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[syvarris]

Spoiler: Vaba's Journal (click to show/hide)

  Not much has happened recently, we left Ibaea and "sailed" on the monstrosity for a solid 10 hours directly to sandsedge.  I was told we passed a swarm of scorpions on the trip, but I was asleep during that time.  Apparently the deer-man decided to take a shift driving (Despite a bunch of people being immune to cold and him not!) and, as a result got minor hypothermia and spent awhile sleep-bleating in the hold to keep me awake.

  Once we arrived at the city I discovered, much to my chagrin, that Sandsedge only sells donkeys and camels.  I WANT A PONY!   After-ward's I decided to follow the deer-man to a tower reminiscent of my old crows nest, may it Rest In Pieces.  Inside was a male water elemental.  We talked to it about payment for a quest or something, and we had to send Charity Elf running ACROSS the city and back to get some notes.  Very athletic.  Apparently the group had forgotten to collect more than six out of twenty notes and would get a vastly reduced paycheck without all of them, so I guess we go back to Ibaea to get the rest.  In other news, apparently using a vargouille as a interrogation tool is frowned upon.  Everyone just stood there staring at me when I suggested it.

No, Vaba's journals will not be serious for a long while.  Especially with me writing them at midnight.

[Kogan Loloklam]

Syvarris...
Pheron (the deer-man) Took the last shift at the wheel. As such, He was sailing when we entered the city. So he only sleep bleeted for no more than 6 hours or so where you could hear (assuming departure from the ship at 8 am)
He was still asleep when the group left for the mages tower, with the intent to sleep until noon. It's a peaceful city, his skills aren't needed and he plans to be up quite late in the evening. As such, you'd be in the Boat still if you followed him.


On a related note, I need to add a crewmember to the list of hirelings. It is for food purposes.
I believe that I need to feed the entire hireling group I intend to hire. This got me thinking on food and drink.
I think I can feed people on 1 sp per day per person with "decent quality meals" if I do so with a cook, but I really see no tables for this sort of thing anywhere. Anyone got information on feeding large groups of people?
That adds 27 gold per month in food costs, and an additional 3 gold per month for the additional hireling.

If 1 sp a day price is acceptable, I can either keep track of their food supplies, or I can add an extra 27 gold to the amount paid per pay cycle. Both are equally easy to me.

Actually if I track their food, I'd probably go ahead and keep track of the entire party's food supply, since the cook would reasonably cook for the party as well as the hirelings. If I'm tracking the food, I'll add purchasing the food to my shopping list. I'd probably track it as "barrels of food supply" along with empty barrels. I'd assume each empty barrel could hold 30 days of food or water. (Don't ask me where I got that from. It came from somewhere, but I dont know where.)

I've been tracking my own food and water already, so it won't change anything for me, though I would use 15 as the number of "Active players" for the additional food and water to track(and retcon any extra food or water that needed to be tracked into existence if we wanted to change that number, I imagine.)

[The Fool]

Spoiler: Van's Tale: The Journey to Sandsedge (click to show/hide)

After climbing out of the ruins of the old mage’s guild we headed back to our sandy boat of steel. It only took a moment to decide that we were to head to Sandsedge to turn in their lost notes. I took a nap when we began sailing. Apparently I am to pilot the ship for several hours after I wake.

Today I drove a sandflier for the first time, and I didn’t crash it! There was quite a lot of sand. Sand dunes, sand caves, quicksand, sand pools, fine sand, course sand, and even some sandstorms. About half way through the trip we came across a family of strangely large scorpions, they approached the ship as if to say ‘can we have a cup of sugar?’ It might have only been the sun, but I swear they were even holding a measuring cup for the sugar. When Pheron came up to the deck I told him of what happened. He seemed unsettled by my account of the encounter and insisted that I get more rest and that he would take over the job of piloting the ship. Relieved of my duty I decided to sleep on the deck for the night.

