tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5482289091050110428.post5214420660772864528..comments2023-03-24T09:39:15.377+01:00Comments on Takshendal (Retired RPG blog): Chapter 3 'The Curse of Slapershaven'moifhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16478350237996551732noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5482289091050110428.post-3712007591662282182008-06-02T19:42:00.000+02:002008-06-02T19:42:00.000+02:00I will gladly examine the daughter closer;-)I will gladly examine the daughter closer;-)Historiker-Pallehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17089221340081602562noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5482289091050110428.post-30702065396055173582008-06-02T08:46:00.000+02:002008-06-02T08:46:00.000+02:00You are correct; the bandits know the terrain, and...You are correct; the bandits know the terrain, and they have contact with at least some of the villagers.<BR/>However, these peasants will be very reluctant to confide in us.<BR/><BR/>I suggest that we approach the problem from several angles at once:<BR/><BR/>Some of us try to discover more about the village(rs), who has contacts outside, who knows thing, who will talk. I'll start with the good Brother Jeppo, as I already have contact with him, he knows the area (he has been here for years), and he has some learning.<BR/><BR/>Some of us (I'm thinking of Drake here, though not alone) wanders around in the wilderness. Obviously friendly contact with the bandits would be great.<BR/><BR/>I'm also interested in whoever supplies the fossils I'd guess peasant children, if there are no miners or builders, but it could be that when farmers clear their fields of stones they find more fossils than they can use. The Linschotens sell fossils to outsiders, but they will try to protect their sources.<BR/><BR/>There is also Clod. I'm always interested in unusual events, but in this case I am already looking for traces of the Black Rock; Psychosis, sadistic orgies, blisters, and psychological manipulation.<BR/>Clod strikes me as combining extreme deformity and psychosis.<BR/>Samuel is also mentally deranged and worth approaching (though I really doubt if we will get anything useful from him... but maybe his daughter).<BR/>So far there is no hint of perversion, cults or manipulation, but we may turn up something.<BR/><BR/>So we have to think a little about who should do what, and in which order. As I said, I'll start with the good Brother.<BR/><BR/>Misteline the GreatAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5482289091050110428.post-31962624858981868042008-05-30T18:35:00.000+02:002008-05-30T18:35:00.000+02:00Sounds like a job for our expert hunter and woodsm...Sounds like a job for our expert hunter and woodsman.<BR/><BR/>For our own purpose I think Samuel the Madman and the two outlaws are most likely to aid us locate the rock. <BR/>Samuel could have lost his sanity in contact with it and perhaps be Clod in some strange way, does spirits roam?<BR/><BR/>The Outlaws by necessity knows their range well or would be caught, they must also be alert for people hunting them, and might thus have seen people venturing into the countryside to get Black Rock. They themselves must get supplies like needles etc from somewhere and thus have local contacts that can lead us to them. And yet again Drake can prove that he is more than Misteline's prettyboy (I wonder why they hang out together, Drake does not seem skilled in The Arts of an artist and thus not an apprentice). Anyway, this sh*tehole is Drake's department, fetch me if anyone that needs serious fighting turns up...Historiker-Pallehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17089221340081602562noreply@blogger.com