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[JackoftheBox]

"Allrighty, I'll go and get some food first, hmmm... lets decide a meeting place and time if you need to buy something for the trip. Would this place in around an hour be fine?"

[filiusenox]

((Welp, since no one else posted an action, I decided to do Weasels up real fast because he got a twenty to reading without all the extras from his skills/attributes. ))

Spoiler: King_of_the_weasels: Devlin (click to show/hide)

 You wander away from the board and begin skimming through your book. You must have entered a time warp or something. Because you managed to read the entire book and those other guys are still standing around talking.

This book is easy to understand. This clarity allows one to determine that it is extremely informative ((Skill gained:level 1:archeology)). Despite its good traits, the contents are basically what every schoolteacher, priest and government registered scholar tells people.
Basically, an empire a thousand years old, ended around fourty years ago, when foul and wicked men killed a just and noble emperor. These barbaric louts did not know that the king was magically tied to the land and the cities by a blood pact with the Creators. After a false trial, where the jury was unknowing of the emperor, a demonic and moronic executioner lopped his head off. Following that was the rending, when the great grassland empire flooded and the mortals that did not flee the cities were cursed with immortality and madness. Forced to forever watch their bodies decay.
The book also tells of the "bogeymen" of the marshlands:
The roadwraithes are apparently people who where caught with indecision as the city flooded and were caught on the road, so the Creators cursed them to live on forever as ghosts of the road.
The Skinless ones are wanderers, searching for flesh to repair their decrepit bodies.
It seems the author of this book died of choking on a chicken bone, as the ending tells you, before he could head back to the Marshlands to examine newly found ruin, called by scholars, The Capital.
Examining the book, one will find: Someone has written some notes in some weird language on the pages of the book.

Spoiler: Everybody (click to show/hide)

A large and supple turkey runs through the sqaure, followed by a fat, red faced man waving a butcher's cleaver and wearing a bloody apron. Before any of you could react, the turkey and the man are gone, running down the next road.

[micelus]

  "What was that about? Anyway, let's meet at that suspiciously broken down inn over there. I'm going to but some equipment now. Bye."

Purchase map, foraging kit, and four staffs

[King_of_the_weasels]

*Well, that's discomforting.*

I use my linguistic skills to see if I recognize the language.

[EveryZig]

: "Ok. I will meet you there".
I enter the inn we agreed to meet by and ask the innkeeper about news from the Marshlands. (I would get rope, but I don't think 15 copper can buy much.)

[JackoftheBox]

"Okay, let's meet there."

Try to steal some more money if possible, then buy some food and perhaps a rope if enough money

[filiusenox]

((15 coins can buy one ration of food, three lagers or one bottle of some tasteless rotgut.))

Handerys Castowar

Spoiler: Attributes and Name (click to show/hide)

Name: Handerys Castowar
Race: Human
Gender: Male
Age: 17
Descript:
Attributes;
Strength: 5
Speed: 7
Health: 6
Intelligence: 8
Size: 5
Charisma: 8

Skills: Stealing, Persuasion

HP: 13.5/13.5
Fame:-3
Infamy: 3
Destiny Points: 3

Spoiler: Inventory (click to show/hide)

Weapons: Iron Knife
Armor: Regular outlaw's clothing.
Leather bracers
Leather boots.
Pack: Two units Cheap rat Poison in a little box.

You are not over encumbered.

Spoiler:  Items of a Valuable Nature (click to show/hide)

3 Silver Imperials(Coins).

Devlin Harper

Spoiler: Name and Attributes (click to show/hide)

 Name: Devlin Harper
Race: Human
Gender: Male
Age: 17
Attributes;
Strength: 4
Speed: 4
Health: 4
Intelligence: 12
Size: 5
Charisma: 9

Skills: Herbalism (plants and poultices) | Linguistics (speaking, reading, and writing)

Health:11.5/11.5
Fame: 0
Infamy: 0
Destiny Points: 1

Spoiler: Inventory (click to show/hide)

Armor: Regular Clothing.
Leather Boots
Weapon: A cane.
Pack: A tome called Curse of the Ancients
A Journal
A tome called A Adventurer's Guide to the Marshlands

You’re not over encumbered.

Spoiler:  Items of a Valuable Nature (click to show/hide)

1 Gold Imperial (Coin). 

Bill Brownson

Spoiler:  Name and Attributes (click to show/hide)

 Name: Bill Brownson
Gender: Male
Age: 17

Attributes:
Strength: 9
Speed: 5
Health: 4
Intelligence: 7
Size: 9
Charisma: 4

Skills: hammer use; metal crafting

Health:13.5/13.5
Fame: 0
Infamy: 0
Destiny Points: 1

Spoiler: Inventory (click to show/hide)

Armor: Metalworking Clothing
Leather blacksmith's apron
Leather Boots
Weapon: Hammer

You are not over encumbered.

Spoiler:  Items of a Valuable Nature (click to show/hide)

15 copper Imperials(Coins).

