So here we are, downtown Brigvark. Or at least that’s what Schim tells us - the place is a warren of tunnels and caverns, beautifully carved from the bedrock but we’d be lost down here in a second if we tried to navigate without a guide.
Schim doesn’t want to make our presence too widely know so he takes us through a series of deserted back tunnels, shushing us constantly like an overzealous librarian. Finally we come to a stone door. It’s round, like most of the others we’ve walked past but slightly more ornately carved. By the flickering light of Schim’s torch, the door carvings look to be some sort of Pangolean script. Or maybe it’s just a decorative pattern… can anyone here read Pangolean?
Anyway, Schim does some sort of complicated knock with his foreclaws and almost immediately the door swings open revealing a well lit cavern within. The walls are covered floor to ceiling with glass-fronted cabinets filled with all manner of carefully labelled items. I can make out several rock - sorry - mineral samples, ancient digging tools, and lots of other bits and pieces but I don’t recognise most of it.
The Pangolean who opened the door for us frowns at Schim as he leads us in and closes the door behind him with a sign of relief.
“What trouble have you brought me now Schim? Outsiders? Is this part of your scheme to set up a trade agreement with the surface?”
“Yes Culion, these overlanders are the first of many who will eventually pass through Brigvark and we must use this to our advantage. Our consortium will grow fat while the others curl up into their scales at the very thought of trading with outsiders”
I step forward and interrupt, “Look, we’re hungry and tired and getting extremely cranky. We need a place to sleep before we can discuss this or anything else. Some hot food and cold beer wouldn’t go astray either. Let’s not find out if there’s any truth to the pangopup stories about what happens when hungry outsiders come to town.”
negotiating lodgings in Brigvark (Difficulty 10).
Unstable squaddie
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