New Location - Lønigbrün Hall
Posted: Wed Nov 05, 2008 8:36 pm
Lønigbrün Hall
This long building of pale brown stone and sloped trapezoidal walls, screened from the road by a jaundice-colored wall, is an inexpensive block of residences set aside for Sly-Var's caliban population. Designed with the goal of hiding and segrating the city's "unsightly" population of magical-tainted unfortunates, Lønigbrün Hall has 44 apartments, each with three rooms - a main room, a bedroom, and a kitchen that allows access to the walled court that surround the building. The corridors and rooms of the hall are bare-stoned, high-ceilinged and unadorned affairs, giving the building the feel of a empty tomb; further, Lønigbrün is windowless and poorly ventilated, causing smokes and odors to become trapped within, making heating and lighting problematic. Additionally, the building houses more inhabitants than it was intended, due to Hazlan's ever-growing number of calibans; apartments sometimes house several families crammed together, split rents between them, and both the courtyard and roof boast the lean-tos and tents of those who cannot fit into the hall.
Despite all this, the residents comport themselves with dignity and pride, forming a self-supporting community despite the resentment of Sly-Var's human population. Since Lønigbrün Hall was built by the city's government to remove calibans from the city's main residental areas, the caliban residents do not face heavy rent payments - each resident or family pays what they can and some cases (orphans, the elderly, cripples) live rent-free. Maintenance is covered by a stipend from the city and a small degree of charity. Not infrequently, unwanted caliban babies are left at the front gate; these unfortunate foundlings are quickly adopted by the families of Lønigbrün Hall.
Near the front gates, a communal garden is maintained, while at the far end of the courtyard, privies can be found (these drain into a sewage channel leading to the Saniset). A hut housing a small shrine, taking the place of the communal windmill shrines of rural Hazlan, is also at this end of the courtyard.
NPCs
Cengis Pazcur (LG male caliban Exp3) - The manager of Lønigbrün Hall is Cengis Pazcur, who takes care of rents, repairs, and the general well-being of the buildings residents. His appearance is ferocious, with his hulking figure, jumble of tusks, and leonine mane, but Pazcur is a thoughtful and gentle soul who requires eyeglasses when working on the hall's accounts. He and his wife, Oydet (NG female caliban Com3), do have one secret though - they belong to a small group seeking to overthrow Hazlan's Mulan ethnocracy. This group, calling itself the Broken Yoke, meets at a small boatshed on the far bank of the Saniset every other week. The members of the Yoke do not realize that their group has been infiltrated by an agent of Eleni of Toyalis, and that she and Hazlik intend to use the Broken Yoke as pawns to fuel their genocide of the Mulans. The Pazcurs have two children, Adelet (8) and Kubilay (4).
Sobehat Yahtep (NG female caliban Exp2/Clr1/Adp1) - This grandmother is Lønigbrüns unofficial teacher and patroness of orphans and foundlings. In addition to her own four children and ten grandchildren, Yahtep has taken in more than a dozen foster children over the years, caring and nuturing each as though they were her own. Each day, she rounds up the complex's young ones and holds classes, teaching her pupils letters, sums, useful information and skills, and a solid dose of good sense. Together with a few other women, she prepares a communal lunch for her charges and other residents who need the assistance (generally, this is mamliga with whatever meat and vegetables are handy mixed in). Yahtep is a minor cleric of Hala with some herblore, providing healing and medicine to the hall's sick and injured. In this capacity, Yahtep knows some of the witches of Hala that reside in Hazlan, as well as the mysterious Rashemani sisterhood known as the kethran. From her caliban heritage, Yahtep's skin is a deep slate gray, her eyes livid green, her nose broad and squashed, and her fingers and toes all have an extra joint.
