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[evilcherry]

Ok...then a character will be spun up after I'm done with my report.

Edit: Would a son of a wealthy banking family be rejected?
Edit: Im trying for an Italian-Arabic theme with this character.

Name: Mahiveno des Karesti
Occupation: Banker, and scholar.
Age:27

Description: Mahiveno is one of the few sons of the great Geonto des Karesti, or as he was usually called "The Goldfarmer" (or Goldshitter when he wasn't around). He led a pampered life learning from the best and eating off the tables of some of the most renown men in the world...Course the they were usually asking money from his father but, he still had eaten with them. His interests are his books and old scrolls and would have rather read the histories rather than having to read through the loans and debts of a few noble families again.

Looks: He is not what you'd call the most comely or handsome man; you would'nt take him for some commoner but nor a rich man. He has short hair straight and groomed in the colour of black. His skin, like his countrymen, is also dark. He wears clothes of blacks and golds that are similar to the clothes of his home, usually a robe of of black with belts and rings of gold.

Misc:

• His father and siblings have urged him to marry since he was fourteen. He's not have had someone had an offer in years thanks to a little show he put on for the last one...
• Has three nearly constant companions, his pen and paper, and his childhood friend Selima; a servant girl Mahiveno had befriended in his childhood. Now an assistant to Mahiveno.
• A personal guard (as in plural not single).

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Spoiler: Mahiveno des Karesti (click to show/hide)

10 Florin
Pen and Paper
Selima
1 florin/quarter, thanks to your father. You have no steady income.
Guards (HP 2/2) - less then 10 men.

You live in Lewangaria.

[Taricus]

What are we able to do with the money we have? and what are the bonuses for devoting funds to a project?

[evilcherry]

What are we able to do with the money we have? and what are the bonuses for devoting funds to a project?

- Build an Army
- Buy an Army
- Buy off an Army
- Buy off an Attack
- Bribe anyone
- etc...

Bonuses will vary between different actions. Bribes enough for vagrants are just a drop of water in the sea for industrial development, just for example.

p.s. Honestly, I don't know. Partly because I don't know where are you going to bring your realm to.

[evilcherry]

Let's say it is the spring of AC653.

Apologies, I need a good cartographer.

[Taricus]

Spend 20 florins colonizing nearby uninhabited land, spend 7 florins recruiting capable sailors. Spend 20 florins investing in setting up a furring industry (For lack of better word to describe it).

[micelus]

Ah Lewangaria...a small city with a small people. They were light-skinned and blue-eyed compared to Mahiveno's brown and brown and probably did not speak the fair language or know its customs. But his father had assigned him here...Well more of "Get out and work or go live in the slums" than being assigned. To establish a bank here would take some time...Patrons, guards, clerks, messengers and all the rest.

He had some guards, his loyal Selima and some 10 florins.

He was at his desk reading through the laws and rules and histories of the land. He always loved the histories, especially when the history was so recent; a civil war in this little city? It was sometimes hard to believe. He had also written a letter a few hours ago...Where was it again? This drawer...that drawer...Ah here we go. Yes all done and ready to be delivered and with the gold-wax seal of des Karesti to.

"Selima could you go and bring this the messenger boy? Tell him to send it to the king of this city. I should have sent it when we first arrived here, but nothing can be done about that."

"I'll bring it to the boy. His names Jon you know"

"Like the brother of lady...what was her name...Tustin?"

Selima nodded and took the letter from her master's hand. She sent it off to Jon and he himself went to the residence of the king.

"Now, while that letter's being delivered we need to establish a bank here. Any idea where we could set up business Selima?"

"Well I saw that big old building when we got here"

"Ah the one that was burnt and broken. Its price has probably fallen because of that. Go send a runner to the owner of the house if you would Selima."

"Aye my lord Karesti."
Find the price of the building, buy it, clean up, furnish, and hire workers.Get the letter to the king. Best introduce yourself to the ruler, best to make them think they're important.


