Dale News - 2013-06
| Date | Location | Title |
|---|---|---|
| 02 | ESGAROTH | Several Sorrowful Sindarin Speakers Seem Somewhat Sober |
| 02 | ESGAROTH | Grim tidings |
| 07 | ESGAROTH | Furry suspicious |
| 11 | ESGAROTH | Temper, temper |
| 11 | ESGAROTH | Asleep in the hay? |
| 12 | ESGAROTH | A Threat in the North |
| 13 | ESGAROTH | Late Night in Town Hall |
| 19 | ESGAROTH | Knock on wood |
| 22 | ESGAROTH | A budding scholar? |
| 28 | ESGAROTH | Shaky moorings? |
| Post Title: | Several Sorrowful Sindarin Speakers Seem Somewhat Sober |
| Author: | Haruven |
| Date posted: | 02 June 2013 |
| The winter cold drove me inside the Fiery Flagon last night... I tell you true, chilly as it was outside, I had to stop on my way home to warm up with some whisky else I'd freeze to death! That's what I told my wife, anyroad! We were all packed in there like fish in a barrel having a grand time, but it wasn't just men gathered in the Inn. There was a table of four elves, too -- I recognized the diplomat HARUVEN but the leader of the group was a wise-looking fellow less known to me. Sometimes elves are a merry lot -- have you seen how much wine they can put away, of an evening?! -- but not this time. They had a grim aspect about them as they listened to their leader (DIGOLAN), but it was all in some kind of Elvish and I couldn't make heads or tails of it! There were some big Elvish books on the table, and for a moment I wondered what sorrow they might have uncovered in their tomes... but then that new barmaid from Iach Celduin came by, and I figured the Elves can mind their own affairs! | |
| Post Title: | Grim tidings |
| Author: | Haruven |
| Date posted: | 02 June 2013 |
| Did you find your way to the banquet at the Elven Embassy last night? Say what you will about the forest folk, they know how to lay down a decent spread. Here's the strangest news though -- who would you expect might be the last person to walk through that Embassy's doors? And yet GLOIN son of Groin turned up sure enough, along with two retainers, for all that he looked none too pleased to be there.
He asked for a representative of the Elvenking, and the diplomat HARUVEN came forward. The dwarf was a little short with him (ha, ha...) but courteous enough, and all us onlookers were disappointed to find their business conducted behind closed doors. Later though, I overheard Haruven speaking to one of the other Elves -- something about sending scouts to investigate a danger in the north. Did the dwarf bring news of this danger? What could be going on which is dire enough to make Erebor and Amon Thranduil cooperate with such a minimum of complaint and reference to past misdeeds? | |
| Post Title: | Furry suspicious |
| Author: | Brev |
| Date posted: | 07 June 2013 |
| I've seen that young hunter fellow GIDON (Tobbit) round town a few times lately, he must be selling his stock between trips. You know who I mean, the foreign lad who never speaks. Only - get this - he /was/ speaking. And to LOUSE, of all people! Quite what they were saying I don't know, Louse came over all furtive and started muttering (and lets face it, that Decks girl's hard to understand at the best of times!) but, rather than turning crimson and backing away, Gidon started answering - in full sentences too. Why, not even Master BREV and Lady ISOBEL can achieve that, judging by the other day (how I laughed to see Gidon's one-word answers cause confusion in our erudite Taurdain scholar! Almost as good as a puppet show, it is!)
Anyway, like I said, Louse. Soon she and Gidon were chatting away like old friends (huh, who'd want to be friends with a Decks rat?). Next thing I saw them shake hands on something. I'd keep an eye on that pair if I were you, it must mean Trouble! | |
| Post Title: | Temper, temper |
| Author: | Brev |
| Date posted: | 11 June 2013 |
| Do you think that Master BREV has been a bit .. well, erratic of late? When he's not rushing round trying to do a dozen things as if the world were due to end tomorrow, he's snapping and snarling at the least provocation. Saw him lay into that prentice of his, the one with the stutter - not like the poor lad can answer back.
And the other day my Jeanie was in that place on the Wharf, learning to knit - courtesy of Lady ISOBEL Taurdain, of all folk! I'd have thought those nobles would be too proud to mix with the likes of us. But Jeanie says 'Missus Isobel' is an all right sort, even if she doesn't know how to loosen up and have a bit of fun. Anyway, just as they were finishing off Master Brev came in, and when the girls were a bit slow in leaving - you know the way young things chatter - he started shouting at them. Fair scared the wits out of her! It was left to Lady Isobel to calm her husband down - and I do hope she taught him some manners! | |
| Post Title: | Asleep in the hay? |
| Author: | Brev |
| Date posted: | 11 June 2013 |
| There's advantages to working in the stables. Sometimes on those cold nights it hardly seems worth heading back into town to shiver in a cold room under a worn-out blanket - me, I just settle down and take a kip in the hay. I was doing just that the other evening when I heard voices, so of course I took a look-see.