Ragap the Proud (NE male caliban War4/Rog1) - A dockhand on the riverfront by day, Ragap is a rabble-rouser and thug for both crime lord Kemen Kerbasi and smuggler Duygu Izmir. Ragap believes that calibans are superior to regular humans, a up-coming race that will supplant and erase weak and flawed humanity; he sees this as a continuation of a great cycle that has included the El Koth, the Duruun, the Quelshar, the Yath, and the Vossath Nor among others. Thus, in the backrooms and watering holes of Sly-Var, Ragap has been championing his ideas, passing his hateful rhetoric on to other calibans, who due to their second-class and oft brutal existances, have been surprisingly receptive. After the last several years of this, Ragap has developed a fair following and caliban throughout Hazlan have heard his call. The individual Ragap has most focused on swaying is Kemen Kerbasi, whose power as crime lord and thieves' guild leader makes him perhaps the most influental caliban in Hazlan. Unfortunately, Kerbasi is actually Vraylok Helenah Kerpatis, who is until recently has merely laughed at Ragap behind his back. But with Ragap's growing influence, Kerpatis has decided to silence the nuisence before his ideology becomes a problem.
Kerpatis has informed a Mulan cabal she belongs to of the problem. This group, the Rising Whip, is dedicated to bringing back one of the great traditions of Hazlan's glorious past - slavery. They hope to convince the Red Wizard and the Mulan leadership that the return of slavery with increase the wealth and glory of Hazlan and place the majority of the Rashemani population in shackles (despite this, Kerpatis remains good friends with Eleni of Toyalis, herself a Rashemani; Kerpatis hides her membership in the Rising Whip from her friend and considers her one of the few exemptions from her society's general goals). The Whip cultivates ties with Falkovnian slavers through the trade colonies in Toyalis and Sly-Var, and forments racial tensions, engineering violent incidents to prove that the Rashemani do not deserve their (limited) freedom. Ironically, Ragap would be better off recruiting Izmir to the cause, who might join if he were convinced there were opportunities to profit, but Ragap pridefully disdains working with a "hateful human," even though Izmir gives Ragap more work (Ragap's job on the docks helps facilitate smuggling) and pays better than Kerbasi.
Ragap lives at Lønigbrün Hall with his lover, Gunay Lisblai (CE female caliban Rog2). This who meet Ragap say that he somewhat resembles an eel, with his slick brown skin, small sharp teeth, long neck, slighty webbed digits, darting, twitchy mannerisms, and viscious temperment.
The Ragged Resident - This mysterious person rents two of the upper floor's apartments, paying for them in gold (and at a substantially higher rent than usual) and is rarely seen by residents. When the apartment dweller does emerge, it is a tall figure made shapeless by the layers and layers of rags and tatters is swaths itself in; the Ragged Resident has never spoken to anyone at the hall save manager Cengis Pazcur. Sometimes strange lights, noises, and odors issue from the stranger's rooms. The residents of Lønigbrün Hall believe the tenant is some sort of mage, possibly an exile from the Red Academy. However, no one as ever come looking for whoever this person may be and the resident causes no trouble, so most residents don't pry. Those who ask Pazcur are told that the renter is definitely a caliban, pays well, and doesn't cause problems, so they should be left in peace. Thus the Ragged Resident remains the greatest mystery of Lønigbrün Hall.
The truth of the matter is that the Ragged Resident is an outlander, one of the mysterious and ill-reputed folk known as binders. Actually a woman known as Kallireiko (N female half-elf Bind9), she was drawn into the Mists after contacting the vestige known as Kas the Bloody-Handed. Always aloof, scholastic, and a borderline hermit, Kallireiko has become obsessed with finding out what the vestiges known of the misty realm she is now trapped in. She was able to pass off her pointed ears and marks of binding as caliban deformities, and has since spent her time summoning voices and visions from the vasty deeps to reveal their secrets to her. As time passes, it is increasingly likely that one of her ceremonies will go disastrously wrong wreaking tragedy upon the blameless residents of Lønigbrün Hall. Further, the nightmare eye of the vestige of Kas is firmly fixed on Kallireiko, and hopes to use her as a means to return to the realms of reality.
