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Guard silently follows them all in the inn, casually detecting evil along the way. He suspects the hobgoblins to be just that, but is just curious for now and doesn't want to spoil the deal.
If they in fact show up as evil, he will be a tad more careful around them.
In the inn, Guard will order a tankard of ale as well, drinking slowly but steadily, then order something a bit stronger (though it all has no effect on him anyway).
Snem keeps hovering over the warforgeds head, but tries to keep out of sight and also tries to get a feeling for the hobgoblins:
Guard
Captain Vaskleen takes another swig of the Ale and fondles the backside of a dark haired topless human girl as she gets near. "Good, good 18 it is, pending inspection. I can have an inspection team over in the morning, unarmed of coarse. And the Fort has a Kundarak outpost. I can transfer the payment in certified KUndarak notes or cold hard coin."
Karkalla
The young man does not seem to see you, and goes along his merry way. And heads toward the upper district. And small stone building standing there with a well tended garden and ruins etched into the stone. You stand before a small but well kept shrine of Dol Arrah, goddess of honor and sacrifice.
The man enters and you can't see more from outside, but it might be hard to enter unseen.
on the ship
"That will do wonderfully." Toxim looks to Guard and Daurros for support of the deal and shakes the hobgoblins' hands to seal the deal.
After a couple of drinks Toxim will excuse himself. "I have to make sure the ship is ready for inspection and there's a certain lady who requires my attention. Captain, could you suggest an upscale inn where I might rent a room?" Once he gets an answer, Toxim will go to rent a room then return to prepare the Freedom's Wing and connect with Lirith.
Ardanto scans the crowd, but as Daurros is inside the inn, he can not see him or Toxim. He turns to any of the crew that are nearby as they disembark and asks them to keep an eye open for Daurros and tell him he is needed back here urgently.
Ardanto returns to Finn, "no sign of Daurros, he has headed into the town, I'll have sent some crew to look for him, but it is like finding a needle in a haystack."
He leans against the bulk head, waiting for Finn to make a decision on the next coarse of action, he avoids looking at the elf, worried that she might be able to charm him with her gaze. But surreptitiously points the skull hanging from his belt at her so Cecil can keep an eye socket on her.
Guard nods silently to Toxim and orders a round of whiskey (or equivalent) after sealing the deal by handshakes of Toxim and Vaskleen.
A short time later Guard packs his belongings again and makes his way towards the merchant and armory districts of Greenrock (telling Daurros and Toxim of his intents).
The sever refills Daurros ale, giving him a wink as she does so "I am available if your interested" she says before moving off to the next table.
Once the deal has been sealed with Vaskleen, Daurros polishes off his second, very poor tasting ale, and prepares to take his leave. Thanking the hobgoblin captain, he leaves with Toxim and Guard, giving the server a quick slap on the rear as he leaves. "I've business to attend to, but may very well be back," he says nonchalantly.
Upon leaving the tavern, Daurros blinks in the sunlight and departs from Guard and Toxim, looking for evidence of arcane casters in town. Unless one of the crew manages to find him, after Ardanto sent them out, of course.
Karkalla does find a back way into the shrine, it seems to open up into the living space of whoever cares for the shrine, there is no crowds out front. In fact other then the "changling" you saw no one at all out front.
Daurros/Guard
You find your way toward the Cannith enclave, the same way Guard seems to be going. The enclave is large, taking up a large part of this district. and seems to be built right into the forts walls, like a fort inside the fort. Smoke bellows from many chimneys and the ringing on hammers can be heard from with in.
No one stops you at the "gate" and you walk into a small open yard, a dozen forges flank the open space, as well as a dozen set of stairs leading up and down, the place seems as busy as the docks.
A middle age balding man,Flanked by two large metal dogs approaches as you stand in the open yard. "Greetings, I am Archavol d' Cannith" He says with a small bow of his head "How may we be of service?"
"Greetings to you too, and to the whole house Cannith that brought me into existence.
I am looking for some advice and knowledge."
Streching out a hand the warforged mentally asks Snem to float down and settle there, speaking forth: "Knowledge of Incarnum to be precise."
Lets see that reaction...
Snem is curious of the man and his metal dogs as well, interested in how he reacts to one of 'his tools':
"I see. ... I would be interested in ... a bit of everything. Is there a sage or someone who would know more about it?
You see, I am able to harness and wield Incarnum, and my little friend here ... yeah, I don't exactly understand it myself... it can show me images or memories or something, but I don't really understand it all that good, having no mouth and all that.
