Adventures In Erylia

EE-3-13 - The Importance of The Tokens

• Adventures in Erylia • Season 3 • Episode 13

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SUMMARY

The party has some time off before they get ready for their next adventure. Naturally, after being gone for so long on their first real adventure, they have to do some resupplying and they realize some things that they are missing for long journeys away from the city. After a group stop at Gregorio’s General Emporium of the Regular and Mundane for general supplies, the party splits into a few groups to do some focused shopping of their own.

Kenina, Tempest, and Ariel visit the farrier to acquire saddles for the horses as well as inquire about getting armor for the horses. Rem revisits Gizgig, the Alchemist, before returning to the stables to drop some stuff off. After the farrier, Ariel makes her way to the farmers market area of Riven to buy treats for the horses, while Kenina and Tempest visit a blacksmith to inquire about getting armor and weapons for the cart, as well as armor for the horses, since that was not something the farrier offers.

Hell breaks loose at the stables as everyone eventually find themselves there to drop things off and learn the limitations of “The Token System”

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CAST

Damian - The DM

Chris - Rem

Christa - Ariel

Chantalle - Kenina

Caitlin - Tempest

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Fimbulwinter – Vindsvept (Intro)

Tavern Loop 1 – Serpent Sound Studios (1:16)

Moment of Touch (strings) – Cyberleaf Studios (2:13)

Ambient Room – Monument Studios (2:17)

Temple of Knowledge – Michael Ghelfi (3:35)

Wild Flower – Ovani Sound (4:05)

Mystic Glade – Joel Steudler (5:14)

Medieval Town – Tabletop Audio (8:31)

Lanquidity – Purple Planet Music (8:44)

Ambient Room – Monument Studios (8:53)

Medieval Town – Tabletop Audio (22:14)

Relaxed – Ovani Sound (22:26)

Country Belle – Purple Planet Music (24:45)

Relaxed – Ovani Sound (26:15)

La Rencontre – Dark Fantasy Studio (26:26)

Friendly Day – Incompetech (26:31)

Relaxed – Ovani Sound (26:42)

Stables (ambience only) – Tabletop Audio (26:50)

Reiki Healing – Purple Planet Music (26:51)

Blacksmith Shoppe – Tabletop Audio (26:51)

Blacksmith (Only Hits) – Monument Studios (31:44)

Melancholy Night – Joel Steudler (32:24)

Reiki Healing – Purple Planet Music (33:05)

Classic Orchestra – Monument Studios (34:07)

Medieval Town – Tabletop Audio (22:14)

Reiki Healing – Purple Planet Music (34:32)

Whispers of the Elven Forest – Filip Melvan (34:48)

Herbalist’s Shop – Michael Ghelfi (34:57)

Medieval Town – Tabletop Audio (42:59)

Just Playing My Piano – Alec Weesner (43:04)

Blacksmith – Michael Ghelfi (44:45) (Extra hammer sounds from Monument Studios)

Ship Port Background – Fusehive (44:56)

Blacksmith – Michael Ghelfi (49:36) (Extra hammer sounds from Monument Studios)

Secrets of Kingdom – AndySV (49:46)

Just Playing My Guitar – Alex Weesner (59:37)

Stables – Michael Ghelfi (59:51)

Old Trail – Ovani Sound (1:05:14)

Chase – Ovani Sound (1:07:56)

Gunslinger Gulch – Joel Steudler (1:09:50)

Old Trail – Ovani Sound (1:13:57)

Last Stand – Vindsvept (Outro)

SPEAKER_02

This episode of Adventures in Aurelia is brought to you by Gabe and Jeff from Interparty Conflict, Red on Fire, Voradon, and Motogold on Patreon. You can join them in supporting the show at patreon.com forward slash adventures in Aurelia. I'm Chantel and I play Kanina, a tiefling sorcerer.

SPEAKER_06

I'm Chris, and I play Rim, a human paladin.

SPEAKER_03

I'm Caitlin, I play Tempest, a water genasi ranger.

SPEAKER_06

And I'm Damien, I'm the DM.

SPEAKER_00

I'm SP from the Starling Tribune, a show about the CW television show Arrow. Part of the Guinea Geek Network, just like the show you're checking out now. Shows on the network are individually owned, and opinions expressed may not reflect others. Find other action-packed geeky shows at GuineGeek Network.com.

SPEAKER_08

Previously, on Adventures in Aurelia. After much time away, the party is finally back at the Guild Hall and can relax for a night, or so they hope. Kanina finds herself whisked away in a dream once again to confront Doiten and learns a lot about the history of dragons. Upon waking up the next day, each member of the party finds themselves called in front of the guild masters, alone. Rem is given a mysterious letter and a package. Ariel is asked about her experiences with the spear. Kinina confesses about her meetings with Doitan and her connection to Fioch is brought up. Everyone is asked if they believe Tempest is a good fit for their group and if she is ready for the journey ahead. Believing that everyone is on board with the path that has been laid out in front of them, the Guildmasters call the entire party together in order to point them in what they believe is the next best direction. The party is told that they should seek an audience with the Queen of the Favale. We're going to pick things up today. Early afternoon, on the 12th of Monanon. The party has recently just wrapped up with another lengthy discussion with the guild masters of Saval's Guild of Adventures, and we're given Guild Signet Rings as a physical representation of their moving up within the ranks of the Guild. We were also given kind of direction in where they think that you guys should go next, as you work to uncover the mysteries of the Dragon Bonds and what had happened during a time that you guys have come to know as the Dragon Wars, which seems to be why Aurelia no longer has dragons on it. However, that journey is going to be a very long one, and you guys wanted to take some time to kind of prepare for another journey instead of doing yet another. We've finished one adventure! Let's leave again on the next adventure two days later. Also, uh, some of you have ulterior motives to wanting to stick around town for a little bit longer. Let's pick things up as you guys are all standing on the main floor in the kind of great hall area of the guild. It's about 4 p.m., so you guys have quite a few hours left of daylight and the city being up and active. And would you guys start with kind of having a conversation with one another, or do you think that as you guys wrap things up, you kind of take off on your own?

SPEAKER_06

Rim's gonna look around at everybody and be like, well, sounds like we've got some preparations we need to do. I'm heading to the general store, possibly the alchemists after that. I don't know what you guys want to do.

SPEAKER_05

Uh yeah, that sounds good. It'll be a long journey trying to get to the Fayville and all the stops in between, so I suppose I'll come with you.

SPEAKER_06

Alright. I'm gonna walk to the front desk as well.

SPEAKER_02

I was thinking of going and getting some treats for princess. And then I also wanted to pick up riding stuff if it's possible.

SPEAKER_05

Yeah, we should be able to get most of that at the general store, I imagine. I think they'll have like a saddle. We may have to go to a leather working shop or some such for that.

SPEAKER_06

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02

But they might. I always check.

SPEAKER_06

Stables might sell them as well.

SPEAKER_02

I'll I'll head with you guys to the general store then first and go from there. And what about you, Tempest? Do you have anything you wanna grab along the way?

SPEAKER_03

Hmm. I think I'll just come along and see if anything piques my interest. I don't have anything in particular I'm looking for.

SPEAKER_05

Sounds good. We have several days to prepare anyways, so if you do think of something, we'll have some time to get it, I'm sure.

SPEAKER_08

So Rem wanted to go to the front desk.

SPEAKER_06

Walk up to the front desk and look at the attendant.

SPEAKER_08

Ah, how may I be of assistance to you?

SPEAKER_06

Yes, does the guild have a quartermaster?

SPEAKER_08

Yes, we do. What could uh we have ordered for you?

SPEAKER_06

Uh we're preparing to leave for a journey pretty soon, so I need to get together some supplies, food, rations, the standard that you would need for a few weeks of travel.

SPEAKER_08

Alright. Do you have any idea when you would be leaving on this multi-week journey?

SPEAKER_06

Rim will kind of turn and look over his shoulder at everybody and be like, three days? Unless somebody has something that's keeping them here longer.

SPEAKER_02

I mean, I just have some shopping to do and I wanted to go talk to somebody, but that probably is fine.

SPEAKER_06

Alright. Tempest, do you got anything keeping you in town?

SPEAKER_02

No.

SPEAKER_05

Uh let's make it four, just to be on the safe side.

SPEAKER_06

Alright. He'll turn back to the attendant and be like, we would be leaving in uh roughly four days. Uh it'd be nice to have food, rations, uh things that can keep for a long journey, possibly some tents and camp supplies, firewood, tender box. We have a wagon, so we can haul quite a bit.

SPEAKER_05

Feed for horses.

SPEAKER_06

Yeah, horse feed.

SPEAKER_05

Not sure if the tender box will be necessary. I know, right?

SPEAKER_06

In case you're sleeping. Can't light it off your eyebrow.