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Enjoy.
Chris Nichols
This long building of pale brown stone and sloped trapezoidal walls, screened from the road by a jaundice-colored wall, is an inexpensive block of residences set aside for Sly-Var's caliban population. Designed with the goal of hiding and segrating the city's "unsightly" population of magical-tainted unfortunates, Lønigbrün Hall has 44 apartments, each with three rooms - a main room, a bedroom, and a kitchen that allows access to the walled court that surround the building. The corridors and rooms of the hall are bare-stoned, high-ceilinged and unadorned affairs, giving the building the feel of a empty tomb; further, Lønigbrün is windowless and poorly ventilated, causing smokes and odors to become trapped within, making heating and lighting problematic. Additionally, the building houses more inhabitants than it was intended, due to Hazlan's ever-growing number of calibans; apartments sometimes house several families crammed together, split rents between them, and both the courtyard and roof boast the lean-tos and tents of those who cannot fit into the hall.
Despite all this, the residents comport themselves with dignity and pride, forming a self-supporting community despite the resentment of Sly-Var's human population. Since Lønigbrün Hall was built by the city's government to remove calibans from the city's main residental areas, the caliban residents do not face heavy rent payments - each resident or family pays what they can and some cases (orphans, the elderly, cripples) live rent-free. Maintenance is covered by a stipend from the city and a small degree of charity. Not infrequently, unwanted caliban babies are left at the front gate; these unfortunate foundlings are quickly adopted by the families of Lønigbrün Hall.
Near the front gates, a communal garden is maintained, while at the far end of the courtyard, privies can be found (these drain into a sewage channel leading to the Saniset). A hut housing a small shrine, taking the place of the communal windmill shrines of rural Hazlan, is also at this end of the courtyard.
NPCs
Cengis Pazcur (LG male caliban Exp3) - The manager of Lønigbrün Hall is Cengis Pazcur, who takes care of rents, repairs, and the general well-being of the buildings residents. His appearance is ferocious, with his hulking figure, jumble of tusks, and leonine mane, but Pazcur is a thoughtful and gentle soul who requires eyeglasses when working on the hall's accounts. He and his wife, Oydet (NG female caliban Com3), do have one secret though - they belong to a small group seeking to overthrow Hazlan's Mulan ethnocracy. This group, calling itself the Broken Yoke, meets at a small boatshed on the far bank of the Saniset every other week. The members of the Yoke do not realize that their group has been infiltrated by an agent of Eleni of Toyalis, and that she and Hazlik intend to use the Broken Yoke as pawns to fuel their genocide of the Mulans. The Pazcurs have two children, Adelet (8) and Kubilay (4).
Sobehat Yahtep (NG female caliban Exp2/Clr1/Adp1) - This grandmother is Lønigbrüns unofficial teacher and patroness of orphans and foundlings. In addition to her own four children and ten grandchildren, Yahtep has taken in more than a dozen foster children over the years, caring and nuturing each as though they were her own. Each day, she rounds up the complex's young ones and holds classes, teaching her pupils letters, sums, useful information and skills, and a solid dose of good sense. Together with a few other women, she prepares a communal lunch for her charges and other residents who need the assistance (generally, this is mamliga with whatever meat and vegetables are handy mixed in). Yahtep is a minor cleric of Hala with some herblore, providing healing and medicine to the hall's sick and injured. In this capacity, Yahtep knows some of the witches of Hala that reside in Hazlan, as well as the mysterious Rashemani sisterhood known as the kethran. From her caliban heritage, Yahtep's skin is a deep slate gray, her eyes livid green, her nose broad and squashed, and her fingers and toes all have an extra joint.
