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Message: <blockquote data-quote="megamania" data-source="post: 1649471" data-attributes="member: 9255">EBERRON: LOST TREASURES“Hidden Clauses”SEGMENT 003It has been two days since Jaykodie told his stinking landlord that he was leaving and not returning.  It felt good to say it at the time except for two things the landlord said or did.  The landlord had awakened Jay when he was pounding on his door for the rent (very late rent at that).  “I’m leaving and I’m not returning.  I am moving up in the world.   I am now an agent for House Kundarak. I am rich.” Jay spits out on impulse.The landlord, very unimpressed, belches and points his grubby fat fingers onto a piece of paper now nailed to the door.  As the smell of stale ale cleared, Jay realized what it was.  An eviction notice…. effective today.  He had to come up with three months of back rent or leave now.  Normally this would not have bothered him except for it was another three days before he got any money or the power he suggested he had.  He was homeless.Jay opened his mouth with an intake of air to create a new story but never could think of anything worthy to say that might work.  The fact that the barefooted-smelly landlord was holding a large dirty hammer in his hand did not help his thinking.So, within ten minutes, he packed for his trip and left …hoping never to have to return.  It was not until he walked three blocks he remembered he had ten silvers saved and hidden in a crack in the wall.  He paused in mid stride then thought about it and continued onward.  Soon, soon he would be adventuring and living in a tent.  How bad could two nights be on the streets?Besides …he had a plan.  He ALWAYS had a plan.  Well …sort of.He had not seen his friend and favorite healer in several weeks.  Maybe a day or two of recalling good times and repenting for being a bad friend was in order.  He was going to visit his friend Aldi.Aldi was the cutest little halfling cleric of Olladra and House Ghallanda member one could ever get to know.  She knew how to party then was considerate enough to use her magics to purify your body of the alcohol once the morning came.  She could also beat most gamblers at the poker table.  She owes me after that incident in the sewers with the Darkmantle creature.He reached the center that she lived in and spotted her handing out free bread to the poor.  Jay tried to blend in with the crowd but with his intact cloak and weapon he stood out too much.  With a big grin and a yip yip sound, she ran over to give him a big hug  …or at least that was what he expected.  His groin exploded and the room went dark for a moment.  He opened his tearing eyes with Aldi yelling at him while using language saved caravan trips.  He had forgotten how he owed her fifty gold and caused her to lose grace in her house by becoming sick during a state dinner.  He was sick from alcohol drank before the meal …not the meal itself.  The visiting ambassador decided he did not like the food and further disgraced the House of Hostelers by leaving that night.  It had been three weeks but the Korranberg Chronicle brought it up regularly.  The politicians blamed the house and only now are beginning to use their services again.  Aldi was blamed for it since she illegally brought in Jaykodie without permission and it was he that destroyed the function.Jay decided this was not a good time and crepe out of the center still feeling ill …again.  (twice in a row he felt sick within this center).  He went to visit another friend of his.  He checked up on a Warforged friend.  This friend nearly tore down the gate chasing after Jay.  He had not forgotten the night that Jay painted the name “Bob” on his back.  The warforged preferred any name to “bob” but Jay, when drunk, always called him that.  Oh well.  If he is going to be like that….Jay finally ended up spending the night in an alley near where he once lived.  It was okay.  It was cool at night and the ground was hard.  The good news is the Rats ran went away around midnight ….as a thunderstorm opened up and drenched him.  He did not see the rain gutter above him until after it poured onto him.  That was how his first night went.The next day he tried to clean himself up a bit and tried to see Rkard.  Maybe he could have a few silver now.  No such luck.  “The contract clearly states …” is all he got.  So he lingered around in the city for the day.  That night, the ground was not hard.  No.  It was muddy and cold.  Jay smiled and laughed wondering if he would include this in his life story that he would tell in the café of the Villa.  This happy thought distracted him long enough to make it to the final day.He was early (a strange feeling for him …being early to work) and hoping to get started immediately.  A change of clothes was top on his list.  Maybe enchanted traveling clothes.  And food.  How he wanted food.  Hot steaming fresh food.  Heck- a cold biscuit would taste good right now.As he entered the waiting room that led to Rkard’s office, a painfully proper neat-freak hoite-toite dwarf came in.  The dwarf wiped off the chair, then the arm-rests and finally he carefully folded up the cloth and placed it within his perfectly clean and pressed vest pocket.  His glasses were odd.  They made his eyes look like saucers.  There were obvious places for attachments on them also.  A leather band held them tight to his white face.  His hair was light brown and perfect.  The clothes were perfect and color matched.  They had many pockets.  Some looked like they were designed to be hard to spot.  He had a long sleeve shirt on.  He wore something metallic under the shirt on his left fore arm.  The guy was a freak.  Jay almost felt sorry for him.“Hi.  I’m Jay.  I begin to work here today.  What is your name?” Jay asks hoping to kill time.The dwarf almost jumps when spoken to.  He leans into Jay a bit blinking and peering closely at Jay’s face.  Though there is no great difference in the dwarf’s facial features, Jay finds the dwarf is disappointed with him.    Then suddenly he smiles and exposes a smile that is lacking a front tooth.“Hello and good morning to you Sir Jaykodie Blueheart of Sharn.  I am Grot Nicklerock.  I am an accountant here at the house.  I have been asked to aid you on your little adventure and travel with you.  Everywhere you go I will go also.  I am here to protect the needs of House Kundarak.”Jay has just realized he has made a big mistake.  Maybe even bigger than when he was drunk and mistook a male elf for a female elf.  His jaw still pops a bit when he opens it too far …like now.</blockquote>

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