The hag screams as she crumbles to the ground. "I... Will... avenge... this..." She coughs out as she dies, but hags have no souls: She's gone forever. The crowd cheers and begins throwing silver at the party (34 silver if you want to collect it).
The kobold enters the bar. "Was that a hag? Did that hag take a red envelope? Have you seen one?"
(It's mid-day. Does the party wish to look around town and find a place to rest, or start traveling to Aethia now?
Also, to Phait and Fuego, if you go to post 1 I have a map, updated whenever anyone improves it.)
Thrudor dusts himself off and excuses himself for a moment to the whatever constitutes as a bathroom saying to his companions "Please don't leave without me, I have to use the facilities"
When he is alone in the bathroom he will read the letter
"I'm sure you will, your highness," retorted Titus just before kicking the dusty remains of her head. Shaking the remnants from his boot, he then noticed the sound of applause and cheering, and looked up, a bit surprised. It was then that the coins began clinking onto the ground around them.
"What is this, are we a bunch of bards now?" Shaking his head, the fighter paused for a second, then decided to pick up the tokens of appreciation, rather than complain. (( He'll split the coins so that everyone else gets 6 sp, and he gets 10. He'll argue he deserves the remainder since he had to "run around like a circus chimp picking coinage off the ground." However, if anyone wants to actually give him a hard time about it, he'll probably relent after some RP. ))
"Was that a hag? Did that hag take a red envelope? Have you seen one?"
The fighter thought quickly. "Yeah, definitely a hag," he said without looking up from his coin gathering, adding a sarcastic tone to his response. "And whatever she was holding probably got burned up from a fire spell, or disintegrated along with her." He finally stood and pointed vaguely toward some dust near her remains, ash that could either be her body, her clothes, or something else of indeterminate origin.
(The letter is written in Draconic, which luckily you understand. The contents of the letter are written in italics below. The bad language was intentional.)
please excuse the dragon speak the language i do not no big of. wrote in dragon speak so is secret.
we have cargo of normal item. spice wine salt. oil of small green fruit i do not no word for it in dragon speak. also have much of other item but not no word for it maybe word is smoke. go east giver cargo but also meet the gnome has cargo rock much valuable. get rock before compete rock is valuable type of metal not sure again if word is right. cargo is worth hundred delete twenty shine and can get us money for sea wagon. have met sailors they let us in business if we can pay debt of hundred plus ten shine before ask again. but will warn you if we merge sailors trade business they own half income from salt luckily they will help us get more spice for plan.
now is plan i heard spice is more worth in hall where it not grow so i want you go deliver rock cargo then go to hall with spice. will meet you. also manager retired you move up next. to get spice must go back veysha find sub-deity named darius he have ginger and fire onion not sure how well fire onion will sells. also he have other spice but no remember the word.
from boss.
(As a druid, you recognize the oil of small green fruit is olive oil. You assume this is what he wanted to say, based on your language of draconic and what words they might mix up:)
We have the usual cargo: Spice, wine, salt, olive oil, and mint. Go east and deliver the cargo, but also meet the Gnome, who has a valuable cargo of iron. Get the iron before our rivals do. The cargo is worth 80 gold and is enough to get us our boat, we've already met with the sailors and they'll let us into the business. We do have a debt of 110 gold to pay before we can ask again. I will warn you that if we join the sailors they'll own half the income we make from salt, but they'll help us get spices for our next task.
Here's the plan: I heard spices are worth more in the north where they don't grow. I wan't you to deliver the iron then deliver the new spices to the north. I'll meet you there, and I'll promote you because the manager retired. To get the new spices, go yo Veysha and find the noble named Darius, he has ginger, peppers, and one other spice, not sure how well the peppers will sell.
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Fuego:
Fuego smiles now that the hag and mephit are dead, almost forgetting about the letter and the map. He pokes through the remaining possessions of the Hag to see if there is anything worthwhile or magical, then as the crowd cheers and tosses coins, he leaps up and gives a performance…
”Yes, a Green Hag was among us, disguised as a normal person. Why, you might have brushed elbows this very day and not known it! But our intrepid heroes were not fooled—oh, no, their keen eyes pierced her disguise and now her threat is no more. Let us celebrate!” crows Fuego, quite happy that he is free and has survived his first fight.
He then starts blowing his newly-returned horn in a merry tune to get the party going!
