Carousing and inter-session planning for G99: Rumble in Rattlecart
Carousing
Martín le Black
Martín le Black returns to Glantri City. He looks upon the place with a new eye. This was the place of his birth, his escape, his days of glory and shame. This Picturesque city of towers and slums perched high in the mountains.
He has crossed the Great Sea. He has died and returned. He has slain devils and angels. He has met the gods. He has grown large and then small and then large again. Martín le Black has seen the world.
Martín will decamp at the Chateau Hazart (inside the house, if possible), get himself washed and sorted. Is Millipede still around? Frantz should see the city, and visit Martín's the orphanage where he will rejoice and proselytize the great goddess Ululaya.
Martin will have Frantz shine his boots and polish his armor in preperation for Pritchard Hood's revel.
(I have no money, so this is just background
Session summary here (thanks, DP!), and carousing here. Sorry I missed it, sounds like a great session!
Since large numbers of players generally slows things down, I'd like to get the game started promptly tomorrow. So if anyone has any carousing they'd like to do, or other pre-dungeon activities they need to take care of, let's get it done online today or early tomorrow so that it doesn't cut into the session.
Can the blacksmith that made Hanna's bolas make more? Was there a price set?
Also, can we price out some d'Ambreville livery, and perhaps brooches in the style of the one that Martín used to have. Pritchard should ask Evangelista for some names of Phoebe's relatives, and their ages. This is in case we have to present ourselves as servants of the house (again).
People should also probably buy some holy water and flasks of oil. As usual, we have very little healing- can House Sylaire cut us a deal on potions?
I'd like Hanna to pick up her new field plate armor from the blacksmith. She had paid for it in advance.
It won't be that hard to get a leatherworker to make more. I think we priced it as 10gp each, due to the obscurity of the weapon.
You can visit a tailor in Glantri City and discuss the matter. Let me know if you wish to do so.
It will be difficult to acquire any sort of potions from any source at the moment, as the Glantrian noble houses are hoarding them for military use. You may be able to acquire some from your existing contacts, including Evangelista herself, but prices will be high.
Assuming no difficulties in getting from Trintan to Glantri City, this shouldn't be a problem.
Pritchard would like to carouse in Glantri City.
He will procure fine comestibles, including an entire steer, several barrels of ale, bottles of wine, good cheeses, bushels of vegetables, tuns of butter, etc. to create a grand banquet to welcome home the conquering heroes of the southern expedition. All members of the party, active or retired, all henchmen, hirelings, goblin servants, etc. will be invited to partake. There will be a reading of "O Lonely Moon" by the finest bard available, displays of juggling, dancing, and burrow boxing, feats of strength and magic and yes, there will be pie.
He will rent out a grand feasting hall and every room in an inn (for those weary travelers who, due to overindulgence, need a place to sleep it off), as well as a "party carriage" to ferry the festive back and forth from the party to the inn. He will have his fine set of gentleman's attire cleaned and fumigated, have his beard trimmed and oiled, and will generally endeavor to make merry to the best of his (for him dubious) abilities, and shake off the gloom that has surrounded him lo these many weeks. How good it will be to see old friends once more! And… ah… ask for their help…
I'd actually like to (via Pritchard) ask Evangelista to recommend a tailor. I'm not keen to go asking random seamsters to doll me up in the regalia of a disgraced and disbanded house.
Spend 300gp on food and lodging, and earn 300xp from the educational aspects of tracking down bargains in Glantri City, not to mention intimidating hostlers and wholesalers into lowering their prices. (You roll a 2 on your d8, and a 19 on your d20.)
Note that 300gp will only go so far as to provide food and lodging. Procuring jugglers, dancers, burrow boxers &etc. will require additional expenditures.
Thanks, Quen. I'll spend an extra 200 on entertainment to keep things lively. This can go towards:
a 100gp purse offered to anyone who can beat Cut Coutelain in a fair match (or to Cut, if he wins or there are no takers);
50gp on a professional orator (i.e., down on his luck bard) to perform "O Lonely Moon", and
50gp on banners, bunting, etc. to make the place look festive.
If it would require more money than that, just let me know.