Road to Phandalin

"So what is it that you do Mr Biggz to compliment our little band of souls?" Margret says while Marco peeks out from under her hair hanging upside down eyeing some fruit on her plate which Margret promptly feeds it to him

She seems more interested and at ease. Though Marco constantly looks this way and that

"I noted you complemented your music with magic."

A half-smiling Biggz starts to reply. But seeing the halfling run off so quick, he shrugs sets aside the lute again to finish up dinner. Which for him was only a plate of mutton and bread. "I did say the song was a new one for me." He responded nonchalantly to Margaret first suggestion in between bites. Sildar's request is met with a passing nod, as Biggz mouth had been full at the time.

Meanwhile, already a little flustered seeing Otrov take off, Nobody grimaces once Dain follows suit not long after. As his plans somewhat undoes itself before his very eyes, Nobody eventually can only sigh in defeat. "Guess its plan B then." At that, he follows up after Dain at least not long after, calling for the dwarf. When he gets a hold of him, he offers to try and pass along a few spells to the dwarf, if he's interested and able. Both from his own spellbook, and that of another -- Glasstaff's, or Iarno, so he suspects -- that he picked up some time ago. Afterwards, he would also confess some intentions of... becoming the wraith's helper as part of Gundren's ongoing deal. "It's... It's my fault his brother got killed... Or so I feel. And even if its not, I can't move on until I pay Gundren all the same... a-and... after what happened, I don't think its a good idea for me to be in the field. Not until I'm better sorted."

Back downstairs, Biggz lofts a fuzzy brow at Margret, then gives her once over. "You noticed, eh? Huh... not many people do... well... 'cept the elves, or so I hear. And that Regalia fella the little jibber jabber mentioned. Though that's just me being presumptuous at that point." He chuckled. "Not sure as well why you're confident we'll be working together... but then, maybe that's what Sildar has in store for the morrow. S'pose we'll know for sure then, but... since you're curious, I... I know a bit of magic picked up from here and there over the years. None of that book learning wizards got going, but.... I dunno. It just sorta started coming to me since I heard this one song a ways back."

"Although it comes back to me better when I work a pair of axes I have upstairs, I... there's this song I hear from time to time that just... I dunno. But when I listen to it, and.. say the right word or swing them axes I mentioned, well... funny things happen. Sometimes people are healed from it. Some fall asleep. Some act like they hear it to, 'cause suddenly they can do amazing stuff -- its sounds crazy, but its all true." He said with a thoughtless nod at the end. "I'm also, if you can believe it, a very, very good cook. Here. Try this jerky and tell me what you think. I managed to really lock in some spiciness and remove some of the salt without compromising it." Biggz fishes around in his pack before finally pulling out some jerky strips.

Whoever would consume the enticingly smelling meat find their spirits just a little bolstered.
(Gain 2 Temp HP).

"Takes a bit to make treats like that, but its always worth it, or so I've been told." He explained to her.

Dain pauses as Nobody comes after him. "Sorry, forgot we planned to meet up." He tells his friend. He waves him into his room and closes the door. When the offer of spells comes up he would nod and settle down, ready to listen to whatever Nobody has to say in regard to them.

She smiles at Biggz's story which was much better than the song he sung. She looks with appreciation

"Thankyou how long does the effect last?"

she tries some of it

"Can you tell me more of your life? Or should you be getting to  bed? It sounded like Sildar has plans for you. Who knows probably us too."

She looks around blue eyes rimmed with purple, thinking that since she picked up that bone from the flameskull in the forge room in the mine she has trouble determining when nightfall has come while inside.

"Yea, the kick'll last ya 'till the next time ya lay that little head of yours down... Well, that, or until something or someone knocks a bit more silly than a stubbed toe." Mr. Biggz replied simply. At the next question, Mr. Biggz leans back in his seat, and raises a bushy brow.

"Hm...Well..." He turns and looks off to the door. "Probably best to get some shut-eye sooner than later. Perhaps another time, uhm... if your that interested. Which I will admit is a rather new one. Most of you, uh... civilized folk.. tend to break out the pitchforks and axes well before wanting to get to know me and mines. And right so, considering how most mines tend to act." Chuckling, Biggz gets out of his seats, nods once to all, then heads out.

Whether that meant upstairs to some prearranged room(paid for earlier), or outside nearby  due to general discomfort is up to the fates. But in either case he appears no more troubled, having slept in all kinds of weird places. 

With Nobody and Dain, the tiefling becomes eventually so immersed in detailing some of the spells and application from both books, that wary and regretful air about him melts away. He also expresses how the one in particular he intended to use tomorrow to help with rooting out any agents that might be about, could also be effective in figuring out if someone is spying at any given moment... give or take some caveats.

(Below is a following of the formula he helps translate. Although Dain would still need the supplies to actually copy any, if any, into his spellbook.)

Cantrips :light, mage hand, shocking grasp
1st Level : charm person, magic missile
2nd Level :hold person, misty step.

From his personal book, of those of any interest:
1st level: Sleep, False Life.
2nd level: Darkvision, Detect Thoughts

Margret does start to feeling better as she watches Mr Biggz  leave she sends a message to him as he walks away just to be more mysterious "Perhaps, you should stay with us tonight the last bard in our group died here, alone." 

she scarfs down the last of her meal   leaving two silver for a tip and goes and visits Tolbin 

"Are we square my friend?"

Mr. Biggz slows in step, but only for a second before getting back his stride. "Eh. Thanks for the tip. But, I need my leg room, and should be fine all the same. But if not, eh. Just means I'll be taking the long sleep sooner than expected." He answered via the spell with a bit of mirth to his voice as he carried on his way.

