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<blockquote data-quote="sunshadow21" data-source="post: 5955796" data-attributes="member: 6667193"><p><span style="color: DarkOrange">Gathering the equipment and tying the prisoner up, the party slowly makes their way back to town up top, the prisoner going unconscious almost immediately. As soon as they reach town, they report to the garrison commander, who hearing what they have to say chuckles a bit, <span style="color: Green">"So the rumors of Old Greybeard's tunnel are true after all. Not only have you dealt with the pirates, but you just settled a lot of long running bets. A bit of a shame some of them escaped, but we can work with it. By all accounts Old Greybeard was a dwarf like your friend here, and had a penchant for being a bit crazy, so we can play on their natural superstitions for a bit of fun. They must truly be desperate to seek out legends as a means of attacking us. Talk to the quartermaster to get you pay, and you can catch a ride on the next boat back to Venza in a couple of days. In the meantime, I'm sure the locals will keep you busy telling your story over and over again and you probably won't have to worry about buying your drinks." <span style="color: White"></span></span></span></p><p><span style="color: DarkOrange"><span style="color: Green"><span style="color: White"></span></span></span></p><p><span style="color: DarkOrange"><span style="color: Green"><span style="color: White">[sblock=The Legend of Old Greybeard]Several generations ago, when the village of Poisson was at most a couple of fishing huts huddled at the base of the cliff, Old Greybeard, a nasty dwarf with a reputation for dealing with the devil, terrorized the high seas. As he grew older, he started to look for a place to settle down, retire, and found a pirate settlement where young buccaneers could find training and safe haven, or so he claimed. Most believed he sought a place to more comfortably cavort with the devils. In any case, he settled upon this plateau, and not wanting to tip off the few local fisherman before they could warn the navy, he chose to create a "backdoor" so to speak. The work was hard, and it took all his efforts to keep his men in line as they first found a promising cave comparatively near the base of the cliff and than started to work their way up. Finally, though, he pushed his men too far, and the majority of them mutinied, leaving him and his few supporters for dead in the cave. What happened to them after that, no one knows for certain. Some say that the surviving pirates, Greybeard not among them, chose to forsake their past life and became some of the first settlers of Poisson; other stories are far more colorful and imaginative. Aside from the fact that Greybeard was never seen again, it's all speculation. There are stories of pirates over the years trying to relocate the cave and the rumored treasure left behind in the haste of the mutineer's departure. As happens with all such stories, curses of various kinds have been attributed to the lack of success in that department.[/sblock]</span></span></span></p><p><span style="color: DarkOrange"><span style="color: Green"><span style="color: White"></span></span></span></p><p><span style="color: DarkOrange"><span style="color: Green"><span style="color: White"><span style="color: DarkOrange">After a couple of busy evenings and only slightly less busy days, the party finds themselves once more on board one of the now empty supply ships and shortly back on the docks of Venza where the whole thing started, a bit richer and more experienced.</span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="color: DarkOrange"><span style="color: Green"><span style="color: White"><span style="color: DarkOrange"></span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="color: DarkOrange"><span style="color: Green"><span style="color: White"><span style="color: DarkOrange"><span style="color: White">[ooc]That's all folks. I'll get final numbers posted shortly, and you can start working on leveling your 1st level characters.[/ooc]</span></span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="color: DarkOrange"><span style="color: Green"><span style="color: White"><span style="color: DarkOrange"></span></span></span></span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="sunshadow21, post: 5955796, member: 6667193"] [COLOR=DarkOrange]Gathering the equipment and tying the prisoner up, the party slowly makes their way back to town up top, the prisoner going unconscious almost immediately. As soon as they reach town, they report to the garrison commander, who hearing what they have to say chuckles a bit, [COLOR=Green]"So the rumors of Old Greybeard's tunnel are true after all. Not only have you dealt with the pirates, but you just settled a lot of long running bets. A bit of a shame some of them escaped, but we can work with it. By all accounts Old Greybeard was a dwarf like your friend here, and had a penchant for being a bit crazy, so we can play on their natural superstitions for a bit of fun. They must truly be desperate to seek out legends as a means of attacking us. Talk to the quartermaster to get you pay, and you can catch a ride on the next boat back to Venza in a couple of days. In the meantime, I'm sure the locals will keep you busy telling your story over and over again and you probably won't have to worry about buying your drinks." [COLOR=White] [sblock=The Legend of Old Greybeard]Several generations ago, when the village of Poisson was at most a couple of fishing huts huddled at the base of the cliff, Old Greybeard, a nasty dwarf with a reputation for dealing with the devil, terrorized the high seas. As he grew older, he started to look for a place to settle down, retire, and found a pirate settlement where young buccaneers could find training and safe haven, or so he claimed. Most believed he sought a place to more comfortably cavort with the devils. In any case, he settled upon this plateau, and not wanting to tip off the few local fisherman before they could warn the navy, he chose to create a "backdoor" so to speak. The work was hard, and it took all his efforts to keep his men in line as they first found a promising cave comparatively near the base of the cliff and than started to work their way up. Finally, though, he pushed his men too far, and the majority of them mutinied, leaving him and his few supporters for dead in the cave. What happened to them after that, no one knows for certain. Some say that the surviving pirates, Greybeard not among them, chose to forsake their past life and became some of the first settlers of Poisson; other stories are far more colorful and imaginative. Aside from the fact that Greybeard was never seen again, it's all speculation. There are stories of pirates over the years trying to relocate the cave and the rumored treasure left behind in the haste of the mutineer's departure. As happens with all such stories, curses of various kinds have been attributed to the lack of success in that department.[/sblock] [COLOR=DarkOrange]After a couple of busy evenings and only slightly less busy days, the party finds themselves once more on board one of the now empty supply ships and shortly back on the docks of Venza where the whole thing started, a bit richer and more experienced. [COLOR=White][ooc]That's all folks. I'll get final numbers posted shortly, and you can start working on leveling your 1st level characters.[/ooc][/COLOR] [/COLOR][/COLOR][/COLOR][/COLOR] [/QUOTE]
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