5.23.2005
It Wasn't Odin
More town wrap-up. We'll be getting back to the bloodshed soon I think.
Okay Brogg, you buy some flaming oil. 1 gp per flask, thanks for shopping with us. By the way, it's not a Wand of Destruction, it's a Wand of Deconstruction. Heh heh.
Okay Cinder, you talk up Dave as Odin's hot shit. 13%, nope Odin doesn't come when you casually name-drop him in conversation. Most of the "priests" are drunk and/or comatose when you get there, but you can hang out with the High Priest and Winnifred who congratulate you on being a living witness to Odin's glory. They're pretty fun to hang out with and Father Bjorn Bjornenson knows a couple neat bar tricks with a coaster and a couple matches. He wants to know every last detail of how the great god of Valhalla speared that kobold. When Dave shows up, you steal his magic item and drink from it. Father Bjorn yells "Yes! Drink! Drink little man with ALL YOUR MIGHT!" Then Dave grabs his flask back and bitchsmacks you for all the preemptive positive shittalking.
Cinder, you've also got the backpack from the Blackwall Thiefs. It contains a big red robe, a nametag that says "Master Yves Meifer, DMC Potion Guild Affiliate". The DMC is the Durth Mining College in case you were wondering. There's also a tophat, a shaggy Friar Tuck kind of wig, a pair of glasses and a beard, and a scroll of introduction. There's also four potions: Potion of Invisibility, Potion of Healing, Potion of Cure Poison, and Viper's Venom which is a blade poison. Lastly there's an invitation:
Second Annual Greyhelm Potion Guild Science Fair
Greyhelm Potion Guild
May 24, 10205 6-10 PM
Come: MASTER YVES MEIFER and join the fun!
Educational and evocative!
Food and drink.
Surprise event unveiling at 7 PM.
Apprentices' social afterwards.
By invitation only.
Greyhelm Potion Guild
Master Parsifal Meeks
The Potion Guild
Potions Your Way
That date is tomorrow night. It looks like you've got enough stuff for a pretty good disguise.
Dave, okay, you guys get restored, healed all that. With Brogg's gem and CUTHBERT cudgel, and Dwayne's holy symbol, plus one zombie for work detail for a week, you're all set. He'll also throw in a complementary re-blessing of the Whore of Hyannis if you want Dave, scrub it up a bit. He doesn't seem all that interested, any more than any other guy would be, in your magic flask; you guess he's probably set for ale for now. He tries to listen pretty hard to you story about Vrill and the owlbears and the weather station. He gives you a serious George W. Bush concerned look throughout your explanation, and nods a lot saying "Mm, yes, go on."
Then he says "by God Dave my son, who will let this evil sleep? NOT ODIN. Who will let monsters and... and bad weather plague Midgard? NOT ODIN! Who is the MIGHTIEST GOD WHO SMITES ALL EVIL AND LAUGHS AT DEATH AND SAVES THE DAY? NOT ODIN! No wait, I mean, no it IS ODIN WHO DOES ALL OF THAT! Or he would if he could, but these trifles are beneath our mighty lord. Instead it is you who must go in his stead and destroy all monsters and evil magic users!" He raises his mug and toasts the big statue behind him. As you guys are assembling to get out of there for the night, he stands and toasts you too, presenting his mug forcefully, ale froth going everywhere, and all yelling "ODIN BE PRAISED! Great heroes I command you to venture forth and visit Odin's blessing and wrath upon the land!" And with that, because apparently his mug happens to be his holy symbol, thus forcefully presented, he Turns Undead and destroys that zombie you left for his bar. It just sort of crumbles to dust. "Whoops" says the holy Father. Mike looks very disturbed; you guys have to help your ol' zombie pal get out of there, he keeps looking back to where the other zombie used to be standing.
Okay, 4 gp total for another night at the Great Grey Helm Tavern. Someone pay up. Anything you guys want to do around town the next day, or should we get to the Potion Guild party? If you want, you can scout out the place... the Potion Guild is in the Gold Quarter, the rich part of town near Castle Greyhelm. There's an iron fence around the grounds, which are pretty large, a couple of acres. The building itself is a massive grey granite compound, kind of like a courthouse or something, set in aways from the fence, about 30 yards or so. So they've got quite a bit of land here in town. The gate's not really guarded very heavily, but there are a couple guys up at the main building, plus a bunch of gardeners tending the grounds. You think it'd be pretty easy to wait outside for Cinder in case something goes wrong. A couple halflings on ladders are struggling to put up a giant banner over the front door that says "YE SECOND ANNUAL SCIENCE FAIRE".
