

"Not with that attitude your not." Paultin said as he mourned the loss of the wine.

"Hey, Paultin do you have a place to sleep." Diath asked he voice hopeful.

"It's currently being burnt to the ground." Diath made a soft oh sound.

"Well then, why don't you just come with us silly." Evelyn said excitedly. She grabbed Paultin and began to drag him out of the small village.