"Tomorrow at noon." Carl replies
"That is plenty of time to be prepared. Have you tried to get help from the guard?" Gwenwhyfar asks.
"Yes. I went there but they said they couldn't help." Carl tells.
"Well I guess we get to put the golem to use now don't we? Carl, do you know what gang they are from?"
"No, they didn't tell anything but the price we would have to pay. Hundred gold every month." Carl answers.
"You think we should place the golem in front now? Why not pay them?" Gwenhwyfar asks with a mischievous smile.
"What do you have in mind Gwen?"
"Well, beating up two thugs is easy. But then they send others or even stop trying. But if you want to solve the problem you need to know who is sending them."
"But when I think about it. We could capture them and use your 'tell me the truth' spell. That might be even simpler than following them."
"Then that is the plan." Jimmy says with a smile
"Great. Let's see how the children are." Gwenhwyfar says and walks inside.
Inside the temple is now a large workshop. The kids sit at tables cutting, sewing and washing clothes.
"What the..." Gwenhwyfar exclaims.
Jimmy stops inside the temple and watches Gwen
"Ah, hello. You're back! I'm so glad." Rosanna greets her. Seeing Gwenhwyfar staring at the workshop she adds "We made some changes. All that equipment was abandoned where the kids were before."
"The kids were bored here and they all needed new clothes. So we decided to bring that stuff here and buy some cloth. So now the children can make their own clothes." Rosanna says.
And on closer inspection the kids are indeed having fun. Some are working, some don't. And all of them are wearing clothes made of the same three kinds of cloth.
"Hi. I'm Rosanna. And you are?" She asks Jimmy offering her hand.
"It's Jimmy." Jimmy says
"That idea isn't as bad as it looked at first. But we have to make some changes here. This is a temple. To place some kids in need here is one thing. But making a workshop of it is simply wrong." Gwenhwyfar states.
Rosanna looks confused at the woman. Turning to Gwenhwyfar she says "I'm sorry. I didn't think of that. We can put that out again."
"No, no. You did good. Don't worry. It's just my fault that I didn't think this through." Gwenhwyfar replies.
"Well an orphanage is as good a place for me to start as any. Is there enough space on the grounds for a new building?" Jimmy asks as he makes his way outside
Jimmy walks to the northwest and sees a row of buildings
At the tailor's guild
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The tailors are quite the masters at what they are doing. Three of them start taking measurements. Abomentolor is put on a pedestal. His waist, chest, neck, arm length leg length and overall size is taken. Different cloth is brought for him to chose the material and the perfect color to do the fire effect. Options about freedom of movement are made and the lower part of the robe will be overlapping but separate pieces of cloth.
Wand pockets are integrated diagonally into the v-neckline. Four pockets for vials are added to his back. It is a miracle like they work at full speed. Cutting the cloth, sewing the seams, throwing it on Abomentolor to pin it for perfect measurements. After an hours work the first robe has it's basic shape. "We are now able to work on the clothes without you waiting for it. If you would make a down payment of 30 gold we would deliver the finished clothes tomorrow morning. You cold keep that one on and we'll take it with us tomorrow to finish it when you already have the other two. If that would be to your liking?"
"Yes sure." Abomentolor replies and hands the man 9pp. "Here take all the money. Deliver the robes to Heidmarch Manor." And with that he is gone again. A walk through the city later he is back at te guesthouse of the manor. "Where are the others?" he asks.
Niamh wakes up after a few good hours of sleep and cleans herself and her clothes with prestidigitation and brushes her hairs before she steps out of the room and the guest house. She walks along the Manor and visits Wumbroudt Brios.
"Greetings Mr. Wumbroudt. Do you have a map of Magnimar that I could use? And maybe information about the History and the buildings about the city?"
"They are at the orphanage." Tauriell replies. "And it looks like Jimmy wants to take over the whole district. Wanna found a special operations team to support that? We would make sure that the evil guys - not the little ones, the big ones - disappear mysteriously."
"Not interested. I don't do mysteriously. I do unmistakeably in the face." Abomentolor replies.
"Ah, my favourite halfling. No I don't. But if you would look in the map room you will find one at the wall. You could make notes there. If you have something to write. No notes on the map please." Wumbrout replies.
Niamh nods grateful wondering who would make notes on maps or into books. "And... could you describe where the map room is exactly?" she asks hunching her shoulders.
"It is here in the tower. Up the stairs." he explains.
"Thank you" Niamh walks to the towers and up the stairs where she searches for a cart of Magnimar. As she founds it she transfers it into her journal noticing that there are still some parts where Niamh still wasn't.
