Reclaiming the Taptet Village, Part 6: Terms of Employment

The returning adventurers receive curious looks and some cheering from the Primes at work in Goswort's fields. The remorshka's claws and Neyorra's grisly trophy announce that they've met with some success, at minimum. Violetbloom and Mayor Goswort are two of those working in the fields, but they're glad to quit early and hear what the party's found. "It's near enough suppertime as is."

The mayor persuades her husband to throw together some snacks for the conquering heroes. Supper is already started, and "will be ready when it's ready," Mayor Goswort says with a sigh. "Another hour and a third or so." She evicts the children and their tutor from her dining room and settles the group around it to hear their report.

Their hosts are suitably impressed by the felling of the remorshka, and suitably sympathetic regarding Eddy's injuries. The mayor notes down the number of slunder they killed, including the three bagged specimens (one of which died in transit, but the other two survived and look, if anything, a bit better for the journey.) She does a quick accounting, then excuses herself. A ninth of an hour later, she returns with a wallet full of five- and ten-lozen pieces. She counts them out . "Three hundred lozens for scouting, fiften slunder at twenty lozens each, and eight hundred for felling the remorshka. Fourteen hundred in all. There." She pushes the pile of lozens before the adventurers. Violetbloom twitches her antennae, a bit alarmed. The Herethroy takes possession of the bag with the two still-living slunder while Goswort continues, "I don't like my people to have to wonder when the money's coming. You've earned it. Now ... what else did you find out about the village?"
( One or two things )