Hammer 1
Hammer 1, 1370:
High = 35, Low = 15
Moderate precipitation (up to 3/4" rain or 2" snow) starting @ 12:10pm
Wind gusting to 21 mph from the prevailing direction.
Clear sky most of the day.
The party exchanged New Year's greetings over breakfast.
Henkles, Stalker, Steve and Theo spent the day shopping. They
stopped at a tavern along the way and found this notice:
Auction
6 Hammer
The Dripping Dagger
High Road betwixt Selduth and Coffinmarch
Auction begins two hours past highsun.
The Swift Swords of Mirabar are holding an
auction to gather funds to get a fallen comrade
raised. Items sold will include numerous
magical and esoteric items from about
the north. Come and pick up a valued treasure while
helping a fellow traveller who's down on his luck.
Complete listing of the items for sale to be
posted at the Dripping Dagger.
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They headed to the Dripping Dagger to see what they could find out
and found this list posted with a copy of the auction notice:
Items for Auction
Box of armor bits for parts
7 orcish longswords
5 hobgoblin longbows
2 heavy crossbows
3 decent shields
1 decent helm
2 orcish maces
Fancy polearm
Set of 6 interesting candlesticks
Bigass fanciful wall hanging
Wondrous door
Book with some spells
Buncha non-spell books, unknown language(s), bad map
Everbright shield
Blowgun with 5 magic darts
Amber amulet of vermin - bee
Moon mote
Silent portal disk
5 chardalyn
Magic dagger
Oil of sharpness
Healing potion
Strength potion
Flying potion
Scroll of Magic Missile
Boots of alacrity
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After that, they proceded next door to the Riven Shield Shop,
where Henkles looked at a bola from chult which he felt was to
pricey for now (10gp). They found nothing to interest Henkles at
Riautar's Weaponry, so the proceeded across the city to the Market
and explored the booths available for weapons and serpentines.
The Market was not as full as it is in warmer months, but an
animal dealer selling four large puppies - which he said were a
new wolf-mastiff cross useful as guard and attack dogs - caught
Stalker's eye. He resolved to consider buying them later.
Henkles found a beautiful chestnut handled arquebus with silver
inlay which he couldn't afford (750gp), a short sword with 3 darts
concealed in the handle which he couldn't resist buying, although
he argued the price down a little, and a barbarian axe from
Maztica, which he passed on. The party found Arkathar
Bloodfriend's booth, but he had no serpentines for sale.
After that they tried Greg's Gem Store and Halazar's Fine Gems,
where they indeed saw many fine gems, but no serpentines. It was
getting late, so they headed home after that.
That evening, Staros dropped by to ask about the Alarm the
previous night. He was quite put out that Arcturagana had been
managing to approach the house and said he'd see what he could do
about that. He was very curious about her apparent attraction to
Maanamere and questioned him about it, but Maanamere played dumb
quite effectively.
From the personal memoirs of Stephen of Neverwinter:
Dexter replaced the Alarm spell and Maanamere was tied to his bed
overnight, but there were no disturbances.
