Re: Side Jaunt - Deepingdale Diversion
Compressing time to save trouble
Non-elves
"Come on, let's find an inn and get out of the wind!" Kora trots inside the gate, leaving the rest of you to follow.
Fortunately for your chilled flesh, there's an inn just inside the northern gate. A long, two-story building is made of solid field stone on its first floor and well-maintained half-timber on its second. A brightly-painted sign swinging above the door marks it as the Rising Moon.
Inside is one of the most cheerful inns any of you have encountered. It's warm and snug, with comfortable furniture in a variety of sizes. There's a large taproom that's more than three quarters filled with folks laughing, talking, and eating, and the food when it comes is understated, but delicious. Most of the folks appear to be locals, and you're easily able to get rooms for the night.
Elves
You chat a little longer with the elders, but nothing of particular substance comes up. Bristar does not have an inn, but spare rooms for you are found among the people of the village where you can sleep for the evening. The village also doesn't have any clergy of Labelas, and Elorfindar spends much of the evening doing pastoral work; talking with elders, speaking with those teaching the young, and telling stories of the past. He gathers quite a crowd of children eager to hear his tales, and only the coming of night and their parents calling brings and end to the stories.
The next morning one of the scouts volunteers to show you the way to Highmoon. It's another long, punishing day of running along deer paths and hidden trails, but as the winter day comes to a close you emerge from the forest edge to see the not-entirely-completed walls of Highmoon standing to the east. After a bit of exploring, you're able to find the rest of your party having evenfeast in the Rising Moon, and rooms are rented for you.
((ooc: Travel times are being compressed here just to make things flow together better. I'm going to pause here, in case anyone wants to do something in Highmoon, or you want to chat amongst yourselves about what the elves found. Otherwise, the next post will be you starting north and I'll close this thread.))