User blog:MorganAllison01/Schmoosing with the owner of the Pegasus Inn

June 14 - 19. Azarian decides he needs to build his library in Westwatch so it will be close to the city, but he needs to navigate the politics of the factions there. While there is plenty of abandoned buildings, many of them may be in "claimed" territory and he doesn't want to rub the wrong people the wrong way. He feels he could probably work out a friendly association with the Pegasus Inn, since it is a thinly veiled criminal enterprise. He invests 100 gp into "schmoosing" the owner.

I generated 50 random NPC's and reviewed them for one that sounded like a good fit for the owner of such an establishment. Here is the one I picked: "Thazar-De Sepret is a young male human rogue with very long hair. He believes in freedom above all else and is having dreams of an artifact." I put his alignment at CN.

Azarian rolls 19 for his "schmoosing" check. Results: "the character establishes the desired contacts and is treated as a trusted friend." Azarian asks Thazar-de for his advice on where to establish the library.

The place selected was a noble's town house a long time ago, but now derelict and squatted in by an assortment of vagrants including a "street gang" of sorts. It is in need of fixing up, so will take half the time and money of building from scratch: 2,500 gp and 30 days. But first, he will need to deal with the inhabitants.