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17. Arthol the Grocer's Home & Open-Air Market

Minotaur | Commoner | Farmer | Merchant (Guild)

(Slow-moving & laid back, but a hard worker with momentum. Arthol has been looking for more opportunities in life---new relationships, perhaps. Business growth, hopefully! Or new ideas & practices, such as new gardening prospects & so on. He appreciates the financial security, but what he really enjoys is bringing the community together for mutual advantages. He sells a variety of different goods, rather than speciailizing in certain plants like the farmers he organizes at his small market.)

[+ several local Farmers who bring fresh goods to trade/sell, that get charged a very small fee to display goods in the available stalls]

•" Pepper" (excitable, young, female hobgoblin | sells a variety of peppers)

•Topps Barranigran (rather quiet, male dark elf | sells root vegetables: mostly carrots, with parsnips, radishes, beets, rhubarb, etc. on different occasions)

•Gradby "Green" Herrat (energetic, older, "hippie," female human | sells assorted leafy vegetables)

•Brambly Baud (calm & collected, female tiefling | sells berries)

•Grenden Harrash (very sweet, if a little shy, young, halfling | sells tree fruits)

•Brath Nadar (kind of grouchy, older, male human | sells nuts & legumes)

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12. A Bit of Everything General Store

The Amperpanderax Family of Hill Dwarves (2 brothers, younger sister, & wife/kid with eldest)

•Strint & (wife) Alectyra + (son) Strinxix

-He runs the counters & day-to-day transactions, while she maintains back-of-house inventory & behind the scenes workings, but they collaborate the books & work on commissions with merchants together. Strint delights in bringing the odd exotic food or good to the table, while Alectyra appreciates the natural flowers growing around the doors.

•Stragg

-He helps with maintenance of the grounds, doing menial labor such as repairs & making sure that there's food from the garden available on the table. (All with a very cheerful attitude.)

•Sallera

-A calm, yet cheerful young lady that seems very mature. She helps run the counter (late shifts) & helps to support everyone else (in that downtime running a late-night counter), but when the work is done she doesn't stick around the grounds quite as much as her family. (What could she be looking for just outside of her door?)

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Wizard Tower + Stable & Observatory (Top of Tower) (Outside [31×30] & Inside [24×24] Day/Night)

[Basement, Ground Floor, Second Floor (Bedrooms), & Third Floor (Library/Research Room)]

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Mofta the Documancer

Bastion the Hoardsperson

Kohfi the Decisionist

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With an obvious need to start making large profits for the new payments, the party plans for the airship to pay for itself by starting an enterprise with the Sharn branch of Acquisitions Incorporated, located in Menthis Plateau

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Captain | Stat(rius) Nimbex (Male) | Half-Elf | Mark of Storms [E50] | Storm Sorcerer [X51]

First Mate/Medic | Gust Lefchang (male) | Wind Genasi [PC] | (6th) Circle of Storms' Eye Druid [HB] & (11th) Fey Wanderer Ranger [T58]

Mechanic | Drig Creshim (female) | Sivis Gnome | Mark of Scribing [E47] | (15th) Battlesmith Artificer [E60] + Metal Ant

Cook | Brine Glubtiner (male) | Goblin [E25] | (6th) Bard of Creation [T28] & (6th) Transmutation Wizard [PHB119]

Artillery Specialist/Security | Lottie Arabo (female) | Humam | (7th) Rogue Scout [X47] & (11th) Horizon Walker Ranger [X43]

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This model of airship is a recent development, with the halo of air-elemental energy centered slightly in front of the wings & sordalite crystals running down the sides for hovering capabilities.

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After climbing numerous staircases and crossing series of bridges across the day, the party heads back to Adventurer's Guild for a longer rest as the sun starts to rise and the city begins bustling with life even more. Mofta does a light workout with Kohfi in the gymnasium before he goes on in the attempt to do more research in the Guilds' library, refraining from mentioning the spellbook itself anymore, and begins searching for sages that might have any knowledge on the Pages of Power. After some time, a passing Changeling mentions that Drooam might know more about one than expected, and recommends a cautious trip to the Great Crag. Together, the three of them discussed thier plans for the next day before turning in for the day.

As the team leaves begins leaving, Mofta sees a noble woman get pick-pocketed & yells at the thief, who drops the items & flees! They stop to see if the person is okay, who is very grateful & gives them a generous reward. [+100GP]

The party then takes a skycoach to Highest Towers in Upper Central to visit the Lyrandar Enclave. In the Raincaller's Guild, they bargain for an airship & ongoing services with a few members of the storm guild.

