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AJ #735646 Sun 31/08/14 23:59 UTC
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Karok

He watched the barbarian and half-ogre show off their treasure and he shook his head as he turned with Kallista.

"That pair won't have that for long. Give them 2 weeks at most."

He returned to the table to find a new addition. Not one he'd expect, which only made him think that Grundren was truly desperate. Which wasn't a good thing.

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Despair

She pauses at Chandan's reply, a bit puzzled, but shrugs and pulls up a chair on one side of the group, her tail curling around one of the chair's arms. Speaking to the table at large, she says, "So. Seems we're all here to meet Gundren. Maybe we should chat a bit. How about starting with how you all know him?"

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Barmaid

"Oh. Gundren Rockseeker. Alright. There are three of them, you know. Brothers they are."

She giggles as the would-be gamblers returned to the table. She responds to Karok, even though he was not speaking to her."

"I wouldn't be so sure about that, but they took that hoard from a red dragon that had been keeping a wakeful eye on it."

Looking back to the table which they just left, Karok and Despair see an amused look on the face of the quartet who then returned to the conversation that they were in before they were interrupted.

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Jaliera

"I've never met him. He and my mentor know each other."

That nicely finishes that bit of conversation but she wants to hear what the others have to say, especially Chandan and his side of the mountain story - if it is true.

She goes back to eating her stew.

At the mention of a red dragon, the spoon pause mid flight and her head swivels around to look at the two gamblers. But the surprised expression fades into a frown. She doesn't believe it and turns back to her food.

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Karok

He a bit more respect for the men hearing the tale. He could believe a dragon had been involved, of course that pair might have just got what they had at the expense of a dozen others who hadn't made it or from someone else. Of course on the other hand, the both looked physically formidable. If they had a few good friends especially a mage and a healer then perhaps.

He brought his attention back to the old man's question.

"My father knows him well, I've met him from time to time most of my life."

Turning his attention to his pair of mugs, he dipped into his small coin purse and produced the coins for the beer and slid some to Jaliera and some to the barmaid.

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Kriv

He placed his eating utensils down, dabbed at his maw with an elegant kerchief, and then replied,

"All who abide in Norixius Keep owe him a tremendous debt due to his actions in our favour. I will not be going into precise detail on the matter. Suffice it to say that my people hold paying debts in full to be an absolute, and my presence here in answer to his call is a downpayment."

He resumed eating, in curiously genteel fashion.

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Chandan

This was the fifth time that day the barmaid had ignored Chandan, but the manky old man was not offended and maintained an amiable, if hopeful smile while she was stood at their table.

In truth, to him it seemed entirely normal to be ignored.

He listened to the others with as much attention as he could muster, considering they were drinking and he was not.

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Despair

She listens to some of the others tell how they know Gundren, nodding. Turning to the disheveled man at their table, she replies to something he said earlier, taking a stab at it's meaning.

"Girl", she says to the barmaid. "Bring the old man an ale. On me."

When the girl returns with the drink she takes it from her hand and places it on the table in front of herself, looking at Chandan. "If you tell me how you know Gundren. Without hyperbole. This is yours."

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Kriv

He did not pause in his repast, but he did watch the proceedings between Despair and the vagrant with interest, and perhaps a hint of approval.

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Jaliera

She smiles at Karok and take the coin as agreed. Then having eaten about two thirds of the meal, she puts down her spoon, full now. She isn't sure whether she should offer the remainder to anyone, they might be offended, but seeing Chandan sitting opposite she thinks he might be needy enough and there was a time she would have been happy if someone made that offer to her.

"I cannot eat any more. Would anyone like to finish it? It is very good."

She looks at Chandan although the offer was to anyone

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Chandan

It wasn't that the barmaid was a bad barmaid. She'd only ignored him five times after he'd admitted he had no coin. And they had found him sleeping on the doorstep when they opened up that morning, so perhaps they felt they'd already provided one night's free stay.

Innkeepers could be capricious in their business dealings, but Chandan was all the more fond of them for it, and never had a bad word to say about any keeper of an inn, tavern, hostelry or other taproom.

When he saw Jaliera's left-overs, his stomach grumbled, "Waste not, want not. Wise saying. Perhaps I could...?"

Despair had the ale though. By nature he was a wine drinker, but some of the ales he'd found in the North were stronger than the wine!

"A sad tale. A sky burial on the mountainside. Gundren mourned and was grim, for he did not understand this way. The way of the dwarves is of tombs beneath the earth and preserving this one form.

"He asked me many questions in those days, and that is how I know him."

Chandan shrugged, lightening the mood a little. "Still, no convincing some people. 'Bird-scattered, bird-crappered' so they say, and they not lie!"

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Jaliera

Her lips twitch slightly at his tale.. and his odd way of talking.. but she pushes the plate over to him.

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Barmaid
The barmaid returns with the ale for Chandan. She also brings a small plate of crackers that are topped by various chutneys, jams, cheeses and fruit. It's not a large plate, but certainly nice for the price, since it was free.

"Madame wanted you to try some samplings."

