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<blockquote data-quote="airwalkrr" data-source="post: 6206304" data-attributes="member: 12460"><p>Felsi comments no further, but winks slyly at Vandalin as she leaves to go check on the stew.A slightly disheartened look falls upon the owner's face as she hears Vandalin's last words. <span style="color: #DAA520">"I'll make arrangements for a private room so long as your coin is good. As for the 'Late Unpleasantness,' let's just say it was a dark chapter in this town's past and I'd prefer not to discuss it further."</span></p><p></p><p>As you had heard, this woman seems no exception to the tale that folks in Sandpoint don't like to talk about the Late Unpleasantness, but perhaps with some honeyed words, she might be persuaded to give you more of the details.[ooc]A private room requires paying at least the Average cost of living. Those paying Poor cost of living (the default) will be required to sleep in the common room. You may upgrade at any time. I believe I mentioned this in the OOC thread, but it would be helpful to me (and for you as well) if you note your cost of living somewhere on your character sheet. To keep it unified, I think the bottom right corner in your inventory would be the ideal location.</p><p></p><p>If you wish to ask the innkeeper for more details, it will require a Diplomacy check, see below. If anyone succeeds at the Diplomacy check, everyone is welcome to view the results corresponding to the highest DC. You may choose to aid another on this check. Since this is PBP and you don't exactly have the opportunity to discuss who will be aiding and who will be making the primary check, you may decide retroactively to aid if you receive a check result of 10 or higher but not high enough to succeed. After the first success, all following Diplomacy checks should be considered aid checks, which may improve the success to the next tier (if it hasn't already been reached), unless you specifically indicate you wish to make your own Diplomacy check.[/ooc][sblock=Persuade the innkeeper to discuss the "Late Unpleasantness" in general terms. Diplomacy DC 19]Although she is a bit hesitant to discuss it, the innkeeper tells you a bit about her experiences. <span style="color: #DAA520">"It happened quite shockingly. A few years ago an eccentric man named Jervis Stoot, a carver by trade with an odd fetish for birds, decided he was going to build his home in the island to the northwest of town. He had already somewhat endeared himself to the town by carving elegant birds into their homes and businesses free of charge. So much so it became something of an honor to "sport a Stoot" on your residence or place of business, so the carpenters of the town offered to build him a staircase to ascend to the top of the rocky island safely. But then some twenty or so people were murdered all in the span of a month. The last victim was the old sheriff, and Stoot's blood led right up to his home on the island where the guard found him making vile sacrifices with pieces of his victims. Stoot was killed by the guards and his ashes consecrated on the beach before being cast to sea. They also collapsed his home and destroyed the staircase."</span> She shudders a bit before continuing. <span style="color: #DAA520">"Shortly after that the old Sandpoint Chapel was burned to the ground. I forget if it was a few weeks or a few months. Anyway, the fire was so great it consumed a number of nearby buildings before the townsfolk got it under control. No one knows how it started, but it was suspicious timing. The previous high priest, Ezakien Tobyn, was killed in the fire along with his daughter Nualia. It was a very sad time. We've tried to move past it since then. No one likes to talk about it."</span>[sblock=Press the innkeeper for further information about the "Late Unpleasantness." Diplomacy DC 24]<span style="color: #DAA520">"I can see you really are persistant to know more. The guards don't talk much about it, but Stoot was dismembering the bodies. Each was found in the same terrible state: body bearing deep cuts to the neck and torso, hands and feet severed and stacked nearby, and the eyes and tongue missing entirely, having been plucked crudely from each head. Folks came to calling the murderer Chopper. When the guards broke into Stoot's house, they found an altar dedicated to some vile demon lord of winged creatures and temptation; I dare not say his name.</span></p><p><span style="color: #DAA520"></span></p><p><span style="color: #DAA520">"Some of the people whisper that the burning of the old Sandpoint Chapel was no accident. Father Ezakien had adopted his daughter Nualia, and some said after the burning that it was a bad omen, that the girl was cursed in some way. Personally, I always thought she was quite a beautiful child, almost unearthly in fact, and to be honest, I was a little bit jealous. Other children of the town weren't always so nice to her. And the more superstitious folk thought she had been blessed by Desna with kind of reverse deformity. I think the girl was terrorized after a fashion. Rumors spread that her touch or proximity could cure warts and rashes, that locks of her hair brewed into tea could increase fertility, and that her voice could drive out evil spirits. It led to a succession of awkward and humiliating requests over the years. I enjoy attention, but I certainly wouldn't want people fawning over me quite like that. I think she was troubled as a result. But after the fire, some people started to say more than that. They suggested she had caused the fire, that she was actually an abomination to the gods, that her short life was a blessing upon this town which was abused and that the gods had taken her away and burned the chapel as punishment. I'm not all that religious, nor do I think the gods act in so obvious a fashion. But there are a fair number of people in this town who do."