Gallia Campaign 1

(OOC: I most likely won't be online much tomorrow or Friday, feel free to bot my character as needed.)

@ Gimble, Mr. Chin: (to Gimble) "Yes, because it was about trust, and seeing how you handle being under pressure. Since I don't trust you quite yet, I'm not going to share with you any information that would make testing you worth it. Now I do appreciate you reporting to me. Hopefully now you and your friends will leave the remains... if any exist, of the bandits alone, so it can occupy the city guard and other officials of the kingdom. I'm sure I don't need to tell you, how valuable a small and underdeveloped kingdom like this could be to this kind of business. My sources tell me there is already an interested party sniffing around the city. Now if you were to shine a light on this cockroach, I would be very pleased. Unfortunately I don't have any more information to share on that. If nothing else, I'll be taking my leave." Mr. Chin looks at you to see if you respond. He also motions for the halfling serving girl to come by your table.

@ Misty, (OOC: thanks for the heads up, with how long this night section is taking, there might not be a need to bot your character. If you want you can post what you plan to do in the morning after waking up so I can move the story along when we get there.)

@ everyone who is ready for the next day, (OOC: sorry this section is taking so long, if there is a big need for it, I can split posts to individuals until we hit a point where we need the whole party.)

“Ok, well I will look for an opportunity then. As for your potential cockroach, I may have some info. When we were in their base I read some papers on a desk. It seems as though your mystery man may have been in league with the bandits. There were orders given to a man named Glasstaff to acquire all alchemy supplies they could find in the area. There was also mention of a cave to the north.” Gimble pauses, turning his mug. “There was also some mention of an ancient treasure, but no specifics to that.”

Gimble waits for the serving girl to finish her business with Mr. Chin.

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“Ok, well I will look for an opportunity then. As for your potential cockroach, I may have some info. When we were in their base I read some papers on a desk. It seems as though your mystery man may have been in league with the bandits. There were orders given to a man named Glasstaff to acquire all alchemy supplies they could find in the area. There was also mention of a cave to the north.” Gimble pauses, turning his mug. “There was also some mention of an ancient treasure, but no specifics to that.”

Gimble waits for the serving girl to finish her business with Mr. Chin.

 @ Gimble, Mr. Chin whispers in the halfling server's ear, and then hands her a pouch filled with coins. Mr. Chin then turns back to you. Mr. Chin: (to Gimble) "Glasstaff is the name of the Bandit's leader. The interest party would be here in the city, or maybe in the neighboring minor towns... Treasure you say? Well I'm no treasure hunter, nor do I have any in my employee at the moment. If you find this treasure I'm sure I can find a buyer, for a finders fee of course... These meetings has me talk way more than I'm use to, or comfortable with. I know your more of the fighting type, but if you wanted to get more into the business... You could be my voice. I tell you what I have to say, and you relay the information to a contact. But I must go. Kill the goblins, stay out of the bandits way, find people who are interested in the city, or bring me this treasure." Mr. Chin gets up from the table and leaves the Sleeping Giants Tap House. The halfling girl turns towards you. Zefwyn: (to Gimble) "Is there anything else I can get you?"

Gimble grabs his own pouch of gold....hands her a gold. “I’ll take another one of these,” and he slams the mug back. 

Casmir 

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"Yes indeed you can, good sir! I am looking for my friends, the Dendrars. We met earlier today and I helped them get out of a sticky situation. I'm a servant of Tyr, you see" Casmir points to the holy symbol on his chest "so it sort of is in the job description. Anyway, I'd like to see if they got home safely but I failed to ask where they lived. Do you think you could help me with that?"

(OOC: Persuasion in case it's needed 11, second roll in case the DM is impressed by Casmir's name-dropping of his god and grants advantage 11)

(OOC2: looks like Tyr wants Casmir to have a hard time with this, lol)

@ Casmir, City Guard: (to Casmir) "I don't know the Dendrars personally, but if you want I could escort you to City Hall, and we can check the records, and find out where they live." (OOC: Having the symbol of Tyr in a city with a temple to Tyr is more than enough to get a typical city guard to help) 

 

 Casmir thanks the guard and follows them to the City Hall. (OOC: if they can do it tonight Casmir will look up the Dendrars. If it is closed due to the late hour he will learn the way then come back tomorrow.)

