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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Phoenix" data-source="post: 2378618" data-attributes="member: 16166">[sblock]Gather Information check (DC 15) +11 - FailureDiplomacy check (DC 12) +13 - Success[/sblock]The echo of steely clangs ring out for a dozen streets out of the Steel City, and the smoke from the forges can be seen from suburbs away as it billows into the sky far above Taren.  By the time the halfling and his companion wander through the various dirty constuctions that act as warehouses, forges, construction shops and smelting area, the night is upon them.The inns and taverns of The Steel City are far from few and far between, with dozens clumped in the crude 'marketplaces' that serve as ore trading areas for the craftmen that live and work in the suburb.  A building that looks like it was once a small lighthouse*, now converted into a tavern, called The Shaft is bristling with mercenaries tonight with few inside its walls without the touch of iron on them in one way or another.The appearance of Taren in such a place is met with inital hostilities, but it seems that after a few drinks the appearance of a midget with a pet mouse causes endless mirth in the building, eventually leading to drinking, then more drinking.  Through the haze of alcohol that Taren is required to imbibe in order to gather information, the night eases its way into morning, and as the halfling drifts off to sleep in an old bed in the upper levels, he feels that the answers he had been given through the night were less than helpful, especially when so many of them involved someone else's body parts, external fluids, or crude jokes about elven men...[sblock]The buildings and suburbs of Metropolis are old and there has often been efforts to record the history of the various suburbs, but often the people and places that record the history of the city fall on ill times and much is lost.  Hundreds of buildings such as the lighthouse are scattered throughout the city, even though there is no significant body of water for navigation for miles.  What their previous purpose was, few now know.[/sblock]</blockquote>

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