SPEAKER_08

Rem, can you roll me a D20? Four days should be plenty of time for us to get things together. I will have the quartermaster work on sourcing some items for you and let them know that you will be needing it within the next four days. Uh, you mentioned having a cart.

SPEAKER_06

Yes, we do.

SPEAKER_08

Would you like it loaded directly onto your cart?

SPEAKER_06

Uh, it would be beneficial.

SPEAKER_08

And where is your cart currently at?

SPEAKER_06

It's at the stables, being tended by the stabletons. I see. Hard to miss. Got a big guild symbol on the side that was burned in.

SPEAKER_08

I see. And we will need some way for the stables to know that we have access to that cart.

SPEAKER_06

Well, pull out a small piece of paper and write down a permission slip that says I, owner of said cart, have given the authority to the guild to pack with supplies.

SPEAKER_08

Yes, uh, I believe that you would also have received a token so that they know which cart this belongs to.

SPEAKER_06

He'll hand that over as well.

SPEAKER_08

Thank you.

SPEAKER_06

Do I get a claim ticket for the ticket that I just gave you so I can get it back?

SPEAKER_08

Start scrolling down uh a note, hand it to you, and says uh Brief description of the token that was given to them and says for cart token at stables, return to uh and your name Rim. Rem upon delivery of this receipt. Here you go, and if for whatever reason you need to get the token back before you guys are ready to leave, then just let us know and we will source it for you shortly. Thank you. And you see them place the token down, they start writing a note. Uh did you need something else?

SPEAKER_06

I don't believe so. Thank you.

SPEAKER_08

And thank you.

SPEAKER_06

Um, turn around and look at everybody. I'm heading to the general store. Anybody coming with?

SPEAKER_02

Yeah. Yeah, yep. I think we're all just gonna go there and maybe part ways from there.

SPEAKER_09

Alright.

SPEAKER_08

So you guys make your way out of the guild hall, and Rem leads you to a shop. One Gregorio's General Emporium of the Regular and Mundane. Rem, who is leading the way, pushes aside the half-open door to this moderately sized shop that is a few hundred feet away in kind of the beginning of the main market area of Ribbon. You are greeted with multiple shelves filled with many things that you guys would find useful on your day-to-day lives. A lot of uh staple food items, things for short-distant travel, and general items that uh one would need in their day-to-day life. Standing behind a counter, about shoulders and up, peeking out, is a middle-aged, leaning a little bit older halfling male. Ah, hello and welcome to Gregorio's General Emporium of the Regular and Mundane. What can I help you with today?

SPEAKER_06

Uh, do you mind if we just look around for a few minutes?

SPEAKER_08

Sure, help yourself, help yourself. And if you have any questions, I'll be up here.

SPEAKER_03

Are you Gregorio?

SPEAKER_08

I am Gregorio! Oh wow. Of Gregorio's General Emporium of the Regular and Mundane.

SPEAKER_06

So, you know, Rim's just gonna do like a quick circuit of the shop looking for some of the stuff he knows he wants. He's looking for things like cast iron pots and pans, some simple tools for like fixing the wagon if it breaks. Uh he's looking for a couple of empty books and then like charcoal or ink and quill, seeing if he sees any of this stuff. He's also looking for like a compass or a sextant or both. And then if he doesn't find that, he'll go and speak with Gregorio for the things that he seems to be missing.

SPEAKER_08

Okay, uh, you don't have any problems finding things like pots and pans, um, some simple tools. There's actually kind of a couple tiers of things you can kind of tell looking through them that there's definitely kind of a an upper mid-shelf where things are looking a little bit nicer and a little bit more quality than some of the items that are held lower. In kind of a tool area, there's some pre-packaged tools that are bundled up into a crate, as well as tools that are just off on their own for things that you need, either a little bit more special or piecemeal. What you don't find are anything specific to repairing like a cart. I'll remind you that you did have a few bits of specific cart repair tools from when you originally rented it, like an extra wheel and some of the things that would be required for something that broke on that, which you did not end up using on your previous journey. You don't find anything like a compass or a sextant. You do find some sticks of charcoal, but no ink and quill. And you don't find any notebooks, per se. At least in book form. You find kind of what we in the the more modern world would see as a notebook. They're not quite like spiral bound, but they're more some sheets of low-grade like parchment that have been loosely sinew stitched together, but they don't have any actual like covers. The quality of them isn't very great.

SPEAKER_06

That's fine. He's basically looking for something he could write in if he needs to.

SPEAKER_08

Okay, so if if that's good enough for what you're looking for, then you're able to find at least some very, you know, lower end and very basic writing utensils.

SPEAKER_06

Yeah. He's also gonna look for um packs like backpacks, because I don't think we as a group have any large backpacks.

SPEAKER_08

You do see some larger rucksacks and also smaller type-sized packs along the back wall, like hung up behind Gregorio's counter.

SPEAKER_06

Okay. Kind of gathering all this stuff up towards the front, piling it up, and uh turn to Gregorio and be like, Can I get four of those rucksacks as well? And I didn't seem to notice do you have any navigation equipment?

SPEAKER_08

Ah yes, we have a handful of navigational items. We just keep them in the uh locked cabinets back here. They're a little more on the expensive side, and kind of uh it's not great when one of them walks away.

SPEAKER_06

Obviously. Can I take a look? What sort of thing were you after? Uh compass, sextant, or possibly both.

SPEAKER_08

Uh, I I could find uh both of those for you, and you said you wanted uh four of the rucksacks.

SPEAKER_06

Yes.

SPEAKER_08

He starts tallying up the things that you have, and you see him grab a like hook on a stick that's got kind of a it tips up at the very end of it, sticks it under the strap one by one, pulls them off of the pegs that are up on the walls, because they're hung up towards the ceiling above the cupboards that he was referencing. One uh two. You said four? Four, please. Okay. Three? These are the ones you wanted, right? Yes. Hooks it up on one of the pegs with the the part that loops over the end. And uh, so there's that. And uh, you wanted compass sextant.

SPEAKER_06

Yes.

SPEAKER_08

Uh, do you need a map?

SPEAKER_06

I was going to ask, do you have up-to-date maps and possibly a star chart?

SPEAKER_08

And see him rummage around in like a barrel uh next to this wooden locked cabinet, throws over into the pile, one decent-sized scroll, pulls out another. You see him shake his head, put it down, pulls out another, put it down. I really need to organize these better. Ah, there we go. See him uh kind of reach through a leather flap that's at the back of the shop. It you know, it it cuts the wall where he was just pulling things out in half, reaches in, you hear the sound of jingling as he pulls out a small ring of keys, goes over and unlocks the cabinet, and pulls out. Uh, how nice did you want your compass and sextant to be?

SPEAKER_06

I need functional, not necessarily decorative.

SPEAKER_08

I see. Then we'll pull out one of these and this, and you can tell just from looking at them. That they're your general surplus uh brand type uh compass and sextant. Let's see. Together we've got that, and we've got those, and we've got that. I could put all of this together for you for 200 gold.

SPEAKER_06

I will accept that.

SPEAKER_08

Good, good. How will you be paying?

SPEAKER_06

In gold, and he'll pull out 200 gold and set it in four.

SPEAKER_08

Oh boy! Two, three, four, five. You see him start stacking it up, putting stacks together as Rem is fishing what handfuls out at him. Yeah. This was 207. You can you can keep those unless it was meant as a tip for Gregorio. All the hard work I did.

SPEAKER_06

Um thank you for, you know, keeping me honest, and he'll pocket the seven.

SPEAKER_08

Okay, these are now your problem.

SPEAKER_06

Can I pay you for a delivery to the stables? Do I look like a courier service? No, but you look like you could find one. Fifteen gold.

SPEAKER_08

It's a lot of stuff that I'm going to have to get moved. Rem will pay the fifteen gold. Thank you. Uh did any of you guys need anything?

SPEAKER_02

Uh, yes. Um, while Rem was doing all of that, she had walked around and kind of eyed at what Rem was getting and looked at everything. And it's like the parchment and like the crappy journals that you described. Would those just be out so that she can pick them up or are those something she has to ask about?

SPEAKER_08

No, those those were just out.

SPEAKER_02

Okay, so she would have grabbed probably like three of the journal-y type things that you said. And then if there was any like loose parchment, she probably would have grabbed like a handful of just blank paper. And then she would also go over to she's looking for apples and carrots and stuff. So she would go over to the food. Would she find any that there?

SPEAKER_08

You do find an area that has more food items in it. Go ahead and roll me a nature check.

SPEAKER_01

I rolled six.

SPEAKER_08

Thankfully, it doesn't take a very uh astute naturalist to recognize that the bushel of carrots that he has out isn't the most fresh. Uh, the apples have some that are a little on the squishier side. And go ahead and roll perception.

SPEAKER_02

Oh, I got a natural 20. So 22.

SPEAKER_08

And as you're kind of looking at these, picking them up and going, these aren't what I want to get princess.

