Magda knows they have been lucky so far, and that someone can be hurt badly.
Worse, she can be the one hurt badly, and the gory vision of her body impaled on the boar tusks make her freak out and attack with unseen intensity
[dice=Attack the big, nasty, smelly pig!+60 (80)]1d100
SL+2
[dice=Attack the big, nasty, smelly pig!+60 (80)]1d100SL+7
Assuming all the pigs are dead, Ludger grabs ahold of the smallest and carries it back to the boat. Not knowing anything about butchering an animal, Ludger simply drops it on to the deck.
"Here's you ham Cap'n sir!
With the boars dispatched, the crew begins gathering up their prize. As they do, Magda finds a small batch of thirsfen in the area the boars were rooting around.
Hustling back to the Sunfish, you arrive as the rest of the crew is making preparations to push off. Furtive glances are exchanged as Ludger drops the bloody boar onto the deck and you are able to gather later on that Captain Fein gave Kreiger a dressing down for the delay.
Kreiger meets you on deck. "Good to see you made it back in one piece. That critter looks mighty tasty." He hands over your reward for the hunt, and the crew's mood lightens greatly that night as they enjoy a hearty stew with meat that is not fish!
Ludger does a happy little jig when he receives his reward and proceeds to tell all of the crew about the battle being careful to not take all of the credit for himself. Ludger especially acknowledges the success of Magda, "her little dagger just sliced right through them boar hides. She's mighty small but I wouldn't want to mess with her if I was you. She's dangerous. Must be that doktor training, knows just where to cut to make it count."
The meal of pork was most welcome... he'd been overdoing it in order to impress the last few days. A rest would be most helpful...
Who's hurt? Don't leave wounds without medical treatment! Boars, like pigs, are filthy animals, and their tusks can give you disease, if you survive the impact!
Magda was in full damage control mode, looking at each and everyone wounds.
Don't be prudish. I'm a doktor, or at least I'm training to become one!
Continuing your travel upriver, the Sunfish arrives at the Ubersreik docks. After docking properly, Isaac orders the crew to begin unloading the ship's cargo. As you do, you notice him arguing with a dock official a short distance away. Between the noisiness of the docks and the distance between you, you can't make out what they are arguing over yet, but the official waves in the direction of your work.
SL +2, INt 40=6 wounds healed
Sl+3, 7 wounds healed
Magda takes great care of the wounded sailor and Sandra, and they soon are back on their feet, even if the halfling insist for a proper diet and careful exercise at first
"I don't care what your paper says! I'm not paying no fee!"
Ludger stays busy with off-loading the cargo, keeping his head down and a wool cap pulled down on his head as far as possible. He does the best he can not to be seen from the docks as he really doesn’t want his Da to know that he’s in Ubersreik not wanting to renew the arguments about his future.
After you finish unloading at the docks, Isaac dismisses you. "Ship is leaving in three days in the morning. Tonight, the next night and the night after that. In the morning, the Sunfish is leaving with or without you. Captain says you can bunk up here, but you're not to pull any trouble back to the ship. Understood? Good. Now make yourselves scarce."
After you finish unloading at the docks, Isaac dismisses you. "Ship is leaving in three days in the morning. Tonight, the next night and the night after that. In the morning, the Sunfish is leaving with or without you. Captain says you can bunk up here, but you're not to pull any trouble back to the ship. Understood? Good. Now make yourselves scarce."
”Aye, aye sir. Three days time. There is the matter of wages,,correct sir?” Ludger asks respectively all the while thinking don’t you dare try to short my pay.
Ludger saunters over to Magda, ”Hey Doc, how bout we try to find this Timon guy? The boss said he lived in the Marketplatz, let’s head there and see if we can find someone that knows Timon. Once we find out where he lives then we can come up with a plan to grab the documents.”
Sure he's been spotted, he heads back to the others to report....Some sort of fee or fine or something. Our boy doesn't want to pay... they're insisting they have paper that says 'Yay'
I hope we won't have to resort to violence, and we would be able to talk to an agreement with this Timon Walbaum. Remember we must be discreet about our own contract
I hope we won't have to resort to violence, and we would be able to talk to an agreement with this Timon Walbaum. Remember we must be discreet about our own contract
”Right-O Doc...no more violence than necessary,” Ludger says with an evil grin on his face.
After you finish unloading the Sunfish, Isaac gives you each 30 pennies for your wages. He's in a foul mood after dealing with the dockmaster, but doesn't grumble at you.
The nervous man with a dark secret goes about the marketplace, asking after their quarry, careful to keep his coin purse tucked in his left armpit... because everybody knows such large settlements are full of thieves.
Nobody payed attention to the halfling woman, and her pitiful attempts at communication are quickly brushed off by all passerbies
Despite Ubersreik being his hometown, Ludger can’t find anyone that’ll admit to knowing where Timon lives. This is why I couldn’t put up with the place anymore...too hard to get things done.
