Canny Candlesticks
The acting troupe sailed into Lalo and promptly entered merchant mode. They sold their foodstuffs and basic goods at market price and then ventured into the multi-segmented Port Lalo Inn to fetch a price on their seven golden candlesticks.
Janella and Sabrina (in a sedan chair) entered the upper-crust quadrant of the establishment. The host was enough impressed by Janella's gaudily rich costume to let her in, but drew the line at a mermaid companion. Janella was escorted to a table of politely trading gnomish nobility.
Meanwhile, Laseda entered the traders' tavern in the midst of an auction. She quickly got a base price on the candlesticks but was unimpressed by the offer.
Meanwhile, Sabrina joined the half-elves in the free-for-all Sailors' sector. The main draw - apart from the beautiful mermaid - was a long, in-progress drinking-and-betting game. The barkeep invited them in for their ship or five hundred gold. Janus immediately backed away from the high stakes.
Janella hit it off badly with the nobles, instantly betraying her sword-for-hire station in life. Gradually she managed to rectify that impression and started to get some handsome bids for the story-swathed candlesticks. She promised to deliver them and the music mephit's spirit box for three hundred fifty gold to an eccentric old man at eleven o'clock on the next day.
Laseda and Janella joined the rest of their group in the Sailor's quadrant of the inn. Most decided the chance of winning a ship was worth the risk, so they pooled their gold and entered the competition. The remaining combatants included a very tipsy halfling betting a small ship and a collected elf betting a chest of gold. Laseda had the best markmanship...but unfortunately for her, as she started to play, she realized she didn't hold her drink that well. Her aim got worse and worse and they lost to the elf.
The halfling, now very drunk, suggested another round with the pretty halfling rogue. Janus joined this time and managed to win a derelict ship before the halfling collapsed in a corner. Laseda picked his pockets.
The crew wended their way to their new ship and discovered it looking like it had been half-submerged for a few weeks. Something squelchy sounded from the hold. They trooped down and discovered a crusty old crustacean hiding in the murky bilgewater. Thinking it might taste nice, they surrounded and battered it to death it after gave them a few nasty pinches. They also discovered some sharkskin and chitin armor, too big for the halfling, stuck in the sludge.
Everyone ate roast lobster.
Experience
Port Lalo (All): 100
Hobnobbing with the Gnome Nobles (Janella): 100
Mercantile Savvy (Laseda): 50
Betting-Drinking-Dart Game: Laseda 200, Janus 100
Flirting with the halfling (Laseda): 50
Hammerclaw (All): Level 3's 360, Level 4's 320
Janella and Sabrina (in a sedan chair) entered the upper-crust quadrant of the establishment. The host was enough impressed by Janella's gaudily rich costume to let her in, but drew the line at a mermaid companion. Janella was escorted to a table of politely trading gnomish nobility.
Meanwhile, Laseda entered the traders' tavern in the midst of an auction. She quickly got a base price on the candlesticks but was unimpressed by the offer.
Meanwhile, Sabrina joined the half-elves in the free-for-all Sailors' sector. The main draw - apart from the beautiful mermaid - was a long, in-progress drinking-and-betting game. The barkeep invited them in for their ship or five hundred gold. Janus immediately backed away from the high stakes.
Janella hit it off badly with the nobles, instantly betraying her sword-for-hire station in life. Gradually she managed to rectify that impression and started to get some handsome bids for the story-swathed candlesticks. She promised to deliver them and the music mephit's spirit box for three hundred fifty gold to an eccentric old man at eleven o'clock on the next day.
Laseda and Janella joined the rest of their group in the Sailor's quadrant of the inn. Most decided the chance of winning a ship was worth the risk, so they pooled their gold and entered the competition. The remaining combatants included a very tipsy halfling betting a small ship and a collected elf betting a chest of gold. Laseda had the best markmanship...but unfortunately for her, as she started to play, she realized she didn't hold her drink that well. Her aim got worse and worse and they lost to the elf.
The halfling, now very drunk, suggested another round with the pretty halfling rogue. Janus joined this time and managed to win a derelict ship before the halfling collapsed in a corner. Laseda picked his pockets.
The crew wended their way to their new ship and discovered it looking like it had been half-submerged for a few weeks. Something squelchy sounded from the hold. They trooped down and discovered a crusty old crustacean hiding in the murky bilgewater. Thinking it might taste nice, they surrounded and battered it to death it after gave them a few nasty pinches. They also discovered some sharkskin and chitin armor, too big for the halfling, stuck in the sludge.
Everyone ate roast lobster.
Experience
Port Lalo (All): 100
Hobnobbing with the Gnome Nobles (Janella): 100
Mercantile Savvy (Laseda): 50
Betting-Drinking-Dart Game: Laseda 200, Janus 100
Flirting with the halfling (Laseda): 50
Hammerclaw (All): Level 3's 360, Level 4's 320
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