A Beast on the Loose - Celina Zabinski - 14/04/2021
Apr 16, 2021 1:44:03 GMT
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Post by Celina Zabinski on Apr 16, 2021 1:44:03 GMT
Celina Zabinski
Right Celina, first week in Port Ffirst hasn't gone so well. You haven't made any new contacts. Luck is not on your side. Maybe this week will be better.
I wake up in a delightful mood and go down for some breakfast. As I'm on the way down I can hear some wonderful music coming from the dining hall. What do you know they finally got some entertainment on here in the morning. As I look towards where the music is coming from it appears to be a human playing music. Yes, bard play me more of your music. I am loving this in the morning and do my best to sing along. Every morning needs to start this way! Woohoo! I decide to sit up close to the action near the stage. After the bard is done playing his piece, I applause. Coll walks in an goes up to a random group of people sitting at a nearby table. It consists of a Halfling, Half Orc and Kenku. Strange mix... however seeing Coll can only mean one thing, GOLD. Helloooooo precious gold, I can already feel today is going to be great!
I approach Coll and he welcomes me again as a stranger. Jeesh, you think after last weeks adventure he'd remember my beautiful face. He's acting like he doesn't know me, a complete stranger. But I know his style... he doesn't want to play favourites, I get it
The bard also follows over.
Coll tells the five of us that the storehouse was broken into, trashed, there was a worker assaulted and the armoury was also broken into. There are no leads. However if we get to the bottom of this, he is going to offer us 20 gold each. Celina, if we're going to get that shop of ours we need more money. I convince him that due to the tedious nature of the work and the fact we have no leads we would need more money as compensation for this information. The bard decided to chip in and agree with my case. Thank you mister bard man! Coll sighs and agrees to give us 30 gold pieces as a reward for information now. Yes! Success!!!
I get introduced to the team we're working with, the bard is introduces himself as Breeze, the Kenku goes by Forger, the halfling goes by Kelne and the Half Orc goes by Varga. I introduce myself as the local shopkeeper just looking around. Ha they should believe that. Lets hope we have good luck finding out this information. Celina, your skills are going to come in handy here... yes
We discuss our options and figure out we have three locations to check out. The Storehouse, The Armoury and The Assaulted employee, who's name is Billy. I express interest in checking out the storehouse, what being a simple shopkeeper and all. Varga appears to actually know Billy, so she volunteers to go there and Breeze decides to join her. Forger and Kelne agree to check out the armoury. Great, all by myself. However means I can be extra sneaky. Yes, haha I be extra sneaky!
I arrive at the Storehouse and the whole place is in a mess. Door is busted in, everything is trashed all over the floor. I do a quick check around the room and notice an odd thing. That the seed bags have been ripped apart - odd. I decide to investigate further with the seed bag and notice... wait is that drool? Ewwwwww! It's like someone has been eating it. It's all damp and wet in patches. This is sooo gross! Just as I take my hand away I see Varga and Breeze enter the storehouse. Ahhh I see they have found me in the storehouse. But wait? What's that sensation in my nose...? I only get like this when I'm around pollen. I think I'm going to.... and before I know it, I sneeze and the loose seeds go EVERYWHERE! All over Varga and Breeze. Oops!!! Varga does not look happy! Crap, must not get the Orc unhappy, she looks very strong and could possibly kill me. Before I say anything Breeze casts Prestidigitation and everyone is back to normal with no seeds. Ohhh thank you Breeze! Breeze you're the man!!!
We head back towards the hall to discuss what we all find. As we're walking back my nose will not stop sneezing. Ohhh my there is so much pollen around!!! Like how much can be in the darn air! Holey Moley! Just as we're about to enter the hall Varga picks me up in a vice grip and starts walking back towards where we came from. Why is she so strong? Omg she's going to kill me... OMG she's going to kill me for sneezing on her!!! Omg this is the end. I won't go down without a fight... I wiggle and struggle and shout at her to let me go. I mention she needs to stop man-handling me or at least by me a drink first. To this she says she'll happily buy me dinner. After hearing this if I stop moving. I am quite confused of this interaction. Well, she doesn't appear to actually want to kill me know. But if she's buying me something I will cooperate... for now. Is this how all Orc's communicate? Are we friends now? Note to self look up more on Orc behaviours and customs. But owwww, she literally keeps moving head in certain directions, what is she doing? And I finally worked out what she's doing. When my head moves in certain directions I sneeze and in others I don't. And then it dawned on me, I, Celina am a POLLEN DETECTOR! I feel like a superhero!!! I can sniff out crime. I have finally found a use for that darn pollen allergy of mine. With my keen senses working, I guide us to a hotel. We arrive at a door that says 'Alenea'.
