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  1. FumblingLinguist

    [RPG] Innkeeper's Quest (GURPS Dungeon Fantasy)
    Threadmarks: Strangers in Cloaks

    "Do you know who that man in the cloak with the purple trim is?" you ask Lathir. "That's Ranis Kas Mirzahar, he's the censor for Clan Mirzahar. Hey, what are you doing?" You don't break your stride as you confidently approach the censor. From a distance, you could see he was a few finger...
  2. FumblingLinguist

    [RPG] Innkeeper's Quest (GURPS Dungeon Fantasy)
    Threadmarks: Strangers in Cloaks

    The following morning, the you find that the pentacle you got in change the previous night gets you a hot morning meal. A bit expensive, but at least it was served with decent olive oil—thankfully this isn't one of those places that claims to have the finest oil in Harumān and then serves...
  3. FumblingLinguist

    [RPG] Innkeeper's Quest (GURPS Dungeon Fantasy)
    Threadmarks: Strangers in Cloaks

    After seeing the waterfront, you decide maybe it doesn't have what you were looking for after all. You return to the inn you saw earlier, where a silver gets you a room for the night and a Kaian pentacle as change. The inn is a roughly rectangular building, built around a central courtyard where...
  4. FumblingLinguist

    [RPG] Innkeeper's Quest (GURPS Dungeon Fantasy)

    Note: I hope to write a longer post later today. I encourage people to take the above vote as partly a chance to express how invested they are in picking a place to stay for the night.
  5. FumblingLinguist

    [RPG] Innkeeper's Quest (GURPS Dungeon Fantasy)
    Threadmarks: Strangers in Cloaks

    "That's good," the guard says with a smile. "Word is not everyone's been so fortunate." Then he says "peace" and you continue on. Once inside the gates you can no longer see the golden glow of the sun from below the horizon, and the sky continues to darken as you make your way through the...
  6. FumblingLinguist

    [RPG] Innkeeper's Quest (GURPS Dungeon Fantasy)

    Thanks. For practical I-have-a-day-job reasons, it looks likely that I'll mostly be updating on weekends.
  7. FumblingLinguist

    [RPG] Innkeeper's Quest (GURPS Dungeon Fantasy)

    META: Since I'm new to this, what's the best way to signal when voting a topic is closed? How long should I be waiting for people to vote? What's the best way distinguish different types of posts from each other—e.g. meta ones like this one vs. story updates? Is there something I should be doing...
  8. FumblingLinguist

    [RPG] Innkeeper's Quest (GURPS Dungeon Fantasy)
    Threadmarks: Strangers in Cloaks

    You trudge towards the south gate, lugging your enormous backpack. Your parents made sure you'd be well-supplied for your journey, giving you (among other things) camping supplies; two healing potions they'd never had reason to use with the local cleric just down the road and never been able to...
  9. FumblingLinguist

    [RPG] Innkeeper's Quest (GURPS Dungeon Fantasy)
    Threadmarks: Strangers in Cloaks

    A stranger in a cloak descends upon the city of Zimar‘an. It is just after sunset. The evening star shines brightly in the sky, and the other stars are beginning to join it, though the moon has not yet risen. The stranger is you. You are a stranger because you have just arrived in Zimar‘an for...
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