Ragap the Proud (NE male caliban War4/Rog1) - A dockhand on the riverfront by day, Ragap is a rabble-rouser and thug for both crime lord Kemen Kerbasi and smuggler Duygu Izmir. Ragap believes that calibans are superior to regular humans, a up-coming race that will supplant and erase weak and flawed humanity; he sees this as a continuation of a great cycle that has included the El Koth, the Duruun, the Quelshar, the Yath, and the Vossath Nor among others. Thus, in the backrooms and watering holes of Sly-Var, Ragap has been championing his ideas, passing his hateful rhetoric on to other calibans, who due to their second-class and oft brutal existances, have been surprisingly receptive. After the last several years of this, Ragap has developed a fair following and caliban throughout Hazlan have heard his call. The individual Ragap has most focused on swaying is Kemen Kerbasi, whose power as crime lord and thieves' guild leader makes him perhaps the most influental caliban in Hazlan. Unfortunately, Kerbasi is actually Vraylok Helenah Kerpatis, who is until recently has merely laughed at Ragap behind his back. But with Ragap's growing influence, Kerpatis has decided to silence the nuisence before his ideology becomes a problem.
Kerpatis has informed a Mulan cabal she belongs to of the problem. This group, the Rising Whip, is dedicated to bringing back one of the great traditions of Hazlan's glorious past - slavery. They hope to convince the Red Wizard and the Mulan leadership that the return of slavery with increase the wealth and glory of Hazlan and place the majority of the Rashemani population in shackles (despite this, Kerpatis remains good friends with Eleni of Toyalis, herself a Rashemani; Kerpatis hides her membership in the Rising Whip from her friend and considers her one of the few exemptions from her society's general goals). The Whip cultivates ties with Falkovnian slavers through the trade colonies in Toyalis and Sly-Var, and forments racial tensions, engineering violent incidents to prove that the Rashemani do not deserve their (limited) freedom. Ironically, Ragap would be better off recruiting Izmir to the cause, who might join if he were convinced there were opportunities to profit, but Ragap pridefully disdains working with a "hateful human," even though Izmir gives Ragap more work (Ragap's job on the docks helps facilitate smuggling) and pays better than Kerbasi.
Ragap lives at Lønigbrün Hall with his lover, Gunay Lisblai (CE female caliban Rog2). This who meet Ragap say that he somewhat resembles an eel, with his slick brown skin, small sharp teeth, long neck, slighty webbed digits, darting, twitchy mannerisms, and viscious temperment.
The Ragged Resident - This mysterious person rents two of the upper floor's apartments, paying for them in gold (and at a substantially higher rent than usual) and is rarely seen by residents. When the apartment dweller does emerge, it is a tall figure made shapeless by the layers and layers of rags and tatters is swaths itself in; the Ragged Resident has never spoken to anyone at the hall save manager Cengis Pazcur. Sometimes strange lights, noises, and odors issue from the stranger's rooms. The residents of Lønigbrün Hall believe the tenant is some sort of mage, possibly an exile from the Red Academy. However, no one as ever come looking for whoever this person may be and the resident causes no trouble, so most residents don't pry. Those who ask Pazcur are told that the renter is definitely a caliban, pays well, and doesn't cause problems, so they should be left in peace. Thus the Ragged Resident remains the greatest mystery of Lønigbrün Hall.
The truth of the matter is that the Ragged Resident is an outlander, one of the mysterious and ill-reputed folk known as binders. Actually a woman known as Kallireiko (N female half-elf Bind9), she was drawn into the Mists after contacting the vestige known as Kas the Bloody-Handed. Always aloof, scholastic, and a borderline hermit, Kallireiko has become obsessed with finding out what the vestiges known of the misty realm she is now trapped in. She was able to pass off her pointed ears and marks of binding as caliban deformities, and has since spent her time summoning voices and visions from the vasty deeps to reveal their secrets to her. As time passes, it is increasingly likely that one of her ceremonies will go disastrously wrong wreaking tragedy upon the blameless residents of Lønigbrün Hall. Further, the nightmare eye of the vestige of Kas is firmly fixed on Kallireiko, and hopes to use her as a means to return to the realms of reality.
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Enjoy.
Chris Nichols
