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Continued from '''[[Back to Camp]]'''.
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Continued from '''[[Stavanger Again, Now in July]]'''
  
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== Planning ==
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'''The DM:''' On the morning of July 25th, you leave Stavanger in a moderate rain, a strong steady shower, getting aboard the boat at 7 a.m. The rain doesn't matter much, since you'll only be allowed in the open once a day, for half an hour. By the time you're allowed on deck on the 25th, you'll see the familiar peninsula north of Mimmarudla passing on the starboard side, and the rain will have eased.  You won't see anything again until the next day; it will rain all day and all night of the 25th, and still be raining the next day.  By noon on the 26th, you'll come on deck during a deluge, with heavy rain sluicing off the deck, though the sea is relatively calm.  The wind has been perfect all day and night, veering from a gentle to a moderate breeze, and the ship is making good time.  You drift below again at one o'clock, and eight hours later, at nine p.m., the ship docks in Bergen.
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'''[[Lexent]]:''' Sounds good to me. I could also use a trip to Stavanger. Hopefully I have enough to procure some armor, or at least improve my weapon.
 
  
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'''[[Vafrandir]]:''' Probably the best course of action. No shame in getting some professional help.
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: Master Larsen tells you the ''Morkinskib'' will be departing on the morning of the 31st; he needs four full days in Bergen to unload and load goods. He will save your berths until then, if you wish to continue onto Trondheim.  Your paid price so far only gets you to Bergen; it will be a like price again for the next journey to Trondheim.
  
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'''[[Lexent]]:''' In.
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: Working out a market table for Bergen now.
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'''[[Lexent]]:''' Funds deducted for passage. Vafrandir, can you tell me how much the party netted from the sales in Stavanger less what we gave to the hirelings? I'm assuming we're just planning to keep that as party funds for the time being?
  
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'''Marcule:''' Did anyone else get an email from Alexis?
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:'''[[Vafrandir]]:''' 516 after sending Nadia back to Treborg with 200 - shit, did we send Nadia back to Treborg? Yes, party funds, please.
  
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'''[[Lexent]]:''' Yep. Do we just wait to hear more, or should we try to make some plans?
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'''Alexis:''' Never mind, found it Lexent.  I've sent copies of the Bergen Market to the party.  Prices have adjusted. Bergen has access to markets in England that Stavanger hasn't got; plus it has many more ships that travel direct from place to place, so prices are lower in Bergen than they are in Stavanger, in some things.
  
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'''[[Pandred]]''': We can't act on anything, but if you've got ideas beyond "roll up with a bunch of dudes", which is what I was thinking, it wouldn't hurt to hear.
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:'''[[Vafrandir]]:''' Nice!
  
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'''The DM:''' @%$&^(^%#%$&*&^%#%$#&^*$%$#@%%*(&*(&^$#@ In.
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'''The DM:''' Total time of the journey, 36 hours. Costs only 2 lb. per person per day aboard ship to eat.
  
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'''The DM:''' Sorry about that.  Figured out the password.
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:'''[[Vafrandir]]:''' Accounted.
  
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'''[[Lexent]]:''' Honestly, I'd like more information. A bunch of men-at-arms will only be able to do so much against powerful undead/fiends. I'm kind of hoping that Fraser will be able to assist, but I don't expect to hear from him any time soon.
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'''The DM:''' Okay, you've got the equipment list; you can chat about how or if you want to approach the Hamish Ross question. I'm out for the weekend.  I'll check in after a couple hours to see if there were any last questions.  Thank you all.
  
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'''Marcule:''' I like the "Roll up with dudes plan" haha. there is something to be said for getting some men at arms.
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'''[[Lexent]]:''' Funds now up to date. Well, I think its a bit late tonight to do anything, but in the morning we could try to find the seat of government and make inquiries, and also try to search out any local Catholic communities as Hamish Ross could be known among them.
  
