Tall Tales
Pinned to The notice board
An old, darkened, and dirtied parchment reads:
Traders & Travellers Be Warned.
Pay no heed to old Aisling’s tales of lost lovers and buried treasure - Archivists have confirmed these lovers never existed.
If you do go out looking for trouble treasure, that’s on you, and you best leave Aisling alone if you come back injured or enraged for some other grievance.
[Signed Management]
Ways to approach
There's always one person in the tavern who tells the same stories over and over and over and over and over and over and over again. And although they may tell it well, you have to wonder if it's at all true. For many, Aisling's tale of buried treasure is too hard to resist digging further. Many come back disappointed, furious, or just plain wounded. Some don't come back at all. Enough of a stir was made for historians to come in and investigate the tale and surmised it all to be hogwash... but is it really? Could your adventurers FINALLY be the ones to solve the mystery of Aisling's lost lovers?
This poster is mostly intended as a fun little side note to be pinned on the board amongst more lucrative offers. Padding, if you will. But for me, the padding can sometimes be the most fun - I would absolutely have Aisling's stories turn out to be true, just misunderstood. The first clue could simply be that the terms 'lost' and 'buried' got accidentally switched in the various tellings of the story. Does the town have any notable lovers that are in the cemeteries? Is there a legend about treasure that was swept away at sea perhaps?
Of course, the tale could simply be presented in metaphors; when we think of lovers we would immediately think of people, but what if they were two identical ships lost at sea? The buried treasure could be a lucrative mithril mine, used by lovers forbidden from seeing one another as secret passages.
