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A Dozen Troubling Rumors
A Dozen Troubling Rumors
A Dozen
Troubling Rumors
by Philip Reed
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THE RUMORS
for a week.
Source: Edgar Ellis [male human, Com1, 2 hp], a young
dock worker who walks with a limp and is bald. Ellis dresses in
filthy breeches and tunic and wears wooden clogs.
Successful Gather Information Check: What Ive heard is
that Lord Marlborough was tricked by those filthy dwarven
traders that were terrorizing the market last week. Marlborough
says that hell pay 50 gold to any man brave enough to confront
the dwarves and take his fathers sword from those foul
midgets.
Source: Harold Bonelli [male human, Exp 3, 10 hp], owner
of Bonellis Wine Shop. Harold Bonelli dresses in a threadbare
supertunic that was, at one time, quite elegant and dark breeches with leather-soled booties.
Follow Up: The dwarven caravan consists of 20 dwarves a
mixture of merchants and guards (exact strength should be
determined based on the strength of the PCs) assorted pack
mules, and a wagon. The dwarves recognized Marlboroughs
sword as one forged hundreds of years ago in their own kingdom
and offered Marlborough 100 gp for the weapon (which is easily worth 500 gp). Marlborough foolishly accepted the proposal
and just yesterday learned of the swords true worth. The
dwarves are not willing to give up the sword without a fight but
if they appear to be losing the battle or the minute any of their
number is slain they will surrender and attempt to escape with
their lives.
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Follow Up: One-Thumb Arnold is, in fact, hiding in his sisters cellar. Hundreds of rats are loose in the city and the rat
catcher is afraid hell be identified as a coward if it gets out
that hes too scared to face such a large number of rats. While
these are simply ordinary rats, many of them are carrying disease and if theyre not wiped out quickly the city will face a
horrible epidemic.
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Failed Gather Information Check: Hatcher took it on hisself to check his lands north a the city last week and got what
was comin to him. Dirty thief has been robbinus common man
blind every day for two score years and its time someone laid
inta him. Hell, Ive thought a dointhe same thing to him meself
ever since my pap lost the horse to that gentleman.
Source: Nathan Skrogs [male human, Com2, 5 hp], a middleaged man with a receding hairline and dressed in tattered robes.
Skrogs is barefoot, armed with a club, and sometimes works in
Smithfields Chocolate House (see A Dozen Documents and
Papers or www.philipjreed.com) as a rough.
Successful Gather Information Check: Yes, I heard gentleman Martin was attacked a few weeks ago. What my sister
told me and shes a friend of Miriam Martin is that the good
gentleman was returning from his cottage in the country when a
gang of roughs ambushed him and his bodyguard. Both barely
escaped with their lives and now Martins looking for some gentlemen to accompany him on an expedition to exact revenge on
those terrible thugs.
Source: Green Robinson [male human, Exp4, 15 hp], a
wealthy draper (a draper is a merchant that specializes in cloth)
who frequently sells his wares from the back of a well-kept
wagon.
Follow Up: Hatcher Martin is indeed looking to hire men so
that he may punish those who attacked him. Martin will pay 10
gold to any man that will ride with him early next week. The
thieves six in total have already heard that Martin is looking
to punish them and have fled to a nearby city or large town.
Once Martin determines that the rogues have fled the area hell
offer a reward of 100 gold to any man who brings him the leader
of the thieves dead or alive.
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