Alenea what could that mean? Is it a person, place or thing? Yes, it could be one of those things. Kelne decides to press her ear against the door. She can tell there's something there. Breeze decides to go write a spell but says it's going to take some time. Everyone is confused as to what to do next and I decided I had an idea. I warn everyone I am going to knock on the door. Just so they could hide if things go bad. Once I knock on the door I get a response asking - who is it? "Housekeeping" I shout and next thing I know I am welcomed in. Hahah, works every time. I am then standing in front of a female high elf, well dressed. I take a quick look around the room and can see it she has definitely put her own stamp in this hotel room. I mean I have not seen this exact hotel room before but there's clearly a lot of flowers so stuff all around the room. And there's a large sunflower on the desk. Ahh Alenea must be her name. I get it. I introduce myself as Sabina... I mean one can't be too careful who they introduce themselves to these days. Especially lying going into a hotel room. Alenea then starts asking me more questions about why aren't the unseen servants looking after the housekeeping today. I mention it's because she's a special VIP and that I was personally sent up to cater to her every need... Yes! I smile convincingly and she buys it. However she immediately notices the extra bodies standing outside the door, especially Breeze trying to cast a magic spell. Darn, slightly less easy to work into story. I do my best to say this is all normal at the hotel. I don't believe she's buying it. But I immediately go into fake housekeeper mode to keep up the charade. Lightly dusting and fluffing pillows. I think she's buying it now. Next thing I know Varga starts asking questions her about someone in the summer court. Alenea looks nervous but doesn't say she doesn't know who this is. The rest come in and have a quick look around her room. Alenea asks me over to look at the sunflower on the table. As I walk over I immediately sneeze and the sunflower closes up and falls to the floor. Alenea appears to be sad. Ohh no I killed her sunflower. It's best if I ehhh clean this up... I am housekeeper after all.
Out of nowhere, we all hear a high pitch scream coming from the court yard. It's so loud. Alenea explains to us that she needs our help bringing back a sunflower guard she made. It escaped and is now on the loose now. She is willing to pay us treasure. I tell her it's hard work being a shopkeeper by day and housekeeper by night but I will make this work. I enquire more about how much we'll get. We're told it's 150 gold if we bring it back alive and 100 gold if it's dead. 150 gold is 30 gold each. ALIVE IT IS!!!
We race down after it and a chase begins. All of us in the group appear to have different tactics to try and bring this creature back. I decide to try my favourite technic. Ohh this better work. I cast Thaumaturgy and make my voice boom really loud, the earth shake and my eyes go black. I then roar "GET BACK HERE NOW SOILDER! YOU HAVE BEEN VERY BOLD AND I DEMAND YOU GET BACK HERE RIGHT THIS INSISTENCE!!!". In a moment, it appears to almost nearly work but the sunflower solider keeps on running. I decide to run after it and do some threatening shapes with my body using my acrobatics skills. Yes, you better be scared looking at the letter T with my body sunflower solider. However it's still not good enough to make it stop. I, then decide to give it all I have and I use my Animal Handling skills to grapple this creature to the ground. Alive equals more money. We can't kill it! We all take turns and try to attack it and it still won't go down. It then decides to take its temper out on me and attacks me. Ok now I am angry. You will pay sunflower solider!!! Before I can do anything else, Varga is staring at me and then unleashes some fire from her breath. HOLEY SMOKES!!! This barbarian has some fire breath?
WHAT THE HELL!! However.... ohhh no it's coming for me. I quickly dodge out of the way and avoid the fire being blasted at me. Success! Ok Sunflower Solider, I am now super pissed and you are going down. Time to take out my trusty Rapier! I then launch at it and stab it a few times. Alenea from a distance casts a spell on me and I appear to be feeling much better now. I got some health restored. Thank you Alenea. Forger comes and joins me attacking it. The sunflower solider turns it's attention to Forger and delivers a blow which sends him to the ground unconscious. Kelne is quick to jump on this and quickly using some healing words to bring Forger back to life. Yes, no one will die today! In the corner of my eye do I see Breeze and Alenea dancing? Ha, I have no clue what I'm watching there. I must keep my attention on stabbing this thing.
Forger did the final blow, he shot it through the leg. Yessss, woohoo go buddy! Alenea comes over and put manacles on the soldier. Hahah, I love this elf. What elf carries manacles? This is great stuff! Since we brought back the sunflower solider alive Alenea pays us the gold as promised. Breeze then asks if it's ok if we let Coll know the truth about what happened today? Alenea agrees and mentions it's fine. Her and Coll have an understanding between each other. Interesting to know. Coll has many dealings in places. We go to Coll inform him of what happened. He pays is the 30 gold as promised as well for the information. 60 gold in total for a days work. AMAZING! Yes I am finally making money somewhere. I say goodbye to my new fellow adventurers for the day and agree to meet up with some of them during the week.
