HT Aliaver/Player Character Name Type Status/Notes Sex -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- R1.John Haight...........Arawn.............Druid .Normal/Alfar Ma --.Tobie Bonahoom........Fremea............Sidh....Normal/Faerry Fe --.Floyd Mesler..........Jordan Malic......Warrior.Normal/Human Ma R2.Mark Murtha...........Kell..............Trader..Normal/Human..Ma R1.David Sanders.........Kiet.Sunan........Acrobat Normal/Human Ma R4.J H Hooten............Raban.Usherwood...Bard....Normal/Human..Ma W4.Wout Broere...........Unali.............Ninja...Normal/Human Fe R1 John.Stowman..........Will..............Hunter..Normal/Human..Ma R4.Alex Koponen..........Z'leyra...........Healer..Normal/Human Fe Animals: Corona [Eagle] Z'leyra, Squirt (Ferret) Kell Game Web Site - http:/nrgcomputers.com/pbem/ Public posts/actions to pnpgm@list.powersandperils.org (mailing list) Private emails (not public actions) to pnpgm@comcast.net Game Update #12 in sequence (file #44) ---------------------------------------------------------------- Admin Notes: None. ----------------------------------------------------------------- [Recap] [None] -------------------------------------------------------------- [New Stuff] [Augado 11th - Sepes 24th, 1634TH] [Location: Marentia (Maren)] [Aug 12 - Dark Lands] Unali explores the market next to the Citadel. She enters a weapons shop to inspect it for good weapons. The merchant eyes her as she moves about the small store. "You one that came back with Zhou dead?" Unali inspects a sling and ignores him. "You expect to avoid justice? I think you all should be on trial. It is very convenient the High Elder is away." Unali shakes her head at the lack of decent weapons. She takes one final look and leaves the store without looking back. [Aug 14 - Dark Lands] Unali is heading to meet someone and is on the road going north from the citadel. The day is wet and cloudy. The road is thick with forest to each side but big enough for two wagons side by side. As she walks a young boy around 18 jumps out of the bushes and waves a dagger in Unali's face. "Money! Now!" The boy lunges for Unali and grabs a hold of her tunic which covers her ruby necklace. "This too!" Unali is rich so can afford to lose some coin. But to take a nice item like her necklace is not tolerated. The kid spits at her and calls her a not so nice person who should be more for the streets at night. Unali flicks her wrist and one of her new magical daggers falls to her right hand. But before she does this she spins and does a side kick to drop the boy to his butt. Lunging forward she flips the dagger in her wrist to have hilt forward. She slaps the boy on the side of the head and knocks him out. She sighs and decides to continue on leaving the boy to sleep it off. She considers calling for the guard but if the kid can't even take a girl down then who can he hurt? [Aug 15 - Dark Lands] Back in the village it is night and Unali is in a nice tavern with decent food from the rumors. She is enjoying a nice beef stew and warm bread when she notices a tavern serving girl being harassed by a guy. Seems the guy wanted a certain extra service with his wine but she is not of that type. The drunk guy and pal tries to pull her down to their table and get physical with her. Unali wipes her chin with her napkin - can't ignore those civilized manners - and stands up. She looks around for the owner or the bouncer. But seems both are missing or not one to be hired her. She walks to the table and the guy's friend stands. "You here to to...hav sum fun?" He slurs his words as tries to stand. Unali doesn't even look to the side and simple grabs the man's shoulder and twists around pushing the man against the wall into the picture of a bear. The man's head bounces and he reacts tries to turn around and throw a punch but she simply ducks to avoid it and grabs a wine bottle from another table and smashes it against the man's skull taking him out. By now the other man has gotten up throwing the girl to the ground. The man grabs a knife for cutting meat and thrusts. But Unali reaches forward and yanks his arm a trick learned from the other martial artist in the group. She slams the guy over another table through dishes. The man quickly gets to his feet and charges. Unali simply side steps and he slams into another table. Tired of this and wanting to get back to her warm feet she waits for the man to charge again in a crouch. The man charges and she does a roundhouse kick and kicks him in the side of the head knocking him out. Unali returns to her food and smiles at the nice warm bread. Some guards rush in and haul the men away for being drunk and disorderly. [Aug 19 - Marentia] Unali has decided to settle down and buy a home. She decides the best places are Sivas and Maren. She has been using Duke Aren's estate for most of the time near Sivas. But it is time to leave to be on her own. She spends the next few weeks to find a home. She finds a nice manor deep in the city in a Station 8 style neighborhood. It has a well fenced property with a 4 stall stable and nice home. It has 2 guest rooms, place for a live in housekeeper, basement and workshop so she can repair her weapons and such. She buys the manor and hires a housekeeper for the next 2 months. She will hire others like a