Misprize Thou Not These Shadows That Belong: Lost Mines of Phandelver

The conversations finished, Rabbit smiles to the others. "I'll be there to join you soon." She then slips upstairs, to leave her backpack and the other items the group has collected.  Once those are secured, she changes before heading back down.

Rabbit proceeds into the tavern area wearing a very plain and very worn brown woolen dress. Likely only Krull would recognize it as the garment she wore back when they first met in Neverwinter.  It is not at all form fitting, and is a far cry from the exactingly tailored black garb she wore previously. It certainly makes her look much more like a small street urchin. Really, only the glass staff she is still carrying marks her as anything else.

Seeing the others, she walks over, pausing only at the bar to grab a large mug of inexpensive ale. "Thank goodness you didn't drink the place dry yet Krull!" she says, roughly sitting down next to the big man. "I miss anything interesting?"

Krull gives her a big smile "I didn't yet but we still have time!..Eh nothing special..they just start to play music " and then he whispers to her ear 'that singer over there not a good one.the one with the lute manages to save the show' and he carries on gossiping the little flirts between patrons and some girls as the various card games they are play..Mostly tries his best to make the team laugh with stupid jokes and gestures (Performance 18(in log)

(Sounds like a challenge to Calithor to entertain.)

Toblen Stonehill mans the bar while the waitress Elsa serves you drinks and food, the entertainment is the young lad Pip, Tolben's son. Whom, is just learning the viola, his wife Trilena plays the lute while two goblins attempt a duet.

Daran watches with mirth at a far table while the crowd laughs.

Your group gets charged five silver to drink and eat, till closing time

margaret follows the group to the tavern, sitting on a table. she laughs at krull's jokes, but a bit of concern for gundrem still stoon on her mind "you know, it has been a fun adventure. i'm glad i found you guys! i've never had so much fun.""

(Two questions - 5 sp each or 5 sp total?  And do we know who Daran is? I don't recall that name at all.) 

"Glad you found us too Margret!" Rabbit says. She's finished her first ale and is starting on another. She also had asked for some bread and a bowl of stew to eat as well. "And I suppose you too Calithor. Though you could be saving our ears by playing a little something, don't you think?"  She then briefly throws an arm around Krull. "And this big guy's the only one stuck with me since Neverwinter! You didn't even run off back to town this time!" she adds jokingly before turning back to eating her meal. 

Once done she sits back, watching the others in the place at their various tables as they go about their lives. "Ain't nobody playing dice here?" she muses to the others. "Feel like I should honor Tymora a bit and try my luck."  She reaches into a pocket in her dress and pulls out a pair of bone dice. "Got these from those goblins where we found Sildar. Definitely feels like these should be lucky." 

Calithor looks from the players to the barkeep. "One lesson I've learned is: Don't upstage the locals. I'd prefer not to make the lad uncomfortable." He winces at another note mis-timed on the viola. "Perhaps I should give them a helping hand, though."

With that he stands, pulls out his hand drum with a theatrical flourish, utters a few quiet words and starts keeping a solid and engaging beat to help the musicians as he moves to a position at the back of the stage. He is careful to keep a low profile and cover any mistakes that they might make as best he can.

(( Trying to help their performance, not be a virtuoso,  he will also give the Viola player bardic inspiration -- and hopefully they recognize the help! Performance: 16, if needed. Weirdly the dice roll showed a 19+6, but is logged as 9. Not only the forum dice-roller is broken, it seems! ))

Krull orders a piece of lamb and a beer .He pretty much enjoys his food as the company of his friends."Thanks to our friend and leader Rabbit.I would never thought I care about something bigger than myself. She is like my brother ..with purpose and she passed that to me.." and he raises his mug for a toast "To you my friends!"

Rabbit listens attentively to Calithor's accompaniment of the local musicians. She tries to clap along to the livelier tunes and cheers at the end of each.

Once they finish and Calithor comes back over, she stands and puts her arm around him momentarily.  "I'm impressed Calithor. Most bards I've seen are too full of themselves to help out a group like that.  Including that young lad. You're sweeter than I realized."  After the compliment, she again throws herself back down in her spot by Krull. 

Now working on a third ale, Rabbit's attention comes back to Krull as he talks about her.  She raises her glass with his toast and with a large gulp, drinks down the rest of the glass.  "Gee Krull... don't think anyone's ever thought a me as their brother."  She seems to pause a long while thinking about it. "Thanks, I think?"

Although her words sound confused, she looks rather touched by the sentiment.  But she suddenly gets a strange look on her face, "As for being your leader, I just stepped in 'cause none of you all did. Like you were waitin' for that scoundrel Wolfe to come back and tell us what to do!  Good riddance to him and his charades!"

She stops, a bit flushed from her heated words. "Yes, well, don't forget I'm your leader," she says firmly.  "Think I need another drink. And who's gonna play some dice!"

(5silver for the group Daran Edermath the guy you stayed with after leaving Tresendar Manor when you first met Margret.)

The crowd laughs and sings along as Pip is emboldened and plays the melody to an old drinking song, better. All in all he gets 5 silvers worth of encouragement in becoming a bard in the future.

Meanwhile Rabbit is challenging someone, to a game of dice?

btw what was the goblins name? Droop?

Yeah the goblins name was droop

(OOC - Yea, think the goblin we rescued was Droop. And yea - Daran owned the orchard we stayed in. I was remembering Quellene or something her son lead us to the back entrance of the manor. Forgot it was a different place we stayed at. And, I don't know if it's challenge... just looking to play. I suppose she could be looking to see if anyone here is playing dice.) 

(Perception to scan the crowd for anyone playing dice or that seems maybe interested from her shouting: 15)

Dice, Krull maybe?

You notice Droops companion is a female goblin they seem to have eyes for each other, nearly tripping as they head over to Daran's table and sitting. Hidden by their short stature on the other side.

Calithor makes a slight bow at Rabbit's compliment, then looks back at the stage. "Anyone who loves music is to be encouraged. They are gifted amateurs but who knows, perhaps one of them will be a great bard one day." He ponders for a moment, remembering then time when he finally gave in to what he had always been told should remain but a hobby.

"Perhaps they will get themselves a drummer to keep the rhythm in future. But for now, they should bask in their glory."

He then moves to the bar to get a long cold drink. Playing on stage always induced a thirst.

Krull quickly pats rabbit on her shoulder  "I want to play! Shall we start?" and he makes space on the table .He nods at the direction of Droop "look who's there!shall we say to him to play with us?"

"Yes!" Rabbit says as she finally gets a taker to play dice. She slams down the dice she'd been holding onto the table where Krull had cleared it off. "What'll be the game?

(OOC - Open to ideas on how to resolve.  If nobody has anything something I'll put a suggestion in OOC chat)

(Occ -are we going to play craps?)

Rabbit says,  "How 'bout 'Ettin Heads' is a nice simple game. We'll just do 1 silver per bet." She pulls out 1 sp and places it on the table. Then she hands Krull one die, taking one herself. "Here we'll each roll to see who goes first."

(Roll: 2)

Krull does the same and rolls the dice 

(4)

"You're up first!" Rabbit says in a cheery voice.  She hands Krull the dice, then sits back to watch while sipping her drink. 

(OOC - so we're not forever going back and forth, perhaps roll 5 sets of 4 d6's at once, I'll do the same then we'll look at then in order to see what happens. Rolls after we had a winner get thrown out. If we have to we roll again.

These are Rabbit's rolls, although she's going after Krull

(I did it wrong so le try again )

6 2 3 6

3 5 5 2

3 4 5 4

3 6 2 1

2 1 5 3