Waking up we found ourselves outside Sandsedge where the guard on top of the wall called to us. He guided us in, and gave us directions to several places, including a soup kitchen in the east. Hearing of such a charitable location I quickly headed out to make a sizeable donation to help fund the making of delicious soup. After nearly losing my way I found the soup kitchen. The worker kindly asked me if I wanted to have a bowl of delicious soup. I politely refused the delicious soup and explained that I wanted to make a donation as I pulled out a large bag of gold coins. The worker was shocked at the large donation, he stood slack jawed, desperately grasping at his heart. The worker calmed down and thanked me for the donation. Walking out of the soup kitchen I knew that they could make even more delicious a soup for the needy. I went back to the ship to wait for daybreak. I once again slept. Somehow I think I may have trouble sleeping tonight.

In the morning we headed out to the mage’s guild, where a sign proudly states that there should be no combustion reactions within the building. I don’t think that Akoth smokes, so I think we’re fine. At the desk there was a rather watery fellow. When we asked about whether Akoth could have a ride home, he said yes; for 300 gold coins. It seems like a steep price for a carriage ride, but I suppose the cabin would have to be fireproofed... Nael then proceeded to talk of flying ships and spells, I was at a loss of words, but when I heard the notes from the ruins being mentioned I just knew that I’d have to go get them.

Taking the pre-emptive I said that I’d run and get the notes. I ran out the door as fast as I could, dodging the people walking in the streets like pylons, and the carts like large oversized turtles. ‘Why is it that the guild is farthest from the docks?’ I thought to myself as I sprinted into the dockyard. I briefly met up with Gedin who stayed on the ship, only to ask where the notes were. Taking the notes I held them like a mother would a child as I jumped off the bow of the ship to the docks below. I headed back as quickly as I left, holding the notes close to me as to not damage them. As I ran through the streets I came across the soup kitchen worker, who I high-fived as I passed by him. Bursting into the guild I handed the notes to Nael, only to discover that we will have to head back to the ruins to collect more notes. Oh well...

There was a lot of roleplaying in this last session. At least we are headed back to the ruins for more notes now.

[Theoboldi]

Theo, there seems to be a bit of a misunderstanding. All characters are ret-conned into existence at the start of the session for this campaign. You are assumed to have been with the party since the beginning.

Sorry if the session was a bit dull because of this. Shoruke will try to make this a bit more evident in the OP. Once again, sorry.

Okay, I'll keep that in mind next for next week.
Though Shoruke should really put something in the OP about that. It really isn't obvious.

[mission0]

Theo, there seems to be a bit of a misunderstanding. All characters are ret-conned into existence at the start of the session for this campaign. You are assumed to have been with the party since the beginning.

Sorry if the session was a bit dull because of this. Shoruke will try to make this a bit more evident in the OP. Once again, sorry.

Okay, I'll keep that in mind next for next week.
Though Shoruke should really put something in the OP about that. It really isn't obvious.

Spoiler: Other Random Rules or whatever (click to show/hide)

-Psionics are not being used in this campaign, because I am not familiar with them.
-Favored Souls (from Complete Divine) are going to have the DC of their spells be 10+Spell Level+ Charisma modifier, instead of using wisdom like it says to in the book, because that's just weird. All the other spellcasting classes only have one stat used for their spellcasting.
-Cure and Inflict Wounds spells are considered short-range spells, instead of touch. So the range is 25 feet, plus 5 feet per caster level.
-The Natural Spell feat is gone. Playing as a spellcasting bear, with no combat penalties beyond not being able to communicate verbally with your teammates is just cheap.
-The Leadership feat is out, because it basically lets you play as several characters at once.
-Artificers are primarily an NPC class in this game; PCs can enter it as a severely underpowered, time-consuming Prestige Class if they really want to. The prerequisites are the ability to cast fourth-level arcane spells, at least 10 ranks in a craft skill, and 13 Intelligence.
-Food, burden, and travel conditions are enforced in this game. If your wizard somehow has 6 strength, carrying just basic adventuring equipment might be enough to weigh you down. (consider investing in a Handy Haversack.) If your plan is to ride for a week, raid some ruins and then ride back to town when you're done, you should bring at least 15 days worth of food, and probably hire some guards to protect your wagon from bears or whatever while you're in the dungeon. (yes, low-level guards will be available for hire, but they will have restricted use)
-You cannot use Nightsticks (an item that gives Clerics extra Turn Undead attempts) to power feats. You CAN power your feats using the turning attempts provided by Domain powers, the Extra Turning feat, or a high charisma score.
-the Massive Damage Rule (if you take 50 damage, fortitude save or die) is not in effect. I reserve the right to put in a variant where massive damage will cause someone to become shaken, but it shouldn't be relevant for a while.
-Character Journals! Sounds lame, but bear with me. After each session, the players that joined in will have an opportunity to write an in-character journal (or Sonnet for Bards, or a poem for people with Craft (Wordsmithing), or whatever). Yes, it has to be in-character. Well-done entries will be awarded with 100 roleplaying experience per character level (10% of a level).
-Backstories are required... they don't have to be long, but they can be if you want. Once I've finished off the world map, I'll pick a place for you guys to start and you can all pick a place to start your life from. Again, if you want to involve your backstory in the game then we can talk about it, but we can't have the game focus on just you.
-For people who can't make it to each session, that's fine. My rule for inconsistent attendance is "Who cares." We won't even bother with the "they were there the whole time but weren't contributing or eating food", there is to be none of this "hurry up and get through the dungeon and get back to town so I can join", I don't care for it. If you miss a session, you can still come back for the next one. If you join late in the session, *pop* and you're in the game. If you miss too many sessions and start to lag WAY behind in experience points, I'll probably give you some free levels to catch you up, but you'll be behind on loot. The same applies for people who join after the game starts; we just ignore your previous lack of existence, and you now exist. There will be a gp amount and new-joiners level posted below.

