Whispers at the Fire
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A chubby blonde woman with some new-looking enchanted hide armor has taken a room at the Boarshead until she finds other accomodation. Most days and evenings she's stationed at the south gates and is happy to tend wounds and bandage militia or adventurers alike, returning from the woods.
It seems that Niamh is a junior druid with the Circle and is filling in as a town healer for a probationary period.
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_The mage - some say necromancer - known as Brandil was found injured and standing over a patch of dying grass near a field in Norwick, apparently the result of a necromantic aura. Scylya and Briar were offering to help when Raisa intervened took the mage to the Keep. A few moments later, Brandil barged through Norwick with Raisa in pursuit. When they finally returned, the half-orc Hirbag was carrying an unconcious, aura-less, and badly injured Brandil all the way to the Keep. No one seems to know the full story, but some say Raisa's staff had fresh blood stains at both ends.
The next morning, Raisa was seen repairing all damage to grass and crops that the mage's aura caused within town walls.
Several days before, a crowd had witnessed Brandil making threats against Raryldor (who wasn't present). Then too, he fled into the woods, followed by Genzir._
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The last time the archdruid met with the chancellor in private, both walked away steaming. One could almost hear the inn furniture breaking before they had left the Friar's. A few days ago, they met once again (with Wolf in tow), and eyewitnesses swear not only was no shouting heard but the archdruid left looking…surprised?
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Dwin sends a half-dozen guards to collect the drow's corpse and belongings. The guardsmen carefully place everything into a large box and drape an oil-cloth over it. The wisk the whole lot away before anyone can see where they are going. Rumor has it that they took it to the graveyard for immediate burial, but recent events in the graveyard make people second-guess that rumor…
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_Norwick's southern gates were attacked by a drow mage. It was eventually captured near the eastern walls and taken to the jail cells. The drow then committed suicide within the cells as the adventurers tried to talk to it.
Later, three guard corpses were brought in. It seems the drow mage had claimed some victims. The dead guards were brought to the Friar's. After several hours, only one guard emerged from the Friar's, escorted by Locrian. The guard was sobbing and looked to be greatly disturbed. After the guard came the rest of the adventurers who had captured the drow mage… their expressions also quite disturbed.
What became of the other two dead guards is something worse then anyone might imagine..._
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Once more two posters appear on the inner wall.
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((Do you keep count of how much I owe Norwick for the posters yet, Lucid?
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_Dwin nods and smiles as he sees the deliveries coming in.
He has a few guards start packing up the meat, some to be dried and saved for later, other slabs to go straight to the workers that are working at Piss Hill and now on the Southern gates and walls._
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The following tenday , fresh hides and dried meat is delivered into Norwick's stores once again by a group of chessentans. It would seem that the group of sparcely clad warriors enjoy the hunt as much as they enjoy aiding the town.
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A day later, a fine slab of meat is brought to the guard house at each shift change and given to the guardsmen by Misty. She tells each that it is a gift from the Chessentan's for the general guards honorable work in defense of the town.
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the next day, townsfolk at the boarshead receive a pleasant surprise: a free slab of meat in a trencher and an ale from barlie "complements of the chancellor and those half naked guys with spears".
(( I'll burn some gold for the ale when I'm ig next ))
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Rumors spread that the strange Chessentan Spearmen recently arrived in Norwick caring a great number of full medium and large sized animal skins, perhaps two dozen, and over twenty pounds of cook and dried meat. They delivered the load to the town hall, letting Lucidious's assistant within know that they are gifts to Norwick.
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rumors continue to fly about calendel the norwick town healer, the latest being that the senators of peltarch thought it best to have him put to death at the hands of lizardfolk for breaking their treaty.
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rumors spreads that Calendel the healer in Norwick was arrest in Peltarch for trying to break the treaty with the lizzards. No one is sure if the treaty still stands, but it seems Calendel is in jail for the time being.
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The Keeper can be seen about town looking for people who witnessed the events, and asking what kinds of tasks the woman in white wanted done.
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Kalith is heard chuckling on hearing the recent rumor (after some grapevining and translating to common).
"I guess no one was paying attention when Rando had me out there doing 'extra character building' push ups in the mud."
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Ginger Tealeaf is heard muttering in hin that former chancellor Rando would be rolling over in his grave if he knew the new Norwick militia recruit Kalith was a Banite.
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A young adventurer was seen running in through the gates bleeding heavily, in tow was a small saurial, a woman wreathed in white robes and cloak appeared suddenly in time to fire a spell at the lizards immobilizing it, the man then turned and attacked the defenceless cub, the guards in turn turned and attacked the woman and the man, one strike against the woman was made and the guard was thrown several feet back by disharged magical energies from the woman, the man was nearly killed by the guards attacks, all the guards ceased their fire when they saw the pale faced woman realising who she was, no further action was taken, and the man was healed before his wounds became mortal, the woman was in town for some time later hiring adventurers to perform various tasks.
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Tales of a Deep Gnome mage assaulting the town and destroying the gate are told. It was said that three of the strange Chessentan's took it upon themselves to form a shield wall in the opening of the inner branch wall. When a goblin and bugbear attack occured slightly later, perhaps taking a chance at the open gate, many defenders struck at them as they charged and no goblin nor bugbear made it past the shield wall.
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the happenings in the graveyard were split off to this thread: http://www.therealnarfell.com/modules.php?name=Forums&file=viewtopic&t=35811
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Even Dwin seems to be taking some interest in the garden…
Lass, got any room in there to grow some mushrooms? The ones Misty's got at the Boarshead still got shiite all over em, and taste worse. I'd be happy to get you some spores...