The halfling puts the map back into the wall and walks to the library where she finds a book about the districts and the importantest persons. She notes down in her journal whom she wish to visit and where they live.
At last she decides to visit the part of Magnimar called Ordellia.
In Underbridge
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It is a housing project that is in desperate need of a complete makeover. That large block is a row of six three story town houses with four flats in each and store fronts on the first floor. All windows on the first floor are thrown in.
"" Jimmy calls from outside
As she hears her name called through the open window she walks there and looks outside. "Where are you?"
Jimmy shouts
Gwenhwyfar climbs out of the window and follows the voice. As she finds Jimmy she looks around "What's the matter?"
"What do you think of turning that into an orphanage good and proper so we can use the temple as a temple again?"
"What about the people living there? And who owns this... derelict." Gwenhwyfar asks.
"According to Mr Brios nobody owns anything in underbridge. There are some other building around that I want to turn into housing and businesses. I will house the people from here, there, and employ them in those businesses."
"If you get the people to agree to that. It would be nice to have the orphanage close by the temple." Gwenhwyfar replies.
"Well let's go see how many people there are." Jimmy says walking to the building
The building occupies a larger area of your field of vision from this closer standpoint.
Jimmy finds a way into the building and goes from room to room seeing if it is inhabited or not. If it is, he finds out how many people live there. He also finds out if they would be interested in work and what kind of work, and if they would be willing to move into a different apartment if it was nice
There are 16 flats in these buildings of which are ten occupied. The flats are rather small with a common room with a hearth and one separate sleeping room.
The inhabitants are vastly different. There is the hobo sleeping in the corner of a flat full of rubbish that throws an empty bottle at Jimmy and tells him to leave him alone. The family with too many kids to count while they run around that uses both flats on on floor. And everything in between. All in all about 30 people.
What they all have in common is that they don't understand what Jimmy wants. They hear the words but they don't make sense to them. Everyone with money or authority only wants them to pay for something or to get out of the way. Some interpret it as a question to get lost. The others as a try to get them to pay more for renting new flats.
What Jimmy finds out is that there is a group already collecting rent for this house. And almost all of them would do any job that earns them some money.
Jimmy tries to figure out who it is that is collecting the rent, if it is the same as the group who attacked the church
By asking some of the people about the landlord you get a mostly consistent picture of two guys that could be anyone. No names and no organisation.
Niamh's way through Magnima
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Niamh wishes Wumbrout Brios her farewell and leaves the house. She walks along the main street through the Capital District and from there down the ramp and through Dockway (where the people look at her in great interest and a man asks her how she became that small) and Beacons Point util she comes to the brigde that leads across the Yondabakari River to Ordellia.
Niamh visits the Mistress Angel and the Embassy Building and draws them into the painted map in her journal with the information she can remember from ealier reading.
The halfling makes her way back to the bridge and as she is there she decides to make also a sketch of Magnimar from this view, as she notices that this city is rather beautiful.
On her way back she notes in her journal that Beacons Point has many guilds. From Carpenters' Guild to Shipmakers' Guild almost everything.
Back in Dockway Niamh decides to visit a tailor also, as her clothes are also a bit pitted from the acid. Not as much as Abomentolor's are but the halfling finds holes in her clothes and searches for a tailor. At last she finds the one where Abomentolor were earlier and she steps inside thinking about how she wants her new clothes look like.
Walking out of the building Jimmy goes to Gwen and explains what he found. He believes that the people will be happier when they are less afraid
"That would be nice. But where do you start now?" Gwenhwyfar asks. "With the empty flats? Or can we use the rooms that were store fronts for the orphanage?"
As Niamh enters she sees shelves full of cloth, lots of workbenches with sewing machines and all kinds of tools. And three tailors are busy creating robes with a fiery pattern on them.
One of the many tailors working here approaches Niamh. "Good morning madam. How can I be of service?"
"We need to find somewhere else to house the people from here as we revamp. Lets see what else we have in building around here." Jimmy says moving around the temple to the next large set of buildings
"Greetings. I have some special wishes. Would it be possible to tailor two black trousers and a black jacket like this one in purple but without the holes, then a purple jacket like this one also with glossy cloth and, now the special part, an alice band with two white triangles, placed on the head like cat ears with white glittering stones?" Niamh takes out her journal and paints what she means. "There should be a hole. So it's only a frame triangle." she explains. "oh, and two white gloves. Is that possible and how much would it cost?"