Hounds on a Halfling's Tail (Willi, closed)

[Mimesis]

OOC: I'm doing this as a separate thread for reasons of linearity, but Tisiphone has been kind enough to embroil herself in this plot in general. Don't feel obligated to stick to this single thread if you would like to expand in other directions. Timestamp as you will.

He had left not only Flopsy, his little gnomish companion, behind on his journey from Eunesia to Vers: Willi had left his whole self behind in Ieffreon, and the tattered, worn, and lean halfling who walked through the gates of Vers hardly resembled the bubbly and carefree cether who told Flopsy fanciful tales over a large mug of beer. In sum, Willi had a purpose -

And the lean look of the hunter, rather than of the hunted, which drove him forward elicited curious stares from the villagers whom he encountered upon his entrance through the gates of the town. Vers was a small city, hardly deserving of that appelation; it's citizens were a close-knit group who distrusted outsiders on principle. It was a good thing Willi was not an orc or a vyssie, or even an esh'lahier. Cethers had a peacable enough reputation, and though he certainly was watched he was not molested in any way as he made his way onward. Perhaps if the Versians had known the halflings ulterior motives... but then, they did not; in fact, for all Willi knew, no living creature besides Flopsy knew the whys and the wherefores of his trip to the arcanic hotbed of Sherian.

[Willibald O'Dande]

26th brightening of Aperitus Summer of Era II of the Celestine Mandate, Era XI Post Fractum in the Age of the Darkening, the Mageocracy of Julos the Mad.

The Dice man Cometh

Sitting at the rickety table in the mean room in Ieffreon Willi had made some notes and now he had got to his dice directed direction it was time to get a few answers.

• “Scattered Ashes”~ sounds like a place but where?
• R’sleen the “dark goddess”. ~ Who is this?
• Find out about Ikos.
• Uncover elder ruins beneath the rubble of Kalendryas~ where is this?
• What have the dice got to do with all this? ~ Are they what Thumper’s murderers were looking for?

Willi had swallowed his fear of officially people and wandered into the local Aedile’s office in Vers waited in line and then spun a **** and bull story about a friend of his who had insisted that when he came to the village he must meet him at a bar near the Scattered Ashes.

As Willi explained Well yer honour what with me being a stranger to yer foine town I thought I would ask yer worship if he knew about such a funny sounding place …begging yer pardon soire.

The Aedile’s clerk gave Willi an old fashioned look but to his triumph told him that “The Scattered Ashes Arcane Warehouse” was a store ….a very odd store!

Slipping his black silk scarf that served as a cloak around his shoulder and checking that the dice were securely hidden under a bundle of patched and non too clean underwear , he took the box that the dice had been found in and making sure his long dagger was safe went out into the streets of Vers. He walked slowly stopping to look in the occasional shop window to check if anyone was following him and then strolled on .He was nervous underneath edgy but he hoped his unconcerned walk would fool anyone into thinking he was a cether out shopping. He bought a stick of something sweet and pink and white and sucked on the confection moving gradually towards his destination.

ooc~ Post continued here The Scattered Ashes Arcane Warehouse

[Willibald O'Dande]

Following the revelations in the Scattered Ashes Warehouse Willi now had a working theory as to what the magic dice were meant for. He was now sure that they contained a travel itinerary for the Ikonomancer Deirdre Lorelei. A bit of information she did not mean to be found but Willi had them now! He did not want them that were for sure but it looked as though he was lumbered with them now, he was really tempted to find the nearest sewer and throw them away but somehow he was sure that if he did that his luck would change like those people in the newspaper story. True that would not make much difference as far as Willi was concerned “if it was not for the bad luck he would have no luck at all”.

The rude lodgings would suffice for a single darkening but His mind was now made up by first light he was out of Vers and on the road north to Carmelyn as the dice had told him.

ooc ~ Willi's next post