Blades of honor- warriors of terra

Game Master rorek55

"Thanks for nothing.." He mutters after the last person they asked had left. "So all we found out is what Argus will have found out during his scouting. I love wasting time. At least we got to have lunch without Talori or Argus getting us kicked out." He says to Eira as he drapes his arm around her shoulders. "I guess all that's left is waiting on the two of them."

"Thanks for nothing.." He mutters after the last person they asked had left. "So all we found out is what Argus will have found out during his scouting. I love wasting time. At least we got to have lunch without Talori or Argus getting us kicked out." He says to Eira as he drapes his arm around her shoulders. "I guess all that's left is waiting on the two of them."

Eira nods in agreement and let's out a small giggle. "Don't be so hard on them my love" she says as she wraps an arm around Zero's waist.

Argus looks for a moment before powering from one of the nearby skeletal trees onto the 10 foot tall flagstone walls that surrounded the city. Spotting eira and zero he draws in a breath before speaking in their direction. "Don't suppose you are the owner of a lost ginger with compensation issues?" Argus nods towards eira before continuing. "She fell in a mud puddle but was fine otherwise, the brain damage was there before hand right?" Argus looks in zeros direction, walking closer to them along the wall . "Hey, you punch glue boy for me?"

My computer blew up. Posting will be limited for indefinite amount of time.

Wait, seriously? And was it in a figurative or literal explosion?

Talori cheerfully waves towards Eira and Zero. "Hey, guys! How are you doing?"

Both it smoked and caught fire. Lol.

Sorry to hear that; good luck. I think I will drop off of the campaign. Thanks for everything.

I can still post just takes a lot more via phone.

(I will be continuing the game,with minor changes I will use () for Ooc, and "for speaking" as coding on the phone is a pain. I offer this to anyone else using a phone XD. Posts will be a little slower in coming as well. )

Only time I've actually seen a computer catch on fire was from the dust inside. I guess the insulation on the wiring could melt, but that would usually just smoke. The DoD made a computer virus that only affected the hard drives of computers hooked up to nuclear centrifuges. The virus would cause all of the drives to spin up as fast as they could until the machines got so hot they produced flames. They then set it loose in Iran and set them back 2-3 years on their nuclear program. It made me smile. I only hope your computer wasn't hooked up to a nuclear centrifuge.

So what did I loot from the bandits?

I can only post once a day, so if you post more often, you will tend to leave me behind. 8( Not your fault of course, it's just the way it is.

Meilin assumes Hornfell is fine with splitting the loot three ways, so she follows him back to town.

"Ayeeya big man. I didn't think to farr in net first. Might have saved me much time, eh?"

She will stand guard over the PKs if Hornfell wants to go get someone "in charge".

What is the accepted practice regards killing other players. Is it frowned upon to kill PKs? What about thieves? Do we need to try to take all player bad guys alive? I know that everyone will have a different opinion, but what is the socially accepted opinion?

*blink* Yeah I really hope our GM isn't homebrewing nukes too, that would make me sad as he would have a high chance of exploding. Exploded GM= Sad panda argus
However that is going to make combat pretty much a no go until Rorek gets a new computer. Coding dice on a phone is a pain lemme tell ya. Never mind that but Rolld20 is out if our GM can't access it.
So do we want to do a more social thing? I figure that the Nyan Kats had some decent data on the dungeon and if it is enough to verify what they are saying then we likely need to get some folks organized. trying to kill a raid boss with 4-6ish people sounds like madness to me.
I would have no issue with doing a Flashback style thing in the discussion thread on the first day of launch/ before the death game started to give us something to do. With the exception of a few of us we don;t really have any knowledge of the other players or important NPCS, could be a useful thing really. Far as I see it we are only a few posts from requiring combat rolls on the Khode/Night ravens side.
Jon,Fujiro and Melin are all in a spot to have a conversation and potentially get accosted by Jons guild due to Fujiro killing someone. As I am fairly sure that turns his status crystal red for a few days if we are still going off the game.

EDIT: You are entirely correct Zero, Fujiro has no indicators to show he has just killed a living breathing human being beyond the emotional scars. Case in point there isn't even a "Red" setting for player killers. they are just orange like normal thieves.

As Talori walks towards the rest of the Night Ravens, her mind begins to wander. She begins thinking about all of the $&@" that happened on the first day of BoH. Talori smirks as she remembers the first thing she did when it was revealed that the game was real in nearly all senses of the word...

