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<blockquote data-quote="Silver Moon" data-source="post: 941347" data-attributes="member: 8530"><p><strong>Chapter 59, “Going, Going, Gone”, July 13th, 1019, 8:45 P.M.</strong> </p><p></p><p>Kindor resumes the auction once things have calmed down, reminding everyone that there are still ten more items to sell. The next item is the Finder’s Stone Prototype, that the bards Deniana Songweaver and Greidawal Llyr both bid on. Greidawal it the high bidder at 65,000, but it is announced that there is also a sealed bid. Kindor reads the sealed bid, and announces that it is higher. He then has the bid brought over to Cassie. Cassie reads the note, which says “Kindor, High bid plus 100 gold, Thanks, Hiroshi.” She mutters “Why that little…..”</p><p></p><p>Lavender Mary’s Dress is next. There appears to be no interest in the item, until Serita places the minimum bid of 70,000 gold pieces. She wins, and Narg yells at her “Seventy grand for a dress! Are you nuts!” “It’s pretty,” she replies. He answers “It had damned well be at that pirce Seventy grand! Why if Vallessa ever spent that much on a dress..” “You’d still bite it off of her with your teeth,” Mojo interjects. Narg says “Well, yes, but I’d be very careful.” Mojo points out to Serita “Nobody else was bidding on it except you. If you hadn’t bought it it would have been kept by Kindor, who would have probably just given it to you.” Jennifer tells Mojo, “What difference does it make. The money is going for her hospital, so she can just give it back to herself as salary.” </p><p></p><p>The next item is the Ring of Fortune, which young Prince Edmin Drake is the high bidder of at 85,000 gold pieces. Lady Natasha’s Egg is next. Upon hearing the description of the ship inside the egg becoming a full sized ship Narg becomes interested. Serita chides him “You yell at me for buying a dress, but will pay more than that for an egg?” “But it turns into a ship!” he states. Mojo says “Narg, we already own three ships.” The item sells for the minimum bid price of 80,000 to Laughlin of Lendore Island. The Pendant of Kovuz’d goes for the same minimum bid amount to the King of Highforge. There are no bids for the Sage’s Stone, so Serita brings it back to the interdimensional castle. </p><p></p><p>The Cloudland’s Pendant is next. There is a bid of 105,000 gold pieces for it from Prince Taran of Greenvale, but he is outbid by a sealed bid of 130,000 gold pieces from Cassie. “Geez, you paid that much just for a silver necklace?” Narg comments to her. “I have my reasons. The pendant once belonged to the predecessors of the Cloudriders. I will need it if I ever decide to contact my mother’s people again.” <em>[DM’s Note: I was very happy to hear this. The player had been the DM for two previous ‘Origin of Cassie’ modules, so it sounds like a trilogy is in the works.]</em></p><p></p><p>The Ring of Gaeldor is the next item up, and a heated competition erupts between the elves from Silanost and Brondani for the item. Silvanost eventually wins with a bid of 149,900 gold pieces. Moradin’s Maul is next, with heated competition between the Highforge King and Amerikus, with the King eventually winning with a bid of 141,100 gold pieces. </p><p></p><p>The final item is the Stone of Llyr. Kindor announces that since there has been no agreement about the sharing of the items between the three groups it will be sold rather than given to them. As expected, all three elvan groups actively engage in the bidding, with the first to drop out being the elves of Mengale at 213,000 gold pieces. The bidding continues to go higher and higher between Queen Vanya of Silvanost and Grediwal Llyr of Brondani. Several people comment surprise when the biding hits a half-million gold pieces. It takes another half hour to reach three-quarters of a million. Silvanost finally wins it for the grand sum of 787,000 gold. </p><p></p><p>“Wow Serita exclaims. Mojo whispers over “Hey, we still have that duplicate of it. Let’s put that one up for bid too and see what we can get!” Serita replies “I think telling them that we have another one would probably cause trouble.” Melito gives Kindor the summary total, which comes to over two million gold pieces. </p><p></p><p>Kindor declares the auction completed, and the rear doors to the building are opened. Kindor tells Colonel Tenbar “Well, that went pretty smooth once that demon was gone. I was expecting more trouble.” “And you’ve got it,” the Army Commander says “You remember that dessert group who got the sphinx?” “Didn’t they leave?” he asks. Tenbar replies “Yes, they plane shifted away once they were out of the building. But that 75 foot long scorpion they rode in on is still in the parking lot.” </p><p></p><p>Cassie, Kindor, Mojo, Narg and Serita hurry outside and confirm this. Cassie tosses a Dispel Magic onto the monster to see if it has any effect. This causes the magically enlarged creature to reduce in size, with it stopping at the 7-foot long length of giant scorpion. Serita decides that she wants to keep it. “It’s a big bug! You want a big bug for a pet?” Mojo exclaims. She points out that it can be milked for its venom. “I don’t even want to think about that,” Narg exclaims, and heads back into the building shaking his head. Mojo turns to Cassie and says “And I suppose you want to dissect it?” She answers “Not anymore. It’s just a common variety giant scorpion. When it was bigger I thought it was actually something unique.” Mojo interjects "Sure, it's common, we all keep man-sized bugs lying around."