[RPG] Innkeeper's Quest (GURPS Dungeon Fantasy)

[The Chosen One of Arroyo]

[X] ...suggest to your allies that you all resume drinking, confident that no one will trouble you further after that demonstration.

 

[FumblingLinguist]

"Hey Ganīm," you say, "do you think we could get another bottle of that brandy?"

"Sure thing," he replies. He pays another two silver for the bottom, and Ṣadin chips in an extra silver by way of apology for the mess.

Meanwhile, a hunchbacked goblin has emerged from a back room and begun cleaning up shards of broken pottery off the floor. Two bar patrons are getting ready to carry Lathir's fallen assailant out of the tavern. One of them shouts "Hey, Bahir! Qadir! We're going to the Pantheon, you guys coming?" evidently indicating the two guys who got a taste of your broom. (Neither of them look like Qadir you met this morning, but it's a common enough name.) They all exit together, leaving just one of the guys who'd been on the other side of the brawl scowling over his cups.

Spoiler: Die Rolling

Your roll to avoid intoxication is a 10, another success!

After the second bottle of brandy is finished, Ganīm offers to walk you and Lathir back to Thalīra's, and you accept. Ghathur comes along too, leaning on Ganīm and Ṣadin the whole way, evidently holding his liquor less well than the rest of you. The men of clan Mirzahar promise to get Ghathur home safely.

You've earned 1 character point for holding your own in your first bar brawl, and 1 character point for making friends and learning your way around the city. What do you want to do with them?

[ ] Save them—possibly for a bigger "power up"
[ ] Save 1 point, spend 1 point buying Area Knowledge (Zimar'an) at IQ
[ ] Spend 2 points on HP +1
[ ] Spend 2 points raising Carousing by a level
[ ] Spend 2 points raising Merchant by a level
[ ] Spend 2 points on Area Knowledge (Zimar'an) at IQ+1

Spoiler: QM Note

This is a short update, and a bit late. I meant to have it up this weekend, but I got sick. Don't worry, more is coming soon!

 

[Celer]

[X] Save them—possibly for a bigger "power up"

 

[ozymandias]

[ X ] Save them—possibly for a bigger "power up"

 

[FumblingLinguist]

Spoiler: QM Note

So, my thinking I was over being sick turned out to be a bit premature, but I'm actually better now and hope to return to an update at least every weekend, if not more frequent.

When you and Lathir wake up the next morning, the courtyard is a lot busier than when you arrived mid-morning the previous day.

"Peace Lathir, who's your friend?" asks a young woman, really barely more than a girl to your eyes.

"Peace Sahira, this is Marūra. Marūra, this is Sahira. And this" Lathir says, gesturing to another woman whose blue hair and pointy ears mark her as an elf-blood, "is Nawitha."

"Nice to meet you, Marūra," Nawitha says, "I'm sorry, I should be going." The apology seems as much directed at Sahira as anyone. "Peace."

You take your seats, along with the last two loaves of bread that were sitting in a basket on the table.

"You almost missed breakfast," Sahira comments. "Are you new in town, Marūra? Don't worry, you'll get used to waking up without the cock's crow soon enough."
"Oh," says Lathir. "Actually, we were out drinking last night."

That reminds you, "Hey Lathir, what was the deal with that guy who attacked you last night?"

"What!?" Sahira asks.

"I have no idea," Lathir says. "Never saw that guy before in my life."

Whoops. You'd just assumed she knew what the deal was.

"But I'm fine," Lathir reassures Sahira.
"I was just talking to Nawitha about the demon attack on the Pantheon last night. I heard about it from a wineseller who came by earlier this morning. Something's wrong with the city. Demon attacks never happened in my village growing up, but here they happen all the time."

Sahira's home village sounds awfully peaceful—back in Pangang your priest was attacked by a hellhound about a year ago. On the other hand, you have to admit you didn't expect to be hearing about a demon attack on your third day in Zimar'an.

Then, Sahira lowers her voice. "I think it might have something to do with the king. You know he used to be called Taz'ar Khabīri?"—that is, Demon of Shadow, rather than Man of Shadow, something you had heard about, though you rarely hear people make a big deal about it. "Nawitha thinks he's great. She thinks he's a secret elf-blood using magic to disguise himself. But I think he might actually be a demon."

You barely remember life before King 'Ishar Kabīri. You were a small child when you heard King Mizarshām mir Rōmis had died and that the nobles of Zimar'an had elected a new king. Occasionally, someone from your parents or grandparents generation would say that it was weird to have a wizard for a king, but for the most part there wasn't much discontent.

Lathir begins murmuring sympathetically at Sahira's comments. Then you say...

- [ ] "Thank you! That's what I've always thought. It's so obvious, why don't other people see it?"
- [ ] "If Nawitha thinks he's an elf-blood, maybe he is. Doesn't it make sense that an elf-blood would be able to identify another elf-blood?"
- [ ] "I think he's just a wizard. I grew up in a tavern, I always heard all the best gossip—if King 'Ishar Kabīri was anything but human, I'd know."
- [ ] WRITE-IN

Regardless, after you finish morning meal, you will
- [ ] Return to the tavern where you met Ganīm and see if you can figure out why Lathir was attacked.
- [ ] Go to the Pantheon, and see if you can find more information about the demon attack.
- [ ] See if you can find Nawitha, to get her perspective on recent events.
- [ ] Stay at Thalīra's awhile longer, you never know who you else you'll meet.
- [ ] Try to find that book for Censor Ranis.
- [ ] WRITE-IN.

 

[ozymandias]

[ ] "If Nawitha thinks he's an elf-blood, maybe he is. Doesn't it make sense that an elf-blood would be able to identify another elf-blood?"

[ ] Try to find that book for Censor Ranis.

 

[Celer]

[X] "If Nawitha thinks he's an elf-blood, maybe he is. Doesn't it make sense that an elf-blood would be able to identify another elf-blood?"

[X] Try to find that book for Censor Ranis.

Saying that the king is a demon doesn't seem necessary, but neither do I wish to cause greater offense in arrogance: towns are very different from cities.