These sandals and those bracers here? Incarnum as well..."
Guard trails off, looking at the man, hopeful.
Meanwhile Snem floats down to take a closer look at the dogs, pulsing in a bright blue sheen.
Archavol d' Cannith nods to Daurros questions " We have no Wizards of true power at the fort. However we do have a Artificers and a robust selection of scrolls. If we do not have a spell that strikes your fancy maybe one of our artificers can yet create the scroll you desire" He says with a small nod of his head.
Karkalla
Karkalla
You manage to slip into the back of the shrin, and into a small hall. Moving toward what you think would be the front you carefully creep along, hoping you are not spotted.
She looks into the room and sees it mostly empty, A bald man is kneeling by the shrine when the "human" man approaches and kneels as well. She can't make out what is being said but the "man" gets back up and walks toward the pews, you see him pick up a slip of paper as he leaves and you spot the bald man scoop a small object from the floor and raise. He waits a little while then leaves out the front himself.
The two sotry home seems to be at the end of the lane, with its back wall built flush with the forts wall. You see one other side entrance, and a large cellar also. The cellar have a rusted but well made iron doors. And every window seems not only shuttered but to have very tick curtains inside, blocking all view. You hear no sound from inside.
Karkalla manages though an an epic act of tracker to track the changling back to the fine inn, in what must have been at lest 5 changes of form. But as far as she can tell the trail stops at the Inn. The Inn seems crowded now, much more so then the last time but you see no sign of any of the changelings forms.
Toxim
The Hobgoblins arrive not an hour after the meeting with Captain Vaskleen the crew seems very uneasy allowing the three Hobgoblins aboard and Toxim is forced to escort them with a few Members of the Nixies crew on the inspection. After a trying 2 hours The Hobgoblin nods "Ships is in fine shape, You may retrieve your funds from the keep in the morning. Make sure the rabble is off the ship as we shall claim the vessel and all on it as soon as you receive payment
Ardanto risks a glance at the elven woman, a little intrigued by her milky eyes, "Right then m'lovely, I am Captain Ardanto Valanto and I am a wondering what ya are doin' aboard my ship and below decks?" He slips on his pirate captain accent as he speaks, even though the elven woman has heard him speak previously. He still holds the skull in one hand and points it at he as he speaks.
A trained hireling only gets 3sp per day and a poor inn with poor food would cost 3sp per day. So 10gp each would be more than generous, it takes a trained man a month to earn that, so I agree with you, 5 is a fair value each.
I also agree with Toxim that the crew should get a share, they did fight to capture the boat.
EDIT: Treasure discussion moved to the off topic thread.
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Guard let's himself be guided to one of the artificiers and let's himself be inspected for about an hour, up until the point where he notices that his creators don't know jack about his abilities.
Staggered by that revelation, he takes his leave for now, needing to think of what that means for him.
He slowly makes his way back to the Wyvern, wandering through the districts of Greenrock, distracted by his own thoughts.
Ardanto risks a glance at the elven woman, a little intrigued by her milky eyes, "Right then m'lovely, I am Captain Ardanto Valanto and I am a wondering what ya are doin' aboard my ship and below decks?" He slips on his pirate captain accent as he speaks, even though the elven woman has heard him speak previously. He still holds the skull in one hand and points it at he as he speaks.
"Whut am I be doin' below your decks? How'm else am I to be gettin' on board den?" She replies "As for de why of t'ings? Well, who ken say about de whims o' de sea?"
Again Fathom shifts about, the better to get comfortable as she lays upon the hard wooden floor.
Karalla waits to the clerk is busy ans dashes up the stairs, she finds herself In a long hall with another set of stairs going up to the third floor. She can make out nine doors on this floor with a right side bend at the halls far end. The doors are lined even four on each side with the nith being at the end of the hall.
Karalla waits to the clerk is busy ans dashes up the stairs, she finds herself In a long hall with another set of stairs going up to the third floor. She can make out nine doors on this floor with a right side bend at the halls far end. The doors are lined even four on each side with the nith being at the end of the hall.
Karkalla begins to search for any clue of where the changeling went
stealth
Perception
Daurros will use his current existing funds to purchase a scroll of detect thoughts assuming House Cannith has one for sale. He'll also gather/purchase the necessary materials, once we get paid by the hobbos and Ardanto/Toxim give a loan, to construct an Aureon's Spellshard, then go back to the ship and begin preparations for creating it.