Perception to search the Hag’s remains: 16
Persuasion to enrapture the crowd: 10
Perform with Horn to get the party started: 24
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The kobold knows you're hiding something. "Hey, wait a second. You fought that hag, so you would have known she had a letter and saved it. But... wait, you're those guys who kept distracting us earlier!" "Oh, I recognize them! Where's the letter?" The kobold puts his hand over his knife, but decides not to draw it and moves his hand away, knowing you just slew a hag. "Well, I remember what was in it, it's fairly simple. But I'll need a new one written." He turns to Titus. "You know anything about the letter? I know you do."
Thrudor returns from the bathroom while the others are discussing the letter with the kobold and distracting him, walks around the counter, bends over and picks up the letter. He crumples it up a bit as he bends down and “picks” it up. “Perhaps this is what you seek. It looks a little crumpled during the fight. Apologies and I hope your travels are fruitful. Which way do you travel? As you can see we are quite able to handle ourselves. We could walk with you a bit if we travel in the same direction? We fought an ogre not long ago on the roads”
"We're headed east to deliver a package." The kobold walks up to Thrudor and grabs the letter. "That man," he says, pointing to Titus "What's his name?"
While the kobold's back is turned, Phait looks at Thrudor with a look asking, *friend or for?* gesturing to the kobold. He's quite beffudled at the open return of the letter after the escapades as the final notes of ethereal music begin to fade.
Thrudor says so his friends can hear “Ah East. A merchant’s travel yes?” He emphasizes the merchant part “Perhaps you’ll grab some exotic fruits and things before the winter kills all the crops. This unnatural winter…Name well he can tell you himself if he wishes. I am Thrudor.”
"Ah, but spices are in high demand. Have you heard that the price of peppers in the north doubled? I guess they don't understand that spicy isn't the same as hot. Well, I probably shouldn't say too much. Nice to see you." And with that, the kobold and his group leave.
In the corner of the bar are three men in farmers clothing, each with wide straw hats that cover their face when then they look down. The 2 on the sides are large and probably muscular, although it's hard to tell. The one in the middle starts walking towards the party, and the 2 others follow. He notices no one is talking to Cunning and walks up to him, lifting up his head slightly and whispering to Cunning:
It's the prince from earlier today. "Hey, it's me. Her Majesty the Queen request you three come to our royal dinner tonight and... are those 2 with you? The fire genasi and the dwarf? If so, they're invited. We caught word that you were headed north, and we found a path in the mines to make it easy. And as you'd expect from a mother, the Queen is thrilled that you saved me. Oh, and don't tell people outside the group I was here... paparazzi."
Phait grunts, "I've never known a hag to become undead. So on first impression I have to think it's tied,to her special conditions." He eyes the eye for second thoughts.
The eye begins looking back and forth at the party.
Phait:
All you can remember about hags carrying eyes is that hags might carry eyes... but you don't even know if you remember that or if you made it up just now; after all, hags do weird things. But you saw the hag's true form as she died, and the whites of her eyes were an ugly yellow, with tiny gray irises. This eye is different... but as you look closer, the eye changes, as if losing a disguise: the white of the eye is light gray and the iris is crimson. After looking around, it quickly turns to stare at you.
"Demonic!" shouts Phait. He jumps back looking for a napkin or something to throw over it. "That thing is not what it appears to be. And if folklore has taught me right then red eyes means fiend."
He adds, "The hag's eyes were not like this one. Hags carry strange things. I cannot say for sure if they carry eyes. But this eye was not hers. And I swear the thing was disgusting its true form, something it's losing power to keep up. Or perhaps losing concentration as it prepares it's next move."
He turns to Fuego, "It looked right at me. What should've been white was grey. And that crimson iris. That beady crimson iris."
The hag screams as she crumbles to the ground. "I... Will... avenge... this..." She coughs out as she dies, but hags have no souls: She's gone forever. The crowd cheers and begins throwing silver at the party (34 silver if you want to collect it).
The kobold enters the bar. "Was that a hag? Did that hag take a red envelope? Have you seen one?"
(It's mid-day. Does the party wish to look around town and find a place to rest, or start traveling to Aethia now?
Also, to Phait and Fuego, if you go to post 1 I have a map, updated whenever anyone improves it.)
