Dragon Warriors

Calder, Leila, Bretwald, Godric

Your new friends bring a fat man into the inn and plop him in a chair. The thin one stands over him. You continue to quaff.

Sten and Lucky enter, along with a man you don't recognise. There seems to be a slight resemblance between him and Sten, but he's much shorter.

"'Ere now," says Bedwere. "What you been drinkin' tonight, old feller?" He keeps up the pretense of the friendly drinking buddy but surreptitiously waves Corvin, Calder or whoever is closest over, peering pointedly at the green flecks.

Sten walks into the inn and looks around, noting the good deed done by the newcomers.

He stops by the innkeep {OOC - this is a small establishment and the innkeep is all you have for now - GM} and orders a drink for each of them and water for Farmer Mugger. "What, are you tryin' to kill Ol' Mugger? Ya can't be givin' im water, it has things what wriggle in it. An' if they wriggle in that, they'll wriggle in ya belly too. He'll have small beer, and I'll tell ya that won't even touch his sides. He likes 'is drink strong."

He walks towards the party.

They see a large barrel chested man well over 6ft tall, dressed in brown breeches and a grey tunic undone showing his hairy chest, with a sword at his side. His tunic is torn and stained with relatively fresh blood and part of his beard is singed on his cheek, his skin burnt.

"Thank you gentlemen for looking after Farmer Mugger. Please take these drinks as a thank you. What seems to be his problem, just drunk or something else?"

Sten places the small beer in front of Mugger. Sten remembers Mugger as a much different man, thinner, less intoxicated, not passed out in a chair. His wife, Maud, always had a kind word for Sten.

Calder greets the newcomer Sten brought, and continues to drink and eat

Corvin cautiously approaches the drunken farmer and squints closely at the man. Noticing the green flecks he recoils but quickly recovers and motions Sten to his side.

When Sten is near he will motion for Sten to lean in. When Sten bends closer and offers his ear Corvin whispers insistently “Sten, see this man’s face. Do you think that green spittle has the look of Serpent Tongue’s poisonous expectoration?”

{Observation. Sten and Corvin find the green spittle around Mugger's mouth vaguely familiar, but they can't be sure. Green spittle is green spittle, as they say}

Drystan observes all this fuss with amusement, nods to the newcomers and sips his ale.

Corvin steps back well clear of the corpulent Farmer Mugger and turns to address Sten and the older man with him whom he assumes is some relation based on the resemblance.

“I fear there is some vile pestilence or curse afoot in your town. Where is this fellow’s farm? Has he travelled somewhere or returned from a travel recently?”

Bedwere steps back from Farmer Mugger and returns to Drystan at the bar, where he recovers his drink. "'Snot usually this excitin' in Saxton, is it?"

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co-author Fury of the Deep
co-author Friends or Foes
co-author Dragon Warriors Players Guide
co-author Cold Fury
co-author Cadaver Draconis
co-author Ordo Draconis 1 and 2.