Eleint (September), 498 AF

Eleint (sept), 498 AF

Eleint 1- The party notices a tall half elf around the villa in the company of Aggadah and An Efreeti Wereboar Warlock Named Slickback,  they tend to spend a lot of time in the original villa in on of the workspaces on the top floor. Sometimes odd smells emanate from the room. In the later time of the day, they retreat to the Tower of Vines and the half elf (Grantos) is often seen leaving with books from the Towers library.

Grantos Arvendale (n, ROG4/RNG3/exp6, hem), sage: plants, nature, city history, poisons [not known]. Owns Arvendale's Tomes in Blue End.

Here are the books that Slickback and Aggadah are using in their studies.
Books on Poison Making - from Manuatos Books in The Quills 
How Not to Kill Yourself - Frederick the Greybeard
Measure Twice, Mix Once - Franco del Ghibel
A Guide to the Well Ventilated Work Space - Zephnandaris Longbow
What To Do If You Lose Your Eyebrows - Farrow the Shinehead
Lab Safety for Dummies
Morter and Pestle - Sin Sam Soon
A is for Arsenic - A Christie
Wicked Plants - Lincoln Holmes
The Big Old Book of Mushrooms and Other Assorted Fungi (illustrated) - Willowshell Winhop
Real Alchemy - Newton Newberry
Encyclopedia of Plants of the Northern Continent [three volume set]
Guide to Southern Continent Plants - Choo al'Kabar [three volume set]

black market books - from Arvendale's Tomes in Blue End
Sweeney's Guide to Poison Making - JB Sweeney
The Three Poisons - Rose Krantz
The Silent Death - Penduke Padfoot
Poisons From the Waters - Jack Koostower
Poisons of the Planes - The Dark Librarian of Illiopolis

Blue End - This suburb in the north part of town contains sages, tutors and very high end artificers (musical instruments, haberdashery, clockwork pieces and gowns). One of the quieter areas of town. The only road that sees significant traffic is Roses Row which runs from the North Market to the western entrance of the Zoo. It bisects Blue End, running through the valley between the hills that make up Blue End. Lots of window shopping takes place along this stretch. The north side of Blue End (facing the wall) is a mostly gnomish neighborhood.

The Quills - located east of the University, sw of Midtown and north of Widows Hill, home to lawyers, scribes and bookbinders in the city.

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Eleint 3 - DuTamn gets permission from the high priests of the Church of Osiris to lead a pilgrimage back to the Southern Continent. His recent success in Al Zalam and his constant presence patrolling the streets of Al Kuneer has won him the respect of the priests and populous of the community.  He is preparing to leave for his trip back home and he is going to lead a band of pilgrims from Tul D'Neir. Many of them will be making their first trip back home, some have never been to the land of their parents.

His trip will be many months long. It takes 60 days to travel to his home city via boat, or 70 days for the partial overland route (30 days by sea, 40 overland). Since it is a pilgrimage, they will take the longer, combined ocean/overland route (70 days on the way there, the return trip will be done by ship). There are some holy sites on the overland part of the trip that are essential to any pilgrim of Osiris. The Oasis of Golden Currents, the The Grand Desert Temple of Osiris, Two Camel Rock (the place where Prophet DuNamman handed down the knowledge of astronomy to the high priests of Osiris) and the Tombs of the First Zultans.

DuTamn is willing to do some shopping down there if you are willing, his home city is well known for its multi-planar connections and can get things that may be hard (or illegal to come by). Slickback is sending an agent/herb buyer in the pilgrimage to do some shopping for him with a bag of holding.

Al Kuneer - One of the largest districts and located in the east part of town, it is also called the Southern Quarter, as this is where the majority of people from the Southern Continent who live inside the city walls live (they make up about 90% of the population of the quarter). It runs from Stonehouse in the west to the wall in the east. It is bordered by the Avenue of Crimson King in the north and Foggy Bottom & Grumbles in the south. The architecture is definitely southern as the older buildings are slowly being gentrified by the people living there. The better parts of the district are the northern parts, closest to the Avenue. This is where all of the major god of the southern continent have temples in town. The deeper you get into the district, the more southern, poor and dangerous it becomes.

Al Zalam - Only the hearty or foolish travel into Al Zalam (the Dark) without good reason. It is the the slums of Al Kuneer. It is a maze of twisting streets without names, dead end alleys and three or four story buildings that lean over the street, keeping much of the area in the dark unless the sun is directly overhead. Half-demons or worse are rumored to live deep within this area.

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Eleint 5 - Kaminari lets the party know that he has been summoned to Brindenburgford by the High Elders of Kord. He will act as a temporary leader of the towns church while the full time replacement travels from the far north. Maxinus 'The Little Bull' [ng, CLR8, hm] will become the new high priest in Brindenburgford, but is traveling overland and it will take almost 2 full months to arrive. The church wants to take advantage of the recruiting opportunity in the town due to the popularity of Kord after the part they played in the saving of the town.

Kaminari has been granted a temporary reprieve from his exile by the Baroness (who was pressured by the Church of Kord), to stay in town for a time that will not exceed 10 days after Maxinus arrives in town. He leaves for Brindenburgford on Eleint 24.

