3. ::New rumours heard in the Mermaid::

::New rumours heard in the Mermaid::


  • A pleasant looking young woman with violet hair arrived in Peltarch by boat about two weeks ago. She smiles a lot and is regularly seen in the company of various handsome men. Some have heard her speaking fluent elven and seen her carry a bundle of papers with her, to which she scribbles something every now and then. Already frequenting the Bathhouse, she takes care of herself, and wears a maiden-white dress. Her name is Vania.

    // hah, my first true Peltarch character :twisted:


  • a young man covered in scars and fresh wounds and tatoos can be seen sitting in the corner on a bedroll drinking ale obviously drunk and muttering about killing kobolds over and over. Strangly he still has darts stuck in his forarms and if anyone offers aid to remove them he waves them off, then goes back to drinking his ale


  • Two old men with white hair were seen in the commons today. One kept falling asleep and the other kept pesturing people of the whereabouts of "Schmee."


  • _Rumours spread of a young human lad wandering the streets of Peltarch asking strange questions. Wearing shining green and gold scale and walking with a slight limp he is instantly recognisable. It appears that his horse died just south of the Rawlinswood and he has been scouring the towns and city looking for a replacement!!

    As if this wasn't strange enough he has been witnessed on a number of occasions talking to the sky. As of yet, no one has heard the sky respond._

  • H

    Foilir looks at Mirkali with an expression of total confusion. He looks behind him to see if he is speaking to someone else. Seeing no one he shrugs and walks off on his merry way.


  • While many of Peltarch's finer warriors, employed or otherwise, engage in mortal combat with the Eastlanders, there is one oddity; on any given occasion, they might see a fairy or a troll or a puppy, or even a strange black-white land-bound bird, or any number of creatures, dashing (or waddling) through the pass, apparently bad-mouthing the Marauders in whatever tongue available to them. And if that doesn't get their attention, a sharp beak to the shins usually does. Pursuit is almost guaranteed, but the odd creatures have a knack for shaking their would-be killers. Except for the bird, which was last seen dashing towards Peltarch, flippers pumping wildly as it tried to dodge the rain of crossbows bolts thunking into the grass at its webbed feet.


  • Arien Ashald can be seen milling boredly about the commons and taking tea with her family in the civics district. Rumor has it that Eowiel arrested her for suspiscion of hiring thugs to beat up bards. Arien has been heard to remark that it is very sad that the Lady Eowiel has nothing better to do than arrest innocent noble women that she just doesn't like.


  • _Zanetar returns to Peltarch one clear evening with two female cohorts, the three of them slathered in blood and carrying various arms and armors that look like they came off of Eastlanders.

    Presumably the severe and imposing priest was getting irritated by the Eastlanders' attitude and smug comments about Peltarch, the city in which he is very proud to hold citizenship._


  • Zyphlin, sitting within the mermaid, listening to the dwarf and looking at him. He downs a glass of his elven wine, shudders, and stands up walking past mirkali

    Still just….EWWWWWWW. Gods damn you scruffy for ever putting that horrid image into my head....


  • Mirkali watches the said dwarf and grins, taking the free drink, then asks him

    Ohhhh, I didn't know you were into the whole pain fetish. Hope you and the lass enjoy yourselves.

    Mirkali smirks a bit, then grins, taking a long gulp from his drink, winking at the said dwarf


  • Arien seems of late to have taken and interest in visiting her cousin Rath and engaging Sierra in hours of screaming matches and witty reparte. It seems the ladies are amenable to each other though their distaste is obvious.

  • H

    _A whistling and grinning dwarf is seen talking to the regulars at the Mermaid, asking round where an honest dwarf can find suitable living quarters.

    He takes note of all their suggestions by scrawling some markings on a rock.

    He then inquires where one can get his proper citizenship papers.

    Grinning he buys a few rounds for all in the Mermaid.

    Whistling and greeting all he sees, he walks out of the tavern towards the open aired market._

  • Peltarch Far Scouts

    _It's being said on the streets that Sierra Ju'ent was released from jail, and will be allowed to walk free after a rather public display of the Senator Rath Ashald marching to the Peltarch Jails and demanding that Dunderstone "Walease Her!". The Senator Ashald escorted Sierra Ju'ent from the jails, his gleeming armor blinding onlookers.

