The Ghost Dungeon Master 38 Prologue - Clifford's Party Back In Town

"We are at the one of the many inns in the town of Everdale and my party will be heading to the adventurer guild for debriefing after breakfast." Clifford continues to explain as he walks down the stairs and heading into the dinning area.

"Hey Clifford, here's your breakfast." An middle age lady came over with a plate which have a small bowl of soup and bread.

"Thanks, Claudia! That's Claudia the lady boss of this inn, they serve the best soup in the area." As Clifford begin eating slurping up his soup and dipping some of the bread in it. The rest of the party could be heard coming down the stairs into the dinning area.

"Clifford, couldn't you wait for us?" Rebecca came running over and smacking him on his head.

"Ouch that hurt, if you're going to keep acting like that, you won't get a boyfriend." Clifford was rubbing his head where he was smacked at with his hand.

Hearing what he said Rebecca sat down next to him with her hands cross with piping steam coming out from her head.
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"Alright, both of you, eat up, we have places to go." Zayne came over, sat down and said.

After finishing his breakfast, Clifford looks to the side, "Oh where was I. Oh right you guys are wondering how come it took a few days to come back to the town right?"

"Let me explain, after we left the new dungeon that we were supposed to inspect. It was already late afternoon. Although we expected to returned back to town by late night, we encountered quite a few forest wolves on the way back and since it was a moonless night, we followed the adventurer guild's 101 rules, not to travel in total darkness, thus our party decided to setup camp for the night. However, on the next day, while we were traveling back, we encountered a large number of monsters that weren't supposed to be around this parts of the forest. There were blade ear rabbits, dark forest wolves and other monsters that were supposed to be found up north. They had hampered our traveling progress through the forest which would normally take use 1/2 day to reach. By the time we reached the town, it was already late night, phew that entire trip back was a struggle, we encounter a group of goblins near the town, we had to kill them since they were so close to the town after that we had to double up our speed and we almost couldn't make it back to the town."

"Are you done? We need to leave now if we want to settle everything today." Rebecca stared at Clifford who was talking to the air.

"Alright guys, I check in with you guys later once we reach the adventurer guild." Clifford said before he stood up and left the inn with the rest of his party members.

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"Welcome back guys, we are now currently in the adventurer guild which is busy as usual, so on the left we have a bar counter where we can get food and drinks, on the right is the quest board where we can take a look at the quest available and right in front of us is the quest counters where we go to accept the quest and complete the quest." As though Clifford was explaining to someone watching, he walked towards the quest counter.

"Hey beautiful is the guild master around?" Clifford came to the adventurer guild's counter and started talking to the counter lady who is currently on duty for quest completions.

"May I ask why are you looking for the guild master?" The counter lady looked at Clifford and asked.

"Erm, we have completed a scouting quest given by the guild master." Clifford replied.

"Okay, wait here, I'll go check if the guild master is around." The counter lady left the counter and headed up the stairs after giving them a reply.

Not long later, a man shouted towards the party from the stairs above."Hey you guys come upstairs to the briefing room."

