There is an restaurant
attached to the hotel, and after they checked in, the trio go for some
food. Lucien pays an extra sov for the
boy who is tending the stable. Something feels like it's going on in this town
...they can't put finger on it, but something just feels odd. Everything closes
at 5:00 so that all the elves can have happy hour according to the waitress. All
inns, bars and restaurants are owned
by humans, dwarves and hillmen so that all
elves can have fun and bedlam. They finish eating and Toughas eats them nearly
out of rolls. (they said it was free)
The owner of the inn has adopted an elf child
and so they moved to the elvin town so that their elf daughter can be around
other elves.
The deputy
comes in for a cup of coffee, spots us and comes up to us asking our names.
Toughas freaks him out by his size and demeanor...Lucien lies and says his name
is "Larry", Toughas gives his proper name but through a thicker
trogger accent and Hester gives her full name in high hillmen. He leaves us and
leaves the cafe.
Everyone
needs a bath and is filthy from the road. Apparently Toughas is filthiest and
everyone would like him to go first. So he does. Next is Hester and after that
is Lucien. They have a laundry here as well, and everyone has sent their
clothes for washing.
After the
baths, the place starts to fill up with elves. A fashion for the men is to wear
a large acorn high on top on their heads with large bows tied under their chin.
The ladies wear large leaves, tied with grasses.
They get some
sleep and then head down for breakfast. After breakfast they want to go down to
the arcane store. They're told they can find taxis by saying the term
"Hackney Hackney come to me" three times, anywhere on the street. An apparition
appears of an elvin man who takes the route plans. He then appears shortly in a
cart pulled by two horses. All three pile in and drive down to the mage school.
(There is no store, just the school.) He drops them off at the bookstore and
leaves. All three enter, and the elf at the desk doesn't want to help Lucien
because no one has a visitor's pass.
They send the three away to administration to get visitors passes. Toughas and
Hester can't have passes, but Lucien gets one. Hester and Toughas can be on the
quad only.
Toughas sits
on a park bench and Hester starts juggling pine cones and telling jokes. She's
doing ok but not super impressive to the elves.
Lucien goes
in to get a spell book of scry lock, and then starts looking around at other
books to see what there is. He also finds a book for "resist pain".
Lucien pays, walks out and finds Toughas and Hester where he left them, at the
fountain on the park bench.
Toughas calls Hackney taxi and a different driver than before appears, she's scared and
nervous to see a trogger. She takes the directions and comes up to them about 10mins
later. Toughas pays and they all get in the cab, headed back to the Green
Griffin. They have lunch, then redo the gear and get ready to head back out to
the road. They go out to the barn, call for the boy who's in charge. Lucien
asks him to get Pickles hooked up to the carriage so they can head back out. As
Toughas is getting things put back into the carriage, it feels like someone has
searched our wagon. Toughas speaks with Lucien quietly and shares his feelings.
Lucien questions the boy and he says that he heard something in the barn last
night, and Pickles seemed upset but none of the horses did. Lucien casts detect
magic on all our items to see if there's anything to be seen. There is a sigil
carved into the side of our carriage that wasn't there before, and it's
magically glowing. Lucien tries to read it to decipher it and finds it's a
"Make it easy to scry on you" spell.
Lucien breaks
the spell on the carriage, they get Pickles hooked up and get back on the road.
It's going to take them about a month total to get to Domni.
Lucien spends
some time learning the magic spells from the books.
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