She left it on the table, turned and walked away.

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Despair

She smiles slightly and pushes the ale across the table to Chandan. "Thanks." She says. Stopping the waitress before she can leave she asks, "Three? Where are the other two?"

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Kriv

His eyes flicked from Chandan to Despair a couple of times, but seemed satisfied that the terms of the transaction had been met, and directed his efforts to finishing the food placed before him. Once complete, he placed the utensils together at the centre of the plate and once more applied the kerchief to mouth and those fangs which by nature rested outside his lips.

He did not comment on Jaliera's charity, his expression generally neutral this time. He looked at the plate of crackers, intrigued, and commented to the barmaid,

"Our thanks to Madame."

Obliged to accept the offered hospitality of the one under whose roof they presently resided, he picked out a chutney-topped cracker and consumed it, savouring the flavours.

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Chandan

It's said that the gnomes of Gond make the most accurate time-pieces in Faerun.

If such a time piece was at hand, it would record that Chandan drank his tankard of ale in 3.17 seconds.

He reverently placed the empty on the table.

"Very nice, thank you." He said to Despair, then inspected the plate of left-overs, making happy clucking noises.

"Ah yes, thank you, thank you."

He bowed his head to Jaliera, Kriv, Karok and Despair in turn.

"This is good company. I am honoured."

Chandan also bowed with a sincere smile to the barmaid, "And the blessings of the Four Elements on this house and its keepers."

If a moment presented itself, he'd ask Despair and Karok of their Gundren tale.

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Barmaid

"The other two? I'm not sure about what happened to any of them. I just remember seeing the three of them here a tenday ago. They seemed very excited about something and they finished about a dozen pitchers of ale and ate like horses. They were quite the happy lot."

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The larger cities make him nervous at times. There are too many sounds and people to count, but at least his thick furs hide his nervous movements to some extent. It will take him awhile yet to acclimate to so many people around after two and a half years alone in the wilderness.

The setting sun warms his youthful face with a thin covering of stubble. One day he hopes he can have a full beard much like his father, but for now on his sixteenth summer, he can only wait for it to grow. Turning a corner he finally finds the Driftwood Tavern the tabby had described to him after he got lost for the second time.

Throwing back his brown bear fur hat sewn to reveal his long jet-black hair, as he steps inside he takes a moment to let his turquoise-coloured eyes adjust to the rooms lighting before proceeding further in. He had met Gundren Rockseeker only once before, where he had helped calm a distressed horse that he owned. Barely met, the dwarf offered him a job and to told Davroar come to here. Davroar just wished that Gundren gave better directions, but luckily it seems he is not here yet.

With a friendly smile to all who do look his way, he walks over to the closest available stool at the bar hoping to get the attention of the bartender.

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Jaliera

She watches Chandan in fascination as he quaffs the ale in one, wondering if he eats just as quickly. She smiles at the barmaid when she offers the crackers, thinking they looked nice but she is just too full now to eat one.

As a draft from the door draws her attention, she sees another interesting figure enter.. and someone who is similar to her in age by the look of him.

Her attention then moves back to the group she is with, hoping that more people would tell of what they know of Gundren.

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Bartender

The burly barkeeper moves over to his new customer. The man was not easily surprised by the looks of any patrons.

"What can I get for you?" he says to Davroar.

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Chandan

He inspected each morsel like a jeweller, holding it up to his eye, sniffing it and then reflecting on the smell, as if they each conjured up some potent memory. Or maybe he was committing it to memory?

Either way, he ate it.

Chandan looks up and around the table, then to the bar and the furclad wilding.

"Ah. Must be number six! Six is a good number, service, duty, defence. Five is lucky but unpredictable. Gundren would choose six." He said, chewing happily.

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Kriv

He looked at the vagrant, intrigued, then at the youth clad in barbarous garb.

"You believe Gundren called in that young human as well? What brings you to that conclusion?"

If this pauper had some kind of prescient insight, then Gundren's call for him made considerably more sense. Even if it was more mundane deduction, if it was a correct one it was worth noting. If it wan't? That was also something to keep in mind. The Dragonborn kept his expression neutral.

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Davroar

"Hello sir", he says with a bit of a dry voice to the bartender, "a light ale please, and perhaps you know Gundren? He's a dwarf. Said I could find him here."

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Chandan

"Northern man wears a Northern brown bear. Local to these climes perhaps, but not a city-dweller. If he came to sell skins, furs, forage, he would sell them at market. If he came for leisure, he would find a place not-so august.

"If Northerner had been here before, he would know tables are waited, but he walked straight to bar. From his face, he recognise no-one.

"So why he here?"

Chandan was sniffing at a pickled herring. This one didn't seem to resonate with him.

"This is for eating?" He asked Kriv, who seemed like an expert of the repast.

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Jaliera

Her head follows the direction of the conversation, certainly if she ends up travelling with this group if will at least be interesting.

When Kriv challenges Chandan to back up his conclusion, she is very interested in his reply, following it through logically, the investigator in her appreciating his deductions. She nods, a small smile on her face.

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