[Theoboldi]

Theo, there seems to be a bit of a misunderstanding. All characters are ret-conned into existence at the start of the session for this campaign. You are assumed to have been with the party since the beginning.

Sorry if the session was a bit dull because of this. Shoruke will try to make this a bit more evident in the OP. Once again, sorry.

Okay, I'll keep that in mind next for next week.
Though Shoruke should really put something in the OP about that. It really isn't obvious.

Spoiler: Other Random Rules or whatever (click to show/hide)

-Psionics are not being used in this campaign, because I am not familiar with them.
-Favored Souls (from Complete Divine) are going to have the DC of their spells be 10+Spell Level+ Charisma modifier, instead of using wisdom like it says to in the book, because that's just weird. All the other spellcasting classes only have one stat used for their spellcasting.
-Cure and Inflict Wounds spells are considered short-range spells, instead of touch. So the range is 25 feet, plus 5 feet per caster level.
-The Natural Spell feat is gone. Playing as a spellcasting bear, with no combat penalties beyond not being able to communicate verbally with your teammates is just cheap.
-The Leadership feat is out, because it basically lets you play as several characters at once.
-Artificers are primarily an NPC class in this game; PCs can enter it as a severely underpowered, time-consuming Prestige Class if they really want to. The prerequisites are the ability to cast fourth-level arcane spells, at least 10 ranks in a craft skill, and 13 Intelligence.
-Food, burden, and travel conditions are enforced in this game. If your wizard somehow has 6 strength, carrying just basic adventuring equipment might be enough to weigh you down. (consider investing in a Handy Haversack.) If your plan is to ride for a week, raid some ruins and then ride back to town when you're done, you should bring at least 15 days worth of food, and probably hire some guards to protect your wagon from bears or whatever while you're in the dungeon. (yes, low-level guards will be available for hire, but they will have restricted use)
-You cannot use Nightsticks (an item that gives Clerics extra Turn Undead attempts) to power feats. You CAN power your feats using the turning attempts provided by Domain powers, the Extra Turning feat, or a high charisma score.
-the Massive Damage Rule (if you take 50 damage, fortitude save or die) is not in effect. I reserve the right to put in a variant where massive damage will cause someone to become shaken, but it shouldn't be relevant for a while.
-Character Journals! Sounds lame, but bear with me. After each session, the players that joined in will have an opportunity to write an in-character journal (or Sonnet for Bards, or a poem for people with Craft (Wordsmithing), or whatever). Yes, it has to be in-character. Well-done entries will be awarded with 100 roleplaying experience per character level (10% of a level).
-Backstories are required... they don't have to be long, but they can be if you want. Once I've finished off the world map, I'll pick a place for you guys to start and you can all pick a place to start your life from. Again, if you want to involve your backstory in the game then we can talk about it, but we can't have the game focus on just you.
-For people who can't make it to each session, that's fine. My rule for inconsistent attendance is "Who cares." We won't even bother with the "they were there the whole time but weren't contributing or eating food", there is to be none of this "hurry up and get through the dungeon and get back to town so I can join", I don't care for it. If you miss a session, you can still come back for the next one. If you join late in the session, *pop* and you're in the game. If you miss too many sessions and start to lag WAY behind in experience points, I'll probably give you some free levels to catch you up, but you'll be behind on loot. The same applies for people who join after the game starts; we just ignore your previous lack of existence, and you now exist. There will be a gp amount and new-joiners level posted below.