[12K PP : 5 K + 1 K for first month payment = 6 K + 1 K PP each month for 6 months] ---- due each 6th @ Lyrander Enclaves

Storm Guild Members & Crew + Ship Costs: 500 GP × month = 300 [Ship] + 80 [Captain] + 120 [Crew]

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Rather than visiting the esteemed restaurant recommended by Strivius, the party instead stops by Daca's Watch. The Gnome seems startled to see them and warns of oncoming dangers in the city of towers.

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Strivius of the Moon

As the moon rises beyond the tangle of buildings, the party sets out for the Drow scholar Strivius Arcanot (a reputably high-level Moon Druid) living in the well-established Oak Towers district.

A lovely display of lunar-themed ornamentation faintly lights up a resplendent garden that seems to have overgrown far past what the original living spaces had intended. Strivius, a beautiful figure of dark skin & pale hair with soft, mauve eyes that twinkled gently like starlight, rested easily on interwoven branches among the foliage & invited them to the assembled chairs nearby.

A fair person, Strivius doles out the pleasantries before asking what had brought them: the party reveals the Master Spellbook (although no sentience seems to awaken this time). Strivius does know of the book, but only to the extent that it was the source of the better known Pages of Power - one for each school of magic. The Spellbook was long thought to have been lost, although some of the original Pages were still known to the world. Legend told that, assembled, it was an ancient key to higher magicks, such as the Prophecy or long-lost Creation methods. But Strivius goes on to warn, as result of this, others are likely to intervene with various intentions & that it would be wise to be careful of who to trust. Perhaps, even, it would be better to begin inquiring for the Pages of Power, instead. [QUEST] [+1 CONTACT] [+RUMOUR LOCATION]

Wroat, the Capital of the Realm (Breland), is known to display one of the Pages, making it an excellent place nearby to begin searching for answers. Strivius also recommends "The Oaks" restaurant in the district & insists that they should stay in touch for any developments in the future.

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Iriaso the Adventured

When they get to the upper parts of Dura again, the sun had just completely finished setting. Rotro seems somewhat surprised at their return, although not disappointed by any means. He cheerfully thanks them for helping with the Guild’s affairs before retiring for the night. 

“What promise beckons! You surely must officiate your triumph at the Registry.”

Krof Amsal, a lively orc maiden signs up the three new members & grants them an official [+]Crest of the Clifftop Adventurers’ Guild, which is carried by Kohfi. [+@1 x Club Renown each]

To acquaint themselves more with the grounds, they take a tour of the Guildhall & intend to make use of the affordable rooms at day. There is a small library, that Mofta intends to visit, and a gymnasium that he & Kohfi plan to train at together. 

They stop to eat at the bustling in-house tavern & have an introduction with another customer, who happens to be a seasoned Guild member: Iriaso Stomsolin, a retired Aasimar that suffered a grievous injury but still strives to make a difference somehow (& seeks adventure vicariously through others in the process). [+Patron] His angelic appearance & cheerful disposition seems welcoming, all the more because of his torn wings, along with the deflated sense of urgency that makes him seem grounded & insightful. When prompted about the Master Spellbook artifact, he refers them to an accomplice in Northedge.

Mofta is able to spend some amount of time at the Guild library, but isn’t surprised that there doesn’t seem to be any relevant information catalogued. Perhaps the City Archive will have something to offer, though, as more plans are made. Afterward, he & Kohfi get some light exercise before going to their beds in one of the comfortable rooms offered on grounds. 

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After Kohfi wakes up & hears of the Spellbook’s growing sentience, they proceed with their plan to visit the Bazaar for potential supplies for Mofta. The first store they visit is “Korryn’s Quill,” a reliable source for cartographers, calligraphers, & scribes of all stripes. Mofta buys [+]Lunarune Quill, with plans of crafting a Lunar journal in his spare time. And Bastion purchases the [+]Starseer’s Astrolobe (both below) from the small, old goblin running the shop.

Then they stop at “Sundry’s Shop,” a pawn shop filled with all manner of trinkets run by a gnome named Sundry. Bastion buys a Cleansing Stone for the Aarkenen’ Pantry, and buys a small, imbued wood Focus of [+]Fernian Ash & [+]Risian Pine (Eberron #277) for Mofta’s fire & Bastion’s cold spells, respectively. Mofta uses his recent earnings to buy a [+]lunar-themed, mundane journal & a [+]Spellshard (E’ #279) to use for his journaling. Kohfi picks up (x3) Feather Tokens (E’ #277) for emergency situations.

[Feather Token & Fernian Ash]

[Spellshard]

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Mofta meditates among the aromatic, pink roses, but opens his eyes from the Trance to the familiar deep-purple glow of the hovering Spellbook. Flames seem to caress it as words flicker across the page, introducing itself as Rune. 

“So much to tell. So little time.”

The books slowly drifted back over Mofta before falling into his hands as the glow fades. He feels the power between the covers beckon to his call. [+Awakened Spellbook & Wizardly Quill] [+Arcana checks for obscure knowledge]

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