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[3man75]

We should keep our tea to offer to Aednat or a keeper to let us in. but +1 to the other stuff.

[Andres]

I'm pretty sure that giving them tea won't convince them to let us in. We have enough magical ability that we can probably enter without needing to bribe them but if we do then we'll just use money.

[Mlamlah]

Jehundik Vanyik

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Physical Traits:
Healthy
Well Fed
Well Rested
Fit
Uninjured

Skills:
Local Folklore: +5
Woodsmanship: +4
Herbalism: +4
Archery: +2
Spear Fighting: +2
First Aid: +2
Gardening: +2

Possessions:
Sturdy Hunting Bow
Thick Fur Cloak
Sharp Steel Knife
Sharp Aged Steel Short-Sword
Worn Boots
Aged Iron Cap
Several sets of Woodsman's Clothes (including leather belt and cotton trousers and shirt.)
Belted waterskin (full, holding a litre and a half of water)

Hip Quiver (Full)
-Twenty-four ash-tipped arrows.

A Satchel (Full)
-Extra Bowstrings
-flint
-a whetstone
-two days worth of Jerky, dried apple and onions.
-Four days worth of Hard Biscuits and Oats
-Twenty five feet of straw rope. 
-small empty pouch
-depleted supply of leaf wrapped tea herbs
-thirteen silver coins (an eye on one side, a shattered spear on the other)
-three copper coins (a pointing hand on one side, a shattered spear on the other)
-Set of Herbalists Tools (Including mortar, pestle, and small blades capable of precisely hooking or cutting under good lighting.)
-A Small Book of Cantrips (read by candlelight)
Rat Sack (empty)

1d20+4(Prepared Spells)-5(amateur conjurer)+2(ample time for practice)+2(collaborative environment)= 10

It requires you to spend another day in practice, but you develop a bit of a rehearsed routine in the casting of each of your five cantrips one after another, from the order of least to most difficult. You can cast each with relative reliability, though not with gauranteed success. That would likely require the very sort of disciplined training you seek, rather than your self taught smattering of magical talent.

1d20-2(very little bartering experience)= 12
You see to selling many of your valuable trade goods, in preparation for any future need for coin, and manage to secure prices that you consider fair from the local merchants in exchange for the furs, feathers and healing herbs. This leaves you at a surplus even with the coin you spent on lodging, but not a large one. With coin in your pocket, spells in your head and a little more air in your bag you set for the tower after giving a farewell to your former companions.

...

You waste little time on the road, and make better time than you ever have on your previous travels. It is as if the stars are aligning as you draw closer to your goal. Though you were told the tower was well over a day's walk away you sight it's heights when it is but scant afternoon. As the tower comes into view it becomes clear just how impressive a structure it is, and it could be considered an understatement to say that it is easily the largest building you have ever seen. It's made mostly of smooth black stone blocks, but also interspersed with blocks that would appear to be made of bronze, reflecting sunlight with great intensity and making the tower seem a series of great shining beacons in the daylight. The tower is particularly broad for a tower, almost seeming to be a great keep that stretches up farther than any keep has a right to. On the upper levels great balconies sit like scaffolds, far too large to be military in purpose.

As you get closer you see that a small town sits around the tower, encircled itself by a low stone wall. When you finally reach the iron-barred gate the sun has begin to set, and you have not tired of the sight of this wonder of construction on the hours of your approach. Guards dressed the same as the two gate-guards at Ravok's Roost call down to you from the gatehouse upon your arrival, asking you your business.

[Andres]

Tell them that Jehundik Vanyik from Ask-Heart want to speak with Keeper Aednat.

[3man75]

Tell them that Jehundik Vanyik from Ask-Heart want to speak with Keeper Aednat.

+1

EDIT: Also tell them that we are looking to apprentice/create a petition here in the tower.

[escaped lurker]

Only that she most likely won't be there. Unless we lucked out.

Either way, just telling the truth is fine at this point. We are one of her pilgrims, and feel confident about casting all the cantrips she gave us to learn initially. Hence we are here now.
Doubt they will bother us too much after that.

[3man75]

Plus were one of the few who makes it this far so we should get a by right?