The Bladelands, a newly opened Hard Mode area to celebrate the end of beta and the beginning of public, was full of relatively high level players milling about, grinding, and dueling. Interesting thing about that last part: formal dueling was completely nonlethal. And, there were distinct benefits from refraining from highway banditry. Talori was standing over the now-discorporating corpse of an ogre chieftain when the alert that a game-wide announcement was taking place at Mirridian Square. She was instantly teleported there, right next to her guild mates. And, the sky ran red with blood, as if it was the end of days. And suddenly, the GM appeared in sky and gave his little speech. Just before he left, Talori leapt straight up at him, doing nothing but clang against an immortal object.

Talori left that day in an anger that not even the gods could hope to match. She strode into the middle of the now-quiet Bladelands, to where the boss dwelt: a ferocious dragonne. She was risking her life, and Talori knew it. It was all or nothing.

It was a heated battle, but Talori fought through it, tooth and nail. She got two pieces of treasure, a low-strength sword named Dragonne's Fang-okay, but not great-and the real score: a title. Talori tried it on, already knowing that victory horns were blowing across the game, signifying the first single-player boss kill, but she didn't care. All that Talori cared about was her new name: Talori the Dragonne.

The PK he killed had an orange name, so his name is still green. Fortunately for him, the one witness is "morally flexible."

An orange player who fell into the wrong crowd could be interesting to play, though it would definitely be a "Players of other character know and are ok with" sort of character as that sort of thing will cause crap loads of conflict in a thief group. Could very much be an interesting background though, as that would give the GM hooks galore to try and drag the player back in with old friends who have gotten themselves into trouble.

"Anyway, we are here." hopping down from the wall Argus eyes the guild of exhausted players carefully "I'm going to assume that there is nothing else you guys have to say beyond what you gave me here. I can't really offer you anything for your efforts, but I #$%#in' hate owing people something." Argus states flatly to the weary Nyan Kats a friend request pending on the leaders screen "So if you find yourself in a jam give me a message, later boneheads." Argus turns and walks from the group and goes to his guild his helmet hiding the frown he wears at the Nyan Kats situation. They might be morons, but I'd hate to have to say kind words for any of them once they were gone. Wouldn't have any for em' specially Talori. friggen' chipmunk. I'd probly get a dent in my skull from all the times Mal would smack me for speakin' ill of the dead. Man, what a situation this is, never did ask to get trapped in Narnia run by a crazy Japanese guy.

"Talori, from that look on your face you seem to be remembering something. Don't strain yourself" Argus states as he walks over to Zero and Eira "You find out anything from these morons? Or where they too busy with that thumb up their @%% to have anything to say on it?" The NPC's sour looks to Argus revealing that such a small thing as human level intellect or freewill are not needed to dislike the crude man. He reaches up and scratches again at his helmet before sighing and removing it in a flash of data.
His mismatched eyes and heavily scarred visage, shoulder length hair sprouting from half his scalp doing little but highlight the burn scars. The sour looks flee like crows from a cannon shell. Argus gives them a frown before turning back to his own group.
"Why the hell have they get to make helmets so $$#%in' annoying to wear?" Argus states clearly displeased with the locals reactions.

When everyone's real appearances merged to their virtual selves, Eira was in shock. Little did she know that Talori looked like a fire locked porcelain doll nor did she expect to see Argus in the state he was in. Eira studied Argus, every scar and part that seemed "off". Where most people would arrive to a conclusion of either pity or disgust, Eira felt neither. Instead she felt a full and unadulterated sense of acceptance and even a hint of pride. She was proud and honored to see someone who would have otherwise given up entirely, continue to live to the best of his abilities if even in a virtual world. She was proud to fight alongside a friend that she and her husband could count on.

"Aye we are missing a wee lass that could have played Merida from brave." She says in a false Scottish accent, her light and airy demeanor suddenly shifted to a more serious tone. "Not a whole lot, it seems that all anyone around here really knows is that its an undead area with several spawn traps around and within the dungeon." She continues with a small frown. "So it seems we are going in mostly blind unless the Nyan Kats gave you any useful information."