That new Elf, HARUVEN, was in the stables making a fuss of one animal and gabbling away in Elvish as though the beast could understand, when there was an outburst from the next stall that sounded rather less pretty. It was that foreigner BREV and I'll wager those guttural words weren't any form of praise for man or beast. His excuse? He said he'd dozed off. Master Haruven accepted that story and the two of them got to talking about titles. Brev tried to explain why he wasn't titled 'Lord' and I had a hard time keeping my laughter to myself when Haruven mentioned /his/ title. 'Man-bedder'? Someone in that Elf-town clearly has a wicked sense of humour! But then things turned serious - I heard the Elf say that one of his kin's horses had been killed by wolves, seems they'd been out hunting the pack that's been causing trouble up north. Sounds like they found them, too! That was when that hunter fellow GIDON came in to be drawn into the conversation. What else might have been said I don't know, but when Brev discovered it was after sundown he upped and hared off, leaving the other two behind. They continued talking but I couldn't hear what about, more's the pity. | |
| Post Title: | A Threat in the North |
| Author: | Haruven |
| Date posted: | 12 June 2013 |
| Best believe gets boring to guard the bridge into town some nights, 'specially when the most lively thing that happens all night is a rotten Elf staring at the sky for hours. Again. What is it they see up there? I still don't know what that diplomat HARUVEN thought he was lookin' at, but he quit it when Lady ORIANA came by, seemed he had some business to discuss with her. Business which involved the dwarf GLOIN too when he happened along, and that odd trio stood right there on the bridge to talk.
I moseyed just a little closer to hear what it might be that involves Elves, Dwarves /and/ the house of Karath, and it seems it's those wolves I've heard rumors about. Gloin said as how they've been gnawin' on the Lonely Mountain and the Dale-lands settlers to the north, but then turnin' tail and running away before the dwarves can chop 'em up into little gooey bits. The wood-elves went and found a nest of 'em though, which their diplomat seems keen on dumpin' in Karath's lap. Reckon everyone will have to have a share in the hunt if these wolves are really so bad as all that... I'll tell you now that if it takes all three kingdoms to take out a pack of wolves, that's not wolves I want to see comin' across my bridge, ever! Here's the thing that worries me, though, and I don't mind saying it. If these evil wolves got drove out of where they were before... what was it that was so bad it made /them/ run south? | |
| Post Title: | Late Night in Town Hall |
| Author: | Lorthrain |
| Date posted: | 13 June 2013 |
| Most days the Town Hall, in fact the whole business district gets shut down early, no? Well, not last night, at least. Seems that the lights were still burning well into the night, especially in the offices of the Steward, Lord Dedron of Girion. Word is he was having a late chat with Prince BARD himself, though it wasn't until they had some visitors that things got really interesting.
One of the guards told me that a trio of Karath arrived: Lord BARLIN, Lady ORIANA, and even Lord GERIK, each on separate business from the sounds of it. But all of them got involved in the nattering, he said, and it turned a bit serious. The door was open, but even so, it aint wise to be seen eavesdropping on noblefolk like that, so all he could make out was that there was something going on about the forts in the south, and money needed from the bank, or somesuch. Not sure what it's all about, but Gerik and Barlin both left in seemingly determined moods, so he tells me... Now, then it was that Lord Dedron himself left his own office, shutting the door behind him, leaving Lady Oriana and the prince by themselves. Course, with the door closed nothing was heard, but get this: she had quite the glowing smile on her lips when she left! What could all this mean? What are the 'higher-ups' up to, so highly? Is there something wrong with the bank? And hey, you don't suppose there's anything, y'know, 'going on' between Lady Karath and Prince Bard, do you? Might be worth keeping your ear to the ground for more RP, to find out. | |
| Post Title: | Knock on wood |
| Author: | Brev |
| Date posted: | 19 June 2013 |
| The other evening, Master BREV was seen paying a call on the Carpenter's Guildmaster STANRIC (played by Lo). What they discussed I can only speculate, but when Brev came out again he didn't look overly pleased. Frustrated, even. The Guildmaster himself was still tidying up his shop and he merely looked confused. And perhaps tired ... but then he's getting on in years. | |
| Post Title: | A budding scholar? |
| Author: | Brev |
| Date posted: | 22 June 2013 |
| The other evening LOUSE burst into the Library like a whirlwind. Stuck door, she claimed; Lady ISOBEL wasn't too impressed. Still, she offered to help Louse find what she was looking for, regardless. Funny, I'd have sworn the girl didn't want the help.
After a while it transpired Louse was after a book on Dwarves. An amused-looking Isobel pointed her towards one particular shelf and soon the Greenshirt was engrossed. Wonder what was in that book? Must've been mighty interesting! | |
| Post Title: | Shaky moorings? |
| Author: | Brev |
| Date posted: | 28 June 2013 |
| Did you see that young boatbuilder RIOLAN - you know, the outsider lad from Buhr Marling - almost fall in the Lake the other day? Twice?! He was perched on a piling eating his lunch when BREV (and that tongue-tied prentice of his) stopped to talk to him. Can't think what the carpenter might have said to cause /that/ kind of reaction. What I heard was only chit-chat about whether business was good.
Here now, you don't think that Riolan's been at the bottle during his lunch-hour? Wobbling around like that - not sure I'd want him near my boat if he has! | |
