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Raimon in Worm
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This city is very rich compared to most of Golarion. The streets are paved with smooth dark stone and clean of horse shit, lined with carriages made of glossy metal. They are lit with lights much brighter than continual flames (mounted on posts along the roads where anyone might steal them), and some of the house windows are lit almost as brightly. 

But despite all that wealth, this part of the the city seems to be in disrepair. Half the street-lights have gone dark; the street's stone is cracked; a metal carriage stands scratched and dented, its glass windows broken.

A shirtless man with Tian dragon tattoos is addressing a group of men on the street corner.

"...the children, just shoot. Doesn’t matter your aim, just shoot. You see one lying on the ground? Shoot the little bitch twice more to be sure."

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The man is very hot but unfortunately Raimon's domain spell today was a Charm and not a Comprehend, so he has no idea what he's telling his party members. Or, uh, where the fuck he is or how he got here. You take some risks kipping on the side of the road but this is not standardly one of them.

It does not overwhelmingly look like the kind of thing he wants to interrupt, and he only has one Charm. So he's going to... skulk away?

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There are shouts of alarm behind him, but none of them are looking at him. The man seems to be swarmed by insects, and magically setting himself on fire to deal with this.

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...okay if Calistria's THAT invested in this situation he should figure out a little more about what's going on. He can... Create Water on the guy from... uh, closer than this. He skulks slightly closer than this to do that.

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There are ten men here, frantically searching for whoever is attacking them. But the insects are targeting vulnerable spots and even the fear of disobeying Lung can't easily win against the fear of bees trying to sting you in the eyeball.

They'll spot him, but not before he gets in range to cast.

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Okay, Calistria, you want that man fucked up? How about he be less on fire. "Create Water." Very softly.

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There is momentarily less fire and rather more steam, which makes the rest of the men scatter in all directions. One of them happens to run towards Raimon. He's not very able to fight, but he does shout "there's someone here!"

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The problem with insects is that they can take out his men, maybe even kill them, and Lung can't protect them. He has to find the insect-Master.

The problem with water is that it makes him look stupid.

"Shoot him!" They will be braver and more loyal if they see they're not useless in a fight. He will circle towards the outsider himself, but won't get between him and his men for now.

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Calistria, he will get around to this LATER when he knows what's going on probably. "Charm Person!" he says in his most innocent voice, as though he were saying "it's all a misunderstanding", flinging up his hands empty with the gesture.

Charm Person has the same range as Create Water. Hopefully whatever pissed-off thing the hot hot guy just said will presently be walked back.

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"Stop! Don't shoot, look for the bug controller!"

This man clearly isn't attacking him. He's not a cape, he has no mask and what Lung thought at first was a costume is just very shabby clothing. Killing a random beggar who happened to be in the wrong spot will only make his men doubt themselves when the bugs keep stinging.

He explodes in a little fireball to clear off the damned bugs and shoots jets of fire from his hands and keeps searching. The bug cape has to be here somewhere!

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That is - very unusual for Lung? But they're not about to question him in the middle of a fight and also AAAAH these bloody bugs!

How about they look for the bug-controller much farther away, in lots of different directions? They're more likely to find them that way, right?

(They really don't want to find them. A man can outrun an insect, right?)

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Okay. That was his only Charm for the day and it... did land, apparently, but the hot hot man is clearly preoccupied with what-all he's up to and does not want to hang out and help orient Raimon to the situation. Maybe he should mosey out of here now till he has a clear direction to travel in once he's gotten himself a horse.

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The hot man is by now over seven feet tall and growing silvery scales all over his body. On the other hand, one of his eyes is swelling shut.

He's trying his best to focus, to hear or smell the enemy cape if he can't see them, but the buzzing of the insects is distracting.

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Oh thank god, the other probably-cape got away. She doesn't know what happened, bug eyesight is very poor, but her bugs found an extra man when she was really sure she tagged all of them and then there was suddenly a lot of water, and Lung shouted to shoot and then to not shoot, and all his men scattered.

He's still growing, though, and his skin is getting tougher to sting. God, the man is a monster. She sets her most dangerous spiders on him, species she hadn't dared to make bite anyone else.

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Lung explodes in flames again and roars, an inhuman sound louder than any human voice.

"Motherfucker," he growls. "Where. Are you?!"

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He does Not want to be here. How about this spot, is this a good spot at which to cast Mount and book it Away?

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Lung whirls at the sound of horse hooves, but it's just that weird homeless person again. With a horse? ...not important! 

He can't find his enemy and he keeps growing but too slowly and he has to do something. He climbs a nearby house and searches the roof frantically. It's empty, and he can't see anyone on any of the nearby roofs either.

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What... is that...? Whatever it is, it definitely wasn't there a moment ago, and now the man is climbing it - definitely a cape. Who is very reasonably running away (quite quickly too) and not, e.g., staying to fight the ever-growing fire dragon! They're probably a much more experienced hero than she is and she's going to follow their example.

Bugs clearly don't work on Lung and anyway she can control them just as well from a block away. While she frantically looks for a pay phone to call the PRT hotline.

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The horse will last for two hours and it's not like Raimon has a plan that involves stopping before that. He might pause if he finds anything really welcoming-looking.

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There are stores and other buildings with signs that might be intended to look welcoming, but he can't read any of them. (These people really like bright lighting at night!)

If he keeps going straight in a random direction he will eventually arrive in an area with much bigger buildings (some of them hundreds of feet tall) and wider streets. There are metal carriages with people inside (but no horses) zipping around noisily. Some of them make a loud and unpleasant sound as they pass him.

There are also occasional people on the sidewalks, who often turn to stare at him or point some kind of little box at him as he passes.

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Personally he prefers when it's pitch dark at night so he can see and nobody else can.

The first time somebody points a box at him he wheels at them and whips out his dagger.

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Aaaah he will run away and then call the police! After uploading a photo of the rider threatening him with a dagger to social media!!

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What was he expecting pointing a box at a guy who's just minding his own business! Dagger back in sheath. On he rides, a bit slower, keeping right to give the constructs room to go around him.

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The people on this other street still don't know to expect this and will also point little boxes at him!

Also, here's a carriage with flashing red and blue lights on top and a horrible wailing noise like a demented trumpet trying to catch up with him.

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He pulls up onto the sidewalk to get out of the loud construct's way and continues to menace people who point boxes at him! Who knows what those things do! He tosses off a Resistance in case it's something that helps with.

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The carriage pulls up alongside. Two men in blue-maybe-uniforms get out and try to surround him, except that it's kind of hard to surround a horse that ignores you without actually attacking that horse. They yell something at him and point some other things - not like the other people's boxes, they're more elongated, like a hollow wand with a big handle on top. Some of the people with the hot adventurer had these too.

The other people back away but some people from across the street also start head his way, another (ordinary) carriage stops and someone gets out, and more and more people are pointing little boxes at him and doing... something with them.

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