The Letter

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Lord,

I am Mahiveno des Karesti. My father was Geonto the Goldfarmer and the owner of the Borderless Bank Group. My father has sent me here to your realm (I congratulate you on your victory  my lord) to create another branch of the bank...Now my lord I can get permission enough from your merhcants and nobles, but I must ask your permission. Know that des Karesti are always happy to serve and we are reputable all over the world. Gold from here to Aldera or Talaca can be easily redeemed here with our notes. We can offer loans and such if it pleases my lord. Please think over this and know that des Karesti is always open.

Mahiveno des Karesti

oh and evilcherry, you could use hexographer to make a map...heck i'll even make a map of that map in hexographer as a demonstration.

[evilcherry]

Ah Lewangaria...a small city with a small people. They were light-skinned and blue-eyed compared to Mahiveno's brown and brown and probably did not speak the fair language or know its customs. But his father had assigned him here...Well more of "Get out and work or go live in the slums" than being assigned. To establish a bank here would take some time...Patrons, guards, clerks, messengers and all the rest.

He had some guards, his loyal Selima and some 10 florins.

He was at his desk reading through the laws and rules and histories of the land. He always loved the histories, especially when the history was so recent; a civil war in this little city? It was sometimes hard to believe. He had also written a letter a few hours ago...Where was it again? This drawer...that drawer...Ah here we go. Yes all done and ready to be delivered and with the gold-wax seal of des Karesti to.

"Selima could you go and bring this the messenger boy? Tell him to send it to the king of this city. I should have sent it when we first arrived here, but nothing can be done about that."

"I'll bring it to the boy. His names Jon you know"

"Like the brother of lady...what was her name...Tustin?"

Selima nodded and took the letter from her master's hand. She sent it off to Jon and he himself went to the residence of the king.


The Letter

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Lord,

I am Mahiveno des Karesti. My father was Geonto the Goldfarmer and the owner of the Borderless Bank Group. My father has sent me here to your realm (I congratulate you on your victory  my lord) to create another branch of the bank...Now my lord I can get permission enough from your merhcants and nobles, but I must ask your permission. Know that des Karesti are always happy to serve and we are reputable all over the world. Gold from here to Aldera or Talaca can be easily redeemed here with our notes. We can offer loans and such if it pleases my lord. Please think over this and know that des Karesti is always open.

Mahiveno des Karesti

oh and evilcherry, you could use hexographer to make a map...heck i'll even make a map of that map in hexographer as a demonstration.

I'm thinking about that. Unfortunately this poor sketch is to show how poor our understanding in geography is 

[Iituem]

Isn't going to be hard and stressful to gm for three realms at the game start? I mean even with another main gm Iituem is still having troubles.

Oh and something on topic. If I were to be a prince would I have to do rolls and descriptions and such? seems vagel got it.

and when you say anything but a prince I can be anyone?

Exactly the opposite. Iituem got into trouble because people got immersed into things of minuscule proportions; the only thing on the grand stage on 314a was a claimant launching a challenge, resulting in a siege leading. Keeping the grand scheme interesting is more important imho.

And yes, as long as you keep yourself in the proportions of the game. I reserve every right to reject characters.

Potentially valid criticism, but the small scale is also where a lot of the characterisation can happen - although I fully expect much characterisation to develop here as well. 

I got into trouble not so much because of focusing on the small scale but because of ineffective delegation - a major war erupting with the player King having a direct stake in the outcome meant that only I or a third King could do the rolls for it (and he went on holiday at this point).  By allowing anyone to become a sovereign and perform rolls in their own state, you should avoid that.

On the other hand, this is what I've been attempting since day 1, and from my mistakes I'd suggest you encourage your princes to be much more proactive about doing their rolls.  The reason I got bogged down is because whilst I did technically have a third King in place to do rolls it coincided with him taking a vacation, leaving me as the only one feasibly capable of doing many of the rolls.  Then, after implementing the fourth assistant GM figure, he got too timid about doing rolls because he was afraid of conflict of interests.

So I suppose my main advice from an arbitration standpoint is to make it clear to players when they don't have a conflict of interest so that they can pull off plenty of rolls.  It also helps if you're not busy IRL as well.   


Edit:  More on topic, enjoying the posts/descriptions so far!  I'll stop spamming your thread with OOC chatter, though.

[micelus]

I just reread the OP....must resist bringing lizardmen into story.....So hard....