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'''The DM:''' If I can weigh in; what you need from men-at-arms is a support network.  Food, more people to build a cairn, provide defense for the camp, possibly make it easier to climb up to the dungeon, cook your food in the morning and at night so you’re not risking malady checks when you come in tired; buy additional healing salves, improve your armour and other equipment; Marcule has an ability to make an armoured set of clothing that he’s able to wear as an illusionist, but has not done; there’s also the question of the gas gun, though I haven’t made rules for it yet.  Knowing what your tools can do is also useful and sorting out what equipment WILL help with undead (holy water, for example).
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'''Pandred''': Surely.
  
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'''The DM:''' Oh, and build regular communication with Treborg, so that you’re not out here without being sure there can’t be more food, more salve, replacement equipment, etc.  Obviously, Oddsdrakken can be trusted to use Nadia as pilot to get stuff from Stavanger when you’re not there.
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'''[[Lexent]]:''' In.
  
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'''The DM:''' Sidenote: I was including the club in the equipment poster and realized that a “self-made” club can be differentiated from a “bought” club by simply saying the former breaks on a 1 in 3 and the latter on a 1 in 4.  So please take that as canon, since you’ll be in a position to buy new clubs now.  I'm going to move this conversation to a new post.
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'''The DM:''' In.  Sorry, slept in.
  
 
'''[[Vafrandir]]:''' In.
 
'''[[Vafrandir]]:''' In.
  
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'''[[Vafrandir]]:''' All that takes time (wink wink), which we have, and money, which we have less of.
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'''[[Vafrandir]]:''' I assume we can sleep on the ship - if we want to go ashore, I don't see prices for rooms on the Market sheet you sent. Am I just missing it?
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'''[[Vafrandir]]:''' Let's do some poking around on Ross. I've no idea where to go, though.
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'''The DM:''' Can't sleep on the ship.  You'd be in the way during the loading-unloading process.
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== Staying Overnight ==
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[[File:Innkeeper.jpg|right|600px|thumb|]]
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Use the file on the right for the innkeeper for the time being.  Note [https://wiki.alexissmolensk.com/index.php/Travel#Finding_Lodging the travel page] for how an inn works.
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'''[[Lexent]]:''' Well, given what we're carrying, I believe we should probably get ourselves at least 1 private room. Thoughts?
  
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'''[[Lexent]]:''' And therein lies my concern. It seems as though Grond is beyond our current capabilities to confront, and while a support network would be useful for not wasting so many days trying to get TO the dungeon, they don't give us too much more to help confront him once we get there. We by ourselves can purchase the additional supplies, armour, and equipment. (Although personally, my funds for doing so are quite limited). The knowing what will help us and being able to accurately assess just how dangerous this situation is is what I hope Fraser will be able to help us with.
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'''[[Vafrandir]]:''' I agree. One of us can stay with the shield, the rest, I'm fine with a common room.
  
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'''[[Lexent]]:''' Well, I suppose to start we should head back to camp.
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'''The DM:''' Table gives a choice, doesn't it?
  
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'''The DM:''' Didn’t I just pour a bunch of money into the party’s pocket at the end of the last dungeon plunder? And there’s still the matter of Marcule’s credit.
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'''[[Vafrandir]]:''' Private rooms are a single pallet, correct?
  
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'''[[Pandred]]''': Disagree about being unable to take Grond. Things could get screwy if he's immune to normal weapons, but as far as I know he's either a ghost or a wizard with an awesome black mist intercom. More importantly, once we don't get hung up for three days over every couple bad rolls we'll be able to really dig down into the complex, with sappers maybe literally.
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'''The DM:''' correct. Let me know when you've settled things and we can start the next day. Do you wish to ask anyone around the inn any questions?  The tavern is still in gear when you enter.
  
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'''Marcule:''' Happy to use my credit if we need it.
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'''[[Vafrandir]]:''' I ask around if anyone knows Hamish Ross
  
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'''Pandred''': Agree on heading back to camp. I do so.
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'''Patron:''' "Hamish?  You mean King Hamish?"  (Hamish would be a rare name in Norway)
  
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'''[[Lexent]]:''' As do I.
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'''[[Vafrandir]]:''' "A King? King of where?"
  
