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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Manzanita" data-source="post: 864266" data-attributes="member: 10109">September 21, 1011. 3 pm. SulinaYou travel as fast as possible & arrive at your destination on the equinox.  This falls on September 21 in the year 1011.  It is a chilly day, overcast with gray clouds.  You pull up your cloak as you feel a few heavy drops of cold rain.  Sulina seems to be a prosperous harbor town.  The streets are muddy, but still busy with people.  Warm bright shops offer goods from across the Empire.  You quickly find the Green Griffin Inn.  Weary after long travel, and happy to warm yourself with good food and a seat near the fire, you go in & sit down.  The local language is Slavic, but Latin is widely spoken, as is Germanic.  You are near the frontiers of the Roman Empire.  About 50 miles north, across the Danube, is the land of the Huns.The large common room in the Inn of the Green Griffin is bright & cheerful.  Patrons sat around many rough-hewn tables.  The ceiling is supported by natural tree-trunk pillars, all dark with smoke & age.  Most of the customers appear to be locals, farmers, artisans & merchants.  But several are armed & appear to be travelers or soldiers.  Several barmaids circulated the room, cheerily bringing food & drinks.  Conversation drifts towards you in a number of languages, Latin, Germanic & Serbian.At table 1 sits a young man standing at five foot five and weighing roughly one hundred and fifty pounds.  His skin is a dark bronze.  He is clad in a long skirt made of crocodile skin.  He has sandals on his feet and a circlet of peacock feathers around his shaved head.  A medallion emblazoned with a horned crocodile hangs from around his neck.  In his right hand he holds a reed spear topped with a giant sharply pointed tooth.  In his left hand he holds a large heavy metal ankh.Near the doorway(table 2) sit six large, tattooed, fierce-looking men.  They wear leather armor studded with metal and large swords and axes lay at their feet.  They have long fair, unruly hair and blue eyes.  They are drinking & talking loudly in Germanic.These appear to be Germanic tribesmen.  Normally one wouldn’t see armed groups of these men in Roman territory, but you’ve heard that recently a large number of Visigoths had settled in this area.  They had fled from their lands North of the Danube under pressure from orcs and the Huns.  The Romans allowed them to settle there, as a buffer against the ferocious Huns.At table 3 sits 3 merchants.  They are well dressed in the local style, and speak softly.  They have scrolls & an abacus on the table, as well as a picher of wine.At table 4 sits a lone man, eyes darting around the room.  His hair is bowl cut in Roman fashion.  He has dark hair & eyes & is dressed in styled leather armor.  At his side rests a long sword.At table 5 sit four tradesmen.  One seems to be a blacksmith, & all are somewhat dirty & seem weary.  They sit at the table, their heads in their hands, large mugs of ale before them.Four farmers sit at Table 6, eating hearty meals & talked animatedly.At table 7 sits a young man, tall, lean and athletic with harsh, hawkish but attractive features. He wears his long black hair loose and sports a short goatee beard. He typically dresses all in black riding leathers with a chain shirt under his overcoat and always wears a long red scarf around his neck.At table 8 sit three roman soldiers.  They seem dusty & tired.  They wear chainmail, with longswords at their sides & red cloaks on their backs.At table 9 sits a lone male elf.  He is slight and bookish. His awkward angular features add a mysterious look to him but his could not be called attractive. He is dressed in a robe and is meticulously clean and well tended. He carries a dagger.At table 10, sits a young man wearing well-made monastic garb over studded leather. His keeps his deep brown hair long and untrimmed, tied back away from his face, and sports a scraggly and incomplete beard that wires its way out from his chin.  He wears a long sword.At table 11, sits a man, about 6 foot 2 inches tall.  He has short, spiky, dark brown hair with long, thin sideburns, dark brown eyes, and somewhat thick eyebrows.  He has a fairly narrow face, but is very attractive.  His skin is a dark olive color, and he is well muscled, but lithe, and heavily tattooed.  He carries a saber at his belt.At table * sits a young man of medium height.  He has long black hair tied in three plats, and light brown eyes.  His skin is tanned and he looks fit & healthy.  He's dressed in simple, hard wearing clothes of greens, browns and reds.  A scimitar rests at his sideAt table &, sits a slavic man in steel mail.  His long composite bow lays on the table in front of him, next to his mug.At table % sits a tall Norseman, nearly 6'5".  His beard is flecked with gray and full, but he keeps it carefully trimmed.  His hair is shoulder length and curly, with a light brown hue.   His eyes are the gray of a winter storm.In a rear corner (table 12)sits a man draped in a weather stained cloak, his hood pulled up over his face.  He is smoking a long-stemmed pipe.  Reddish hair covers his wrists & creeps up the back of his hands.</blockquote>

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