The Gaming Den

Previously...

Alexander nods his head at the news his ghoulish servants brought. "Excellent, excellent. You three deserve a reward. Down the street is a man who sells fried spiders - he will undoubtably sell you some live ones if you ask politely. Go, and know that you have pleased me."

After handing a few bills to the ghouls, continues on to Duraweb with the others. During the meeting with Morb the Blind, he speaks up:

"Boar? Excellent, I haven't had any for quite a while. Please, do lead on."

((Sorry for not posting sooner, but the 100 degree weather and lack of working AC had sapped my writing ability. Now that it is fixed, I should be more active.))

((Detect thoughts is spell like, so no somatic/material/vocal components. She can still tell I'm doing something?))

((If you make your save agiast a spell you know that someone cast a spell on you same with pioson if you make your save you still know that somone used pioson on you))

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Thane studiously ignores Meerza's question, "ah, boar, wonderful. How many partners are there in Duraweb?" (needless to say, Thane is maintaining concentration)

Hocus asks morb "what's the name of the restarant and is their a stable or at least a hitching post near the restarant? If not ill meet you their after I find a reputable place to keep hugs the road here"

The restaurant is the Black Boar. I'm assuming that the characters meet up at the lodgings that the Ghouls have secured for you. The place is called the SahuagInn. The place's barn is quite large and above ground, opening directly to a major road so as to accommodate travelers with loaded triceratops. The inn itself is dug into the side of a hill, not unlike a Halfling dwelling. The main room appears to be set up as a tavern for patrons, and from the number of barrels, it appears to be set up to serve many more people than are currently here.



The light is limited and comes from lanterns that are boxed to keep direct light from blinding any of the patrons. You each have a room, and the Ghouls and Zombies are apparently set up to stand in a stall in the barn.

The Ghouls requested a "small bed" to be placed in Alexander's room, which the innkeeper appears to have interpreted as a request to place an extra small bed along side the orc-sized one. The small bed is clearly made for children, and has cartoonish pigs and spiders painted on it.

[Is there anything the players want to do before meeting with Duraweb?]

FrankTrollman wrote:[Is there anything the players want to do before meeting with Duraweb?]

{If he has enough time, Drovak detours over to the forest to check on his animal companion. Otherwise, no.}

Hocus make sure his horse is secure and comfortable in the stables and puts all non essentail gear an items in the room safe if their is no room safe he just puts his stuff under the bed in his room and locks all the entrance to his room before leaving to go to the black boar

Alexander is slightly annoyed by the child's bed, but it was better than trying to scale the side of the orc one every night. He wanted a change of clothes before the meeting, to get the stale ship-smell out, but other than that he was ready to talk business.

Thane will set his traveling gear in the room, and go down to have a drink while the others get situated, chatting up the locals for info about the family level effects of the economic troubles, what people are doing about said economic troubles, and so forth (Gather Info Roll 11+12=23)

Asking Around Town

Locals seem upset about the lack of job prospects and perceived rising crime levels. Apparently, some neighborhoods in Thagport are simply not safe in the few hours after dawn, and you're advised to stay inside before the early morning crime waves.

Layoffs have hit the young harder than other groups. With major companies cutting their workforce, they cut new hires preferentially meaning that few people are being trained and the average amount of experience of an employed person is very much higher than it was even a month ago.

You also hear about a growing gang called the Red Handers. They use child runners and sell devilweed. No one seems to know where they get it, but they are apparently pretty strong and the (at least local) leader is named Korg the Reaver. Some people seem concerned about devilweed related violence. Apparently the guards are not effective at stopping the devilweed trade.

BTW, what passes for fashion 'round these parts?

Given that the local resources heavily feature textiles and triceratops my ideal plan here is to convince the baddest orc around to start dressing like the Ultimate Warrior.

Hocus heads to the black boar if there is already a table for them he sits their if not he gets a table for 8 the waits for the party to arrive

While he waits he makes small talk with the people their he tries to get info regarding how the economies downtern has effected agriculture also who's the biggest name in the meat industry around here and no meat puns

Whipstitch wrote:BTW, what passes for fashion 'round these parts?

Looking around on the street, it seems that people in Thagport are expected to wander around with a weapon and armor. Much of the armor people wear is pretty nominal - a spiked shoulder pad or a bit of chain mail across the chest. The trappings of a warrior are heavy and not necessarily great in different temperatures, and people tend to like things that can be loosened easily. Mail is cool in the summer and agony in the winter, leather and hides are the opposite, and with Thagport's aggressively temperate climate and harsh seasons, the fashions change over a couple times a year. Generally metal armor is fashionable in the summer, with heavy furs and leathers big in the Winter. Capes and shields are big all year round.