SPEAKER_02

Yeah.

SPEAKER_08

You're kind of looking around and realize that a lot of the stuff that he has in his food section are a lot more kind of staple foods. They're more grains, herbs. It's a lot of stuff that is more to last. And this area that you're in is probably things that are more like, I'm going to bake this into something, I'm going to stew the carrots, or I was able to get them cheap because they're going out.

SPEAKER_02

Okay, so then she'll just grab the journals and the paper and then go up and be like, uh, your name was Greg Gregorios?

SPEAKER_08

Gregorio!

SPEAKER_02

Huh. Well, I'd like to get these. Um, I was also wondering if you had uh something to write with, like some ink or anything like that.

SPEAKER_08

I'll would you like some ink and quill?

SPEAKER_02

Yeah, I didn't see any out there, so I didn't know if you had something.

SPEAKER_08

Uh, locks up the cabinet that the compass and sextant came out of, turns over to the cabinet that's on the other side of the doorway, and unlocks it and goes, Uh, what sort of expense are you looking for on this ink and quill?

SPEAKER_02

Um, I just want to do some casual writing, so nothing really fancy.

SPEAKER_08

Okay. And he pulls out a small clay stoppered pot and a raven's quill and sets them down. These are more of our uh travel friendly budget items for writing.

SPEAKER_02

Okay. Um, and then I know you don't sell it here, but can you point me to where I would be able to maybe uh purchase like a horse saddle, like horse stuff?

SPEAKER_08

It's something that you might be able to find if you head over to the leather workers, but I would strongly recommend that you go over to the farrier.

SPEAKER_02

The farrier? Okay. Alright, well I guess I'll take this stuff.

SPEAKER_08

He's looks because I could do all this for about 15 gold.

SPEAKER_02

Oh, okay. And she's gonna hand him 15 gold.

SPEAKER_08

Anyone else in this group, since you all came in together, I'm assuming that you're a group. Uh anything else that you guys can I help you find anything? Or have you just not brought it up to the counter for Gregorio yet?

SPEAKER_05

As Canina was following around Ariel through the food section and just through the rest of the store, uh, did she spot any grease or oils?

SPEAKER_08

Uh, you would have found probably some sort of like waxed canvas that's wrapped around something that you see fat tallow and then uh a couple. Uh they're sm on the smaller side, but they're built much like wine skins that uh just says oil.

SPEAKER_05

So uh Kadina will go ahead and grab some of the uh, I suppose, oil, and uh she'll buy, I guess, like two of those. Uh yes.

SPEAKER_08

I can do both, uh, let's see, about five silver one gold. Uh sure, thank you. Does he have any sheet metal? Not that you've seen while looking around.

SPEAKER_02

How many pieces of parchment do you think that she got?

SPEAKER_08

I'd say that each of the notebook things has ten sheets in it, and then probably five loose. Uh would either of you be needing uh delivery like your friend here.

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Um.

SPEAKER_08

See a little twinkle in his eye.

SPEAKER_06

Sure they could just fit their stuff in the packs and be included.

SPEAKER_03

That makes them heavier.

SPEAKER_08

Oh, our deal was already made, good sir. I'm working with these fine ladies now. Why are you still here?

SPEAKER_02

Uh I'll look around and does he have like a little basket or canvas bag or something.

SPEAKER_08

There was a whole rack of bags that are up behind him.

SPEAKER_02

I'm I'm gonna go take a look at his bags. See what he has.

SPEAKER_08

Uh, there's a pile of wicker baskets that are like in the corner at the end of the counter.

SPEAKER_02

That would be cute. I would like one of those. I'll I'll actually take one of your wicker baskets to carry my stuff in.

SPEAKER_08

Alright, that's going to be another three silver.

SPEAKER_02

Okay, here you go. And she'll hand off some three silver and pick out the prettiest of all the wicker baskets because they're usually different colors. Hers will be like a darker color.

SPEAKER_08

You're not disturbing the the wicker baskets there too much, are you? Excuse me? So you're digging through them.

SPEAKER_02

I I'm just getting the prettiest one.

SPEAKER_08

Okay.

SPEAKER_02

I'll I'll be sure to make sure they're all put back together.

SPEAKER_08

Don't make a gory, I'll put them up back. I had them stacked in the morning.

SPEAKER_02

And then she's gonna find her basket and put her purchase in it. This is gonna look really cute, actually. Like, after I'm done, I can set it in my room and put like some flowers. And stuff in it. It'd be so cute.

SPEAKER_06

Everybody done?

SPEAKER_05

Do I have to kick you out of my store? Uh, Canina will kindly reject his offer of uh trying to do a courier service, and uh she'll be done here, so she'll make her way out.

SPEAKER_02

Errol follow Nina out. Like, well, I need to go over to the farrier, it sounds like. And um, then I'll probably be heading back. Um, I do want to see if I can find some apples or carrots or something for princess and no name. And then I'm gonna head back to the guild. So I guess I'm gonna part ways here unless you guys need to go to either of those places.

SPEAKER_05

Um Yeah, Canina will go ahead and be like, uh, yeah, I'll tag along. I have uh a couple things I might be interested in looking at as well. Okay.

SPEAKER_06

Rem just gonna be like, I'm headed to the alchemist, and then I'm gonna make a stop by the stables. I'll see you guys later.

SPEAKER_02

Wait, how much do um how much did it cost for potions before?

SPEAKER_06

They're expensive.

SPEAKER_02

I know.

SPEAKER_05

50 mil. A small healing potion.

SPEAKER_02

Okay, so Ariel is gonna um Hey, Ram, before you head over to that, uh, can you actually pick me up a potion? I can pay you.

SPEAKER_06

What kind of potion?

SPEAKER_02

Uh just uh like a healing potion.

SPEAKER_06

Yeah, I can pay it.

SPEAKER_02

Like the one that was like the 50 or whatever it was before. I don't know if you're gonna be able to do it.

SPEAKER_06

I'll I'll see what I can do.

SPEAKER_02

Okay. Do you want me to give you money or to pay you later?

SPEAKER_06

Uh if you give me the money now, I can make sure that I get it.

SPEAKER_02

Okay, here you go. And she's gonna give him the five platinum. Oh no, I can seal guys out there!

SPEAKER_03

Have a good day, so for loitering. Uh, Tempest will pull out her money bag and also give Rem some. Would you mind grabbing me a healing potion as well?

SPEAKER_06

Sure.

SPEAKER_03

Since you're going down.

SPEAKER_06

How much are you giving me?

SPEAKER_03

Five platinum.

SPEAKER_02

Um, also, Rem, before you go, when I w went to try to visit Princess earlier and have them put a little sign up and everything, the guy gave me a really hard time and kept asking me if I have proof that princess belonged to me.

SPEAKER_09

Uh-huh.

SPEAKER_02

When you talked, did they tell you anything about that? Like, how am I how do I tell the stable boy that he is fine?

SPEAKER_06

You would need a token saying he's yours.

SPEAKER_02

Were were we given tokens?

SPEAKER_06

Perhaps. What do you need access to the cart or horses for?

SPEAKER_02

Um, because princess is my horse, and I would like to be able to give princess apples and carrots.

SPEAKER_06

Your horse?

SPEAKER_02

Yes, I bought princess with money.

SPEAKER_06

I think I might have the token back at the guild hall.

SPEAKER_02

Okay.

SPEAKER_06

Anything else?

SPEAKER_02

Nope.

SPEAKER_03

I'll get it from you later.

SPEAKER_08

Alright. And where is Tempest going after giving Ram money?

SPEAKER_03

Tempest doesn't know where anything is in the city, so she's gonna stick pretty close to Kanina.

SPEAKER_08

Okay. Ariel, Kanina, and Tempest peel off and make their way to the farriers.

SPEAKER_02

So I was thinking that it would be fun to have um saddles for the horses. So I don't know. I'm interested in trying to learn to ride Princess. I really like Princess a lot.

SPEAKER_05

Canina will look at Ariel and just be like, uh, oh yeah, you're interested in learning how to like drive the cart and stuff?

SPEAKER_02

I don't know about that part, but like, I mean that would be cool too and fun, but um actually like, you know, sit on the on Princess and like ride princess. Go for you know, we have downtime sometimes here and be fun to just take off and go riding or something.

SPEAKER_05

Yeah, I can see that. It's not a bad idea to form a better relationship with uh our horses. We're gonna be traveling quite a long distance after all.

SPEAKER_02

Yeah, I'm I'm on the fence. Like, do I want to keep Princess with us, or do I want to actually just have Princess be my pet at home and we just get a new horse? Uh because you know, we we uh have been ambushed and we could have lost our horses.

SPEAKER_05

Uh, that actually is something I was thinking about inquiring at the uh farrier, depending on what kind of uh resources they have there. I was thinking about perhaps either armoring our horses or armoring our cart. If um you're concerned about Princess's safety, then Yeah, that's a good idea.