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Elient 11 - After a 10-day in his 'War Room' Firebeard begins running the villa guardsmen through some new drills. He received his a chest of books and maps late last month. Here are the books he received

Books on Military and tactics - from Vanguard Press in Naalaine
The Art of War - Sun Tzu
Complete Idiots Guide to Being a Guard
Military Law in a Nutshell - Charles Hogue
Makarite Guerilla Fighting - Planke the Tall
Four Pommet Military Treastises - translated by Gregr Maljunell [two volume set]
The Ravensclaw Campaigns - Emperor Fek'Nobim II [three volume set]
The Allacarnessis Expansion Wars - General Kal'elbaw [six volume set]
On War - Prince Kleinhoffer
Essays on the Demon Queens Resistance - Sofia Shipka
How to Protect Yourself - Dillard Shadowdancer
Sword and Board - Grumble Granite
Zen and the Art of Archery - RFC Hullshaper
Stick Em With the Pointy End - Mercy Stark

Maps - from Worldwalkers Atlases in The Tinkles
5 maps (full world 3x4ft [60 years old], northern continent 3x4ft [80 years old], city of Tul D'Neir 2x3ft [10 years old], 200 mile radius around Tul D'Neir map 2ft diameter [40 years old], Allacarnassis and Tul D'Neir area 2x2.5ft [30 years old])

Naalaine (pronounced Na-A-lane)- an elven district at the south east edge of Midtown, home to many elven sages, scholars and teachers as it is close to Oldtowers and the University.

The Tinkles - This is the gnomish district of Uptown, lies south of North Market at east of the Yellow Queen Cemetary. Jewelry maker, clockworkers, gem smiths, etc all live in this area. 

Villa Guards - studded leather, long sword, shield, short bow (unless noted)

Besides guarding the main gate to our villa, they also help with protecting the wagons when Populius sends Melphys and Samwell out for supplies

Arnst, Marshal, 34 years old, human male [FTR4] (ex-soldier, 10 year vet, scale mail, bastard sword that he uses 2-handed [str17], heavy xbow) [Master of the Guards]

Brian, guard, 18 years old, human male [FTR1] (local farm boy, best with a bow)

Cristos, guard, 19 years old, human male [FTR1] (city born)

Daveed, guard, 21 years old, human male [BRD1] (from southern continent, uses scimitar)

Earl, guard, 17 years old, human male [FTR1] (local farm boy, second best with bow)

Floyd, guard, 18 years old, human male [FTR1] (city born, uses mace, very good with it, a bad influence on the farm boy guards)

Giovanni, guard, 22 years old, air genesi male [FTR1] (from Relagosa, fights with short sword/dagger)

Heimdall, guard, 16 years old, human male [FTR1] (local farm boy, str17)

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Elient 12 - Alton finally is seen during the day. The night terrors have seemed to lessen. He has a meeting with Lilly of Taryn, our supervisor within the City Guards where he lays out exactly what has happened to the party since they left for Brindenbergford. She had been on another plane and been unavailable to meet with the party since they returned over 40 days ago.
Another reason for his meeting was his inquiry into purchasing specific magical items and how he could go about selling his Gauntlets of Ogre Power.

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Elient 14 - Lilly of Taryn meets with the party that night in the first floor of the Tower of Vines. She gives this speech.

"I have a special request for you if you are interested. It has become clear to me that you aren't your run of the mill adventurers, you are special, you end up in all kinds of extraordinary situations… and have a strange affinity to talk about cheese. A lot. On that note, I am going to remove you from active duty and attach you directly to my unit as special agents. Do you accept?"

"Basically you will be free agents, able to take whatever missions you want. It would also give you access to the portal that we control. Very similar to the one in the Stormy Pants Inn, but with a different terminator. Ours leads to a variety of different planes as well, as long as you are able to acquire the correct gate key."

If the party accepts, Lilly updates their badges, it will now begin with an X. And will have access to the two portals that exist in Tul D'Neir, one through the guards, one through the Stormy Pants Inn.

This portal from the basement of the City Guards leads to a location called Noobport on Jarvo's Moon. From there you can travel to a number of different locations, they include The Plane of Earth, Krynn, Abyss (4th level), Astral Plane, Ravenloft (Kartakass), Nidavellir (third layer of Ysgard), Eberron, Bytopia, Arcadia and the Beastlands.

As a reminder, The Stormy Pants Inn leads to Ovias (Gold Coin Inn), from there, you can get to the Plane of Salt, Rappan Attuk, Dis, Faerun, Nine Cities, Ysgard, NIlfhiem, Mechanus, Arcadia and Celestia.

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Eleint 25 - Veshna registers with the Blue Banner Guild in The Grumbles. A licensed and bonded guild of bodyguards that specialize in hiring out the more uncommon races. Veshna has found out that many of the half-orc farming communities in the area often use the Blue Banner Guild to help them with issues as they are more accepting of assistance from half orcish adventurers .

Grumbles - This district lies south of Al Kuneer and is bordered by a pair of walls on the east and south. Home to some of the roughest people in town, it includes the highest concentration of half orcs, tieflings and other races that are looked down upon, by those who do not understand the true nobleness and heritage of these great races.

Here is a link to something called Sane Magical Prices, I like this and think it should be used in the shared world. Just because something is on the list, it doesn't mean its available. Legendary and Very Rare are not going to be able to be purchased.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B8XAiXpOfz9cMWt1RTBicmpmUDg/view