Re: [Chapter 0.01] Welcome to Ravenmoor
Rynwyrd was excited about the carnival and traveling once more....for a while anyway. The journey was not as much fun as he remembered traveling to be previously. But despite the swampy marshland...and the smell, oh gods the smell, and the mosquitos, biting little bastards!....it felt GOOD to be traveling and out of the hive of scum and villainy!
So many ravens! He stared about them and absently slapped at a mosquito. He'd never seen so many before outside of a battlefield...which started to make him feel a little nervous, but he shook it off. He came up short when they came to the river and the somewhat terse and greedy ferryman gave them his price.
The elf frowned back at the man, eyes narrowed for a moment. He then made a big show of searching himself, as if he didn't have a lot of money and had to scrape together this HUGE amount. He grumbled the entire time, half-heartedly asking if 5 coppers would do, or maybe 8, he thought he could find 8 coppers, that sort of thing. But finally he pulled a silver out, wiped something off of it and handed it over. "Fine! Here."
He nodded and waved a hand, "Yes, yes, the carnival, of course." He muttered mostly under his breath, "The only other reason to come here that I can see thus far is to study the eating habits of ravens." He stopped suddenly and turned back to the man. "What's that? A wolf...in the water? How fascinating! A natural creature, some abomination, perhaps an experiment gone awry?" But then he saw the skull, narrowed eyes examined it a moment, even glancing back at the halfling rider's wolf mount a moment, before letting out a disappointed sigh and turning away. "oh."
He turned to look at the others in the group that he had ended up with. They had all been the last ones to arrive (or for some reason the last ones to join a group) and so got lumped together for the trip here. He had said his name was Rynwyrd - pronounced like 'rin-weird'. If asked about why he was traveling - "Why, to see the carnival, of course!" as if that were obvious.