Rhun's Greyhawk OMEGA Campaign (ToEE) - Continued

[Dire Lemming]

Shoon sighs, he'd been wondering when his growing confidence would turn into stupidity, and it seemed to have begun. He whispers in the bard's ear, cupping his hand to avoid lip reading and further muffle the message to those it is not meant for. "Unless you can survive a severed spine, your fate will be the same regardless... Now you can help us, and we can all live, or you can betray us and die in the hope that we will as well. It is fully up to you."

 

[Rhun]

The bard stops and gives Shoon a cold look. "I said I would help you monk, so stay your threats. If I hear another one, I will stop being cooperative." With that, the bard goes back to making his way through the crowded tavern.

 

[Rhun]

Reaching the rough bar (which appears to have been cobbled together from weathered pieces of old ships and then sanded to some semblance of smoothness), the barkeep nods a greeting to Daryan. "Back again, eh bard?" says the well-built man, who looks more the part of a warrior than he does a barkeep.

The bard nods. "These good folks with me are looking for a certain captain that I've done business with before...I forget his name...Captain 'somethin Ville' of the Bloody somethin or the other."

The barkeep smiles and nods his head. "Yeah, I know who you are speaking of. Could be I know somethin' about him, if the price is right."

Daryan turns back to the group. "Gotta a few gold coins? Unfortunately, that is the only way to get people to talk around these parts."

 

[Dire Lemming]

Shoon nods to the barkeep and hands over 5 gold coins.

 

[Rhun]

The barkeep takes Shoon's coin, biting one of them. Then, with a nod, he drops them in the pocket of his leather apron. "You're looking for Captain Joinville. He captains a vessel called the Bloodwort. Doesn't come up this way often...he mostly plies the Sea of Gearnat, down the Wild Coast Way." The man shrugs at you. "I'm afraid you've missed him, though. Left Nulb just a few days ago...probably made it to Nyr Dyv by now. Probably won't be back this way for a couple of months."

 

[Dire Lemming]

Shoon quite visibly takes out three more coins and watches the barkeep carefully. "Are you absolutely certain he's left?"

 

[Rhun]

The barkeep nods. "Absolutely. Just go take a look out in the quay. You'll see his ship is gone."

 

[Dire Lemming]

Soon appears extremely disappointed by this news. "And there is no way to contact him? ... Very well... Well perhaps you can tell me about the other ship that is here? The Dagon's Anger." He produces five more coins, and offers them to the barkeep.

 

[Rhun]

The barkeep smiles at the sight of the gold and nods his head. "Dagon's Anger is a sweet ship; she may be smallish, but she's a swift, finely built carrack, not to doubt. Tollub's her Captain...he's the big bearded fellow over in the corner. Unless you got business with his type though, I'd suggest he is best left alone."

 

[Dire Lemming]

"That would depend on what business he is in. Does he trade in people? I am searching for a certain slave. One that I was informed was in the custody of Captain Joinville. Do you think he might have sold them in Nulb?" Shoon starts to wonder how much gold he'll have left after asking all these questions.