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((I notice I did not discribe the insides of your respective locations, for that I am sorry. though I'm not bothering with Oz's room, its totally up to Coffee as to what it looks like.))

The inn, like most of the buildings of Gendel's keep is made of the wood that covers the hills all round the town. A bar is on the northern side of the interoir, run by the owner of the inn. Tables dot the center of the astablishment while to the east there is a set of stairs to the second floor, where the rooms are.

To the west there is a stage where a troup of traveling bards sing of a great hero to the Republic, the Dark Knight, and how he helped defend the great captiol of Itarion in the early days of the Republic, over 500 years ago. The current song sings of how he single handedly fought off the legendary Tarrasque after his entire platton of warriors were slain by the beast.

The southern wall is where the primary entrance and exit is with two windows, one of which is boarded up because of a recent bar fight.

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The temple of Pelor is a small stone building in the center of town. Currently it is empty besides the clergymen who ae paying hommage to their god with prayer. The alter is in the center of the building, designed to look like the sun with a stain glass window in the ceiling above, allowing the great sun to shine down up the alter and illuminate the image of the Parable of the Hungery Man. Pews are arranged in a circle around the alter so that all may bask in the light from the many windows and hear the doctern of Pelor.

The large halfling doesn't seem to take notice of the young woman at first, preoccupid with a rather stubbern smudge on the glass mug he is cleaning. While the rest of the mug seems clean this last stubbern bit of grim just doesn't want to come off. Finnally the halfing tries putting some real elbow grease into it.

(Strength check 18 rolled -1 because hes a halfling = 17)

The glass shatters in the halflings hands, it seems he put to much umph into his task. With a sour look on his face the halfling pulls out the glass shard that managed to embed itself into his right hand with a slight, "Ow...," he then reaches under the counter for something and pulls out a very small wand, which he quickly shakes and points at the wounded hand, which glows with the light of devine magic and the wound seals itself up.

Satisfied the halfling grabs another glass and the same rag and starts cleaning this one while begining to scan the room, and finnally takes notice of Helena, "Good mornin miss, how can old Trif help ya today?"

"Ah information," Trif said with his deep voice, "All I know about the guard jobs is that the guards here are a bit under staffed thanks to the recent increase in monster attacks."

At this the halfling shakes his head sadly, "Lost my wife to the beasts... If your looking to help defend our fine town then go talk to captian Grendel, he'll give ya all the information you'll need. He's probably in the barracks right about now."

As the young fighter exited the inn she was bombarded with all the sights, sounds and smells that made up Grendel's Keep. To the south(and conveniently right across the street from the bar) were the guard barricks. To the east was the road heading out passed the towns wooden walls and into the wilderness and eventually into the mountains. To the west was the center of town, where the Order Branch and Blacksmith's shop were located, one could still see a group of guards heading down that direction, presumably to take their posts.

The sun had just recently managed to climb over the mountains to shine its light on the town.

Deciding it may be wise to first memorize her surroundings then head on to the Captain, Helena did just that for a bit. As she stood still, she slowly began looking around, taking in each and every detail, where shops and places were, what direction she would need to go to get there again; anything and everything that may assist her in the future.

When Helena was sure she'd gotten it pretty well memorized, she headed east towards the barracks, hoping this Captain Grendel would be able to be seen, preferably sooner than later.

Taking note of the quite muscular man, Helena cleared her throat before speaking, "Excuse me, are you Captain Grendel? I was told to come seek you regarding a job that had been posted in the tavern.

[Yeah....it was in my post....oh well]

((Its all right, he wasn't really meant for you anyhow.

Oh and Cookie the keep is in a New York/ southern Canada climate. Long winters and nice summers))

As Helena approached and spoke the large man turned and his features came into view. It was clear he was half-Sand Giant with his large size and the light brown coloring of his eyes, hair and skin. His armor had the symbol of the republic on the front, a wand and sword crossed over a large shield, "You mean the temporary guard post?"

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As OZ made his way to the Red Harehe saw the same man the Helena just saw not a momment before. However when they passed one another the man stopped and chuckled just load enough for OZ to hear, "Well if thats not the strangest aura for a wizard then I'm a fool... Hehe..."