[evilcherry]

Updated map.



Contrary to what you might think, it is not to scale.

p.s. for a sense of scale of things in general, though, Lewangaria is the size of Singapore.

[micelus]

hmm...my private map was WAY BIGGER. It had less detail though.

[areyoua]

I just noticed this now, but it seems like we in Lencil have a hex of unexplored land in the NE. It's not a big deal, considering I don't know how much one hex is. Anyway, I'll move now.

"What do you mean we don't have access to the ocean?!"
"Well, sir, you forgot to mention it to the GM and-"
"Enough with your fancy language, Julian, this problem must be fixed, we do want a flourishing fish industry, don't we?"
"I think you overestimate the fishing capabilities of 7th century Italy... and the quality of fish."
"Well, water has other, more tangible benefits than delicious, succulent..."
"Sir, you're drooling."
"What? No, I'm not."
"No, but I did break you out of your reverie without using an anachronism, didn't I?
"Um, uh, yeah... Anyway, the benefits of having water is obviously seaborne trade, which we could use to our favor.
"How? We have a few trees and nothing else to trade with."
"That's of no import! Get out, stop asking questions, and deliver my commands!"
"I must say that perhaps you should have at least a few more-"
"Enough! The people in the streets don't complain about more than one thing at a time, and neither should I!"
Adviser Julian leaves, mumbling something about the mountains and the perils of delegation.

Disband the Useless Peasants in the Military

I mean seriously, is this the 15th century? No standing army for us!

20 Florins go towards expanding the empire towards the SE in order to get right up to the water, 20 more florins goes towards colonizing the land to the NE where we hope to find ore in them there mountains, and 17 go towards making Lencil a better place to live so as to attract migrants.

[Dwarmin]

Well, if your looking to attract players...mission accomplished!

Spoiler: Char Sheet (click to show/hide)

Name: Oriana De Lia
Occupation: Horse Rancher and Entrepreneur
Age: 27

Description: Oriana De Lia is a moderately wealthy owner of a string of renowned Horse Ranches-"De Lia Pafilia".

She inherited from her husband five years ago-he had an accident...nowadays she spends most of the year tending to her herds personally, not trusting in hired help overmuch, but recently she's become more and more fond of visiting court, hoping to snag the favor of the nobles and raise her standing. Oriana is a frisk entrepreneur-bold when spending her money on new and interesting ideas, hoping she'll luck out eventually.

Looks: An imposing woman, tall and well built, she bears the marks of an physcially fit lifestyle. Her brown hair is usually long and allowed to flow freely, and it complements her dark brown eyes quite nicely. When in court, she tends to wear the style of the "nouveau riche"-the rapidly rising middle class of new, wealthy landowners-with non-formal, comfortable and brightly colored clothing, with few accoutrements such as necklaces and bangles. She usually wears a long, finely honed rapier on her belt-not ostentatious or ceremonial, but functional and well honed-as many luckless rivals have learned, far too late.

Misc:

•Supports the rest of her family financially-father, mother and younger sister
•Her Father was a famous military officer and fencer in his prime, but is now penniless otherwise.
•Her Mother and Sister manage a smaller business of clothiers. It's not very profitable right now, and without Orianas help, it would have tanked long ago.
•Her husband died of unusual circumstances. Which everyones wants to say is,that evil witch murdered him in cold blood for his money. Not to her face, though. Her former Husbands family has of course, swallowed the line whole and vowed to destroy her.
•Deathly afraid of fire, from an childhood accident.
•Still technically a widow, Oriana has decided that particular issue has gone on long enough...she's currenty shopping for a husband.
•Self Trained in the arts of Fencing by her father. She enjoys duels-and not the kind to first blood or for match points. She was trained in the art of "practical" swordfighting-go for the throat. She's killed 2 men and 3 women in duels over the last 10 years, all declared just and right in accordance with the laws of the land.

[areyoua]

Just so I can have some subjects, and also because I feel that it must be said, I have to say that Lencil is the only place for horses. The rest of the princedoms all are lacking in the open land needed for horse ranching.

[Taricus]

Actually, all of us can handle a rancher, hills are pretty much just elevated grassland. Yours is just the most optimal...