whoops
I kinda flew over that part of the rules so I didn't notice it.

[mission0]

Yeah I missed some of the rules early on as well, just thought I would bring attention to that. ^_^

Now while I have a moment

Spoiler: Ishkabibble (click to show/hide)

Well my trip to the mages guild wasn't as fulfilling as I had hoped. The receptionist was interesting since she seemed to be some sort of water elemental or somesuch, however my attempts to contact a mage were not successful.

We left the ruins for the guild late yesterday afternoon before we arrived in town. I got to spend time in a bar but that wasn't to useful, and then we came to the guild. We learned a few things, one of which being that consulting mages even for insanely awesome magical projects that would probably interest them anyways is more expensive then just hiring a mage to cast the dang spells on his own. Either way the receptionist didn't seem to helpful even if he wouldn't let me see a mage. He proceeded to tell us that the notes that were gathered in the ruins were more valuable when brought in larger sets. So with this new knowledge in hand we kept the notes for ourselves and intend to head out for the ruins again.

*Here is a small note scribbled off to the side of the journal*
In the future, remember kicking a wall hurts. Alot

[Kogan Loloklam]

Theoboldi's Uskton Slek is listed as Edmond in the OP. Might wanna fix that. It links right though.

Speaking of which, Theoboldi, if you aren't concerned with some kind of special introduction, you should probably post a journal entry as well. It's worth 200 xp for you right now, and it establishes your character since we see your character's thoughts on what happened.

[RedWarrior0]

Is there a session Saturday?

Hopefully I'll have done the journal by then.

[The Fool]

Theoboldi, if you want you might be able to make a separate background story instead of a journal since your character wasn't established anywhere specifically. With that said your character could have been ANYWHERE at anytime during the session, feel free to write your journal as if you were doing what your character does. Even if it means running through the streets, resting on a boat, or even finding a comfy chair in the reception lobby. Anything goes at this point. Though you'd need permission to do a background story as a journal.

[Lord Shonus]

Quick question. Is Corina's experience in the OP accurate? I messed up my database a bit, and need to repair.

[Theoboldi]

Well seeing as you all apparantly want a journal rom me, I'll try.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

I overslept today.
I mean, I REALLY overslept today.
We left the ruins and went to sandsegde, to the mage's guild.
I was told it was pretty hot in the dessert and that my companions had to take turns flying the ship.
They really should have asked me, I mean, I'm used to these kinds of temperatures. At least I got to skip some work that way.
In the mage's guild they had some kind of water-Monster as a receptionist.
I really would have loved to see that, but of course I didn't get to see it, because nobody bothered to wake me up.
Now that I'm awake, my companions told me we're heading back to the ruins, because the mages want more of these notes we found.
We'll sail in a few hours, Pheron said he still had something to do.
I just hope he hurries up, otherwise those papers will rot before we arrive.
I hope we can actually find some more.

I know it's pretty short and I'm myself not really happy with it, but here you go.
Any criticism on this?

Also, how can an illitarate barbarian write a journal?

Edit: modified the journal a bit after reading abouts pherons actions.

[RAM]

They can relate the events of the day to their teddy-bear?

[Theoboldi]

They can relate the events of the day to their teddy-bear?

Shoruke, can i ad a teddy bear to my inventory?

[Kogan Loloklam]

I got a problem with it. Session ended before any sailing back to the ruins was done. It ended before noon the day we arrived in sandsedge, in fact.

I mention it because that Evening Pheron has stuff to do