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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Broccli_Head" data-source="post: 241722" data-attributes="member: 105">another excerpt....From the archive of Twilight Hall, Berdusk. Year of Rogue Dragons, 1st quarterField Agent Report:Location: TurmishAgent: Gareth OakenbowWhy did I agree to this! I cannot  believe I am actually taking  up inventory!  Blast!  May Mielikki turn me into a city dweller, wait …sigh… that’s already been done.    Well, look at it this way Gareth Oakenbow, you could be still roasting over a  pit of coals.  You  owe a life debt.  Well, it is a good thing I suppose.  I do like teaching the youngsters , their woodlore, tracking and some weapon craft.  It keeps these street urchins from terrorizing the customers.  I do admit it is a good plan to get cheap labor and get these little starving street rats off the streets, and I do believe that overall their benefactor has a good heart even though he hides it under a gruff, and I really do mean really gruff exterior.  You have to dig deep to get to that one’s heart.  But I’ve seen his soft side.  Who else could combine pragmatic business sense and  hide a charitable heart beneath a cold exterior.  After all,  I do get paid well to look after the place and explore the nearby woods and forests I do so love, and with children no less.  Though I think that these Turmites really need all the help they can get with conservation.   I really do not have to do much, just come in work a little.  Not a bad gig really.The place is managed by some very experienced staff.  I am just merely a figurehead, the one in charge of public relations. As if that is not enough, this place is really well liked and looked after.  You have many Holy Justices and other Tyrites frequent here and also I do believe ,but what can never tell, that there are I druids of the Emerald Enclave watching over the place.  Would you believe they pose as landscapers?   The renovators for this Grand Inn/Tavern had an unusual green thumb, if you know what I mean.   I feel a strange sense of comfort in this place and it feels like sleeping in the Guthmere forest.  I have noticed increased activity with merchants frequenting here, it is good for business.  But I do believe word of mouth travels quickly.  This is the place to also make good business contacts.  Merchants all have a network, and Aris CloudDancer, Cloudancer Outfitters,  is no different.  He is an unusually very thorough fellow, if a bit strange for a half-elf, but we do not share much in common except for our mutual calling to our Mistress of the Woods.  His business acumen is good.  He delegates very well, because the man is just simply abrasive.  Being with him is like being with a Mountain dwarf.  Still he and his companions did save my life and all he asked of me was to check in from time to time, work when I had reason , teach the ways of woodlore to the children that he had gathered.  I must admit after losing the rest of  my party I am not to keen on going it alone, and I am for now not restless.  Perhaps I have found a good calling.   A place where I belong.  Imagine!  I am the one that gets rescued and after barely being acquainted with the man, he leaves me here to look out for his place.  When asked why, He merely shrugged and said “You owe me.” The cleric , Benito Maltos is his name I believe. He is a good one.  Too good  if you catch my mind.  The young cleric is infectious with his sense of Justice and an Odd pairing with those two (Aris and Benito).  Benito, simply told me that The Heroes of the Vilhon Reach believes in the goodness of their newfound friend…  Me.  There is another ranger who stops in from time to time with exotic spices.  I believe his name is Jhazad.  Next time  he comes, I may have to go back to the Shadowwood and visit. I am concerned about the movement of troops from Hlondeth along the western Turmish border that he told me about. He also told me many times the Adventure of the Blue Snails .  So, this is how our Mistress pulled in Aris CloudDancer.  The Heroes , I sense do the will of the gods.  Fate has a strange sense of humor.  What is that saying… Oh yes I remember.  “We have no fate but the fate we are given.” Only a Tethyrian half-elf could say something like that.Well for now I do suspect an agenda here, especially with this place and the kids, but I’m not sure.  I find no evil with these “Heroes”.  Until my next report.Gareth Oakenbow</blockquote>

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