The Four Lands - Dark is Rising

[Maidhc O Casain]

Jadu looks at the sealed haversack, then to the instructions, then gravely at his new friends.

"I'd suggest just the opposite. We know nothing of those who tossed this bag at our feet, with whom they're affiliated, or what they're trying to deliver. I'll need to make a living eventually, but I prefer to be seeking commissions before I accept them."

He stoops to take up the envelope.

 

[Neurotic]

"I agree, we should find the guards and report this and give them the content over, whatever it is."

 

[Leif]

Stexird Kranhauser, Dwarf Ranger

"Well, let's not be overly hasty with this." With that, Stex opens the haversack and begins to rummage through it, "It's like me daddy always said, 'If you want to muck up a bad situation and turn it into a real mess, just get the law involved.' Nay lads, I say we should try to handle this on our own first and see what profit that might bring us."

 

[J. Alexander]

Instructions:
The instructions which are in an unsealed envelope just inside the haversack inner pouch rests next to a pouch. The interior of the sack is sealed. Simple the istructions as you to take this pakage containing what is says are exotic teas andspices to the the Sillver Kettle, which it describes as a tea shop located in the inner ward just off catherderal square in the city proper

 

[Leif]

Stexird Kranhauser, Dwarf Ranger

Stex shares the note's contents with the others. "Most peculiar indeed. I'm a-thinkin' now that ye may've had the right idea about callin' fer th' watch." Stex carefully puts everything back into the haversack just as he found it.

 

[Scott DeWar]

Okigawa refrains from comment and bows in graceful acknowledgement.

 

[Neurotic]

"' Nay lads, I say we should try to handle this on our own first and see what profit that might bring us."

"What profit?! It will end up with us in jail, it's not like they care for a bunch of strangers. And consider those we saw earlier...they weren't evil and maybe they were some kind of prince's secret service and we're now being tested. I say, we go to the guards with this."

 

[Maidhc O Casain]

The western emissary laughs at the absurdity - both of his companion's actions and thoughts and of his own - and says quietly, "And now that I see the instructions, this looks to me more like an invitation to meet a prospective employer than it does the commission itself. Not yet a full day in the city and already I'm running in circles."

 

[ghostcat]

"Well given that we are outside the city and the target is inside, it looks to me like it could be some kind of smuggling operation.

Anyway as we still don't have our papers, we don't need to decide anything until the morning."

Espejo ponders for a short while and continues "I still say we need more information. The problem is, we are all new here and don't really know who to ask. Normally, I'd ask in a tavern but they all seem full of troops and I suspect the ones that aren't are associated with the bruisers' gang. Perhaps a market."

 

[Leif]

Stexird Kranhauser, Dwarf Ranger

"It goes withou' a-sayin' that what we 'ave 'ere are not merely 'exotic teas and spices.' Nae a man in his right mind would go to such pains to send teas and spices. Who here knows aught of any laws in the city against any kind of mind-altering concoctions, or whether a license from the city be required to be a-traffickin' in 'em? D'ye suppose they might even be magical herbs, or maybe potion ingredients?"