- Once everyone is tended to in the hospital, the group sets out for the Golden Eagle once more
- Except Osiris who goes to return the wheelbarrow she borrowed from a random market stall
- The restaurant is not yet open, so they go around to the back and knock on the kitchen door and a very large man with an even larger handlebar mustache opens the door and asks if they are there to deliver turnips, but since they would like to sell wine they have to talk to the lady of the house
- The restaurant is very sumptuous with fabrics and velvets on the walls and immaculate marble tables and comfortable divans
- Mistress Bianca is an elven woman dressed in an equally sumptuous dress / robe thing
- Theophania tells her about Rusty finding the bottles of wine under the docks after he fell in during "official Temple business" and lays the flattery on very thick
- Theophania also explains about how she can tell that wine has been there for several years based
- Rusty offers 10 GP per bottle, she counters with 3 GP each, he counters that she has a similar wine that doesn't have the unique properties that these bottles do for 8 GP and surely she can get market them well enough to make it back with a profit, they finally settle on 5 GP for 9 of the 10 good bottles that were well-sealed
- Rusty then explains about the 6 bottles that may be wine or may be vinegar or may be utter crap, and they settle on 10 GP for the lot.
- Mistress Bianca declines to keep the kelp and mussel-covered crate to use as a display
- Theophania says that she's going to head to Town Hall to talk to Shawn Andertree again to see what he might know about weapons trafficking on the river
- She drops the tip to Shawn about the weapons trafficking so that he can pass it off to the guard in addition to the note that Rusty already wrote. Then she asks him about Vera's third birthday party next month and he already go her a doll, so she will try to make an animated plant instead.
- Osiris heads back to the Temple at this point to go to the library to read about black dragons
- Everyone decides to join her because Theophania wants to see if she can find a book with a picture of a Red Mountain Pipe so that she can copy the picture out. (She finds one.)
- Osiris finds that black dragons
- They are temperamental and have a tendency to taint the land around where they live
- They usually live in swamps or unclean places
- A dragon of the age they fought in the marketplace would not yet have the capability to create slimes, so those were probably still caused by Magnus
- Rusty reads about vegepygmies after Tiff mentions wanting some of their spores to make the pot thing she was talking about for Vera's birthday present
- Once everyone is done reading, they head to the Groundswallow General Store to ask about a shelf for Rusty, but they don't have anything nice and ready-made sitting around, so Tiff just gets some old coffee from her mom and a 10-lb unglazed clay pot and the promise of some whole tea leaves from Osiris and Rusty buys 5-lbs of rock salt against russet mold
- Some of Theophania's childhood antics are discussed:
- Attempted automatic wood chopping machine with a sword she got from Great-Aunt Thessalie(?)
- Huge fight with Eldie when he stole bits of the giant Rube-Goldberg machine she was building across the whole living room
- She was mixing things from the time she could hold them
- They finally make it back to Callie's and open the bottle of river wine
- It's a nice wine with good character that's aged well on the bottom of the river
- They also drink the mead Cormo gave to Tiff and then Osiris escorts a stumbly Theophania back to the Temple for sleeping
- Tiff drinks her Flight potion so that Osiris can just pull her along for 10 of those minutes.
- Bright and early the next morning, there's a knock at the door of the Curlywit boarding house.
- Rusty opens the door to see a small human boy around age 10. He is looking for a "purple dragon". He says he'll go get her and shuts the door.
- Raiàn agrees to come down after she's gotten dressed since Rusty had to wake her up for this bright and early meeting
- The child is a bit freaked out by Rusty and keeps a good distance refusing offers of a morning beverage.
- Rusty's version of making faces at children is to make his eyes cycle through different colors and make them look a bit like a starfield
- Raiàn finally comes downstairs
- The boy hands them a note written in draconic. Very badly written draconic
- It reads:
One could hear the night last. Jimmy goes business beard and barrel. Meeting night to come. Getting needs he. - Rosella
- She responds (in common):
I think I understand what you've said in your missive. Thank you. If I need to ask about what you've said I will send a messenger.
- She pays the boy a silver for a tip
- Rusty pops one of his arms off and then uses the detached arm to wave goodbye to the messenger boy
- She hands the terrified boy a second silver and he bolts
- Raiàn then has to explain why what he was doing was not friendly or funny but terrifying to a child
- Magnus comes downstairs in his robe and gets one of yesterday's pastries
- Meanwhile back at the Temple, Osiris goes to Norman in his office to ask for the ingredients to make two Potions of Resistance (acid) and George asks (to her horror) if she has the proper requisition form signed by her superior.
- She very begrudgingly fills it out and finds Birel who reluctantly signs the form for her
- She returns it to Norman who will have the ingredients sent to her room so that she can make the potions
- Osiris and Theophania head to the boarding house to gather the others for the day
- 540 XP ea for 3,240 XP total ea.
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