Exton

The group pauses in the clearing, Tannr telling the men to check weapons and equipment. “Make sure you have enough water and something to eat. You dont want to touch anything from Underdark. Everything there seems to be poisonous to one degree or another....”

Tannr quickly checks his own weapons and walks around the group to see what everyone is carrying. Noticing that Ob isnt armed in any way he approaches Addley, who is busy laying out his knives on the ground in front of him. Tannr watches for a few minutes as knives seem to appear from nowhere and are added to the growing pile in front of Addley.

Addley has a strange, almost loving expression on his face as he handles his knives. But Tannr knows that can change instantly. In less than a second the handsome face and startling blue eyes can change to something else, something very cold and frightening.

After emptying his belt and the knives hidden in his boots, Addley reaches around for his worn leather pack. Beat up and scruffy looking, the old brown bag he carries over his shoulder doesnt look like it would be holding an arsenal. He pulls out a few more knives, adding a tanto, a kriss and a couple of scalpels to the pile.

Tannr squats near the pile. “Are you sure thats all of them Addley? You seem to be missing a few since I last saw you...”

Addley laughs then, the sound odd and foreboding. Lily looks up from her pack and quickly back down to her neat piles and stacks of wire, plastic caps, detonators, batteries and odds and ends.

“I left a few of 'em in the back of some fat greedy barkeep near the UP...… Hugh and Harold One Eye were fighting, arguing over the whores. The fat old fucker tried to pin me to my chair to keep me from helping my buds. Cant have that, so I stabbed him....Then Hugh put a fist through the wall and they started arguing 'bout hows we owed 'em for damages to the building....but then Lily blew it up...”

“You're kidding?!” Tannr looks to Lily.

“Ended the argument.” Lily says matter of factly.

“But I lost three of my knives...” Addley sighs as if parted from a long lost lover.

“Wasnt that great of an explosion. You didnt miss much..” Lily resumes packing her gear.

Tannr grins, hoping no one else heard the conversation. He looks over to Ob, then back to Addley who nods and reaches into his pack, pulling out a wicked looking panga. The flared blade of the machete was razor sharp and Addley slowly caressed the blade with his thumb.

Tipping his head in Ob's direction, Addley hands it to Tannr. “For the big guy...”