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Gimble grabs his own pouch of gold....hands her a gold. “I’ll take another one of these,” and he slams the mug back. 

 @ Gimble, She takes the coin and the mug, after a minute or two she brings you a fresh mug filled with more alcohol.

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Casmir thanks the guard and follows them to the City Hall. (OOC: if they can do it tonight Casmir will look up the Dendrars. If it is closed due to the late hour he will learn the way then come back tomorrow.)

@ Casmir, the two of you go to City Hall, it is open, Most of the workers are cleaning up and preparing to close up for the evening. The city guard leads you to the records part of the building, The city guard talks with the clerk at the front desk, after some complaining the worker does comply with the guardsman's request. He writes down the address on a scrap of paper, and then turns to you. City Guard: (to Casmir) "I got the address, its here in the city, You sure you wish to disturb these people late at night? I'm more than willing to do so. Its best to make sure these people are ok. I just want to make sure you are okay with presenting yourself, and your faith in such a manner to disturb people in their homes at this time of day without invitation." 

Gimble will finish the mug off and make his way up to his room contemplating how he will learn some information and get arrested. He will set up some alarms on his door,  “Just in case,” he thinks to himself.

(OOC I’m ready to move to the next day.

@ Gimble, you wake up the next morning, the alarms you set up did not go off, and your room looks just how you left it before sleeping.

@ Misty, you wake up the next morning, feeling refreshed after a nice relaxing evening.

@ O'alana, You wake up and the fire in the fireplace is out. You have a blanket draped over you, Toblen must have put it on you sometime while you were sleeping. You can see Toblen behind the bar getting ready for morning service. Elsa is going around the tables doing much the same. A Dwarf walks in and sits at one of the tables.

@ Gniff, You wake up in your room, feeling pretty good from sleeping in a bed.

(OOC: date July 25th. time 6:00 a.m.)

(OOC: quests in the spoiler below)

@ Casmir and Branch, (OOC: I'm not gonna have the other players wait any more, You two will need to play catch up. You are both still at the night before) 

Feeling refreshed, Misty gets dressed, leaving her armor off for now, and coming down to the common room in a tunic, stockings, and leather boots. She has a belt around her waist, with a dagger sheathed there.

For those who have not seen Misty out of her armor yet, she is a curvy woman, with chestnut brown hair, coupled with an athletic body under the curves. When wearing her armor she wears a band around her chest to help smooth out the curves under her armor.

Misty moves to a table and takes a seat, ordering the basic breakfast when a server arrives at her table.

Gimble will clean himself up, gather his belongings, and head down for a quick breakfast. After that, he would make his way back to Orchecks Removals to offload some stuff with Grumm. 

On his way there he would keep his eyes open for any Thieves Cant that may help him find some information that may be dangerous or a lead on who to seek out. 
Perception 18 

Once at Orchecks, Gimble would see if he could offload some of the gear (4 Shortwords & 2 Studded Leathers) he picked up at the base.
Persuasion 19 

“Good mornin Grumm! Good day for business eh? Would ya mind takin a look at this and lettin me know if ya could take it off my hands?” Gimble asks enthusiastically. 

@ Misty, You head down stairs, you see Greg sitting at one of the tables. You also see O'alana starting to get up from sleeping near the fireplace. Elsa is going table to table get everything ready for breakfast. Toblen is behind the bar like he usually is. After you sit down at one of the tables, you order your breakfast from Elsa, Elsa: (to Misty) "Sure thing, I'll have them fix it up right away." Elsa heads into the kitchen. The common room is mostly empty, but a few people are starting to enter to have their morning meal before work.

