City of Orussus, The Red Dragon Inn VIII

[jkason]

Eanos replies

"Useful in all my businesses, I daresay. As a minstrel I learn songs from all manner of travelling folk, and like to speak to them in their own languages if possible. And as an adventurer... recently I was involved with a few friends raiding a goblin fortress. The goblins captured Irene, but I was able to impress one of the goblins enough to get her to help us. By speaking in her own language I was able to get her to take us to the prisoner, whom we then freed.

He pauses, evidently thinking of the aforementioned Irene. Then he asks Eanos, "What about you? Do you speak any foreign languages?"

Eanos flushes a bit and his eyes fall to look at his drink. "None, truth be told. I grew up near the elves of the Silverwood, but my master ... never saw fit to teach me the language. He insisted it was a waste of time, and that if I stayed the course in my discipline one day the boundaries of language would no longer matter."

Eanos slugs back the last of his drink, then shrugs off his embarrasment and says with a hint of wryness and a wink, "Clearly, my master didn't appreciate the benefits to be gained by a young man capable of foreign hostage negotiation."

 

[orsal]

Eanos flushes a bit and his eyes fall to look at his drink. "None, truth be told. I grew up near the elves of the Silverwood, but my master ... never saw fit to teach me the language. He insisted it was a waste of time, and that if I stayed the course in my discipline one day the boundaries of language would no longer matter."

Eanos slugs back the last of his drink, then shrugs off his embarrasment and says with a hint of wryness and a wink, "Clearly, my master didn't appreciate the benefits to be gained by a young man capable of foreign hostage negotiation."

With a smile, Nurlan adds, "Fortunately, your typical elf has more linguistic capacity than your typical goblin. If the time ever did come to persuade an elven garrison, it is likely that the language of humankind would be sufficient. Then again, how often do elven warbands hold brave heroic adventurers hostage?" With a glance over toward Eroin, hitherto the quitest member of the group assembled, he switches to the Elven language, saying "Your people are rather more peaceful than the goblins, no?"

 

[Xael]

Nezrak Duskstar, Grey Elf Wizard 3

A Grey Elf clad in robes enters the Inn. He nods at Joe and tips his hat at the people in the Inn. "Nezrak Duskstar, a Wizard and a magical craftsman. Kind of.", he says and takes a seat while dropping his rather heavy backpack.

 

[orsal]

Nurlan, human bard 3 / fighter 1

"A pleasure", says Nurlan to the newcomer in Elven. "I'm Nurlan, and we were just discussing the importance of learning many languages. Would you like to join us?"

 

[jkason]

Eanos, Monk 1

Eanos makes room for the newcomer, saying to no one in particular, "The place is filling up nicely, yes? I was beginning to worry I'd gotten the wrong advernturer's watering hole."

Turning to Nezrak, he introduces himself. "I'm Eanos. Good to meet you."

 

[Xael]

"Nice to meet you too.", Nezrak says while joining Nurlan and Eanos at the table. "Importance of languages you say? Well, I speak quite a few myself. Though I have to admit that being a wizard has certain perks relating to that area, as I just learned new spell that allows me to understand spoken and written languages otherwise unknown to me. Speaking them, however, is another matter entirely.", Nezrak continues and chuckles.

 

[Erekose13]

Following on the heels of Nezrak, an other elf enters the tavern. Short and skinny this elf is a bit of a juxtoposition, dressed as a book worm with a huge heavy pick slung over his shoulder. "Well me all, I am Tenebrynn Glimmersight, ex-librarian. Nezrak you beat me back, I hope your travels went smoothly." Then spotting Nurlan, "Nurlan, you're back! How was Momenvassia, did you find any clues regarding Irene?" He says taking a seat by his friend.

 

[orsal]

Nurlan continues to greet

Following on the heels of Nerzak, an other elf enters the tavern. Short and skinny this elf is a bit of a juxtoposition, dressed as a book worm with a huge heavy pick slung over his shoulder. "Well me all, I am Tenebrynn Glimmersight, ex-librarian. Nerzak you beat me back, I hope your travels went smoothly." Then spotting Nurlan, "Nurlan, you're back! How was Momenvassia, did you find any clues regarding Irene?" He says taking a seat by his friend.

"Tenebrynn! Good to see you again." Nurlan stands up to give his former travelling companion a friendly pat on the back. "Well Nezrak -- is it Nezrak or Nerzak? -- it looks like we have a friend in common. On the subject of languages, Tenebrynn helped me to master the goblin tongue. It's much harder to find a good teacher for it than for, say, the languages of elves or gnomes or hobbits. If the goblins have minstrels, they don't travel the same circuits as I."

As he sits down his mood gets a little more serious. "No, no news of Irene. Tor and I waited a couple of weeks, but heard nothing. We came back here. I think Tor was planning to come straight to the tavern to look for another job, so he's probably off on another heroic mission already. What have you been up to since leaving Monemvassia?"

 

[Erekose13]

"Well I met this fine fellow here, Nezrak, (apologies) he and I was well as Rinaldo, Ashnar and Charlarn joined up with a few others from the inn and set out after a group of bandits that had been setting up in there area. Rinaldo lead us on an assault of their poorly made fortification and within seconds we had the bandit leader surrounded and surrendering. Rinaldo did a great job leading the team, that merchant has a lot of suprises." he says in reply.

[occ: apologies Xael, I got your chara's name wrong. It's fixed and rped.]

 

[NakuruSai]

Mordik nods and grunts at the newcomers into the inn..
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Oy! Nezrak, Tenebrynn- Me name's Mordik. Nice to meet you two; and glad to hear your recent jobs went well.
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