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[Caellath]

This game is being Co-GMed by both me and Skyrunner. Yeah. Moving on.

The Good Earth - An Apothecary RtD

In the small region of Ceres, there lies a city, known as Erista. It is a renowned business center, home to many masters of brewing and concoting mysterious potions and elixirs, said to cure afflictions, grant benedictions, break traditions and make you rhyme badly from time to time.

In such a flourishing place, where small business grow in the nick of a few months into highly-profitable establishments, many people try to learn how to deal with the herbs and their effects, ultimately becoming a highly-respected apothecary. Many people who already possess patches of land inside and around Erista know full-well about it, and make money by renting said patches to enterprising people, young and old, many of foreign lands.

The amount of patch-renters is somewhat limited, but not exactly lacking, which provides a good balance in the market. Problems arise when there is also the need for labs when the despossessed beginner apothecaries lack even the most basic of equipment, being forced once again to rent what is needed for them to start learning their new source of income.

After a while searching for a place to install yourselves, your small group finally found a reasonable place and invested part of your coins into renting patches where to cultivate your herbs and try to make coin.

Each one of you has 50 silver coins to spend in herbs to start going and 3 patches of land to cultivate; the rent for the patches is collected every month. Either you succeed or you fall, you're going to either pay the owner, and if you amass enough cash, buy your own patches.

The rest goes this way: 10 for each patch, totalizing 30 coins, and 30 for the lab you use, making it 60 coins per month to be paid.


Taking six players, a small bio (no longer than three lines) is necessary and affects whether you enter or not the game.

Spoiler: Character Sheet (click to show/hide)

Name: How bad did your parents fail when naming you?
Bio: Small bio.
Coins: Cash.
Herbs: Check the spoiler below to buy your first herbs.

Spoiler: Price for herb cuttings, seeds or sprouts (click to show/hide)

Base herb - 1 coin
Tongberry - 1 coin
Balloon fruit - 2 coins
Pott's herb - 2 coins
Anauj - 2 coins
Red fennel - 3 coins
Wing herb - 3 coins
Fool's demise - 3 coins
Spark herb - 5 coins
Incandescent herb - 5 coins
Green langtern - 8 coins
Golden herb - 8 coins
Caelum - 24 coins

Spoiler: Fertilizers (click to show/hide)

-->Natural Fertilizers: Cheap, but little fertilizing potential;
-->Synthetic Fertilizers: Cheap, great for fertilizing;
-->Magic Fertilizers: Expensive, also great for fertilizing. Makes the soil more magical.
-Natural:
Cow dung - 1 coin
Compost - 2 coins
-Synthetic:
Street Mixture - 1 coin
Alchemy Guild Normal Mix - 2 coins
Alchemy Guild Premium Mix - 5 coins
-Magic:
Quack Mage's Fertilizing Elixir - 3 coins
Mage Guild Gold Fertilizer - 6 coins

Spoiler: Misc.Items (click to show/hide)

Lime - 3 coins
Elemental's Tears - 4 coins
Acidity Test (one use) - 5 coins
Quik-Grown Potion - 10 coins

Spoiler: Potion-making (click to show/hide)

Well, if you're reading this then it means you can't make a potion. And you fancy yourself an apprentice.

Making a potion is easy. You need one or more herbs (plant seeds and grow herbs) and a lab (you should have one rented already) to make them, and if you have both, you just need to move to the lab and  combine them.

The production may suffer problems or advantages due to randomness. There are some good tips though:
1- At first, try one herb at a time to check what each herb does, then try using multiple of the same one to check the effect.
2- It is good to have base herbs in your potion.
3- Better base-type herbs enhance your potion's power.

Spoiler: Players (click to show/hide)

Current Roster:
-SilverDragon (Irideth Hellspawn)
-Mr.Zero (Shackras)
-IronyOwl (Fella)
-ansontan2000 (Azundle Karash)
-Tiruin (Rhea Thain)
-monk12 (Conrad J. Dandyhosen II)

Waitlist:
-mesor
-Spaghetti7
-itruelso

[Caellath]

FAQ:

-Each turn is equivalent to one day, but you can perform two actions.
-Using one action, you can prepare several flasks with the same type of potion if you have the required materials.
-To make prepare another type of potion, you need another action.
-One herb = One patch. You can only grow one type of herb per patch.
-Planting and using fertilizer count as one "planting" action.
-Planting several herbs in a patch before you know the soil's composition and the herb type's properties is dangerous.
-Planted herbs yield more of its kind, which can either be replanted or used as ingredients.
-You can use cuttings as ingredients.
-You may go find herbs in the wild, but it's called "wild" for a reason.
-Things are purposefully vague, so you have to discover them yourself.
-You can buy/contract weapons/guards to defend you, but they are expensive, weapons specially so.
-You can pool your coins/herbs and share/give things.
-Buying herbs and items aside from your starting ones requires you to visit a shop, and the wares there are not always what you want.

