Chronides farmstead

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The Chronides farmstead is located just south of Ephebe, in easy walking distance from Djelibeybi.

Contents 1 NPCs 2 Facilities 3 Components 4 Other items of interest

NPCs

The following NPCs are to be found at the Chronides farmstead:

• Gus Chronides and Adeipho Chronides move around inside and outside the main building. When they are outside they can serve as fly-to for witches.
• Rhea Chronides and Koren Chronides reside in the women's quarters.
• Farmers and traders that sell local vegetables (cabbage, tomatoes, garlic) or clothes.
• Various servants and slaves.

Facilities

The following facilities are available at the farmstead:

• A fruit and vegetable shop sells, additionally to the obvious, red clay for pottery.
• In the pottery workshop there are a wheel, a table with stains and glazes, a bench for drying pottery and a kiln.
• A refreshment stand sells alcoholic beverages and soft drinks.
• In the women's quarters there are baskets of wool, spindles for spinning and a loom for weaving. Men will be thrown out of this room swiftly during daytime, but can enter it at night when the inhabitants have gone to sleep elsewhere.
  • It is possible to try to "weave cloth on loom".
  • Searching the basket can yield a clump of wool that can be used to "spin wool with spinner". This reportedly can produce grey woollen thread.
• In the kitchen there is a hearth that can be used for brewing tea, and mortar and pestle to grind herbs.
• There is a well in the southwest corner of the courtyard as well as an ivy plant.
• A water reservoir (3 gallons) is located under the shrine.

Components

• There are three beehives in the barn by the service entrance, which provide honey.
• There are spiders in the room at the top of the defense tower, they are required for antidote.
• During the right season garlic bulbs can be gathered from the fields surrounding the farmstead.
• Goats in the barn supply goat pellets for smelly seeds.
• An owl in the hayloft of the barn supplies owl feathers.
• The herb garden by the service entrance contains:
  • comfrey
  • mint
  • oregano
  • sage
  • savoury
  • thyme
  • yarrow
• The vegetable gardens west of the main farm building contains:
  • beans
  • carrots
  • garlic
  • onions
  • tomatoes
  • spinach

Other items of interest

• Containers:
  • 4-5 bottles of various colours can be found on the shelf in the store room.
  • A large oinochoe and a large olpe (containers holding approximately 4 quarts) can be found on the shelf in the kitchen.
• Olive trees are growing in the farmstead's yard, the olives can be plucked.
• The farmstead is surrounded by tomato and garlic fields.
• On the shelf in the pottery workshop there are vessels. Their shapes can be examined and their patterns studied.
  • Examining shapes can trigger a cr.po.fo.sh TM. ^[evidence]
  • Studying patterns can trigger a cr.po.st TM. ^[evidence]
• There is an altar in the room east of the pottery shop, on which you can sacrifice or offer things (incense works) for a Bless. The command takes 50 gp, so presumably it may offer faith TMs. There may be a skillcheck. ^[research]
• The chicken hutch at the drink stand can be opened. If the barn is searched for a shovel, then it can be used to clean the coop. In the coop are eggs which can be collected, but they're inedible and hatch into chicks after a few minutes.
• In one room is a tree in a patch of red earth. If the patch is searched, one can acquire clay for pottery. There is a limit (up to 9) on how much clay can be gathered at one time.
• The hay piles in the hay loft can be searched. The message suggests that something will eventually be found (a needle?). However, a skillcheck seems to be involved (50 gp used).^[research]
• A beam in the hayloft can be stood upon ("stand on the beam"). Presumably it offers balancing TMs.^[research]