@ Gimble, You head down stairs to have breakfast. The place is completely empty except for Grista who is lazily reclining in a bar stool against a wall. You order breakfast. Grista: (to Gimble) "Huh, breakfast. No one usually orders food here. I guess I can see what I can scrounge up. Heh, you been a good customer, might as well keep you happy." She gets up from the stool goes into another room. You can hear pots and pans banging around in presumably a kitchen. After a long time of waiting she comes back with a plate of bread and cheese. both of which look questionable but not clearly moldy. Grista: (to Gimble) "Sorry, keep renting a room, and I promise to try to accommodate you better in the future." While eating you do think you see Mr. Chin leave the Sleeping Giant Tap House, He pays no attention to you and leaves in a hurry. After you finish (if you choose to eat the breakfast served to you), You leave the Sleeping Giant Tap House. As you walk around the city heading towards Orccheck's Removals, you do see Thieves Cant signs, but they are the same signs you saw the last time you were in the city. No new ones have been put up yet. They say to not mess with the Red Brand Bandits, and that there is slim pickings around town as the Red Brands have their hands in all things around the city. (OOC: Since the party already has a discount at Orccheck's Removals it cannot further be improved. I might make an exception if you give me very specific dialog to try to get a better deal.) Grumm: (to Gimble) "Hey there Gimble, back from a big adventure?  Sure thing, you and your friends were and are saving my business, so I have no problem doing business with you." Grumm looks over the weapons and armor you try to sell him. Grumm: (to Gimble) "I'll give you 71 gold and 4 silver for all of it." (OOC: That is with your discount, so you are getting more money than if you sold these items else where, or so you would hope.) Grumm: (to Gimble) "Can I convince you to make a purchase while you are here?"

@ everyone else, (OOC: check the previous post)

(OOC thanks I forgot we had dealings to the point of continued discounts there)

Gimble looks at the ‘meal’ and looks at the door. “I think I’ll take this to go.” Gimble quickly grabs the grub and attempts to make a quick exit and see where Chin is headed. (Out of mere curiosity more than foul intent)
Perception (if needed) 18 

Once at Orchecks:

Gimble looks to Grumm, “Well, there are a few things I’m looking for but I don’t know how much your stock has changed since we were here the other day.” He pauses to think. “Well I’m lookin for a whetstone, some healing potions,  a signal whistle, a signet ring, sealing wax, um, yeah. The stone and potions are pretty much the main need the rest is just extra.”

”On a side note, being new to town, I’d like to, ya know, get to know some people of influence, work my way up in this world. Who would I be lookin to meet in this town?”

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(OOC thanks I forgot we had dealings to the point of continued discounts there)

Gimble looks at the ‘meal’ and looks at the door. “I think I’ll take this to go.” Gimble quickly grabs the grub and attempts to make a quick exit and see where Chin is headed. (Out of mere curiosity more than foul intent)
Perception (if needed) 23 

Once at Orchecks:

Gimble looks to Grumm, “Well, there are a few things I’m looking for but I don’t know how much your stock has changed since we were here the other day.” He pauses to think. “Well I’m lookin for a whetstone, some healing potions,  a signal whistle, a signet ring, sealing wax, um, yeah. The stone and potions are pretty much the main need the rest is just extra.”

”On a side note, being new to town, I’d like to, ya know, get to know some people of influence, work my way up in this world. Who would I be lookin to meet in this town?”

@ Gimble, (Unless you follow him) You see which direction Mr. Chin is heading in but without following him, you can't say where he is heading. He was heading towards the lower parts of the city (the city being built onto/next to a mountain, so the entrance to the city is at a lower elevation, and the palace and mines being at a higher elevation, with everything else in-between.) He could have been heading to leave the city, the cheaper houses, or anything in the lower part of the city... At Orcchecks. Grumm: (to Gimble) "Heh, yeah I'm still a weapon and armor shop so I can't really help you with most of those things. The whetstone, its on the house." Grumm tosses you a whetstone. "I did manage to get my hands on a potion, but only one. 45 gold pieces." Grumm starts digging through some stuff behind the counter. Grumm: (to Gimble) "Well there is the Princess' Stewart, Harbin Wester. Although I hear these days he is more of a glorified city mayor than a steward to the Princess. I heard a rumor that one of the Crown's Guardians was in town to deal with the Red Brand Bandit situation, but since I heard more about the bandits than this Kingdom Hero, I'm guess it didn't go well for them. This hero was supposedly a magic user but again Its all rumor. Sir Drexel is leading the campaign against the Orcs, he is an important type, but no idea how you would get a meeting with him. He's probably up in the palace. Any of those palace types would be where you want to go. I also hear there is a secretive magic group in town. Not sure if they are well connected or not but it could be a way in. I do happen to have some information on that last one. I noticed this Loxodon woman who frequents the Stonehill Inn. I think she might be with that group, not sure if she would be willing to talk about it thought."

