HT Aliaver/Player DS Character Name Type Status/Notes Sex -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- R1.John Haight.......HY..Arawn.............Druid .Normal/Alfar .. Ma --.Tobie Bonahoom....YY..Fremea............Sidh....Normal/Faerry.. Fe R3.Mark Murtha.......HN..Kell..............Trader..Normal/Human....Ma R1.David Sanders.....HN..Kiet.Sunan........Acrobat Normal/Human ..Ma W4.Wout Broere.......YY..Unali.............Ninja...Normal/Human ..Fe ...Julian.Draven.........Zabyra............Dancer..Normal/Human....Hu R4.Alex Koponen......YY..Z'leyra...........Healer..Normal/Human ..Fe -- Npc...............YY..Etain.............Teacher.Normal/Elf......Ma 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 #-18in sequence (file #14) ---------------------------------------------------------------- Admin Notes: None. ---------------------------------------------------------------- [Recap] From Z'leyra: [Re: Actions] Z'leyra offers to house any of the party in her manor ... Z'leyra offers her services as a Master Jeweler and enhancer for the cutting, mounting and enhancing of any of the gems and jewelry. The less valuable gems should be used for apprentice and journeymen jewelers to practice on. She does not plan to keep any of the non- enhancable gems or jewelry for herself, but will take her share of the value after they have been made into jewelry and sold. She is willing to teach other party members the finer points of the skill. [Note that she does have a Luck item that brings her effective skill as Jeweler well over Master level. She is also VERY good at enhancing.] She does have spare jeweler tools and can easily make more as a blacksmith and master weaponsmith/armorer. [Actually she would give away her own set after making a new set for herself and likely enchanting them.] While she REALLY wants the meteorite she is unconcerned about who gets the other Natural Magic Items (NMI). If no one snags them she will take them for her own. Note that she may be the only person in the party to be able to banish Spiritual Edimmu (Spectres) as they are immune to Sidh and Wizard magic...as such she may be the best person to get the Emerald NMI. GM: Ack. Sadly you have enhanced tons of things. I am going to need to come up with some rules on that. Technically you're grandfathered in but we need to set your Core Enhancent list of 6 items. The anything else will have to be done separately. As to making Jewelry then taking your share. Once the item is given it is up to that person to give that up. Since you need to use virgin material it is up to each person to enhance and cut the items for the power. So once selected it is gone and up to the player to do what he wants. I need you guys to just claim things not "I may get this if that or maybe I might do this if I can do that.." It is hard to track that stuff. So either pick or choose or just let me know the final results. From Kiet: [Re: Actions] From Kiet, "Since the enhanceable stones are without magic, ... GM: Ack. From Arawn: [Re: Actions] Gem: Medium, flawless, average clarity, Dark Ruby, 80.0 SC It wasn't exactly settled. Arawn is NOT claiming the gem as his own. He wants to use his Jeweler skill on it, turning the Gem into a Jewel and then mounting it so as to turn it into Jewelry. Once this is done he'll return it to the party and they can sell it or do whatever they wish with it. If anyone is really stressed over this Arawn will pay 80 SC, the cost of the gem, to the party if he should botch the roll and ruin the Gem. Arawn is just looking to increase the value of the stone for the party while working on his skill, which is actually very high. The reason he's interested in working on this stone over lesser stones is due to the fact that it will be worth far more exponentially. This is to benefit the party. Arawn isn't concerned with money. Ultimately, if trying to decide what to do with the Dark Ruby is causing headaches for anyone I'll just leave it alone. Arawn can purchase stones to work on at anytime - working on the Dark Ruby was really to benefit others in the party. Enhanceable Gems: Not sure how the party wants to deal with splitting these but Arawn's interest is in either the Ruby or the Tourmaline. As to Kiet's suggestion on how to handle this, I'm fine with it. GM: Ack. That ruby is in the master list. It is not magical. But I'll add it to the bottom. Cutting the gem can actually lower the value. Most dealers want basic raw gems. If you make it into a nice ring that limits the buyer to only those who want a ring. But if its a gem a dealer can do many things to it. If you want to practice jeweler skill I suggest using worthless items. Cut and fine tune those. But just a suggestion. If you did botch the roll and that 80 SC gem is cut in half (never know how a sneeze and your strength can just shatter it) it might be then worth 8 SC at best. It has been done in the early '90s with a player and a nice diamond. If I recall it was worth 115 SC and by time it was sold it was only worth 22 SC. This is not a you-should-not-do-it but a warning. Do what