A man or woman without some kind of armor and weapon is considered undressed.


That shoulder pad is the difference between decency and indecency.

The Black Boar

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You're the first to arrive at the Black Boar. The place has a lot of empty tables. Spider Silk cloths adorn the ceiling and damper quite a bit of the noise. Animated conversations happen at a couple of tables, but only a low murmur gets to your ears. A pig roasts on a metal spit and the maître d' has little enough to do that you are escorted to a seat right away. Apparently a reservation has already been made.

Drovak has his zombies wait outside.

Alexander settles into his seat and beckons his fellow investors closer. "Before Morb gets here, we need to settle on a business plan to present to him. This needs to be straightforward, something he can get a good grasp on over the meal. I say we stick with the obvious for now: 'The problem in the Korbahl is that people aren't buying the silk, lumber and kerosene that the Korbahl is selling. Our answer is to start factories that will work those raw commodities into trade goods and to sell those instead.' Does that sound workable to all of you?"

Assuming there's no immediate backlash against the idea, Alexander sets to work devising a silent image presentation for their business plan, with visions of silk being harvested off of trees, shipped into town and worked into silk clothing, sails and ropes.

John leaves his zombies with Drovak's before entering the Black Boar.

Thane nods, "Yes, this sounds doable. The lumber and kerosene could be sold through the same outlet if we turned the lumber into ornate lanterns, though we'd need metal for the actual interior."

Yellow sits down at a seat facing the entrance "Yeah if people won't buy the raw material may be we can sell finished goods presumably with the cheap labor and cheap raw goods available hear we can produce a low cost product with decent or high quality. But we still need a market to sell too but with derpistans economy the way it is people will proably be looking for a low cost alternitive to their regular finished goods. Still in order to make anything decent we need trained individuals not just laborers like what they have hear. I suggest we pitch the idea alexander presented but also mention were going to bring in people to trian the workers"

Grek wrote:

Alexander settles into his seat and beckons his fellow investors closer. "Before Morb gets here, we need to settle on a business plan to present to him. This needs to be straightforward, something he can get a good grasp on over the meal. I say we stick with the obvious for now: 'The problem in the Korbahl is that people aren't buying the silk, lumber and kerosene that the Korbahl is selling. Our answer is to start factories that will work those raw commodities into trade goods and to sell those instead.' Does that sound workable to all of you?"

Assuming there's no immediate backlash against the idea, Alexander sets to work devising a silent image presentation for their business plan, with visions of silk being harvested off of trees, shipped into town and worked into silk clothing, sails and ropes.

Drovak nods. "Absolutely. It's simple, it probably can't make Duraweb's situation any worse, and it builds a foundation for more ambitious action in the future.

Duraweb won't be inclined to start factories like these with their own money. They are not in a position to gamble. But we are. And we don't strictly need their help. But they can make things much easier for us. Primarily, we want them to leverage their contacts in the silk industry to bring us experts to teach Korbahl artisans and factory workers. We'll pay the experts, and Duraweb will get a finders fee. They'll also get favored status as trading partners when we start buying up materials wholesale.

That's a decent starting point. If Duraweb wants to formally attach their name to this operation, we can probably ask to use some of their buildings in exchange."

"Ok this sounds like I good plan so far but I do have one misgiving with the plan my home country is and exporter of finished goods and this nation is an importer of finished goods and an exporter of raw materials if we start making a cheap alternative to drow goods and nations start to buy them won't my people suffer for it? I'm all for saving the economy but for everyone not just the orcs."

"Hey, we'll be putting some drow to work, right? The way things are right now, only the rich are buying from Lolthwyr anyways.

Nobody's gonna buy "Made In Korbahl" stamped product if they can afford something both nicer and more prestigious. And we won't catch up with the drow's quality goods anytime in the near future.

I think we're creating a new niche, going after a basically untapped market. And our target is purely internal. I doubt that a sudden demand for orcish shirts will manifest in any of our neighbors to a degree that will actually change their economies."

Hocus smiles "ok yeah that makes sense to me so all my concerns are addressed and im ready to pitch this if you guys are"

"Ready as I'll ever be."

John shrugs. "Even if there is a sudden demand for orc clothes, so much the better for us, and if anything Lolthwyr will step up their game."