"A true warrior no need tattoo. Him scar say everything. See, you look this." <drops trousers>
"Ox's urine paste would have healed that. Too late now."
"Look good, though, yeah?"
"My god would be proud," grins the priest.
"Heh!" <pulls trousers back up>
"Save it for the ladies Gittik. And please never tell us the story of how you got that."
"What, you no see man with scar on leg before?"
Mulling over a "bardic knowledge roll." Will post it after a while.
"Well your leg kind of ends here. I think we're well and truly into buttock territory by the time we get to the top of that scar. What do you think Riese, buttock territory?"
<huffily> "You no talk about buttock with Iron Rabbit Sh!t."
"Gratitude and piles of gold? Count me in. We'll set out tomorrow morning."
Altai leans back, scratching his blue beard. "Blademaster Hex has a good point; gold is in and of itself worthless. It is the objects we can exchange for gold that hold any value. Speaking of valuables and exchange, is there a place here that offers good tattoo-work?"
Hex grins a little...he's covered in tat's.
"Mama Toussante do inks." He flexes his arms; he even has his armpits inked he's so covered in Olman tats.
"She trade for gold."
"What is the story for that pyramid, Mista Sencho? Who built it? Anyone got any ideas here before we go up and get all messylike. Oso's little mama wouldn't want me to be stupid, would she?"
"Tattoos sound good. Anyone buying or selling round here?"
Sencho answers...."I really don't know much; looks Olman to me."
Pip responds to Oso after the battle:
"You got that right Oso. I ain't hanging my apple-cheeked hobbit ass out in the wind like that again! That winged skank almost beat me to death!"
While talking to Sencho
"Is there anything you can tell us about the pyramid's history?"
Hex speaks; first bowing to Sencho...
"forgive your servant, Honorable Lord Sencho. Sirs, the pyramid is not Olman. Older.Xixwui....we call them . Unknown what Xixwui called themselves. You can tell by the bricks. Xixwui."
He points to the stairway...
"Snakes up the sides of the stairwell.... called Kukulcan.....Quetzalcoatl...to Olman, anyway. To Xixwui? Don't know."
Sencho.....
"Olman.....Xixwui.....paugh...same difference."
Hex nods;
"Xixwui."
Elgan raises an appreciative eyebrow at the size of Gittik's,... scar.
But his interest truly perks when the tattooed swordsman mentions Queztalcoatl on the pyramid.
"Interestin' Chere'. Dey's gen'relly considered myths by mah people. But ah've heard tales frum a couple whut swore deys actually seen wun. I'm intersest'd. Long as weze gittin' paid anyhow,..." He adds with a nod at Reise.
Hex answers; nodding at Elgan;
"those are couatl....Qetzalcouatl is a god."
"A true warrior no need tattoo. Him scar say everything. See, you look this." <drops trousers>
lol.....friend with piercings....actually did this....routinely...
"A true warrior no need tattoo. Him scar say everything. See, you look this." <drops trousers>lol.....friend with piercings....actually did this....routinely...
Once Sencho and his entourage leaves, Altai wanders off in search of the ink artist.
A peglegged gnome shows you the way there... it's a shack down one row of docks; there's three guys in there getting drunk, getting their mermaids and anchors inked up on them.
An elderly grey pelted hadozee waves you in; "so you wanto get tattoo? Me the best! How much gold you got."
Monkey humanoid with big gold hooped earrings and a ruby tooth incisor.
"You Toussante? Hex Chun Chan recommended you to me."
Altai draws up an intricate summoning circle on a piece of parchment. "On my chest. And I've got plenty of gold, so don't worry about that."
"Whachoo want I draw." She lights up a big pungent Sasserini cigar.
You see another guy over there; getting tatted up. He's lieing on his back and a guy is whacking a pin with a flat piece of wood over and over and over and over...his teeth are clenched, his face flushed red; he's trembling somewhat.
"Sounds good to me. So, I dabble in wizardry. I deal with creatures from other worlds and realities, and I'd like a tattoo that illustrates that. Furthermore, I'd like it to be crisp enough that I could possibly enchant it later and use it as a eldritch focus - thus the runes I drew up. D'you think that would be possible?"
"I kin draw annythin you want me draw. Sho me the runes."
She looks them over....cackles..
"lil Banzee...you bettar get sommatat to drink."
Oso tags along.
"I not dem sure what you mean about the magic, but I like to have white sword pointing up on the front of my chest. One that points to my god. You can make that? I am priest of Kelanen so if you have others that look good then say."
"Hey you can make magical tattoos? how about my holy symbol< I could use a spare on my body. Never lose that unless I be skinned and dead."
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later on through gritted teeth, "hurts some, I just wanna say that Sencho ain't playing us right. If we go into that pyramid and save the day, he could kick our tired bodies into the sea if we haven't rested and such before we come out. He looks like he wants to be the boss."
Yeah; she can do holy symbols; Saints; whatever.
She asks you...."Kelanen? You in the Baron Houses?"
"Don't think so, what you mean?"
"Guess not; you not do the recitations."
She looks at you;
"Baron Houses; they's Kelanen, sorta.....off a bit. They play The Code Duello. One guy gets a note, with another guy's name on it. Then goes and finds him and duels him. It's sacred to them. Duelling. Say it makes Kelanen smile on them."
"Oh I see, these Baron Houses you that play, where they play? They on here or they on the Sea Barons? I don't been there yet."
"I thin they play here, they started the game in the Sea Barons. They play where they play. Anywhere. I thin they crazy."
"I kin draw annythin you want me draw. Sho me the runes."
She looks them over....cackles..
She wants 50 g.p. for the tat. it takes about 6 hours to do all told.
Then she sprinkles a white powder on it and the pain recedes to an uncomfortable prickling.
who's got ink IRL?
"Very nice. I might be back for more later." Altai happily pays the artist 75 gold before heading back to the Hellwind.
I don't know what kinda dog that gray(ish) one is; my neighbor has one. He seems somewhat dangerous and it growls at me, but I can't bring myself to fear it...
Pip tags along to the tattoo parlor. He strums Lucille and works on the Ballad of the Dead Man's Chest
15 Gobs on a Dead Man's Chest
Yo ho ho and some Sasserine rum!
Gittik and Stiggy have done for the rest
Yo ho ho and some Sasserine rum!
Pip tags along to the tattoo parlor. He strums Lucille and works on the Ballad of the Dead Man's Chest
15 Gobs on a Dead Man's Chest
Yo ho ho and some Sasserine rum!
Gittik and Stiggy have done for the rest
Yo ho ho and some Sasserine rum!
A goofy, younger hadozee with a 6" white cowlick on his forehead starts capering, and doing backflips on the table.
Oso hands over 40 gold for the simple white sword pointing skywards.
Re: gather info, again, for me to elaborate it a little better....some dumb pirate went up the stairs to the top of the temple with a lady of the night....their beheaded bodies were found rolled down the stairs back to the base. No evidence of the whereabouts of their heads thus far has been established, and nobody else apparently claims that they went back up there.
Lotsa talk about "Olman Hoodoo going on up there" and "those places are usually filled with a room full of gold 10 feet high.....guarded by the ghosts of 99 Olman priests..."
One guy says there's ghost lights up there every evening.
One guy said he saw a beautiful Olman woman walking around the docks; she was asking him if he knew where her son got off to. Then he heard something behind him crash. He turned around, turned back to her and she was gone like she never existed.
Raggy? I'm Rared!