Prank's Stone

Prank's Stone is a village in the Kingdom of the Isles in Betrayal at Krondor. It can first be visited in Chapter 1.

Geography

The village lies on eastward border of the Kingdom, along the road north of Romney and south of Kenting Rush. The stone which gives the village its name is located at the end of a path east of the road. A graveyard lies north of town.

Locations

• Shop: Roots and Herbs, trading mainly in Potions and Enhancers
• Inn: The Flying Sow, offering Rations, Ale, Barding, Gambling, and some... unique... encounters.
• House of an inventor who claims to have constructed a machine that converts Rubies to Emeralds and is trying to perfect the formula for Diamonds. He offers the party a chance to test it for free. The device, a metal machine with a wooden crank and a funnel on the top, does work, but only produces 1% Diamonds, making the endeavor a financial loss unless the starting material is a very low-value Ruby. If the party runs out of Rubies or declines to convert more, the inventor nervously shows them out and is not at home if they return.
• A house where, through the door, the party hears the threatening shouts of a man about to kill a woman. Gorath breaks the door and prepares to attack, only to find a bewigged actor doing a solitary dramatic rehearsal of a performance intended to run at The Flying Sow that evening. Embarrassed, Gorath pays him 25 sovereigns or "whatever we have left" as compensation for the broken door.
• A balding man offers to rent the party a house for 30g per month, and then describes some of his other local tenants: one a self-proclaimed actor, the other a "no-good dragon lover" whom he plans to evict for "cheating me out of my money."

Prank's Stone

The Prank's Stone, after which the nearby town is named.

The town's namesake, the Prank's Stone, is a slab of rock at the end of a path. Owyn Beleforte notes that it has an unsettling energy. If the party touches it, it "pranks" them with a loud crashing sound and causes some of their Inventory items to disappear.

Items vanishing near the Prank's Stone magically reappear in a riddle chest purchased by Abuk some twenty-odd years earlier. More recently, Abuk learned of the items' origins from a man from Sloop with whom he developed a business partnership, selling items acquired from unsuspecting people lured near the stone.

Graveyard

• Lincoln Albervant: "He lies here too." (Shade; afterward, no body)
• Damon Boyersmith: "He didn't want to go." (Shade; afterward, a body)
• Kyle Bruning: "Always our loving son." (a body)
• Nat Delars: "May the Goddess of Death be gentle." (a body)
• Leighton Dink: "No longer can he hate his name." (a body)
• Jenny Gray: "Oh, to feel her sweet kiss." (a body)
• Marty Hippler: "Beloved by all." (a body)
• Corey Perlance: "Lost his life fighting a fire." (+13 Flaming Quarrels)
• Sher Perlance: "She loved to dance." (a body)
• Jason Verchew: "He sung off key." (Virtue Key)

Trivia

• An identical grave and epitaph for Leighton Dink appears in the graveyard near the ruins of Sethanon.
• The sprite for the Prank's Stone is identical to that used for Nalar's Rib.