Blood and Sand: A Wandering Inn Quest (Isekai/LitRPG)
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Mages might have presented the alternative of becoming a wizard, an academic spell user who relies on external objects. A more scholarly approach might have fit our professor here quite well. We haven't heard much about them in Wandering Inn, but in theory you might be able to become one even without personal magic. In terms of actionable methodology, shamans are the principle externalized magic users of the setting and often function as teachers. Druids here have offered philosophical rather than practical guidance, letting our main character reach his own conclusions and that has it's own advantages but they're not strictly better than the two alternatives would have been.
[X] The love of knowledge you share and the curiosity it fosters
Focus on the idea of a Teacher as one who shares a love of knowledge and encourages their students to find their own path
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[X] The lessons you teach and the polish they grant
I'm going to make an arguement for polish here. Roger is a slave and his slavemaster is a young girl raised by her slavemaster father who is an important figure in the slave trade. I don't think the curiosity of that girl is the quickest path to free Roger. Even if she seems kind enough past being a noble who views String People of other cloths as lesser beings and slaves less than that, is that enough to break free of the mould society and her father has made for her? Polishing seems to me that Roger might be able to make her realize that Slaver might just be another management/merchant class and she could earn more money by hiring out people as advisors etc.
Can Roger afford the curiosity of Livia to be his path out of slavery?
I'm going to make an arguement for polish here. Roger is a slave and his slavemaster is a young girl raised by her slavemaster father who is an important figure in the slave trade. I don't think the curiosity of that girl is the quickest path to free Roger. Even if she seems kind enough past being a noble who views String People of other cloths as lesser beings and slaves less than that, is that enough to break free of the mould society and her father has made for her? Polishing seems to me that Roger might be able to make her realize that Slaver might just be another management/merchant class and she could earn more money by hiring out people as advisors etc.
Can Roger afford the curiosity of Livia to be his path out of slavery?
K von Carstein
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I'm afraid polish will not make her change her ways. She's a Slaver, her father is a Slaver, her society expects her to be a Slaver. That's why I choose love of knowledge:
I think that's the better option if we want to make her change her ways. Letting her find by herself that slavery isn't good and go against her culture. « Something more » could mean for her « the best slaver ».
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This is the first piece of Literary RPG media I can recall enjoying in my lifetime. Many thanks for opening my eyes to a genre that I was perhaps unfair to before, or more likely one in which sturgeon's rule had victimized my attempts at enjoyment.
It's the Teacher imparts the lesson and does the shaping, though. Roger would see the potential for kindness in her and guides her down a other path. Get her to realize that a better way to make money is actually to do something else.
As you said her father is a Slaver, it will take a lot of contemplation for her to come to the realisation and come to terms that her father is a horrible being. Fortunately we don't have to make her reach that point, it's enough to get her to change trade.
With love of knowledge, she might decide to go down the path of her father even if she gains more knowledge/curiosity. It's just that Roger himself won't try to influence that through his lessons.
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[X] The love of knowledge you share and the curiosity it fosters
[X] The love of knowledge you share and the curiosity it fosters
Focus on the idea of a Teacher as one who shares a love of knowledge and encourages their students to find their own path
Just found this and can I say? Fuck this fucking society, I eagerly await the day it burns to the ground
Focus on the idea of a Teacher as one who shares a love of knowledge and encourages their students to find their own path
Just found this and can I say? Fuck this fucking society, I eagerly await the day it burns to the ground
They might have, but why would they?
With the druids we have the fact that we helped them by teaching / doing the quest.
What reason for them to help us do we have with the wizards?
Yeah, it's pretty horrible. Thankfully we didn't end up in Roshal.
I imagine that a high level teacher(30 or so) would eventually get a skill that allows them to tutor anyone regardless of their field. So to teach a mage he'd have to get access to some kind of magic. A Magical Teacher class?
Hmm, once Roger learns of scrying orbs maybe we should mention the possibilities of remote teaching?
K von Carstein
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A non-magical class that can cast spells isn't unknown in TWI. There's high-level Librarians that can cast spells from books they own without being mages themselves. Getting Magical Teacher at a high enough level seems very possible. What was Erin's level when she became Magical Inkeeper?
That was at lvl 30. I can't recall the conditions she met though. As a teacher one of the conditions will probably have to spend some time learning magical theory or something.
I imagine a 'Visual Aid' skill might be available at some point. No need for a projector, blackboard or screen!
Only available when teaching, but isn't life just a continous lesson
Do want to also learn about shamanism and mage guild stuff (wizard?), but seems that for druids and shaman we have plot hooks on why they should help us now. With mage guild we might work something out later in the druids quest (when the guild mages realize that this isn't just failing maybe we can get a foot in the door via "I heard the druids side of this, do you want to explain your side?")
I LOLed at midichlorian
The next scene of hope dashed and relifted was well done, and I really like the ending of this chapter.
[x] The love of knowledge you share and the curiosity it fosters
[X] The love of knowledge you share and the curiosity it fosters
I'm going to follow the group here. This option the and wisdom were the better ones in my book. Though now that I think about it we may have a way to tap into magic. If we can't use it as a mage then perhaps we should tune into our students and help them develop. Our Gnoll friend used to be a shaman, if we could encourage his art then we might be able to get a skill that allows us to tap into what our students know. That might be enough to access it in the future. For now we should try to be the best teacher ever. Make Onizuka proud and surpass him if need be.
I'm going to follow the group here. This option the and wisdom were the better ones in my book. Though now that I think about it we may have a way to tap into magic. If we can't use it as a mage then perhaps we should tune into our students and help them develop. Our Gnoll friend used to be a shaman, if we could encourage his art then we might be able to get a skill that allows us to tap into what our students know. That might be enough to access it in the future. For now we should try to be the best teacher ever. Make Onizuka proud and surpass him if need be.
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Kings are still cool. But definitely no gods.
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K von Carstein
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Concerning gods, we shouldn't talk of gods, like at all. Gods get power from worship and from people believing in them, and rn everyone think they're dead. Except they're not, they're in the afterlife eating most of the souls that get there to gather enough power to return. Gods are evil in TWI.