you guys want. From Arawn: [Re: Actions] Emerald/Banishing Edimmu: I'm good with Z'leyra having the Emerald and/or Meteorite (assuming Kiet passes on it). Ruby: Along Z's line of thinking, Negate Poison is a priest spell so I think Arawn may be the only one capable of easily neutralizing poison and I was thinking it might be a good idea to keep him from being poisoned himself (as Ruby raises poison resistance). Just a suggestion but I'm honestly cool with whatever is easiest in regards to assigning these items. Z'leyra Enhancing the gems: I'm cool with Z'leyra doing this. However, if Arawn ends up with an enhanceable gem other than the Ruby or Tourmaline he'll do so himself. GM: Ack. So you don't want to work on ruby then? Hey did you ever send in comment on update width? If you can add to it I can figure out what I need to do. Wout must be super busy and not responding But I have enough if you add your info see bottom of update. From Kiet: [Re: Actions] *IF* you all have the special knowledge to enhance the gems... Kiet offers to simply flip a coin for the meteorite. It's very important to one of Kiet's long term goals. It'll be the easiest way to decide it. GM: Ack. Yep. I need to go through and figure out original rites and learned rites for folks mainly 3 people. Should be done this weekend I hope. At least you got your list already. :) From Fremea: [Re: Actions] I would say we all pick one, then we pick another one, that will leave 2 more, which we can have enhancement done on them and then either just store them for now or sell them for whatever we can (or used to help others that come into our party if need be). Most of the previous claims were for using during the adventure (since we talked about getting them enhanced on the way to the capital). If on the first pick, there is two or more people that want the same thing, then just a simple roll (GM) and who ever is higher gets it and then the other person picks again. We have all contributed to the adventure and though we all have gotten lots of loot and gold, this seems the most fair to me. As for the enhancing, it will be up to each person on who does it, except for the last, which Z can take care of. Only one pick right now. So, for Fremea her first pick would be the sapphire. For the rest, if anyone wants to make jewelry with some of it during IBT, then get it sold off that is fine (this way we are not carrying stuff during adventures). Otherwise, just sell off all the non enhanceable gems. Is this ok with everyone else? GM: Ack. A good simple plan to me! From Z'leyra: [Re: Actions] Z'leyra consents to 'flipping a coin' for who gets the meteorite. Presuming she wins she will use her first pick to get the meteorite, if she loses she will ask for the emerald. GM: Ack. From Kiet: [Re: Actions] Kiet will stick with 1st choice being Meteorite, if that fails, then Sapphire, then Diamond, Emerald, and finally Ruby. If any of the turquoise stones remain unclaimed, Kiet will offer to buy them from the group. They are useful, but not enough so to make as a choice. GM: Ack. ------------------------------------------------------------ [New Stuff] [Octagi 5th, 1634TH] [Sivas, Marentia] [Time: 8:40:11 pm - Sivas Marentia] Z'leyra offers to house any of the party in her manor if they desire. As her manor requires a fair bit of money she rarely gives away much of her wealth. She also saves money for when she will set up a school for healing. Kiet hears folks talking about the gems and speaks up. Kiet, "Since the enhanceable stones are without magic, we could just determine their raw value and allow each of us to buy what we want. Should more than one person want an item, the item can be auctioned off between the people that want it, with the minimum bid be the determined value. Whatever amount is gained by the purchases is divided into equal shares (including to the winners of the auctions... otherwise they get no benefit from it being treasure for the party). To make things fair, we could identify who has the least money to spend on these things and that would be the limit for everyone, for ALL purchases... otherwise a rich old-timer could outbid us all... hardly fair." "Etain, as the neutral party, could be the auctioneer." Etain shrugs and nods. All this talk of treasure seems weird on top of a library. The rush for judgement. But then again now one can see who is truly in it for the good and who is in it for the gold. Kiet continues, "If you happen to know the special rites knowledge to enhance them, and you don't need to advertise it, then you have a real prize. If not, you have incentive to find out what the rites are." The discussion falls into a excited discourse on how best to divide the spoils of the past week. Fremea realizes that in both loot bundles it is blood money on the back of slavers and drug addicts. It only some could be given to all those lost souls who died or were enslaved by others. Maybe Roerick will find all those dealt with in the last few years. Actions? Comments? Next update...Monday????..who knows... ' GM: I have been working. I