Soon feels torn. While she is somewhat weary from unpacking and cleaning her room, is excited at the teams future prospects. She often has a hard time standing still, and this is no exception. She pulls an arrow from her quiver and starts spinning it between her fingers as her eyes light up at the excitement outside. She thinks to herself "I could really use a drink to calm my nerves, not that I would ever admit any nervousness to my friends".
Looking around the room, she finally speaks in a soft voice "Anyone else interested in a drink, maybe a bite of food?"

The crackle of fireworks outside and noise of the street jut into Alexandros's attention from time to time as he gazes out the window, lost in though and watching the movements of Udacha in the courtyard beyond. A lot of work had been put into acquiring this new property and an equal amount had been put into getting the entire group moved in and settled, but now everyone would have their own room and with plenty of common space. While his own room did not have a view of the courtyard gate, which he would have preferred, it did afford him position at the top of the first flight of stairs which may serve to be just as useful. As he muses these thoughts over he hears Clang asking for a word. He turns to the large warforged and responds:

"Hmm?" he asks without a word, and tries to polity clear his throat, too much silence had set his tongue to be heavy in his mouth and in dire need of adjustment.

''I believe that I have discovered a way for us to earn some gold pieces. It would most likely result in 450 GP for both of us. Alternatively, we could use some of that money to buy a item that will enable people to jump on horses from the third floor without taking any damage from the fall. If you are interested, please follow me to my room. It will only take a few minutes.''

After saying that, Clank starts walking towards his room.

Zau Gwai leans from his window on the second floor, eyes closed, breathing in the sounds and smells of the festival; the smoke, the heat, the music. Even at this distance it is almost overwhelming. He opens his eyes slowly, letting them adjust to the sea of flickering lights that have, for this night at least, taken over the streets.

From the window he turns to the jars piled against the wall and begins fishing thought them, sniffing stoppers and testing their weight. ...empty? All of you? Not a drop for poor Zau Gwai? Heh. Can't be helped." Stepping over piles of clutter he makes his way to the rooms door and shouts up the stairs "Soon! If it is wines you seek Zau Gwai will accompany you!"

He pauses for a moment, sniffs the scents drifting from above; "Alex! Clank! Will you join us? Perhaps this time I can find a wine to wet the metal mans lips? Hahaha!"

Clank, who has just reached the second floor, says:
''Could you please have the patience to wait a little? Currently, I have other things to do.''

Zau Gwai looks the warforged over before giving a toothy, lop-sided grin. "I can wait, metal man. But remember some of us do need to eat." With that he re-enters his room and flops down on the blankets piled by the heater.

"...no food, no drink. What terrible hardships Clank must endure..." he mumbles to no-one in particular.

Asmoranomardicadaistinaculdacar is outside in the courtyard observing what he can of the festivities and brushing Udacha's coat, finding the peace in the repetitions of the exercise. True inner peace is hard to come by in a noisy city, even if it's all he's ever really known. The lights, the noise, and every other distraction always come when things got too still, so occupying both his hands and his mind were about the only way he could find that little bit of peace and quiet within the walls. Finishing his exercise, Asmo pats Udacha's flank, dismisses the conjured brush, steps towards the house and disappears, only to reappear in the hallway of the third floor. With a deep sigh, Asmo heads towards his room and away from the noise of the city street.

~SE++

Soon quietly descends the steps to the main room. She props her bow against the wall by the door leading out to the courtyard and walks outside, coughing a bit as the smoky air fills her lungs. Her hand slips into her pocket and returns with a small carrot, which she feeds to Udacha.
The smoke from the fireworks starts her eyes tearing, and she moves back indoors. She starts to pace around the table, still twirling the arrow between her fingers.

The noise causes Soon to lose concentration and drop her arrow. She quickly bends down to retrieve it, and heads to the door, stopping just long enough to pick up her bow. Upon entering the courtyard, she is amazed at the colors in the air. A single "Wow" escapes her lips as she stares into the night sky.
She quickly shakes her head and moves back indoors "I don't want them to think I've never seen fireworks before" she thinks as she places her bow against the door and continues to pace.

Intrigued by the approaching sounds Zau Gwai pulls himself up and sticks his snout out of the window just in time to see Soon moving back indoors. As he is about to withdraw the sky fills with intense light from numerous fireworks. Whatever display they have conjured is lost on the Gnoll as he stumbles backwards in surprise and trips over a displaced bottle. "My eyes! Every damned year!"

Pulling himself up he closes the paneled windows and gathers his essentials; a pouch of loose coin, his thieves kit (in case someone misplaces the key again) and his 'cloak' - a ratty old strip of brown fabric sized more for a Halfling than a Gnoll, barely draped over a single shoulder. Making his way to his door he stops for a moment before turning back and grabbing the haft of his mace. "...just in case.".

Packed and ready to leave he makes his way down into the main floor, pulls up a chair and waits for the others to set there affairs in order. Drink has been promised and he will not pass up that opportunity. While he waits he busies himself trying to roll a copper piece along his knuckles - consistently failing when he arrives at the severed stub that used to be his little finger.

Following the warforged up the stairs the tiefling casts a glance at his own door before rounding the corner where the pair pass by Zau Gwai who seems eager to head out into the festivities. Alexandros nods politely and motions that they should be returning in a minute."We should only be a moment... then I sure we could look into finding a bite to eat and something worth washing it down with!"

As he continues to follow Clang to the third floor he inquires from behind : "Four hundred and fifty gold for each of the pair of us? Seems an quite a specific number, have you found some sort of job with a handsome payout?"

No, my friend, I am in possession of a ritual, fools gold, that allows my to turn lace into illusionary gold pieces.
I will now perform the ritual, can you assist me?

Clank will perform fools gold (casting time 1 minute), using all his lace.
The result may be modified by Alex' attempt to aid him.

Arcana check

"I'll do what I can, but I'm afraid that sort of thing is not exactly my area of expertise..." The tiefling does what he can to assist the warforged, but he feels as if he's more in the way than anything. "How were you planning to laundry the counterfeit notes once we've got them?" He asks half-nervously trying to pay attention to the ritual.

As Clank works the ritual, the intricate patterns in the lace begin to shift and stretch and the fabric itself begins to bulge and split and fray, disassembling and reweaving into paper form. Alexandros tries to help Clank but whenever he does something, some of the lace unravels before his eyes into useless threads.

Finally, before the artificer is a small pile of ten gold notes, the golden inked fish swimming around the character 十 shining like they were just printed. The pile totals 1,000 gold notes, or it would, if it were real. Alexandros certainly cannot tell the difference.

Since you have such great social abilities, I planned to let you exchange the money at a bank or something while keeping a straight face. Could you do that?

Clank gathers the money while he speaks to Alex.