RPG Session
Posted: Tue Jan 19, 2021 8:04 am
Drip, drip, drip ... it's raining everywhere, blowing everywhere. How cold, how wet ... The routes have got soaked and no longer tempting as they used to be. Drenched coats cling to the bodies, biting at the irritating cold that penetrates right down to the bones. Streams of rain lash across your faces like pointed whips, and each strike hurts the more you are chilled and soaked. The incessant murmur of streams of water flowing along the track, the incessant sound of drops hitting the ground. Pac! Pac! A sound that never stops, even at night. When it gets dark, you can't see the rain anymore, but you can still hear it ... Maybe that's when it's coldest, maybe that's when the traveler who finds the night on the road feels most fragile, lonely and helpless? Drip ... drip ... drip ... another drop soaks through the hood, runs down the forehead and stops at the very end of the nose ... Maybe it's Henna's nose, maybe Illaifena? What a difference, he no longer has the strength or desire to knock it down. There will be more drops, and then more ... Drip ... drip ... drip ... somewhere far away, maybe at the very end of the road, or maybe just beyond the nearest hill, there is an inn with a fire in it that warms the cold feet and joyful singing that warms the heart. Hot food and dark beer. There is also a blanket on which an exhausted traveler can fold his head. Ah, how nice it is to think about such things when for the third week you are wandering along a sloppy track, in mud and rain. And in gloomy silence.
And not so long ago in your eyes the world looked completely different! Your team travelled the roads, took on various jobs and tasks for which you received a solid payment. Killing a hippogriff in Occitania - 250 gold coins to be shared, payable immediately. Removal of the curse from a mill near Reims - 200 gold coins. Find letters compromising a respectable merchant from the Three Ports - 400. But money slips through your fingers faster than anyone thinks. Rooms in taverns, food and wine ... A happy life loves gold, but gold apparently does not love you ... A month or two, and it turned out that there was nothing left of the money earned. And again on the way, but this time it is harder to earn money, to order ...
No, this time you won't be working for anybody! Why should you do all the dirty work again and get some peanuts for it? No, this time you work only for yourself ...
One of you, Thorin, once read in ancestral books about an expedition that was organized to a certain temple near the village of Vinnitsa, a day's drive from the city of Vallo. The temple was conquered and destroyed, but the treasures hidden there remained intact. For many, many years, no one has ever ventured into that lonely area. So are the treasures still there? Where is this temple, and why was it destroyed then? These questions were not answered in the books, nor in any legend or story ... You have to answer them yourself ....
And here it is! After weeks of hiking, you have arrived in Vetteburg. It is an ordinary village like thousands throughout the Empire. The huts are built in a semicircle, and in the middle of the spacious courtyard there is a large inn building. You have rented one common room with the leftover money, a slightly humped innkeeper is bustling around you, ready at your every nod, and the table in front of you is set with all food and drink. Soon it will be night.
What are you doing?
And not so long ago in your eyes the world looked completely different! Your team travelled the roads, took on various jobs and tasks for which you received a solid payment. Killing a hippogriff in Occitania - 250 gold coins to be shared, payable immediately. Removal of the curse from a mill near Reims - 200 gold coins. Find letters compromising a respectable merchant from the Three Ports - 400. But money slips through your fingers faster than anyone thinks. Rooms in taverns, food and wine ... A happy life loves gold, but gold apparently does not love you ... A month or two, and it turned out that there was nothing left of the money earned. And again on the way, but this time it is harder to earn money, to order ...
No, this time you won't be working for anybody! Why should you do all the dirty work again and get some peanuts for it? No, this time you work only for yourself ...
One of you, Thorin, once read in ancestral books about an expedition that was organized to a certain temple near the village of Vinnitsa, a day's drive from the city of Vallo. The temple was conquered and destroyed, but the treasures hidden there remained intact. For many, many years, no one has ever ventured into that lonely area. So are the treasures still there? Where is this temple, and why was it destroyed then? These questions were not answered in the books, nor in any legend or story ... You have to answer them yourself ....
And here it is! After weeks of hiking, you have arrived in Vetteburg. It is an ordinary village like thousands throughout the Empire. The huts are built in a semicircle, and in the middle of the spacious courtyard there is a large inn building. You have rented one common room with the leftover money, a slightly humped innkeeper is bustling around you, ready at your every nod, and the table in front of you is set with all food and drink. Soon it will be night.
What are you doing?