| Maps and Guides turns out to be a small office, a wooden desk halfway across the room in front of a portly gnome. Almost before you've had a chance to enter the building he greets you, "Well hello! New to the city, I'm sure I can help! My name is Theremore Beezlebrocket Ramplestein Gornagon; maps and guides is my buisness and I know Fallon like the back of my hand," he says almost without drawing breath.
To his right two are two cabinets, piles of paper overflowing slightly from the drawers and keeping them from closing properly. On the desk you can see another pile of paperwork, maps, although nowhere you recognise. Behind him, a large map pinned to the wall, marked as Fallon, depicts the city floor, with a large area surrounding it on three sides, all coloured dark blue and marked 'The Caves'. At the bottom of the map a lighter blue is at the city edge depicting Lake Kithsui.
At Joru's request, Theramore opens one of the cabinets. "Maps of the city and the caves... well.. these are all maps of the city... hang on, somewhere here I've got something that might be useful." He pulls out a large stack of papers and rifles through them. There appear to be maps of all sorts there, from detailed maps showing buildings in one area to what looks like a childs sketch.
While he rifles through the paperwork, he addresses your other questions. "Well, a guide, well that would be my brother I guess. I can guide you around the city, give you the whole tour if you like, just 4 silver and he'll show you the city, including the beautiful gardens, the Hall of Gods and the elven quartz buildings in all of their splendour. Never a finer day out in Fallon." he says, setting some of the maps aside in a seperate pile. "Ah, the caves!" he says, proudly producing a sheet of parchment. He thrusts out what could, just about, be described as a map. It looks like a 3/4 of a ring, with stairs marked around the inside. Further out from the stairs there are boxes drawn, marked and labelled but entirely unclear as it looks like a great many levels have been drawn on top of one another, with the labelling so small you wonder how the cartographer managed to write it in the first place. "All one hundred and eleven levels of the caves on one easy to use map!" Theremore proclaims. "Yours for just 3 silver!" |