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#1 Mr_Miscellany Apr 07, 2012 1:46:15	The following is based on content found in Ed Greenwood's excellent Eye on the Realms article The Talking Door in Dragon #410. I was dissapointed the article wasn't longer (these articles read too fast after you wait for them all month). Regardless, the article got me to thinking about what else the Talking Door might say (or have said that nobody heard) and how things might change at the Inn of the Dripping Dagger over time as the door continues to speak and everyone around it are inevitably drawn in to listen. As well, how I'd set the scene for my players if they were to ever walk in to the Inn of the Dripping Dagger. This is my follow up to those thoughts. Further Utterances Murder at the Inn of the Dripping Dagger The Headless Ghost Speaks
#2 Mr_Miscellany Apr 07, 2012 1:56:14	Further Utterances (and setting the scene for my game) The entrance to the Inn of the Dripping Dagger has garnered much attention and even more business for the proprietors of the decades old establishment; its rooms are all rented, every floor full of patrons and guests. As a result the place has become quite crowded. There is much jostling for space near the door and, of late, an insistence by all that talk be kept low, particularly after one would-be listener angrily tried shouting down the door as it was speaking while he was being bodily hauled away by another inn guest hoping to hear better for himself. One might confuse the first floor of the inn for a room full of busy sages, as several patrons, all speaking in hushed voices, discuss rumors, hatch plans and wait in anticipation for the next mysterious utterance from the Talking Door. Already one long-time guest of the Inn, the adventurer and sometimes investigator for hire Belvaun Hammergrim, has found a measure of fame and riches by deducing the whereabouts of the missing patriarch of the Gralhund family (the later having been impaled on a trapped chandelier in an abandoned mansion nigh Spindle Street in the Trades Ward) from one particular utterance of the talking door. Because many watch and wait, the Talking Door has been found to not speak on any regular schedule. It has not as of yet repeated itself nor, it is believed, spoken about the same subject twice, though all agree it speaks more often then ever before. Its latest utterances are as follows: "The dragonheaded camp on a rise overlooking Three Stars keep." "They will kidnapp the third daughter within a tenday." "Every lady has one sewn into her dress, though none suspect what will happen when two dresses touch." "The black bucket can be found in Neverwinter, though its form has changed." "The snooks do not operate below ground, so the treasure they guard is undefended." "The deed to the North Ward mansion is in the pie maker's cupboards." "The book is not behind a false wall, but a real wall made to hide forever that tome and every other book on the shelf that can't be destroyed." "Rathangor's enspelled gems were stolen long ago, but none may be transported out of the city by any known means, whether magical or mundane."* "The matriarch's gown is being sewn with spyseals."** "The blind dragon lairs below Catchthief Alley." "He lept from the tower of his own accord, but it was a lie that drove him to jump." * See Treasure Found in Sea Ward Well in Waterdeep News ** See Gergul and Mithgryn, Body Snatchers Extraordinaire in Dungeon #186
#3 Mr_Miscellany Apr 07, 2012 12:26:40	Murder at the Inn of the Dripping Dagger
#4 Mr_Miscellany Apr 07, 2012 12:26:59	The Headless Ghost Speaks
#5 Mr_Miscellany Apr 09, 2015 17:09:35	Hrm....this was a few years ago. I wonder what I was thinking when I wrote "The Headless Ghost Speaks"?
#6 Mr_Miscellany Apr 10, 2015 16:09:54	Ahh, I remember now. There was a headless ghost mentioned in the same article that featured the talking door. Time to read the article again.