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- United States
Alright. Next vote, we can add in part that says 'buy thirty hippogriffs' so that we can breed up a bunch of flying mounts for our knights that don't look godawful.
A Sword Without a Hilt: A Song of Ice and Fire/D&D 3.5 Crossover
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egoo
Totally Not Creating Problems Where None Existed
- Location
- Russia
To be fair, if we manage to put darkenbeasts inside an armor, they would look pretty damn badass.
Not sure if that would worth it mechanically, tho, nor if those armors avaliable RaW will cover them fully, so as not to let in how shitty they truly look.
- Location
- United States
And I would have been 100% fine with kneecapping the purchase myself if asked to do so. I still don't know what our shopping budget for this turn is.
Does anyone remember the cost of Titan Tools?
- Location
- Germany
- Location
- United States
I can confirm, they are 40,000 IM each.
tarrangar
Fat arctic chicken
Just noticed those are crafting cost not buying costs right? Because we will just be acting as middlemen for the Whales, contacting crafters on their behalf, so the prices should probably be doubled to account for that.
So outfitting a Whale cost 8058 IM, which is still well within their price range, but a pod of 20 can only outfit 1 and 3/4 Whale at that price a month, so it's going to take them about a year to outfit everyone, if they use all their money for that, and that's before whatever fees we charge them are subtracted.
I'm really looking forward to when the first Whales will have agreed to try this, which is why I'm talking so much about it.
- Location
- Goose Land
If there are concerns about escalation then that's fine, but the numbers were brought up in context of what we can do to solve a problem. I'm honestly not really one to argue for specific item load outs, I just like doing math. If someone's asking for a solution that can be solved by item crafting then I'll probably dig up the Pathfinder rules and then see how far we can go with what we have available.
What is our shopping budget for this turn? Is there a specific place on the Accounting sheet that it's located?
Update in beta.
Goldfish
Friendly Spider-Fish Abomination
- Location
- Formerly of the Far Realm
Roughly around 375,000 IM. Final scroll production hasn't been determined yet, so there will be some fluctuation there, but the final figure won't be too far off, plus or minus, from 375k.
That includes enchanting, industrial alchemy, regular alchemy, and scroll scribing.
tarrangar
Fat arctic chicken
How far are we from being able to make immune to fire Plant creatures? Because we need to decide what kind of harvesters we will be using for the Fire Whales.
Phoenixes are something we can get right now, and they have the required skills, but while they aren't at all traitorous, they don't owe loyalty to us, so using them as Harvesters will lessen our cut, and there's slightly more chance of the knowledge spreading.
Plant grown Harvesters would allow us a bigger share, and they are extremely loyal to us, so the chance of the knowledge spreading is even smaller, we however would have to wait until we have finished the fireproofing research.
Personally I favor using Phoenixes, but that's just me.
No matter what we need at least 1 or 2 Harvesters soon, it's no good if a Baella find a pod ready to try it, and no Harvester is ready.
Phoenixes are something we can get right now, and they have the required skills, but while they aren't at all traitorous, they don't owe loyalty to us, so using them as Harvesters will lessen our cut, and there's slightly more chance of the knowledge spreading.
Plant grown Harvesters would allow us a bigger share, and they are extremely loyal to us, so the chance of the knowledge spreading is even smaller, we however would have to wait until we have finished the fireproofing research.
Personally I favor using Phoenixes, but that's just me.
No matter what we need at least 1 or 2 Harvesters soon, it's no good if a Baella find a pod ready to try it, and no Harvester is ready.
Part MMDLXV: Treasures of the Sky
Treasures of the Sky
Seventh Day of the Eighth Month 293 AC
After some thought and looking over the beasts you decide against buying any. Lya makes a decent point that the Legion's Darkenbeasts are more powerful in the air and more frightful against a foe on the ground, lacking only in looks, a concern for knights and nobles perhaps. Even so you have enough Hippogriffs to gift to tourney winners and the knightly order Waymar wishes to raise would be better served partnering with the Skyborn Griffons over beasts only as clever as a horse and with the vicious instincts of a hawk.
