Day 127 - Surprisingly no hangover

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Days 127 (19th June) - Continued
DM Note: Umar/Bazin still blessed +2/+2 (23rd Day)
==Talking In The Streets==
Francis spends time talking to a variety of humans, primarily in the Commercial district but also around the northern districts of the city as well.
‘Useful’ extracts from various conversations:
Smallholding Farmer (freed slave): “From what I have seen, the Elves treat their slaves a whole lot better than the old Pirate Lords of Willston ever did. I have heard some tales that down South things are different, but that’s just hearsay as far as I’m concerned.”
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Blacksmith (refugee from the North West coast): “T’be honest, I’m not suren what to think. OK, the old Pirates paid homage to Ghoulagabba – with slaves, but at least then the Orcs stayed away. I don’t say the Pirates were good people, but at least their regime left us villagers free from hassle.”
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Merchant (representative recently set up an office here): “If you paid your dues, you could always trade in Willston, there was a demand for metals both worked and in ingot form and the old regime paid well in cash and the like. Am not sure what the new regime will have for trade purposes, but I suspect the demand for weaponry will remain high….and I am here to close those deals.”
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Farm Labourer (freed slave): “Well ser, I aint got any real skills you might say, but I can steer a straight ploughline and that’s enough to give me decent work. Was only here a couple a weeks when the Elves turned up, but from what little I seen, things is a whole lot better now.”
Francis: “Where are you from originally? Don’t you want to return?”
Farm Labourer: “Was in a small village not far from Sanc’tril, work there was no much different to what I do now. No family to go back to, so ways I see it – will stick here and make the most of things.”
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Slave (ex-Pirate): “We never bothered the Southern Kingdoms and they never bothered us. Way I hear it, the two brothers were more concerned with fighting each other than worrying about what happened in far away places…… If we hit the odd trading ship….well they should have paid their dues shouldn’t they?”
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Slave Labourer (ex-Pirate): “We never let none of those Ghoulagabba orcs into the city, not never….. the only Orcs you might find here are local Native Orcs or possibly the odd nomad. Bastard Elf is following the same policy I hear.”
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Apart from the occasional merchant, knowledge of Alvera, Solara et al is extremely limited, although people are aware of the civil war and subsequent Elven invasion.
==A Gigantic Desire To Be A Beserker==
As well as his evening visitations to the bars, Umar makes himself known around the commercial district as someone wanting to develop his fighting skills along the lines of Beserker.
Aside from the leads that develop in the evening, he also notices that the only Giants around (and there are very few) are incomers – with one exception Truthspeaker (the Perceval High Priest), in that they are not freed slaves and have arrived since Rastens conquest. Asking around a little it transpires that any Giants captures by the Pirates during their slave raids were immediately shipped off to Ghoulagabba.
==If I am going to hustle, I may as well worship a hustler==
Joshua spends a few hours at the Trade Shrine, discussing the Perceval religion and his desire to follow the teachings of Perceval. The acolytes you meet with are impressed by the amount of preparation and learning you have undertaken before making this decision….and you are welcomed into the church., of course the donation of 10sp is a purely voluntary matter…..
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