This quest is most suitable for a worshipper of Gultha Goldentongue. The quest is usually performed to aid the questor's community but may also be performed to gain personal benefits. Possible alternative benefits include a divine companion, a Sack of Holding or a Staff of Surefootedness or a Theftproofed lockable box, learning Goldentongue's secret (once qualified) or empowering a long duration Bless Market. Be imaginative in thinking of things a merchant might need.
However, this quest may not be used to increase the merchant's wealth except, possibly and at the narrators sole discretion, as a side-effect of being successful.
The hero may be able to augment some abilities with others from the list of applicable abilities using the listed improvisation penalty.
Applicable Abilities: Mythology of Issaries,
Secret Way Rituals, Mythology of the Lightbringers -5, Heortling
Mythology -10, Stories or Storytelling -15
Resistance: 10w3
Applicable Abilities: Tally, Evaluate
Resources, Gauge Value -10
Resistance: 5w
Applicable Abilities: Carry Heavy Load, Load
Pack Animal -5, Locate Trail -10, Travel -15
Special: Each Pack Animal +5, Each Human Porter
or Thrall +3
Resistance: 10w
The hero must choose one of the following ways of interacting with the dead. Once that choice is made, the hero may not change their mind.
Applicable Abilities: Communication
Resistance: 15w3
Applicable Abilities: Find Escape Route,
Locate Trail, Travel -5
Resistance: 15w
Applicable Abilities: Close Combat, Ranged
Combat
Resistance: 15
Applicable Abilities: Convince Buyer, Bargain
-5, Eloquent -10, Clever -15
Resistance: 20w
Applicable Abilities: Convince Seller,
Bargain -5, Eloquent -10, Clever -15
Resistance: 20w
This station may be a Quest Challenge, in which case the APs for the resistance are 100. The hero will usually stake a relationship. If the hero wins the challenge, they may increase either the wealth rating for the community by the lower of the rating staked by the hero and 10w2 or split this increase equally between community wealth and the relationship to the community. Alternatively, the hero may stake a virtue or their piety and split the increase equally between a community's wealth and the staked ability. If the hero loses, they gain the flaw of Raw Greed at 10w2 (see Storm Tribe page 120, but without the effect of decreasing abilities).
Applicable Abilities: Honest +5, Relationship
Clan, Piety, Astute -5, Clever -10
Resistance: 10w2
This station is passing a barrier to return home. If the hero has positive carryover coming into the station and also succeeds in this station, the hero learns of a new trading opportunity available to them. This is in addition to any other benefit gained on the quest.
Applicable Abilities: Detect Ambush, Find
Escape Route, Locate Trail, Travel -5, Combat -15
Resistance: 10w
| Station | Complete Defeat | Major Defeat | Minor Defeat | Marginal Defeat | Tie | Marginal Victory | Minor Victory | Major Victory | Complete Victory |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Crossover | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 |
| Tally | -4 | -3 | -2 | -1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 |
| Carry Heavy Load | -4 | -3 | -2 | -1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 |
| Meeting the Dead (Communication) | -4 | -2 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 6 | 8 | 10 | 12 |
| Meeting the Dead (Avoid) | -4 | -3 | -2 | -1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 |
| Meeting the Dead (Fight) | -8 | -7 | -6 | -5 | -4 | -3 | -2 | -1 | 0 |
| Convince Buyer | -4 | -3 | -2 | -1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 |
| Convince Seller | -4 | -3 | -2 | -1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 |
| Resist Raw Greed | -8 | -6 | -4 | -2 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 6 | 8 |
| Ambush | -4 | -3 | -2 | -1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 |
| Final Result | <-30 | <-20 | <-10 | <0 | 0 | >0 | >10 | >20 | >30 |
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