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(( Titus' DC 12 CON Save vs. Blindness: 7 ))
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Thrudor dusts himself off and excuses himself for a moment to the whatever constitutes as a bathroom saying to his companions "Please don't leave without me, I have to use the facilities"
When he is alone in the bathroom he will read the letter
"I'm sure you will, your highness," retorted Titus just before kicking the dusty remains of her head. Shaking the remnants from his boot, he then noticed the sound of applause and cheering, and looked up, a bit surprised. It was then that the coins began clinking onto the ground around them.
"What is this, are we a bunch of bards now?" Shaking his head, the fighter paused for a second, then decided to pick up the tokens of appreciation, rather than complain. (( He'll split the coins so that everyone else gets 6 sp, and he gets 10. He'll argue he deserves the remainder since he had to "run around like a circus chimp picking coinage off the ground." However, if anyone wants to actually give him a hard time about it, he'll probably relent after some RP. ))
The fighter thought quickly. "Yeah, definitely a hag," he said without looking up from his coin gathering, adding a sarcastic tone to his response. "And whatever she was holding probably got burned up from a fire spell, or disintegrated along with her." He finally stood and pointed vaguely toward some dust near her remains, ash that could either be her body, her clothes, or something else of indeterminate origin.
(( Deception: 3 ))
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Thrudor, the letter:
(The letter is written in Draconic, which luckily you understand. The contents of the letter are written in italics below. The bad language was intentional.)
please excuse the dragon speak the language i do not no big of. wrote in dragon speak so is secret.
we have cargo of normal item. spice wine salt. oil of small green fruit i do not no word for it in dragon speak. also have much of other item but not no word for it maybe word is smoke. go east giver cargo but also meet the gnome has cargo rock much valuable. get rock before compete rock is valuable type of metal not sure again if word is right. cargo is worth hundred delete twenty shine and can get us money for sea wagon. have met sailors they let us in business if we can pay debt of hundred plus ten shine before ask again. but will warn you if we merge sailors trade business they own half income from salt luckily they will help us get more spice for plan.
now is plan i heard spice is more worth in hall where it not grow so i want you go deliver rock cargo then go to hall with spice. will meet you. also manager retired you move up next. to get spice must go back veysha find sub-deity named darius he have ginger and fire onion not sure how well fire onion will sells. also he have other spice but no remember the word.
from boss.
(As a druid, you recognize the oil of small green fruit is olive oil. You assume this is what he wanted to say, based on your language of draconic and what words they might mix up:)
We have the usual cargo: Spice, wine, salt, olive oil, and mint. Go east and deliver the cargo, but also meet the Gnome, who has a valuable cargo of iron. Get the iron before our rivals do. The cargo is worth 80 gold and is enough to get us our boat, we've already met with the sailors and they'll let us into the business. We do have a debt of 110 gold to pay before we can ask again. I will warn you that if we join the sailors they'll own half the income we make from salt, but they'll help us get spices for our next task.
Here's the plan: I heard spices are worth more in the north where they don't grow. I wan't you to deliver the iron then deliver the new spices to the north. I'll meet you there, and I'll promote you because the manager retired. To get the new spices, go yo Veysha and find the noble named Darius, he has ginger, peppers, and one other spice, not sure how well the peppers will sell.
From your boss.
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Phait smiles and gives the kobold a friendly wave. He takes a moment to enjoy the ethereal music around him, swaying to the melody. Sweet victory.
"That was some might fine fighting from you all." he says.
[[ By the way, which town are we in right now? Aethia? ]]
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(We're in Veysha.)
(Wait, I forgot to have the kobold roll insight. 8)
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Fuego:
Fuego smiles now that the hag and mephit are dead, almost forgetting about the letter and the map. He pokes through the remaining possessions of the Hag to see if there is anything worthwhile or magical, then as the crowd cheers and tosses coins, he leaps up and gives a performance…
”Yes, a Green Hag was among us, disguised as a normal person. Why, you might have brushed elbows this very day and not known it! But our intrepid heroes were not fooled—oh, no, their keen eyes pierced her disguise and now her threat is no more. Let us celebrate!” crows Fuego, quite happy that he is free and has survived his first fight.
He then starts blowing his newly-returned horn in a merry tune to get the party going!
