Haltuhr’s Arcane Scrolls

Zola Oussviiir: Enhance Ability Scroll Client


Zola made her way to a location in the Dwarven Quarter, a house connected to a workshop. She knocked on the door to the house. She glanced at the business card she held from time to time, making sure she had the right address.

The door opened revealing an awakened shrub.

"Good day. You are here at the Vultan, Castiron and Haltuhr residence," said the 4 ft shrub named Juniper.

The piece of thick parchment in Zola's hand caught the awaken shrub's eyes. "I see you have one of Dr. Haltuhr's business cards. Have you come to see him?"

Zola bent down to regard the shrub with a smile. “Hi there! I’m Zola. Yes, I’m here to see Dr. Archie to commission a scroll.”

"Very good. My name is Juniper. I'm Dr. Haltuhr's wizarding assistant. If you'll follow me please. I'll take you to the workshop where all the masters are currently."

Juniper turned around and led Zola to the workship where a dwarf was repairing jewelry, a goliath was crafting wooden workout equipment, and an elderly human was holding a magnifying glass up to a spell scroll he had recently put together. 'It is there,' Archie said to himself.

Archie put the glass and parchment back on his desk, and looked over at his friends. "I say boys. There is definitely a map on the parchment I used to create this Mage Armour scroll! How on earth did I miss that?" Archie was half expecting his dwarf friend to shout back, 'because you're old for a human!'

But, before the dwarf or goliath could respond. Juniper interrupted, "Dr. Haltuhr - Archie!"

"Oh, yes Juniper?" Archie turned to see what his awakened friend needed, and saw a guest standing beside her. "Oh Zola! How wonderful. What a pleasure to see you again. What brings you here?" The other boys greeted her too.

“Hi Kavel, hi Mendal, hi Dr. Archie! I picked up your business card from the Academy, it says here you can make spell scrolls? I was thinking of buying one for Enhance Ability since it worked really well for us two weeks ago.”

"Splendid idea!" Archie said, clapping his hands together, pleased to have a client, and it be one of his new friends.

"Now hold on!" Boomed Mendal from his workstation. "You want to check, Zola that you can cast Enhance Ability, before he sells you a duff scroll!"

Giving his friend a side eye, Archie responded, "Zola, if I'm quite right isn't just a 'wizard' with her duel swords, so to speak, but a musical one too." Archie turned his head back to face Zola, "that's quite right isn't it? You can cast the spell, Zola?"

"Yup! I just...never bothered to learn it." She shrugs, and then peeks past Archie to look at Mendal. "Thanks for the heads up, though!"

Mendal smiled back at Zola and winked. As he turned his head towards Archie, he laughed. Archie, hands on hips shot back a disapproving look, and reminded himself to similarly interfere with Mendal's business in future - see how he liked it!

"Well, Zola," smile now adorning Archie's face, as he looked back at his new friend, "due to my talents as an Order of Scribes wizard, I can put together an Enhance Ability scroll for you in no time whatsoever, and at a reduced cost to you too! I usually offer a 15% discount for adventurering chums, but if you bought two Enhance Ability scrolls, I could do you a 20% discount - on both scrolls! So, instead of spending 300gp on two scrolls; yours for 240gp! How does that sound?"

"Sounds good, doc."

"Wonderful! I'll just pop out for a bit to check with my parchment provider about this map I found on one of the spell scrolls I made, but I'll get cracking on your order soon after. Both scrolls will be ready in three days time. You could pay now or if you prefer when the scrolls are done?"

"Oh, I've got the money now." Zola puts down a hefty bag of coins on the table. "Map? Of what place, do you know?"

"Oh I haven't the foggiest. But, actually, would you mind taking a look? If it's of the Feywild, perhaps you would be familiar with it? And why not stay for lunch? Mendal's doing his best imitation of Cayenne Chicken, a meal Lord Jaezred prepared for us once. It's not as good, but still very tasty."

"It's actually better!" Mendal sternly interjected. Kavel looked up at Zola, presented a hand palm down, and wobbled it. The meal would be tasty, Kavel agreed, but not equal to the original.

Zola giggled. "Yes to both, thank you!"