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~Various Items Wanted~
Posted: 22 Aug 2007 01:00 PM |
*Notice posted in several areas surrounding Brandibuck Vale, including the Hole in da Ground, the tie-downs for Shira's horses, and the bulletin board at the Lake Ladriel boat launch*
~Various Items Wanted~
The following articles are necessary ~ and may be delivered to ~
Salt Sower, at the dwelling underground in Swiftfoot Glade
near Brandibuck Vale:
100 lbs. of good green clay
30 ingots of bronze metal, being of good quality and well alloyed
4 lengths of iron wire
1 light hammer of soft metal
1 large wooden tub, or a cauldron of hammered copper
4 planks of mahogany wood
Birch Bark in quantity
Clay is to be free from stones and sand
Ingots not to weigh less than 5 lbs apiece
I would prefer to contract one or a few responsible persons to procure these
materials, however any may deliver the above-named items for compensation.
Prices are negotiable ~ I have bags of different varieties, potions and reagents, other
items and services for trade, in addition to gold coin.
Please leave an invoice with deliveries made in my absence |
"What are you talking about?"
"I'm talking about dying."
"What's that supposed to mean?"
"It means lying in the ground with dirt on your face and holding your breath forever."
-Burt Reynolds, "The End" |
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Re: ~Various Items Wanted~
Posted: 26 Aug 2007 03:57 PM |
These commodities have come in from unexpected places. Iron generously drawn into wire by Talion Deraith. Mahogany wood cut from the Griffin's Landing by Tristian Vike. Bronze ingots from Daimon Rabianara's back inventory, and a special hammer for thinning the metal into sheets. That was Daimon's advice about bronzing: dip the item if it is durable, or apply the metal in leaf, the way gilding is applied by a calligrapher. Every wizard has their own calligraphic style, and any who have inscribed the most powerful magics onto parchment have used gold leaf. Even though the object of Salt's veneration would withstand a bath in molten bronze, he thought a cold bronzing would be more elegant.
More than making work for eager adventurers, Salt's advertisements had underscored his existing networks, the persons he sometimes did things for and who sometimes - really quite a bit more often - went out of their way to do things for him.
He was now getting very close to starting his project.
As each of these commodities came in, a very serious looking bespectacled halfling went around to the boards where Salt's want-ads were posted, carrying a pot of ink in one of his hands. Using a straight edge and a quill pen, he lined out the items that were no longer necessary, and blew on the ink with even breaths until it was dried. |
"What are you talking about?"
"I'm talking about dying."
"What's that supposed to mean?"
"It means lying in the ground with dirt on your face and holding your breath forever."
-Burt Reynolds, "The End" |
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