Session Six: The Return of the Old Ones...?
[2024/05/30 15:41] Sonja Bikergrrl: we missed you, Dina, you're one of us
[2024/05/30 15:41] Alicia Frakture: Indeed :)
[2024/05/30 15:41] Sonja Bikergrrl: hopefully this fact is always in everyones' heads every day
[2024/05/30 15:41] ɗίηα ωíƖɗę ღ (kitten.venus): /me missed you all too
[2024/05/30 15:42] MidnightMinion Cyberstar: Very glad to have you back, DIna
[2024/05/30 15:42] Sonja Bikergrrl: alright, before it gets too late... we got time for just under an hour with the dice
[2024/05/30 15:43] Alicia Frakture: Ready to go :)
[2024/05/30 15:43] Sonja Bikergrrl: /me cracks knuckles, flexes fingers, opens NCs
[2024/05/30 15:44] MidnightMinion Cyberstar: woo
[2024/05/30 15:44] Sonja Bikergrrl: and with that, time to say GGGGGGGGrrrreeeeetttings, Adventurers, other players get reminded what happened last, we just jump straight into it
[2024/05/30 15:45] MidnightMinion Cyberstar: Where were we then?
[2024/05/30 15:45] Sonja Bikergrrl: As I recall you were going to take stuff to sell to Cut Me Own Throat Dibbler, but you were also looking at going to a temple. It's about a day or two short of the weapon being made ready, and Josh is getting increasingly agitated.
[2024/05/30 15:46] MidnightMinion Cyberstar: Josh....
[2024/05/30 15:46] MidnightMinion Cyberstar: Did he have a quest for us we were supposed to be on?
[2024/05/30 15:46] MidnightMinion Cyberstar: or was that the alchemist?
[2024/05/30 15:46] Sonja Bikergrrl: He does
[2024/05/30 15:46] MidnightMinion Cyberstar: which quest was that?
[2024/05/30 15:47] Sonja Bikergrrl: he hasn't told you fully yet.
[2024/05/30 15:48] MidnightMinion Cyberstar: kay, he can arrange a meeting with us, but I want to get the stray loot like the armor and maybe also the hammer offloaded to Dibbler.
[2024/05/30 15:49] Sonja Bikergrrl: Mr Dibbler, or C.M.O.T. as he likes to be known as, is busy selling sausages of dubious origin in equally dubiously sourced buns, in the city square
[2024/05/30 15:50] MidnightMinion Cyberstar: out in public?
[2024/05/30 15:50] Sonja Bikergrrl: Yep.
[2024/05/30 15:50] MidnightMinion Cyberstar: ugh, I ask for a fence and i get a sausage seller
[2024/05/30 15:51] MidnightMinion Cyberstar: Alright, well I can head out and at least see if he'll give me a quote
[2024/05/30 15:51] Sonja Bikergrrl: "Sausages! Sausages inna bun! So fresh the pig don't know they're gone! Hey, you want a sausage in a bun?"
[2024/05/30 15:52] ɗίηα ωíƖɗę ღ (kitten.venus): /me sets off to flying along with , interested in seeing the sausage seller
[2024/05/30 15:52] Alicia Frakture: Yeah gimme one with mustard. *Oh please let this world have mustard*
[2024/05/30 15:53] Sonja Bikergrrl: The sausage seller wears a leather apron with a tray hanging from a strap round his neck. A small burner heats a grill, on which onions are sizzling. (He knows that with enough onions, people will eat anything.)
[2024/05/30 15:54] Sonja Bikergrrl: C.M.O.T.: "Two coppers! They're lovely."
[2024/05/30 15:54] MidnightMinion Cyberstar: "Might do," she answers, moving in close to get close enough to talk more circumpectly. "Also wondering if you're up for buying and reselling," before also ordering, in normal tone, "Sausage and musroom on a bun, dibbler."
[2024/05/30 15:54] Alicia Frakture: ohhh extra onions as well
[2024/05/30 15:54] Sonja Bikergrrl: C.M.O.T. takes a bun, heaps onions on the sausage and a liberal layer of mustard. "Two coppers!"
