Road to Phandalin

@Nobody: „So You want 275 for the stones and the objects together?“...“I can do that.“ She leaves the room for a moment and returns with a small sack. „20 Platinum and 75 gold. Also if i may ask, one of my partners, a mining consortium from Triboar, is having trouble with their locale Goldmine. They‘ve send a new manager for the mine, but due to the Orcs and the Dragon it would be a bit dangerous to travel by himself into the Sword Mountains, you and your friends wouldn‘t be available to escort him, would you? It‘s a days worth travel, so 50 gold to make sure he reaches his mine. What do you say?“

"And a generous cut of the future profits on the objects." Nobody called after with a bit of mirth to his voice. The tiefling's lighthearted chuckling petters out as the woman disappeared out of the room. He spent at least a good few seconds there wringing his tail, and staring at a nearby wall; wanting nothing more than to hammer his head against it. 'Thank you Oghma for the guidance, but what am I doing here chattering like an idiot!' He thought, squeezing his tail to the point of discomfort.

Hearing her return, Nobody promptly straightens up again, and puts on a tentative smile. When he hears the news his smile falters and expression overall shifts to the more pensive. "Now that is something I would have to discuss with the others. But considering how large the group has grown, I feel a fair bit confident of acquiring a few escorts for you -- just give me an hour talk it over with them." He requests, and would accept the sack of coin. If there's little more to add, he bids her a good day and reaffirmation of plans before setting off for the Stonehill Inn to catchup with the others. As much as he wished to continue original plans, there was just a bit too much not his own on hand at the moment.

"Ooooh, what's a Transendar Manor?"  Otrov coos to the group.  "Sounds like expensive things live there..."  Otrov grins wickedly at the prospect, rubbing her hands together a little.

Hearing them talk about an ancient cave also excites her: Shiny things also live in caves, she thinks greedily to herself. She spoons some more stew into her mouth, speechless (almost) for once. 

If there’s anyone else in the room, she’ll walk around unassumingly trying to eavesdrop in on any conversations that seem interesting. (Perception - 23 ) 

*edit lucky!   19  
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"Just a dungeon Otrov, the building part's no more destroyed by time I assume. The Redbrands used it as a hideout and Me Kai, Reel'yn and Nobody cleared it out."

Zurzg hisses loudly when Margret doesn't include his name in her list, and proceeds to make a show of sharpening his scimitar on his shortsword, and vice versa.

She rolls her eyes "And of course our hero Zurzg"

Otrov, there are two old men in the inn as well. They sit near a window and it seams they eat the same stew and bread as you do. From their cloths and dirty shoes you would assume they are farmers or something. You don‘t hear any of their conversation, but you notice that they look in your direction from time to time.

You also hear two children playing and shouting outside the inn.

So Dain uses the bathhouse first, then Margret after him. Nobody returns from the Miners Exchange. Anyone else want to do some shoping, praying, talking with the locals?

Otrov will keep an eye on the two men, and flash “Wanna talk?” In thieves cant. If that’s a nonstarter, she’ll go over and talk to them about some of the happenings in town, the red brands, and any new gossip flying around. 
And of course! She’ll go outside afterwards and try to wow the kids with some acrobatic stuff - cartwheels, somersaults, and pirouettes - (18 ) before seeing if they’ve heard anything strange going on; even going so far as to offer them a bit of coin to become her informants.  

@ Otrov: They don‘t react to your gestures, but when you go over they are friendly and talk with you. Most of their talk is about how the dragon sightings will influence the harvest. Will it reduce the amount of Orc raids or make them more desperate? They speculate where the dragon may come from. Normaly white dragons are nativ to the far north. How the beast end up in the Sword Mountains puzzles them. How do dragons transport their hoards or maybe there is no hoard yet and the dragon only starts to accumulate it? One of them remebers a tale he heard as a young lad: Around a century ago, a green dragon by the name of Azdraka terrorized the High Road. He was slain by the Lady Tanmara Aldragon of Neverwinter and buried where he was slain, somewhere between High Road and the Woods. It took a dozen fine knights lead by Lady Aldragon to bring the beast down and the Lady gave her life in doing so.

The children are impressed by your stunts and ask you to make more and more crazy stunts. When it gets to outrageous for you, you end the show with a cartwheel leading into a series of backflips and salty. But instead of standing the landing you intentionally trip, roll backwards and stop in a comfortable cross legged sitting position right against the wall of the inn. Pib and Carp are amazed. They are asking you a lot of questions. If you did rescue their friend Nars and his mother and sister while defeating the Redbrands. If they can have a look at your crossbow. What was the biggest beast you killed. If you could kill a dragon and so on. 

If I see Nobody

"Hey Nobody, I think we have a new job, Gundren's Brothers are missing and he wants help with a place called Weave Echo Cave, he said they went there and wants to leave in the morning. Oh did you find any herbs and charcoal?"

"H-hi.. uhm.. n-no. Not yet, at least. I manage acquire a surprising amount of funds between the gems and implements I sold off recently. F-for everyone, mind you, of course." Nobody admits, back to his old stuttering and nervous self again. "As for the new job, I-I had expected as much. Th-though we would need to get that statue first of course." As Magret is assumably catching tiefling up on everything else, Nobody finishes dividing up the coin at one of the tables, and either slides them over the rest of the party or leave them in small satchels he had on hand to be delivered later on.

