Breakfast at The Inn of the Last Home

Ty'garn, seeing he is the first to enter the inn, takes a seat at the bar.

Tika, you are as beautiful as you are generous.  I will pay my tab, and then some, once I get a job.  I feel like today's the day.

When Tika walks away, as if talking to himself, Ty'garn says,

of course, we'll beat the crap out of a noble soon.  I can't keep eating potatoes forever.  Get out of my head!

Kirsten lies down on her back on the ground, eyes closed, in front of the fire. She is sprawled in the same shape as the bearskin rug beneath her, and is contemplating possible thoughts the bear had on it's last day on this earth...and also if Ava would be there soon.

Duncan trots merrily up the stairs and into the Inn thinking "Today's weather sure isn't very interesting, why have we had so much rain recently?? But on the bright side at least I do get to splish splosh around!"

As he enters, he sees Tika and beams, waving his hand high. "Hi Tika!"  

He then scans the room, and only sees a few other people, none of them seem to be having any fun, and thinks "Oh my, no one here must know how to splish splosh, maybe someone needs to show them how."

So Duncan makes his way around the room towards the fire, because for some reason he has this strange shiver that just won't go away right now.  He sees Kirsten beside the fire.  He notices her eyes are closed, probably trying to figure out the most interesting thing to do in this weather.  So he tries to get her attention, and starts jumping up and down, splish sploshing in his cold wet shoes and socks, pointing to his feet, with a huge smile on his face and says to Kirsten "See!?!"

Kohak takes a seat at the bench in the back right corner.  She methodically puts her bag on the bench and proceeds to take out items and place them on the table leaving room for her spiced potatoes and very necessary coffee.  Kohak starts humming to herself and constructing some sort of rain blocking tool with a staff, rope and leather. With her head remaining down she moves her eyes upwards to see the approaching figure. She looks back down and says, "Moribus."

Moribus strolls in from his morning walk, wet from the rain.  He waves excitedly at everyone, then notices Kirsten, who seems to be pretending she's a bear.   Moribus thinks to himself "Hmm, maybe bear is her power animal...good choice."  

Hi Tika, I'll have a green tea today.  I'm watching my immune system. Can't be too careful with all this rain going on.


He then notices Kohak in the corner of the room, who is focused on building something.  Interested, he walks over and takes a seat across the table.

After observing for a few seconds, without asking, Moribus shines light from his palm on Kohak's incomplete invention and explains Oh, if I hadn't mentioned it yet, I have this neat flashlight in my hand.  I call him Manos.  Thought you could use some better lighting.  

The sound of thumping and sloshing water permeates Kirsten's very deep and very serious thoughts. She squints open her left eye and sees a noticeably tall kender jumping up and down with a large smile on his face while pointing down at his shoes, the culprit of the intrusive sounds.

Kristen, with her right eye still tightly shut, tries to remain very deep and very serious, but a grin slips it's way onto her pursed lips. She glances quickly over at Tika to make she she isn't looking before getting up and grabbing a mug from a nearby table. Kirsten pours out it's contents on her shoes and begins lightly stomping in cadence with Duncan.

"Ahh Great job - just a little more to the left like this..."

Duncan stops his splish sploshing for a moment and says

"My name is Duncan Herrofoot!  I haven't seen you around here before, Do you come here often??"

Duncan pauses a moment, and then excitedly remarks

"Oooooh are you an Elf?  Are you from Rivendell??  I travelled through there one time, they have the most wonderful trees.  Not better than the trees here of course"

Duncan nervously looks around making sure no one overhead him, not wanting to offend anyone in town where they are obviously very proud of their trees

"But it was an amazing place to see!  Though the dungeons weren't the nicest I've ever seen.  Oh do you know lots of other elves?  I drew this picture of a giant elf I saw..."

Duncan unloads his packs and places all of his belongings on the floor, finding his book of pictures he drew.  He starts flipping through them, and excitedly finds the one of an elf he drew

"Do you know this elf!?  Can't remember his name.  Legoland maybe?  He misplaced his ring, and then got mad at me when I found it, even though I was on my way to return it to him!"

Well, I think that's all the crazy I can take this morning. Tika, now's time to hit the boards for some work. Need to make that coin. Thanks for breakfast, luv.

Ty'garn drops his fork on the plate and moves to the door, intent on going to the center of town.

Dwalin sits in the corner that has a view of both the stairs and the main area, as well as a view out of the window. He's staring out at the rain, finding a soothing comfort in it, as people start coming in. He turns his head to look at the comings and goings of the tavern. The elf, half and otherwise, the kender, the dragonborn, the aasimar and the other dwarf... . He sees them walk in one by one. The kender's antics seem the most entertaining. Nursing his tankard, he leans back, watching the kender splish-sploshing on the bear rug, bothering the elf.

Kirsten fains a guilty look that quickly dissipates as soon as Tika is out of sight in the kitchen. A barrage of questions come at Kirsten from Duncan and she tries her best to answer them. "Hi, I'm Kirsten. I'm not from around here, but I'm staying here. I don't know many elves. Where I'm from there weren't many around, and it doesn't matter anyway because they're all..." A shadow momentarily passes over her face before she quickly changes the subject and points at the drawing.

