Editing Meamnar:Lost Marbles (section)

===The Salty Parrot===

The Salty Parrot is a tavern in the docks district, especially popular with the sailors who come and go through [[Meamnar:Hylar_City|Hylar City]]'s port.  After killing the guards, [[Meamnar:Marbles_Barbaloot|Marbles]] instructed Elias to go straight to this tavern and lay low until someone arrived.  The 'someone' would be identifiable by trying to order two bottles of [[Meamnar:Valeris|Valeran]] blackberry wine from the bartender.  While the wine is a popular drink, and one of [[Meamnar:Marbles_Barbaloot|Marbles]]' favorites, it is never stocked at the Parrot.

Elias ship's carpenter (chip) on a [[Meamnar:Valeris|Valeran]] caravel, the Lazy Goose.  Above-board, the ship hauls leather and/or cheeses from [[Meamnar:Valeris|Valeris]] to [[Meamnar:Hylar|Hylar]], returning with pork and spices from abroad.  It also serves fences in [[Meamnar:Valeris|Valeris]], who sell the captain (Pawel Lutek) spoils that he then resells in [[Meamnar:Hylar_City|Hylar City]].

[[Meamnar:Marbles_Barbaloot|Marbles]] is Elias' handler, and was meeting with him in the sewers.  The guards were on the take and suspected Elias of wrongdoing.  They followed him as he left the Lazy Goose, and eventually to his meeting in the sewers.  [[Meamnar:Marbles_Barbaloot|Marbles]] discovered them, and killed all three accidentally (casting Lightning Bolt instead of Sleep), and turned himself in to protect Elias' identity.

Lutek did his business, and set sail for [[Meamnar:Valeris|Valeris]] the day before the party gets to [[Meamnar:Hylar_City|Hylar City]].  He suspects that Elias may be not what he seems, but the killing of the guards gave him no time to look into it.  He did, however, inform his local fence of his suspicions.  The fence, Miranda, is having an associate of hers, Ulfgar, keep tabs on Elias.

The purpose of the meeting was for Elias to deliver the amulet and message.  He knows little of his mission, other than to move items between [[Meamnar:Marbles_Barbaloot|Marbles]] and the contact in [[Meamnar:Valeris|Valeris]] and to keep tabs on Lutek.

This is a tavern near the harbor.  Here the party should be able to determine which ship Lutek sailed with.  After leaving the ship, Elias waits here for the [[Meamnar:Balance|Balance]] to catch up with him.  Elias carries a scroll from another member of the [[Meamnar:Balance|Balance]] working in [[Meamnar:Valeris|Valeris]].  The scroll uses a book cypher, the elven poem referenced by the amulet.

 May Your Star Shine Ever Bright

 May your star shine ever bright,
 May it always sail the sea of night,
 May it glimmer in the dark to guide your way,
 May it last through until the break of day.

The code is as follows:

 15 01
 04 04 28 04 08 02 27 01 26 01 20 04 12 02 21 02 16 02 04 02
 31 03 05 04 03 01 .  31 01 21 02 33 01 24 03 02 03 14 01 08
 02 32 01 02 03 12 00 06 05 05 03 20 01 .  05 01 09 02 32 01
 09 03 10 03 14 01 .  26 02 03 04 03 03 12 00 20 04 22 05 33
 01 02 04 12 01 06 01 31 01 05 01 23 04 04 01 .  31 01 28 03
 10 01 06 01 12 02 20 01 09 03 14 01 14 05 04 02 17 01 21 02
 29 05 20 01 20 02 04 04 20 01 24 02 10 04 31 03 .  28 07 14
 02 17 07 05 03 20 01 06 01 01 03 14 03 20 03 12 02 24 03 33
 01 09 03 07 02 23 04 34 00 21 01 32 01 34 00 10 03 29 02 33
 01 31 01 13 01 02 02 31 05 09 06 ,  27 03 12 00 20 03 21 02
 27 01 09 02 03 01 .
 10 01

Decrypted, the cypher reads:

 M
 Not like others.
 Body untouched.
 Elowin.
 Tracked robbers.
 Bribed with gold and ale.
 Hired by grey dwarf to find books, scrolls.
 S

Elowin was an elf residing in [[Meamnar:Poznan|Poznan]].  She died in 1389, and was buried in the City of the Dead there.  Rindorn, on behalf of Janek, hired a local group of mercenaries to raid the tomb, searching for any information they might find about her daughter, [[Meamnar:Eleria_the_Enchantress|Eleria]].

[[Meamnar:Serak_of_Poznan|Serak]], the [[Meamnar:Balance|Balance]] member in [[Meamnar:Poznan|Poznan]], has been tracking another group of graverobbers who have actually been taking the bodies of the deceased.  He began tracking this crime, assuming it was one more in the string, but found out that the perpetrators were a different group, and that they obviously had different motives.  He was able to acquire one of the pieces of jewelry they subsequently fenced, and sent it along with the message with Elias to [[Meamnar:Marbles_Barbaloot|Marbles]].

 Experience Points: 500 (deciphering the code)