The assault on Salty Pier

[Anastasia]

"Really?" Jetina turns, "I've never heard of that."

"One has to know how to listen to what cannot be heard," Xandra explains, as the flute ballad winds down.

"Ho there, donations appreciated if you liked the song," The catfolk says, a male with rakish brown hair/fur. He wears fairly simple clothes, just a tunic and thick, warm pants in neutral colors.

[Nephrite]

"Good day to you." Moore says. "I'll be happy to give you a donation, though less of a monetary variety and more of one to help you for a while."

Another kind smile afterwards. "We here would like to follow whatever the traditional path is through the House of Knowledge to learn and experience things. Our ultimate goal is to meet with Oghma, but I understand that if he does not wish to be found, he won't be. At the same time, I'm not so prideful as to put myself at the end of a path laid out in front of me." Moore explains. "Can you help us with that?"

[Anastasia]

The catfolk scratches at his chin, "Sounds an awful lot like you're stingy, but okay. Oghma has a knack at coming and going as he pleases. It's easier to find Gond and ask him where he is, or so I've heard. You can usually find Gond working on something or another in one of his forges."

[Nephrite]

"May I see your flute for a moment, please?" Moore asks with a smile.

[Anastasia]

"Break it and you bought it, and it's an expensive flute," He warns, giving you a long look and not handing it over.

Jetina says, "I'll pay for it myself if something happens."

[Nephrite]

Moore taps the flute a single time.

He's using Sculpt Sound, the idea is to change the quality of the normal flute music such that when he uses it for the duration of the spell it'll have a much higher acoustic quality. Basically he's trying to make it sound a lot better, presuming that's possible with the spell, which I think should be.

[Anastasia]

A few beats before he says, "...and?"

[Nephrite]

"Here you go." Moore says. "It'll only last for a little over a day, but it should sound better now. Also, just so you don't think I'm terribly miserly..."

He flies over to give the catfolk a gentle tap on his shoulder as well.

Shared Talents, the catfolk gets +2 to all skill checks for the next 5 hours.

He'll also Surge of Hope him, which gives him +4 morale attack rolls, weapon damage rolls, saving throws, ability checks, skill checks for 30 minutes. Actually, everyone gets that too if it matters. It probably won't, but there it is.

Oh, and just making a note he's changing his aura to the charisma one for right now.

"There you go. Have a pleasant rest of your day." With a smile and a bow, Moore turns and starts to fly off! He'll keep an eye out for a forge or something similar -- may as well see where that leads them!

[Anastasia]

Where precisely are you going?

[Nephrite]

He's just picking a direction people are walking towards and going that way. Let's say north.

[Anastasia]

Roll and post 1d100.

[Nephrite]

[blockquote]Rolled 1d100 : 3, total 3[/blockquote]

[Anastasia]

You walk a time, past the buildings. You wander in between buildings of all kinds, small cottages to massive halls. When you finally find something likely, it's...something. It's by a moving river, a vast waterwheel turning. A building of brick and bands of steel, sprawling and a whopping twelve stories tall. Vents all about emit smoke, steam and odder fumes ranging from pale green to a dark, deep turquoise. A fenced in yard surrounds it, littered with trash. A broken catapult, several rusted suits of armor, enough scrap to keep a smith happy for a year. Things like that, just laying about.

[Nephrite]

Moore blinks. "Hm... an inventor, you think?" Moore asks. He flies to the front of the fenced in area to look for a bell or something of that nature.

[Anastasia]

"Hold," Xandra says, as you go to fly in. "Be cautious, this is not as safe as it appears to be."

"It already looks like a madman's death trap," JEtina chimes in, "How less safe can it be?"