Berserker Bill smirks an appreciative smirk. "Brave and pious? Well, I hold my own in a fight and have split creatures twice my size into hunks of bleeding meat a quarter my size, but if I were truly brave and pious I wouldn't have been trying to find Sir Dudley. Come," he says as he walks out the door. As he moves through the hall and back outside, he finishes, "I like your style, good sir! Allow me to deputize you so that you can join us on our quest."
On the walk back toward the docks, Berserker Bill pulls out an extra Deputy pack and hands it to his new ally. "Do you swear to uphold the and so on and so on, but most importantly help me find the mystic Chromium Orb of Frobozz and keep it from evil hands? If so, excellent! Consider yourself deputized, and here's 200 gold to get you started."
For details on the Deputy Pack and the mission, see the following recap (in sblock to save space only):
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"Now. If you'll each open your deputy kit, you'll find the following." Here, he opens his bag and narrates as he removes items one at a time.
"Your badge of course. It's silver *ahem*colored*ahem* and is the proof to citizens of you authority. When wearing, try to maintain your command presense. Do not let anyone get the best of you while you wear this. And under no circumstances are you to panic while wearing this badge. Remember," he indicates his own badge on his strap, "this is what keeps us humanoid." He stops with his hand reaching for the next item and adds, "and don't try to throw it like a throwing star. It won't work. It will only embarrass you, especially don't do it in front of your fiance's family. Crap. What else is in here?"
"You should also find a signal whistle, on a lanyard." He indicates the lanyard (rope necklace) and then puts it around his neck. "If there is trouble, and you cannot handle it on your own, blow in this. This is very important when you are on watch or patrol, but NOT to be used when sneaking or when a companion is sneaking, unless the trouble is very bad and you panic, which you won't do. If you hear a whistle," he blows whistle, "run toward the sound and assist as you can. I try to start by saying, 'what is the trouble? how may I be of assistance?' You can say what you like, but those are proven as combat ready. When you use the whistle, try to blow 3 times. Do not suck. That, too, is just embarrassing."
"Let's see . . . you also have a quarter pound bar of soap. I think Ranti will appreciate this. Despite his first impression of me, I try to stay clean. As a representative of the Duke, you will be expected to be hygenic. I don't think I need to say anything more about that." He tosses the bar of soap he was holding in front of Richard and continues.
"Silvered Dagger. Important for many reasons. Good against werewolves, ghosts, lycanthropes . . . uh . . . elementals, I think. All kinds of stuff. Basically, if the regular stuff isn't working, try this baby."
"Cube of wood. This is about 4 inches each side. You can use it for whatever you need to. It's nice for whitling on while you're on a long trip. Goes hand in hand with the dagger, see?" He whitles a curl of wood off the block. "You could also whittle maybe a door stop or something that might be useful . . . maybe a . . . It's not really big enough to carve a wooden stake out of, but I think silvered daggers work on vampires, so we shouldn't need that anyway."
"This is all standard-issue stuff. Uh . . . oh! You got a whetstone, of course. To keep your dagger sharp. You can use that on pretty much any edged weapon."
"Nice, thick pair of wool socks. Just in case we find ourselves somewhere cold."
"Piece of chalk. This is good for both drawing on rocks or tables." Here he tries to draw a line on the table to illustrate, but there's beer perspiration and it doesn't really draw. He tries a few more times until it makes a white mark. "Like so. Easy. You could draw a map, or a monster you saw, or a dog you saw the monster eat, or whatever. Also, if we get caught in any kind of maze: this! THIS is what you'll want more than anything . . . and, as deputies, you'll have it."
"That's about it, really. Oh, and the sack itself. Very important for carrying loo-er, evidence. Good sturdy sack for each of us, because carrying capacity becomes SO important."
"Now, of course you'll want to supplement all this with your personalized gear, weaponry and armor. But I urge you all not to overlook the items which can become so much more useful than a sword . . . heh . . . well, not more useful than a SWORD really, but you know, useful. Some people like the 10 foot pole, some like the pitons, the rope, grappling hook, so on, so on. Myself, I trust in the bucket." He shows off a very nice, sturdy bucket. He kisses its side. "This bucket's saved my life. It will again."
"And here's your money." He then pulls out 5 bags of gold. "This is for your time and talents. There's 200 in each bag. Once we've retrieved what we're looking for, and it's out of evil hands, you'll get twice that on top of it."
"We're going after a magical device called the Chromium Orb of Frobozz. It's hidden underground near Lizard Spit. Now, I know the general direction, and I know we're gonna have to go through the goblins that have been terrorizing this town. I also know that this may get ugly, but if you take my money and deputy kit and I don't see you here in the morning it's going to get even uglier. I am a member of the tracking corps, that's how I got here. So if you're in, you're in, and you'll be ready tomorrow to head through goblins and underground to protect this item from evil hands and protect the citizenry of this fine Dukedom . . . also from evil hands."
OOC: Each Deputy kit weighs 3 pounds.[/sblock]