Your steps then take you in search of something more precious and far more rare than any of the winged beasts of the bazaar, a memory of elder times, a gift perhaps to Waymar, the blessed bronze of Elysium. Alas that while you find a few pieces of the rare metal in the hands of collectors and mages, all of it is part of some larger enchantment from plaques with the look of astrolabes that measure the eddies of planar conjunctions to delicate scales for measuring out alchemical reagents, no one is willing to sell in any meaningful quantity, certainly not for a price that would be worth it to scavenge the metal alone.
45 lbs of Elysian Bronze found for a total cost of 800 IM/lbs
What do you do?
[] Buy some
[] Move on
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Eight Day of the Eighth Month 293 AC
"So honey is no longer worth its weight in silver?" you sigh, looking over the proposals for trade.
"There are rumors in the city that some enterprising Djinn simply bought hives, flowering plants, and set up a local supply of honey," the Astral Currents clerk explains. "There still looks to be a small margin in 'authentic honey,' but it is not large enough to continue trading in for the realm when there are more profitable goods like furs, wine, and amber. Actually, amber seems to be our strongest export, particularly the rare pieces that have bugs in them. Maybe it has something to do with magic...?" he trails off questioningly.
"Amber is just very old sap that turned to stone," Lya replies. "The insects are there sometimes because that's what sap is for." She pauses a moment. "I suppose it could be used in spells with a focus on entrapment or stasis." Like the one you had placed on the murderous sorcerer from Lys, you recall, resolving to interrogate him when you have the time.
Lost 6,500,000 IM (Gold Reserve)
Gained 4,000,000 Wind Silk Notes and 4,000,000 Glassteel Scepters (Currency reserve)
You are certainly not of any mind to scoff at a profit of a million-and-a-half marks for the exchange, enough to comfortably cover all your purchases in the City of the Winds so far, including, you hope, a new commission for warding talismans of the highest order to ward your friends from the sight of all save the gods themselves.
Gained 3x Mind Blank items; 10x +1 Soulfire Mithral Bracers (Previous commission)
Gained 2x Titan Tools
Lost 80,000 IM
"Yes, I am quite aware of the war being that I am involved in it and signed the very treaty that moved the Sultan to aid the Peerless Empire..." It is not often that taking dragon shape is a valid negotiating tactic. When faced with a sorcerer who is powerful enough to work spells of the ninth circle it is one of them. "This is anything but a trivial request. Tens of thousands of lives could hang upon whether I can act beyond the sight of my foes."
The ancient Djinn sorcerer, the only one among his kindred whom you have ever seen to look elderly for whatever reason huffs, the act sending a gust of wind through the plaza seemingly in an absent-minded gesture. "Very well, I will see to it that your purchases are given priority as they have the past month, but I cannot promise you that we will be able to continue at this rate."
Commissioned 4 Mind Blank Items
Lost 88,000 IM
You idly wonder if the mage before you is in some way involved in uncovering the powers and perils of the ice dragon heart, but you do not ask, seeking out your contacts at the palace. Once again you are not able to directly meet any high officials, but you are handed a report written on an impossibly thin adamantine sheet. You raise an eyebrow at the unusual material, though you discover it is simply the traditional means of carrying royal writ.
Lya's own interest in the message's material quickly wanes besides the contents: "It's still alive..." The report is at once fascinating and sobering. It seems the ice-heart was found to be animate, though neither technically alive nor undead by the Djinn scholars. It had seemingly attempted to commune with one of the younger mages in a manner he found unsettling. 'An emptiness that feeds upon itself, a contagious want' is how he had described the experience to his fellows before being assigned to the mind healers to ensure his thoughts had not been warped in any persistent manner.
All studies were then directed towards either appeasing or exorcising this presence.
"Probably best that we did not keep that in our possession, then," you conclude, setting the message aside.
"Careful there, I think your cloak just grumbled, or was that your stomach?" Lya jests.
After lunch you head out in search of a location to construct a planar terminus among the many wards of the city. As you are in very good standing with the Sultan as well as the great merchant Houses you easily find a number of potential spots to raise the passageway. However, the matter is complicated by the fact that unlike the cavern where you had built the other terminus, Armun Kelisk has rules regarding the number of private guards one is allowed to hold within the city, no more than one hundred... but the allotment for Djinn nobles is a far more generous thousand. You wonder if you might gain a formal title of nobility from the Sultan, perhaps for aid in battle.
What do you do?
