Shadows of a Crimson Blade

[J-H]

"Thanks. Hey, you wouldn't happen to know anything about a battle involving a tribe of ogres a couple of days ago, would you? I heard a rumor that both sides were mercenaries, and I'm trying to figure out what the point of that one was."

[Darth Ultron]

Wulf Duesnot "The one just south of the Echo Canyon? Yea, I know about it. I sold some items to them ogre mercenaries. You know, being the only shop in town that sells large sized items regularly. Had to deal with that ugly frog lady...Veillayarinalil..a couple times. I really did not like her, but she payed in advance and in all nicely cut diamonds, so it was not so bad."

[J-H]

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Would Gladius know what a frog person is?
K: Local is at +5 if needed.

[Darth Ultron]

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Central Thay, were you are is a bit too ''like Nevada'' for most frog type races....except outsider type ones like Sladdi and fiends

[J-H]

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K: Planes is at +7, K Nature +5, K Dungeoneering +5
Whatever is appropriate.

[Darth Ultron]

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Slaad are common outsiders that look like frogs.
Neraphim are another frog like outsider race.
A lot of feinds are ''reptile'' or ''frog-like'', but only the Hydroloth ''look'' like huaman-oid frogs.

[J-H]

Interesting; If I work more for the gnoll, maybe I'll get to face this frog outsider and solve my other problem... Gladius thinks to himself as he leaves, searching for a jeweler who might carry a rogue stone and/or a ring of protection +1.

[Darth Ultron]

Magdelella's Magical Jewelry is an easy shop to find, right on the main street and with illusions of dancing jewelry including rings. The stone shop is small and well lit by small glowing orbs of light. A couple of small tables have a couple small pieces of jewelry.

A human female in a white robe sits on a large carpet in the middle of the shop.

Magdelella "Welcome, what can I do for you?"

[J-H]

"Good afternoon. I'm looking for a magic ring that grants me some protection in battle, so I'm harder to hit, and I'm also looking for a rogue stone."

[Darth Ultron]

Magdelella "Yes, I have both. Will a ring of protection do? How much can you pay?"

[J-H]

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K: Arcana for the normal value of a rogue stone?
I know that one edition (2nd?) used them for a "gem jump" teleport spell.

[Darth Ultron]

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Any gem can be of any value depending on size, cut, clarity and shape. A typical specimen had a base value of 5,000 gp

[J-H]

"Hmm... 6,000 for the pair? The rogue stone is for someone else to use with a spell."

[Darth Ultron]

Magdelella "sounds good to me"

A raven flies over and lands on her shoulder with a gold ring and a green gemstone.

[J-H]

"Well bargained and done." Gladius retrieves the funds, and carefully pockets the stone while putting the ring on. He goes in search of glasses or goggles that grant the ability to see at night - perhaps someplace run by a gnome?

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Without a source of Identify, I have no way to know if Gladius is actually getting what he pays for (like with the anklet). Ah well.

Sheet updated. Still have 7k gp.

[Darth Ultron]

You don't see nay obvious gnome shop, but it's easy enough to find a huge stone sign on the side of a commoner bath house that says "Xallijk's mining supplies'' with a big arrow that points to a set of stone stairs that go down to a underground shop filled with tables of supplies and a lot of kobolds.

[J-H]

Gladius walks through the area, towering over the kobolds. Most of them scurry around or dodge out of his way, knowing that he might literally overlook him. He glances down at the tables, looking for goggles or glasses - or anything else that might be especially interesting.

[Darth Ultron]

The tables are full of all sorts of junk, a lot of it small sized, but some is medium size. One table does have an assortment of goggles and masks.

[J-H]

Gladius looms over that table. "What do these do?" he asks, as he points down at them.

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don't worry about a list of 30 items, we can assume that the merchant tells Gladius about everything and he only bothers to think or care about the few that may be interesting.

[Darth Ultron]

"smoky goggles block bright light. And big um goggles make eyes look bigger, for the females that like big eyes. Dark goggles make you blind, so you no get fooled by no ill-cousins..but you does walk into walls and open pits." Say several of the kobolds all at once.

[J-H]

"Any that let you see in the darkness?"

[Darth Ultron]

Cyumsu Coalstriker "Yes, hew-mon, Goggles of Night, I Cyumsu Coalstriker have them for sale. Make with kobold scales. You wish to buy? You have gold? Lots of gold? 12,000 gold coins or maybe diamonds? says a female kobold over by the far wall dressed in black robes.

[J-H]

"Made with the scales of a dragon you mean, at that price. 4,000 gold, or I can probably just find darkvision on a wand."

[Darth Ultron]

Cyumsu Coalstriker "No dragons around...the red ones killed them all. And don't got no wands. Maybe you like potions of darkvision? Made with kobold tears. Only 300 hundres gold each and they even comes with a scale hide flask."

[J-H]

"Eh, forget it. Do you have anything else that might fit me, maybe something that helps in a fight?"

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wand of Darkvision (CL3) should be 4500gp or thereabouts. I'll eventually want to make friends with someone who can Permanancy Darkvision and See Invisibility on me... but that costs XP and will probably have to be earned by saving someone's daughter or killing a rival or something.

[Darth Ultron]

Cyumsu Coalstriker "You want a fang mask? Lets you bite people. Or a mask of blood? Lets you spit poisionous blood at foes!"

[J-H]

"The bloodspitter mask sounds interesting. What does it do, and how strong is the poison?"

[Darth Ultron]

Cyumsu Coalstriker explains the magic item, "It can be yours for just 17,000 gold."

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Mask of Blood

This mask of red metal constantly weeps a bloodlike liquid when worn. Any NPC who sees a creature wearing the mask has his attitude toward the wearer shifted one category toward hostile. The liquid is normally harmless, but once per day the wearer can spit it forth as a ranged touch attack with a range increment of 10 feet. When used in this way, the fluid acts as a poison spell upon the creature it strikes. If a barbarian wears the mask, the character's rages last 1 round longer than normal. The mask counts as a pair of lenses for limitations on wearing multiple magic items.

[J-H]

Gladius turns away. "Not what I'm looking for." He goes looking for the same merchant he'd purchased the wand of Color Spray from earlier.

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Wow, that's a pretty overpriced item that's just one step short of cursed!

[Darth Ultron]

Winúŋna's Wands of War is a small wooden shop built on top of a small warehouse with a long wooden staircase that wraps around the whole building and up to the door of the shop. The shop has several wands of all shapes and sizes on the walls...and a couple that fly around in the shop with big feathery wings. The shop is also full of a lot of birds of lots of different types.

Winúŋna, a kenku sits on a carpet in the middle of the shop.