"Spawns look to be mob traps outside, F%#$tons of skeletal fighters with damn Reaper Trees making up the actual threat. My weapons don't have enough of an impact to really offset the resistances those trees tend to have. More than likely it will be up to the rest of our group to deal with such stuff."Argus shrugs
"The Nyan cats gave me a basic layout of the dungeon and what looks like cliff notes on some of the monsters they encountered. The place splits into two paths, one seems to end with what looks like a boss door and the other one seems to have a quest attached to it."
Argus takes out the data given to him by the Nyan Kats and presets it to the rest of the group before continuing "The Blades seem to want whatever that quest gives out, so I would say we ought to head that way first. High chance of ambush so we keep our eyes open and a teleport crystal on us at all times. Some of the merchants sell this stuff called Toxin Block that we might want to grab before heading out. Its fairly cheap and would give us a good chance to ignore the paralysis poison the blades tend to use."

Anti-toxin is 50gp and grants a +5 alc bonus to saves VS poison for an hour. Something to consider before going after a group of assassins.
Second, I assume that as an assault group that our party is unlikely to kill people even murderers, unless given no choice, yes?

Zero has his moment of shock at seeing Argus' ravaged visage. He knew a kid once who had a faulty firework to off in his face and even he didn't look that bad. Zero's spanish feature twist in thought. It's really no surprise he's so caustic if only he'd reach out to anyone. He thinks sadly.

Zero lays a hand on Eira's shoulder as he stands behind her. Unfortunaly I didn't get to punch Glue Boy he left to soon, though he did leave you a replacement TP crystal. And I also think he's renegade player." He says as he tosses Argus the extra Crystal.

"So agains the trees it's mostly up to Talori and me then? Great as a child I always hoped I'd grow up to be stuck in a death game and get to be a lumber jack. Miracles really do come true." He says but it lacks his old humorous flair.

Talori nods at Argus' suggestion. "Argus has a point about the quest. In my experience, any gang that wants something that bad can't have it, period. However, here's my view on the boss door-we should at least scout the bugger, hm? The Kats, the Blades, and us are the only ones that know of the Fortress' existence, and the rest of the guilds probably won't take our word for it. We should get some screenies, maybe test the BBEG's skills a bit, then back out. What do you guys think?"

Talori looks around at all her friends: the deadly serious Spainard, his uppity wife, and the dour, flame-ravaged dwarf. Even though Talori still got a shock every time she saw their new faces-especially Argus'-they were still the same people Talori had fought Thamril with, still her new family. These people were part of who Talori Lyons, the Dragonne, was, as much as her real world family.

Hornfell decides to do the same, giving the bandits the most threatening glare he can muster.

"Listen to the man and tell us the truth. Like I said earlier, we'll get you to cooperate. Only you can decide how much you want it to hurt."

Intimidate: 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (15) + 6 = 21

After hornfell speaks their face tense in fear.

"Please! Don't kill us! We didn't want this. One of our friends from the real world said they could get us into this awesome strong guild. We didn't know! By the time we found out it was too late. They said we had to get them enough money to become permanent members or they would kill us!.."

He gasps a bit as if crying

"We never killed no one cept that one poor guy that tried to fight what ikaru got that lucky crit with his greatsword we just distract them and jimmy would disarm them. Just took there items cept there weapon. Oh god jimmy"

He grabs his head as he remembers his friend then begins yo cry.

The leader with the axe laughs.

" heh bunch of pansies these guys were. At least they got the goods. But yes. We are everywhere paladin watching and waiting.you should be very afriad. You to samurai. HeheHEhhehheheheh! "

*chuckle* Oh i'm a lumberjack and I'm OK...The Refrence.
Argus catches the crystal before looking at the zero "Bet ya thought he didn't deserve it, perhaps next time ya listen to Argus and you get to punch a stupid motha#$@#er who decided a heroic last stand was a good first option." The spindly man scratches at one of his scars thinking for a moment "Not sure about lumberjacks but back in recovery they had some ancient movie bout'a girl and a dog who go on a journey with a lion, a tin man and a- a scarecrow." Argus states finishing quietly Why did I say that? #@$#en' scarecrow, the hell? With a pause slightly too long Argus finishes his comment
"All we are missing is a tin man and a yellow brick road."
He gives Talori a sidelong glance, before leaning back and sighing.
"Boss door is gonna be there til we go to find it, if the blades finish the quest they will vanish like smoke and we lose our chance to ruin their day, least that's the way I see it little lion girl."

" heh bunch of pansies these guys were. At least they got the goods. But yes. We are everywhere paladin watching and waiting.you should be very afriad. You to samurai. HeheHEhhehheheheh! "

Meilin looks around, a little lost. Is this man the paladin? or the samurai? Which am I then?

