HT 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 W3.Mark Murtha.......HN..Kell..............Trader..Normal/Human....Ma W2R2.David Sanders.....HN..Kiet.Sunan........Acrobat Normal/Human ..Ma R4.Wout Broere.......YY..Unali.............Ninja...Normal/Human ..Fe R3 Panthera..............Pyandalgor........Hunter..Normal/Human....Ma W3R4.Alex Koponen......YY..Z'leyra...........Healer..Normal/Human ..Fe --.Fukishtu.NEwsome......Npc...............Chief...Normal/Human....Ma --.Lucria.Cegra..........Npc...............Hunter..Normal/Human....Ma Animals: Corona [Eagle] Z'leyra 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 #62 sequence (file #454) ---------------------------------------------------------------- Admin Notes: None. ---------------------------------------------------------------- [Recap] From David: [Re: Sheets] I am one of those with the spreadsheet. I just can't take care of the weight calcs on a text file. I will probably continue it, but also try to maintain the character sheet...the difficult part is any new acquisition... how to keep track of them...I think I'll just have to make a separate section in 'my' text file...then reconcile it against any new items. The idea is not to overburden Scott....and give him what he wants/needs, but still be able to make it work on this end. GM Ack. Too me the weights are fast to figure out. What I can do is add gear to bottom so that you can add it without going line by line for you? Do those changes at end of adventure or IBT times. I hope others will vote on the options I outlined. ------------------------------------------------------------ [New Stuff] * Z'leyra's IBT [Decalis 24th] Z'leyra arrives in Sivas and starts work almost immediately. She escorts those who want to go her manor to her home. With the new Ticasians she hopes she has enough room. Once at the manor she meets with the staff. She informs the manor staff that visitors will be in and out including Kell, Kiet and the Ticasians among possible others. She directs the cook to collect discounted food from the markets for her future foyson work. She says the others will need extra food and beverage over the next 2 weeks. The two new strangers say only one will stay at any one time as they will go to town to stay at an inn. After all Ticasi is paying for most of the Chief's expenses. Kell tells the cook he will supply 12 bottles of wine for the manor's stocks. She quickly has a chat no who is there and their plans for the party. Then she lets them unpack. Z'leyra gets with the guards for any reports. But in the end for the last month it has been typical daily life. A couple drunks tries to come in thinking it was their place. Kids throwing eggs or such over the walls. But nothing serious that they found or detected. Z'leyra enters the workshop and asks a servant to help dust and prepare the workshop as Kell will be using it. Then she enters the house to see the stewart saying bills have not been paid in 3 months. So she enters the office to spend most of the evening aside from dinner doing paperwork and reading letters. She asks one of the servants to head to a market and buy leather for her sacks She would do it but is too busy catching up with reports. After dinner the stable boy finally arrives from his own home a bit later than expected. She asks the boy to clean and handle the new horses in the stable. They will be in town for at least 2 more woeks and will need to be handled and fed. She sees the manor expenses have not been paid for 3 months. This means the guards and some staff not paid in that time. She feels bad for that and tells the stewart to get a bank draft ready so she can sign. She will pay for the manor's expenses up until mid summer in Julis for 11 months since last paid. That should give them 6 months while she is gone. She assigns a guard to go to the money lender to get the transactions done safely. It is not the gold load but that paper could give some thief a nice pay day. So she sends a trusted guard. She signs the draft and feels bad that she will load 135 gold but dealing with a manor and staff is expensive. She kind of envies Chion who has a small shack with little or no expenses much less a single door! She stares at the window and wonders how Fremea can keep her home afloat. Does the kids steal to keep it going? Then Z'leyra delves into letters and reports. There are reports and letters from other healers that indicate a interest in her techniques. She has yet to form her school and the reports seem to say the Royal Healer is still blocking or at least finding it difficult to allow. Z'leyra knows this is stupid for a healer not to allow a school for healing. But she figures organized teaching could undermine his overall authority compared to a decentralized network of healers in towns and cities. One day she will have to sway the old man that is to his benefit. Maybe a audience with the King maybe with Unali's help? The other healers say there have been quiet inquiries that the nation is becoming more restrictive in some techniques. It seems