Novama
One Thousand Club
Mentions:
1Lucker
Naythophyl
Spoiled Bread
Develius
Megilagor
Kris Rebel
OOC: I took some liberties with the opening narration. Rp will run on a weekly schedule, so post at least once in the 7 days but feel free to post more and in any order so long as its not twice in a row. talking and communicate to each other your plans on posting. Nothing worse than a week going by and no posts appearing because everyone is waiting on someone else to post. If that happens, I'll close the thread. Current plan is to run the rp a little over a month. Rounds may go faster if everyone posts at a decent pace.
Time: mid morning
Weather: clear and sunny, comfortably warm with slight breeze
TLDR: The party arrive in port where a massive serpent has gone wild and is threatening more damage and danger unless someone does something about it. f you have questions, ask them in discord. Save posting for doing/saying things and not standing around puzzling out the situation.
Post Listening:
The characters found themselves in the quiet port town of Pardan, north of Ryken in Ryke. The town is divided by straight of river with boats of all sizes navigating the channel or docking to either side to offload goods or take on passengers. A morning mist still clung to the waters and streets while the rising sun slowly burned away the mists that clung to the tops of the surrounding forests. It was on the east side of the river that the characters overheard a young man shouting at a ship captain, demanding passage in exchange for his treasure map. The grizzled captain was resistant to the demands of the young townie. Mid conversation, he barked orders to his men and the serpent handlers about what to do with the ships cargo.
In the water and slithering along the docks, massive serpents aided the dock workers in loading and unloading the ships that came into port. Other times they were mounts giving rides around town to their handlers to aid with one task or another. Construction, hunting, an many other tasks seemed to leverage the massive beasts that were all around the characters. All the serpent handlers were men and they carried rods as wide as a man's thumb and decorated in various chiseled or coated patterns of snakes. Whether the men were serpent handlers or not, all greeted each other or beckoned with the same grasp and flick of the wrist and a smile. All the men had noticeably white teeth and despite being human, some appeared to have fangs.
Seemed like several of the dock workers wore pull on waterproof layers made of serpent skin. The blue scale pattern shimmered brilliantly when wet. The snake attire was noticeably absent from a group of beastmen slipping away down an alley. Yufi would recognize the familiar clothing and sash of the Flores family on some of them. She would barely see them before they were gone. The more noticeable detail was the serpent handlers overseeing the efforts of their serpent were all incapacitated. Without its handler, the large serpent hissed loudly as it wheeled hits head back and then violently started to thrash around. Carts, buildings, people, vessels, nothing was save as the unruly beast swung its body around without a care, clearly agitated. Other serpent tamers were busy keeping their snakes under control while free dockworkers rush to call for aid.
The suddenness of the whole ordeal shocked some of the women folk that had come down to the docks for the morning catch or imported spices among other goods. Provocatively dressed, they were not armored and more vulnerable than the men, but those still with sense about them ripped off their neck accessories to arm themselves. Each woman wore a silver piece of cutlery at their neck pointing downward. Once freed of the neckpieces, the cutlery seemed designed more for fighting than eating. The massive serpent's red eyes seemed to shift around looking for the next thing to strike. Any sudden movement from the women or anyone else would likely provoke it.
All characters including npc's mentioned already are in immediate danger and the actions of those present will directly impact the outcome of the scene as well as what characters make it to the next.
The fae eyed the characters new to town and the massive snake just beyond them before reaching into his pocket to produce a pink crystal flower. His eyes glowed similarly pink as he spoke the spell in fae. The party of characters would notice or feel the prying nature of the glowing eyes that seemed to see through them.
He spoke up promptly and urged them to deal with the situation by giving them some faith,"Pardon the rudeness, but you all seem up to the task. Do something about that, would you."
Not the most helpful, but perhaps he was right. Perhaps not. They would have to find out firsthand. Malik was clearly an outsider as he did not look or dress like the locals.
