>>6078632You step inside and find yourselves in a cramped, musty room. Everywhere you look is parchment, scrolled or unscrolled. Ornate, beautiful maps not only of the capital, but of the whole continent. You even see a map of Chalmuth that seems… mostly accurate at a glance. Some of the maps relate to places you have never even heard of, which you can only assume are lands across the sea to the south.
“What do you need?” You didn’t notice the proprietor at first among the cluttered interior. He’s a short, bent, fat man stuffed into clothing that you assume fit him in his youth. He has scraggly gray hair sprouting from his head and chin and stern wrinkles on his face.
“A map, as you can imagine.”
“I charge extra if you waste my time, ye shit.” He grumbles, “Where ya headed?” You’re relieved that he doesn’t seem to know who you are. Upon reflection, it makes sense that no one outside the immediate area of the palace would recognize you.
“We’re staying here, actually. We need a map of the Imperial territory. The more detailed the better.”
The old man groans as he pushes himself off of his chair, “Not sailing, then? Going by land?” He steps around the map-covered counter and goes to a corner of the room that seems to be full of maps of the Imperial territory. “Ye lookin’ for landmarks then? Trails? Streams? Caves?” He seems to be making himself impatient with his questions and glares at you.
“Landmarks and trails, definitely. We need the city and the entire territory. Something that’ll help us get around by foot or horse and also to tell us all the things that are out there. And it needs to be big enough so that we can write on it.”
He flicks through a number of the maps, occasionally looking up at you with a judging eye. “Alright then…” He begins pulling a few out, and then stops. “You have money, right?”
You shake your bag and let him hear the jingle of your coin.
He nods, and pulls out a few more, until he’s collected a stack of almost eight maps. He goes through those eight several times, and then seems to hone in on one. “I think this has what you need.” He sets a map down on the counter. It’s fairly large, the same size when folded into quarters as many of the other maps are unraveled. It shows the entire territory, with notations for the various small cities throughout the territory as well as other landmarks and features. In the bottom right corner, it has a map specifically of the capital itself, showing the different districts and noting important landmarks or buildings.
“This seems to be just what we need. How much?”
“Hmm… map like this? I’d say four gold is fair."
>"In your dreams, I'm not paying a copper over 1 gold">Just steal the map and run>Just pay the four gold>Write in[Next post may take a bit longer to put up as I complete the map].