Okay Brogg, you buy some flaming oil. 1 gp per flask, thanks for shopping with us. By the way, it's not a Wand of Destruction, it's a Wand of Deconstruction. Heh heh.
Okay Cinder, you talk up Dave as Odin's hot shit. 13%, nope Odin doesn't come when you casually name-drop him in conversation. Most of the "priests" are drunk and/or comatose when you get there, but you can hang out with the High Priest and Winnifred who congratulate you on being a living witness to Odin's glory. They're pretty fun to hang out with and Father Bjorn Bjornenson knows a couple neat bar tricks with a coaster and a couple matches. He wants to know every last detail of how the great god of Valhalla speared that kobold. When Dave shows up, you steal his magic item and drink from it. Father Bjorn yells "Yes! Drink! Drink little man with ALL YOUR MIGHT!" Then Dave grabs his flask back and bitchsmacks you for all the preemptive positive shittalking.
Cinder, you've also got the backpack from the Blackwall Thiefs. It contains a big red robe, a nametag that says "Master Yves Meifer, DMC Potion Guild Affiliate". The DMC is the Durth Mining College in case you were wondering. There's also a tophat, a shaggy Friar Tuck kind of wig, a pair of glasses and a beard, and a scroll of introduction. There's also four potions: Potion of Invisibility, Potion of Healing, Potion of Cure Poison, and Viper's Venom which is a blade poison. Lastly there's an invitation:
Second Annual Greyhelm Potion Guild Science Fair
Greyhelm Potion Guild
May 24, 10205 6-10 PM
Come: MASTER YVES MEIFER and join the fun!
Educational and evocative!
Food and drink.
Surprise event unveiling at 7 PM.
Apprentices' social afterwards.
By invitation only.
Greyhelm Potion Guild
Master Parsifal Meeks
The Potion Guild
Potions Your Way
That date is tomorrow night. It looks like you've got enough stuff for a pretty good disguise.
Dave, okay, you guys get restored, healed all that. With Brogg's gem and CUTHBERT cudgel, and Dwayne's holy symbol, plus one zombie for work detail for a week, you're all set. He'll also throw in a complementary re-blessing of the Whore of Hyannis if you want Dave, scrub it up a bit. He doesn't seem all that interested, any more than any other guy would be, in your magic flask; you guess he's probably set for ale for now. He tries to listen pretty hard to you story about Vrill and the owlbears and the weather station. He gives you a serious George W. Bush concerned look throughout your explanation, and nods a lot saying "Mm, yes, go on."
Then he says "by God Dave my son, who will let this evil sleep? NOT ODIN. Who will let monsters and... and bad weather plague Midgard? NOT ODIN! Who is the MIGHTIEST GOD WHO SMITES ALL EVIL AND LAUGHS AT DEATH AND SAVES THE DAY? NOT ODIN! No wait, I mean, no it IS ODIN WHO DOES ALL OF THAT! Or he would if he could, but these trifles are beneath our mighty lord. Instead it is you who must go in his stead and destroy all monsters and evil magic users!" He raises his mug and toasts the big statue behind him. As you guys are assembling to get out of there for the night, he stands and toasts you too, presenting his mug forcefully, ale froth going everywhere, and all yelling "ODIN BE PRAISED! Great heroes I command you to venture forth and visit Odin's blessing and wrath upon the land!" And with that, because apparently his mug happens to be his holy symbol, thus forcefully presented, he Turns Undead and destroys that zombie you left for his bar. It just sort of crumbles to dust. "Whoops" says the holy Father. Mike looks very disturbed; you guys have to help your ol' zombie pal get out of there, he keeps looking back to where the other zombie used to be standing.
Okay, 4 gp total for another night at the Great Grey Helm Tavern. Someone pay up. Anything you guys want to do around town the next day, or should we get to the Potion Guild party? If you want, you can scout out the place... the Potion Guild is in the Gold Quarter, the rich part of town near Castle Greyhelm. There's an iron fence around the grounds, which are pretty large, a couple of acres. The building itself is a massive grey granite compound, kind of like a courthouse or something, set in aways from the fence, about 30 yards or so. So they've got quite a bit of land here in town. The gate's not really guarded very heavily, but there are a couple guys up at the main building, plus a bunch of gardeners tending the grounds. You think it'd be pretty easy to wait outside for Cinder in case something goes wrong. A couple halflings on ladders are struggling to put up a giant banner over the front door that says "YE SECOND ANNUAL SCIENCE FAIRE".
