Hogar’s Journal (Translated from Giant)
Year 781 of the founding of the City
6th Day of Meloramensis – Part II
We spent a few
minutes ransacking the place before Glen suggested that, with the previous
owners disposed of, the shop could be a useful method of selling the various
weapons and armour we liberate from the slavers in the labyrinth. This would have the benefit of negating the
mark-down we always suffer when selling to traders who have to sell on at a
profit. I suggested that we could also
sell some of the gems we have found in the past; he was less keen on that.
As we discussed who would run the shop for us in our absence (quickly
deciding that Splug, a goblin that Glen, Rodney and Eligos found in Shadowfell
Keep, Bob and Eric would be just the people for the job and mulling over how to
get them over from Silverkin Manor) a tiny (even by their standards) kobold
emerged from his hiding place behind a packing crate. The scrape and skitter of drawn weapons
coupled with the full attention of all six of us sent him cowering into a
corner.
“Who are you creature and why do you
skulk about in this shop?” Glen asked
him.
After much stammering and grovelling prostration he revealed that his
name is Charrak and that he looked after the shop when the duergar were
away. Though they were cruel and often
beat him he had nowhere else to go and had stayed on for most of his life. Vic could see no hint of deceit in the
creature so we offered him his old job but working for us instead. He accepted our offer without
hesitation. As luck would have it he had
overheard enough of the conversations amongst the duergar to have learned the
location of the Horned Hold and was able to draw us a map.
We left him with five gold pieces to pay the mages to set up a
teleportation link between the shop and Silverkin Mansion. Glen wrote a note for him to give to Eric
explaining the situation and we set off immediately for the Horned Hold.
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