Reclaiming Con-Troll of the Capitol [Private, Social]
Sept 20, 2023 17:47:24 GMT -5
Post by Sylvari Dawnsage on Sept 20, 2023 17:47:24 GMT -5
For the first time, as Sylvari approached the job board near The Brass Dragon tavern, she was the one posting a notice. In the hand she used to brace the paper against the board, she had another scroll gripped, even as she hammered in the posting with her massive warhammer. Stepping back to survey her work, she was pleased enough, and she took a seat nearby in case any would respond to the notice. She fervently hoped someone would answer her call, because of the other missive she held.
In the poorer parts of the city, much less trafficked than The Brass Dragon notice board, there was a woman who ran an orphanage and housed her own list of requests for those without the status or means to get to the more official postings. It was a recent development, and one Sylvari had played a major hand in developing, a fact she took immense pride in.
Her meeting with the governess of the orphanage on this trip was decidedly less light-hearted, however. She had listed a request herself, hoping that Sylvari would return quickly to receive it. As fate would have it, Sylvari did return, mere hours after the posting, a most fortunate thing indeed, given the nature of the job. One of the children of the orphanage had wandered from supervision on one of the group's excursions outside the city. The governess had reported the matter to the city guards, but they were unwilling to look, writing the child off as dead, as a troll was prowling the area.
Sylvari, of course, accepted the job right away and rushed out to assuage the governess' fears. However, as she had never fought such a creature, decided to obtain more information from her contacts that she had built up in the city. Trolls, it seemed were a headache to fight. Setting aside their combat prowess, enough to easily overpower a few rank and file guardsmen, troubling enough in its own right, trolls were possessed of unnatural defenses and regeneration besides. Worst of all, as unfamiliar as Sylvari was in the area, she would likely alert the nocturnal creatures in her full plate, provoking them to either flee or devour the child. A sticky situation, to be sure, and one Sylvari had determined needed a partner to fulfill.
Please gods, let someone skilled in scouting notice this. I just want to save a child.
In the poorer parts of the city, much less trafficked than The Brass Dragon notice board, there was a woman who ran an orphanage and housed her own list of requests for those without the status or means to get to the more official postings. It was a recent development, and one Sylvari had played a major hand in developing, a fact she took immense pride in.
Her meeting with the governess of the orphanage on this trip was decidedly less light-hearted, however. She had listed a request herself, hoping that Sylvari would return quickly to receive it. As fate would have it, Sylvari did return, mere hours after the posting, a most fortunate thing indeed, given the nature of the job. One of the children of the orphanage had wandered from supervision on one of the group's excursions outside the city. The governess had reported the matter to the city guards, but they were unwilling to look, writing the child off as dead, as a troll was prowling the area.
Sylvari, of course, accepted the job right away and rushed out to assuage the governess' fears. However, as she had never fought such a creature, decided to obtain more information from her contacts that she had built up in the city. Trolls, it seemed were a headache to fight. Setting aside their combat prowess, enough to easily overpower a few rank and file guardsmen, troubling enough in its own right, trolls were possessed of unnatural defenses and regeneration besides. Worst of all, as unfamiliar as Sylvari was in the area, she would likely alert the nocturnal creatures in her full plate, provoking them to either flee or devour the child. A sticky situation, to be sure, and one Sylvari had determined needed a partner to fulfill.
Please gods, let someone skilled in scouting notice this. I just want to save a child.