</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Silver Moon, post: 941347, member: 8530"] [B]Chapter 59, “Going, Going, Gone”, July 13th, 1019, 8:45 P.M.[/B] Kindor resumes the auction once things have calmed down, reminding everyone that there are still ten more items to sell. The next item is the Finder’s Stone Prototype, that the bards Deniana Songweaver and Greidawal Llyr both bid on. Greidawal it the high bidder at 65,000, but it is announced that there is also a sealed bid. Kindor reads the sealed bid, and announces that it is higher. He then has the bid brought over to Cassie. Cassie reads the note, which says “Kindor, High bid plus 100 gold, Thanks, Hiroshi.” She mutters “Why that little…..” Lavender Mary’s Dress is next. There appears to be no interest in the item, until Serita places the minimum bid of 70,000 gold pieces. She wins, and Narg yells at her “Seventy grand for a dress! Are you nuts!” “It’s pretty,” she replies. He answers “It had damned well be at that pirce Seventy grand! Why if Vallessa ever spent that much on a dress..” “You’d still bite it off of her with your teeth,” Mojo interjects. Narg says “Well, yes, but I’d be very careful.” Mojo points out to Serita “Nobody else was bidding on it except you. If you hadn’t bought it it would have been kept by Kindor, who would have probably just given it to you.” Jennifer tells Mojo, “What difference does it make. The money is going for her hospital, so she can just give it back to herself as salary.” The next item is the Ring of Fortune, which young Prince Edmin Drake is the high bidder of at 85,000 gold pieces. Lady Natasha’s Egg is next. Upon hearing the description of the ship inside the egg becoming a full sized ship Narg becomes interested. Serita chides him “You yell at me for buying a dress, but will pay more than that for an egg?” “But it turns into a ship!” he states. Mojo says “Narg, we already own three ships.” The item sells for the minimum bid price of 80,000 to Laughlin of Lendore Island. The Pendant of Kovuz’d goes for the same minimum bid amount to the King of Highforge. There are no bids for the Sage’s Stone, so Serita brings it back to the interdimensional castle. The Cloudland’s Pendant is next. There is a bid of 105,000 gold pieces for it from Prince Taran of Greenvale, but he is outbid by a sealed bid of 130,000 gold pieces from Cassie. “Geez, you paid that much just for a silver necklace?” Narg comments to her. “I have my reasons. The pendant once belonged to the predecessors of the Cloudriders. I will need it if I ever decide to contact my mother’s people again.” [I][DM’s Note: I was very happy to hear this. The player had been the DM for two previous ‘Origin of Cassie’ modules, so it sounds like a trilogy is in the works.][/I] The Ring of Gaeldor is the next item up, and a heated competition erupts between the elves from Silanost and Brondani for the item. Silvanost eventually wins with a bid of 149,900 gold pieces. Moradin’s Maul is next, with heated competition between the Highforge King and Amerikus, with the King eventually winning with a bid of 141,100 gold pieces. The final item is the Stone of Llyr. Kindor announces that since there has been no agreement about the sharing of the items between the three groups it will be sold rather than given to them. As expected, all three elvan groups actively engage in the bidding, with the first to drop out being the elves of Mengale at 213,000 gold pieces. The bidding continues to go higher and higher between Queen Vanya of Silvanost and Grediwal Llyr of Brondani. Several people comment surprise when the biding hits a half-million gold pieces. It takes another half hour to reach three-quarters of a million. Silvanost finally wins it for the grand sum of 787,000 gold. “Wow Serita exclaims. Mojo whispers over “Hey, we still have that duplicate of it. Let’s put that one up for bid too and see what we can get!” Serita replies “I think telling them that we have another one would probably cause trouble.” Melito gives Kindor the summary total, which comes to over two million gold pieces. Kindor declares the auction completed, and the rear doors to the building are opened. Kindor tells Colonel Tenbar “Well, that went pretty smooth once that demon was gone. I was expecting more trouble.” “And you’ve got it,” the Army Commander says “You remember that dessert group who got the sphinx?” “Didn’t they leave?” he asks. Tenbar replies “Yes, they plane shifted away once they were out of the building. But that 75 foot long scorpion they rode in on is still in the parking lot.” Cassie, Kindor, Mojo, Narg and Serita hurry outside and confirm this. Cassie tosses a Dispel Magic onto the monster to see if it has any effect. This causes the magically enlarged creature to reduce in size, with it stopping at the 7-foot long length of giant scorpion. Serita decides that she wants to keep it. “It’s a big bug! You want a big bug for a pet?” Mojo exclaims. She points out that it can be milked for its venom. “I don’t even want to think about that,” Narg exclaims, and heads back into the building shaking his head. Mojo turns to Cassie and says “And I suppose you want to dissect it?” She answers “Not anymore. It’s just a common variety giant scorpion. When it was bigger I thought it was actually something unique.” Mojo interjects "Sure, it's common, we all keep man-sized bugs lying around." [/QUOTE]
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