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'''[[Vafrandir]]:''' Yes, we need to sell the loot and take stock. Back to camp we go, for now. The only problem I see with going to Stavanger and back is that it might well take a week before we're back here. Just something to consider.
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'''The DM:''' Vafrandir’s question elicits laughter throughout the bar.
  
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'''[[Lexent]]:''' That had been my concern up until our encounter with Grond, however he? seems content to stay where he is for now. The immediate threat to the community seemed to be from the goblins, but we haven't seen any more of those than the ones you first fought.
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'''[[Vafrandir]]:''' Ouch, haha
  
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== July 8th ==
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'''Patron: ''' “If you’re really interested in finding Hamish, you should try the Courtland Inn.  It’s further along the waterfront.”
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'''The DM:''' The 14 hour walk is a 15 hour walk from the new camp.  Counting it as 11 am on the 7th, what with discussion and planning, you walk for 8 hours on the 7th and then another 7 on the 8th.  That makes it 4 in the afternoon as you blow into Treborg; you haven’t been here in well over a week.  Oddsdrakken was concerned.
 
  
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'''Marcule:''' I also head back to camp. (ooc: I will be back for 11:30) please use my credit as needed
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'''[[Vafrandir]]:''' "Thank you for your help; I hope to assuage my ignorance."
  
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'''The DM:''' There’s been no rain all this time.  The temperature is steadily cool, with it wavering a bit at night.  The wind has strengthened but it is no more than a moderate breeze, quite comfortable.
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'''The DM:''' Action?
  
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'''[[Vafrandir]]:''' Finally, some drier weather. Shall I count off 4lb for the 8th (and 2 for Odds)?
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'''[[Vafrandir]]:''' Let's just get 7 private rooms. Lexent, can you pay? We'll also spring for a leg of mutton (3 sp) and a pint of meg (10 cp) each, before retiring.
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:'''The DM:''' Yes.
 
  
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'''The DM:''' It’s a shame, Lexent, that no one took the time to light a natural light source to get a better look at what there was to see in the hall, while you were speaking to Grond.  Apart from his fouling up your infravision, you might have a better idea of what you were facing.
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'''[[Lexent]]:''' I don't believe it is possible for this inn to have that many private rooms still available at this time of night. I ask how many private rooms are available.
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:'''[[Lexent]]:''' Indeed.
 
  
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'''The DM:''' Your house is completed.  Could you settle up with Anders?
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'''The DM:''' None.  As the linked page on the Authentic wiki tells, “The number of private rooms in a common inn will be 5-8, with an additional 2-12 shared accommodations available. The latter depends on how many permanent residents lodging at present. This is the number that will be available at noon on any given day. For every hour after noon and before 6 p.m., subtract 0-2 from each total; starting with 6 p.m., subtract 1-2 from each total.” It is well after 9 p.m. now.
  
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:'''[[Vafrandir]]:''' How much do we owe? Hmm...I'm remembering that Embla was our treasurer.
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'''[[Lexent]]:''' So are our goods still aboard the ship, and may they remain there?
  
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'''[[Lexent]]:''' I head to the church to speak with Father Arvin.
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'''The DM:''' Worse, as it is a Friday, the 26th, the common room has only six spaces at this time.  Yes regarding your goods.
  
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'''The DM:''' You’ve apparently paid the price already.  So “settling up” means shaking Anders’ hand.
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'''[[Vafrandir]]:''' Would someone want to accompany me to the Courtland Inn to see if they have any room?
  
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'''[[Vafrandir]]:''' Will certainly do that. I'll express again how sorry I am for the loss of his cow.
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'''[[Lexent]]:''' I will. I recommend everyone else board here.
  
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'''[[Vafrandir]]:''' Unloading treasure: I'll put the stoppered flasks in a chest in the house (DM, may I get a weight or size for these?). Those of you with extra equipment that you're not storing on your own sheets, please let me know. I see that Pandred distributed 3 gems to each of us: can you be specific which ones?
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'''The DM:''' Pay for that and we'll move on.
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: '''The DM:''' a flask is 8 in. tall, with 8 fl. oz., weighing 0.63 lbs.
 
