In all of the Goblin Lands only one community knows what a museum is. And that is in Brez. The former Earther city even had a beautiful museum built from marble and duracrete that had survived the years of neglect and even its yearly roasting by the Flamewinds. It had once held priceless Earther antiques, but when Brez was destroyed by the flamewinds near the end of the Goblin Genocide, what wasn’t burned was quickly looted. It still had stone display columns, walls of empty space, and a beautiful if empty reflecting pool.
The combined efforts of local Brezans, Tla’loc’alans and Earthers got the place ready in no time. It would be open with free admission to all Brezans and with a small donation to all tourists. It would accept treasures from all tribes and all individual collectors for safe keeping as well.
It had hired on expert mercs of the goblin gunner tribe known as Harry’s Heavies to keep the riffraff in line, and even hired on Maverick Multimancer, traveling adept to ward the place.
The curator was Onalna Dolmis, a former member of the Gang of the Broken Mirror, and a relatively well known historian and archeologist in Brez.
The preview was designed to get other tribes to donate artifacts, relics and examples of their own traditional artwork to the exhibit. The largest exhibit was the High Chief’s Headdress donated by Derlur the Nomad and Hikiti and Tusk of the Gang of Uf Mag’og. The magnificent head covering of leadership was allegedly funded and paid for by the Mag Buskt himself.
Still Onalna had done excellent work sourcing her first artists from the Colonies. Zaf’arah Ni’cto, the emminent K’iorn woodshaper had many living Khaz’gha statues in a display called, The Pain of the Refugees of the Genocide. Each was a different refugee of the Goblin Genocide that Zaf’arah had tracked down and convinced to pose for the wooden statue. They each evoked their pain at the loss of their lands, their families and their ways. For a modern Olgog standing in it, even those who considered themselves like Tla’loc’al or Karov, it became so clear how much of Olgog society, pride and knowledge had been lost during the Genocide. History, wisdom and philosophy which equally perished in the plasma furnaces and in front of firing squads. So much oral tradition lost. Some who stood in the forest of moving wooden statues wondered if modern Olgog life was just a mockery and satire of the real old ways. Were they all just grasping at straws for the deeper meanings their ancestors had been unable to pass down due to fire, and sword and murder by the ignorant?
In finding the Mag Buskt, many Olgogs had learned their culture was far older than they had been told. Settlements of Stone designed so perfectly they could last the test of time had been recreated down to the last pebble by famed Olgog stoneshaper Hobmak Hoblaltla in the room that once held the reflecting pool. Many Brezan leaders were surprised that olgogs had once built structures that were equals to their Earther counterparts.
Even the famed Earther artist Justinius Brand had donated the entire collection of his “Green Period”. During the Green Period, Justinius had done sketches and inkwashes of Olgog laborers living around the colony of Dumbar. Some showed Olgog factory workers, others showed Olgog farmhands, and one incredibly powerful piece showed an old Olgog street vendor, dressed in rags and animal hides, arguing with a well-heeled Olgog Enforcer in an earther style trench coat and fedora. This collection alone was worth one million ghaz.
The party was also a wonderful place for non-allied groups to talk about allied military actions and teamwork in future areas of trade and resource management.
But not all was well at the preview. While violence was forbidden, an infamous Olgog was there on insidious ends to track down Derlur the Nomad. He had gotten in using the invitation to the Tribe of GulTor’Uf.
He could see many tribes had sent leaders. Most probably lured by the promise of a place where powerful and rare trophies might be stored but not stolen. With the commonness of raiders in most of the Goblin Lands (both Earther and Olgog), many tribes had to hide their most valuable relics and could not show them off in the way pride demanded. At his side was Ollurug, who was still being employed to track down Derlur the Nomad.
The Nomad is somewhere at this party…
Special Reward: Any player who is involved in this diplomatic thread gains access to An Impervious Vault. This reward allows the player to store one artifact, vehicle, weapon, or gear inside the Museum where it may not be stolen, raided, lost, or destroyed. An excellent place to store mission reward items not in use, as well as Art Objects that represent your tribe.