Dain, Margret, Otrov(eventually), and Zurzg are each passed over 5 PP. Meanwhile Kai is given a slightly more bulging satchel with 50 GP. Of himself and Relgalyn, the two are left with only 12 and 13 gp respectively. If pressed on why the disparity in the split, he would admit, "I-I lost my head back there... again. So, well... I figure its only fair consider to pay you all back in some way -- B-besides! I have plenty enough as-is from the previous and already more than generous before." He said. At that, he'd also inform those present the deal with Halia, including the escorting job. "Assuming we can find Moss and the others, I figure I'd pass that one along to them to decide on. Shouldn't need no more than the 2 if she has they take the wolfhounds along with them. Then whoever is left can stay with Gundren at the forward base." He suggests. "E-e-either which way, The whole Wave Echo Cave v-venture n-needs to priority for the rest of us... i-in my humble opinion. Gundren looked rough when we found him. Th-there's no telling how bad the other brothers might be if they've been caught."

"If your friend Halia's client can wait till we get back, Nobody. We can do that too from what I understand the cave is only an hours ride from here."

She looks around

"Besides, we need our friends to guard the town remember some of the redbrands got away! And if Moss will, guard Gundrem"

Otrov nods at the farmers’ worries, agreeing that it was strange to see a white so far from home.  She will also reveal they were accosted by the beast recently - and survived. Listening carefully she nods at their questions but doesn’t really have an answer for them. “It could be a young dragon.  Just like an impetuous child, it might be looking for trouble if you know what I mean!“

Sitting crosslegged with the kids, Otrov is in her element. She regales them with how she killed a manticore, taking out the spike to show them. She shows them the Prick but doesn’t let them touch it. She also explains to them how the dead drop works and shows them where it’s located in town ((I believe we created one in the pre-campaign, correct?)). She hands them each a copper. “So if you hear anything interesting or see anything of note, put the info in there and you’ll get more if this.”  With that she shows them some more coin. 
“A dragon?!! Ho ho!  Well, we’re pretty strong and the Prick loves dragon blood - anything is possible!”

She heads back into the inn after watching her new comrades run off, shooting their imaginary Pricks into the air. She smiles and sighs. She takes the coin from the table and would like to buy a healers kit and a poisoners kit if possible. She’ll also make sure she has enough bolts and replace any ball bearings, caltrops, and pitons. 
“So, where to now guys?”

Otrov, after asking around a bit, you find out that the Lionshield coaster sells most of what you are looking for. Linene even got one poisoners kit for you. While you look through her stock, you chat a bit with her and you learn, that there still is a problem with Orc raids on the way to Triboar, near a mountain pass called Wyvern Tor. You get all the things you listed for the standard price. Although for the pitons you need to stop by Barthens Provisions (you can top up your rations there as well).

Also the Inn has 6 rooms, Sildar has one and he will share it with Gundren for the night. I assume Kai shares with Margret. Nobody and Zurzg? Dain, Otrov and Relgaly individual? Room is 5 silver per room and 1 silver p.P. for breakfeast.

Sildar also offers the potions he got for sale: 2x50gc for the Healing Potion and 500 for the potion of Invisibility.

Dain would accept the coin when he came down from his bath and was having a bit of dinner int he common area.

"So, what do you all be thinking we should be doing next?" He asks, as he gets filled in on the various jobs the group has found.  (I am just going to assume it is freely shared, so ignore if things are being kept from Dain.)  "Orcs issues nearby, Mine guy needs escorting, and the Echo mine to look into...  Anything I missed?"

Zurzg eyes nearly pop out his head as he is handed the platinum pieces, as if the stars themselves had been plucked from the sky and placed in his hands.  He bites one of them, chipping a tooth in the process, before nodding appreciatively and throwing them in his backpack.

On hearing Dain's question, the goblin pipes up.  "Zurzg wants job with big chance of more shiny coins!"  He pats his backpack to make a clinking sound, before narrowing his eyes at anyone, particularly Ortov, who might think of dipping their hand inside it.

(Nobody is certainly fine with those arrangements.)

In spite of assurance and concern, Nobody still found himself sitting there quietly for a few moments at least, rubbing the back of his neck. "As much as I'd wish to help with the Orcs, only the two mine cases are close enough together to be able to take any kind of "detours" into account. At least in terms of immediate c-concerns. And needless to say, a-at least as far as I'm concerned, Gundren's brothers takes priority." He admits to Dain and Otrav, then looks to Magret. "S-so.. as far as the wait goes, I can ask when I head out to actually re-supply. With any luck, her friend can at least hold off the day." He replied.

"Th-though I would remind you, Ms. Magret, the one's I was referring to at least had stepped away before to help with a supply run before without consequence. N-not that I'm saying they should again, of course, but... well... we can at least pass the details along and have them decide. But, my course is fairly set. Either we see to Wave Echo Cave today, if not tomorrow morning. Or, we do that escort job at least, and then rope back around to Wave Echo." He says, assuming there was a map present for him to include some gesturing to the two positions. If not, he stands firm by the Wave Echo pursuit. In either case, he turns to Zurzg with an apologetic smile, "I imagine all 'jobs' have big chance of more shiny coins, so that shouldn't b-be much of an i-issue, m-my friend."

At some point during or perhaps immediately after the conversation of course, Nobody would purchase at least one of the healing potions off of Sildar.

Margret says looking somewhat upset

"WHAT!? Have you ever heard of one thing at a time!"

then heads out the door to the shrine of luck to buy some herbs and charcoal from Sister Garaele. Then some rations from Barthans and about five flasks of oil and Charcoal if Garaele dose not have it. All the while contemplating why she wants stay she makes her way to the Miners exchange herself.

5 flask of lantern oil is no pronlem. When you say charcoal, do you mean plain old coal or the good stuff incense and charcoal for find familiar?