Noticing his companions squabbling over the gun,
Pang suggests that they settle things through combat before picking up the crowbar and heading towards the double doors.
Pang: 2+1
The crowbar slides nicely between the doors, but instead of being pried apart, the soft wood gives way, resulting in a hole just large enough for a man to pass through being torn out of them. Surprisingly, there's the familiar flicker of torchlight on the other side of the opening. Looks like this cavern really is a grotto after all.
Derm and
Jase briefly consider the old man's advice, before concluding that instead of fighting and potentially killing each other, it would be better to arm wrestle for it.
Derm: 5
Jase: 4
The two of them lie down on the cavern floor and grip each other's palms firmly. One... Two... THREE! Both of them start trying to force the other's hand to the floor. It's a very close struggle, but eventually despite Jase's muscles, Derm gets the literal upper hand, pinning Jase's arm to the ground before picking himself up, dusting himself off, and snatching up the revolver and ammo.
Billy meanwhile decides to take advantage of Derm's high spirits and trades him the bone wand for the rapier and his share of throwing knives.
Lastly,
Kel decides that she'd rather take loot than argue over it, and picks up the flail and a pair of knives before turning towards the doorway.
Name: Billy Snow
Age: 23
Gender: Male
Appearance: A young man with brown hair, a white and gold minstrel outfit, and some medieval instruments.
Backstory: A slightly popular singer who's lyrics and singing style evoke weird looks from more elderly people who believe Gregorian chants are the best thing in the world, Billy Snow is a minstrel who seeks the djinn in order to be world famous, more talented musically, and able to win over any girl through a romantic love song. He has some skill with a spear, do to being forced into the military during the Wheatfield War.
Health: 15/15
Inventory:
1x Copper Rapier (1 handed piercing weapon, wins ties in combat)
4x Copper Throwing Knives (1 handed ranged weapon, can be used for melee)
Name: Jase Bladeheart
Age: 21
Gender: Male
Appearance: A tall, muscular man. He has brown hair and eyes, and a full beard. His skin is tan.
Backstory: Jase was raised on a farm, and spent many hours working outside to help his family. The farm has been through a long drought, and Jase left home for a life of adventuring to earn enough money to support his family. A wish for rain or wealth may be Jase's only way to restore his family's livelihood.
Health: 15/15
Inventory:
1x Copper Pike (2 handed piercing weapon, +2 damage against steeds)
2x Copper Throwing Knives (1 handed ranged weapon, can be used for melee)
Name: Pang The Wise
Age: 67
Gender: Male
Appearance: A leathery, swarthy-skinned man with a large head and a small, scrawny body. Has a small lump of nose, a thin mouth with just a few teeth remaining but which still forms a large smile quite easily, and just a wisp of fading grey hair on his scalp.
Wears a robe that was once a fine garment of blue silk, embroidered with dragons and other fantastical beasts in gold thread, but now hangs off his body in a mass of tatters and loose threads, a battered leather satchel filled with odds and ends, and a pair of wood-and-string sandals that he made himself. Despite his apparent decrepitude, his blue, almond-shaped eyes are large and bright, staring out of his wrinkled bald potato-like head with a boundless curiousity.
Backstory: Pang, known to those in his distant homeland as The Wise for his near-endless knowledge of the flora, fauna, myths, history, traditions and geology of the area, has worked many trades in his long (by the current standards, given how much war there is, not to mention crazy magicians and hungry monsters) life, from scholar to scoundrel, hunter to healer, tanner to trader, alchemist to alcoholic, bard to barman, fisherman to fistfighter, and woodcarver to wanderer- and the latter profession has spanned to most years of his life, for sure.
Having grown tired of teaching the same old knowledge of the same old land (called Qunz, by the way), Pang set off a short while before his 45th birthday, taking little more than his fine robe, a bag of foodstuffs, a carved wooden smoking pipe and the wooden clogs on his feet. He promised his children (some of whom were having children of their own) and the other people in his village that he would be back before long, before next winter for sure, that he just needed to see what lay over the horizon, past the border of their kingdom.
Unfortunately (for his kin, anyway, who had come to rely on the old fart's knowledge), exploration proved rather addictive to the ever-inquisitive Pang, who found that once he'd seen what was over that horizon he needed to study all the trees, smell the flowers, learn of the creatures that lived there and speak to the people... and once he'd done all that, the next horizon called to him.
And so he went, travelling for many years, seeing many wondrous things and wild places, speaking to many people and smoking many poppy seeds, until his head was so jammed-full of knowledge that he could hardly access any of it in a hurry. In fact, so much so that he could never quite remember how to get back home, or quite why he wanted to- heck, as he aged he tended to even forget what he was doing in the middle of doing it.
Nevertheless, the old man still thirsts for knowledge, and has an undying curiosity and amusement at the things he finds.
This Shimmerstone Grotto both fascinates him with the mysteries and legends surrounding it, and offers him a chance- a chance to ask its resident Djinn to restore his ailing memory. That, that he can remember. The old man would love nothing more than to remember the faces and names of his children again, or his parents, or, admittedly, to cram more knowledge into his overstuffed head.
Health: 15/15
Inventory:
1x Copper Crowbar (1 handed blunt weapon, +1 to opening things)
2x Copper Throwing Knives (1 handed ranged weapon, can be used for melee)
Name: Kel Dragonscratch
Age: 23
Gender: Female
Appearance: She is tall and thin, with pale skin and short, lifeless black hair. Her nose is sharply hooked while ears are flattened against head. Always bearing a mirthless grin on thin lips, she looks rather creepy despite quite decent looks.
Backstory: After a bandit raid on her hometown, Kel was picked and raised by a cult of demon worshippers - not a decent lot in any way, but quite helpful and reliable otherwise. Years passed and she became full-fledged initiate. Now, she is on a mission of becoming full member of the cult. As for the wish... It could be that it is secondary to the initiation by dungeon itself. Or it might be the primary task given to her by the cult leader. Or even her own dark secret... After all, one can wish for anything...
Health: 15/15
Inventory:
1x Copper Flail (1 handed blunt weapon, ignores blocking)
2x Copper Throwing Knives (1 handed ranged weapon, can be used for melee)
Name: Derm
Age: 24-ish
Gender: Yes.
Appearance: Probably clothed, and with skin of some sort. Some hair, too.
Backstory: In all honesty he just kind of appeared out of thin air. Maybe he wished to delve the dungeon again? But then, from whence did he come originally?
Health: 15/15
Inventory:
1x Carved Bone Wand
1x Copper Revolver (1 handed ranged weapon, can fire twice per round, reloads every 6 shots)
30x Copper Bullets
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