[Skyrunner]

Character sheets: Google Doc

[SilverDragon]

Posting to join.

Name: Irideth Hellspawn
Bio: His parents were apothecaries, and Irideth was trained in the art. After his parents died of old age, he left to seek his own fortune. Suffice it to say, he was kinda successful. After settling down in Erista, he bought a  few patches of land, some herbs and some fertilizer to start his own business.
Coins: 8 silver left over.
Herbs: 3x Golden herb, and 3x Mage Guild Gold.

Sounds like a fun game.

Edit: I can buy fertilizer already? YAY

[mesor]

Name : Jacen Riggs.
Bio : Jacen is a small child who always loved plants , Sadly the plants did not love him and he sometimes had severe problems keeping said plants alive. As he grew he's love for plants grew with him until by the time he became a full grown man he had a large garden full of various plants. Taking that love for plants with him he got 3 plots of land with he's friends and set to work on a whole new set of plants.
Coins : 19
Herbs : 3 Base herb , 3 Tongberry , 3 Balloon fruit , 3 Pots  herb , 3 Anauj , 1 Compost , 1 Alchemy guild normal mix , 1 Quack mages fertilizing elixir.

Looks very very different from all the rest. I like different.

I have 2 question though , am i right in thinking anything with Herb as the last word in the name is a base herb? Like Base herb and Golden herb and if i use seed to grow herb's can i sell the grown herbs directly if they are worth a profit or do i have to get them cut first?

[Mr.Zero]

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Spoiler: Shackras (click to show/hide)

Name: Shackras
Bio: Shackras is an young fellow which with the knowledge he learned from reading many books decided to try out his luck in the herb bussiness. He's fascinated by potions which give you strange abilities.
Coins: 19 silver coins
Herbs: Baloon fruit x 2, wing herb x 1, base herb x 2, fools demise x 2., Anauj x 2, elemental tears x 1 , Alchemy Guild Normal Mix x 2

[IronyOwl]

Well now, this is interesting. Why this, if I might ask?


Name: Fella
Bio: Fella is a young faun with a knack for alchemy. Liking money and large places, she decided to put her talents to work growing, making, and selling potions in a big human city-place.
Coins: 32 C
Herbs: Spark Herb, Green Langtern, Incandescent Herb


I too am curious about the definition of a base herb, though.

[Skyrunner]

A base herb is a herb with the "base" property.

That's it. :D There's one obvious herb with the "base" property in there, and one more.

[IronyOwl]

Khaaaaaaa Skyrunneeeeeeeeeer!

Is the base property something we'd figure out by trying to make a potion with it?

Also how does fertilizer work? Is it just a modifier to the current crop or are there long-term consequences to using some or not?

[Tiruin]

WHY AM I ALWAYS LATE FOR THESE?!

Down below, good people.

[Skyrunner]

Taking six players, a small bio (no longer than three lines) is necessary and affects whether you enter or not the game.

=NOT FIRST COME FIRST SERVE, AND SIX PLAYERS, NOT THREE.

note: One patch one type of herb.

[ansontan2000]

Name: Azundle Karash
Bio: Azundle was born a weak but intelligent boy, raised by kind parents who always somehow managed to scrape by enough money to live a comfortable life and send Azundle to school. This all changed, however, in a terrible earthquake 3 years before present, which leveled the city of Rihonnia. He and his parents barely survived, and using their almost all of their remaining money, moved to the haven of Erista. Injured from the earthquake, Azundle's parents found themselves without a capability for jobs, and entrusted Azundle with earning their livelihood. Embracing the trade potion-making, Azundle had himself set on making some wealth.
Coins: 26 left after herb purchases.
Herbs:
3x Base herb - 3 coins
3x Tongberry - 3 coins
3x Balloon fruit - 6 coins
3x Pott's herb - 6 coins
3x Anauj - 6 coins

[SilverDragon]

I don't mean to be rude, but have I been accepted?

[mesor]

He's been offline since this went up silver give him some time.

[SilverDragon]

Oh ok, I didn't realize. Sorry.