Session 4 Aftermath - The Green Dragon Inn & Wanted Lists

In contrast to the genteel surrounds of the Outs Inn, the tap room of the Green Dragon Inn by the River Gate is full of hard-bitten mercenaries and adventurers, along with bands of shady merchants and a mysterious black-clad cowled figure in a dark corner, all tended to by a flurry of buxom barmaids.  The owner and senior staff themselves look to be a band of retired adventurers, with their exotic apparel, many battle-scars, and killers' eyes; one gets the impression that starting trouble here would be unwise.  Still, the place is fairly clean and certainly efficiently run.

Green Dragon Inn prices
A small, clean private room for one person is 2gp/week (40 silver).  This includes a basic ration of breakfast porridge, vegetable stew with a little bit of pig or mutton fat for lunch and supper, and a pint of small beer (weak beer typically below 1% alcohol) with each meal.
Normal subsistence suitable for a penny-counting adventurer or mercenary with some decent ale (3%+ alcohol), meat, bread & cheese adds around 4 sp/day, a couple of silver for clothes repair etc over the week makes 30sp (1.5gp) per week.
Thus, standard inn subsistence is 3.5gp/week; 15 gp per month.

Green Dragon Senior Staff
Owner: Robert 'Thief' Robbins, a hard-eyed mercenary warrior.
Manager: Bodo 'Zaps' Muntz, a magic-user with a lightning bolt symbol on his cap
Chief Barkeep: Frederick 'Rick' Braun, another warrior, big and heavily scarred.
Greeter: Norbert 'Slick' Slickwell, a Thiefly sort.

You pick up the names of some of the barmaids - Wanda, Kelli and Tawny.

Rumours (posted M4 96 YY)
Many rumours of adventure swirl around the tap room.

1. The Burning Hand adventuring company led by the Paladin Sir Dolf Dragonheart recently returned from the environs of Castle Zagyg with much wealth, having cleared out Zagyg's former manse, the 'Dark Chateau', of goblins and other monsters.  They then assailed the western gate-house of the Castle, but were driven back by the cursed fog which still cloaks the castle's upper works.  Many cave entrances on the lower slopes of the castle's bluff are open to exploration, and the Burning Hand plans to investigate these after they have rested and trained.

2. The Green Friends Gnome Clan has long dwelled in the Lonely Valley, north-east of Yggsburgh, but they have not been heard from for a year or more.  With their traders no longer bringing supplies of their rare herbs, and rocks - magnetite  (lodestone) and pyrite to town,  stocks in town are running low.  A group of merchants are discussing organising an expedition to Lonely Valley to find out what, if anything, has happened to the gnomes, and acquire new supplies.

3.  Black Dougal and his adventuring company departed Yggsburgh two weeks ago, planning to explore the sinister River King's Tomb on Mound Island in Bigfish Lake.  They have not returned, and it's not expected they will, either.  The previous expedition to the River King's Tomb last year involved fifty men - three returned to Yggsburgh, discovered floating downriver in a rowboat.  All died within a few days of their rescue.
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The City Gaol has lists of Yggsburgh's Most Wanted, Lord Ollie and co have just been crossed off the lists.  Bounties are dead/alive, alive being worth twice as much.  Noted outlaws on the list (#1-#5):

#1 is Gold Hal the River Pirate (1500/2000 as of YY 97), believed to have teamed up with the notorious #3 Bloody Rosie (300/600) as his first mat (Rosie captured M9 96 YY).  Hal captains a fast schooner on the broad Nemo River.  Wanted for piracy, theft and murder.  Hal's most outrageous exploit was the raiding last year of the pleasure barge of the fair Lady Octavia deRedfort, sister of the Baron Lyle Redfort, and the carrying off of that damsel.  It is believed Hal still holds the unfortunate Lady, and goes into battle with her strapped to the prow of his ship as a living figurehead (Octavia rescued M9 YY 96). With the lower Nemo growing too hot for him as Baron Redfort's men hunt him, Hal has recently been active on the upper Nemo above Yggsburgh.  Contrary to your map (bottom of page) the upper Nemo River runs on eastward through the Great Leech Marsh, into the County of Easmoor.  Baron Redfort would likely pay well for Hal's head also.

#2 is Red Bill Farmer (400/800), leader of a large band of brigands active on the northern Menhir Hills Road, in the Little Hillwood region not far from Castle Zagyg.  His band includes a brigand mage, #5 Jocho (200/400).  The independent knight Sir Alec of Gaxhill is a foe of Red Bill, and would likely also pay for his head.

#4 is Dirty George (200/400), a brigand leader believed active in the Deerwood, his gang known to accost travellers on the southern Menhir Hills road.
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Former #5* is Black Brad (200/400), another brigand of the Deerwood, with a taste for kidnapping.  His band includes a half-orc. (RIP 5/4/96)

*Replacing the deceased #5 Lord Ollie (RIP 2/4/96).

Bloody Rosie