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Dry Gulch
Thirdmonth, Tenthday

Blodwyn, Vallistra, Amagar, Ruarc, and Blix are all in Dry Gulch, with the following goals:

*Recruit workers to take back with them to the Keep.
*Rumors
*Magical equipment/laboratory: Ruarc
*anything else?


Each character can do *one* thing per day.

If time permits, Ruarc would like to look for purveyors of magical laboratory equipment or rare books to stock a library.

Blix will be recruiting mercenaries for Keyan. He'd like 10 longbowman and 2 heavy horseman if available. He'll be offering a signing bonus of 1 months wages.

jgilmore wrote: ↑Tue Dec 20, 2022 12:30 pm Blix will be recruiting mercenaries for Keyan. He'd like 10 longbowman and 2 heavy horseman if available. He'll be offering a signing bonus of 1 months wages.

I'm guessing thirdkingdom is bringing on new recruits himself and that you are okay to post here

rredmond wrote: ↑Tue Dec 20, 2022 1:56 pm

jgilmore wrote: ↑Tue Dec 20, 2022 12:30 pm Blix will be recruiting mercenaries for Keyan. He'd like 10 longbowman and 2 heavy horseman if available. He'll be offering a signing bonus of 1 months wages.

I'm guessing thirdkingdom is bringing on new recruits himself and that you are okay to post here

Yup!

jgilmore wrote: ↑Tue Dec 20, 2022 12:30 pm Blix will be recruiting mercenaries for Keyan. He'd like 10 longbowman and 2 heavy horseman if available. He'll be offering a signing bonus of 1 months wages.

Okay, will add that to the list. That'll be a day at minimum.

Wasn't someone supposed to meet with the local council to get information? Was that the rumors part?

We can do a meet with the local Council, as well. I would say rumors would be different; this would be more an official meeting.

Amagar will look for workers of stone and laborers to head back to the keep.

jgilmore wrote: ↑Tue Dec 20, 2022 12:30 pm Blix will be recruiting mercenaries for Keyan. He'd like 10 longbowman and 2 heavy horseman if available. He'll be offering a signing bonus of 1 months wages.

Everyone else had a chance to start play with mercenaries, so if you'd like to handwave that you started with mercs you can certainly do that. You can have either regular or veteran troops; regular troops cost the normal amount and are Normal Humans; Veteran troops are level 1 fighters and cost 10 gp/month more.

kalstone wrote: ↑Sun Dec 18, 2022 9:42 pm If time permits, Ruarc would like to look for purveyors of magical laboratory equipment or rare books to stock a library.

There's only a day to look . . . Magic items, then alchemical lab:: 2#1d100 23 87

Ooh, just missed the chance to find magical items. Nothing to be found.

VonAlric wrote: ↑Thu Jan 05, 2023 2:45 am Amagar will look for workers of stone and laborers to head back to the keep.

Shoot, my post was lost.

There are:

 Laborers: 10 are immediately available.
 Carpenters: 4 are immediately available (3 journeymen 30 gp/month, one master 60 gp/month)
 Masons. 3 immediately available (1 journeyman 30 gp/month, two master 60 gp/month).

That's their cost as well as their output.

VonAlric wrote: ↑Tue Dec 27, 2022 11:48 pm Wasn't someone supposed to meet with the local council to get information? Was that the rumors part?

Dry Gulch is ruled by a Council of Seven, with each Councilor representing one of the Guilds: Merchant, Craft, Farming, Ranching, Wisdom, and Blade, with the seventh, the Silent Guild, also having a seat. You also get a map of the Zelaia Plains.

thirdkingdom wrote: ↑Sat Jan 07, 2023 12:54 pm There are:

 Laborers: 10 are immediately available.
 Carpenters: 4 are immediately available (3 journeymen 30 gp/month, one master 60 gp/month)
 Masons. 3 immediately available (1 journeyman 30 gp/month, two master 60 gp/month).

That's their cost as well as their output.

Amagar will see if any of them will assist in finding suitable transportation for the group of them. He will also inform them that they may be heading out with the next caravan, depending on the others in his group.

thirdkingdom wrote: ↑Fri Jan 06, 2023 10:36 pm

jgilmore wrote: ↑Tue Dec 20, 2022 12:30 pm Blix will be recruiting mercenaries for Keyan. He'd like 10 longbowman and 2 heavy horseman if available. He'll be offering a signing bonus of 1 months wages.

Everyone else had a chance to start play with mercenaries, so if you'd like to handwave that you started with mercs you can certainly do that. You can have either regular or veteran troops; regular troops cost the normal amount and are Normal Humans; Veteran troops are level 1 fighters and cost 10 gp/month more.

That works. Just wanted some muscle to add to home base.

Rumors from Dry Gulch:

*The Redfoot Gang is rumored to be based somewhere in the hills to the north of the city.
*A wise sage lives in a tower to the northeast of Dry Gulch, and he is rumored to be a powerful magic-user, as well.
*It is said that towards the end of the last Nadir a gate to the Shadowlands opened up somewhere in the Zelaia Plains, west of Dry Gulch, and that has made travel through the region dangerous as large numbers of undead have spilled into the region.
*The Redfoot Gang trades in gems and gold ore, traveling east to the village of Sin and then even further to the rivertown of Hob.

Treasure found 1/8/23

76 gp
12 cp
2 white pearls (75gp)
brooch (400gp)
amulet (500gp)
arm ring (1400gp)
2000 pp
ring, plat./diamond (magic)
oak wand (magic)

XP Awards

Treasure: 12,526
Monsters: 3,182
Total XP: 15,708

There were a total of 12 half shares.

*Velsind = 1 share
*Keyan = 1 share
**Ugla = 1/2 share
*Nerghui = 1 share
**Kalan = 1/2 share
** Safa = 1/2 share
*Ciaran = 1 share
**Slainte = 1/2 share

Each retainer gets 1,309 XP, while each PC gets 2,618 XP

Just so I'm prepared, can you give me an idea of what the Dry Gulch away party would like to do while waiting for the caravan to get ready to leave? You've got two full days before it leaves.

I think meeting with the caravan master would be called for so we can join them and offer some protection. I think that we should also try to meet with some sort of rep with the Blade, Merchant, and Craft guilds to inform them of the activities we have undertaken.