Chapter 6-22
Every Delver should carry a backup weapon on their person at all times. Do NOT fucking leave it in your Inventory! When you need it – and you will – you’re going to need it right the fuck now. Not when you just happen to have the time to pull it out of that dark magical hole.
The ‘classic’ backup is a big fucking knife. The kind that makes people say, “THAT is a knife.” Acceptable alternatives include shortswords – aka extra big knives – clubs, pistols, wands, hatchets, and so on. Pick two of the above for even more fun.
- Delver’s Guild Handbook, Section 5.3 – “Backup Weapons”
That afternoon I was lying in bed, trying to think about anything other than the crunching sound Trite’s jaws had made when they shattered my arm bones with a single chomp –
<Hey everyone, meet in Az’s room in five minutes!>
Arlo’s voice over the Comms was a very welcome distraction. Curious about what he wanted, I tidied up a bit as the team trickled in. When Arlo arrived, he was accompanied by someone I’d never seen before.
The tall, lithe man was wearing leather armor and had dark hair and bright blue eyes. He looked to Arlo, who gestured to the spare desk. The man walked over to the desk and started removing boxes from his Inventory. Each one was made of a fine, dark wood – it looked a lot like the wood used in Sunland’s inn, and I wondered if it came from the dungeon there. He carefully stacked the boxes in neat piles. I counted seven of them, in a couple of different sizes.
Then he stepped back and produced several much larger boxes made of much less expensive materials. He stacked those on the floor next to the desk, then produced a sheet of paper which he handed to Arlo.
“Your signature please, Mr. Hammersmith,” he said in a smooth voice.
Arlo quickly reviewed the sheet before signing it with the pen the man provided. Once he’d handed everything back, the man sketched a quick salute and strode out of the room. As he left, H’ruk and G’hala entered, the whole team easily filling up my room.
“Well,” I said to Arlo, “I guess these are from your family?”
“Indeed, our new pistols have arrived!”
He examined the stack of boxes, and I joined him. I saw that the two boxes on the top had the names ‘Jayce’ and ‘Raylan’ inscribed on them right into the wood. We quickly distributed them to the team and everyone eagerly opened theirs. There were four smaller and three larger boxes. To my surprise mine was one of the larger ones, along with G’hala’s and H’ruk’s.
Arlo obviously hadn’t received one because he already had his Class weapons, but everyone else got one. When I opened my box, I found a huge, black revolver inside. It had a normal-sized grip, but the rest of it looked like it had grown to massive proportions. Identify.
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