Grimaldi sighs, with relief. They had a good rep with the trolls now, and they just arrived with their trade goods.

"No.  This is where your Guild slaughtered my people three weeks ago.  The hobgoblins tunnels lay beyond."



OOC:  GM are we crossing through the Western Warrens or going around them?

For What? That is insane!

In reply to Syvanus (msg # 41):

"The blue haied elf witch Marie, along with her armored knight, the man with the plumed hat, the one with the rusty sword, and the one armed woman did this to us because of a wine seller nsmed DuClair."
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"For what?  Guildsman, for coins.  The only thing that motivates your Guild."

So often it does, but to attack a village and force the people away? That is criminal.

"Your Guild doesn't agree with you."

My tie to the Guild does not change my thinking or how I was raised. If you wish to fight to recover your village, I am with you.

"You would fight this Duclare?  You would go against your Guild?"  She sounds a little bit incredulous and suspicious, but mostly depressed.

In reply to Syvanus (msg # 46):

"While this side venture may be appealing, it conflicts with my guild
license to trade with the people of the
Eastern reaches and the Ropemaker's Guild."

Ah, of Course, Back to Money First...

In reply to Syvanus (msg # 49):

"I am a merchant, I came to trade.
I need the market the trollfolk offer,
 and would be happy to link them to the
Ropemaker Guild. I have no love for
 Lamont DuClaire, he is one of the Merchant's guild who made trouble for me."

Ülo takes a deep breath and slowly lets it out, "This is best addressed when we're done with the Caravan Master's trade mission.  Besides, without Elder Agrid's approval, there is no tribe to return to these warrens.  And while Raffik, myself, and a few others who've not joined the Eastern Reaches would be happy to come and retake these tunnels, a handful of warriors are not a town."
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Grimaldi  listened in silence, waiting to collect his own profits when they unloaded.

Grohm walked along with the cart as he listened quietly to the conversations.  He didn't know much about what happened to Ulo's tribe or why and he was getting quite the education.

No You'd need quite a few more people, so many did not escape? It brings bile to my tongue.  I will remember this DuClair.

"Few besides our elders and the very young survived.  Raffik almost didn't make it, he only lives because he fell in the first day's fighting when our war troll drove off your Guild and thus was too injured to stand to the end on the second day.  He hid and escaped upward to the city while a few others were carried out with the eldest and children when we fled on the second day.  I only live because I was ordered to hide them in safety until the fighting was over.  But when mother... when our Elder fell to your Guild's fire mage, I knew there was no coming back.  I led the eldest and children to the Eastern Reaches and begged Elder Angrid take them in.  Most have sworn to follow Angrid, though Raffik and a few others did not, but they come when Elder Angrid asks.  I serve Elder Angrid for a time in recompense for taking our eldest and children in."
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All that suffering for a few coins... The Guild should be ashamed, I know I am.

In reply to Syvanus (msg # 56):

Rafik shakes his head. " I was burnt and left for dead, found by this one, and reborn from the ashes."

he pulls out a large glass jar containing a pixie.

And you hold her prisoner?

"I'm sorry Raffik, I though you were one of the injured we carried out."


OOC:  Ülo seems far more concerned that they left Raffik behind* than that he has a pixie in a jar... despite it being a call back to Legend of Zelda.
And now I have the music from LoZ: A Link to the Past stuck in my head.  *sigh*
* My error, it's been a few years, I forgot Raffik was the archer who was saved by the pixie, so I'm playing it off as Ülo is ditzy teen who legit has absent-minded and distracted as flaws...

Jendrich had been silent during the talks, apparently lost in thought. When Rafik pulls out the fairy though, he takes a step back, as though the archer just pulled out an angry disease rat.

In reply to Jendrich (msg # 60):

the small fairy waves at Jendrich from inside the jar.  She doesn't  seem to be terribly happy.

https://drive.google.com/file/...Ai/view?usp=drivesdk
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Grimaldi is bemused why the creature seems so content with her captivity predicament, but says nothing.

OOC - Are we waiting for anyone?