"I was drinking in my favorite tavern "The Pale T'Skrang," Swapping stories with other adventurers about my latest deeds around Throal. When the bartender Grombeard, pointed out to me a job posted on his missive board. An Alchemist by the name of Vinnidamous from the dwarven House Goronich, was looking for adventurers to help him on a trip to Iron-Bark Grove. I saw he needed the aid of a trained navigator and decided to throw my ship into the storm.
upon reaching the spot listed on the missive I found a decent sized building and outside I saw two familiar faces, Reyis the Shaman and Dalyor the Wizard. Both I knew were good company and up and coming adepts like myself. standing near them was a Dwarf I never met before, he introduced himself as Torgun a sword-master. I didn't know anything about him but I could tell he had seen a battle or two and didn't worry about his ability. Inside the building we found an alchemy lab set up and were greeted by a stout Dwarf who introduced himself as Vinnidamous, but asked us to call him Vinni. He directed us through a door into what he called his office, it however was small and looked to be no more than a large closet. He sat across his "Desk" from us which was more of a small table, and began to inform us of the job. He wanted to find an untouched alchemy resource spot that he could lay claim to and heard from his cousin Duban of a place called Iron-bark grove. Near Iron-bark grove is a settlement called Iron-delve and he needs help convincing the natives to let him have access to the land for gathering. Lucky for him Dalyor was from Iron-delve and knew the people there, this would come to our aid majorly. With that we planned to head out the next day, all to meet up at the gates of Throal. I drank myself a fair share of ale and passed out at my favorite booth in the "Pale T'Skrang" not wanting to make the walk back to my cabin outside of Throal.
Next day we left Throal and with my Navigation skills and Reyis's Wilderness survival expertise we managed the trip no problem. About half way there while we were camping for the night, Vinni with a little to much drink in him told us that he actually didn't have any investors for this project but actually got the money from winning big on gambling and decided to push his luck and try to get his foot in the door with some alchemy ingredients. This I respected immensely, a man takes the chance and wins, decides to push it even farther; I love that. The next day along the road we met some wolfs, two normal pack members and a Alpha wolf. They ripped into me and Dalyor a little bit but we came out top. Hell I even came out of that fight with three pelts to have made into a nice wolf fur coat when I get back to Throal.
Reaching the settlement of Iron-delve we were met with several armed militia fighter that asked us our business but recognized Dalyor so they were less on edge. after a short exchange of words we proceeded with a greeting ritual in which me, reyis, and Dalyor even somehow botched and completed the ritual but it was so bad they asked us to wait outside the village for a day until we can do it again tomorrow. the next day Vinni met with the village healer/leader named Bandar, an Ork women. after a long exchange of words between our party and Bandar we came to an agreement that was good for both sides and she gave us a map of Iron-bark grove so Vinni could see the area he would be collecting from. In the grove i saw beautiful plants I had never seen, since I had never made it down to the Servos jungle. I was dumbfounded by what I saw and thought to myself "How come I didn't build my cabin down here??" But then I heard buzzing and more buzzing and even more buzzing, then I remembered I fucking hate the Servos jungle and every single living thing inside this passion forsaken jungle. Because then about 6 Blood bees came out the trees and started attacking us. I yelled for Vinni to get back behind me and the parley began. after a few close calls including a blood bee attaching itself to Torgun and one poisoning me at the end of combat we came out on top and Vinni was there shaking in his boots. after he got the supplies he needed we camped and headed back to Throal the next day.
On the road the next few days was uneventful, until we made it to a clearing in the road with two rocky slopes to our left and right. out run six bandits with bows three on both sides and in front of us on the road a Stout pig faced (not literally this is not Grakkor) Dwarf. The Dwarf starts to yell out at our party demanding that Vinni give him the money he won in the gambling game, Vinni reveals this is his other cousin Bogdamous Goronich a Thief Adept. he try to threaten us and tells our group to stand down so he can just take the money from Vinni and no one would be hurt. He asks us to make the "Sensible" decision, I scream out "Hey pal I have never made a sensible decision in my life" and I was the first one to make his move in combat and closed the distance on him and started slashing away at him. a few moments later after Torgun and Reyis came to help me deal with this thug we had him nearly almost knocked out as he yelled that he yields. I being a Throalic representative stayed my hand and let the man speak. He said that all of this can be forgotten and Vinni told him if he tries something like this again he will hire Us adepts to finish him off. With that complete our party made a safe trip back to Throal."Statistics:Posted by Icarus-Wolfswift — Mon May 25, 2020 12:21 am
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