Adventures in Artifacts

[Nerwen]

Lilyblack Gefea Very slender and athletic. Studied archeology at Edoras University. Has always been restless and given to wandering about at night, a habit that her family attributes to a strain of Elven blood, though her family has been living in the Westmark for as far as anyone can remember. Journeyed once to the place where legends place Lothlorien. She made a dig in a strange mound and found, with broken pottery, a strange verdigrised brooch with the pin knocked off the back. She has cleaned it up and found traces of old green enamel, making her conjecture that it was once a leaf. She wears it on a gold chain around her neck and claims it helps her see in the dark. Wears only back leather clothes. Wants to join the party both to get material for her doctoral degree and to perhaps discover the old links of Moria with Hollin.

[Nerwen]

Lilyblack Gefea: At t he end of her day at the Civic Hall where she works as a recording clerk, she returns to her apartment. It is a fourth story walkup with the shared use of some plumbing, but she doesn't mind. One more flight up the steps and she can escape onto the roof, eating her bread and cheese. She likes the view, and the rent is cheap as fat city folk don't like all those stars. She broods on the proposed expedition. Could there still be Truesilver artifacts in Moria with their original forges? How could they shape such a hard metal? She means to find out.

[Nerwen]

Lilyblack Gefea She wanders down midnight streets, peering into shadows and window shopping. She is riveted by a strange looking pendant in a pawnbroker's window.

On her lunch break the next day, she returned to the pawnbroker's, first asking about musical instruments and weapons. Casually, she glanced at the window case.
"What is that silly-looking pendant there? It seems crude and kind of dirty."

The clerk smirked at her - she had been flirting mildly - and said, "Oh, that's just an old piece of costume jewelery that we got in an estate that the lucky heir was selling off, probably to waste it on a carouse. Master doesn't know quite what to make of it,. It's heavy enough to be gold, but too hard to be silver. The maker's mark-" here he reached into the display to pluck the pendant out and flip it over for her to see the tiny rune on the back - is not known to anybody here or anybody Master had look at it, so we are selling it as an antique."
She smiled at him sweetly. "Can't you do any better than two gold pieces? I have an outfit I want to wear to a party that might go with."
He smiled slyly and went into the back. After a murmured conversation, and elderly man, possibly of Dwarven extraction, came to the front of the shop. He picked u the pendant, frowned at it, scowled at Lily, then said, "I'll let it go for ten silver. It has laid here too long and there's no profit in gathering dust."
She obviously reluctantly pulled out a rather lean pocket purse, counted out the coin, and took her purchase out.

[Attalus]

An elderly dwarf named Micah Foehammer shuffles into a rather down-at-heels tavern , oders an ale and sits in a corner to enjoy it. He wondered about the note he had from Lilyblackasking to meet him, but he always enjoyed chatting with her. Such a pretty girl, too skinny, but time would take care of that.

[Nerwen]

Lilyblack Gefae She sidled into the tavern, spotted Micah at the corner table he favored, and slid onto the bench next to him. She pulled out the paper-wrapped object from the pawn shop and put it in front of him. "I don't know what this is, but I'll just bet you do." She smiled winningly.

[Attalus]

Micah The old dwarf squinted at the piece, looking at it from all angles, even sniffing it. He carried it over to the brightest lamp in the taproom. Finally, he laid it down on the table which held the huge lamp, pulled a peculiar tool out of one of his many pockets and began gently poking at the vulgar paint in the middle of the design. Finally, he found a crevice that his tool would go into, smiled triumphantly, and with a dextrous flick the whole thing came off; paint, some blackish stuff beneath it and all, revealing a shining, untarnished silvery surface beneath it. The device was of a rayed star.

[Nerwen]

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