The Festival of Flowers Blooms and Other News Around Orm
Another fortnite has passed in Ur-Dan. Along the Cerulean Sea, where the Gloaming Hills meets Sourwood Marsh, here is what folks are talking about:
The drunken brownies and sprites above the Drinking Crow have brought word has traveled all the way from the Twilight Shores: the Margrave Quinius (Guardian of the the Friscalating Fens) has vanished on a recent hunt. The head of the elfin court, Her Majesty Blackmarsh, fears it is the return of the Oloth El'gg Ssusson.
Meanwhile, back in the Realm of Mortals, the tragedy that befell Eq'Thyll has the settlements along the Bay of Favul at unease. All the showmanship of Sir Yann Sharp's borderland skirmishes has led to little headway into dealing with the mystery of Eq'Thyll. On top of that, an increase of raiding activity which included a ship from the Holy Empire-That-Is with goods for the Festival of Flowers, along the Cerulean Sea has done little to improve the people's opinion of Sharp's current campaign.
Services were held for recently deceased adventurers based out of both the Drinking Crow and the Burning Witch this last fortnite. Byndle has buried in a plot next to his brother Bindle while hireling Kay Em Dee had a service made up mostly of the handful of the surviving members of the Burning Witches pre-adventurer bar scene. Cleric Bjorn Firebeard was buried with his hedgehog holy symbol marking his grave. Common adventuring companionto Bjorn, Elvira Wylde of Odellwood Abbey,was put to eternal rest next to her ward, Genevieve.
The Midnight Marauders have been investing the reconstruction of an old fortification on the edges of Orm-of-Old. While there resident magic-user is off partaking in magical studies, the rest of the group have been seen drilling new recruits and collecting intelligence on "The Complex". Related to both goals, Marauder lieutenant Aladee Nightthistle has been seen courting the services of former dungeon denizen Sooz-awn.
The Festival of Flowers is here to initiate the summer season in Ur-Dan. Livestock are been blessed ceremonially with fire and released to roam the streets of Orm. The people are ceremonially pelted with legumes and flowers. The songs of the Brothers of the Fields echo through Orm as they secretly perform their rituals to cthonic powers. form their sacred grove. The prostitutes of Orm dance naked in the streets and perform mock combats. The night is filled with light, guiding folks to the theater performances that are the hallmark of the Festival.
Those looking to partake in the Festival of Flowers must spend use one downtime segment and at least 50gp on a brightly colored outfit and theater tickets. For each 100gp (up to 500gp) spent on the Festivial downtime grants a +1 to a roll on the following table:
The drunken brownies and sprites above the Drinking Crow have brought word has traveled all the way from the Twilight Shores: the Margrave Quinius (Guardian of the the Friscalating Fens) has vanished on a recent hunt. The head of the elfin court, Her Majesty Blackmarsh, fears it is the return of the Oloth El'gg Ssusson.
Meanwhile, back in the Realm of Mortals, the tragedy that befell Eq'Thyll has the settlements along the Bay of Favul at unease. All the showmanship of Sir Yann Sharp's borderland skirmishes has led to little headway into dealing with the mystery of Eq'Thyll. On top of that, an increase of raiding activity which included a ship from the Holy Empire-That-Is with goods for the Festival of Flowers, along the Cerulean Sea has done little to improve the people's opinion of Sharp's current campaign.
Services were held for recently deceased adventurers based out of both the Drinking Crow and the Burning Witch this last fortnite. Byndle has buried in a plot next to his brother Bindle while hireling Kay Em Dee had a service made up mostly of the handful of the surviving members of the Burning Witches pre-adventurer bar scene. Cleric Bjorn Firebeard was buried with his hedgehog holy symbol marking his grave. Common adventuring companionto Bjorn, Elvira Wylde of Odellwood Abbey,was put to eternal rest next to her ward, Genevieve.
The Midnight Marauders have been investing the reconstruction of an old fortification on the edges of Orm-of-Old. While there resident magic-user is off partaking in magical studies, the rest of the group have been seen drilling new recruits and collecting intelligence on "The Complex". Related to both goals, Marauder lieutenant Aladee Nightthistle has been seen courting the services of former dungeon denizen Sooz-awn.
The Festival of Flowers
The Festival of Flowers is here to initiate the summer season in Ur-Dan. Livestock are been blessed ceremonially with fire and released to roam the streets of Orm. The people are ceremonially pelted with legumes and flowers. The songs of the Brothers of the Fields echo through Orm as they secretly perform their rituals to cthonic powers. form their sacred grove. The prostitutes of Orm dance naked in the streets and perform mock combats. The night is filled with light, guiding folks to the theater performances that are the hallmark of the Festival.
Those looking to partake in the Festival of Flowers must spend use one downtime segment and at least 50gp on a brightly colored outfit and theater tickets. For each 100gp (up to 500gp) spent on the Festivial downtime grants a +1 to a roll on the following table:
After the painstaking work of picking hundreds of dandelion flowers in the fields, and then the hours spent snipping their yellow petals into a cask (leave out the greens, or all will be bitter!) to be mixed with water and sugar and fermented into next spring's dandelion wine, Scamandros looks up from his work to realize that a festival is in the offing!
ReplyDeleteFain to attend, he spares the last few dozen flowers and has them woven up into a makeshift crown, while ordering a new cloak of bright yellows and deep greens and blues done up for the upcoming festival. He also orders tickets for the theater (of course), and seeks out Kiddo the scrappy youth at the Burning Witch to ask if she will bear his partha-shield before him as lictor? ("Also, though I could not afford for you the best of seats, I did manage to get you standing-room near the stage for a few silver, if you wish to attend.")
Altogether, he spends 65 gold (on cloak and tickets for self and Kiddo), leaving a measly 4, hopefully soon to be increased by mercantilism or by adventure ...
During the festivities, he helps to shepherd blessed livestock through Orm (no doubt using his dandelion-crown to good advantage), and one rascal of a beast follows him home through the streets to the Athenaeum of the Dying Sun to take up residence amongst the fellow magic-users there ...
Crannoc hems and haws over the festive outfits for sale and splurges 5gp extra for some spring-themes face paint (flowers, bumblebees, etc) before heading into the theatre. He spends 100gp extra on tips to the performers and refreshments for some familiar carousing companions he notices in the crowd. [Rolled a 1. Final result is a 2] He's enraptured by harmonic unity of the Brothers of the Field and feels like he experiences something of their life. [Gains 50XP].
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