OOC: I tried this one in a different style please bear with me, I hope you like it, and DM if you have any problems, PM me and we'll work it out.
Dankorona had been wandering the streets of the gnomish town fairly regularly since the party's arrival in the small gnomish settlement. He had ran into a few people from his village, but no one with any new news. Mostly just vague information about a terrible evil, like everyone else. This particular day Dankorona was walking down, what would be considered the 'bad' part of town, though what part of town is ever really 'bad' in a gnomish settlement. . .Dankorona had just passed an ominous looking alley, when he suddenly felt a blade at his throat.
"Relax and don't make any sudden moves" the figure said, from behind him, as he pushed him into the alley.
After they were about 30 feet into the alley the figure behind him pushed Dankorona to the ground and backed away a few steps. Dankorona quickly rolled forward and regained his feet as he spun to face his abductor. Then his heart almost stopped. Before him was the slimiest rogue from Dankorona's village, His name was Kendrick Darktongue. Kendric was well built for a gnome, he was completely bald and his head was covered with a network of tattoos. He was tall for a gnome about 4' and was the meanest gnome Dankorona had ever met. He looked like an orge but Dankorona knew he was a lot quicker than he looked, and in fact Dankorona thought Kendrick played dumb most of the time, just so he could deceive people better. Dankorona had not had good relations with Kendrick for quite a while dating back to an incident 2 years ago when a Dankorona's brother in law had gotten into some gambling trouble with Kendrick, and had used Dankorona as a voucher. When he came up short on the payments, Dankorona's brother in law was beaten severly and then Kendrick came looking for Dankorona to recoup his losses. Dankorona ended up paying him without any ensuing violence but he was not happy about it, and relations between the two were not good from there, even though they seldom had dealings with each other. The only dealings they had was usually Dankorona trying to get his brother in law out of trouble, but that is neither here nor there. His sister was very dear to him though and since then he had done what he could to help his brother in law just for the sake of his sister's happiness. Though Dankorona's kindness was to no avail, because since then his brother in law had been involved in many shady dealings, and caused his sister much hardship.
"So, happy to see an old friend?" Kendrick jibed at Dankorona.
"You and yours were never a friend of mine." Dankorona jared back.
"Enough about me and mine, I am here to talk about you and yours. It seems your brother in law, got into it big, and then skipped town on me," Kendrick glared at him.
"How is that a concern of mine." Dankorona asked, as he brushed himself off.
"Well, it is not a concern of yours, more a concern of your sister, or a concern for your sister that brings me here," Kendric said deftly.
"What do you mean?" asked Dankorona his face growing suddenly grim.
"Tis' nothing" Kendrick said slyly, "just that with her husband skipping town I fear that there would be no one there if you know, say there were to be an accident."
Dankorona knew this was a very thinly veiled threat.
Dankorona stared straight into kendrick's eyes and asked "How much?"
"300 gold pieces by noon tomorrow," Kendric stated matter of factly.
"What??? That is outrageous I have but 15 gold pieces on me how am I to raise that? Is there any way I could give you like a downpayment and make the rest later? You know I'm good for it I have much more than that at my place back home." Dankorona pleaded.
"300 gold by noon," Kendrick said as he started to walk away.
"Wait, where should I meet you at?" Dankorona asked.
"I'll find YOU," Kendrick said, as he disappeared around the corner.
Dankorona stood there for a moment with his mouth hanging open. How in the world was he going to come up with another 285gp by noon tomorrow, judging by the last clock he saw, he only had about 16 hours to make 285gp. What in the world was he going to do?
Edit: cohesion, spelling, and basically me being me
[ 08-10-2003, 02:27 PM: Message edited by: AzRaeL StoRmBlaDe ]