Today is a good day. Now, to look into getting started with my shop. Maybe I need a loan....
Right Celina, first week in Port Ffirst hasn't gone so well. You haven't made any new contacts. Luck is not on your side. Maybe this week will be better.
I wake up in a delightful mood and go down for some breakfast. As I'm on the way down I can hear some wonderful music coming from the dining hall. What do you know they finally got some entertainment on here in the morning. As I look towards where the music is coming from it appears to be a human playing music. Yes, bard play me more of your music. I am loving this in the morning and do my best to sing along. Every morning needs to start this way! Woohoo! I decide to sit up close to the action near the stage. After the bard is done playing his piece, I applause. Coll walks in an goes up to a random group of people sitting at a nearby table. It consists of a Halfling, Half Orc and Kenku. Strange mix... however seeing Coll can only mean one thing, GOLD. Helloooooo precious gold, I can already feel today is going to be great!
I approach Coll and he welcomes me again as a stranger. Jeesh, you think after last weeks adventure he'd remember my beautiful face. He's acting like he doesn't know me, a complete stranger. But I know his style... he doesn't want to play favourites, I get it
The bard also follows over. Coll tells the five of us that the storehouse was broken into, trashed, there was a worker assaulted and the armoury was also broken into. There are no leads. However if we get to the bottom of this, he is going to offer us 20 gold each. Celina, if we're going to get that shop of ours we need more money. I convince him that due to the tedious nature of the work and the fact we have no leads we would need more money as compensation for this information. The bard decided to chip in and agree with my case. Thank you mister bard man! Coll sighs and agrees to give us 30 gold pieces as a reward for information now. Yes! Success!!!
I get introduced to the team we're working with, the bard is introduces himself as Breeze, the Kenku goes by Forger, the halfling goes by Kelne and the Half Orc goes by Varga. I introduce myself as the local shopkeeper just looking around. Ha they should believe that. Lets hope we have good luck finding out this information. Celina, your skills are going to come in handy here... yes
We discuss our options and figure out we have three locations to check out. The Storehouse, The Armoury and The Assaulted employee, who's name is Billy. I express interest in checking out the storehouse, what being a simple shopkeeper and all. Varga appears to actually know Billy, so she volunteers to go there and Breeze decides to join her. Forger and Kelne agree to check out the armoury. Great, all by myself. However means I can be extra sneaky. Yes, haha I be extra sneaky!
I arrive at the Storehouse and the whole place is in a mess. Door is busted in, everything is trashed all over the floor. I do a quick check around the room and notice an odd thing. That the seed bags have been ripped apart - odd. I decide to investigate further with the seed bag and notice... wait is that drool? Ewwwwww! It's like someone has been eating it. It's all damp and wet in patches. This is sooo gross! Just as I take my hand away I see Varga and Breeze enter the storehouse. Ahhh I see they have found me in the storehouse. But wait? What's that sensation in my nose...? I only get like this when I'm around pollen. I think I'm going to.... and before I know it, I sneeze and the loose seeds go EVERYWHERE! All over Varga and Breeze. Oops!!! Varga does not look happy! Crap, must not get the Orc unhappy, she looks very strong and could possibly kill me. Before I say anything Breeze casts Prestidigitation and everyone is back to normal with no seeds. Ohhh thank you Breeze! Breeze you're the man!!!
We head back towards the hall to discuss what we all find. As we're walking back my nose will not stop sneezing. Ohhh my there is so much pollen around!!! Like how much can be in the darn air! Holey Moley! Just as we're about to enter the hall Varga picks me up in a vice grip and starts walking back towards where we came from. Why is she so strong? Omg she's going to kill me... OMG she's going to kill me for sneezing on her!!! Omg this is the end. I won't go down without a fight... I wiggle and struggle and shout at her to let me go. I mention she needs to stop man-handling me or at least by me a drink first. To this she says she'll happily buy me dinner. After hearing this if I stop moving. I am quite confused of this interaction. Well, she doesn't appear to actually want to kill me know. But if she's buying me something I will cooperate... for now. Is this how all Orc's communicate? Are we friends now? Note to self look up more on Orc behaviours and customs. But owwww, she literally keeps moving head in certain directions, what is she doing? And I finally worked out what she's doing. When my head moves in certain directions I sneeze and in others I don't. And then it dawned on me, I, Celina am a POLLEN DETECTOR! I feel like a superhero!!! I can sniff out crime. I have finally found a use for that darn pollen allergy of mine. With my keen senses working, I guide us to a hotel. We arrive at a door that says 'Alenea'.