Dain would discuss matters with Nobody for a while, but the only spell he would be interested in would be misty step

She shrugs at Biggz reply once she finds out they're settled she goes upstairs to hang out with Dain and Nobody and the group she sends Marco to keep an eye on biggz

"Mind if I join your study group"

Mr Biggz doesn’t have a room here in the Inn, but Sildar started to organise the old school building at the north end of town to be renovated and turned into a barracks for the Lords Allianz Guards. There only came a few with the last transport from Neverwinter, but Biggz already knows the majority of them and so he got a roof and a dry corner in that building to sleep in for now.

Everyone else got their rooms in the inn. Because of the incident and a couple of merchants, you got a total of two rooms, one for the boys and one for the girls. Gundren shares a room with Sildar.

(To DM: Then that's right where he goes! Whew~)

Nobody had simply nodded, and passed along the spellbook for Dain to copy it. He mentions there being a few he intended to copy from that book as well, if albeit at later date. After which, he intended to give it to the wraith as per the deal in hopes of weedling out information. When Margaret shows up wishing to join in the "study group", Nobody looks at her awkwardly for a second or two before nodding in agreement. If but for a few minutes before the group needed to collectively sleep, with Zurzg having to be woken from a food coma at some point, Nobody offers what pointers he can from past experiences.

He also, if/when others show up confesses his plans to take a back seat on matters. 

"Thankyou Nobody," She says as she gets up to retire to the women's bedroom "You guys keep up your guard tonight, goodnight."                   She heads into the room and nods to Kai and Otrov

"Quit jumping on the bed Otrov, gods I wish I had that much energy!" 

She recalls Marco and takes his report to mind and sets him to watch the outside of the Inn telling him to wake her if anything approaches the Inn that looks dangerous.

"The school house there's a memory I wanted to forget." She hopes it's not haunted now 

"How shall we do watch?"

(M: 13, F: 19)

After the bad surprise last time you stayed here, you are a little bit more paranoid. Each room sets up their own rotation of watch, together with familiars, tripwire and spells where possible. Zurzgs room stays vigilant the whole night, while Kai nods of a little during her watch. Luckily the night stays quite and you all meet downstairs for beacon and eggs.

You do notice several small groups of people who arrive in the inn while you eat. They seam to split into three groups. one is a group of fighters and you recognise the insignias of Neverwinter guards. The second group looks like merchants and the third one are most likely labourers of some sort.

You watch as Garaele and Sildar have a short chat with each group. You also notice that Garaele is casting a spell of some kind while talking. (Mr Biggz would be with the guards during this interaction, unless he prefers to hide)

Once they are finished, Sildar thanks Sister Garaele and she leaves, while he comes over to you. He wishes you a good morning before helping himself to some breakfast as well.

During your conversation, you learn that Gundren plans to get the mine up and running again and that for now Nobody, Kai and Zurzg decided to provide help and protection for now.

(something: 15)

"Seems good to me." Dain says with a nod. "Anything you need us doing at this point?" He asks Sildar.

"That's a good thing, those merchants bring anything? And like Dain said, Lord Sildar"

she smiles then eats a bit more

 Mr. Biggz is with the guards. Still as sleepy-eyed as yesterday, but not quite on the verge of nodding off before the party arrives downstairs. In any event, the bugbear appears attentive enough to notice the party's arrival, and even spare a wave. Then once the discussion is over, Biggz follows after Silder, if but to grab himself some breakfast as well. That, and seeing as how most townsfolk appeared less "uncomfortable" while he was in the presence of armed and/or well-known individuals, the slightly less they appeared to mind him.

He looks on curiously during breakfast, wondering, if he hadn't already known, Sildar's plans for the party. Curious still had been the tieflings reaction by the end of morning talks about Gundren's plan. If he hadn't known any better, once Gundren approved of his ongoing participation, it looked as if a great weight had been lifted off his shoulder. 

Nobody, the conversation with Sister Garaele and Sildar was the same questioning that happened a few days before, where the priestess was casting Zone of Truth and everyone was asked to confirm their identity under the spell.

“Well, there is still a lot of work to be done around here my friends, the two biggest problems on my plate are still all the small groups of orcs that came out of the sword mountains. Some are threatening farms, others are attacking traders comeing from Triboar. At least i have a good idea, why they came. It seams as if this white dragon made its lair somewhere up the mountains and the orcs were smart enough not to stick to close to him. Unfortunately that won’t help us very much... I’ll have a look into my notes what are the most pressing concerns right now and i come back to you around noon.” Sildar replies.

"We'll be here." Dain says with a nod. As Sildar leaves he looks to Margret. "So what tasks are we looking to be doing while we wait for Sildar to come back? I would like to be getting some supplies purchased in town, but otherwise be not having no big plans meself."

Kala is hard to miss as she is a young beautiful human female with long red hair.  She was part of the merchant and craftsman group that was being question by Sildar and Sister Garaele.  As the interrogation ends she notices (I mean who wouldn't... you would have to be blind and possibly deaf not to notice) the bugbear Mr. Biggz, who had also been in the caravan from Neverwinter, sitting at a nearby table with several others.  'Well...', she thinks to herself, 'he seems nice enough, I think I'll go introduce myself to him and the rest at the table.'  Kala gets up from where she was sitting and goes over to the table where the bugbear and several others are sitting "Do you mind if I join you?" she inquires.  "I'm Kala Raz... I just arrived here yesterday from Neverwinter."  Looking at Mr. Biggz, "I noticed that you also traveled in from Neverwinter - what brings you to these parts?"

She laughs human females do like shopping

"Shopping I guess but we should keep together with that dragon around. Lets go to the minors exchange and see if we can find a gemstone for talon first. Course the Lioncoaster for some new arrows. Some rations Maybe sell the halfplate. Can you guys think of anything to buy? Wish we could find something that Otrov could use so she can see in the dark."