Cecily

Spoiler: Name and Attributes (click to show/hide)

Name: Cecily
Race: Human
Gender: Female
Age: 15

Attributes;
Strength: 3
Speed: 9
Health: 5
Intelligence: 8
Size: 4
Charisma: 9

Skills: Pickpocket and Sneak

Health: 12/12
Fame: 0
Infamy: 0
Destiny Points: 5

Spoiler: Inventory (click to show/hide)

Armor: Grey Colored Clothing
Black Leather Boots
Weapon: Iron Knife

Spoiler:  Items of a Valuable Nature (click to show/hide)

2 Silver Imperials(Coins).
2 Copper Imperials(Coins)

Spoiler:  Micelus: Handerys Castowar (click to show/hide)

You walk into one of the many shops that surround the square and ask for four staffs, a foraging kit, and a map of the Marshlands.
"Going out adventurin' eh? That'll be two silvers."
You could probably talk him down on the price, if you wanted to.

Spoiler:  King_of_the_weasels: Devlin Harper (click to show/hide)

The writing isn't in any foreign languages that you know of. Perhaps it's something else, like a code?

Spoiler:  EveryZig: Bill Brownson (click to show/hide)

You wonder on into the stereotypically shady tavern. With a name like The Lusty Jackal you expect it to be shady and unclean. Well, at least it's decently clean. The bartender is busy serving out drinks to notice you, even though you stand two heads taller then most men. All the people inside are drunk as skunks and as armed as...badgers? Does that work? Eh. most of the shady corners are occupied with shadier men. You however notice quite a few people looking at you.

One looks like some sort of nobleman dressed in blue, with wavy hair and just the general air of being some heroic prince. He seems to be getting graciously drunk.
You notice an expensively dressed assassin who every one seems to avoid, he is also staring at you.
There is a knight armored in white sitting near the door.

You over hear several rumors.
One is that a statue, in the ruins outside of town, eye's are bleeding, or look to be bleeding.
You hear that the guard is looking for a young man who poisoned quite a few people. He has a silver imperial bounty on his head.
Another is that the Archaeology team sent to a nearby ruin hasn't returned, and the mayor of Crag is getting worried.
A band of goblins are raiding the Black Oak farms outside of town, and the farmers are looking to pay a bounty for each goblin head brought in with trees painted in red ink on their faces. Preferably not still attached to their bodies.

Spoiler:  JackoftheBox: Cecily (click to show/hide)

You start scoping out "prey" to have their wallets picked. You notice that almost everybody has some sort of pickpocket protection. You notice one particularly naggy woman with no guard. You pick her pocket with no problems. Her wallet contains two copper coins.
You head into the supply store, ignoring Handarys and look at the price board.

(1) means how much you can buy for that much, the second number is how many they have in stock. If it has a Tilde, that means it has quite a lot of stock.

(1)/(6) Staff 20 CI
(1)/(~) Ration Pack 15 CI
(1)/(4) Forager Kit 60CI
(1)/(2) Up to date map 60CI
(1)/(~) Ration of Distilled Water 10CI
(1)/(5) Metal Canteen 30CI
(1)/(3)Copper Shortsword 1SI
(1)/(1) Iron Shortsword 5SI
(1)/(1) Steel Longsword 1GI
(1)/(1) Copper Chain mail Armor 10 SI DEAL: 1SI
(1)/(9) Pair of Marshwalkers 1SI
(1)/(2) Cooking set 1SI
(1)/(1) Silver Sickle  1GI
(1)/(~) Twenty feet of strong rope 20 CI
(1)/(6) A loaf of Bread 15 CI
(1)/(12) One pound of black acorn flour 7 CI
(1)/(3) A pound of Jerky 50 CI
(1)/(5) A pack of dried vegetables 50 CI


100 Copper Imperials= One silver Imperial =Twenty silvers Imperials= one gold Imperial.
((Mouseover for info.))

Well, what do you do or buy?

[King_of_the_weasels]

  *perhaps a cryptogram?*

Find a word with 3 letters, replace each letter in order with T H E, then replace matching letters the same way. Example if the first letter is B replace all B's with T's.  Look out for familiar word patterns to solve.  If that fails try again but with A N D, ignoring words that are the last in their sentence.  If that fails, go get a small meal, and ponder.

[filiusenox]

Heheh. Oh man your doing just exactly what I thought you would do...

[King_of_the_weasels]

Heheh. Oh man your doing just exactly what I thought you would do...

Either I'm smart, or I fell into a trap.

[filiusenox]

Your too smart. Heh...

[King_of_the_weasels]

Your too smart. Heh...

Pretty much every character I've created but like 2 (ones a pirate, and one's a captain america ripoff) are TOO smart.

[filiusenox]

Heres a sentence, from it. So maybe it will become clear.

eh is reppol a seh?

[King_of_the_weasels]

Heres a sentence, from it. So maybe it will become clear.

eh is reppol a seh?

Not really, I can't do my letter replacement thing.

[filiusenox]

That was the last hint i'm giving you.
Oh man this is funny...