  
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'''The DM:''' Father Arvin remembers Lexent and greets him by name.
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'''[[Lexent]]:''' So, which entry on the table is that?
  
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'''[[Pandred]]''': I'll have to dig back in the annals of time, I thought I had said which ones went to who back when I distributed.
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== The Cour and ==
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'''The DM:''' The dockside becomes more seedy as you move along north, as you learn to go when asking directions.  Eventually you come to the “Courtland,” though the ‘t’ and the ‘l’ have been rubbed out on the sign.  This is a flophouse, and as you enter you find that unlike the earlier place (the “Quaypost”), there’s only a ten seat tavern and only two seats are needed for the patrons.  There’s no chatter, and nothing here looks to have been clean since 1647.
  
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:'''[[Vafrandir]]:''' "I dole out 4 Adamantiums to everyone but me, who gets 3. I take two swords, everyone else gets 1. I take 3 small gems and both plum-sized gems, everyone else gets 3 small gems. I take the shields and give the dagger to Marcule because he can make use of it."
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'''[[Vafrandir]]:''' I inquire as to bed availability.
  
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'''[[Lexent]]:''' "How were services yesterday, Father?"
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'''Proprietor: ''' “Nearly all taken ... but for fine gentlemen such as yourselves, I’ve a room in the attic that would serve you better that one of the pallets downstairs.  There’s naught a place that foreigners like yourselves should visit.  There are real mattresses in the attic, though I ‘pologize, their bound to be a bit ticky.  Would 8 s.p. be enough of a bargain for yeh?”
  
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'''Pandred''': You're right. The small gems were all worth 1xp, which I took to be that they were worth 1gp each, I didn't differentiate between them except by xp value.
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'''[[Vafrandir]]:''' It's too late to haggle. "We'll take two. Also, we were told to inquire after a certain Hamish Ross here."

Revision as of 12:43, 22 June 2021

Continued from Stavanger Again, Now in July

The DM: On the morning of July 25th, you leave Stavanger in a moderate rain, a strong steady shower, getting aboard the boat at 7 a.m. The rain doesn't matter much, since you'll only be allowed in the open once a day, for half an hour. By the time you're allowed on deck on the 25th, you'll see the familiar peninsula north of Mimmarudla passing on the starboard side, and the rain will have eased. You won't see anything again until the next day; it will rain all day and all night of the 25th, and still be raining the next day. By noon on the 26th, you'll come on deck during a deluge, with heavy rain sluicing off the deck, though the sea is relatively calm. The wind has been perfect all day and night, veering from a gentle to a moderate breeze, and the ship is making good time. You drift below again at one o'clock, and eight hours later, at nine p.m., the ship docks in Bergen.

Master Larsen tells you the Morkinskib will be departing on the morning of the 31st; he needs four full days in Bergen to unload and load goods. He will save your berths until then, if you wish to continue onto Trondheim. Your paid price so far only gets you to Bergen; it will be a like price again for the next journey to Trondheim.
Working out a market table for Bergen now.

Lexent: Funds deducted for passage. Vafrandir, can you tell me how much the party netted from the sales in Stavanger less what we gave to the hirelings? I'm assuming we're just planning to keep that as party funds for the time being?

Vafrandir: 516 after sending Nadia back to Treborg with 200 - shit, did we send Nadia back to Treborg? Yes, party funds, please.

Alexis: Never mind, found it Lexent. I've sent copies of the Bergen Market to the party. Prices have adjusted. Bergen has access to markets in England that Stavanger hasn't got; plus it has many more ships that travel direct from place to place, so prices are lower in Bergen than they are in Stavanger, in some things.

Vafrandir: Nice!

The DM: Total time of the journey, 36 hours. Costs only 2 lb. per person per day aboard ship to eat.