"Haha, you very funny man. You caught cause you worth reward, no other reason. I not care about how or why you attack people, nor I care why you not very good at it.

Looking over to Hornfell, Meilin asks, "Heya big man, you know where we take these xiǎomèimei?"

Hornfell growls, breaking off his stare with the bandits before addressing the ninja. "Best we can do is turn them into <Knights of a New Dawn> or <White Ravens>. I hear that they've been the top guilds when it comes to cracking down on Player Killers, so there should be a place in their dungeons for scum like them. But I don't believe I caught your name, Miss. My name's Hornfell Fujirō," his frown breaks into a neutral smile, and he offers his hand to the ninja. "Part-time samurai, real-life physical therapist. Recently trapped in a video game."

"Nice to meet you Mr. Hornferl. I am Meilin Chan of Hong Kong. Message board say we turn these idiots in to Merridan Town Guard. How bout we take them there and correct our money."

Meilin rousts the three PKs and prods them into movement with her kukri.

"After you Mr. Hornferl."

Meilin mispronounces your name twice but seems to have a very thick Chinese accent to her English.

Hornfell grins. "It would be my pleasure."

Prodding the bandits with the tip of his shoe, the dwarf marches the chained bandits to the closest barracks he can locate.

Knowledge (Local): 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (3) + 7 = 10

"I'm not aware of a bounty, but I'm here on orders from the New Dawn so I can't collect a bounty for doing it. I could send a message and ask though. When we've got them in a cell, I'm going to head back out and see if I can find their allies, you're welcome to come with."

<Lefty>Hey I found the PKers, a couple of people were fighting them and subdued them before I could get involved. One was killed, I don't the guy meant to do it though. The rest were captured and brought to town to be locked up. One seems insane, the others seem like the were forced into and claim to have not done any of the killing, just looting. The people who captured them want to know if were offering a bounty. What should I tell them. ohh yeah the official report. 4 PK found: 1 dead, 1 KO, 2 surrender. Will resume patrol after securing prisoners. I used to make fun of people who talked like that in games... but here... its different.

Argus shrugs and looks to the rest of his group "Way I see it is that we need to go after the blade B$%#4es first, deal with them and then call in the rest of the assault groups for a boss raid after we piss the boss off for a few round. Huh, on that matter we got any idea how many Blades are hiding in that place? Going to want a Teleport crystal on hands at all times if we don't know."

Also, opinions on grabbing some anti-toxins?

@hornfell you are greeted by the captain of the city guard, a well meaning player. He hands you the reward of 500g per PK brought in, you have to split it yourself.

as you are discussing among yourselves you each get a message. upon opening it you hear.

HAIIIIII!!!! Don't worry about how I got your message ID, lets just say I have a lot of contacts! Anyway, Just giving you an invite to the tournament going down at mirridian heights! its the biggest one yet! everyone who is anyone will be participating! well, as far as power players go anyway! Its open to all! so even if you are an orange player you will get a free pass to come and join the competition. Grand Prizes are to be had for the winner! The games start 2 days from now! You can join as a solo player or as a guild but remember, most matches will consist of 1v1 battles, group battles and 2v2s will be more rare but the crowd will get what they want! I gave you the coordinates to the coliseum in case you have never been there! see ya there!

Reread the gameplay,
I'm under the impression that we are still all in the same places, Ravens are at the L4 town talking strategy, Fujiro is with Jon and our china lady on L1 finding out more about bandits and we all got a weird spam message.
With these priorities Argus would still desire to go catch some blades and ensure they did not get their objective whatever it is.

Argus face droops into a frown as he examines the strange message, I am absolutely sure Mallory is at fault for this, question to be done after this
"Alright, what? Ok, well that spamming bull#$%^ was $#%în' annoying." Argus settles back on chair and points toward the data in front of him "Tournament could give us some much #$%în' needed fame but I figure we need to focus on the murder guild hiding out in the creepy castle with lame fixtures like hanging skeletons and hordes of mooks ahead of us." He pulls up the information the Nyan Cats had provided. Way I see it is we got no idea to the number of the blades waitin' to stab us in the taint on the inside of that place. Reaper trees are #$%în' dangerous and if the Nyan cats are right that or worse is waitin' inside the dungeon itself." he looks at his collected allies a flash of annoyance as the game prevents him from writing on the napkin in front of him to give some detail to his explanations.
Probly be more of us if that $%#$in' b#$@% in the white ravens would stop snatching our potentials. Shaking the though off he continues