[] Work within the present limitations (Cost of land 30,000 IM)
-[] Write in garrison composition
[] Discreetly ask about gaining a formal title of nobility from the Djinn
[] Write in
OOC: This feels a little scattered, but we need to get through it in a reasonable amount of time, so here it is.
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- Location
- France
Price of honey dropping?
Time for some branding!
The taste and quality of honey are dependent on what kind of flowers the bees can feed on. There's no way the Djinn have our whole ecosystem copied out! And although they can probably make some amazing honey, it won't taste like ours. Making sure we can produce a certain type of honey in large enough quantities (put a bunch of hives in fields of selected plants, planted there for the occasion) and then branding it well seems like a good idea.
Of course I expect this to be abstracted away. Let's not setup a beekeeping venture just because of a throwaway line of text
Time for some branding!
The taste and quality of honey are dependent on what kind of flowers the bees can feed on. There's no way the Djinn have our whole ecosystem copied out! And although they can probably make some amazing honey, it won't taste like ours. Making sure we can produce a certain type of honey in large enough quantities (put a bunch of hives in fields of selected plants, planted there for the occasion) and then branding it well seems like a good idea.
Of course I expect this to be abstracted away. Let's not setup a beekeeping venture just because of a throwaway line of text
egoo
Totally Not Creating Problems Where None Existed
- Location
- Russia
That's some fascinating shit.
I take it, they are still researching, then?
What's their current timeline for it?
Also, getting things in order for setting up a shrine for Yss in Ammun Khellishk next chapter?
And we wanted to hire bards here too.
... Hey, @DragonParadox, do Dawn Fruit Trees have flowers?
It's time to overspecialise into the kind of honey even Jinn won't ever be able to make.
Mwhahahaha!
As a matter of strict formality the same way the English king was technically a vassal of France at one point, leading to among other entertaining things the case when the King of England fulfilling lower level feudal obligations raised a handful of knights to fight himself.
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- They are yes
- One month to their next report, beyond that they are not sure
- Yes that will be in the next chapter
egoo
Totally Not Creating Problems Where None Existed
- Location
- Russia
Anything of help we can offer them?
Would Rina's unique experience/existence be of use to them, perhaps, if only as a (very) temporary guest specialist?
Rina might help yes.
- Location
- Brazil
Constant Scintilating Scales, constant Channel Vigor?
Come on. At least ge it through DP.
Goldfish
Friendly Spider-Fish Abomination
- Location
- Formerly of the Far Realm
800 IM per pound is hilariously expensive. We can find the stuff elsewhere sometime later. As for the garrison, one hundred should be plenty.
We just need to work out who it will be.
[X] Move on
[X] Work within the present limitations (Cost of land 30,000 IM)
-[] To Be Determined
[X] Upon returning to Sorcerer's Deep, use one set of the Tools to expand the Circle of Battle in preparation for the festival, while the other one resumes building the Stepstones bridges.
We just need to work out who it will be.
[X] Move on
[X] Work within the present limitations (Cost of land 30,000 IM)
-[] To Be Determined
[X] Upon returning to Sorcerer's Deep, use one set of the Tools to expand the Circle of Battle in preparation for the festival, while the other one resumes building the Stepstones bridges.
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- Location
- Germany
What was the plan with the Elysian Bronze again? A new armor for Waymar?
The nobility thing is unnecessary, as we don't need more then 100 guards anyway.
As for the Titan Tools:
-[] Use one set of the Tools to expand the Circle of Battle in preparation for the festival, while the other one resumes building the Stepstones bridges.
The nobility thing is unnecessary, as we don't need more then 100 guards anyway.
As for the Titan Tools:
-[] Use one set of the Tools to expand the Circle of Battle in preparation for the festival, while the other one resumes building the Stepstones bridges.
- Location
- Goose Land
Would Viserys think it would be an insulting move to offer up an equivalent title of nobility to the Sultan?
I'm imagining a situation in which us, the Sultan, and the Griever are all technically nobility under each other in the interests of increased personal privileges in each others' realms as well as binding the realms together more strongly.
It's one thing to be allies in war and another to have direct investments in each others' realms.
- Location
- United States
As much as I want it, that was also my main complaint.
@DragonParadox, does Viserys think there are better chances of finding 55 lbs at a more reasonable price in the Opaline Vault?