Ep 4 Trolls for Hire

To Guild and Guild Leader,

Job Report:

We met our employers in Carencro, without much of a fuss. Got loaded on the train. Travel from the station to Dragonsgrove was eventless. Upon arrival we found that our employers’ contract had been cancelled. Kinoko handled the situation readily, and conflict was avoided. Contact was made with the Steward and he was persuaded to reactivate the contract. We assisted with our employers’ duties the next day. There was some trouble with a handful of Seekers while delving, but the beasts have been slain. The job was completed without any more issues.

Casualties:

1 Wounded, now recovered.

1 Dead.

Āwhina

To Guild and Guild Leader,

Mission Request

I’ve got personal business up to the Northeast. Any jobs headed out that direction?

Let a girl know,

Āwhina

[A request for either To Hunt a Demon or A Rare Flower if applicable, or a New Mission if those are not sufficient for my purposes.]

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Dictated Report from Unmoving Stone (Mama):

I learned that there were a group of elders (I clarified with Mama that she means the Troll brothers) needing escort to a big town and found others that would go with me. We traveled through a place of standing water, too wet for child, and spent too much time “fishing”. When we reached Carencro, I do not like that place, we traveled with the brothers by smelly noisy wagon (Mama means by train) to a large town with a retired dragon. I had never seen a dragon up close, in our stories they are creatures who destroy our towers and bridges. Retired means lazy I guess (Mama just shrugged when I tried to explain, Trolls apparently don’t have this concept). I learned much from the elders and we went into the earth to use explosives to open a cavern. We were attacked and lost a member of the elders company. We killed the three creatures called Seekers and blew up much stone. It was a good learning experience for child. We earned large reward. I will buy much drink. That is all.

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Written report from Mark:

We took the shortcut through the swamp to save time against your directions. We narrowly missed an encounter with a T-rex, other than that we had no problems in the swamp. We then met the Gravin brothers in Carenco. The Lao drove us by wagon to the train station. In the train a mouse fauna was taken out of a box. It appeared to be free. The Gravin’s said they put her in there to avoid trouble. The train ride went without a hitch. Then we continued the long journey up the gold mountains to dragonsgrove. Whenwearrivedindragonsgrove we were informed that the Gravin brothers demolition job was cancelled. We demanded the foreman allow us to meet the steward. We learned many useful things at this point. The steward and his sister are both dragons, and they run dragonsgrove. Wealso learned the reason dragons hoard treasure. It is to pay people like us to take care of them in their elderly centuries. We learned from the steward that the job was cancelled because they sent a scouting mission that didn’t come back. We insisted and the steward agreed. We then planned equipment and strategy for the rest of the day. During the night multiple members of my party had sexual relations with the steward.In the morning we set out for the cave. During the journey we realized Lao was missing. He was killed by the seekers. We swiftly defeated the seekers and received our reward. This is when we learned where the Dragon’s hoard is kept. Though it is most likely well guarded and under lock and key. That is all.

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