SPEAKER_02

I'm glad you asked four days now, because I wonder if they would have to make something like that.

SPEAKER_05

That's my concern. I'm wondering if I might have uh not given us quite enough time to get some of the things done, but it's not like we can't extend her stay if things take a little longer than we expect, but honestly, getting on the road sooner rather than later would probably be to our benefit. And there'll be other towns and such on the way too.

SPEAKER_02

Yeah, that's true.

SPEAKER_05

And uh, as we're walking, Canina will point out any shop she recognizes to Tempest on the way, just to kind of get her familiar.

SPEAKER_07

Yuza! Would you like to buy this magical human slamming spear once wielded by the great comb leader? No!

SPEAKER_02

Okay. Have we been to the farrier before?

SPEAKER_08

I believe that the farrier would have been where Kanina sold a whip at one point in time. Could I help you, ladies? Do you have a horse that needs shoeing? Nails that need a trim? Any sort of equipment that you're after?

SPEAKER_02

Now that you say that, I wonder if we should actually get the horses checked out.

SPEAKER_08

Standing behind the this counter, kind of leaning on his elbows, is a relatively pale-skinned, about 6'8 tiefling man.

SPEAKER_02

I was actually curious about um the cost of uh saddles, equipment for horse riding.

SPEAKER_08

What sort of saddle are you in the market for?

SPEAKER_02

I don't know.

SPEAKER_08

Well, he turns and uh there's a couple sawhorse-like mock-ups behind him. He turns and he puts his hand on one. We carry a model here that is uh mostly for carrying packs, uh, just for if you don't want to be carrying the items yourself and have a beast of burden, if you will, to do the work for you. He moves over to the next one. This one here is our riding saddle. Uh as you can see, it's got more of a seat for a person to be sitting in. It's got stirrups. Uh, something for the person that wishes to ride a horse, not just use it as a beast of burden. And over here, and you see one that is uh a little bit more sturdy. It's got a like straighter back, the the stirrups are a little more rigid. Is our military grade saddle. This one is a little better. It's keeping you in the saddle if you were to find yourself in need of combat with your riding companion.

SPEAKER_02

How much is that one?

SPEAKER_08

Uh after some fitting, we can get this to you for about 25 gold.

SPEAKER_02

Oh wow. Okay. Also, like uh reins and bridle and horsebrus, like Oh, all of that will be included in your purchase.

SPEAKER_08

The rather pointless to sell you a saddle without all of the necessary equipment to make it operate properly. Yes. Okay.

SPEAKER_02

Nina, did you want to ask him about the thing you're talking about on our way here?

SPEAKER_05

Uh yes. We're seeking also perhaps to uh get some armor for our horses.

SPEAKER_08

Armor for your horses is I mean, I could perhaps get some work done in leather, but it's not really my expertise. Uh, if you're familiar with our area, we don't come under uh many military conflicts, so many people here don't see a point in putting money towards armoring their horses. It's something that I might be able to make happen. It would take a fair bit of time. The blacksmith might be able to get you things that are made out of uh iron and steel probably also would take some time. Uh, realistically, if you're looking to get armor fitted to your horse, I would suggest uh trying somewhere like Thumeria.

SPEAKER_05

I see. Well, thank you for the recommendation. I believe we are going to be headed to Thumeria. Wonderful.

SPEAKER_02

Um, how much would it cost to get uh that saddle over to the guild so I can do more shopping in the market in town?

SPEAKER_08

Uh are you not going to be bringing the horse here to have it fitted to them?

SPEAKER_02

Oh, I have to do that.

SPEAKER_08

I mean, if you're familiar and comfortable with doing the fitting yourself, then we can just have it sent along. But if you would like to ensure a proper fit, then uh we do recommend that you bring the horse that this is going to be made for.

SPEAKER_05

Okay. Uh how late are you open until this evening?

SPEAKER_08

I could see myself being here for another few hours. Or you could always come by tomorrow.

SPEAKER_02

I'll probably just come by tomorrow then. Okay, should I pay you now or do should I pay you tomorrow?

SPEAKER_08

Pay me half now to hold on to it for you. Then you can pay the other half as we get everything settled tomorrow. Uh which saddle was it that you were looking for?

SPEAKER_02

Um, the third one. The one that will keep me if we're in combat. And she's gonna reach and grab um 13 gold.

SPEAKER_08

Other than the uh question of armoring your companion, did you have any other questions? And he looks over at Kenina.

SPEAKER_05

I assume this will probably have a similar uh answer as to armoring the horses, but anything to fortify a cart that is drawn by said horses?

SPEAKER_08

Again, if it's something that you would like done out of leather, I could perhaps make something work. But that sounds like something you're probably going to want the durability of metal for.

SPEAKER_05

Alright, we'll probably uh take a stop by the blacksmith.

SPEAKER_08

He's not far. In fact, if you listen, you could probably hear him clanging away right now.

SPEAKER_02

Uh, were either of you interested in horse riding, or no? Am I the only one? I only got one saddle.

SPEAKER_03

It's referring to at least get one for the other horse that we own. You guys want to ride?

SPEAKER_05

Do one of your Oh, I'm already familiar with riding horses. Typically they only need one saddle. So we need two saddles then, one for each. Well, I don't plan on handling the horses outside of the cart.

SPEAKER_02

Well, that's why I was asking if either of you were wanting to also ride horses and get a saddle. Or should we get a second saddle? I I don't want to buy a saddle if nobody's gonna, you know, ride no name.

SPEAKER_08

Did you name one of your horses no name?

SPEAKER_02

Well, it's a big thing. Like, we have princess, which is our black horse, and that's my horse, but whoever the other one just didn't get a name. Why didn't you name it? If you cared enough to name the other one. I didn't buy it, so I just didn't feel like it was my horse to name.

SPEAKER_08

That's poor, poor animal.

SPEAKER_02

I mean, we could just make it more like just be like no name or something. I don't know. It's kind of its name now.

SPEAKER_08

I suppose, you know, a fitting nickname for the horse that wasn't wanted.

SPEAKER_02

Uh, how much is the um basic riding saddle, also?

SPEAKER_08

Uh, with a fitting, it will be 15.

SPEAKER_02

Okay, I wanna get that one as well. So I could just have it here at the guild when I want to just go riding and not need combat type.

SPEAKER_08

Do you also want that one fitted?

SPEAKER_02

Yeah.

SPEAKER_08

Okay, I understand.

SPEAKER_02

So she's gonna give him additional eight gold. I can't really see Ram wanting to ride the horse. I think he would just be on the cart too. Our cart has to have two horses, huh?

SPEAKER_05

I would imagine so. I think uh one horse might struggle a bit more and become more easily exhausted.

SPEAKER_02

Eh, that might become useful at some point.

SPEAKER_08

And you, my blue friend, is there anything that we could do for you?

SPEAKER_03

Uh, no, no. I'm I'm good. I'm just tagging along with them.

SPEAKER_08

I see. Uh well, if that will be all, he reaches under this table, pulls out a like kind of scrap of parchment and a stick of charcoal, starts writing down some notes. Uh, I will see you again tomorrow when we'll get the horse fitted with both of your saddles. Perfect. And it was a pleasure doing business with you, and he holds a handout.

SPEAKER_02

Ooh, Ariel's gonna do her dainty handshake thing.

SPEAKER_08

He's he's holding it out, expecting like a real handshake, and then as you present your floppy fingertips at him, he smoothly rotates his hand around, gently grasps your fingertips, and oh, good evening, my lady.

SPEAKER_01

Thank you. And out the door, she's gonna be to the girls. He called me lady.

SPEAKER_08

Sad as you guys are walking away.

SPEAKER_01

Yeah. As we're going out the door. Rem never calls me lady.

SPEAKER_08

Speaking of Rem, after you finish things up at the general store, you make your way over to the shop of Gizgig, the alchemist, who you have previously been a patron of when you were here in town last time. The shop, as much as you remember it before. Looks a bit musty, incensey on the inside, a bunch of shades and curtains over the windows, making it a little bit darker. There's just kind of a a general haze laying in the ceiling above you. Smell of dried herbs, fresh herbs, earth, mushrooms, the sound of a lightly bubbling cauldron towards the back. And a small open flame. Welcome!

SPEAKER_06

What can gizgig do for you today? Miss Gig. Oh, Gizgig. Is that one name? I thought that was two names.

SPEAKER_08

It's my name.

SPEAKER_06

Okay, Miss Gizgig.

SPEAKER_08

Gizgig.

SPEAKER_06

Yes, that's what I said. Miss Gizgig.

SPEAKER_08

No. No, Miss Gizgig.

SPEAKER_06

I see. Gizgig.

SPEAKER_08

Better! What can I do you for?

