| You continue your discussion with Philoren the Tall, moving into his main room inside the collapsed house, which has few accoutrements except some stone and ceramic furniture ill-suited for comfort. Asked about this, he answers that time has been unkind to parts of Lord Verinus’s Pit, that they have few people and fewer still crafters and resources with which to maintain their infrastructure, but on the positive side they do have some of the best craftspeople to be known. Conversation turns to bargaining over what “change” might come to the Pit if you cooperate. Philoren admits some difficulty in processing the idea, given how long things have remained the same under Verinus’s rule. But if Verinus was deposed, it would be an opportunity to enact positive change, perhaps even moving the Pit’s contents back to the Sky Realm (although he explains that this location has no corresponding location back in the Middle World; it exists in multiple places at once, in and outside of Time. Philoren says he would make this place more welcoming to visitors. But he defers further bargaining until an outcome of interaction with Verinus is known; too much is uncertain. He starts to add something else, “I thought you were here to… no, no [looking around at all of you] you’d not be interested.” Boamund catches this, asks and Philoren says it’s best saved for discussion later. Philoren has directed you to where Verinus’s chamber lies and follows you there; just across the Obsidian Tunnel from here. | You continue your discussion with Philoren the Tall, moving into his main room inside the collapsed house, which has few accoutrements except some stone and ceramic furniture ill-suited for comfort. Asked about this, he answers that time has been unkind to parts of Lord Verinus’s Pit, that they have few people and fewer still crafters and resources with which to maintain their infrastructure, but on the positive side they do have some of the best craftspeople to be known. Conversation turns to bargaining over what “change” might come to the Pit if you cooperate. Philoren admits some difficulty in processing the idea, given how long things have remained the same under Verinus’s rule. But if Verinus was deposed, it would be an opportunity to enact positive change, perhaps even moving the Pit’s contents back to the Sky Realm (although he explains that this location has no corresponding location back in the Middle World; it exists in multiple places at once, in and outside of Time. Philoren says he would make this place more welcoming to visitors. But he defers further bargaining until an outcome of interaction with Verinus is known; too much is uncertain. He starts to add something else, “I thought you were here to… no, no [looking around at all of you] you’d not be interested.” Boamund catches this, asks and Philoren says it’s best saved for discussion later. Philoren has directed you to where Verinus’s chamber lies and follows you there; just across the Obsidian Tunnel from here. |
