Bordell's Tales, Chapter 2: Broken Sword

[Velmont]

"North? You come from the south? Generally, people who travel here travel between GreenVale and Gaile." he tells. "For pelt, you'll have to reach GreenVale. People, here, generally, hunt and sell the pelt to traders, but it has been now a few months that they havn't come by here. With the war in the Peninsula, traders have prefered not to go in such dangerous zone. And not talking the region is no more safe."

 

[Jdvn1]

Xavier nods, "Yes, the war is getting worse and that is why we're moving north. Would you be willing to trade for some of these pelts? We would like a few supplies, and maybe a safe place to sleep for the night. Maybe our horses could take some food. What news is there from Greenvale?"

 

[Velmont]

"My brother have to go to Greenvale in a few days, I suppose I can trade you one fo your pelt, but you,ll loose in the change compare to what you can get in Greenvale. But you are right to seek a safe place to sleep. These goblins was annoying as long as they were taking a few cattle, but now, they attack men. Let me check your pelt."

Snow take out the pelts from his backpack. Two nice brown pelt, and one as white as the snow. The innkeeper touch the white pelt. "Very nice pelt. I've never seen such one. Look, I'll take the other two pelts for your meals for tonight and tomorrow morning, feed your horses and have a room... I think I am a bit loosing, but business is bad these day, so it will be fine. If you prefer to have coins instead of pelt, I can buy you the white one too. I'll give you five gold for it."

Snow look at him. "The white pelt worth more than that, but your offer for the brown seems fair."

"Fine, I'll prepare your meal."

 

[Jdvn1]

[sblock=OOC]The yellow text is the wrong color, right?[/sblock]
Xavier looks visibly relieved. "Thank you."

He goes to sit at a table and looks around the inn. Xavier takes a breath and says to Jade, "It is a shame those goblins will be causing harm to others. Maybe words were not as good as steel in that situation." Then, to Snow, "I am glad you had those pelts. What creatures are they from?"

 

[Velmont]

The Inkeeper leaves your table and go into the kitchen.

"Foxes. During the winter, they turn white, but the winter is soft in the penisula, because the great sea bring hot wind, so they generally become spotted with white. That was one of the rare who had turned white completly. I must tell this winter have been colder than usual. I think it is because of the spell the Gailian's wizard have use to frost the bay around the rock." explains Snow.

A moment later, the innkeeper come back with some mug of ales. "The meal is on the fire, a stew of my own. It is not the most luxurious meals, but I can garantee you will be stuffed after that. And it has a good taste." He leaves you again to look at his plate.

As you are waiting for teh meals, Jade starts to sing, something you havn't had teh chance to hear until now, except in the dreams you had during your coma.

I want to stay faithful, guard your honor,
Seek peace, obey
Fear, serve and honor you,
Until death,
Peerless Lord.

For I love you so much, truly,
that one could could sooner dry up
the deep sea
and hold back its waves
than I could constrain myself
from loving you,
without falsehood; for my thoughts
my memories, my pleasures
and my desires are perpetually
of you, whom I cannot leave or even briefly forget.

I want to stay faithful, guard your honor,
Seek peace, obey
Fear, serve and honor you,
Until death,
Peerless Lord.

There is no joy or pleasure
or any other good that one could feel
or imagine which does not seem to me worthless,
whenever your sweetness wants to sweeten my bitterness.
Therefore I want to praise
and adore and fear you,
suffer everything,
experience everything, endure everything
more than I desire any reward.
I want to stay faithful . . .

I want to stay faithful, guard your honor,
Seek peace, obey
Fear, serve and honor you,
Until death,
Peerless Lord.

You are the true sapphire
that can heal and end all my sufferings,
the emerald which brings rejoicing,
the ruby to brighten and comfort the heart.
Your speech, your looks,
Your bearing, make one flee and hate and detest
all vice and cherish and desire all that is good.

I want to stay faithful. . .

 

[Jdvn1]

Xavier raises his eyes, impressed with Snow's skillful find. "Yes, it is a very nice fur. I wonder how many more white furs will be gotten this season."

He thanks the innkeeper for his hospitality and then listens to Jade sing. The song carries him as he thinks of Crian and Stone. "That is a beautiful song. What do you sing it about? What Lord do you follow?"

 

[Velmont]

"I don't think there will be much, mainly becaus ethe tribes are moving, and the hunting will be more for survival, and not to trade." answers Snow, who turns his attention to Jade.

As she finish, you remark she is staring in the emptiness of the room, fixing an unknown point. "That is a beautiful song. What do you sing it about? What Lord do you follow?" you ask. She come back from her dream and look at you. "Oh... nothing... it is a song that I heard many time in the place where I sang. I liked it, so I learned it." she tells unthinking, but you feels that the song have more meaning than she pretend.

The innkeeper come back and give you three good plate of stew. "Good apetite! I hope you'll like this." The innkeeper leaves your company and at the same time, another man enter teh place. He walks up to the innkeeper. the new comer spot you and ignore you. He simply whispers a few thing to the Innkeeper. "Renald? Poor man, he is the sixth, not counting of any possible travellers." The other man replies, still whispering. "I'll ask Trevor to go warn the church of Sorpingal. He was supposed to leave in a few day, but I'll try to convince him to leav tomorrow morning. It cannot continue like that."

 

[Jdvn1]

Xavier nods at Jade, "Maybe you will tell me about that place sometime."

When the innkeeper comes back with the food, he thanks him and eats slowly, taking in the flavor of the stew. When the man comes in, he looks at his companions and tries to remember Sorpingal.

[sblock=OOC]I figured I'd know something about Sorpingal, but what does a +7 K(Religion) tell me? You haven't put in any information about him in the RG thread[/sblock]

 

[Velmont]

Jade turns over her plate and starts to eat it, just as she hadn't heard your last comment.

[SBLOCK=OOC]I've updated the entry for Sorpingal in the RG[/SBLOCK]

 

[Velmont]

Bumping

The man nods at the innkeeper and leaves the Inn, without looking at Xavier and his friends. The Innkeeper returns behind his bar, and start to clean it, but he seems a bit more concern that he was a moment before the man enter.