Finishing work a bit early, they were the first crew to bust through the Inn doors. Everyone cheered for Maro, he was handed beers faster than he could drink. He was pouring one beer in his mouth and the other in the mouths of his new friends.
In the meantime, Gnarlo had explained what had happened to Kadrin and then both of them grabbed Marlo to a private room in the back to drink together.
Kadrin was a sneak, he had some decent tasting dwarf beer hiding in the secret room. Tasted absolutely amazing, relative to his old swill, perfect refreshment after a long day of chopping trees and killing green fucks.
Kadrin was drunk on beer and happy on racism, the floor was slippery with his spit. He kept asking for Maro to retell his story and Gnarlo was ecstatic thinking about future profits.
The boys drank the entire keg dry, it was so delicious. At this point Maro was drunk as hell and high on his ego, he completely forgot to check what upgrades lvl 2 brought.
After the keg was dry, he busted back in the main area of the Inn. He drunkenly glanced around, saw that there were no Orcs around, just a couple of Goblins in the corner and weirdly some humans were sitting beside.
Feeling invincible and high on his celebrations, he stood at the top of the bar to make a drunken speech.
"Everyone… I have an announcement to make" Gnarlo gulped and tried to grab him but couldn't reach.
"Orcs and Goblins are fucking disgusting!!!" He got a cheer from the crowd, beastmen included
"They can all go fuck themselves, the lot of them" He spat on the floor but also vomited a little bit. Another Cheer, Gnarlo was panicking
"Its time for a change, we shouldn't be scared anymore, they are green and ugly, we are not!!!"
Another cheer ran out, this time Kadrin was also panicking
"Their women are butt fucking ugly too, thats why they rape each other all the time hahahah"
His words were slurring, Gnarlo and Kadrin were running around like they were chickens with their heads cut off.
A huge laugh and clink of ale mugs went across the room.
The goblins in the corner made a quick motion to their human companions and before Maro knew it, his legs fell out beneath him and he hit the floor face first.
Too drunk to get up, he just decided to sleep a little bit. He could have sworn he heard Gnarlo and Kadrin crying as his lights went out.
…
His head was pounding, but he could barely open his eyes. Whenever he did, he caught a glimpse of Gnarlo throwing wild punches at his face, they barely hurt but still ouch.
"Enough, stop fucking hitting me Gnarlo"
"No you asshole, you know what you did? because of you Kadrin and I lost our livelyhoods, fucking asshole"
Maro immediately came back to his senses… he saw that Kadrin and Gnarlo were shackled together in a steel cage on the back of a cart. Maro was also handcuffed, the cart was stationary at the edge of the camp.
"No way, did they arrest us for the dead green shit stains?"
Kadrin chuckled, he was less worried.
"Even Worse" Gnarlo screeched
"You were arrested for hate speech and we were arrested as co-conspirators… WE ARE ON OUR WAY TO A RE-EDUCATION CAMP"
Maro started to hysterically laugh at the ridiculousness of everything in this world…not even a fucking week here yet.
Kadrin followed suit and was laughing his ass off too, he actually spit outside of the cage.
Gnarlo, even angrier, started punching both Kadrin and Maro furiously. It just made the Dwarf and Human laugh even more.
Taking a break from his punches, Gnarlo continued
"No one ever leaves the re-education camps, we're gonna die there you fucks, I lost my business and so did you Kadrin"
Kadrin snorted "Stone be damned, no one wants to do anything in that logging camp, it was basically a jail anyways… tell me you were happy there"
Gnarlo defeated "I was working on it… How stupid are you Maro, you did that speech in front of the Merchant lords servants…"
With the laughs over, they sat in silence, contemplating the decisions that led them here.
Until an Orc and Goblin in nicer leather armour showed up, sat up front and took the reigns of the horses.
Two humans on horses were also on either side of the wagon.
One of the humans turned to them and kissed his teeth, "the one thing I can't tolerate is hate speech, you guys deserve to go where you are headed… Greentooth's School of Unity and Equity"
Maro gave him a look and then whispered to the other two "fucking race traitor"
Gnarlo finally snapped and started hysterically laughing, Maro extremely hungover and thinking he was powerful enough to get out of any prison also started laughing hysterically. The hungover dwarf spat on the cage floor and also started laughing.
The goblin up front, snapped his fingers together and an arc of electricity appeared between his thumb and forefinger… The first time Maro saw magic. The Goblin touched the cage and everyone was shocked into shutting up.
Maro finally checked his level 2 options, nothing but stat increases. Welcome increase, he did feel a bit stronger as he pulled his rusty shackles tight, he felt he could break them…