    It is still a question of who was behind this assassination attempt on Senator Black, and is still under investigation. Sierra Ju'ent will be left under the responsibility of Senator Ashald, and has been asked not to make any plans in the immediate future for leaving the city.

    Rath Ashald was said to be overjoyed at the Lady Natanya's apparent disposition of being impressed with the Senator's uncharacteristic act of kindness to one of Peltarch's common citizens._


  • Lieutenant Eowiel can likewise often be seen leading small contingents of Cerulean Knights into the Nars Pass to bring battle to the Eastlander Mauraders, her sentiments echoing her Captain's ones.


  • _Captain Anakore of the Cerulean Knights is less often seen in the city lately, mostly he is abroad, either fighting the kobolds or the Eastlanders, about whom he is often heard talking along the lines of …

    "There can be no peace with murderers who've terrorized the Pass for untold years and who had no compunction about selling citizens and guards of the Peltarch into slavery and devourment."

    When he is in the city his armor is mostly bloody or soot or acid covered from recent struggles._

  • T

    _Another song is found written on parchment, tied to arrows and shot into doors, wagons and other wooden structures on the docks;

    Dangerous Reverie

    Last night I had a dream
    In my dream
    I fell from sky to sea

    A voice to me would say-
    You are just a drop of rain
    Just one of many
    A drop of water
    In an endless sea

    Dancing a careful waltz
    Singing my dangerous Reverie

    I walked through a city
    Seeing that some
    Will seek to be everything
    Sometimes even me
    Taking part in the masquerade
    Wondering who I will be

    Threatening hands reach
    Wishing to drain away
    All of the drops in the sea
    Black hands tighten
    A mockingbird deciding
    Resisting the urge to flee

    To myself I say-
    I am just a drop of rain
    Just one of many
    A drop of water
    In an endless sea

    Dancing a careful waltz
    Singing my dangerous Reverie

    As I make my way
    I float beneath
    The surface of faces
    And I find that many
    Are not what they seem
    Truth and fiction I see

    Dozens of faces
    Watching behind
    Shadowed masks
    Other deadly drops of water
    All swimming together
    With us in an endless sea

    To you I say-
    I am just a wanderer
    Just one of many
    Apart of this great journey
    Of what is and what will be

    Dancing a careful waltz
    Singing my dangerous Reverie

    But yet lost
    And alone
    Praying you'll listen to my song
    And heed the warning within

    Last night I had a dream
    In my dream
    I fell from sky to sea

    A Mockingbird flew overhead
    In the morning it flew away
    and is free

    … Vick is said to be displeased with vandalism._

  • G

    Nico can be seen around town following the attack. He seems to be keeping close to guards and has ordered guards around his home at all times. Although there is a suspect behind bars Nico still isn't convinced and is looking for everyone else involved. Rumors circulate that he is personally holding a few responsible though and is getting the proof he needs to have them tried.


  • Chaevre' Vaelen walks into Peltarch looking very aggrivated, apparently Rando of norwick visited Peltarch and requested her audience in Norwick, Chaevre' makes the treck through the nars risking the eastlanders wrath only to be told once she reached Norwick that unless she forks over 5000 gold to Rando she will not longer have Norwicks "protection", and to top it off he has innuended that he would be happy to hand her over to the eastlanders the very moment at the prospect of trading her head for a bit of time in the eastlanders Iron mine, when Chae asked about the consequences of his actions and the resulting effect it would have on relations with Peltarch he simply said "pelt who?"


  • Eowiel openly castigates the Guards as a "Disfunctional and inadequate" organisation who have "brought shame to their reputation as upholders of the Law". Apparantly the recent clobbering of Folir Dolvak, without even saying a single word to the dwarf prior to their attack as well as the seemingly reasonless arrest of Sierra Ju'ent, not to mention her rumoured personal grievance with the Guards in relation to their utter failure to make restitution for what she claimed "unlawful fining" of one of her Knights, these matters seem to have indeed all added up in the elven girl's head and she simply has decided the Guard are no longer worthy of her respect. Unfortunately for them, this seems to entail her own very vocal and very prominent denouncement of them at every concievable public occasion.

  • DM

    Magistrate Barrim hears of the arrest, and goes to look in the arrest records, and then to Senator Nico to learn more of this.

    He then makes a point of asking nate about this woman he calls "his assistant".