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Heroics around Hommlet [IC]

Thels

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Out of Character Thread.

Rogues Gallery Thread.

You've arrived at Verbobonc about a week ago. While on the lookout of an adventure, you occasionally heard reference about a tavern called the 'Walking Woodsman'. Appearantly, this seems to be a gatherplace for people who travel around for coin a lot. If someone is in need of a defending hand on a journey, needs some item delivered in another town or wants info about a certain area, the Woodsman is the place to be. One evening, you decide to check the tavern out.

Although the tavern's walls are made of stone, on the inside they are covered by wooden plates and decorated by stuffed animalheads and hides from various animals such as wolves, bears, deers and lynxes. The common room stretches fifty feet from east to west by thirty feet from north to south with the entrance in the middle of the south door. The fireplace in the northwestern corner is burning a small fire. The bar is about five feat parallel to the eastern wall, interrupted in the middle to pass through. The tables are made of what seems to be a good quality of wood, while the chairs are covered with a bit of cloth. Several torches on the wall provide the illumination. There is an open door in the western wall, leading to the kitchen. There's also a closed door in the northern wall, west of the bar. A tall, slender man in his late forties, wearing a plain shirt and trousers, is standing behind the bar, giving you a small nod as you enter. Two young women in short clean white dresses are walking around cleaning tables, picking up orders, bringing drinks and collecting empty jugs and glasses. The are about ten visitors currently present.

The one drawing the most attention is a dwarf, dressed in mail sitting on a table in the southwestern corner, telling a story about how he and two of his comrades slayed a really big black dragon. He obviously has has too much to drink already, though that doesn't keep the tall, muscled man dressed in goodlooking clothes right from him to keep giving him more beer. The other people on the table, a goodlooking averagesized woman with appearantly an elf among her ancestors in a decent dress, a short overweighted man in some casial wear and a small Halfling woman with very long brown hair in robes are listening with interest, occasionally laughing when the drunken Dwarf falls into talking gibberish, though they seem to take the story lightly.

A group of two elves, possibly a couple, and a halfelf are sitting at the table in front of the fireplace, all wearing traveller clothes. All three looked at you the moment you entered, size-ing you and then ignoring you. Appearantly, the male elf is disturbed by the loud dwarf, occasionally cursing at him in elven tongue. The woman and the male halfbreed try to calm him. The dwarf and his comrades don't seem to notice. A tall, elder man in decent clothes is at the bar, talking to the barkeeper. The last man is sitting by himself at one of the tables. He's having a glass of wine while hanging back, as if displaying, look, here I am. He's wearing a chain shirt and dark leather trousers and boots. Two large swords hang down his sides.

There's six tables. The dwarf and his group are sitting at the southwestern table, the elves at the northwestern table and the single man at the northeastern table. The northern table, southern table and southwestern table are currently empty.
 
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Majin

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Damien regards the Elves who were "checking him out" as he entered. Well, he thinks, they must notice I'm not just some average human, but one of noble birth. He smirks, (to himself mostly) and moves over to stand at the bar where he stood with one hand nonchalantly on the hilt of his sword and his opposite shoulder leaning against the bar. Damien didn't mind the perks of noble birth, just at the time, he wanted nothing to do with all the baggage that came along with it. Pity his parents refused him the small fortune he wanted to bring along with him. In the end he didn't mind though. He wanted to prove to them, and himself mostly, that he could make it out on his own, but pulling a few strings with his noble heritage along the way couldn't hurt, could it?
 

Manzanita

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Raven

A beautiful elven woman enters. She seems tired, and her clothes are travelworn and somewhat tattered. But an easy smile rests on her lips, and her jet-black hair is still lusterous. She pauses at the entrance, glancing around the room. Her cloak shifts, revealing a chain shirt, a long sword, and a crossbow. Smiling at the elves, she approaches the bar. "Need any entertainment tonight?" she asks the man behind the counter. "I know a few ballads from innocent days before the war."
 

Thels

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"A musician, ehh?" the barkeep sizes Raven with a mild interest in his eyes, "Well, yer free to sing or play as you want, but don't look at me for money. You might gather some from the audience, though. Thomas' group seems to be enjoying themselves and enjoying people are always generous. As well, if you can manage to spirit those elves a little, perhaps they'll get a little loose, considering yer an elf too. Don't expect to get anything from Derk over there. I never saw the other fellow before, so no clue about him." The barkeep hangs relaxed with one shoulder against the wall, his arms crossed, looking at Raven in anticipation.
 
