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Another quick post worked in between getting ready for a New Years Eve party at the new house. Here's a write up on the Great Park district. The locations are a little more filled out here, and I had to come up with a little more on the rumors than what was in the book. The write up's after the break, and I hope everyone has or had a fun and safe New Years Eve.
3. The Great Park
Activity
Day
- People from all walks of life stroll along gravel walk ways between exotic hot-house gardens and flowering trees
- Beggars, hawkers, and pickpockets ply their trade among the crowds
- Small stalls sell food and knick-nacks and people enjoy them on small benches next to tinkling fountains
Night
- Patrons of the Showboat stroll up in groups or stumble out in disheveled groups
- Couples meet for nighttime trysts behind the bushes
Locations
- Bernabau Stadium
- A huge stone amphitheater that holds thousands on wooden benches and in standing-room only sections
- Stages athletic competitions of all variety
- The main attraction is pit fighting against captured mutants and beastmen, with an annual Minotaur fight during the Carnival
- The Pit Fighter’s Head is an exclusive member’s only club located under the main stands of the stadium
- Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Yarblinsky is the Kislevite Master of Games, a grizzled former hunter responsible for providing the beasts for the pit fights
- The Showboat
- A restaurant and cabaret that rests on the edge of the “Black Pool” - a large pond in the park that shows the dark rock of its basin rather than the reflection of the sky
- Frequented by the upper classes and scholars, it is almost impossible to find a table without tipping the doorman, Otto
- Run by Rolf and Elise Rosencrantz, a sentimental old fool and his shrewd wife
- Owned by Gunnar Guildenstern, owner of Castle Rock Coaches
Encounters
- The player characters disturb a couple in a romantic moment - a couple that doesn’t want their relationship known
- People scream and run after a beastman breaks out of his pen and starts wreaking havoc in the crowd
- A shady looking scalper has rare tickets to an exotic event at the stadium. Is the price too good to be true?
- A pickpocket being chased by the watch throws a stolen purse to one of the player characters and tears off around a corner
- A drunken elf takes a liking to one of the characters and begins to poorly serenade him or her
- A young man rejected from pit fighter try-outs is looking to prove how tough he really is
Rumors
Roll
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Rumor
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1
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Certain members of the court, like the minstrel and some of the ladies-at-court, frequent the Showboat
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2
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Well-paying customers at the Showboat can get exclusive wines that have been smuggled in from the Reikland
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3
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One of the vagrants in the park is actually a wealthy nobleman who has gone mad
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4
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The illuminations over the Black Pool at the annual carnival will be less impressive this year because the wizards are unhappy about recent taxes
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5
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In the past, Bernabau Stadium housed a sport that involved kicking around a snotling into goals at either end of the stadium
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6
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Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Yarblinsky earned his position by repeatedly defeating beastmen with his bare hands
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7
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There is a honeycomb of chambers under the stadium housing pit fighters, hamstrung beastmen, and worse
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8
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Unsavory elements use the free intermixing of the social classes in the park as cover for nefarious transactions
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9
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The halfling chef at the Showboat has settled down to a quiet retirement after a life of adventuring
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10
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The pickpockets in the park have been targeting wizards, clerics, and dwarves preferentially because a mysterious fence is paying extra
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11
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The bookies at the stadium have been fixing fights, even those to the death
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12
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Some of the plants in the park are causing a mysterious new disease
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