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| ====== Summary 334: Into Caratan (2023-12-08) ====== | ====== Summary 334: Into Caratan (2023-12-08) ====== |
| [[giraine|Giraine]] [[summaries-2023|Summaries]] | |
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| You see more and more guides offering services as the New Fens becomes drier and more tree-dominated. And soon you stop to say farewell to Fatbutt Sadsong. He will wait here to find a new group to guide, surely back to Handra. He sings his new song, which he’s been composing during your journey: “Goodbye Forever”, celebrating the amazing heroics he’s seen and heard you do, but wrapping them inside his personal view of how he’ll never see you do this again. He sings of Boamund vs. the Hag, Fraud and Shrett vs. Hag’s the Baby, Shrett and Bog vs. the Stoorwyrm, Boamund bravely fighting (and falling to) the dragonsnail, Fraud cursing Chaos and beheading Dragonsnails, and Bog killing aJack O’Bear; and adds stories of the Quacken and the Handra war (Ahappi is not mentioned). Boamund gets a little teary-eyed. You comfort him, he looks wistfully at you one last time, and turns to dive into the river with a splash; gone. | You see more and more guides offering services as the New Fens becomes drier and more tree-dominated. And soon you stop to say farewell to Fatbutt Sadsong. He will wait here to find a new group to guide, surely back to Handra. He sings his new song, which he’s been composing during your journey: “Goodbye Forever”, celebrating the amazing heroics he’s seen and heard you do, but wrapping them inside his personal view of how he’ll never see you do this again. He sings of Boamund vs. the Hag, Fraud and Shrett vs. Hag’s the Baby, Shrett and Bog vs. the Stoorwyrm, Boamund bravely fighting (and falling to) the dragonsnail, Fraud cursing Chaos and beheading Dragonsnails, and Bog killing aJack O’Bear; and adds stories of the Quacken and the Handra war (Ahappi is not mentioned). Boamund gets a little teary-eyed. You comfort him, he looks wistfully at you one last time, and turns to dive into the river with a splash; gone. |
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| You go to Strongarm Baudua’s house: His wife, Aliss, tries to stubbornly turn you strangers away from the door, but with gentle urging that you’re there by the Compt’s request and just want to talk, she lets you in. Baudua only responds with a good deal of persuasion (cautiously): he is an important member of the plumerey and keeps reminding you of this high status. You take his hints that he wants to play some local bone-stacking game of skill and strategy, and Dagodent explains the basics (it’s like a bit of Jenga with manual dexterity, and a bit of chess). Boamund(yes?) accepts the challenge. And to everyone’s surprise, this neophyte Boamund performs very well at a crucial moment in the game, as Baudua falters and his key stack of bones clatters down (symbolically, too?). [His skill was 80% and he rolled 86; Boamund made his 25% skill!] Baudua talks. He admits that he has reservations. “The boy’s old enough to marry, and hard-headed too. I’d rather have him as a friend, like Lothair, than as a foe.” And he says that Childebear surely would not tell you much, but maybe Elzabet (in her home town of Bowfor), or her good friend Silverhand Lynet (in Pettilow), might have helpful information. Elzabet lives with her father (Francis, who you saw) and mother. Lynet is an apprentice to an Issaries/Gultha Goldentongue merchant of the Trader Princes (Yorge does not know who he is; Baudua does not recall the name). The process takes 3 hours. You’ve spent a good day of effort now, and opt to return to camp and go to either Pettilow or Bowfor the next day. Each is about 3 hours from here; along good paths. You have several leads now to chase. | You go to Strongarm Baudua’s house: His wife, Aliss, tries to stubbornly turn you strangers away from the door, but with gentle urging that you’re there by the Compt’s request and just want to talk, she lets you in. Baudua only responds with a good deal of persuasion (cautiously): he is an important member of the plumerey and keeps reminding you of this high status. You take his hints that he wants to play some local bone-stacking game of skill and strategy, and Dagodent explains the basics (it’s like a bit of Jenga with manual dexterity, and a bit of chess). Boamund(yes?) accepts the challenge. And to everyone’s surprise, this neophyte Boamund performs very well at a crucial moment in the game, as Baudua falters and his key stack of bones clatters down (symbolically, too?). [His skill was 80% and he rolled 86; Boamund made his 25% skill!] Baudua talks. He admits that he has reservations. “The boy’s old enough to marry, and hard-headed too. I’d rather have him as a friend, like Lothair, than as a foe.” And he says that Childebear surely would not tell you much, but maybe Elzabet (in her home town of Bowfor), or her good friend Silverhand Lynet (in Pettilow), might have helpful information. Elzabet lives with her father (Francis, who you saw) and mother. Lynet is an apprentice to an Issaries/Gultha Goldentongue merchant of the Trader Princes (Yorge does not know who he is; Baudua does not recall the name). The process takes 3 hours. You’ve spent a good day of effort now, and opt to return to camp and go to either Pettilow or Bowfor the next day. Each is about 3 hours from here; along good paths. You have several leads now to chase. |
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| | ==== Maps ==== |
| | {{ giraine:caratan-map1.jpg |Catatan}} |
| | {{ giraine:caratan-map2.png |Catatan}} |
| | {{ giraine:auloring-lands.jpg |Auloring Lands}} |
| | {{ giraine:hibour.png |Hibour}} |
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