Oz Harvest Gets Busy

AK510-32 Low Spring Start Week 4
[Charon Watching, Shale Watching, Cycles Guiding]
(Festival of The Scythe: Cycles: Life and Death)

Todd spends a quiet couple of days in Darkbridge during the week of the festival of The Scythe.
The others go about their business and leave him to his own devices.
He spends a small amount of time in the Tipsy Fish to keep up appearances and he even has a long chat with Ulthuu Poten there.
He spends the rest of his time skulking around the city sticking his nose into various places.

Xavier is an innocent and likeable person who is no match for Ozs powers of persuasion.
His wife is suspcious of Oz at first but he soon wins her over and they become good friends. She is also a reasonable cook.
She can bake apple pies and make candy apples.

She suggests that her brother could handle the shipping of a cart of apples every month for a couple of gold pieces.
Todd agrees to sell the apples from Woodhaven to the Hungry Horse at 20% discount.
Xavier and Iseult are happy to accept 40%.

There are several merchant caravans in town during the week. Rollos is one.
Another is Royce Mome who is selling Bigany luxury merchandise on to local merchants to be put onto wagons for transaport around the colony.
Roberto Vec is the largest (Big Fat greasy man with a huge walrus moustache) land based merchant and tends to throw his weight around in the caravan area. The majority of caravans trading along the rivers and the coast are his.
There are several other independent traders but none that initially seem worthy targets for Todds skills.
Oz on the other hand might find them useful.

The Hungry Horse is large enough but not the biggest Inn in the area.
It has 10 bedrooms, a tap room, a common room, three backrooms, a kitchen, a large cellar, a storage room, an outhouse, an two familly rooms. Guests horses are stabled nearby.
The decor is not particularly classy in the public rooms but the place is very clean
Xavier cuts hair in a backroom every Charday but undercharges. He also has a small alchemy lab and library in the cellar
A few of the rooms are suitable for business meetings but none for conferences.
In Darkbridge, the middle classes are the merchants and guild members.
They will come for good quality at a low price, or for popularity or for a gimick.
If the quality of the rooms is increased, but Royce and Roberto could be convinced to take long term rooms. If they feel the place is safe and of good quality.

Oz Harvest Interviews Sethur Walker (Iseults brother).
Hes full of himself and has a suspicious manner but in spite of that he appears willing to work hard and Todd reckons that he couldn't bluff his way out of a paper bag.
Todd expects that he would be capable of making the deliveries.

There are a few Bards in town for the Festival of the Scythe. After the festival they will be a lot less demand for their skills and so there will be quite afew loking for a meal and a room in exchange for a song and a story. Vedic Tanner has hired a couple of Bards to sing the praises of Woodhaven so one of them offers up residence and play for free if given room and board. Her name is Geneis Kendyramin.
Geneis hears Ozs plans for making the Hungry Horse Famous and on the first night she is there drags several patrons to the Inn. She plies them with (free) booze and gets them all up singing The Ballad of Woodhaven. The next night she tells stories of the Gods and of the Heroes of Highvale and rewards members of the growing crowd with (free) booze when they can remember details of the stories with her.
Currently she is looking for players to act in a newly penned masterpiece called The Var-Jen, The Vedic and The Safehaven Temple.
She never asked for Oz or Xaviers approval, but she didnt seem to think she needed to.

Todd gathers information about the traders along the docks and finds a couple who seem honest and in need of employment.
Royce Mome, Zebideee WaterWood and Cheno Melek. He takes a liking to Cheno Melek.