This dilapidated frame building is well
known in the village as the place to go
for all
sorts of herbs,
medicines, and possibly even <xj2>
special draughts of one sort or another.
Mother Screng is old and bent, with
scraggly gray locks
sticking out from
beneath the aged shawl she wears all year
'round. Her daughter appears quite old
herself,
so Mother Screng must be venerable.
This daughter, Hruda by name, is quite
ugly, and it is no wonder that she is an
old
maid, for her personality matches her looks
and her tongue is sharp.
Inside the shop are counters and shelves
filled with jars, flasks, bottles, boxes,
and
small drawers. These are stuffed with herbs
and like stuff, and various infusions and
decoctions made from such. Bunches of vegetation
of various sorts hang from the rafters
or
are tossed onto counter tops to dry. The
shop
has almost every
known herb and spice, and
even 3
jars of Keoghtom's ointment which
Mother Screng sells to any adventurers
of
Good alignment
who are in real need of the
magick salve, after having proved themselves
in expeditions to the Temple.
Mother Screng: An herbmonger (also Canoness
Y'dey—Level
6 Cleric, XP 3978);
AC 9 (no armor) or better (see below);
hp 37; AL NG; XP 1072
S 13 I 12 W 17 D 15 Co 16 Ch 13, <Com
= x>
<barbaric. friendly,
morose dreamer, forgiving aesthetic,
liar, impious,
interest: athletics>
Carried: club
(under the counter), purse
with 4 cp,
7 sp, 5 ep, 11 gp.
Typical
spells:
First level: bless,
command,
cure
light
wounds,
detect evil, protection
from evil
Second level: augury,
detect charm, hold
person,
know
alignment, speak with animals
Third level: dispel
magick, prayer,
remove
curse
<material components>
Hruda: Mother Screng's daughter (a. k. a.
Murfles, Otis' fellow-adventurer and
follower, an elven
warrior-footpad,
Level 2/2 Fighter/Thief),
AC 6 (no
armor) or better (see below); hp 12; AL
NG; XP 156
S 15 I 9 W 11 D 18 Co 15 Ch 14, <Com
= x>
<fanatical. blustering extrovert,
proud ponderer, jealous, avaricious, energetic, mean, aesthetic, irreligious,
interest: community service>
Thief abilities: PP 40; OL 49; F/RT 30;
MS
36; HS 35; HN 15; CW 86. Carried:
shortsword
(under robe), purse with 9
sp, 5
gp, and 2 pp.
Y'dey is the chief cleric of the
church of
St. Cuthbert in Hommlet,
away on this 'sabbatical'.
She has a suit of plate
mail +1,
shield + 1, mace + 1, ring
of fire resistance, <medium shield>, <horseman's
mace>
potion
of flying, a scroll of 3 cleric spells.
(silence
15' radius,
neutralize poison,
raise
dead)
and adventuring gear, all kept in her <pack
C>
chambers. The potion, scroll, and equipment
are in a wardrobe, along with a
small
locked
iron box which holds 50 gems
(mostly pearls
and a few red
spinels,
each
worth 100 gp) and 10
silver ingots worth 10
gp each.
Murfles has a suit of leather
armor,
adventuring gear, a dagger,
longsword,
<pack A>
longbow,
and quiver with 11
silver-tipped
arrows in her chambers. She will lend the
arrows to deserving adventurers as needed.
A sack with 290 gp
lies under a loose floor <large sack>
board. Murfles assists Y'dey and reports
to
Otis about everything of possible interest.
Neither Y'dey nor Murfles goes on any
expedition (to the Temple
or elsewhere)
unless Otis personally asks them to do
so,
and has a sound reason for it as they are
likewise serving Furyondy,
Veluna, and the
cause of Good by keeping watch on Evil
activity at Nulb
and the Temple. Both, however,
assist parties of Good alignment and
intent. Quiet exploration of the Temple,
to
discover the state of its forces and their
current
intentions, is of great importance to
both of these 'old hags'.
A small coop is in the rear of the shop.
It
holds 6 homing pigeons, which Y'dey uses
for communicating with the Archcleric of
Veluna.
This same information is sent to
Furyondy
(and then to Veluna and
Verbobonc)
by way of Otis' regular reports; the
pigeons are a back-up system.
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