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Message: <blockquote data-quote="doghead" data-source="post: 6356607" data-attributes="member: 8243">Day Four, early evening, The Bleeding Heart TavernA couple of the household staff join you in the yard and everyone sets off on foot into town. Unusually, the staff walk alongside their Lord rather than behind. He chats easily with those around him as you head into Hengistead.Winter is over, and Hengistead is experiencing a warm, dry Spring. The spring sowing and harrowing is almost done. The summer county fair is already being organised, the Fair Committee headed as always by Lady Sybill Pemberton, and the village is its usual bustling, cheerful self.All is not well, however. There have been problems of late! Howls of an unearthly nature have been echoing across the Weir-wood; and Three-Fingered Jake, the county’s itinerant bard, has been spreading rumours of treasure in the ruins of Brockendale Castle.All this aside, however, tonight is a warm, balmy evening. Many of the villagers are gathered in and outside the Bleeding Heart Tavern and any troubles seem far away. That night, with a good day's work in the lord's the western fields done, the tavern is busier than usual.  Food, drink, and conversation flow easily. Over the course of the night you hear a number of interesting things.<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Brand Torak (The Warden) is aware of the howls from the Weir-wood. He believes the howls to merely be a large wolf. He promises he will deal with it should it show itself in the village.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Gavin Morigan (Master of Lord Pemberton's Horse and Hounds) speaks about a strange floating ship he saw in the night sky a few weeks back. He claims it was a schooner under full sail and sailed of to the south.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Aus (a young boy) talks about how neat the dragon of Skull Mountain is and how much he thinks it would be cool to see it and talk to it. He clearly has no idea how dangerous dragons are, nor can he be convinced they are anything less than wonderful.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Mylani Azalathellon (a local teenager endlessly writing notes in a book), along with a number of others, believes Kalle (the local wizard of course!) is working on something big. Hunchback Roland (Kalle's assistant) has been busy running errands, and purple smoke and strange lights have been seen coming from his tower.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Three-Fingered Jake (a wandering bard) talks at length about the rumours of treasure at Brockendale Castle. Apparently, the Pemberton's family sword is a weapon of great power; Lord Pemberton has the sword itself, but when the castle was abandoned in the night of the fire, the former Lord Pemberton had sword in hand. But of the scabbard there has been no sign, and it too is reputed to be an item of power. Lord Pemberton is not pleased by the stories, but holds his peace as Jake is one of the few sources of information about the outside world and the locals look forward to his visits.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Ariadne (Brand's niece), has joined Lady Sybill's Autumn fair committee. She has grand plans for the flower arrangement competition. While in Thornbury last week, she thought she saw a small scaly humanoid creature dressed in robes, watching her.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Ugg (a giant of a man) is sitting on the ground outside the tavern because he's too big to fit inside. He talks of seeing a 'green lady' out on the Fogmoors being followed around by what he calls 'scalies'.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">The Mortimer Brothers, well, Gord and Beej (two of a trio of young troublemakers) are sitting with Ugg, outside the tavern, and are concerned that Poke hasn't been seen since they dared him to venture into the Weir-wood at night.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Some of the locals may mention trouble at a bridge near Thornbury. A couple of locals mention having been attacked by a crazy old lady at the bridge. One swears she threw a man a dozen feet and nearly broke his skull. Everyone else thinks he's exaggerating out of embarrassment at being bested by an old woman.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Stefan Oakfell (a woodsman), tells a strange tale of gypsies in the Queenswood and late night dancing around a bonfire to the strains of unearthly music.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">The barge-men, speaks of troubles to the east with increasing numbers of bandit raids So far they have avoided the worst of it, but the barge-men are worried.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">A group of adventurers has been hanging out and making trouble in the area lately. They keep asking about something called Bluestone, but no one knows what this might be. Three-Fingered Jake's tales of treasure at Brokendale Castle have caught their attention, and they whisper quietly among themselves.</li> </ul>[sblock=OOC]That took me way longer than I thought. The idea is to give you a whole bunch of stuff strait up for you to root around in and pick out what you like. I am not sure how this will work, but lets see. Gathering common information (i.e. How do I get to the bridge near Thornbury?) doesn't require any roll. It should, however, help in choosing which questions to ask if making the Discern Realities move.Where something is noted as 'more than meets the eye', a Discern Realities move is required. However, that doesn't mean you can't do some background work in preparation.[/sblock][sblock=Hawthorne, Khirynnax and Trickle]Ugg is more than a giant of a man. He is literally a giant, a young hill giant to be exact (a bit of a runt as hill giants go). None of the villagers seem to be aware of it.There is more to Freya Aeval than meets the eye.[/sblock][sblock=Tristan]There is more to Ugg than meets the eye. None of the villagers seem to be aware of anything unusual. He is not evil.Tamas Agrens, a local who wander's into the tavern a bit later but keeps to himself, reeks of evil.[/sblock]</blockquote>

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