</span>[/sblock][/sblock]</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="airwalkrr, post: 6206304, member: 12460"] Felsi comments no further, but winks slyly at Vandalin as she leaves to go check on the stew.A slightly disheartened look falls upon the owner's face as she hears Vandalin's last words. [COLOR="#DAA520"]"I'll make arrangements for a private room so long as your coin is good. As for the 'Late Unpleasantness,' let's just say it was a dark chapter in this town's past and I'd prefer not to discuss it further."[/COLOR] As you had heard, this woman seems no exception to the tale that folks in Sandpoint don't like to talk about the Late Unpleasantness, but perhaps with some honeyed words, she might be persuaded to give you more of the details.[ooc]A private room requires paying at least the Average cost of living. Those paying Poor cost of living (the default) will be required to sleep in the common room. You may upgrade at any time. I believe I mentioned this in the OOC thread, but it would be helpful to me (and for you as well) if you note your cost of living somewhere on your character sheet. To keep it unified, I think the bottom right corner in your inventory would be the ideal location. If you wish to ask the innkeeper for more details, it will require a Diplomacy check, see below. If anyone succeeds at the Diplomacy check, everyone is welcome to view the results corresponding to the highest DC. You may choose to aid another on this check. Since this is PBP and you don't exactly have the opportunity to discuss who will be aiding and who will be making the primary check, you may decide retroactively to aid if you receive a check result of 10 or higher but not high enough to succeed. After the first success, all following Diplomacy checks should be considered aid checks, which may improve the success to the next tier (if it hasn't already been reached), unless you specifically indicate you wish to make your own Diplomacy check.[/ooc][sblock=Persuade the innkeeper to discuss the "Late Unpleasantness" in general terms. Diplomacy DC 19]Although she is a bit hesitant to discuss it, the innkeeper tells you a bit about her experiences. [COLOR="#DAA520"]"It happened quite shockingly. A few years ago an eccentric man named Jervis Stoot, a carver by trade with an odd fetish for birds, decided he was going to build his home in the island to the northwest of town. He had already somewhat endeared himself to the town by carving elegant birds into their homes and businesses free of charge. So much so it became something of an honor to "sport a Stoot" on your residence or place of business, so the carpenters of the town offered to build him a staircase to ascend to the top of the rocky island safely. But then some twenty or so people were murdered all in the span of a month. The last victim was the old sheriff, and Stoot's blood led right up to his home on the island where the guard found him making vile sacrifices with pieces of his victims. Stoot was killed by the guards and his ashes consecrated on the beach before being cast to sea. They also collapsed his home and destroyed the staircase."[/COLOR] She shudders a bit before continuing. [COLOR="#DAA520"]"Shortly after that the old Sandpoint Chapel was burned to the ground. I forget if it was a few weeks or a few months. Anyway, the fire was so great it consumed a number of nearby buildings before the townsfolk got it under control. No one knows how it started, but it was suspicious timing. The previous high priest, Ezakien Tobyn, was killed in the fire along with his daughter Nualia. It was a very sad time. We've tried to move past it since then. No one likes to talk about it."[/COLOR][sblock=Press the innkeeper for further information about the "Late Unpleasantness." Diplomacy DC 24][COLOR="#DAA520"]"I can see you really are persistant to know more. The guards don't talk much about it, but Stoot was dismembering the bodies. Each was found in the same terrible state: body bearing deep cuts to the neck and torso, hands and feet severed and stacked nearby, and the eyes and tongue missing entirely, having been plucked crudely from each head. Folks came to calling the murderer Chopper. When the guards broke into Stoot's house, they found an altar dedicated to some vile demon lord of winged creatures and temptation; I dare not say his name. "Some of the people whisper that the burning of the old Sandpoint Chapel was no accident. Father Ezakien had adopted his daughter Nualia, and some said after the burning that it was a bad omen, that the girl was cursed in some way. Personally, I always thought she was quite a beautiful child, almost unearthly in fact, and to be honest, I was a little bit jealous. Other children of the town weren't always so nice to her. And the more superstitious folk thought she had been blessed by Desna with kind of reverse deformity. I think the girl was terrorized after a fashion. Rumors spread that her touch or proximity could cure warts and rashes, that locks of her hair brewed into tea could increase fertility, and that her voice could drive out evil spirits. It led to a succession of awkward and humiliating requests over the years. I enjoy attention, but I certainly wouldn't want people fawning over me quite like that. I think she was troubled as a result. But after the fire, some people started to say more than that. They suggested she had caused the fire, that she was actually an abomination to the gods, that her short life was a blessing upon this town which was abused and that the gods had taken her away and burned the chapel as punishment. I'm not all that religious, nor do I think the gods act in so obvious a fashion. But there are a fair number of people in this town who do."[/COLOR][/sblock][/sblock] [/QUOTE]
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