"That's a very nice likeness you made there, and I'm sorry to hear he was so unreasonable." With her index finger, she lingeringly traces the outline of drawing's ears. It reminds her of a character in her book, but she doesn't say that. Instead she pulls out her playing cards and in return for his candor offers to show him what she passes off as a very ancient elvish illusion.

Ava finishes her letter and beckons for Tika as she re-enters the room. Ava places the folded letter on Tika's tray with a few extra coins. The barmaid nods and starts to turn away, but Ava holds up one finger, chugs the rest of her drink and puts it on the tray with an extra coin before waving the woman off.

Apologies for the holdup. I had an urgent message to send. But our quest has my total attention now.

Thank you I do have a great collection of...

Duncan starts to respond to Kirsten after she mentioned his drawing is nice, and then is immediately drawn to the Illusion when it starts

Oooo wow that's wonderful!

Duncan starts circling around the cards, trying to figure out how the illusion is being created.  He ends up with his body limbo style under the table and his head sticking out. He turns to Kirsten

Are you a magician?  Can you teach me magic?  I come from a long line of magical Kender you know.  My uncle Tas did all sorts of magic.  One time he transformed himself into a mouse and travelled through time!  No one has ever taught me magic though.  I'm sure if you showed me, I'd be a great magician.

Haha, you guys are so dumb. You’re so dead! Do you even know what you just walked into? A den of vicious loonies!

Ty’garn points to Kirsten.

This one… she may not understand the intricacies of chairs but she is deadly with that bow.

Next he points to Duncan.

This little girl, she is a dangerously deadly bard. Her talking alone will cause you to want to end your life. Trust me, I know.  I’ve come close this morning.

Now pointing to Moribus.

This one you really have to worry yourselves. I hear this Aasimar was so bored of his immortality and have done everything goodie goodies to do, he decided to kill an entire village and drank the blood of two babies just for kicks.

Here you’ve barged in to this nice lady’s tavern and you’ve caused a scene. I want to help you live. How about you drop all your coin, an anything of value, take your screaming brat and never come back. Otherwise, I suggest you enjoy your last breaths.

Ty’garn’s right arm begins to glow green.

Intimidation: 18

Kirsten looks over surprised at the cacophony emanating from the other side of the room and reflexively stretches her hand towards her bow. In a comanding voice she exclaims, "First of all, just because one doesn't use a chair, doesn't mean one doesn't know how." She then adds somewhat mockingly, "And second of all, why are so many armaments necessary for a mere child?"

Dwalin sighs. There's always someone looking for trouble in a tavern. At least this time, it's not him. He shoves his chair back. SQUUEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEK! The legs make a godawful squeeking sound over the floor... Hopefully Tikka didn't notice, as it may well have caused some minor damage on it... . Dwalin sighs once more and starts focuses on the centermost villain. He imagines a sphere of pure serenity going outward from that villain, calming everyone within a 20ft radius. He concentrates on all the hostile thoughts towards the little half-elf girl and has the sphere wash them away.

((Calm emotions, CHA saving throw with a DC of 13. When failing the saving throw, they will become indifferent towards the half-elf girl until attacked, harmed by a spell, or see a buddy of theirs being harmed.))

Ava glances at Ty’garn and gives a half smile. She can’t help respecting someone who spins chaos into an opportunity for more coin. But, she also suspects that bloodied hands but pure of heart Kirsten will want to help the young hafu more than scoring enough for elevensies. Ava slides her dagger from its sheath and into her left hand while slowly heading behind the bar for a more tactical position.

Duncan is surprised by the harsh light and the loud noise. He looks over to see the scared girl and her pursuers, grabs his hoopak and a couple of rocks, and moves closer to the front of the the Inn to get a better view of what's happening.

Kohak remains seated and put down her crafts project. She looks up at the commotion in the room and sees the half-elf and her pursuers.

"What's all this about"

She focuses on the pursuer closest to her and detects his thoughts asking the question,

What do you want with her?

Moribus is very concerned, casts Armor of Agathys on himself, gets up from the table and turns around to see what's happening.

When you say lizard I presume you’re referring to me. Since you’re too dumb to know the difference between a noble dragonborn and a lizard, I’m not surprised. You’ve probably spent more time picking lint out of your bellybutton than learning the world around you, like a typical human. Well, I put a hex on you and your family that your first born never learns to read and, if they already know how to read, I wish they forget how to read.

Bonus action: Hex Curse

While I wait for whatever stupid thing you have in store for me, let’s play.

Eldritch Blast: 15 to hit. 6 damage

Ava is so confused by the girl's exit. Why would she use a key on an unlocked door? And wasn't it pouring a few moments ago? Could that light really be the sun or... No. Ava sighs. There's no time. "Wristlet over here isn't going to stop at attacking just the lizard, dwarf, and warlock," she mutters to herself.

Ava races to the enemy leader and tries to hop up onto the bar, but nope. Not gonna happen.

Code:

Athletics(+1)   {2}

Ugh, I should've stretched this morning. I'm getting so ooooooold.

But, behind the bar is still good enough to put a hole into this guy. Ava attacks with her dagger, then vanishes to warm up her muscles with some plies behind the bar.

Code:

Dagger   {8}
Piercing Damage   6