[2024/05/30 15:55] Alicia Frakture: Leesha happily pays 3 and takes a bite. once received.
[2024/05/30 15:55] Sonja Bikergrrl: CMOT: "always happy to buy and sell, commerce IS the lifeblood of the city. Whatcha got?"
[2024/05/30 15:57] MidnightMinion Cyberstar: "To start with, got a decent quality hammer," she'll show the item off, trying to avoid it being flashed where others will see it
[2024/05/30 15:57] Sonja Bikergrrl: CMOT: "A hammer... okay, what else?"
[2024/05/30 15:58] ɗίηα ωíƖɗę ღ (kitten.venus): /me looks over the large food at the stand with curiosity driving her more than any bit of hunger....listening close to what was being said
[2024/05/30 15:58] MidnightMinion Cyberstar: "A set of scaled armor," she'll add, since thats the other thing they're trying to move.
[2024/05/30 15:59] Sonja Bikergrrl: CMOT: "Armour, scaled, and a hammer... that it?"
[2024/05/30 15:59] Alicia Frakture: /me offers her sausage up to Dahlia, non bitten side."You wanna try a bite? It's really good."
[2024/05/30 15:59] MidnightMinion Cyberstar: "For today at least, yeah.".
[2024/05/30 16:00] ɗίηα ωíƖɗę ღ (kitten.venus): /me "thank you", tries a bite looking very happy as she did
[2024/05/30 16:00] Sonja Bikergrrl: Katana eyes the sausage warily. "Made of pork, you said?"
[2024/05/30 16:00] Sonja Bikergrrl: CMOT: "Pig. Genuine pig parts."
[2024/05/30 16:00] Sonja Bikergrrl: CMOT: "Hmmm. Well I'll give you fifty gold, and that's cutting me on throat."
[2024/05/30 16:01] Alicia Frakture: Onions and mustard on it.. So good." *She can not help but look for sauerkraut*
[2024/05/30 16:01] Sonja Bikergrrl: Probably just as well you got half orc constitution
[2024/05/30 16:02] Alicia Frakture: Be more concerned with my breath as another sausage is ordered.
[2024/05/30 16:03] MidnightMinion Cyberstar: ( What class of armor was it, specifically? ))
[2024/05/30 16:03] MidnightMinion Cyberstar: (( Half scale or full scale? ))
[2024/05/30 16:03] Sonja Bikergrrl: More onions are piled onto a bun and liberally coated with mustard. Its' the only way most would manage to get it down.
[2024/05/30 16:04] Sonja Bikergrrl: Splint Mail, and a war hammer
[2024/05/30 16:04] Sonja Bikergrrl: it's a fairly good armour for a fighter, not quite as good as plate but better'n the usual chain mail
[2024/05/30 16:05] MidnightMinion Cyberstar: She knows people like this enjoy the haggling as much as anything else. "Hmmm, That's a touch low I think, I bet you get move it for 65 and still make a good prodit."
[2024/05/30 16:05] MidnightMinion Cyberstar: *can
[2024/05/30 16:06] Sonja Bikergrrl: CMOT: "65! Pfft. No one will give you 65. I'll stick my neck out, thought. 55."
[2024/05/30 16:07] MidnightMinion Cyberstar: "It's a decent enough neck, but you'll catch peoples eye with this after a bit of spit polish. 60."
[2024/05/30 16:07] Alicia Frakture: /me cuts a piece of sausage sandwich for Dahlia as we watch."Hear ya go."
[2024/05/30 16:08] Sonja Bikergrrl: "I sell sausages in a bun, I don't wear fancy armour. 60 is what I'll sell it for... 55 is my final offer."
[2024/05/30 16:08] MidnightMinion Cyberstar: She hems and haws for a little bit, "Alright, I can let go of it for 55. Know I'm taking a haircut on this of course."