SPEAKER_06

Uh, I was come hoping I could buy some medicinal potions. What's kind of medicinal? Well, I know that uh a couple members of my party are looking specifically for healing potions.

SPEAKER_08

Ah, that's kind of medicinal. Other people come for other types of medicinal potions.

SPEAKER_06

No CBD, thank you. I I might also be looking for things to help with uh long long-term travel, so anything that might help with upset stomachs, fever reducers.

SPEAKER_08

Ah, I have some of the topicals as well. How many health potions are you here for today?

SPEAKER_06

I would like to know how much a single health potion is.

SPEAKER_08

Uh depends on the size.

SPEAKER_06

Uh, just your standards.

SPEAKER_08

If you just want the common ones, and I can get them to you for 30 gold apiece.

SPEAKER_06

Alright. What are the what are the other sizes you have?

SPEAKER_08

We also have the greater ones.

SPEAKER_06

And how much are those? Uh 250. Gold. I I figured we were speaking in gold.

SPEAKER_08

Just clarifying, the last one tried to slip me 250 silver.

SPEAKER_06

That's silly. So you have commons and greaters. Yes. Is that it?

SPEAKER_07

Yes.

SPEAKER_06

Alright. I know where you might be able to get more. No, it's that's okay. I'm just trying to do a little bit of calculations in my head. Can I get there's a rumor? Rumor?

SPEAKER_08

Yes. Someone in the town has managed to score a superior health potion.

SPEAKER_06

Score from how? They make it themselves?

SPEAKER_08

I don't know. But the rumor around the town is that someone who runs a rarity shop has one.

SPEAKER_06

I see. Well, maybe I'll have to uh peruse other shops to see if that rumor has any value to it. But until then, how many common healing potions do you currently have in stock?

SPEAKER_08

How many do you want?

SPEAKER_06

Well, it depends on how many I could afford. I just need to know how many you have.

SPEAKER_08

More than ten, less than twenty.

SPEAKER_06

See.

SPEAKER_08

And definitely more than a couple.

SPEAKER_06

I will buy six if you have them.

SPEAKER_08

I did say more than ten.

SPEAKER_06

Yes, you did.

SPEAKER_08

Six is less than ten.

SPEAKER_06

Yes, it is.

SPEAKER_08

I have six.

SPEAKER_06

I want to make sure make sure that we're all on the same page. Do I get a bulk discount? No.

SPEAKER_08

I believe we've gone over this before. I have to spend the time, I have to spend the ingredients, and it's one of the reasons why I don't carry many superiors.

SPEAKER_06

Or great. Just asking as a repeat customer. I believe that would be 180 gold.

SPEAKER_07

She pulls out an abacus and Do you know how this thing works? Throws it behind her.

SPEAKER_08

That'll be 180 gold.

SPEAKER_06

Rim will be like, actually, yeah? Yes, 180. Rim will slide all 10 platinum and another 80 gold over. Knowing that he owes Tempest and Ariel 20 gold each.

SPEAKER_08

Is there anything else I can help you with? Did you want to get the game?

SPEAKER_06

I was looking for the graters? No, no, I'm I'm fine without the graters for now. Thank you.

SPEAKER_08

I know you've got to save that money for the superior that I told you about.

SPEAKER_06

Yes, exactly. But I was interested in some of your more mundane. Right, right, the topicals. Eva reducers, mild pain relievers.

SPEAKER_08

Okay. Uh over there, grab a jar of the little chalk-looking ones. And uh that there with the thick pink liquid. Grab that one. And uh grab that pack of the small vials.

SPEAKER_06

He'll be wandering around picking up the things that she's asked him to and bringing them back to the counter.

SPEAKER_08

And also, uh, go over to the herbs area. Oh no, I'm not gonna have you do this one. You have the wrong ones. And you see her go over to where there's the uh the dried herbs and grabs a couple things, uh, pulls out a roll of gauze as well, brings it all back to the counter, and dumps the herbs that she had grabbed into a mortar and pestle and starts grinding things down while she's still talking to you. Uh it's gonna be just a few moments while I get this all made up real quick for you. She turns around, fishes into the cabinet that's behind her, and pulls out a couple uh vials of different colored and viscosity liquids, dumps them into the mortar and pestle as well, grinds it down into a paste, pulls out a clay jar and kind of fills it up with what she just ground down. And for the fevers, wrap some of this poultice around their head, and it should start to make them feel better. Alright, thank you. In about an hour or so.

SPEAKER_06

And these other vials you had me?

SPEAKER_08

Oh yeah. So this one, the chalky one and the thick pink one, those are for uh issues with the stomach region. Okay. And the uh the the pack of the smaller vials, uh, those they won't heal you, but they'll make you feel a little less in pain. And go ahead and make a let's go with insight. 18. As you look at the one that Gizgig tells you uh helps with like pain, it looks a lot like a healing potion, but broken up into much smaller doses. Okay. Enough to give, you know, some of the feel-good effects, but not enough to uh to heal hit points.

SPEAKER_06

And how many of those do I have?

SPEAKER_08

Uh six. And no, if Rem were to mix them all together into a single vial, it would not be enough to be a healing potion.

SPEAKER_06

What about uh fever reducers? How many of those do I have?

SPEAKER_08

Uh that was just a poultice. Let's say for everything you get about six uses out of them.

SPEAKER_06

Okay. And the last one was just stomach ailment stuff?

SPEAKER_08

Yes. One was a kind of chalky looking tablet of a jar of those, and the other was a a thick, viscous pink liquid.

SPEAKER_06

Alright, so I've got a fever reducer, a pain reducer, and stomach medication, and six healing potions. I think that's all I needed. Thank you, Gizgig. You're very welcome. Always wonderful to work with you.

SPEAKER_08

That it is. Thanks for the money. Wait a second. You didn't pay me for the other stuff.

SPEAKER_06

Oh, yes, of course. I am sorry. How much do I owe you?

SPEAKER_08

Mm-hmm. Fifteen gold.

SPEAKER_06

There, here you are. He'll give her twenty.

SPEAKER_08

Oh, thank you. You don't even see where it ends up, but you put it on the bench in front of her, and with a swipe of the hand, it's gone.

SPEAKER_06

He'll he'll gather all the bottles and kind of look down and be like, Do you have like an apple crate that I can put these in?

SPEAKER_08

Yes. Especially for a wonderful customer like you. Goes over. You see her move uh beaded tapestry out of the way into the back room real quick.

SPEAKER_06

He'll pile all of the things in here. Again, Gizgig, thank you very much. And he'll lift the thing and Thanks for the money. Until next time, and he'll walk out the door.

SPEAKER_08

I hope there's a next time.

SPEAKER_06

I'll see you in three years. Rim will head for the guild. Or no, wait, he has to stop by the stables. He hasn't done that yet. Where do the ladies make their way to the next?

SPEAKER_05

Um, what is closer? The uh the blacksmith or the grocery?

SPEAKER_08

So they are in opposite directions of each other from where you're at.

SPEAKER_05

What would you say uh is the time currently? About six. What time would the sun set?

SPEAKER_08

Uh, somewhere in the 830, getting closer to nine region.

SPEAKER_05

Uh, currently I think Canina is more interested in going to see the blacksmith. She still has the uh armoring of the cart kind of on her mind. Like uh Tempest was thinking earlier, just uh getting some sheet metal, just you know, just hammering it to the cart ourselves is, you know, at least one way to fortify our defenses. Harder to burn. But uh Canina will look to Aaron. I'll just be like, uh well, I think I'm going to go to the blacksmith. So if you want to join, you can. Otherwise, I think uh the market where you want to buy some food for princess is over that way.

SPEAKER_02

Uh when you're there, can you just ask him how much or if it's possible even to do the horse armor thing that you were talking about?

SPEAKER_05

Yeah, I'll check with him. I think it'll just depend on how long it will be.

SPEAKER_02

Okay, yeah, I don't need to go. Um, I'll I'll just go over to the market area.

SPEAKER_05

Okay, uh try to get back to the guild before dark. I think we should uh make sure we keep an eye on you tonight, just because we're still not quite sure.

SPEAKER_02

I'm just gonna go get some apples and carrots if I find any, and then I'll go on back to the guild. Alright, and uh do you wanna come with me, Tempest?

SPEAKER_05

Yeah, I think I'll keep sticking with you. And we will head our way to the blacksmith, Canina and Tempest, and Ariel will go on her way.

SPEAKER_08

Alright. Ariel spends a bit of time making her way through the city, heading more towards the docks, into where the sort of market district is. Uh, Gregorio's shop is kind of at the the entrance of the market. But as you head further in, you do find a bit more of a sort of farmer's market where farmers from the surrounding area come in to sell their wares, their crops. It doesn't take very long to find out that not only are you able to find apples and carrots here, but there are no less than half a dozen different people who wish to sell you apples and carrots.

