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[Taricus]

Regiments cost 1d in upkeep a year. Though I'd advise you to take skils more pertaining to your character...

EDIT: Other than that, welcome aboard! You need any more help with the character, look here. And don't try and piss off the Queen, it generally ends badly

[NUKE9.13]

Okay.
That's an interesting character.
Where do you want to start? I think it may be best not to actually start in service to a king. Finding someone to work for would be more appropriate as a first action in the game.
And as Sheb said you will want to choose your starting resources.
Might I suggest you start with a single ducat, and we will have 'assassin' and 'educated' as traits?

How much does a regiment get paid in a season?

Regiments are paid a ducat yearly. Your character probably will not want a regiment. Unless you intend to have armies of assassins running around?

[vagel7]

@NUKE

Your suggestion of starting with a ducat and having "educated" and "assassin" as traits is excellent. Also nope, I will not start in the king's service. I will start by stepping out of a simple carriage in the city of Talama, Ligoria.

@Taric

I will try and not piss off the Queen, unless there is of course a very very handsome reward in doing it and if I have the resources.

[Taricus]

Erm, first off we're in the storm coast not Elberth.

And there really isn't much to be gained by pissing off the queen. save for a lance or bodyslam

[vagel7]

Yeah, I noticed and quickly edited it to Ligoria and the city of Talama.

[NUKE9.13]

All right then.
I can't see any problems. So, yeah. Jump right in.

[vagel7]

Time to start racking up some power and fame.

NOTE: I am not usually this short on my in-game texts, it is just that I don't really have a lot of interaction right now.

[NUKE9.13]

Aww, looks like the official channels have been made unavailable to you.
Maybe you could stop for a drink in the Bleeding Scales. Who knows, an alternative career path might present itself- one which would be an excellent source of both work and recruits for a budding assassin.
...or you could talk to Avitus at the University, who is serving as the regent.

But seriously come work for Hugo. The queen is crazy. She thinks nobles and commoners should be equal before the law!

EDIT: A few things:
-The University is not famous. At the moment it is a building site. Avitus (a PC controlled by leone) is a noble scholar from Vasir, and is converting an old ruined watchtower into a university.
-Taloisism (the most common religion in the Storm Coast) is not actually all that strict about things like sexual deviancy or justifiable murder. Although other relgions might be, so it doesn't really matter.

[filiusenox]

Ahah, I recognize you there. Well, no I think? But I got some ideas I'll discuss IC, and I may request a share of profits on those.

Cool.

Anywho: Welcome Vagel7!
Anywho again: Can William talk to Laythe instead of Pasha to start the thing where he hunts down and kills Marlax?

[NUKE9.13]

For reference:
The Bleeding Scales is a large building somewhere in the center of Talama. Only a quarter of the building is made up by the inn. Part of it is an (unused) mechanic's workshop, part of it is office space for its embassy-function (its an embassy for the Hacturi, although the Hacturi have mostly been driven out of town), and the secret, underground mostly part of it is a hideout for various criminal elements, most notably the Bleeding Fists, who sort-of-owe allegiance to the Hacturi in exchange for the shelter of the embassy.
Hugo van Vissersdorp (painter, sculptor, architect extraordinaire) is currently running the Embassy for the Hacturi. He is also the architect for Avitus's university project.
Hugo is quite fashion-conscious, so it is understandable that one might confuse his clothing for that of a scholar.

[vagel7]

Do we need a new system for my apprentice programs or do we have one that would work nicely?

[Dwarmin]

((Dwarmin: Would you be willing to deal with this?))

No problem. Time to give awalia a Good send off.

[NUKE9.13]

Do we need a new system for my apprentice programs or do we have one that would work nicely?

Hmm.
Well, it depends on what you want your apprentices to be capable of.

If you want them to be fully capable spy specialists, then you will need to put in a three ducat's worth of work to get them. Or two ducats and a season. Or, using the embassy, one ducat and one season, but only 2 specialists can currently be recruited per year.
If you want them to be your NPC associates, but not actual specialists, you can probably get away with less. They wouldn't be capable of doing espionage missions (alone), but they might still confer some advantage to you. In this case, it would probably take a just one or two successful rolls to get one.
If you just want them to be background figures in your little guild, you wouldn't even need to roll.

So, to answer your question: If you want them to be spy specialists, you will pretty much have to spend money- although you may be able to wrangle a discount from a kind GM. For anything else, no, there is no system. There isn't a system for most things. We just wing it, and throw dice when necessary.
Oh, but once you've got the resources to start your guild proper, there's the academy system- 3 specialists go in, 1 specialist/year comes out. Although to be honest three years is... a fairly long time*.


Also! If anyone has any quick questions or just wants to talk about the game, the IRC channel that someone set up is still kicking around. There's usually someone on (Even if it takes them half an hour to notice you)


*On which note! Spring, yeah, how about that. Most of the Ligorians are stuck in the army, and won't be back till summer. Not sure how other folks are doing, but, you know, tentatively suggesting that- at some point- this season has to end.
So, do people feel like they have many major actions left to do this season? (I for one would like to get a result from the Fist's negotiations in the docks, but other than that, I think Hugo can bide his time painting and architecturing)

[Dwarmin]

@Nuke: Tala just has to relieve the berserker attachment to her army, and use her funds to start a lumber business on her land.

These actions were already decided earlier, so IC Matthew will handle them for her.

[NUKE9.13]

Right, yeah. Is that being handled, or do you want me to do that?