[2024/05/30 16:08] ɗίηα ωíƖɗę ღ (kitten.venus): /me "thank you!", looks even happier and floats near , eating and listening to the haggling
[2024/05/30 16:09] Sonja Bikergrrl: CMOT pulls a purse out of his robes and passes it over.
[2024/05/30 16:09] Alicia Frakture: Got enough mustard for you Dahlia?
[2024/05/30 16:10] MidnightMinion Cyberstar: She'll feel the weight of it and hand over the armor if it seems like an accurate amount of gold.
[2024/05/30 16:10] Sonja Bikergrrl: Gained 55 gold, lost armour, war hammer.
[2024/05/30 16:11] ɗίηα ωíƖɗę ღ (kitten.venus): /me "oh yes, and very nice taste have not had anything like it before, and have eaten alot of interesting things", keeps munching happily
[2024/05/30 16:11] MidnightMinion Cyberstar: confirmed, added to sheet
[2024/05/30 16:12] Sonja Bikergrrl: What now?
[2024/05/30 16:13] MidnightMinion Cyberstar: Leesha had a temple plan of some sort, and I wanted to go check out the castle and estimate how difficult it'll be to get in and talk with that time wizard
[2024/05/30 16:13] Alicia Frakture: Do we wanna head to the temple, the blacksmith, so we can tell meatbeat what's going on or try to find that time traveller wizard?
[2024/05/30 16:14] MidnightMinion Cyberstar: "Blacksmith is supposed to be ready tomorrow i thought? My plan was the wizard."
[2024/05/30 16:15] Sonja Bikergrrl: so, to the guards' main barracks/jail?
[2024/05/30 16:15] MidnightMinion Cyberstar: yeah, to scout it out
[2024/05/30 16:15] Alicia Frakture: Okay, then let's hit the wizard, er I mean visit
[2024/05/30 16:15] MidnightMinion Cyberstar: ugh, it's such a pain in the ass that the town guard hate me
[2024/05/30 16:16] MidnightMinion Cyberstar: since all we want to do is talk to him
[2024/05/30 16:17] Sonja Bikergrrl: You make your way there... to the steady beat of the blacksmiths' hammer coming from somewhere. Clanka-clank... Clanka-clank... and various fruit sellers that you never seem to see. At the city guards' HQ, two men wearing chainmail and holding halbards bar your way. "Going somewhere?"
[2024/05/30 16:17] MidnightMinion Cyberstar: (( EXCUSE ME
[2024/05/30 16:17] Alicia Frakture: We gotta try though *Finishes the first sausage and bites the second.*
[2024/05/30 16:17] MidnightMinion Cyberstar: (( I said *scout out*
[2024/05/30 16:17] MidnightMinion Cyberstar: (( That is, observe from a distance, evalute the region
[2024/05/30 16:18] MidnightMinion Cyberstar: (( Debben is not so suicidal that she walks up to armed guards
[2024/05/30 16:18] Sonja Bikergrrl: okay...it's a big grey building with a large gate, two guys flank the main entrance.
[2024/05/30 16:18] MidnightMinion Cyberstar: Is it a free-standing building or attached to the main castle walls?
[2024/05/30 16:19] Sonja Bikergrrl: Seems to have been free standing once, although many add-ons and extensions have made it more integrated with the surrounding buildings
[2024/05/30 16:21] MidnightMinion Cyberstar: Debben would like to walk around from a distance and see if there's any sort of alternate way in or windows.... are the cells the kind with tiny little windows or not visible from the outside?
[2024/05/30 16:22] Sonja Bikergrrl: It's much like any central official military HQ/jail. Thick walls, barred windows, heavily guarded.
[2024/05/30 16:23] MidnightMinion Cyberstar: So our "in" probably needs to be a social one. *ponders*
[2024/05/30 16:23] Sonja Bikergrrl: It's meant to be a fortification; over the past thousand years, chances are any weak points have long been noticed and addressed.
[2024/05/30 16:23] MidnightMinion Cyberstar: "I have one idea, but I'm worried about the cost. Leesha, Dhalia, any ideas?"