SPEAKER_02

Um, Ariel would probably go to the person that has like the most friendliest smile and the biggest juiciest apples. Yeah, she's gonna be looking at like the orange carrots and the biggest apples. Hello, dairy. It's like you're in the market for some produce. I was looking specifically in produce um as treats for my horse. I was looking for like the yummiest apples and the most fresh carrots.

SPEAKER_08

Ah, you like some nice fresh carrots and apples?

SPEAKER_07

Mm-hmm.

SPEAKER_08

Well, this bushel here was picked just this morning. The carrots we harvested off last night.

SPEAKER_02

And do they look good to me? Like, I'm gonna pick up an apple and feel it.

SPEAKER_08

You pick up one of the apples. What color apple do you grab?

SPEAKER_02

Um, is there more than one option here? Yes. Because I'm playing air, I would probably go for like the honey crisp looking apple where it's like the reddish-yellowish coloring.

SPEAKER_08

You pick up this apple and it feels in your hand like a nice firm. What you imagine if you bid into it would be a crisp yet juicy apple. It feels not quite like the perfect apple, but very close. Within about six percent of a perfect apple. How much are your apples? Uh depends on how many you'd like to buy.

SPEAKER_02

Uh do you have sacks? Like have a get a sack of apples.

SPEAKER_08

You'd like to get a sack of apples.

SPEAKER_02

Yes.

SPEAKER_08

Yes, I can put some some apples in a sack for you. I'm thinking like a sack of these apples is going to cost you about uh seven silver.

SPEAKER_02

Okay. And then how about like a a sack of carrots?

SPEAKER_08

And if you'd like me to put some carrots in a sack for you as well, uh, those are only gonna be about three silver for the whole thing. Um Will you be able to handle two full sacks as you make your way back home?

SPEAKER_01

I'm pretty strong. Um, I'm gonna try. Okay.

SPEAKER_08

If you need, I could sell you a wagon.

unknown

Oh.

SPEAKER_08

For ten gold.

SPEAKER_02

What if I just borrow the wagon and bring it back tomorrow? I'm gonna be walking around town again tomorrow.

SPEAKER_08

Well, if you would like to borrow the wagon, then you can give me ten gold for tonight. Uh, sign a contract, and then when you bring it back to me on the morrow, I will give you back eight gold. Oh no, I've lost her.

SPEAKER_02

Um, I'm just gonna try to carry him.

SPEAKER_08

Alright. She starts filling uh one sack with apples and another sack with uh with some carrots. Um, what is your strength?

SPEAKER_01

It's a currently a plus one.

SPEAKER_08

Oh you're fine. Your carrying capacity is 15 times your strength. So you'll have like no issue really carrying these. They might be a little awkward because it's it's two relatively large sacks that are filled with produce that you're going to be carrying. But if you kind of, you know, underarm on both sides, kind of lock your arms together and and hold them like a sack of potatoes, it might be a little slow going. You'd probably get a couple offers of people. Uh, do you need a hand with that? Okay, you've got it. You've got it's good.

SPEAKER_02

Have a great day. Oh, she pays the money.

SPEAKER_08

I I assumed that somewhere in the exchange of sacks you would have uh given her the gold piece.

SPEAKER_02

Yes. And she's gonna make her way slowly back to the guild. She's gonna go to the stable area of the guild. Because she'll be cart in the type.

SPEAKER_08

Go ahead and roll me a D-20. Oh. I rolled a three. Canina and Tempest. As you watch Ariel make her way towards the kind of farmer's market area, you turn towards the sound where you hear a rhythmic clanging coming off from behind things. And start heading towards what we believe to be the blacksmith.

SPEAKER_05

Canina'll go ahead and walk up with a big old smile. Can I help you? Yes, hello. Uh, we have some questions about uh possibly getting some armor supplied for our horses. Perhaps some uh defenses built for our cart. Or just some spare scrap metal. Just some sheet metal. Yeah, if that's not reasonable.

SPEAKER_08

So let me get this straight. We want to uh put armor on a cart.

SPEAKER_05

Yes.

SPEAKER_08

Interesting.

SPEAKER_05

Just to fortify it for long travel and uh perhaps fireproof it a bit.

SPEAKER_08

How much of the cart?

SPEAKER_05

Uh, I would imagine the important bits, uh wheels, roof, maybe some of the doors.

SPEAKER_08

How big is this cart?

SPEAKER_05

Uh, I believe it's just a uh standard four-person cart. We normally have uh two horses uh carrying it forward.

SPEAKER_08

Hmm, four-person cart. So I could probably get some plates together to uh put onto this cart. It's going to be a lot though. It's going to take a lot more armor than uh a person would. And those materials, if I made armor for a person, would would go a lot further. So I could. If you're willing to pay, I could do the work on getting them to fit for you. It would take me a few days. The horses, on the other hand, are a bit of a different story. I don't have anything already made vaguely in horse shape. And if I'm going to do the armor for the cart, I'm not going to have time to get to the horses for probably the next week or so. And then you set it's two horses to pull the cart. I'm assuming you want both of them armored. It would probably take me about a week for each of them.

SPEAKER_05

I see. Uh, if you had a uh theoretical price and time frame for getting the cart armored, uh, what would it be?

SPEAKER_08

Because of the time it's going to take and the cost of the materials as well as the opportunity cost for not making it into some custom-fitted armor. I could give you an estimate that it will cost a thousand gold. And if things are going smoothly, I could probably have it done in the next few days. Thankfully, cart. Mostly straight surfaces, so a lot of it's just a matter of cutting things to shape and getting them attached.

SPEAKER_05

Canina will uh ponder for a second. Hmm, I see. Uh, I may have to give that a little bit of thought. Um, you have any type of weaponry I might possibly be able to mount onto the cart? We're planning on traveling into some dangerous regions, and having a bit of a defensible cart is something that would help us greatly. What sort of weaponry are you thinking? Um, maybe some sort of feasible mounted crossbow.

SPEAKER_08

Now, when you say mount to the top, are you thinking someone standing up there with a crossbow that can be reasonably assured that they're not going to fall off? Or are we thinking more like a ship's cannon or ballistay?

SPEAKER_05

Uh whatever you would feasibly have that could be attached to the top in a reasonable amount of time. Something that would be preferably attached to the card.

SPEAKER_08

In about a day's time, with some sourcing of others in the crafting district, I could get you a somewhat safely top-mounted crossbow where the user would be uh less likely to fall off while using it. And he reaches under, pulls out a scrap of parchment and a charcoal stick, and you see him sketch like a square, turns it into a little bit of a cube, and goes, Okay, so we're thinking that we use this to represent the cart. And you see him put a circle on the top of the square, and this would be where your crossbow person would stand. And at kind of the point of the square, does a little loop. And I'm thinking that we would put attachment points here, here, here, and here. Um, would you want rope or chain?

SPEAKER_05

I feel like chain would probably be the more sturdy and less flammable of the choices.

SPEAKER_03

Okay? Less flammable. Yeah, we are going for less flam.

SPEAKER_08

He draws lines towards that middle circle. And these would be chains. Um, we'll put a latch down at the feet of where the person would be standing to hold this assembly down if you're not using it. And we'll have a harness that can be strapped around the waist of whoever is standing up here. And you see him do a very stick figure-esque representation of a crossbow. And we would put the crossbow with a chain that also links to the belt so that the crossbow won't fly away from the user. And does another smaller circle with some some legs underneath it, and we could mount a sort of elongated bucket up here that would allow you to keep some crossbow bolts as well. The user would be entirely vulnerable and very easy to uh attack. They would have no protection beyond what they're wearing. The crossbow would still have to be operated entirely by hand. But I could do this in a day, maybe two if I need to source a little bit more material, and I could do it for about a hundred gold.

SPEAKER_05

I think that sounds like uh pretty. And I think that will be the best choice for us currently.

SPEAKER_08

Uh this may affect the cost a little bit. You mentioned that you wanted the chain because they'd be less flat.

SPEAKER_04

Yes.

SPEAKER_08

Is a wooden crossbow with a sinew string and wooden bolts going to be a problem.

SPEAKER_05

Nina will just slowly turn toward Tempest. You're like, I don't know, you're the archer of the group. Do you think this sounds like a good idea?

SPEAKER_08

I could try to source one made out of metal that would be uh significantly heavier.

SPEAKER_03

Tempest just looks at Nina. Will you try not to burn it up?

SPEAKER_05

Well, the intention is never to actually damage what we own. It's just it kind of happens in the heat of the moment. Um, it should be fine. I think just the standard crossbow should be fine.

SPEAKER_08

Uh also, are you going to need any sort of like plate mounted to the top of the cart for the same uh anti-flammability purposes?

SPEAKER_05

That might sound like a good idea. Yeah, I think that might be a good choice. How much would that add on to the cost?

SPEAKER_08

Uh that would how how big of a plate? Like just big enough to stand on, big enough to cover the whole top.