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MattDroz

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A halfling enters soon after, dressed in a studded leather shirt, heavy breaches and a sturdy cloak colored in greys and blacks. Looking at all the persons in the tavern, his eyes settle on the two at the bar, a pretty elf and a smug human. Sauntering over to the bar himself, he hops up on a stool and says to the bartender, "I'll have a small mug of ale, please."

As he waits for his order, he looks around and takes in the ambience.
 

Wilphe

Adventurer
A diminutive elven woman walks in, her glance is drawn to the trophies and then they are dismissed with a shrug, "To hunt and kill is a path through nature, if not the only one". At least Sashla would be fairly safe, killing a druid's bonded lupine friend was a common enough reason to bring natures wrath down on you, at least in tales, but there was always someone who hadn't heard to stories and took a proactive approach to protecting their livestock.

She ambles to a corner of the bar, calculates how long it's been since her last payoff and weighs the pros and cons of looking well healed versus biding her money versus spending money to ingratiate herself with barkeep. She was never very good at dealing with people, "Hot milk and brandy please."
 
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mackenson

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A human man pushes open the door. He stands at the entrance for a moment, surveying the crowd. His dark hair is shorn close, and his small eyes are merely shadows under a heavy brow. A mace hangs from a loop on his belt. He trudges wearily to the first table he can find along the south wall, sits down, and slides his shield and pack to the floor. He nods to the barkeep, and raises his hand to get the attention of one of the serving women.

“Something hot to eat, if you please,” he says. “Stew, perhaps? Some bread as well.”

He frowns with apparent disapproval at the dwarf, but then begins to listen intently at the mention of a black dragon. He fumbles through his pack and withdraws some parchment and a pen, and scribbles furiously.
 
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Thels

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Both the halfling and the most recent appearing woman are pretty much ignored by the barkeep, who returned to talking to the elder man. One of the women serves each of you, and as you start drinking, it becomes appearant people don't go here for the quality of the drinks. Either that, or you ordered the wrong drinks. Mackenson is charged four silver for something that looks a bit like stew, but tastes like nothing. The bread's okay though, and at least there's more than enough food to settle his appetite.

The barkeep and the elder man seem to be talking about a mine. Appearantly, there's no message from the mine at all in over two weeks. The man is a little weary about this, since in the long run, his smithy will be running out of resources soon. Appearantly, he's the owner of the Guntrop smithy and store, the largest smithy in Verbobonc, with fifteen people working in the smithy and an additional three in the store.

Progress runs slow on the dwarf's story as he keeps dwaring off into gibberish, or being interrupted by his comrades, asking him for petty details, which leads to annoyance by the dwarf and laughter by the others. He's describing how he and the two others tryed to find their way into the dragon's lair, while the dragon was away, probably harrassing some poor hamlet. Appearantly, the dragon's lair was on the side of some cliff, so the dwarves were searching for holes that would allow them to approach the lair from above.

'Derk' orders for another glass of wine. The woman that's serving him seems a little annoyed and tries to get away right after putting down the glass, but she doesn't get away quickly enough to avoid being slapped on her behind. It looks to be too hard to be a playfull swat. The woman looks back at him with a little anger on her face, though that only makes him grin.

The elves seem only to get more and more annoyed, especially the male. He keeps talking about how the dwarf annoys him. He also says that Drusilia is late, and probably not going to show up at all. The other two try to calm him down, assuring him that she will show up. Note: They talk in elven, so anyone who doesn't know that language, doesn't understand them.

OOC: Wilphe's thought color is a little hard to read. Perhaps something a little brighter?
 
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WhatKu

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An above-averagly tall gnome walks in, and sits down next to the human. Turning to the barkeep, he orders some Gnomish Ale and Fish Stew. Hmmmm.... I wish was a little taller. I can hear the dwarf and elf going on and on, but I cant see what that humans writing. Standing up would be indecent. I wonder if its a riddle.
 

MattDroz

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Gideon nurses his ale, not willing to drink heavily on the watery beer. Looking at his companions at the bar, he wonders if they are Adventurers. He sits forward on his stool, listening to the dwarf's story with a sense of awe.
How can they be so disrespectful to someone that has seen a dragon and lived! Unless they have seen dragons as well...

He hops off the stool and moves closer to the table with the dwarf, standing near the southern table with the human and gnome to better listen to the tale.

(Current facial expression as he listens: :eek: )
 
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