recently L'p'nth strange rituals have been getting into towns and peasants are using them and this makes the healers and court a bit upset as it is more dark rituals than natural healing techniques. Z'leyra figures this is just a way to investigate her and the others in Sivas. Aside from Ezam the L'p'nth have not been a big threat in the nation aside from the eastern border. But Duke Valnon should be curbing all that tightly. She does read one letter from a healer in the north in a very high crime area that says a merchant shipping company owner has inquired on a blanket service for his dock workers, sailor and other employees. The healer wonders if this person could be a investment for her school. Maybe when she is back she can meet with Damon to see if he knows shit man and if he is a fair man or some criminal like so many in the north. [Decalis 25th] [Morning] The party now all back in Sivas meet at Cholan's tavern for a debriefing and to decide on their futre plans. She decides that one horse per person and no wagon. This causes some to be unhappy on that decision but does not argue. [Afternoon] Z'leyra heads home and starts to make the first of her 2 sacks. The closest skill for this would be tailor style skills. But she is still unskilled in such so knows it will be difficult and more time consuming at best. She does know Tanning but that is taking animal and making leather not really from leather to final product. So she will have to rely on both skills with the clothier skill being the lesser of both. Most sack makers can do a bag in 4 hours with a strap. But with Z'leyra being unskilled it will be trial and error for awhile so it might take 5 hours per bag to finish them. After the first bag is made near dinner time she collects the material for her foyson theft from her servants. She then casts 5 Foyson Theft on it to make flour. She then bakes the flour into waybread. One such batch would feed the party for a bit over 3 days. But she knows that many will not use them like Kiet. Eating bread for weeks on end is not good for the body. It may give full nutritional value but the soul needs better food. After dinner she continues work on the second bag until just after midnight. Exhausted she heads to bed after tending to cuts on her fingers. [Decalis 26th] Z'leyra who had been taught some of the healing mist tries to study the spell. But without Arawn teaching her or a book it will be slow going. She decides to meditate a recall as much as the things Arawn did in the past from gestures, words to inflections of tone. It may not be the best way to study a spell but it is mental work. She also finds Kell and Kiet and asks them if they can recall things that might help allow her to study the spell. Z'leyra visits Kaylle to see if he has any spells on the spell. But the librarian scholar reports nothing. He has plenty of books on healing but not that particular spell. Since that group of spells - Neutral magics - tend to be less popular overall. [3:15 pm] Z'leyra is heading to the manor walking and trying to consider ways to study the mist ritual when she encounters a body on the street. She rushes to the old woman who is in her 60s at least, maybe older. The peasant is not breathing so she checks for wounds but finds nothing. Then she checks eyes and other areas and finds a massive stroke must've hit the woman. She begins to try to invoke the breath of life and regain a pulse but nothing comes. She covers the woman's eyes and blocks the sun to get pupil reaction to check for brain activity but there is nothing. Z'leyra finally gives up figuring that even a healing spell would be useless as she was probably dead for some time. For the next half hour she finds a city guard and helps transport the body to the proper place. [Decalis 27th] Z'leyra works a set of saddle bags from scratch and some bought leather. Since the sewing is not as skilled as a professional it will take hours Mid way through she takes a break and casts 5 more Foyson Theft spells on the obtained materials. Then bakes more waybread from the flour. [Decalis 28th] Z'leyra continues to study through her mental exercises the healing mist spell. [Decalis 29th] Z'leyra continues to work on the saddle bags. She tries to sew in artistic runes into the leather as best she can to pay respect to the proper gods. She casts 5 more Foyson theft spells and creates more bread. Taking the bags she casts a shamanic orientation spell and then casts an enchantment to improve the capacity of the bags. She almost tried to cast a reading spell to ensure the enchantment worked first but had to cast the enchantment first. So now she casts the Mana Reading and finds the spell worked. She then casts another enchantment to reduce the weight of items inside. Then another Reading spell to ensure it worked. She then finds Kell and gives the enchanted saddle bags to the half elf. [Decalis 30th] Z'leyra spends another day using her mind to study what she recalls from Arawn's mist spell. [Decalis 31st] Z'leyra works on a couple more bags from scratch. Then