[2024/05/30 16:23] Sonja Bikergrrl: That, or a besieging army
[2024/05/30 16:24] Alicia Frakture: Yeah I go in. ask if there are visiting hours and if we can talk to him. IF we don't come in weapons flying, we have a better chance.... Did I just say that?"
[2024/05/30 16:25] MidnightMinion Cyberstar: "Makes sense. They seem less upset with you... I'm a bit worried about them actually letting you out again but it's better odds than me."
[2024/05/30 16:25] ɗίηα ωíƖɗę ღ (kitten.venus): "That sounds like a nice idea, i like that one"
[2024/05/30 16:25] Alicia Frakture: Wait what was his name again?
[2024/05/30 16:25] MidnightMinion Cyberstar: (( ....um
[2024/05/30 16:26] MidnightMinion Cyberstar: (( we should know this, right? It... was a very short scene
[2024/05/30 16:26] Sonja Bikergrrl: Katana frowns (as best you can make out): "Is all this subterfuge really necessary? Why not just walk in and ask."
[2024/05/30 16:26] MidnightMinion Cyberstar: "....because I'd rather not get thrown into a damn jail cell again."
[2024/05/30 16:26] Sonja Bikergrrl: ( It was. As far as you can remember, no names were mentioned.)
[2024/05/30 16:27] MidnightMinion Cyberstar: "Or, if they're feeling merciful, getting my teeth kicked out."
[2024/05/30 16:27] Sonja Bikergrrl: Katana: "Are you in some kind of legal trouble?"
[2024/05/30 16:27] Alicia Frakture: Leesha looks at Katana."that's what I am gonna do."
[2024/05/30 16:27] MidnightMinion Cyberstar: Debben holds up her finger and then pauses, thinking.
[2024/05/30 16:28] MidnightMinion Cyberstar: "hmmmmm." She frowns.
[2024/05/30 16:28] Alicia Frakture: Leesha is walking up to the guards. the only thing in her hand is the remainder of her sausage which gets eaten quickly."Excuse me do you have visiting times with prisoners?"
[2024/05/30 16:29] Sonja Bikergrrl: Katana: "Those in the service of law and order have nothing to fear."
[2024/05/30 16:29] Sonja Bikergrrl: Guard: "Who you looking to visit?"
[2024/05/30 16:30] Alicia Frakture: Wizard guy got thrown in here a little while back
[2024/05/30 16:30] MidnightMinion Cyberstar: Debben narrows her eyes at Katana suspiciously, trying to decide how she wants to word her counter argument.
[2024/05/30 16:31] Sonja Bikergrrl: The guard ponders this. "Wizard guy... not sure many wizards get thrown in the cells... don't think we got any wizards now..."
[2024/05/30 16:32] Alicia Frakture: /me ponders for a moment."Wait do you remember a little while ago two beings appeared out of nowhere in the castle?"
[2024/05/30 16:33] MidnightMinion Cyberstar: (( Leesha is far enough away we do or do not hear her say that?
[2024/05/30 16:33] Alicia Frakture: *Wait is this the same one who sent us for apple pie?*
[2024/05/30 16:33] MidnightMinion Cyberstar: ( *the apple pie guy was the archmage, the time travel wiz was different
[2024/05/30 16:33] Sonja Bikergrrl: The guards look at each other. "Don't you mean three? some guy, an orc, some dwarf... and some story about some plague?"
[2024/05/30 16:34] Sonja Bikergrrl: (I'm assuming you're close?)
[2024/05/30 16:34] Alicia Frakture: there were three? She looks behind her at Debben."there was a third?"
[2024/05/30 16:35] Alicia Frakture: She looks back at the guard."Also, half orc, thank you."
[2024/05/30 16:35] Sonja Bikergrrl: Guard: "Wait, that was you?"
[2024/05/30 16:35] MidnightMinion Cyberstar: Debben freezes in panic for a moment as the attention of authority is pointed her way. "...only if you count the wizard."