know to the new players it is boring to wait. For that I'm sorry. But I have been working on stuff almost every day. For the last 3 days I've looked into map makers. Since some have issue with the text maps I use. There are many well made softwares but the time to design and update is just too much more than I can devote. A typical combat update takes me 3-5 hours at least. Since I have no artistic talent at all doing a simple line on a graphics program may take me a lot of time. Doing much more complex maps would be more difficult. I am going to look at a couple more but sadly nothing has suited me. If Mapcad was still around I will be looking into that. On a side note I think Maptool from rpgnet looks like what Richard did for the PL maps. It looks almost the same style of graphics. Ok. I have files for Tobie, Alex and Arawn to decide on what Enhancement rites you choose. Stay tuned for that. Kiet has sent in his IBT so first in line. I will probably work on it Monday-Wednesday. Just a reminder if you are to coordinate some action with another player do so on a set date and share that date in the IBT. So far no major dissent on the Enhancement rule changes. I'm trying to improve and make things more balance every adventure. GM: New players: Sorry the IBT may take time but we are not as many players so it may go fast. But by now you are getting a feel for the game and style of posting. I may not have documented this but folks will do IC or In Character posts like above with dialogue. Actually speaking is better than saying - I go ask guard for that info. Role playing is always good but at times you may be too busy. So a short form is okay. Other times you may want to do OOC or Out of Character. This is you as player speaking not character. I'm good enough to know the difference but you don't have to say IC/OOC if you don't want. I can figure it out. Just as long as its clear. Saying - I think that is wise could mean you as player agrees or you as character. So as long as it is clear who is saying then its fine. you will see a lot of times in the updates what is Introspection. Character inner thoughts or mindset. This is a narrative to describe how folks think or reason. I've gotten used to most folks I can do that with most folks. For you new guys I won't do much since I don't know them as well. But you are free to do so. Like the above with Etain's thought on treasure. As a teacher he is not one for riches but for education. Just some tips. GM: My schedule - * Clean this old computer off of pnp and move to new computer * Start on IBT time events * Start working on Adventure Outline GM: IBT Time Octagi 5 Back to Marentia night time Octagi 6-31 IBT Time Novehas 1-14 IBT Time Novehas 15 Adventure Hook/Starts This is 40 days between adventures. Keep in mind this is November so it will be cold. Please do NOT start IBT until you get final sheets sent. GM: IBT Process Player IBT Sent in IBT Processed Arawn Fremea Kell Kiet Yes First in line unali Zabyra Yes Done Z'leyra GM: Width of posts: Just taking notes on what folks can see (ie how many characters can one see on their reading devices - crt, ipad, email, browser.) So I can figure out a average width for future posts rather than 80 columns. Player Width of device Type of device Arawn Fremea 195 Screen Kiet 68 Ipad Unali Zabyra 120 Email Z'leyra 186 Email New players are welcome to let me know this data as well. Here is a typical snippet for testing. 012345678900123456789001234567890012345678900123456789001234567890012345678900123456789001234567890012345678900123456789001234567890012345678900123456789001234567890012345678900123456789001234567890 How many can you see on your device? GM: Old Treasure Item Claimed by Meteorite [1] Z'leyra (1) Ruby [2] Arawn [2], Kiet (5) Diamond [1] Fremea, Kiet (3) Turquoise [2] Kiet (6) Emerald [1] Kiet (4) Sapphire [1] Fremea (1), Kiet (2) Tourmaline [1] Kiet, Arawn [1st] Toadstone [1] Unali Dark Ruby - Non-Magical for Arawn to work on - Arawn * Gems Ruby - 40 Diamond - 27 Turquoise - 23 Emeralds - 38 Sapphires - 16 Tourmaline - 33 Onyx - 2 Toadstone - 10 ------------------------- I flipped a coin and Z'leyra wins the Meteorite (sorry Kiet). So based on this we have... * Meteorite [1] Z'leyra (1) Ruby [2] Arawn [2], Kiet (5) Diamond [1] Fremea, Kiet (3) * Turquoise [2] Kiet (6) * Emerald [1] Kiet (4) Sapphire [1] Fremea (1), Kiet (2) Tourmaline [1] Kiet, Arawn [1st] * Toadstone [1] Unali * Denote no conflicts. # denotes choice in order. So The Ruby, Diamond, Sapphire and Tourmaline are in conflict. If I were to suggest I'd do it as.. - First choice - Toadstone [1] Unali Meteorite [1] Z'leyra (1) Diamond [1] Fremea Tourmaline [1] Arawn [1st] Emerald [1] Kiet (4) - Second Choice? - Ruby [2] Arawn [2], Kiet (5) Sapphire [1] Fremea * Turquoise [2] Kiet (6) So If we did this Fremea - Diamond, Sapphire Unali - Toadstone Z'leyra- Meteroite Kiet - Emerald Leaves 5 left over so each person can take 1 more with 1 left over. So is this good or want to redo? What would be your second choices? The above does NOT have to be done. Optional. ff