Alenea what could that mean? Is it a person, place or thing? Yes, it could be one of those things. Kelne decides to press her ear against the door. She can tell there's something there. Breeze decides to go write a spell but says it's going to take some time. Everyone is confused as to what to do next and I decided I had an idea. I warn everyone I am going to knock on the door. Just so they could hide if things go bad. Once I knock on the door I get a response asking - who is it? "Housekeeping" I shout and next thing I know I am welcomed in. Hahah, works every time. I am then standing in front of a female high elf, well dressed. I take a quick look around the room and can see it she has definitely put her own stamp in this hotel room. I mean I have not seen this exact hotel room before but there's clearly a lot of flowers so stuff all around the room. And there's a large sunflower on the desk. Ahh Alenea must be her name. I get it. I introduce myself as Sabina... I mean one can't be too careful who they introduce themselves to these days. Especially lying going into a hotel room. Alenea then starts asking me more questions about why aren't the unseen servants looking after the housekeeping today. I mention it's because she's a special VIP and that I was personally sent up to cater to her every need... Yes! I smile convincingly and she buys it. However she immediately notices the extra bodies standing outside the door, especially Breeze trying to cast a magic spell. Darn, slightly less easy to work into story. I do my best to say this is all normal at the hotel. I don't believe she's buying it. But I immediately go into fake housekeeper mode to keep up the charade. Lightly dusting and fluffing pillows. I think she's buying it now. Next thing I know Varga starts asking questions her about someone in the summer court. Alenea looks nervous but doesn't say she doesn't know who this is. The rest come in and have a quick look around her room. Alenea asks me over to look at the sunflower on the table. As I walk over I immediately sneeze and the sunflower closes up and falls to the floor. Alenea appears to be sad. Ohh no I killed her sunflower. It's best if I ehhh clean this up... I am housekeeper after all.
Out of nowhere, we all hear a high pitch scream coming from the court yard. It's so loud. Alenea explains to us that she needs our help bringing back a sunflower guard she made. It escaped and is now on the loose now. She is willing to pay us treasure. I tell her it's hard work being a shopkeeper by day and housekeeper by night but I will make this work. I enquire more about how much we'll get. We're told it's 150 gold if we bring it back alive and 100 gold if it's dead. 150 gold is 30 gold each. ALIVE IT IS!!!
We race down after it and a chase begins. All of us in the group appear to have different tactics to try and bring this creature back. I decide to try my favourite technic. Ohh this better work. I cast Thaumaturgy and make my voice boom really loud, the earth shake and my eyes go black. I then roar "GET BACK HERE NOW SOILDER! YOU HAVE BEEN VERY BOLD AND I DEMAND YOU GET BACK HERE RIGHT THIS INSISTENCE!!!". In a moment, it appears to almost nearly work but the sunflower solider keeps on running. I decide to run after it and do some threatening shapes with my body using my acrobatics skills. Yes, you better be scared looking at the letter T with my body sunflower solider. However it's still not good enough to make it stop. I, then decide to give it all I have and I use my Animal Handling skills to grapple this creature to the ground. Alive equals more money. We can't kill it! We all take turns and try to attack it and it still won't go down. It then decides to take its temper out on me and attacks me. Ok now I am angry. You will pay sunflower solider!!! Before I can do anything else, Varga is staring at me and then unleashes some fire from her breath. HOLEY SMOKES!!! This barbarian has some fire breath?
WHAT THE HELL!! However.... ohhh no it's coming for me. I quickly dodge out of the way and avoid the fire being blasted at me. Success! Ok Sunflower Solider, I am now super pissed and you are going down. Time to take out my trusty Rapier! I then launch at it and stab it a few times. Alenea from a distance casts a spell on me and I appear to be feeling much better now. I got some health restored. Thank you Alenea. Forger comes and joins me attacking it. The sunflower solider turns it's attention to Forger and delivers a blow which sends him to the ground unconscious. Kelne is quick to jump on this and quickly using some healing words to bring Forger back to life. Yes, no one will die today! In the corner of my eye do I see Breeze and Alenea dancing? Ha, I have no clue what I'm watching there. I must keep my attention on stabbing this thing.Forger did the final blow, he shot it through the leg. Yessss, woohoo go buddy! Alenea comes over and put manacles on the soldier. Hahah, I love this elf. What elf carries manacles? This is great stuff! Since we brought back the sunflower solider alive Alenea pays us the gold as promised. Breeze then asks if it's ok if we let Coll know the truth about what happened today? Alenea agrees and mentions it's fine. Her and Coll have an understanding between each other. Interesting to know. Coll has many dealings in places. We go to Coll inform him of what happened. He pays is the 30 gold as promised as well for the information. 60 gold in total for a days work. AMAZING! Yes I am finally making money somewhere. I say goodbye to my new fellow adventurers for the day and agree to meet up with some of them during the week.
Today is a good day. Now, to look into getting started with my shop. Maybe I need a loan....