"So we gonna call in the other guilds an'their @#$%in milk drinkers or we gonna go after em ourselves? Far as i see it every second we wait is one more those #$@#heads have at gettin' away. We have em over a table here and this is one great opportunity to sneak up and shove our knives right up their gaping @##holes."
after a few seconds the patchwork man speaks his mind once more
"You still got that crystal thing Talori? I.. I'll admit I've killed a lot of things in the game but never other players. I know these #$%#s are animals but I don't want to give them the satisfaction of knowing that I had to stopp to their level to win. I'm G~% d~%ned better than them and I want those C#$%s to know it."

remember, I am just simply providing "Ambiance" if you would, you by no means have to go, or remotely worry about, anything I let your characters know about, but every thing missed (or completed) will have some effect (even if, as of the moment that effect is undecided..)

will post info later today.. going back to sleep T.T or trying too.

That is what I figured, just wanted to confirm where everyone was first so I didn't get confused from the new imput. I am quite happy to go and punch things in a tournament but if we catch a good chunk of the blades now we don't need to deal with them later.
Best of luck on that sleep I know the feeling

you pull up the info the nyan cats gave you, other than the main hallways they failed to map the side rooms. Though there is said to be a world boss (not the floor boss) guarding this castle, rumor has it its a beautiful woman that can float on the wind. Of course, the only threats confirmed within are the reaper trees, skeleton hordes and the occasional flesh, blood, or carrion golems.

"Oooo, a tournament! I'm in... That is, after we clear the dungeon and diassemble whatever evil plot the blades have cookin' now," Talori says eagerly.

Quotes for context, spoiler to avoid bloating the post with OOc stuff. Also includes a Spoiler that was for argus.

Argus reads the information once more, hoping that reading the words again would perhaps force the information to be more useful than the great heaping turd in front of him. He pauses for a moment as he considers the words mind clicking as a memory of the past flashes by. Nah, couldn't be, it was just the developers messing with me. I'm just being paranoid.
Argus looks at Talori seeing she had just finished saying something, fingers at the join of his jaw "Yeah, sure... sounds good." the patched man states obviously distracted. Shaking off whatever it was he looks back at the data "If you don't have a good way to do it you will probably want to pick up a weapon that deals bludgeoning damage before we leave town. It's hard to kill skeletons without one, might also want to figure out what tha flyin'#$%$ a blood golem is."

I'm drawing the assumption that classic monsters (skeletons and such) are so universally known that the weaknesses of such are common knowledge. Unsure where we want to go to learn more about something as weird as a blood golem though. And just from its name I would very much like to know what it does before we end up fighting it. I like my 'blood' computerized equivalent exactly where I left it thank you very much.

the way I see it, higher up guilds might have some info, though these are new enemies so not much has been "confirmed" for the public as it was. Though there's bound to be info brokers and the like or even a craft guild that may require materials from these things. But yes, mobs that have been around awhile are well known with little changing about them. I'll make sure to try and remember to note which mobs if any are new.

Zero stays silent as he reads the message. He crosses his arms as he leans back against the wall. "Do we really want to wait for one of the other guilds?" He says as he opens one eye slightly. "Besides too big a group and the blades are likely to run."

Gavin looks up from the deal he's concluding on his street corner. "HAIII!!!!!..." The message plays out. Gavin frowns in thought, considering his options. Finally, with a chuckle and a smirk he opens up his contacts; parsing through the names until he finds the one he's looking for...

Any takers for the 2v2s?

for my sake, please make a note of what you will be doing

-going after the Blades
-participating in the tournament
-hunting PKers
-None of the above
thanks!

-Tourney

Hitting the blades and then going to the tournament as 2 days should be plenty of time to hit this place with.
What with it being on the same floor I can almost see the players that go and wait for the tournament ending up helping with the bandit/PKer problem on that floor while waiting.
Or yanno the ravens end up missing the tournament due to wonky time mechanics in the creepy castle.
@Gavin- If Talori doesn't desire me as a partner for the tournament I would not mind joining up with ya.
<1>-going after the Blades
<2>-participating in the tournament
<->-hunting PKers
<->-None of the above

Argus shrugs, before reaching into his inventory and materializing several fist sized bright pink crystals
"Yeah I suppose waitin' is just #$%$in' askin em to get away, and what with this being a new add-on to the game we are not likely to find out much information around here anyway.
Might as well get rolling, learn the bad guys as we go and maybe get some pay from one of the guide builder groups for fresh info."
The foul mouthed man states, arm sweeping over the other three crystals while he holds one himself.
"Those crystals are something I picked up once I heard we were going to tango with those pansy ass poison users.
It boosts your toxin resistances for an hour, we use em once we get to the fortress doors and we ought to be good for the entire time we are in there." he closes his menu and stands, looking at the rest of his group.
"Least its one less thing to worry over, unless you have anything else that needs doing lets grab some bashing weapons and get rolling."

