Monstrous Compendium Vol. 1: Spelljammer Creatures
Frozen Sick
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Xerronios takes the opportunity to move up to Bésios. "I thank you for your gracious offer and I hope we can accept it, but I am but one of many," he says with a smile. "This island seems heavenly and the tale of your flight from the volcano has moved me in ways I cannot express. And returning to the island after such a hiatus, well, there must be many tasks needing doing, yes?" Xerronios pauses slightly here, long enough to invite a response but not quite long enough to allow one, before continuing. "Allow me to make an offer of my own, for music can often make even the most arduous of tasks seem easier and lighter. I should enjoy playing for you and your family and any guests you might like to invite. Would 6 hours after noon be acceptable?"
As he speaks, he strums a few chords on his lute, some notes from songs, idly, as though his fingers do not like being at rest.
Performance 21
Tandor the White, Human Life Cleric
"Music is always welcome." Your host replies with a smile of appreciation. "We will have a morning feast foremost tomorrow though, so please make sure all of your companions come to show their respect for our hospitality." The last is said with a bit of a barb to it, implying that disrespect of the hospitality might not be seen very well.
Ritha frowns. "My friends and I are new to this land, and were as surprised by the lord's over-abundant welcome as we were. This is not the norm in our homelands, which are far from here. Please, I only wish to understand what is going on here. If my words can't prove my sincerity, then perhaps my actions could. I would be willing to assist you in whatever tasks you are completing for this day, in exchange for any information you might have."
If the locals are still unwilling to take Ritha up on her offer, she will spend some time looking for a semi-intelligent wild animal to communicate with (like a fox or a wolf or the like).
Insight: 12
Kassiopeia
You get the sense the people are unhappy with their lot here. The laborers seem to be doing their job well, but do not seem overly happy, or at least only making it look as if they are enjoying their work.
Ritha
You can make another persuasion check if you wish, but dc goes up as you go along.
Last attempt to show goodwill: 23 + 4 Guidance
Kanlos rises, shaking slightly from the vision he'd received, and heads out to attempt to locate and gather his allies, they will need to know what will happen, or perhaps, is happening even now.
Perception: 24 (+1 if investigation is better.)
Kanlos, what was the check for? You don’t need a check to find your companions.
Wasn't sure he'd know where they went as many of us wandered off alone.
Kanlos finds his companions without any issues.
Xerronios nods in agreement then turns to leave, pauses, starts to turn back, then continues on his way. On his way back to the ship, remembering the attitude of these people toward their laborers, he makes a point of finding some. When he does, his fingers dance a delicate tune on his lute and he sings an old song [credit: http://www.protestsonglyrics.net/Anti_Poverty_Songs/Hard-Times-In-Colemans-Mines.phtml],
You sit down for breakfast and all you have to eat
Is cornbread and bulldog gravy without a bit of meat.
CHORUS:
It's a hard time in old Coleman's mines./A hard time poor boy.
In the summertime you live on cornbread and wild greens;
In the wintertime you live on cornbread and pinto beans.
(CHORUS)
You go in the farms and work all day without a bit to eat
Without a pair of pants to wear, no shoes upon your feet.
(CHORUS)
When you're asked about leaving this is what you say:
"We're so darn poor and ragged we can never get away."
(CHORUS)
You're all ragged and hungry, wearied and blue
And I'm so digusted that I don't know what to do..net
(CHORUS)
Well, I will do the best I can and do you do what you like
But you'd better all get together boys, and come out on a strike.
(CHORUS)
Strike for good conditions, boys, say 5 coppers a bushel.
Stick together like big brothers, boys, till a victory you have won.
It's a hard times in these old farms.
A hard time, I know.
After that one, he plays another.
ooc: Performance 12
When he's finished, he says to the group, "This seems like such a lovely place yet I get the sense things are not as wonderful as they seem. What am I missing? I heard the story of the island's past and was bothered by what I heard, by what happened before when the volcano erupted. Things seem little better now...no eruption, of course, but the rest seems the same. Do I see truly? Please, I want to know." The Leonine bard does his best to convey a sense of outrage at how the workers were treated before.
Persuasion: 11
ooc: His rolls are so terrible!
Tandor the White, Human Life Cleric
Ritha
"Follow me then." The farmer tells Ritha, and leads her into the town. He brings Ritha to...
Khloë (she/her, human Setessan hoplite) is a tall woman with a warrior’s build.
She speaks with the farmer briefly, then nods to Ritha. She will tell Ritha about the following...
Khloë leads the island workers in their efforts for fair pay. A child at the time of the Minuvoan eruption, Khloë’s parents and their fellow workers banded together what little wealth they had to pay for her and the other children of the island’s workers to escape aboard the landowners' ships. Her most vivid memory is sailing away as she saw the eruption overtake the people who had raised her.
Once on the mainland, Khloë led the orphans to Setessa, where they were taken in and raised in the welcoming safety of Karametra’s city. Khloë grew up to become a devoted protector of the city that took her in, protected her, and raised her after she lost everything by joining the far-ranging hoplites of Ophis tower.
During her travels, she caught word of ships returning to Minuvos. Posing as a laborer, she joined them with plans to take vengeance against the landowners—she would ensure that their greed would rob no more children of their parents.
Khloë is a follower of Athreos, who she thanks for her safe passage from Minuvos and hopes will provide safe passage of her loved ones to the underworld.
Xerronios
The workers appreciate your music, but are standoffish at your questions. They do not open up to you as you had hoped, but turn away as you start to ask questions of them.
Ritha nods slowly. Everything the woman has said so far makes sense with her observations, and her deep-rooted feeling of disgust with the over-sumptuous feast and smug city dwellers who welcomed them with the opulent feast. "My company has both followers of both Athreos and Karametra amongst us. I believe they would be most interested in hearing of your plan and motivations, and may even wish to help you in your efforts. While my goddess, Thassa, looks to the change and upheaval of the tides with a favorable eye, even she would not pass favor on a people who rejected the worship of the gods through laziness and incompetence. I believe she would want me to force change to come upon this land, just as you wish as well. It is the people who labor here who should reap the results of their sweat and effort, not the cowards who left those on this island to their cruel fate.
If you would be willing to allow me to speak to my companions of this and meet again, I believe at least some of our number would be willing to assist you," Ritha says. "My companions are still in the city proper themselves. I must meet with them and relay this news to them, if you would be willing to have our aid."
Ritha
"your aid, and that of your companions, would be most welcome." Khloë says. "Meet me tomorrow morning, likely after the lord's breakfast feast, at the Salty Swan tavern, near the docks. It would not be wise for you to miss the lord's breakfast, as that might cause more problems for you than you would wish."
((OOC: Did Io manage to learn anything about the ship from the laborers in the town?))
After committing the information to memory, Ritha returns to the city to find her companions and explain the situation to them.
You make your way to the docks. Please give me an investigation check, as well as a persuasion check.
Investigation: 7 + Guidance: 4
Persuasion: 23
You are able to find some dock hands, but they all just glare at you, having seen you go into the lord's home for the feast. None of them will speak with you.