1Lucker
Naythophyl
Spoiled Bread
Develius
Megilagor
Kris Rebel
OOC: I took some liberties with the opening narration. Rp will run on a weekly schedule, so post at least once in the 7 days but feel free to post more and in any order so long as its not twice in a row. talking and communicate to each other your plans on posting. Nothing worse than a week going by and no posts appearing because everyone is waiting on someone else to post. If that happens, I'll close the thread. Current plan is to run the rp a little over a month. Rounds may go faster if everyone posts at a decent pace.
Time: mid morning
Weather: clear and sunny, comfortably warm with slight breeze
TLDR: The party arrive in port where a massive serpent has gone wild and is threatening more damage and danger unless someone does something about it. f you have questions, ask them in discord. Save posting for doing/saying things and not standing around puzzling out the situation.
Post Listening:
Pardan Port
The characters found themselves in the quiet port town of Pardan, north of Ryken in Ryke. The town is divided by straight of river with boats of all sizes navigating the channel or docking to either side to offload goods or take on passengers. A morning mist still clung to the waters and streets while the rising sun slowly burned away the mists that clung to the tops of the surrounding forests. It was on the east side of the river that the characters overheard a young man shouting at a ship captain, demanding passage in exchange for his treasure map. The grizzled captain was resistant to the demands of the young townie. Mid conversation, he barked orders to his men and the serpent handlers about what to do with the ships cargo.
In the water and slithering along the docks, massive serpents aided the dock workers in loading and unloading the ships that came into port. Other times they were mounts giving rides around town to their handlers to aid with one task or another. Construction, hunting, an many other tasks seemed to leverage the massive beasts that were all around the characters. All the serpent handlers were men and they carried rods as wide as a man's thumb and decorated in various chiseled or coated patterns of snakes. Whether the men were serpent handlers or not, all greeted each other or beckoned with the same grasp and flick of the wrist and a smile. All the men had noticeably white teeth and despite being human, some appeared to have fangs.
Seemed like several of the dock workers wore pull on waterproof layers made of serpent skin. The blue scale pattern shimmered brilliantly when wet. The snake attire was noticeably absent from a group of beastmen slipping away down an alley. Yufi would recognize the familiar clothing and sash of the Flores family on some of them. She would barely see them before they were gone. The more noticeable detail was the serpent handlers overseeing the efforts of their serpent were all incapacitated. Without its handler, the large serpent hissed loudly as it wheeled hits head back and then violently started to thrash around. Carts, buildings, people, vessels, nothing was save as the unruly beast swung its body around without a care, clearly agitated. Other serpent tamers were busy keeping their snakes under control while free dockworkers rush to call for aid.
The suddenness of the whole ordeal shocked some of the women folk that had come down to the docks for the morning catch or imported spices among other goods. Provocatively dressed, they were not armored and more vulnerable than the men, but those still with sense about them ripped off their neck accessories to arm themselves. Each woman wore a silver piece of cutlery at their neck pointing downward. Once freed of the neckpieces, the cutlery seemed designed more for fighting than eating. The massive serpent's red eyes seemed to shift around looking for the next thing to strike. Any sudden movement from the women or anyone else would likely provoke it.
All characters including npc's mentioned already are in immediate danger and the actions of those present will directly impact the outcome of the scene as well as what characters make it to the next.
Malik
Malik was overseeing crates getting moved into a warehouse currently rented out by the Silver Star Trading company. He sniffed unconsciously at the strong scene of dead fish which the handlers used to keep their massive beasts fed. All the fish guts would have made the water unsuited for swimming if it weren't for the large snakes prowling the waters keeping it free of predators.
The fae eyed the characters new to town and the massive snake just beyond them before reaching into his pocket to produce a pink crystal flower. His eyes glowed similarly pink as he spoke the spell in fae. The party of characters would notice or feel the prying nature of the glowing eyes that seemed to see through them.
He spoke up promptly and urged them to deal with the situation by giving them some faith,"Pardon the rudeness, but you all seem up to the task. Do something about that, would you."
Not the most helpful, but perhaps he was right. Perhaps not. They would have to find out firsthand. Malik was clearly an outsider as he did not look or dress like the locals.
Cheshire Charmel 