Perception to search the Hag’s remains: 16
Persuasion to enrapture the crowd: 10
Perform with Horn to get the party started: 24
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The kobold knows you're hiding something. "Hey, wait a second. You fought that hag, so you would have known she had a letter and saved it. But... wait, you're those guys who kept distracting us earlier!" "Oh, I recognize them! Where's the letter?" The kobold puts his hand over his knife, but decides not to draw it and moves his hand away, knowing you just slew a hag. "Well, I remember what was in it, it's fairly simple. But I'll need a new one written." He turns to Titus. "You know anything about the letter? I know you do."
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Fuego's words are interesting, but they don't start a party. People do resume their normal conversations though.
As Fuego searches the hag, he finds:
A single human eye in her pocket. The eye has a dark green iris, and as Fuego finds the eye, it slowly turns and looks at him.
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Thrudor returns from the bathroom while the others are discussing the letter with the kobold and distracting him, walks around the counter, bends over and picks up the letter. He crumples it up a bit as he bends down and “picks” it up. “Perhaps this is what you seek. It looks a little crumpled during the fight. Apologies and I hope your travels are fruitful. Which way do you travel? As you can see we are quite able to handle ourselves. We could walk with you a bit if we travel in the same direction? We fought an ogre not long ago on the roads”
"We're headed east to deliver a package." The kobold walks up to Thrudor and grabs the letter. "That man," he says, pointing to Titus "What's his name?"
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While the kobold's back is turned, Phait looks at Thrudor with a look asking, *friend or for?* gesturing to the kobold. He's quite beffudled at the open return of the letter after the escapades as the final notes of ethereal music begin to fade.
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Fuego:
”Eh, not my best work,” says Fuego, “Guess I am a bit rusty, no?”
Picking up the eye, he tries to recall what a hag might be doing with an apparently magically-preserved eye.
Arcana: 16
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Thrudor says so his friends can hear “Ah East. A merchant’s travel yes?” He emphasizes the merchant part “Perhaps you’ll grab some exotic fruits and things before the winter kills all the crops. This unnatural winter…Name well he can tell you himself if he wishes. I am Thrudor.”
Fuego:
Showing the eye to Phait, Fuego says, “I have never seen the like—at least not outside of a skull and still alive, yes? What do you think it does?”
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"Ah, but spices are in high demand. Have you heard that the price of peppers in the north doubled? I guess they don't understand that spicy isn't the same as hot. Well, I probably shouldn't say too much. Nice to see you." And with that, the kobold and his group leave.
In the corner of the bar are three men in farmers clothing, each with wide straw hats that cover their face when then they look down. The 2 on the sides are large and probably muscular, although it's hard to tell. The one in the middle starts walking towards the party, and the 2 others follow. He notices no one is talking to Cunning and walks up to him, lifting up his head slightly and whispering to Cunning:
It's the prince from earlier today. "Hey, it's me. Her Majesty the Queen request you three come to our royal dinner tonight and... are those 2 with you? The fire genasi and the dwarf? If so, they're invited. We caught word that you were headed north, and we found a path in the mines to make it easy. And as you'd expect from a mother, the Queen is thrilled that you saved me. Oh, and don't tell people outside the group I was here... paparazzi."
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Phait grunts, "I've never known a hag to become undead. So on first impression I have to think it's tied,to her special conditions." He eyes the eye for second thoughts.
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[[ With rolls like Fuego's and Phait's, the eye doesn't want to be figured out methinks. ]]
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The eye begins looking back and forth at the party.
Phait:
All you can remember about hags carrying eyes is that hags might carry eyes... but you don't even know if you remember that or if you made it up just now; after all, hags do weird things. But you saw the hag's true form as she died, and the whites of her eyes were an ugly yellow, with tiny gray irises. This eye is different... but as you look closer, the eye changes, as if losing a disguise: the white of the eye is light gray and the iris is crimson. After looking around, it quickly turns to stare at you.
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"Demonic!" shouts Phait. He jumps back looking for a napkin or something to throw over it. "That thing is not what it appears to be. And if folklore has taught me right then red eyes means fiend."
He adds, "The hag's eyes were not like this one. Hags carry strange things. I cannot say for sure if they carry eyes. But this eye was not hers. And I swear the thing was disgusting its true form, something it's losing power to keep up. Or perhaps losing concentration as it prepares it's next move."
He turns to Fuego, "It looked right at me. What should've been white was grey. And that crimson iris. That beady crimson iris."
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