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The spice-laden odor of pickle brine pervades the small, quiet shop. Sunlight filtering through a pair of small windows illuminates three large pickle barrels and a pair of stubby, wooden tubs. An oak-topped counter holds a few tall jars and ceramic jugs. A sign hangs on the wall above the counter. Greenery can be seen through an archway leading to the east.
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In the Common language, it reads:

Moomph's Pickles.

Others make pickles faster, but nobody makes them better.

Picklesmith to the Emperor.
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  1. some pickled herring         6. a sweet gherkin
  2. a pickled rolton foot        7. some hot pickled cauliflower
  3. a pickled turtle egg         8. a spicy pickled pepper
  4. a giant Moomph dill pickle   9. a midget dill pickle
  5. a garlic-dill pickle         10. a half sour pickle
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  1. some pickled herring         6. a sweet gherkin
  2. a pickled rolton foot        7. some hot pickled cauliflower
  3. a pickled turtle egg         8. a spicy pickled pepper
  4. a giant Moomph dill pickle   9. a midget dill pickle
  5. a garlic-dill pickle         10. a half sour pickle
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Picklesmith Abneezer is a man who sits in Moomph's Garden in Moomph's Picklesmithy in the town of River's Rest.

Description

From beneath his wide-brimmed straw hat, the picklesmith Abneezer surveys the garden with an expression of mild curiosity and amusement.  He has attained a rare old age for a human.  Aside from a comfortable-looking potbelly, he is improbably thin.  His prominent nose juts out, sharp as an axe blade.

Idle Scripts

In Garden

  • Abneezer stops his pottering to watch a bumble bee zip among the cucumber trellises. He says, "Can't see how they do that, the flying. The gods must be daft buggers, making such a creature." Abneezer grins widely. "Wouldn't want a god that wasn't a daft bugger, meself."
  • A sudden burst of birdsong, bright and cheerful, erupts just beyond the garden walls. Abneezer laughs. He pulls off his straw hat and does a brief, tottery old man's dance.
  • Abneezer pats his potbelly and smiles. "It's a good life, so it is," he says. "A garden to tend, brine to mix, people coming from all over to buy me pickles. Aye, a good life."
  • The picklesmith Abneezer adjusts his wide brimmed straw hat. "Me granddaughter, she wants me to get a new hat. Says this one's a disgrace." He runs his gnarled finger along the brim and laughs merrily. "But I don't want a hat that'll last longer than I do."
  • The picklesmith Abneezer rubs his potbelly and nods. "I loves a garden," he says. "Me whole life, I've moved at a cucumber's pace. Getting close to falling off the vine, I am." He suddenly grins. "And won't that be something?"
  • The picklesmith Abneezer sighs as he gently touches the back of his finger to a nearly ripe cucumber. "Me wife's eyes were that color," he says, "or near enough as makes no difference. Another reason to spend time in the garden."

In Picklesmithy

  • "When I was a lad," Abneezer says, "I used to dream about going off adventuring. S'not a quiet life, though, or so I hear. Not like picklesmithing."
  • "Devoted me life to the makin' of pickles," Abneezer says. "Worked all me days for the Moomph fambly, up there in Tamzyrr, I did. And when I gots too old, they set me up here. Me own little pickle shop and me own garden. It's a grand life, so it is."
  • The picklesmith Abneezer takes a gherkin from the barrel and bites it with a snap. "Now *that* is a fine pickle," he says. A bright grin spreads over his face.
  • The picklesmith Abneezer pats his potbelly and yawns. "I likes this town," he says with a smile. "Slow, quiet...just right for an old picklesmith."

Questions

>ask Abneezer about pickles
The picklesmith Abneezer says, "Spent me whole life around pickles.  Never regretted it.  Pickles make people happy.  Pickles make people smile.  A man could do worse with his life."

>ask Abneezer about Moomph
Abneezer nods and says, "Good folks, the Moomphs.  I got too old to work in their big picklesmithy up in Tamzyrr, so they set me up here.  Picklesmiths to the Emperor, the Moomphs are."

>ask Abneezer about Emperor
The picklesmith Abneezer shrugs, showing his age.  "You probably know as much about him as I do."

>ask Abneezer about Empress
The picklesmith Abneezer sighs.  "Worked for her for years and years, we did.  I shouldn't say it, but she'd got some odd ideas about elves and dwarves and them.  She were the Empress and I'm just a picklesmith, but anybody who liked a pickle is okay by me."

>ask Abneezer about garden
Abneezer's face brightens.  "I loves a cucumber garden, so I do.  It's a wonder, watching them grow.  I never tire of it.  When I'm dead and and done, I hopes they bury me in my cucumber garden."
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Moomph's Garden

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The bright sunlight turns this tidy little side yard garden plot into a green jewel. Vines, laden with cucumbers in various stages of growth, twine on a series of low wooden trellises. A gardener's bench occupies one corner of the plot. The walls of the surrounding shops block the noise, making the small garden an oasis of quietude. You also see the picklesmith Abneezer.
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Additional Information

Moomph's Picklesmithy is an official Moomph Pickle picklesmithy in the town of River's Rest. The shop was opened a few years after the turn of the 52nd Century with a popular Pickle Festival, which offered prizes of pickles in solid silver and gold. For more than a decade, Moomph pickles has advertised on a blackboard inside the town bank as the official picklesmith to the Turamzzyrian Empire's rulers.

Pickles have become a part of local lore. The Pickle Song is one example. A portrait of Tobbo and Delora Moomph hangs in the River's Rest Museum.