[RP] Play-By-Post Pathfinder

General
#3784

The drawing room is fairly small, but the walls are decorated with beautiful tapestries (doubling as insulation), depicting a series of scenes involving hunters defeating dangerous creatures, ranging from dire bears to a hydra to an allosaurus. A few mahogany couches with silk cushions are arranged around a low table. The same guard who was standing by the wall during supper follows him into the drawing room, standing unobtrusively against the wall.

The baron sits down on one of the armchairs, gesturing at you to take the others. As you take your seats, a servant refills your wine glasses before departing the room.

ā€œHow much do you know about the man who rules the lands to the east, Eskil Dalin?ā€ asks the baron, Avel Rodin.

#3785

Zelsh took a sip of his wine aft we r sitting down on one of the chairs. After all, there werenā€™t any threats to worry about here.

#3786

I awkwardly eye the glass becauseā€¦ Iā€™mā€¦ not supposed to have alcohol. But Iā€™m also supposed toā€¦ not refuse stuff from people of a higher class than me, and Iā€™mā€¦ very certain the man with the title Baron is that and weā€™re not in some strangerā€™s house whoā€™s masquerading as the baron.

ā€¦So I cup the glass between by two fingers, and let the thin long glass handle thingā€¦ hang in the air.

Iā€™m pretty sure this isnā€™t how youā€™re meant to hold wine.

ā€¦

Oh! He asked a question! And itā€™s a simple answer soā€¦ nowā€™s my time to look good!

ā€¦

Uhm.

(Iā€™m rolling a lore check to figure out who the other Baron is.)

@discobot roll 1d20

3 Likes
#3787

:game_die: 14

#3788

(+5 is 19.)

#3789

can I recall knowledge to see what I know about Baron Dalin

#3790

Yes, take a +4 circumstance bonus since you Literally Used To Work For His Father (and I guess technically worked for him too, briefly,)

2 Likes
#3791

@discobot roll 1d20

#3792

:game_die: 8

#3793

(12)

#3794

I knowledge geography to know about what lands he nominally controls
I guess lmao

@discobot roll 1d20

#3795

:game_die: 13

#3796

(16)

#3797

in hindsight a rank in lore may have been helpful

#3798

Thatā€™s the asshole who fired you for no reason! Fuck that guy!

(you also know that he took power two years ago, after the death of his father)

8 Likes
#3799

(Would this be kn(local) or kn(nobility)?)

#3800

Unfortunately in high stress situations sometimes the details slip your mind. Or something.

ā€œBaron Dalin? Notā€¦ as much as I would like, unfortunately. I can tell you that heā€™s not exactly winning favors with his people, given in the two years after he has taken power, maintenance of the lands has been rather poor, and heā€™s taken it upon himself to remove various magistrates from positions of power as you may well be aware.ā€

ā€œThere are alsoā€¦ rumors circulating about. Apparently there have been cited disappearances of the man for days at a time. While I canā€™t verify these things myself, there is always that figment of truth in any rumor.ā€

2 Likes
#3801

Baron Eskil Dalin rules the lands to the east of the barony youā€™re currently in, including Granite Hill; north-to-south, his lands run from the edge of the forest (with the very edges being Technically Still His Territory, but mostly just in the sense that he theoretically controls hunting and logging rights there, not in the sense that he can actually e.g. collect taxes) to the Stetven River (technically stopping slightly north of the river itself). He took power two years ago, after the death of his father, and married shortly afterwards (on the late side for a nobleman). Your fatherā€™s milling-related privileges are technically derived from the baron, and although he would certainly never speak ill of him in public heā€™s expressed private concern about the thing where he fired a bunch of magistrates for no reason (because it suggests thereā€™s a risk of him doing the same to your family).

Besides the complaints people have had about his performance (firing magistrates, failing to properly maintain the roads, conscripting more troops), youā€™ve also heard rumors that heā€™s rather inconsistent about hearing petitions ā€” there were some acquaintances of your father who stayed at your home a few months back while travelling back from petitioning the baron, and he made them wait for multiple days for no clear reason.

3 Likes
#3802

(this was the subject of Assorted Rumors, although some peopleā€™s knowledge re: the actual situation is out of date/they donā€™t realize heā€™s already married)

#3803

You know what lands he nominally controls! (see above, Iā€™m not retyping it,)

4 Likes