SPEAKER_05

What would be the difference between the two?

SPEAKER_08

Big enough to stand on I could do for another 50 gold. Big enough to cover the top would probably run about 250 gold.

SPEAKER_05

Uh let's just do big enough to stand on for the time being.

SPEAKER_08

So I can do this for you, uh, with the addition of the plate. Give me two days just to be on the safe side with timing. Does that work for the two of you?

SPEAKER_05

Uh, that should be fine. Uh, do you have an approximate like uh hours during the day that you need the cart available to work on?

SPEAKER_08

If you bring it by about an hour after sunrise, we can begin work.

SPEAKER_05

And will the cart just need to stay there for the full uh two-day period?

SPEAKER_08

It wouldn't have to stay here for the first day. I could spend about an hour getting measurements from it, and then you could bring it back. But I will need time on the second day to begin mounting it.

SPEAKER_05

Okay, um, yeah, I can go ahead and uh put down uh the payment now if you'd like, and I'll bring the car by tomorrow morning.

SPEAKER_08

Excellent. That'll be a you thing.

SPEAKER_03

An hour after sunrise is asking a lot.

SPEAKER_05

Canina already be up, so she's just like, oh yeah, that's reasonable.

SPEAKER_08

Alright, and he he takes the 150 gold, piles it into a lockbox, and uh yo which what name shall I store this under?

SPEAKER_05

Oh, uh, Kanina, Kanina Kojin. I'm with the Adventurers Guild.

SPEAKER_08

And you see him write just Kanina. It's actually spelled correctly because it's hard to spell that wrong. On the same sheet of parchment that he had done your sketch on, and uh he writes paid two days, rush. I will see you in the morrow.

unknown

Yeah.

SPEAKER_08

Have a good evening. Thank you for your time. You guys have a wonderful rest of your day. Rem! Yeah. I believe your next destination was the stable, real quick. Alright. After finishing up with Gizgig, Rem makes his way to the stables. And Ariel, about 250 feet ahead of him. See Rem happily walking with a uh like apple crate in his hands, as you behind. Rem! Rem Rem walks up to the stable with his uh his potion crate.

SPEAKER_06

I'm gonna be looking for the same young man that helped me when I dropped the cart and horses off.

SPEAKER_08

What's up, old man?

SPEAKER_06

How's it going? So I was uh wanted to make you aware that there'll be some people coming by. Um I've got the guild quartermaster who has the claim token, is going to be bringing provisions by to load into our wagon. Uh so I currently don't have the token, but you know who I am.

SPEAKER_08

Good. You got the token system figured out. That's good. Not everyone gets it the first time.

SPEAKER_06

So I was just making you aware. There'll also be a delivery coming from, I don't know, the general store owner. I forgot his name. That horrible little man. Do you have a problem with Gregorio? He's just not very nice. What are you talking about? Well, anyway, Gregorio's awesome. He's gonna be making a delivery as well.

SPEAKER_08

Sells me candy.

SPEAKER_06

Uh, if you could just have that dropped off near the cart, I'll load it later. You don't have to load it yourself. Just have them, whoever he has, drop it off, drop it off near the cart. Does he have a token? Unfortunately, the guild already had the token, so I could not give it to him to you. How are we gonna know that he's approved? I'm letting you know now myself. Is he gonna bring it himself? Well, I'm sure he's hiring somebody to do it, but I'm sure they'll tell you that's coming from Gregorio to be dropped off at a at a wagon. I'm not asking you to load it. I'm just asking you to be aware that it is coming. You can have them drop it off somewhere and I will load it myself later.

SPEAKER_08

I mean, yeah, I I guess if he puts it at the wrong one, then I'll find it. Then yeah. Um hopefully he puts it at the right one, because otherwise it's gonna be uh technically it's gonna be on bio.

SPEAKER_06

Rim will rattle his his coin purse, be like, I'm sure you can help him find the right one. Uh I might be able to, yes. Might. We'll we'll work with might. So he'll hold up his apple crate full of potions, be like, I'd like to add this to our wagon as well. You got the token? Obviously not, as I've stated. The guild has the token currently. Uh-huh. I do have, and he reaches into his pocket over and pulls out both horse tokens. The horse tokens. So you know I still own the horses. They came with the wagon. Yeah, but maybe it sold the wagon. No, I have not yet sold the wagon. Not yet sold the wagon, huh? And if I did, then whoever owns the wagon now would be getting this crate when they come to collect it, would they not? I thought you understood the token system. You only gave me one token. I've got several people that need access to this.

SPEAKER_08

Yeah, that's how we keep track of who owns the token.

SPEAKER_06

Yeah, and right now the guild has the token, so they can drop off stuff without me being present.

SPEAKER_08

Give the stuff to the guild and they'll bring it when they bring the token.

SPEAKER_06

Because I didn't foresee this opportunity when I gave the token.

SPEAKER_08

The kid crosses his arms. It's just like, it's the token system, it's how it works.

SPEAKER_06

I understand. So, as I said, I would like to drop these off with the wagon. Whoever does have the token for the wagon will get to collect these when they collect the wagon. I'm not taking anything from the wagon. If anything, I'm giving stuff away to the wagon. What if it's a bomb? You wanna check it? It came from Gizgigs, and he kind of tilts it forward so you can see all the potion bottles.

SPEAKER_08

Starts putting his hands in it. Go ahead and roll perception. Eight. An eight? You see him? He's fiddling around, lifts up bottles a little bit. Alright, it doesn't look like a bomb.

SPEAKER_06

No, it does not look like a bomb.

SPEAKER_08

Would you mind if I put this in the wagon? Looks to both sides. I'm not supposed to let you in if you don't have the token, but I think we can let it go. Thank you. I appreciate your watching to make sure you don't take anything from the cart. I will not. Did you take anything from the cart? No.

SPEAKER_06

Rim's gonna be very suspicious of this young man. I roll an insight check.

SPEAKER_08

Sure.

SPEAKER_06

After him being so suspicious of me. 18.

SPEAKER_08

Doesn't seem like you took anything from the cart.

SPEAKER_06

Okay. I'm also, as I'm walking over to the cart to put it in, I'm gonna look down and count my bottles because I know how many I have of each. Okay, how many bottles of each are you supposed to have? Six. Of what? Everything. Of everything. Yes, everything was a potion of six. Okay. How many bottles do I have?

SPEAKER_08

Uh you see six health potions. Okay. Uh six headache potions.

SPEAKER_06

Okay.

SPEAKER_08

Uh a jar that that has some chalk-like tablets in it.

SPEAKER_06

Okay.

SPEAKER_08

And uh six pieces of of like bandage and gauze.

SPEAKER_06

Okay. That should be everything. If he took a couple of the chalky stomach pills, I think I can. But he'll put that in the cart and then he'll hold his hands up to show that there's nothing in them and walk back out. Thank you for allowing me to do that. He will uh also remind the kid as he reaches into his pocket and pulls out a silver piece and hands it to him. This is for your trouble with dealing with Gregorio's delivery. Thank you! Remember, it's this cart that's expecting a delivery from Gregorio. Uh-huh. And then he'll, as he's walking away, he'll be like, Oh, and if you see a young woman, blonde hair, in a cloak of some kind, with the notion that she needs to feed the horses, you know, my horses, and he holds up the tokens. That one? And he'll look over his shoulder and be like, Yes, that one, as he tucks the tokens away. She can feed the horses. Does she have the token? No, she doesn't. But I'm letting you know, as the owner of the horses, she can feed them. And you just saw the tokens.

SPEAKER_08

Okay. I'm still gonna give her a hard time.

SPEAKER_06

I would expect nothing less. And then he's gonna turn around and be like, Hello, Ariel. You uh seem a bit burdened there.

SPEAKER_02

Mm-hmm. These are getting real heavy.

SPEAKER_06

Why don't you set them down?

SPEAKER_02

I need to get to the horses.

SPEAKER_06

Okay. And he'll walk over and gently take one bag from you.

SPEAKER_02

Oh, thank you, Rem.

SPEAKER_06

Take the characters and be like, I'm guessing this is for the horses.

SPEAKER_02

Yeah, I was actually gonna give them a couple, and then I wanted to put it on the cart.

SPEAKER_06

I would suggest maybe leaving it near the horses.

SPEAKER_02

You got the tokens?

SPEAKER_08

This kid is still standing, like three feet away from Rem.

SPEAKER_02

You had the tokens in your room, right?

SPEAKER_08

Yeah, I think so.

SPEAKER_02

I'm sorry, he has the tokens in the room.

SPEAKER_08

Uh huh. It's gonna make it hard for me to know uh which horse. Horses and cart you're allowed to go to.

SPEAKER_02

Princess, remember I put a uh parchment on I have no idea what you're talking about.

SPEAKER_08

This is not the same person.

SPEAKER_02

Well, if we walk down, you'll see that Princess, my horse, has his name on the table.

