# D&D – game 2 (Mediaeval English background) **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Created:** [March 21, 2008, 10:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/d-d-game-2-mediaeval-english-background/442278 "2008-03-21T22:22:12Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 8
**Author:** ![Malacandra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Malacandra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malacandra)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2008, 6:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/d-d-game-2-mediaeval-english-background/442278/141 "2008-03-30T18:01:03Z")
[QUOTE=glee] Aciryas says one of his friends, Fundin the dwarf, works in the mines. The mines are closed to outsiders and even the miners have to show a pass to get in. Fundin usually likes to drink in ‘The Old Plough’. Crumlin adds that of course the mines are closed for both Market Day (today) and the County Fayre tomorrow. [/QUOTE] What between a market day and a fair-day, it should be possible to induce the good Fundin to take enough drink to render him quite convivial. I’ll stock up on beer money and hie me to the Plough straight away. If you see yon stable-lad and odd-job-boy, tell him where to find me, friends. /exit ---
**Author:** ![glee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b5a626/32.png) [@glee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/glee)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2008, 6:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/d-d-game-2-mediaeval-english-background/442278/142 "2008-03-30T18:05:33Z")
[QUOTE=Malacandra] What between a market day and a fair-day, it should be possible to induce the good Fundin to take enough drink to render him quite convivial. I’ll stock up on beer money and hie me to the Plough straight away. If you see yon stable-lad and odd-job-boy, tell him where to find me, friends. /exit [/QUOTE] Aciryas offers to introduce you to Fundin, if you want. Fundin’s quite amiable, but not ‘the sharpest adze in the shipyard’, if you know what I mean. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![wolfman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/a8b319/32.png) [@wolfman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfman)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2008, 6:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/d-d-game-2-mediaeval-english-background/442278/143 "2008-03-30T18:42:31Z")
Hulgfar closely listens to all he hears, impassively. Hehe didn’t want you all to think I wasn’t here, but he isn’t really a talker or suggester ---
**Author:** ![Malacandra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Malacandra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malacandra)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2008, 8:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/d-d-game-2-mediaeval-english-background/442278/144 "2008-03-30T20:05:55Z")
[QUOTE=glee] Aciryas offers to introduce you to Fundin, if you want. Fundin’s quite amiable, but not ‘the sharpest adze in the shipyard’, if you know what I mean. 🙂 [/QUOTE] Ah, he ‘did too much tunnelling with his helmet off’. I see 😉 . Just point him out, his kind and mine get on famously and it’ll make a nice change for him after being surrounded by biggers all the time. ---
**Author:** ![glee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b5a626/32.png) [@glee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/glee)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2008, 9:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/d-d-game-2-mediaeval-english-background/442278/145 "2008-03-30T21:40:09Z")
[QUOTE=wolfman] Hulgfar closely listens to all he hears, impassively. Hehe didn’t want you all to think I wasn’t here, but he isn’t really a talker or suggester [/QUOTE] No worries - he’s a man of action! ---
**Author:** ![glee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b5a626/32.png) [@glee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/glee)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2008, 9:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/d-d-game-2-mediaeval-english-background/442278/146 "2008-03-30T21:51:12Z")
The meeting is starting to break up for lunch. **Aciryas** is taking **Hans** to the Old Plough to meet Fundin. (He asks if anyone else wants a drink.) Marian is thanking **Cullen** and **Cadogan** for their support and asking what she should do next. **Gawain** is disturbed that Sir Guy is due back in the Temple after lunch and asks Crumlin to take him to Edith to report. Suddenly a strange feeling simultaneously strikes **Salazar** , **Hans** and **Cadogan**. They all snap to attention and start looking round the room. Crumlin is struck by the way they are all behaving. He asks them what’s going on. All three reply “Someone is watching us!” ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2008, 10:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/d-d-game-2-mediaeval-english-background/442278/147 "2008-03-30T22:00:29Z")
[QUOTE=Malacandra] What between a market day and a fair-day, it should be possible to induce the good Fundin to take enough drink to render him quite convivial. I’ll stock up on beer money and hie me to the Plough straight away. [/QUOTE] This is a great idea and I already promised four friendly locals to stand them a round or three. We can combine several actions in one effort. ---
**Author:** ![glee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b5a626/32.png) [@glee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/glee)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2008, 10:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/d-d-game-2-mediaeval-english-background/442278/148 "2008-03-30T22:08:25Z")
[QUOTE=What Exit?] This is a great idea and I already promised four friendly locals to stand them a round or three. We can combine several actions in one effort. [/QUOTE] You notice Simon and his three mates waiting patiently outside the Temple. They look calm and relaxed. ---
