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Where There's a Whip, There's A Way.

Posted by The Founder's GhostFor group 0
The Founder's Ghost
GM, 70 posts
Boo
Tue 21 Mar 2023
at 03:29
  • msg #1

Where There's a Whip, There's A Way

You have all probably noticed that there is a common misconception among the magi of Hermes.  Or at least some of them.  Most of them.

That misconception is this:  that you are a slave.

Mistress Margildt sent a maid to tell you all to go to the northern store house and bring out four crates stamped with her personal seal.

Because fetching is your job.  At least it is today.

After breakfast...you do have to admit one thing about Fengheld.  They feed their slaves decently.  The bread was still warm from the oven this morning...you all met up outside the dining hall and confirm with the maid what the seal looks like.  A green circle with a strange kind of red flower in the middle of it.

"Four crates," Margildt's maid Greta tells you, holding up four fingers.  In case you didn't know what "four" was.  "Bring them up to her chambers.  I should be in, and I'll tell you where to stack them.  Hurry up now.  We need them before noon is over."

That's fine.  You should have five hours.  Four crates in five hours.  What could go wrong?

Greta shuffles away, mumbling under her breath how Mistress Margildt could afford better servants.

I will let you each describe your Grog.  Leave it to you how well you know each other.  You probably have at least seen each other in passing.  Margildt has a lot of servants.  So it's not too unlikely you guys have not interacted directly before now.

Thanks

This message was last edited by the GM at 04:44, Sun 26 Mar 2023.
Leonard
player, 1 post
Fresh
OK
Tue 21 Mar 2023
at 14:30
  • msg #2

Where There's a Whip, There's A Way

Leonard was hard to miss.  A large man standing over six and half feet tall never was inconspicuous.  His hair was dark brown and cut short, likely to keep anyone from grabbing and yanking it in a fight.  Under his beetle brow his deep set eyes looked black but they were in fact a dark brown.  Leonard's heavily muscled limbs were marred with a few burn scars but it was when the normally quiet man spoke in his oddly harsh whispery voice that he exuded the most menace.

"Best get to it," he croaks as he starts to walk to the storehouse.

"I pick things up and I put them down," He mumbles quietly to no one in particular.
Evzen
player, 1 post
Wed 22 Mar 2023
at 13:58
  • msg #3

Where There's a Whip, There's A Way

Evzen was, in stature, as a child was to the near-giant of Leonard.  Surprisingly pale, his washed-out blue-grey eyes nearly melted into his complexion, and with scarcely two shades of color in his lips, he looked younger even than his 22 summers.

Those pale eyes stared at Greta for a moment.  German wasn't his first language, and though he could easily get by, he did need to think about it.

"Ok.  Leonard - why us two, eh?  One big to carry three, and me to carry one?  Or perhaps to chase one, if the crate decides to run off!"
Leonard
player, 2 posts
Fresh
OK
Wed 22 Mar 2023
at 14:27
  • msg #4

Where There's a Whip, There's A Way

"Just grab two more to help," he almost growls.  His eyes settle on two volunteers.
Evzen
player, 2 posts
Wed 22 Mar 2023
at 14:33
  • msg #5

Where There's a Whip, There's A Way

"hahah! Vollentold!  Freiwilliklärte!  But I think we can handle four boxes by noon, no?  Come now, let's move along."
Wulfgang
player, 1 post
Thu 23 Mar 2023
at 01:47
  • msg #6

Where There's a Whip, There's A Way

At 5’9, Wulfgang is also practically a dwarf out of legend compared to Leonard.  A modest black disc of hair adorns his head, with a slightly reddish tuft on his chin where a beard perhaps aspired to be.  His eyes were disconcertingly green… they almost seemed to glow at times.

“I’ll not be chasin’ any crates,” he says plainly.  “But I’ll carry one, if you lead me to it.”
This message was last edited by the player at 01:50, Thu 23 Mar 2023.
Evzen
player, 3 posts
Thu 23 Mar 2023
at 01:55
  • msg #7

Where There's a Whip, There's A Way

"Perfect! One less crate for you to carry, Leonard!  If we find one more, I can supervise and ... instruct! Even better."
Leonard
player, 3 posts
Fresh
OK
Thu 23 Mar 2023
at 02:21
  • msg #8

Where There's a Whip, There's A Way

Leonard nods and heads off to the northern store house.
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