Unless there is a problem my suggestions are bashy weapons.

I'll give zero and co. time to post, will move along some time tomorrow night, remember, its late afternoon at this point, if you want to go into that castle at night.. more fun for me, if not, you will have to get the gear and crash for the night. doing both depends on how well you do within the castle, and just how far you go....

@Argus

"Tch. Girl's always a step ahead of me.: Gavin pauses a second. "Well if it comes to it I'll just enter solo; will have to put in a bit more work in the meantime just in case. Your group up to anything profitable I need to know about?"

I'm going to say Gavin and Argus have worked a few missions together once upon a time. Send me a PM if you want to work out the details on it. Let it be known that once he devotes to a cause Argus damn well puts in the effort. So Argus attempting to recruit you for the (smallest) assault guild The Black Ravens is something that happens quite often. It is a bit of a conflict as you know for a fact that "The little guild that could" has been on the front lines since the death game started. Not the place to be if risking your life is not part of your MO.
Oh and we usually use <name> in bold for the PM system

<Gavin> Not that she even asked yet but we just got that info. Unfortunately guild mates come first so if she asks I'm off the table but if she doesn't well you did ask first.
But if a brand new guild member were to request it before the ginger got a chance, well what kind of Senior would I be to refuse my Junior?

As to profit, don't tell nobody yet but we managed to dig up the dirt on an operation those dumb$#%$ Blades are up to. Don't wanna spook the greasy #$#$ers.
They hired the Merc guild The grinning Skulls to help out and they don't come cheap. Trouble is the place they went into is a new bull#$%$ dungeon. Buncha new [Golem} class monsters #$%$in' walking brickwalls are damned bull@#$#.
We are gonna hit the place soon cuz I don't want to see those @#$#head blades get away. Which means I ain't got time to do the legwork to find out about these new monsters.
I hate surprises when I'm fightin' something and will pay well so that I don't have to worry about it. Means I can focus on *$%in' on the blades birthday cake.
You find out the details on the -blood- -corpse- and -flesh- {Golem} creature types and I'll pay you a cut of my bounty when I turn in the blades.
Say 15% of what I get on their capture and you don't have to do #$@$ cept ask a few questions."

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looking away from his PM screen Argus sets eyes on Eira "I'm seeing if I can get someone else to do the footwork on finding out the details on these {golem} Creature types the Nyan cats said were in there. Would mean we get info and get to move quicker. Hell, might even be able to get an extra body on this job if you guys want. #$#$heads like the blades have a way of makin' even the most cautious wanna stand up and stab em when they are presentin' such a prime target." Argus says are he fiddles with the crystal in his hand "You want me to ask him if he wants to party up or should I just leave it at gettin' the info we need? Argus looks to the rest of his party, before removing his bow from storage and equipping himself with ammo. "Not like the Nyan Cats are gonna stay quiet once they get back home, secrets already out so we are better served moving on it now. Else someone in the blades is gonna hear and they'll be gone."

<Argus> I think one of the recently returned groups was just out there; I'll see what I can do. If you want an extra body I'm in to take down the blades, they're bad for business. I'm still not convinced the front is the place for me just yet.

Now to see if I actually am any use as in info broker :P

Know Local: 1d20 + 8 ⇒ (10) + 8 = 18

Gavin closes out of the menu and begins searching for players fresh off the front line who might know more about the new {golem} creatures Argus mentioned.

After asking around Gavin is directed towards a small ex-assault guild. Hear say is they just recently quit the front due to some horrible incident. After making your way there you are "welcomed" by the leader.

what do you want? Come to profit off our misfortune? I bet you want information on the new creatures too huh? Heh, you and everyone else. Well I lost several friends to the damned things. Info won't come cheap, or you could go learn fer yourself, like we did.

His only expression is a sour scowl.

Some would say withholding information that would lead to player death is murder. Thankfully for you I'm not one of those people. Gavin winks.