You spend half a day asking around in the Marketplatz for Timon, but aren't able to turn up any leads. The district is rather large though.
It took more time than expected but Ludger finally found someone with information about their quarry. He scurried over to the Halfling to share his good news. ”Got a lead on our man, doc...”
In this new part of town the people seem more inclined to chat and weren't so busy as those in the market place... Axel was able to garner a few rumours...
Magda tries to help.. but when she comes back with crumbles of information, it seems her companions already knows everything there is to know...
Early in the evening, Ludger strikes up a conversation with a grocer as he scrounges up some food for the evening.
"Yeah I know Timon. He's had a lot of people asking after him lately for an old codger that keeps to himself." The man looks the Stevedore up and down. "Can't imagine what you want with him, but he lives down in the Grundles. If you head that way, you should be able to get someone to point you toward the Swordfish House. He lives in the basement there."
Axel finds another lead before you meet up again for the evening. It looks like Timon frequents a tavern called the Portly Porter.
He's likely at the Portly Porter is my guess... but maybe what we seek is at his home. I'd be wary of a break in. The law is not gentle.
Maybe we should follow your intuition, and check the Portly Porter first. It's as good a starting place than any!
Ludger is able to guide the party to the Portly Porter without any difficulty. The tavern's sign shows a predictably obese man hauling an equally obscene amount of luggage. Despite the late hour, the Porter isn't heavily occupied. You don't see any immediate sign of the barkeep, but a tavern wench is wiping down one of the tables.
A dwarf is huddling over his drink in one corner of the common room while an older man sits reading a book on the far side.
As you scan the room, one of the tavern wenches calls to you, "Take a seat anywhere. What should I get you?"
A light ale for me. And a decent meal, of course.
Ludger is able to guide the party to the Portly Porter without any difficulty. The tavern's sign shows a predictably obese man hauling an equally obscene amount of luggage. Despite the late hour, the Porter isn't heavily occupied. You don't see any immediate sign of the barkeep, but a tavern wench is wiping down one of the tables.
A dwarf is huddling over his drink in one corner of the common room while an older man sits reading a book on the far side.
Grabbing a seat at the table next to Magda, Ludger calls out, ”Ale and whatever stew you’ve got going back there is fine with me...is it rat or cat stew today?” Ludger teases the wench as he gives his order.
In a quiet voice Ludger asks Magda, ”do you see the mark?”
Ale and... stew too, bread too if you have it, the wiry man says while looking around for threats.
The tavern wench looks over the group skeptically for a moment before nodding. "Ten pfennings, each," she says before disappearing into the back room.
The frame of the tavern creaks slightly as a gust of wind passes by, but the thinly occupied common room is otherwise quiet.
I do see it, Herr Ludger. Should we try to speak to the man now, or do you want to wait and see what might happen first?
She seems to hesitate
Do they seriously cook rat and cat stew? That's awful and can only give disease!
Meat is meat, he says with a shrug.
Lets eat first... we've ordered and if something goes wrong? maybe we'll forfeit our meal and money.
After a brief wait, the woman returns from the kitchen with a serving tray holding your meals. The much-discussed meat in the stew is unidentifiable as it sits in the broth but doesn't look obviously fetid. The bread accompanying the meal is smaller than one might hope for and the ale is only slightly watered down.
As you eat, the silence of the room starts to grow oppressive. The older man looks up several times from his books before returning to his studies.
SL 3
nope
SL 1
Magda notices the bookish old man furtive glances toward the entrance door. Something seems odd with the wench, but maybe she doesn't like dwarves, and find them repulsive. This kind of things happen.
She can't identify the recipe of the meal, and eats, hoping for the better...
Init 30 [3]
+20 = -3SL
+20 -0SL
-4SL
Yeaaaaah.... nope. Focused on food.
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After a brief wait, the woman returns from the kitchen with a serving tray holding your meals. The much-discussed meat in the stew is unidentifiable as it sits in the broth but doesn't look obviously fetid. The bread accompanying the meal is smaller than one might hope for and the ale is only slightly watered down.
As you eat, the silence of the room starts to grow oppressive. The older man looks up several times from his books before returning to his studies.
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Failure with SL 0
Success!
Failure with SL -5
”Psst...that dwarf seems unhappy about something,” Ludger whispers to his comrades. Ludger gives the dwarf a wave and calls across the tavern, ”please join us Herr Rocksplitter, we can all drown our sorrows together before this food poisons us!”
The dwarf lurches out of his chair unsteadily, knocking over the chair to a table nearby as he rises to his feet. Now that you are facing him, the dwarf is obviously very drunk. "Whas...dis...Get out here!" the dwarf bellows as he staggers in your direction, waving his arms about wildly.