cook, groundskeeper, stable boy and guard as she needs it for like parties. She spends a few days buying furniture for the empty place Unali uses the language necklace to learn Cerulean from Malic so she can speak fluent in it. [Aug 20 - Marentia] Unali uses the language necklace again today to learn Ba'ru from someone at Cholan's tavern who knows it. [Aug 21 - Aug 28 - Marentia] Over the next week Unali completes her shopping spree in the various markets and shops. She gets clothing repaired and buys new clothing like dresses and black combat clothing. She finds a rare item in a weapons shop where the merchant is selling a Kameri dagger for only 3 SC! While that is worth 3x the normal cost of a dagger she expects it to be 10x that much. The merchant clearly does not know what he has inherited. She replenishes her flasks with wine and water as well as her rations and food for the manor. [Aug 28 - Marentia] Unali is visiting a tavern for dinner with Marta Valnon near her place in Maren City. Both are having dinner and Unali goes over some of the gossip she has heard recently and Marta does the same. Both watch a Gambler getting boisterous playing cards with what looks like two nobles from the northside of the city. You can tell where they are from by the looks of their clothing and shoes. These tend to be diplomats and visitors who have plans at the Palace. Unali is no gambler and she has only seen Kell teach her only a few things. But from Damon she points out various things about the gambler to Marta. The fact that the man has long sleeves and keeps scratching his ankle. It is clear the man is trying to cheat. but the diplomat who seems to have a Ba'ru accent is giving him a run for his money. Finally the gambler gets to his feet to urge a fight. But the tavern's bouncer comes to escort the man out of the place. [Aug 31 - Marentia] Unali is visiting the contact she has at the palace thanks to Duke Aren. She tries to go over the details of the Vong threat to the other man who is in the room of the palace. The man is the minister of trade who oversees the merchant fleet and hopes to spread the word that way. Leaving the meeting Unali notices a group of three boys trying to steal a nice horse in front of a shop. The thugs who look to be gang related try to run with the horse but Unali pursues them. She corners them and after giving one a nice cut on his chest with her magical dagger all three run off dropping the saddle bags they stole off the horse. Unali walks the horse back to the bewildered merchant who is now standing looking for his horse. He offers a reward but she refuses. She does say he can give the reward to a charity that Marta is eager to help in on helping homeless kids. [Sepes 5 - Marentia] Back in the capital, Unali is on an errand to find some papers for Duke Aren. The day is going normal as could be. She notices a horse walking down an alley with full saddle. Such a sight isn't rare in a city but most citizens know to tie up a horse to something. She turns into the alley and calms the horse down. She finds him to be a fine specimen and the bags seem to have few items but she notices one item nice blue dress for a young girl. She walks the horse down to the street and tries to find the owner. It takes her almost 45 minutes and with help from other people on the street she finds a girl of about 15 down one street. The girl rushes and takes the horse. She give a big hug to Unali and feels grateful. The girl explains the horse chews on the rope and breaks free. Unali smiles and gives a way to make knots to prevent that. A trick from Chion the sailor and Ben'dar the rancher on keeping horses in their spot with rope knots. The girl explains she is here while her dad, a Ba'ru diplomat, is in town doing business with the palace. [Sepes 12 - Marentia] Unali is passing a old cemetery and notices a bunch of patrolmen near one area. At least a dozen maybe 14 of them all around. They seem to be talking and moving about. Curious she watches and realizes the men are celebrating the dead person in the grave. Maybe another patrolmen or guard. She finds it fascinating that the men are almost as happy as they might be in some tavern party. [Sepes 13 - Marentia] It is late around 1am when Unali finishes likely her last visit to Marta's place. She had a fun party with some Bhamotin nobles who are trying a new program to spread the wealth through more fair cooperatives in local villages like markets. Normally it would bore her to tears. But when Farseeker is mentioned she perks up. Seems the man has been busy as Commander of the fort on the Bhamotin border. In just a few weeks he has rid the road of bandits. He also helped take down a warlord just inside the border after the noble who owned the land requested it from the Baron who owns the land around the fort. They talk about how odd it is to see man use two great sword at once and think him to be a magic user in disguise. Unali is riding to her tavern to sleep but her horse suddenly bucks. She checks the hoof and finds there have been large tacks placed on the road. Before she can look she is grabbed by two large men. The men pin her arms behind her back and 3 others join them to face her in the darkness. Unali remains calm as nervous women tend to get killed. The leader gets up close and runs his