SPEAKER_08

Uh-huh. And do you have the token?

SPEAKER_02

No, he has them in the room.

SPEAKER_08

Huh. Stoneface. It's gonna make it hard for me to know which uh which one you're allowed to go into.

SPEAKER_02

The one that says princess!

SPEAKER_08

Yeah, but you know, that could be anyone.

SPEAKER_02

No, you s I'm sure you walked the stables and have seen the one that has a new sign that says princess. Yeah, I saw it. That's the one!

SPEAKER_07

But do you have the token?

SPEAKER_02

That's how the token system works.

SPEAKER_07

How do none of you guys understand how the token system works? I already had to kick him out. Well, he didn't have the token.

SPEAKER_02

You let this little guy kick you out?

SPEAKER_06

Well, he's right. I didn't have the token. Gotta abide by the the rules.

SPEAKER_02

Fine. Will you help me carry them to my room?

SPEAKER_06

Yeah, sure.

SPEAKER_07

Just come back with the token. It's that simple. You know, so here's the real problem that uh that I see with you guys.

SPEAKER_08

I've never even seen the token or knew anything about it. Yeah, that's what I'm saying. The problem that I see with you guys is that normally there's one person in charge. They get the token, they bring the tokens to me. I know which one they're allowed to go to, and everything just works fine.

SPEAKER_07

You guys have too many fucking people that want the tokens. We should have each gotten a token.

SPEAKER_06

That'd be too many tokens.

SPEAKER_02

It doesn't work with the system! It's my horse. I need the token. Rem, let's go get the token.

SPEAKER_08

That sounds like a YouTube problem.

SPEAKER_02

Rem, let's go up to the rooms. I can put the sacks in the room, just grab a couple carrots and a couple apples, get the token from you, and then go feed my horse and no name.

SPEAKER_06

Sure. Let's do that.

SPEAKER_02

Okay.

SPEAKER_06

She's storming away now?

SPEAKER_02

Well, uh, not very quickly. No, I'm waiting for you for us to like go together.

SPEAKER_06

I am. I'm right behind you, but I'm saying, are you walking out the door first?

SPEAKER_02

No, you're trying to make me walk out the door first, but I'm not.

SPEAKER_08

So, as Tempest and Kanina were walking back to the guild hall, they hear this very loud, like 12-year-old almost screaming at what you recognize as the voices of Rem and Ariel over in the direction of the stable.

SPEAKER_05

Uh yeah, I guess uh Kanina hearing the commotion will go over that way. Familiar voices make her a bit curious.

SPEAKER_08

As Rem and Ariel were well, Ariel was trying to storm away, and I think Rem is just following.

SPEAKER_02

No. I was thinking of like Carol are right next to each other, just going. Yeah, Canina will walk up and just be like, oh uh, hey guys, what's going on here? Rem left the tokens in his room, so they won't even let me feed princess. So now we're going back up to the room. I'm gonna drop the sacks and then get the token and go feed princess. Oh, you can't just walk in and feed the- Apparently you can't even go in there without a token.

SPEAKER_06

They're just trying to make sure things are safe. Don't want people feeding a colour. Call the security system! Don't want people feeding a horse poison arrived.

SPEAKER_02

We can't see our cart.

SPEAKER_05

Kanina's gonna go ahead and uh loop her arm in aerials and she's just gonna walk. I'm like Kenina's just like like even just physically dragging you.

SPEAKER_04

She's just gonna walk in with you. Hey, hey, you have the token? No, I'm just gonna go see our horses though. You can't be back here. If you say so, Kenina's gonna keep walking. No, and he's walking in front.

SPEAKER_08

You can't be back here. Kenina's gonna keep walking. No, you and he puts his hands out in front of Kenina. You can't come back here without the token. Kenina will keep walking.

SPEAKER_07

How strong is he? Guard! Oh no! Guard! And you see him like Nina! Nina!

SPEAKER_08

You see him looking past you out the doors, and it's like, if I leave, then I'm not here, but I need to get the guards and GURDS!

SPEAKER_05

You know, we're very important in this guild. I'm not sure it'll look very good for you if you're trying to stop us from seeing property that we own.

SPEAKER_07

Old man, I'm gonna stay with you! Kanina's gonna keep walking to our car. I told you that the the girl was. What about the she just got running over? Kanina's barreling through. Okay.

SPEAKER_08

There's a stall towards the back that uh has a piece of parchment, uh like tack nailed to the front of it, and then it and it says, if you read it and you sound it out, it says princess.

SPEAKER_05

Primasess. Uh Canina will uh kind of spot that and just be like, oh, is that uh yes? Did you write that? Yeah, let's go. So she'll she'll steer us that way. Rem, Rem, bring the carrots.

SPEAKER_08

No, no, no. I'm good. What is Tempest doing in all of this?

SPEAKER_03

Just standing there next to Reb laughing, watching them like, oh boy.

SPEAKER_08

So Rem and Tempest.

SPEAKER_03

Nina's at it again.

SPEAKER_08

You see the the small boy uh run towards the front. You hear uh they they dip to the side and you hear a door open, and you just hear shouting from from inside, but it's muffled through all of the the wood that is in between you guys.

SPEAKER_06

I'm just gonna set the bag of carrots down at his feet and kind of lean in towards uh Tempest and be like, well, how long do you think before they get kicked out of there?

SPEAKER_03

I don't think they'll be able to kick Nina out.

SPEAKER_06

Pretty sure there's more than just that little kid for stable hands in this place.

SPEAKER_03

Not yet.

SPEAKER_06

Not yet, but soon, I'm sure.

SPEAKER_05

But yeah, Kanina will be over there. Uh she'll be opening up the door with the label of princess and just be like, well, go ahead and give princess your apples.

SPEAKER_02

Set the apple bag down and grab a couple apples and give one to princess and one to no name. And be like, okay, we need we need to get out of here. We're breaking the rules.

SPEAKER_08

Ariel, roll perception with disadvantage. Kanina, roll perception.

SPEAKER_03

Can we still see them from the door?

SPEAKER_08

It's it's kind of dark and hard to see them, but you know where they're at, more or less.

SPEAKER_03

Looks like they made it. Kind of nine. Twelve.

SPEAKER_08

Okay. Rem and Tempest. You hear the door that the boy had gone into thrown open and kind of bang somewhat roughly against the inside of whatever room that he had gone into. And you see two larger men. They look to be somewhere in their late twenties. Very broad-chested, standing probably 6'3, 6'5-ish, come out. Uh, one of them has a woodcutting axe in one hand, and the other one has a blacksmith's hammer in their hand.

SPEAKER_04

Hey! Who's breaking into the stables? Canina will like peek out after hearing the loud voice. Ariel's just like looking at you.

SPEAKER_05

You look like big bug eye, like, who my god. Canina will lean out and she'll just be like, uh, oh, hello, gentlemen. No thieves here. We we're we work at the guild.

SPEAKER_04

Do you have the token?

SPEAKER_05

Not currently.

SPEAKER_04

You're not allowed in here. We're just saying hi to the horses real quick. You're not allowed in here. So if we bring the tokens, we can come back in here.

SPEAKER_08

Yes.

SPEAKER_05

Alright, alright. Are you done here, Ariel? She's just like feeding the horse. Uh, yes. Canina will grab the rest of the apple sack and she'll uh just cart you out again. Like she'll just put her arm in yours and just be like, well, sorry for the trouble, gentlemen, and she'll walk right out.

SPEAKER_08

You just hear. I tried to stop them.

SPEAKER_07

She was very she she just didn't stop. She I put my hands up.

SPEAKER_08

She's you see those f just Yeah!

SPEAKER_07

I tried!

SPEAKER_08

We we know, we know. Gotta keep the the door shut. Locked for this reason.

SPEAKER_07

Oh the t so he was in here, but he's got the tokens. Hey, do we hear that? Roll perception with disadvantage. Can I do it too? Sure.

SPEAKER_08

So Ariel does not. But Canina, here's uh bits and pieces of the back and forth, but enough to hear. He was tokens.

SPEAKER_05

What was that I heard about tokens? What?

SPEAKER_08

No, you're supposed to be leaving.

SPEAKER_05

Oh, we are, but uh, I just want to make sure you said something about tokens, right?

SPEAKER_08

They were giving me shit about I gotta make sure the people have the tokens if they come in here. Mmm. And keep the doors locked if they don't have the tokens.

SPEAKER_05

Out! Kenina's still walking, she's still screening her neck back and looking at them. Kinina is of the mind that what are they really going to do to her if she wants to see the horses?

SPEAKER_06

Well, one of them brought an axe and the other one brought a hammer.

SPEAKER_08

And because it is late and people have to get home, we will wrap things up tonight. About between 8 and 9 o'clock on the 12th of Monanon, as you guys head up into the Guild Hall once again.

SPEAKER_02

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