**Author:** ![Malacandra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Malacandra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malacandra)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2008, 10:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/d-d-game-2-mediaeval-english-background/442278/149 "2008-03-30T22:20:01Z")
[QUOTE=What Exit?] This is a great idea and I already promised four friendly locals to stand them a round or three. We can combine several actions in one effort. [/QUOTE] Note, however, that right now someone seems to be watching us. I have nothing loaded that will help ---
**Author:** ![glee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b5a626/32.png) [@glee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/glee)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2008, 10:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/d-d-game-2-mediaeval-english-background/442278/150 "2008-03-31T10:41:58Z")
I’m looking forward to some players returning (I hope things went well for you all), so will wait a bit for them to post… ---
**Author:** ![fluiddruid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/c2a13f/32.png) [@fluiddruid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fluiddruid)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2008, 4:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/d-d-game-2-mediaeval-english-background/442278/151 "2008-03-31T16:09:06Z")
[QUOTE=glee] Suddenly a strange feeling simultaneously strikes **Salazar** , **Hans** and **Cadogan**. They all snap to attention and start looking round the room. Crumlin is struck by the way they are all behaving. He asks them what’s going on. All three reply “Someone is watching us!” [/QUOTE] Ergj stands up. “If that is so, then we are either in danger, or very unwise to stay here in conference.” ---
**Author:** ![ArrMatey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/arrmatey/32/3522_2.png) [@ArrMatey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ArrMatey)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2008, 4:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/d-d-game-2-mediaeval-english-background/442278/152 "2008-03-31T16:19:02Z")
“Certainly about anything important.” Salazar nods, then gives a rude gesture to the air in general. Suddenly, it’s as if he’s back to his old, vacant self, staring somewhat absorbedly into space. ---
**Author:** ![NAF1138](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/naf1138/32/3245_2.png) [@NAF1138](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NAF1138)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2008, 4:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/d-d-game-2-mediaeval-english-background/442278/153 "2008-03-31T16:56:10Z")
Why don’t we all retire to the tavern? We can continue talking there… more privately. There is something to be said for the shelter of hidding in plain sight. ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2008, 5:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/d-d-game-2-mediaeval-english-background/442278/154 "2008-03-31T17:15:56Z")
[QUOTE=NAF1138] Why don’t we all retire to the tavern? We can continue talking there… more privately. There is something to be said for the shelter of hidding in plain sight. [/QUOTE] Might I recommend the Plough? ---
**Author:** ![NAF1138](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/naf1138/32/3245_2.png) [@NAF1138](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NAF1138)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2008, 5:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/d-d-game-2-mediaeval-english-background/442278/155 "2008-03-31T17:46:57Z")
[QUOTE=What Exit?] Might I recommend the Plough? [/QUOTE] I do believe that would be ideal. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![glee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b5a626/32.png) [@glee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/glee)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2008, 7:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/d-d-game-2-mediaeval-english-background/442278/156 "2008-03-31T19:40:25Z")
The same feeling of being watched continues to affect **Salazar** , **Hans** and **Cadogan**. Suddenly \*\*Salazar \*\* points upwards. “Look - what’s that?!” There is a vaguely spherical-shaped shimmering just below the ceiling. Salazar fails a SPELLCRAFT roll. He says “I think I should know what that is - I’m sure I heard about it before…” ---
**Author:** ![Malacandra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Malacandra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malacandra)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2008, 7:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/d-d-game-2-mediaeval-english-background/442278/157 "2008-03-31T19:45:24Z")
/takes a peek… ---
**Author:** ![glee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b5a626/32.png) [@glee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/glee)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2008, 7:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/d-d-game-2-mediaeval-english-background/442278/158 "2008-03-31T19:53:11Z")
[QUOTE=Malacandra] /takes a peek… [/QUOTE] :eek: :o sorry, forgot about Hans! Hans makes a SPELLCRAFT roll. He mutters to the others “This is a scrying, done typically through a Crystal Ball. A Magic User is the most likely (though others can do this). One amongst us is being targeted…” ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2008, 9:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/d-d-game-2-mediaeval-english-background/442278/159 "2008-03-31T21:56:38Z")
BTW: Cullen also has Spellcraft. I have no spells that will help and little knowledge except lets move out separately and see who it follows. ---
**Author:** ![appleciders](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/85f322/32.png) [@appleciders](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/appleciders)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2008, 11:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/d-d-game-2-mediaeval-english-background/442278/160 "2008-03-31T23:16:52Z")
Cadogan advises Marian to come along to lunch and socialize with the townfolk- can’t hurt! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/d-d-game-2-mediaeval-english-background/442278.md?page=7) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/d-d-game-2-mediaeval-english-background/442278.md?page=9)