She sees the bard sign, but the only bit she responds to is the obscenity. Which, of course, she returns with one of her own.
And then she does take advantage of the distraction and kicks the bartender in the groin, wrenching her arm free of his ham-fisted grip when he doubles over. The laughing mercenary keeps on laughing right up until Athessa brings the half-full bottle of wine down over the back of his buddy's head—
But the glass doesn't break. There's a moment after the clunk of hollow object meeting hollow skull wherein the two mercenaries and the bartender and Athessa and a few of the surrounding patrons just stare, waiting to see what happens. Another practical upshot of Byerly's limpness is that he probably isn't too badly hurt by the mercenary falling atop him like some enormous tree trunk in a storm.
That's when the other mercenary stops laughing and starts to advance, and somewhere in the back of the tavern a glass shatters and someone hollers: BRAWL!!
Chaos erupts in the tavern. How's that for a distraction?
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And then she does take advantage of the distraction and kicks the bartender in the groin, wrenching her arm free of his ham-fisted grip when he doubles over. The laughing mercenary keeps on laughing right up until Athessa brings the half-full bottle of wine down over the back of his buddy's head—
But the glass doesn't break. There's a moment after the clunk of hollow object meeting hollow skull wherein the two mercenaries and the bartender and Athessa and a few of the surrounding patrons just stare, waiting to see what happens. Another practical upshot of Byerly's limpness is that he probably isn't too badly hurt by the mercenary falling atop him like some enormous tree trunk in a storm.
That's when the other mercenary stops laughing and starts to advance, and somewhere in the back of the tavern a glass shatters and someone hollers: BRAWL!!
Chaos erupts in the tavern. How's that for a distraction?