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Message: <blockquote data-quote="theskyfullofdust" data-source="post: 4913039" data-attributes="member: 60048">First Adventure: Flowers for ReginaldIt all started in the hall of the Wayfinders Guild; a vast room dominated by a map carved into one wall, showing the new world, the places explored and discovered, with numerous scrawled comments enscribed, such as "Gnolls Here!" or "Dragon!". On the opposite wall, rows of notice boards with jobs posted. Most were taken that day, others asking for specialised knowledge or expertise, but there was one post that seemed to offer easy gold:"Looking for work! Need some loose coins to fill your pockets! Then look no further. Gatherers wanted to pick flowers! Enquire at mid-day, to Reginald Moinne of House Moinne! 50 gp apiece on delivery!"It looked like easy money.Five 'people' stood looking at the post, each lost in their own thoughts, when a cleared throat behind them made them take notice of a well-dressed merchant, looking up at them through bronze-rimmed spectacles. A glance at the cloudy sky through the windows of the guild told them that it was the appointed time of mid-day."Come for the job? Good, good. Glad to see you. My name is Reginald. It's an easy job, just a short trip to some nerby ruins; gather some flowers; bring them back."Reginald pointed to the giant map on the wall, to a particular ruin marked there, on the edge of the Bitter Leaf forest."Two days there, two days back. The flowers are the Devil's Horns flower, red, look like horns, much valued by wizards. You get me as many as you can harvest, and in five days I'll meet you back here to collect. You'll be paid well. Here, have a gold piece as a retainer. Any questions? No? Excellent,"Before anyone could say anything, the merchant turned and walked away.The five new employees looked at one another warily...</blockquote>

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