she casts another set of 5 Foyson Theft spells on the material collected and bakes waybread. Then she enchants the two sacks to improve holding capacity. She checks via mana reading to ensure the spells worked. She goes to find Kell and asks him to sell one of the sacks for at least or around 15 gold. But she knows it is just a sack that holds more not a sack that flies or casts thunderstorms. So she will have to be happy with what she gets. [Janaq 1st] Z'leyra goes with Kell to sell the sack. He considers a caravan dealer but they are used to making space tight and efficient with their teamster skills. So he decides a basic merchant maybe a messenger oriented one would find it more valuable. Kell and Z'leyra check with 4-5 places and the best offer both get is 7 gold with a minimal of 5 gold only. Z'leyra gets the 7 gold from the bookstore merchant who hauls books a lot of places. It is the best she can do with short notice. For the rest of the day she returns to the manor to study in her own mind the mist spell. [Janaq 2nd] Z'leyra makes 2 more bags from scratch. Then casts 5 more batches of foyson theft spells and bakes the flour. [Janaq 3rd] Z'leyra continues to mentally study and reuse the gestures and words for the mist to hone her unlearned mist skill. [Janaq 4th] Z'leyra casts a knowledge spell to ask the gods if horses can handle foyson based foods. The information is quickly downloaded to her mind and the answer is yes. That wafers is probably the best but should not be fed everyday as the horse diet needs to be more diverse. She then with material paid for by the staff casts 5 more foyson thefts this time to make horse oriented flour. Technically the flour is the same but in the end the baking will be slightly different. She bakes the batch of flour for the horses in the form of wafers. [Janaq 5th] Finally schedules coordinate and Z'leyra heads to the library to meet with Arawn and Kell. Arawn is teaching Kell his jeweler skill so Arawn while Kell reads can help teach Z'leyra some basics on the mist spell. [Janaq 6th] Z'leyra makes two more bags this time for the horse feed. She then does 5 more foyson spell batches and bakes the bread. Z'leyra then enchants both bags for increasing holding to help it hold more. [Janaq 7th] Z'leyra realizes she made 2 bags but never had chance or mana to enchant them. So today she enchants the bags she made previously to hold more. This gives Z'leyra 9 enchanted bags and 1 saddlebag she already gave to Kell. Actions? Comments? Next Update....Monday?? GM: A short IBT as she has no encounters aside from one. Since she did 0 shopping and mostly stayed at home then not much to encounter. :) I doubt there will be a update Monday. I may not finish her gear and sheet cleanup till Saturday at best. Next is Arawn if his IBT is done or whoever turns in a final version next. GM: * Expenses Expense Price Bag Leather - 60 CC Manor Expenses - 135 GC Foyson Material - 540 BB Gold from Sack + 5 GC * Experience Skill/Spell MEP CEP Expertise Notes Clothier/Tailor - - 2 Enchantment 48 - 24 x2 Enchantment 504 - 84 x7 Foyson Theft 125 - 50 x25 Foyson Theft 60 - 20 x10 Healing Mist - - 7 x6 Learned Knowledge 15 - 10 x1 Orient Self 4 - 4 x2 Mana Reading 8 - 8 x4 Tanner - - 2 * Items added Item 9 Leather sacks Saddle bags (1) for Kell Waybread (400 fp) - Human Waybread ( 64 fp) - Horse GM: IBT Details: [Dec 25 - Jan 7 (Leave Jan 8)] Player IBT Sent in Processed Arawn Yes [#4] - Fremea No - Kell Yes Completed Kiet Yes Completed Unali No - Pyan No - Z'leyra Yes Need to do Gear/Sheet work- Chief Yes Completed lucria Yes Completed GM: Distances: (to remind myself later) Sivas to Village by Land: Path Hexes Distance Sivas to Maren [Road] 12 240 miles Maren to Cholchara [Road] 9 180 miles Road to Marentia Fort 3.5 70 miles Option-to Ba'ru City 3 60 miles Fort to Village [Plain] 21 420 miles Option: Ba'ru to Village 23 460 miles Total: 910-950Miles depending on Ba'ru visit Sivas to Village by water River to Village 31 620 miles River to Village 5 100 miles Total: 720 Miles Village to Kameran border (roughly) Zen'da Plains to Border 43 860 miles These are rough estimates and I may be off a few hexes. These are various options. So let's say ship wagon/horses by barge up river. So let's assume a simple barge doing 10-20 miles per day. Might even do more with good winds. Let's assume 15 on average. That's 40 days. Ok. So shipping ahead of time may not be a good option. :) How about going to Ba'ru and getting supplies there? Wagons? Horses? That is the closest large city to the village. If prepare is done at start of IBT and say a person ships those items (wagon/horses from Ba'ru) to village then would need only cross 460 miles. At 25 per day would be 19 days. Almost in the IBT time period. As GM I'm only trying to cover options. You guys have to do some serious logistics to decide. Mainly the horses and/or wagon/food. To fit within the 2 weeks. Above there are some option as well. Chion if in town could be swayed to help as he could probably teleport 2-3 wagons in one jump. f