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Message: <blockquote data-quote="sunshadow21" data-source="post: 5909358" data-attributes="member: 6667193">[sblock=Tonris]The history is easily acquired. In the not so distant past, the barony was quite prosperous with its mines producing lots of rare ores that folks in Gist were eager to buy. When the Silver Road opened, and the Venzan market opened up, it looked like things could only go up, and they did, for a generation, but underneath the success was a unspoken concern. The mines were running out, and a new commodity would be needed to replace the ore; there was hope that the Silver Road would keep commerce going long enough to establish a new commodity or service that would keep bringing in the money, but it was not to be. The family that controlled the Silver Road collapsed, and with them, any hopes of finding a sustainable future. A lot of folks left, but a lot of folks stayed, due to loyalty or an inability to move. They were able to sustain the core of the barony with what little trade they could still muster with Gist, but the outlying areas were left to slowly decay. A few years ago, the old baron finally died after years of decaying at the same rate the barony was, too lost in his own misery to change course. His son has sought to correct that course, however, and has sought ways to once more increase trade to Gist, and even reopen the road to Venza, where the wood from the barony commands a high price as good ship wood. His patience finally paid off when he was approached by one of the remaining branches of the family that originally built the Silver Road. An alliance was sought to rebuild the road not as the domain of a single family, but as the property of all who lived along it. That alliance was eagerly accepted, and thus you and many other mercs now find yourself here helping to cleanup the cobwebs that have built up around the edges of the barony. At some point, you are summoned by one of Lord Maskon's men for a new opportunity. A small group of mercs is cleaning out a small tower to the east, and is a bit shorthanded. You are sent to reinforce them, and show up just in time to see one of them blast a spider swarm to bits.[/sblock]The swarm goes up in a giant ball of foul smelling seared flesh and smoke as hundreds of itty bity spiders drop to the ground dead. Those that survive scatter to the shadows, their desire for lunch no longer able to overcome their desire to live. As you watch them scatter, you hear a noise behind you, and see a single human walking up, a small reptile at his feet trying hard to keep up.[sblock=rewards]ExperienceSpiders CR 3 800 xp total/267 xp each[/sblock]</blockquote>

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