The night passes uneventfully, and you sleep easily despite the smell of the pigs -- after a close encounter with a troglodyte chief, a the smell of pig farm barely registers. In the morning, Mallack sends you off with a hearty breakfast of eggs, biscuits, sausage, bacon and ham. On the way out, the old farmer also gives you a piece of paper addressed to
"MIFTRE FALSUNE HEV". It's not sealed, but the handwriting is crabbed and mostly illegible. However, it seems to be a receipt stating that you did indeed solve Mallack's problem.
The walk back to the main road takes a little longer than the walk out, given Aeron's wounded leg, but once you're there, it's easy enough to hitch a ride on a passing cart with a drover who's happy to listen to your tales. He does, however, make you sit downwind. While your noses are thoroughly deadened, apparently there's a lingering aroma of troglodyte and pig that's in your hair and clothes. Or in Paskell's case, in his feathers and clothes.
The drover drops you off near the Land Owners and Cultivators Guild, and you enter to find Fallson Hev hard at work over a stack of parchments. He looks up as you enter, and then his nose wrinkles slightly.
"You've been to see Mister Mallack, then? Is all well?" he says. Taking the receipt, he frowns, then sighs.
"While I respect the expertise my clients have in the fields of agriculture and animal husbandry, I do so wish they took time to practice their penmanship. However, as far as I'm able to make out, Mister Mallack is satisfied. Did you find any items of worth over ten thousand sovereigns? No? Well then, payment is rather straightforward. Please wait a moment while I fetch it for you."
The old clerk rises and disappears into the back room. You hear the ratcheting noise of a safe being opened, and then the soft clink of coins. A moment later, Hev reappears with small money pouches.
"There you go, gentlemen. Thank you, and should another situation arise, we'll be more than willing to call on you again."
...... Fallson Hev ......
| GM: | @Satin Knights will have to clear the math, but you should finish with 3556 xp and 3979 gp worth of cash and goods. So for example, if you take the mithral chain shirt, you'll be receiving 3979-1100= 2869 gp. Technically, I should charge the CLW charges to group funds, but screw it, I'm putting it on the tab of the guys who dropped out.
Available goodies you can take:
Wand of Cure Light Wounds (19 charges) - 285 gp
Masterwork chain shirt - 250 gp
Mithral chain shirt - 1100 gp
Quick runner's shirt - 1000 gp
Belt of tumbling - 800 gp
Bone scythe +1 - 2309 gp |
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If Paskell takes the Mithral chain, then Samad can probably get the Mwk one as well.[/sblock]
