[Archive] Brass Stach Tavern & Inn Messages

Gnolls

To the Esteemed People of Rubicon,

The Goodsmith Cloch Kinallen of the Clan Kinallen, is setting forth to your fine city to take care of your "Gnoll Problem". He has declared a deliberate and systematic obliteration of gnolls throughout all lands. We are happy to come and help you all in your time of need. If any wish to join in our noble war against the vermin Cloch will outfit you with all equipment needed for the slaughter.
If that is not enough he will also pay out of pocket for your efforts along with keeping all loot that you find.
Any items of magical nature will be claimed by him in the name of the Great Smith. Compensation will be given to the finder.

Dictated but not read,
Cloch Kinallen of the Clan Kinallen
Penned by Mira

Beware of Giant Spiders
[Written by Plot]

“Spider! Help!” That’s what Kern Leapheart, 40, remembers saying when a giant spider attacked him during a bear-hunting excursion in the Glitterhold Forest, Sunday morning.

Leapheart and his friend and hunting partner, Farris Fenwald, shared the story of the attack while sitting at a table in the Brass Stach later that night. Their archery hunt began when they walked away from Kern's cabin on the edge of the forest, just before sunrise and headed down a familiar trail into the forest. It ended at the cabin a few hours later in a make-shift spirit circile with a healer.

Leapheart described the experience as “surreal.” He said he and Fenwald, co-owners of Leapheart & Fenwald Furs & Bows, were heading back to Leapheart’s cabin through a spruce and whitebark pine forest after not being able to pick up any Bear tracks. They had just mentioned among themselves that they'd seen a “remarkable” amount of wolf tracks, when they heard “an enormous commotion” in the trees and shrubs.

“We realized we’d spooked an animal. “Boom! Boom! Boom!” Leapheart said. In seconds, “a very large spider with glowing eyes” galloped into view between the two men. It went after Leapheart, who immediately tried to draw his bow. The spider bit Leapheart’s left arm, tore off his hand and crushed his flesh, and crunched down on his right arm, breaking it in two places.

Fenwald said he saw the spider stand up over Leapheart, who is 5 ft. 9, and the spider, hunched over, was taller than Leapheart. The attack itself took seconds, and the spider left the scene with Leapheart wrapped in a cocoon. Meanwhile, Fenwald had shot two arrows into the spider that seemed to have no success in deterring it from dragging off his friend.

Upon seeing a second spider approaching, Fenwald turned and ran. Leapheart described being dragged for nearly a mile before the sunlight suddenly dissapeared and he felt a change in the air. The spider continued dragging him, eventually setting him down in a heavily webbed cave. What happened next Leapheart described as "terrifying".

Over the next couple of hours Leapheart's physical body began to fade, eventually to the point where the cocoon felt like a rhinocerus was sitting on his chest. Smaller spiders began to skitter towards him, looking like they were interested in a meal, but they didn't get to sink their fangs into him before they dissipated. -

Excerpt from an article in next week's Rubicon Register, posted inside of the tavern.