Vafrandir: Accounted.

The DM: Okay, you've got the equipment list; you can chat about how or if you want to approach the Hamish Ross question. I'm out for the weekend. I'll check in after a couple hours to see if there were any last questions. Thank you all.

Lexent: Funds now up to date. Well, I think its a bit late tonight to do anything, but in the morning we could try to find the seat of government and make inquiries, and also try to search out any local Catholic communities as Hamish Ross could be known among them.

Pandred: Surely.

Lexent: In.

The DM: In. Sorry, slept in.

Vafrandir: In.

Vafrandir: I assume we can sleep on the ship - if we want to go ashore, I don't see prices for rooms on the Market sheet you sent. Am I just missing it?

Vafrandir: Let's do some poking around on Ross. I've no idea where to go, though.

The DM: Can't sleep on the ship. You'd be in the way during the loading-unloading process.

Staying Overnight

Innkeeper.jpg

Use the file on the right for the innkeeper for the time being. Note the travel page for how an inn works.

Lexent: Well, given what we're carrying, I believe we should probably get ourselves at least 1 private room. Thoughts?

Vafrandir: I agree. One of us can stay with the shield, the rest, I'm fine with a common room.

The DM: Table gives a choice, doesn't it?

Vafrandir: Private rooms are a single pallet, correct?

The DM: correct. Let me know when you've settled things and we can start the next day. Do you wish to ask anyone around the inn any questions? The tavern is still in gear when you enter.

Vafrandir: I ask around if anyone knows Hamish Ross

Patron: "Hamish? You mean King Hamish?" (Hamish would be a rare name in Norway)

Vafrandir: "A King? King of where?"

The DM: Vafrandir’s question elicits laughter throughout the bar.

Vafrandir: Ouch, haha

Patron: “If you’re really interested in finding Hamish, you should try the Courtland Inn. It’s further along the waterfront.”

Vafrandir: "Thank you for your help; I hope to assuage my ignorance."

The DM: Action?

Vafrandir: Let's just get 7 private rooms. Lexent, can you pay? We'll also spring for a leg of mutton (3 sp) and a pint of meg (10 cp) each, before retiring.

Lexent: I don't believe it is possible for this inn to have that many private rooms still available at this time of night. I ask how many private rooms are available.

The DM: None. As the linked page on the Authentic wiki tells, “The number of private rooms in a common inn will be 5-8, with an additional 2-12 shared accommodations available. The latter depends on how many permanent residents lodging at present. This is the number that will be available at noon on any given day. For every hour after noon and before 6 p.m., subtract 0-2 from each total; starting with 6 p.m., subtract 1-2 from each total.” It is well after 9 p.m. now.

Lexent: So are our goods still aboard the ship, and may they remain there?

The DM: Worse, as it is a Friday, the 26th, the common room has only six spaces at this time. Yes regarding your goods.

Vafrandir: Would someone want to accompany me to the Courtland Inn to see if they have any room?

Lexent: I will. I recommend everyone else board here.

The DM: Pay for that and we'll move on.

Lexent: So, which entry on the table is that?

The Cour and

The DM: The dockside becomes more seedy as you move along north, as you learn to go when asking directions. Eventually you come to the “Courtland,” though the ‘t’ and the ‘l’ have been rubbed out on the sign. This is a flophouse, and as you enter you find that unlike the earlier place (the “Quaypost”), there’s only a ten seat tavern and only two seats are needed for the patrons. There’s no chatter, and nothing here looks to have been clean since 1647.

Vafrandir: I inquire as to bed availability.

Proprietor: “Nearly all taken ... but for fine gentlemen such as yourselves, I’ve a room in the attic that would serve you better that one of the pallets downstairs. There’s naught a place that foreigners like yourselves should visit. There are real mattresses in the attic, though I ‘pologize, their bound to be a bit ticky. Would 8 s.p. be enough of a bargain for yeh?”

Vafrandir: It's too late to haggle. "We'll take two. Also, we were told to inquire after a certain Hamish Ross here."

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