if the new lord mayor doesn't send people in to interrupt it getting too crazy that counts as a success
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Aleix Fornals has been the bartender at this tavern for three years now. He was more than a little worried when a random noblewoman not even from Westcrown showed up and an hour later the owner announced that she owned it, and he was going to be leaving the city for a few months, and might come back and buy it from her when the convention was done.

The second thing she told him was that there would be a genuine Caydenite priest tending bar starting next week, but this was fine because the first thing she told him was that she was expecting to pick up a lot more custom and he should expect to need company behind the bar. The third thing was that the custom was convention delegates, which was... not great, really. But it's still safer than the old mayor's city was, and she's putting some guards outside the bouncer can call in, so it's probably alright.

One of them's guarding the stairs and there's some fancy meeting planned back there. It is officially Not Aleix's Fucking Business and that's all he cares about.

 

Lunch was the reopening, and yeah it looked pretty busy. Dinner's just starting and the guy from the archduchess said the convention ended for the day, so the rush might be coming now. His nephew, who's kind of a layabout but is good enough to help out behind the bar, skated in just a minute before Aleix told him to start working. Let's... see how this goes.

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He doesn't have much committee business anymore, now that Magic is licking its wounds and Judiciary has been dissolved and reformed, and so Alonso is there early. He'll figure out what they have and order something of medium strength.

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Conradí is here! Not for the meeting, which he doesn't know about, he just saw the announcement about "special privileges for delegates" and figured he might as well check it out. He orders some wine and starts looking for anyone interested in betting. There are other delegates, right? Does anyone want to bet on the outcome of convention votes?

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Thea hasn’t actually been told about the more formal meeting, but she has still figured this is her chance to meet other politically active commoners and get organized.  Her earlier attempts at networking had failed to translate into actual political connections.  In particular she wants to collaborate on blocking any other idiocy along the lines of banning all books.

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It takes Victòria a little while to show up, what with detouring to check out the park with Raimon, but she's here well in time for the meeting. After skipping lunch, she's ravenously hungry; she orders a cheese-covered pasta dish, pays a little extra for a bigger portion, and heads for the meeting.

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Quim is at the staircase keeping an eye out for anyone he recognizes, or anyone expressing interest in going upstairs. The Avenger gets waved past (so would the other Avenger). Iroria he makes a mental note to check if he's going up to check.

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Several unimportant sortitions will be open to bets on votes and on how long until the first new lion fight. How much is Conradí betting?

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Depends, what odds are they offering?

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This one will offer 2:1 on getting a Lion fight by the end of Sarenith.

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This one will offer 1:1 the first fight not being literal lions.

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This one wants somebody to take his long odds bet that they will make Valia and the Avenger bitch do the fight to the death and let the crowd rape the winner thing before the end of the convention.

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He'll take the second and the third bet, at half a day's stipend each. The convention made it pretty clear they wanted actual lions, so he figures it'll probably be lions, but if they were going to make Valia fight to the death they'd've done it over the weekend. (He's still pretty annoyed at how much money he lost betting on that trial.)

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This guy was sitting at the right angle to see that Victoria came into the tavern but is pretty sure she didn't hear. Still gonna go sit with a safer crowd just in case.

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Hearing city people talk about their sex lives makes the Duchess's insane prudishness somewhat less confusing. 

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For those among the commons with less bloodthirsty tastes, Lisandro is showing off some magic tricks. Slightly rare creative uses for prestidigitation! Fey-dragon familiar using those at-will illusions! Nonmagical sleight of hand, just to keep them on their toes! 

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