They turned their heads looking towards the voice and saw that it was the guild master calling out to them, thus the party headed up, went into the briefing room to give the information they had acquired when exploring the new dungeon.

~~~After an hour of explanation~~~

The guild master is a bald middle age muscular man who is sitting down on the opposite side of the table. Clifford turns to the side and whispered, "By the way guys, that's the guild master, Criag Rockford."

After Clifford's party had explained their encounter, Criag begin speaking, "I see, this dungeon have some uncommon herbs and it sp.a.w.ns weapons that attack which drops the weapon when you guys managed to kill whatever was possessing it and to top it off, the dungeon even traded with you guys. If the higher n.o.bles were to hear about this, it might be troublesome, they might want to make it into their own personal weapon a.r.s.enal of sort. At the moment don't release this information to anyone else. I'll have to talk to the Count, since it was his troops that had found that dungeon and it was him who requested us to check if this dungeon is safe or dangerous. Alright you guys may leave now."

"Erm guild master, if we aren't suppose to release any information, what about the weapons we had gotten from that dungeon?" Zayne looked at Criag and asked.

After thinking for a moment, Criag looked at Zayne and replied."Hmmm, take the weapons out and show me."

Zayne glance at Clifford, realizing what he want Clifford placed the bag of items on the table. Next, he begin taking out the weapons and laying them on the table, these are the weapons that they had gotten from farming the possessed weapons in the dungeon.

"Oh that's quite a hull for less than half a day of farming that dungeon. Give me a moment, I'll get someone to come here and a.s.sess the weapons." After speaking, Criag headed towards the window, he took out a whistle and blow into it.

Piiiii!

Next, he took a small parchment and begin writing on it. Not long after he blew into the whistle, a small green colored four wing bird flew over and stood at the window sill. Criag rolled up the small parchment that he had wrote on and put it into the small carrier that was attached to the bird's leg.

"Send this message to Dronik." Criag picks the bird up and whispered to it, before letting it fly out of his hands.

After a few minutes, a loud commotion could be heard outside of the briefing room, as a short man swung opened the door slamming it towards the wall.

"WHERE IS THAT THING THAT YOU SAY IT'S BETTER THAN WHAT I CAN CRAFT AT?" The angry looking bearded short man with a hammer in his hand stared at Criag as he started shouting.

Clifford turned to the side and whispered, "That's Dronik Tilrok, he's a dwarf and he runs the only blacksmith in town."

"Dronik before I show you, close the door, I don't want this thing to be known by the others yet." Criag looked at the agitated dwarf and said calmly.

After Dronik closed the door, he looked at Criag and asked, "So where is it?"

Criag pointed to the weapons that were displayed on the table.

The dwarf rushed towards the table and begin picking each and every one of the weapons up to inspect it.

"Fascinating, although most of them are just sub par with a little repairs it can be sold and use, however this spear is amazing, so how did you craft it?" Dronik looked towards the party and asked.

"Erm, Mr Tilrok, we didn't craft it, but we killed some possessed weapons and they had dropped it." Zayne begin explaining to the dwarf.

Dronik's eyes begin sparkling and he begin bombarding Zayne with multiple questions. "Did you say you farm these weapons? So is it available for sale? Can I buy them all?"

"Dronik calm down for a moment, take a look at them, you are scaring them." Criag hold back the dwarf who is standing up with one of his leg on the table and his face almost right in front of the other party's face.

"Dronik, the reason why I got you to come is to see if you wanted to buy their weapons off them, as of now I don't want the news of such place to spread yet." Criag begin explaining to the dwarf.

"Yes, Mr Tilrok, if you could buy these weapons off us, we will be grateful." Zayne joined in and said.

"Alright, I take them all at 45 gold in total, 40 gold is for that special spear." The dwarf replied, after thinking for a moment.

"Thank you so much Mr Tilrok." Zayne stood up and shakes the dwarf hand in happiness.

"So where did you guys get these weapons?" The dwarf continued his question.

After hearing the dwarf's question, Zayne sat down and looked towards Criag.

Seeing him glance over to the guild master, the dwarf looked towards Criag and said, "What you don't trust me?"

"Alright, alright, you guys can explained where you got these."Criag opened his mouth and said.

After the long explanation, the dwarf begin speaking, "I want you guys to bring me to that place, I need lots of materials for my next idea."

"No Dronik, you can't go there, if you go with them to that new dungeon, who will repair the equipment of the adventurers in town?" Criag tried to reason with the dwarf.

"That's what my apprentice is for, do you think I repair all the weapons that comes into my blacksmith? On normal days when there isn't much, I would even go mining for metals myself." The dwarf retorted Criag.

Knowing that he couldn't convince the dwarf not to head there, Criag looks over to the party and said, "I give you guys a new quest for this stubborn dwarf, make sure that Dronik comes back in one piece. You guys wait here for a moment, I'll go get someone to draft out a new quest and give you your rewards for the current one."

"With that settle, come lets' go, I can't wait to see what type of materials I can get from all those weapons." The dwarf said with excitement, as Criag walked out of them room.

"Mr Tilrok could you give us a few days to prepare? We just came back last night." Zayne look towards the dwarf and asked.

"Alright, I give you guys two days to prepare then, in the mean time I'll go play with these weapons that I bought from you guys." After speaking, the dwarf took the weapons on the table and left the briefing room.

Not long later, one of the counter ladies came in with a tray and on that tray was a new quest form and a bag of gold.

"Here's your reward of 8 gold for the previous quest and here is the new quest form."As the counter lady pa.s.sed the items to Zayne.

"Oh beautiful, by the way, do you know where the guild master went? We wanted to tell him we encounter a group of goblins lurking near the town." Clifford suddenly spoke up.

"I'll pa.s.s that information to the guild master, you guys can take the rest of the kill proof to the counter below to let them count, I'll head off now." The counter lady walked out of the room after speaking.