The Weyfarers’ Gilde

The Weyfarers’ Gilde is Cēaptūn’s adventurers’ guild. Its folk do the work the reeve cannot pay for and the sisters will not touch.

Its hall, the Gildhalle, is a small timber hall in the south-east corner of the town, beside Factor Wulfrun’s office. Its door is on the lane, with the bounty board nailed up beside it. Inside, Wat One-Eye, the guildmaster, hands out the work. He is an old delver who has stopped going down.

The yard

Across the lane from the hall’s door is the Gilde’s yard, a square of beaten earth with four training dummies: one at the west end of the top row, to shoot at down the yard, and three in the row below, to strike. Anyone may use them.

The chain

Wat gives one job at a time, as a quest. Chat with him (C) and ask about it. Each job is offered once the one before it is done, and nothing else stands in the way: not your level, not your alignment (the board does not care whose hands are dirty), and not any other quest. What each job asks for is drawn as Wat gives it, and stands until it is done. Kills count only from the moment the job is given.

1. A bounty: kill one creature of a kind drawn from those that live in Cealdhlāw, Fennmynster, and Fyrdelf, never a named monster. Only the dungeons you can get into when Wat gives it count, and a Beast-friend (a druid) is never given an animal (drawn quests). Pays 40 gold and 60 experience.
2. A score and five: kill 25 creatures of one sort, drawn from kobolds, goblins, the undead, vermin, marsh things, duergar, and fire things, among those living in a dungeon you can get into; a Beast-friend never draws a sort with an animal among its kinds (the vermin). Any kind of the sort counts, anywhere, and the quest log lists the kinds. Pays 250 gold, two red potions, and 500 experience. A little good.
3. A scroll for the Gilde: bring Wat a scroll of a kind drawn from those found as loot. It leaves your pack when you hand it in. One taken from a shop unpaid stays on that shop’s bill. Pays 200 gold and 150 experience.
4. Wanted: kill one of four wanted criminals, drawn as Wat gives it. Each has gone to ground at the bottom of a lair four floors deep, a hidden place that Wat marks on your map as he gives the job. The other three lairs stay hidden for the rest of your life. The criminal is a named monster, so only their death counts, however it came and whoever dealt it. Pays 500 gold and 800 experience. Good.
5. Eleven floors down: reach the eleventh floor of Grundlēas, the endless stair in the grass south of the Beorhtburna road. You must get past the tenth floor and whatever keeps it. Reaching it once is enough. Pays 600 gold and 900 experience. A little good.

More jobs are to come.

The wanted

The four are people of the town’s own day, known by what the broadsheets call them. Each lair is four floors deep, from danger 6 on its first floor to 9 on its last (see The lairs of the wanted). The criminal waits in a room of their own on the fourth floor, asleep until something wakes them. Each carries a unique item of their own (see Magic items) and drops it where they fall.

Their numbers are in Creatures.

Ranks

Being given the first job makes you a member: a Tin of the Gilde. After that:

• finishing a score and five makes you a Pewter;
• bringing down your wanted criminal makes you an Iron;
• standing on the eleventh floor of Grundlēas makes you a Steel.

Wat names you each time (“Wat One-Eye names you a Pewter of the Weyfarers’ Gilde.”), and the character screen (Your character) shows the rank in the colour of its metal.

A rank is only a title: the town calls you by it, and nothing else changes. There are seven ranks, each named after a metal dearer than the last. The later ones wait for jobs still to come.

See also: Quests, Weapon skills, and The Ascmearc.