Oh, Aye," Rae says putting the drinks on a tray.  "I be needin' another Cola." She tilts her head toward the gobfather. "'Is tab." She says to Leo, "I'll be tellin' RC t' be ready with the car, fer maybe gettin' a message out." She picks up an order pad and pen, then she hefts the tray of drinks and walks over to RC. She sets the cola in front of the remote control enthusiast and says softly, "If we be needin' yer car be ye ready?"

Then she picks up the drinks and wiggles over to the Gobfather's table, muttering, "how do ye spell 'calzone'?"

She gives the Gobfather his water, then mixes up the bugbears' drinks, giving beer to the weight conscious one.  She sits on the other bugbear's lap and picks up the order pad.  "An' what do ye fine gentlebeings want t' be ordering? Odo be makin' the best pizza in sigil, savvy?"

Rae looks scared as she hits the ground.  She tries to make eye contact with the gobfather hidden in the bugbear's bulk.  "Sink me!" She says with a sob, "Odo will keelhaul me if somethin' be happenin' to th' window again!"

Marty ducked instinctively into a crouch and roll,  Which pressed her up close to Leo before she realized where the move took her.  "Oops, sorry."  Somehow, her body seemed reluctant to move away though.  Maybe Leo would move for her.  Mortal!  What if he didn't move away!  This was appalling, and she was sore tempted to give her stupid anatomy a sore scolding for what it just did.

Only not now.  Maybe, if she focused on something else... yeah, focus on the operation, and the danger.  The dangers other than Leo, that was.  Or the Gobfather and his plan.  Focus...

"One casual mention of the prior break-in, and then a staged attack while he's in the place."  She was impressed despite herself, and her voice showed it.  "This Gobfather isn't as stupid as he looks."  And really he didn't look all that stupid in his dapper suit.  A bit fat and silly, but not stupid.

"Not playing it heavy-handed at all.  Supposedly this is either to let his bodyguard 'save; the place, or to draw the student-customers out of the place before he makes his move."  And probably the offer would be phrased reasonably, and politely.

"You know, if we play this right, we might be able to fix the orc up with the boss's daughter."  But she wasn't sure how that would affect the pizza supply,  So maybe not the best plan.

Her mouth was fully engaged in the planning, but the rest of her just wanted to cling more tightly to Leo.  She really needed to give herself a good talking-too after this.

 

"Not a bad con, but maybe we can spin it on 'em. Organized crime types are all about debts. We take out the shooters and the Gobfather owes us. Lets go."

Leo claps Marty on the shoulder before charging outside.

A clap on the back or shoulder was a totally guy thing to do.  It was normal buddy action and didn't mean anything except they were part of a team.  So why was she frozen in place and why was she staring at Leo's back as he charged through the door? 

Wait!  Leo was charging!  Into danger!  Alone!  And she was just standing here doing this stupid internal monologue!  The half-elf cowboy was charging lizard cowboys, and she could only stare.  She'd never heard of a cowboy before Leo.  St Cuthbert wasn't a thing in Mystara, though she did see a picture of him in a book on white campus when she was doing planar research.  How could the multiverse be so full of cowboys without her knowing about them until now?

She accepted Rae's help with a quick thanks, and then charged out into the street after Leo.  "Owe."  She ran into the doorpost because she wasn't paying attention while charging.  Stupid.

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