Gimble will have let the idea of following Chin go, and focus on the task before him.

”Thanks Grumm, you’ve been more than helpful.” Gimble passes the 45gp and takes the potion and the stone. “I appreciate the info, if any of it pans out to what I’m lookin for I’ll have a tip comin your way. But I better head over to the inn, my friends should probably be wakin up by now and I need to meet with em. Thanks again.”

And Gimble heads towards the Stonehill Inn to meet his peers but also to see if he can spot this Loxodon woman.

Waking up from the peaceful, warm sleep, O'alana moves and stretches under the covers before poking her head out. She rolls the blanket into a ball and pushes it aside, rubbing her long, knotted hair, revealing the red marks on her small, fair face from the deep slumber. She gets up and nods at Toblen, and joins Misty at her breakfast.

Misty greets O'alana as she joins her at the table. Over breakfast she discusses what to do next...

"I think we need to speak with the Princess's man, to get the rewards we have been promised for tasks already done, and to see if he has anything else for us to do." Misty says after finishing a bite of food. "I think checking out these orcs would be a good thing to look into next, but what do you think?" She would run through all of the tasks they have on their to-do list currently, to get O'alana up to speed.

Casmir thanks the guard for his (her?) help and says he will check on them the following day, they sure need their rest.

He heads back to the inn to sleep; nothing else happening during the night, he will go down the following morning to grab breakfast, bright-eyed and bushy-tailed (the tailed part is literal, the bushy part is metaphorical).

If Misty and O'alana are there he will walk over and ask if he can join them.

@ Misty, O'alana, and Casmir, O'alana comes over to your table Misty. Shortly after Elsa comes out with Misty's breakfast, A bowl of porridge, with milk to drink. Elsa turns to O'alana, Elsa: (to O'alana) "Can I bring you something to eat?" (OOC: Since you all have rooms here at the Stonehill Inn, you get your meals for free until dinner when you will need to renew your room for another day. That is assuming you take the meal of the day, if you order something specific it will cost something.) (OOC 2: I will outline the quests the party has, you can always check the quests in the quest spoilers for the full list. The Main Quest is finding Greg Greenspear's boss Gundren Rockseeker. the first Secondary Quest is to take out the Red Brand Bandits. the party has wiped out their main base, but their leader has escaped. Sildar is suppose to reward the party for helping him today. the second Secondary Quest is to take out the Orc Raiders who have been raiding the northern towns of he kingdom. the third Secondary Quest is to see if you can convince someone with authority to participate in the negotiations with the Centaur tribes of the Emberhorn Kingdom. There are a number of side quests the party has started, those are in the quest spoilers)  After you both are talking for a while, the dwarf at the other table notices you both, and walks over. It is Greg Greenspear. Greg: (to Misty and O'alana) "Hey, you guys are back. Any luck with finding Gundren? And can I sit at your table?" A minute or two later Casmir comes walking down the stairs and joins Misty and O'alana. Casmir orders breakfast from Elsa, and after its ready Elsa brings you a bowl of porridge and a glass of milk.

@ Casmir, (OOC: for catching you up) at night, It is a male guard. You now have an address for the Dendrars. You head back to the Stonehill Inn, when you enter you saw O'alana sleeping by the fireplace before heading upstairs to your room. You sleep well. (OOC: all caught up)

@ Gimble, You leave Orccheck Removals after concluding your business. (OOC: give me a perception check), You make it back to the Stonehill Inn, You can see Misty, O'alana and Casmir sitting at one of the tables, Greg is walking over to them and started talking. You look around the common room/bar, You see no Loxodons. Loxodons are pretty rare so if you see one it will likely be the person you are after.

@ everyone else, (OOC: check the previous posts to catch up)

@ everyone, (OOC: let me know what you are doing next)

(OOC: date July 25th. time 7:00 a.m.)

(OOC: quests in the spoiler below)

O'alana asks for the same breakfast that Misty is having. She begins to eat her porridge while listening to Misty. "Sounds fair," she says, wiping off the crumbs from the corner of her mouth with the back of her hand, "I know some orcs were north here." She keeps a keen eye as Casmir and the other dwarf sits down.