hands over her body. She is wearing a semi formal green dress and she feels it ripped in half. This is when she gets mad. It is one thing for the guy to grab her chest but to rip a nice dress! The man is surprised to find a hip dagger sheath on a hidden belt. When she feels the men in back release her arms to remove the shred of the dress she acts. She bucks backward to knock the man in his chin throwing him back. She kicks the leader and shoves him into another of the guys. She quickly draws her newly repaired magical dagger from her hip sheath and reaches down to her ankle sheath and draws another dagger. By now all 5 draw their own daggers and charge. Figuring some girl who would give them some fun time rather than a hard time. One drops his lantern to the ground and draws two daggers. Some 22 seconds later Unali stands up and the men are all on the ground. Four are dead and the last one is crawling away. Unali did take a light wound but nothing serious. A simple challenge but she walks over to the last min and pins him down with her boot. He pleads for mercy and she rolls him over. She places her magical dagger to his neck and watches his eyes in the flicker of the lantern which casts odd shadows on his face. She decides this man can live so maybe he can teach his friends the right way of life. She goes to search the leader to see where he put her money pouch. But the man still alive gets to his feet and leaps on her horse. Unali does not feel like crossing town at this hour and half naked. She reaches behind her to pull her magical sling and loads it from her pouch. If she learned from Aren always be prepared even at a formal party. Especially after a party almost saw her killed by a Climan set of assassins at Cholan's tavern. She takes careful aim and fires. The projectile hits the man in the back of the head and forces him to stumble off the horse. She quietly heads over and kicks him for a lesson and watches as he dies from his new wounds. Back at her own Inn she alerts a patrol of the bodies. They can find her in the morning if need to answer questions [Sepes 16 - Marentia] Unali now fully healed for her recent wound takes a stroll in the city mid afternoon in the cool air. She is considering her own plans. Having now paid for a manor of her own she has roots her now like Z'leyra, Caladan or Ben'dar. Does that mean she should ever return home to Katai? She doesn't owe Duke Aren or even King Maros anything more. She has given her heart and soul to save the region from the flying Cloud Ships from Clima. She has done so again with the Vong and saving the world. She stops to watch a group of 14 peasants picking a grove of apple trees. They seem to be in good shape and spirits. They are doing well as a team. She notices a middle man who is probably a noble watching and scowling. She shakes her head at the disconnect to human society of class and station. Even strange creatures like the Vong use such stupid ways of life. She wonders what else she will see in the future on the legacy of others. Actions? Comments? Next Update....Monday... GM: For Unali there is much more behind the scenes. With PCs each has their own private stuff. So the above is only a public version of her IBT. But now she is also a home owner. For the Ba'ru language I was going to use Kell for the necklace but not sure if Kell will be around. Since Ba'ru is next door it should be easy to find another person to teach her so I left that a big vague. I have Kell's IBT in hand but when I wrote the above didn't so wasn't sure if he was in town or not. GM: Still waiting for Will to get back on his characteristic points to finish that group of cleanup. For now 9 have finished IBT. Six have not so over half are done. I'm done working on Kiet's as this update is done. Then will work on Kell's and if Malic gets back to me on his email on his. So may be another week before done with those 3. At this rate I estimate 3-4 more weeks max and we can start adventure. Depends on Z'leyra and Arawn's IBT which are probably going to be huge with spells and details. They alone could take a week or two each depending. At the least might be 2 weeks if get all things so 2-4 hopefully. Huge IBTs are fine and I'll take them. I just like the simple the better the facts. When one goes into a 100 line paragraph that can be summed upin 2 ilnes that is where I go through and make notes to make it simple. :) GM: IBT Time - Augado 11-31 - IBT time period [21 days] Sepes [September] 1-24 - IBT time period [24 days] Reminder: Learning skill is 1 point per day, learning with trainer is 2 and with a book and teacher is 3. GM: CP/IBT Report Player CP Action IBT Action Notes Ben'dar Completed Completed Caladan Completed Completed Chion Completed Completed Farseeker Completed Completed Fremea Completed Completed Strie'bog Completed Completed Unali Completed Completed Raban Completed Completed Kiet Completed Completed Kell Completed Queued Malic --- Queued Arawn Completed No Info Will Need Info No Info Z'leyra Completed No Info Completed - Finished Queued - Has info/Work in progress in order of when got it No Info - No info / Need data GM: My immediate schedule: [in order of tasks] 1. Malic's IBT [Waiting for action clarification] 2. Kell's IBT [Got info need to queue it] 3. Any others that come in order.