Dire Lemming
First Post
[sblock=Ethranor]Ethranor's second attempt is far more profitable. Someone he speaks with mentions the Butler he had thought of last night, said person reaffirms the idea that he does tend to drink his nights away at the Winged Wench, but doesn't know where he works during the day. However, an old beggar man who has profited from Ethranor's generous employment tell him that he has often seen the man leaving Varsus' Dyers in the evening. The cloth dying business owned by Varsus Limme, and operated by slave labor. It is the sort of business that is frowned on in the High Ward where there are at least a few pretenses towards treating slaves decently. Only here in the low ward can a business like this truly thrive. Just don't buy anything red made there.
He also hear's mention of a gardener and a chambermaid who were fired at around the same time. The gardener moved out of the city to work on one of the outlying farms. No one you spoke to is really sure what happened to the chambermaid. Some have ideas though that she was either murdered or was abducted for the slave trade. Even if you've little chance of finding her though, dead women tell no tales, so the latter option is certainly preferable.[/sblock]
[sblock=Ethan] Yes, there's an actual gate and a secondary wall around the base of the high ward. It's a secondary defense if the outer wall fails, and it keeps the poor from mingling with the rich and making them uncomfortable.
remember that your 75 gp noble's outfit does not include the jewelry or the signet ring that would really make you pass for a noble. If you still want to try it with only the clothes then you can try, just tell me.
Ethan nears the gate to the high ward and sees a bored looking plain young woman in a guard's uniform (Though with the chainmail hauberk you can only really tell her sex from here because it looks a bit too small, and she's not wearing her helmet) speaking to a man who looks like a middle class merchant. There's also a large wagon filled with wooden crates in the middle of the road that looks like it belongs to him. He can't hear the conversation from here but can guess that the guard is talking to the merchant about the wagon he's bringing in. The merchant looks a bit annoyed as he waves his papers about emphatically.[/sblock]
He also hear's mention of a gardener and a chambermaid who were fired at around the same time. The gardener moved out of the city to work on one of the outlying farms. No one you spoke to is really sure what happened to the chambermaid. Some have ideas though that she was either murdered or was abducted for the slave trade. Even if you've little chance of finding her though, dead women tell no tales, so the latter option is certainly preferable.[/sblock]
[sblock=Ethan] Yes, there's an actual gate and a secondary wall around the base of the high ward. It's a secondary defense if the outer wall fails, and it keeps the poor from mingling with the rich and making them uncomfortable.
remember that your 75 gp noble's outfit does not include the jewelry or the signet ring that would really make you pass for a noble. If you still want to try it with only the clothes then you can try, just tell me.
Ethan nears the gate to the high ward and sees a bored looking plain young woman in a guard's uniform (Though with the chainmail hauberk you can only really tell her sex from here because it looks a bit too small, and she's not wearing her helmet) speaking to a man who looks like a middle class merchant. There's also a large wagon filled with wooden crates in the middle of the road that looks like it belongs to him. He can't hear the conversation from here but can guess that the guard is talking to the merchant about the wagon he's bringing in. The merchant looks a bit annoyed as he waves his papers about emphatically.[/sblock]
