SoloBickering

  The business with Azure (44 gold) takes a little longer than Jack, for one, hopes. She has no plan to pay real gold, and assumes the halflings will make up the 300-odd  Wully  was talking about (and which she never heard about).   Azure issues the promised note of hand, and disconsolate, Ingle listens to  Cied  and Pod backing  Wully  up when he says "of course, no Big Folk can be invited into our village, but I'll vouch for Pod and  Cied  here, and meet you back at  Irontown ."   They escort Azure back east while  Cied  and Pod head into the village tucked away in the downs.     Here, I would like an answer to a question that popped into my mind while watching Tony Robinson on  YouTube explaining the Dorset Ridgeway.    "Are they traveling over ancient ruins" Yes but invisible and unknown.   It does occur to me that ancient traces would extend from the ridgeway up onto the jumble of un...

  Basic premise   There is an  Ironwright   Guild member who sympathizes with  Wully  and his halfling village, and is also adventurous enough to try something quite different. In some manner yet to be determined he and the party link up. The prospective deal is that the wright sends  Wully's  village iron billets and in return the party goes back west and fetches the beetle carapaces so that this wright can make a side-deal with an armorer     I worked this out with some d6 oracles.     Let's find out who this smith is.   Azure  Pukeley , a woman of mature years.       The halfling  Wully  has the line to Azure, but they need to meet her discreetly.  Cied  is the natural liaison since her being seen with  Wully  should not attract any notice.     Is Azure prepared to sweeten the deal at all? Yes but the speed of the transaction then becomes an issue. In return fo...