The group find Travers' suggestion reasonable and have no proble to find Red Bazaar as every local knows it's location.
Both inns are indeed close. The cost is 1 GP and 2 GP per day accordingly, but when innkeepers learn about your relationship to Syndra they suggest you to stay all 7 days but only pay for 4 days. You would need to pay 4 and 8 GP accordingly upfront if you agree to the deal.
OOC:
OK, this is how I would like to run chapter 1. I will list you the choices and some skill ckecks/DC you could choose among. You don't need all to do the same, I would actually expect every player to chose something else. You will be gather more or less information based on your choices and rolls. Your PCs will be able to share the info you gathered, but as players you will immediately see all the info as I will describe it in this thread
The choices - you have to choose what your PC does during a day. We will continue with evening/night life later
| Choice name | Full Cost | Description | Notes
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| City tour on a dinosaur | 5 gp | learn entire city
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| Guided tour on foot | 1 gp | learn a 1 of 4 city districts : market, harbor, merchans district or old town
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| Wonder through the city | free | walk any of 4 district hoping for random events (no info of locations)
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| Buy souvenirs | 0.1 gp | no mechanical benefits, random events may occure. You may do it twice a day.
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| Pub/inn crawl | wary | gather gossips and roll some fancy getting drunk/bar fight rolls depending on how much money you spend and DMs rolls |
Your characters are not used to it, but in this city all prices are extremely negotiable. Including alcohol in a pub. You should do charisma check (no proficiencies applied) with disadvantage every time you to negotiate price down the "full cost" . You will loose disadvantage after 3rd passed check (please tick your passed checks in your character sheets)
| Bargain strategy | DC | Pass outcome | Fail outcome
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| Aggressive | 15 | You pay 20% of the price | You fail the option for today - sellers are mad at you, you could try different option from table above though
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| Simple | 10 | Half price | You could chose either pay full price or try other options
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| Learning | 5 | Pay full price | Pay half price (you can't try other checks) |
Example1:
PC decide to do Aggressive Guided tour and fail. He could now choose a different option and choose normal pub crawl, but fail again (did not find a cheap pub). PC decide the free option Wonder through the city and don't need to roll charism
Example2:
Player want to get dyno with 20% but understand that with disadvantage is too hard to get DC 15, so he goes wth Learning option on souvenirs twice and earn two Passed check for 0.2 gp.
Please also choose the inn and weather you take the deal to pay for 4 days upfront or you only pay for one day and forego discount.
