Rendevouz at The Mug on the Pier

General Summary

"Shiv" and Garth Grimhammer waits for Shiv's old acquaintance Danielle at the Mug on the Pier tavern. She's let Shiv know that she's got hold of some work that should bring a good bit of gold.
As they down another mug of ale, a foreign stranger walks through the door and promptly sits down at their table and introduces himself as Marcellus. Shiv and Garth is somewhat surprised by this and takes initiative by demanding mead from him if he wants to sit.
Marcellus complies and walks up to the bar. He asks for the cheapest mead that's not old water, and gets an offer of a bottle for 3 silver. He tries to convince the tavern keeper that it's worth less, and that it's a custom in Disos (where he's from) to haggle about the price (roll for persuasion). The tavern keeper isn't interested in the story, and tells him that in Alandor , mead costs what the tavern says it costs. Marcellus buys the mead and returns to the table, saying that it's the best mead the house has to offer.
Shiv and Garth aren't impressed by the mead at all, and Shiv feels like challenging the poor stranger trying to make friends. He produces an old trap he carries with him wherever he goes, it's currently broken, but Marcellus quickly identifies the problem and fixes it (roll dexterity check, could probably have been intelligence as well). The spring was misaligned and just needed a shove in the right direction.
Suddenly, the tavern door bursts open and a young ragged woman walks in. It's Danielle. She looks suspiciously around the room before she makes her way to the bar and gets a bottle of mead. Shiv tells the rest to just be quiet and let him do the talking. Danielle, sits down and is surprised by Marcellus sitting at the table. Marcellus tries to be friendly and introduce himself, but is quickly hushed by Shiv. Danielle asks who the guy is and Shiv explains that he's their navigator. She thinks it sounds reasonable and continues to tell them about the job; She's meeting a guy at home that wants some goods transported. He'll give the details when they meet him.
They follow Danielle to her small apartment, and meet the old man there. He's very skeptical of relying on this rag tag gang on getting his goods to their destination, but mutters under his breath that he doesn't have many options. He makes up his mind and gives them the task, they need to pick up the goods left at a secret location, and transport it to Tenster, a small village in the western farmlands, about 2 days travel from Vilamond. The group finish the bottle of mead and walk out. They are led by Danielle to the location, and she leaves them there to get back to her own business.
There are stairs leading down into the ground and an unloaded horse and carriage waiting, probably left there by their contact as he didn't want to be seen with the actual cargo. Garth inspects the way down and realizes it's a sewer entrance. They make their way down in Shiv's torchlight, Garth leading the way peering into the pitch black with his special darkvision eyes.
They see flickering firelight in the distance, which cast moving shadows. They sneak up on whatever is casting the shadows, and manage to quickly dispatch the three creatures with two well placed arrows from Shiv and Marcellus, and a spell from Garth. They move up and realize that the goods are in the next room. They manage to load it up on the carriage without any mishaps, and they get ready to start their trip to Tenster.

Campaign

Moonshine Runners

Protagonists

Report Date

22 Sep 2022