Character Down Time:
Let me know what you are doing and how.
Time - You have 7 days

Pickle Ear Down Time:
This is a group activity. You have to coordinate your plan. You only have a week, limited space, and limited resources.
Space - one main room and one storeroom downstairs. Roxie will move the food into the other storeroom.
Time - You have 7 days.
Resources - yourselves, commonly acquired items at the store, and anything you think you can find in the woods, Castle, other sites from Plaguestone, etc.

Please post here the downtime activities your character is taking.

On the back is a strange orange symbol and a warning that reads 'Warning, device is microfusion (tm) powered. Do not attempt to replace the fuel source without authorization' A second symbol reads 'Another fine Jentek product'

Tol presses the screen and it lights up a dull cerulean. Tol'etheran of Greenhallow Identified. User Level: Owner. Options: Voice Interface, Screen Interface, Psychic Interface. Temporal Interface (previous owner [LOCKED])

Recap

New Names:

Inverted Pyramid -> Invisible Hand

Delver's Square -> Toll's End (foreshadowing?)

Danbury's -> The Phoenix

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Nestril says 'My boy, we help those who help us.' Pixy sings 'Always a chore to doOooo. Always a dank floor to ungoooOooo. Always a broke door to GluueeEeee. Always a cheap whore to..' 'THAT is quite enough Pixy' Nestril cuts in. 'We don't need help with floors, doors, or whores, but we could use a young hand at a small thorn in our paw, as it were. '

'Dorba'Kol here was careless and lost something very valuable to him.' Nestil starts. 'His Right Arm!!' Pixy barks in laughter. Tol looks to see that the construct is indeed missing his arm to the elbow on the right side.

'I - WAS - ATTEMPTING - TO - LEARN - NEW - SKILLS. THEY - TAUGHT - ME - GAMBLING. I - WAS - BAD - AT - IT'

'The Nix Racers have barred known mages from their betting hall, but yo, you might be able to enter. Win back the arm, or barter it back. Steal it in exchange for this if you have to' he drops a large sack of coin.

'Do this for us and we will call you friend' Ravanna caws.

The chapter on Goblin Religion is illuminating. You have never been a spiritual goblin, leaning more heavily on your arcane skills to blow things up as your true calling. But from what you have just read, you kin have a deep connection with the spirit realms, of which there are many listed. Each spirit realm is aspected to a different need in goblin society. Need to cure your cough, that is the Heelz realm. Need to get your pigs to mate, that is the Kissykissy realm. Need to scare off jacklels from your hens, that is the Boggyboo realm and soforth.

There is a spirit realm that knucklebones seems to be aspected to, called 'CracklenBoom'. This stormy realm has spirits of wind, rain, thunder and lightning.

Your own realm may also be listed here. What do you think it is called?

Give me a persuasion roll.

My new great friends. What mere words could convey this gratitude? My now beating heart is filled with happiness and love. My now open eyes are overflow with tears of joy. My now filled lungs sing.

Steffon and I have taken residence in the Blackwater Manor. There are many sins of my family I wish to redoubt and this once great hall will be my first. I invite you one and all to join us there at your convenience.

There are questions I would ask. There are questions I may well can answer. A thread was spinning in the great houses that needs unraveling. I can think of no better seamstress of such cords than you.

In ever love

-Melissa

So… We chilled out in Discord after our session today and had a couple thoughts:

 The basic idea was that our group isn't very consistent in attendance and it might be good to have a few one-shots ready for low population days. This would be all up to DM discression of course, after all it did take a year to finish the last arc. <3

1.      We can use the next-door property as some kind of proxy guild-hall for one-off games, potentially expanding our character/npc pool (We seem to be making enough money to fund such an endeavor).

2.     The proxy guild could focus on lower level/alternate curse warden tasks and help our characters become more familiar with other adventurers for more tasks depending on who shows up or if we want to try other class types.

3.     Since they’re one off games, we wouldn’t need to focus so hard on long term story and catchup, especially on nights where we don’t have the full party.

4.     We could use this to further expand the Troubador’s reputation and increase our publicity and profit, as well as notoriety.

5.     As it is your game, we wanted to submit this to you and get your take.

If I missed anything ideas wise or if anyone has anything to add/say, please do.

1) Explore the Undertow with Evening Star in her Voidcarft Nightingale.

2) Take on the next Cursewarden contract. The Goldband Ledger reported that around midnight last night Dreaming Street and all its inhabitants became encased an inch thick blanket of ice, freezing solid those unfortunate enough to be lingering outside one of the nightclubs in the area.

3) Go on an archeological dig under the island. With the collapse of the Mack & Torry Tower (christmas one-off session) a clean-up crew has discovered a chamber under the sub-foundation.

4) Follow up on the Blackwater Plot. Misery Blackwater was building a cabal of allies within the ten houses in a plot to return her house to the inner circle. Taking this information to the Empire may prove interesting.

5) Learn more about the Eth. Volodoon is dead and gone. But the Eth are an even more mysterious group than you had first thought. Learn more about their history and wild claims of otherworldly entities and universe destroying engines.

6) Expand the Bar. You now own Shadow's Home next to the Troubadour. Whatever it is you think you want to do with it, someone is going to have something to say about it. Expand or open a new venture.