[2024/05/30 16:36] MidnightMinion Cyberstar: Debben's gaze is rapidly scanning for escape routes at this point.
[2024/05/30 16:36] Alicia Frakture: What was the tone of the guard when they said that?
[2024/05/30 16:36] Sonja Bikergrrl: Katana: "Debben... I ask again... are you in some kind of trouble with the authorities?"
[2024/05/30 16:37] Sonja Bikergrrl: (surprised, mostly)
[2024/05/30 16:37] MidnightMinion Cyberstar: "All my life," she mutters back.
[2024/05/30 16:38] Sonja Bikergrrl: Katana: "Then mend your ways and use your skills and abilities for the service of law and order."
[2024/05/30 16:38] Alicia Frakture: As long as you're not looking to bring me in yeah it's me. Otherwise.. No I'm her twin from a different uncle.
[2024/05/30 16:38] Sonja Bikergrrl: Guards: "Eh...?"
[2024/05/30 16:38] Alicia Frakture: *Trying to keep the focus on her and not the group.*
[2024/05/30 16:39] Alicia Frakture: Never mind, bad joke, but is the guy here from that?
[2024/05/30 16:39] Sonja Bikergrrl: Guards: "He left months ago?"
[2024/05/30 16:40] MidnightMinion Cyberstar: "As a toy and punching bag?" she hisses under the breath to Katana. "Sour deal."
[2024/05/30 16:40] Alicia Frakture: Leesha facepalms, probably getting a dab of mustard on her forehead."Did he say where he was going or anything?"
[2024/05/30 16:40] MidnightMinion Cyberstar: ".....months? He's not.... being held here?"
[2024/05/30 16:41] Sonja Bikergrrl: Katana frowns. "Just where were you the other night...?"
[2024/05/30 16:42] Sonja Bikergrrl: The guards shrug. "He left months ago. Other than unlawful use of magic and intruding on the Royal Palace, he hadn't done anything wrong."
[2024/05/30 16:42] ɗίηα ωíƖɗę ღ (kitten.venus): /me giggles at Leesha getting the mustard on her like that
[2024/05/30 16:43] Alicia Frakture: Shit... Wait, this is going to sound weird, but do you know his name? things were chaotic for us and we didn't get introductions before it went crazy.
[2024/05/30 16:43] Sonja Bikergrrl: again the guards shrug. "He answered questions, it was some strange misunderstanding, he left."
[2024/05/30 16:43] MidnightMinion Cyberstar: Debben declines to answer katana's question right away, listening to this rather stunning information from the guards.
[2024/05/30 16:44] Sonja Bikergrrl: Guard: "Wasn't it Thomas? Something?"
[2024/05/30 16:44] Sonja Bikergrrl: Katana frowns more noticeably, pressing her lips tightly together at the lack of an answer.
[2024/05/30 16:45] Sonja Bikergrrl: And, at this point, I better call time - 15 minutes late! But I do work tomorrow and it's important I stay awake
[2024/05/30 16:45] Sonja Bikergrrl: it's been a trying week.
[2024/05/30 16:46] MidnightMinion Cyberstar: "....I need a drink," Debben sighs, still trying to process a world where the guards would just... let someone go.
[2024/05/30 16:47] Alicia Frakture: Thank you very much." before walking back to the group.
[2024/05/30 16:47] MidnightMinion Cyberstar: (( *aww*, alright mistress ))
[2024/05/30 16:47] Alicia Frakture: /me huggles Mistress, Madam and Sweetie.
[2024/05/30 16:47] Sonja Bikergrrl: sorry.... hopefully we all together again Monday
[2024/05/30 16:47] Sonja Bikergrrl: but, time I ducked out fast
[2024/05/30 16:47] MidnightMinion Cyberstar: (( And maybe Katana can lean on Debben and get her to explain her actual worldview
[2024/05/30 16:48] Sonja Bikergrrl: ( You think she won't? Haven't you paid attention! )
[2024/05/30 16:48] Alicia Frakture: Sleep well Mistress
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