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Sat 15th Oct 2022 02:48

Session 1 - A New Bounty

by Ghorm

Every city has a Minister.
 
Minister of Saint Denis is President by default. Current Minister called - Giorginio
 
Barriston Slade - Male Orc, leader of the guardsmen, effectively police across the country.
 
The Spider - Female elf, no one knows real name. Head of resources of government.
 
Gary - Human male, controls the carriage system across the country. Has a small dog called Gethin.
 
The Treacher family, Vito the head. Shiguih, first son and psychopathic. Hunter, youngest son and most intelligent. Shealy, wife, alcoholic.
 
Our group is called the Kind Knife Knights.
 
Sitting at the tavern, a messenger comes in sent by the Treacher family, asking us to go and find and kill a man called Eltore Leopold. He stole a ledger from the family.
 
We drink one more whisky each (two for me) and head to Heath's General Store to pick up some health potions before the next days journey and bounty hunt. We pick up 4 health potions and then go to Wesson's Weapon Shop.
 
Owner of Watanabi's Weapon in Saint Denis, Watanabi, is thought to have a special weapon which is rumoured to be able to kill a man instantly. Wesson offered us 500 gold for the trouble of retrieving it, and will be able to create 5 more of them for us, but he needs the weapon itself and not schematics of it.
 
The next day we start making our way to Eris Field, specifically to an abandoned mine where Eltore Leopold is thought to be located. We get to Mattock Pond, which Suk Sook notices has a magical sheen to it and as he starts to try and cast a spell we all get dragged in to the pond and appear in a void with a strange man, wearing robes and very large, floating in the air who asks what we want with Eltore. We tell him we have a bounty and he says he will let us pass but only if we pass his test.
8 lines of text appear.
 
"The true beverage of the English" - Tea.
"To me, to you, to ...." - Mi
"Shooting from the sun; the false skywalker" - Ray
"The lily to the james, the .... to the stag"
"One is not near, one is ...."
"Power, time, reality, mind, space, ...."
"The home of Hollywood".
 
The answer to the riddle was Do, Re, Mi, Fa, So, La, Ti, Do, we then appear back by the pond.
We carry on towards to the mine and set up camp not far from it. The next morning, myself and Carro go to the gate to see if we can convince the bandits to leave alive and leave Eltore to us but we get attacked so we carry on attacking and wipe out the camp and Eltore. In the camp, a Blink Dog appears from a corner and instantly takes to me. I name it Enzo and it seems to already be obeying my commands.
 
We arrive in Saint Denis and hand other Eltore's body and have a sit down with Vito, the first time we have directly spoken to him, we usually deal with Hunter. He has asked us to do another job for him, to kill Minister Valerie of Annesburg, he won't tell us why.
 
We agree to the job and leave. We decide to go scope out Watanabi's Weapons and on the way I stop by Peter's Pets to pick up a collar for Enzo, which I will collect the next morning.
 
Inside Watanabi's, Watanabi mentioned that commissions are open for weapons, 1000 gold and 2000 gold enchantments are available, 2000 gold he mentioned was a "fire sword". I leave and Suhk Sook goes in and mentions the special weapon from the rumours, which seems to spook Watanabi and he closes the shop early. As we're walking to the tavern, there's a place to sign up for the Jade League tournament, which Balenesh thinks about entering but decides against it once learning about the fight to the death stipulation. Mary, the clerk then announces the fights, and I notice my dad, Arzak as a competitor and I hear his voice behind me.