[Mlamlah]

Jehundik Vanyik

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Physical Traits:
Healthy
Well Fed
Well Rested
Fit
Uninjured

Skills:
Local Folklore: +5
Woodsmanship: +4
Herbalism: +4
Archery: +2
Spear Fighting: +2
First Aid: +2
Gardening: +2

Possessions:
Sturdy Hunting Bow
Thick Fur Cloak
Sharp Steel Knife
Sharp Aged Steel Short-Sword
Worn Boots
Aged Iron Cap
Several sets of Woodsman's Clothes (including leather belt and cotton trousers and shirt.)
Belted waterskin (full, holding a litre and a half of water)

Hip Quiver (Full)
-Twenty-four ash-tipped arrows.

A Satchel (Full)
-Extra Bowstrings
-flint
-a whetstone
-two days worth of Jerky, dried apple and onions.
-Four days worth of Hard Biscuits and Oats
-Twenty five feet of straw rope. 
-small empty pouch
-depleted supply of leaf wrapped tea herbs
-thirteen silver coins (an eye on one side, a shattered spear on the other)
-three copper coins (a pointing hand on one side, a shattered spear on the other)
-Set of Herbalists Tools (Including mortar, pestle, and small blades capable of precisely hooking or cutting under good lighting.)
-A Small Book of Cantrips (read by candlelight)
Rat Sack (empty)

"I'm seeking Keeper Aednat, she sent me here, and i would like to petition for apprenticeship."

The gaurd does not even respond before you hear the turning of a crank, followed by the gate opening before you. "I do not think that the Keeper is currently present, and even if she was the Keepers do not see petitioners themselves, however, your petition will be heard." After you step through the gate you are escorted by a young servant closeby to a single-room building. The building contains a small office, with a desk and bookshelves well stocked with ink, blank paper,charcoal and a variety of precision instruments. You are provided with clean cool water in a basin, and you take the opportunity to wash a little of the road wear from your face and hands. Once you've done so the servant brings you a pitcher of water to drink from, and a bowl filled with stale biscuits for you to eat.

It's another hour before you are met by a particularly bored seeming man. He clearly takes great pains about his appearance, if his long sleek brown hair, well trimmed beard and fine tailored clothing are any judge. At his neck lies an amulet that stands a contrast of material from the gold rings on his fingers, the amulet consisting of six half-circles of bronze, each hugging the last. He introduces himself as Alivar, a Bronze Tower mage of the sixth circle.

After readying large quantities of ink and paper and seating himself on the opposite end of the desk from you Alivar explains that he will be interviewing you intensively, and that everything you say will be recorded and filed away for later review. He stresses how essential it is that you are honest, even about the most mundane of things, including details about how you came to be here, your place of origin, your ancestry, your birth name and date and any skills you possess. He will also require an extensive display of all of your magical abilities. He also mentions that if you have any questions, now would be a good time to ask them.

[escaped lurker]

While we might not be all that "in the know" about how the bronze tower does things, especially that pledge thingy, I figure we can do without. At least, without asking the one who will write all of it down. >>

For once, the only way we will get to be an apprentice is either with due talent, and or by pledges. So I guess after our evaluation, they themselves will tell us what they would want from us in return for their teachings, or if we even qualify for them at all.

[3man75]

"I come from a small unknown village where I could have been anything. But I was bored 12 because of the lack of knowledge their. I didn't want to be a big fish in a small pond, I wanted to be a small fish in a big pond.

Never did I know that a mage named Aednat came to my village and we conversed with me asking her about the world. I was fascinated with her knowledge and wanted to learn more. She of course asked about the village and I answered..well eventually she gave me this book. (show book).

It has a few spells and the directions from my village to this tower."

That's all I got. We haven't done anything wrong even with those bandit guys.

I don't know about telling him about the soldier even though it was a misunderstanding.

[escaped lurker]

Well, it seems like he has done this particular job before. I would trust that he has already developed "intuition". By which I mean, he knows if we try to hide something, and he will know if we use outright lies. That is, without even using any magic that may very well be capable of much more.

So... just out with the truth. The soldier was a bad incident, which went out of hand, true enough. Still, there were no ill intentions on our part, and we even handled the "aftermath" quite respectful. Nothing to hide here.

[tryrar]

+1 to a detailed account of our journey, including our companions for the road, and everything that happened. Also mention our other skills besides magic, and with permission the cantrips we learned from the book.

[3man75]

+1 to a detailed account of our journey, including our companions for the road, and everything that happened. Also mention our other skills besides magic, and with permission the cantrips we learned from the book.

+1

[Generally me]

+1 to a detailed account of our journey, including our companions for the road, and everything that happened. Also mention our other skills besides magic, and with permission the cantrips we learned from the book.

+1

+1

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