- Location
- Poland
- Pronouns
- He/Him
[X] Plan Denouement
Evermark Underground: RPG Brothel Management
- Thread starter Evenstar
- Start date
- Original Mature Fantasy
- Location
- USA
- Location
- Israel
Well, forgot to vote. Silly me.
There's always next time.
There's always next time.
Rose 1904
Evenstar
Triple Jump Unlocked
- Location
- Canada
- Pronouns
- She/Her
"Did my purchases from the harbour come in?", you ask.
"Yes, Mistress," Holly reports. "The fur and silk are safely in the cellar, while we've set up the soundstage equipment on the indoor stage. We've already sold all the grapes, actually - they went quite fast - for a total profit of 30 clean Æther."
"Less than I'd hoped, but cleaner on the books. Probably worth the purchase."
Holly nods. "Probably."
"Edie, how did the donation to charity go?"
"In addition to being in a good cause, it seems to have quelled some of the rumours about us. Not many, but some."
You nod. "It's to be expected that clearing your name takes longer than muddying it."
"Exactly."
"As for our other investment in our name… we now own a third of all of House Galero's debt. That ought to give us some major leverage, oughtn't it?"
"It certainly sounds like we're doing something of importance."
You smile. "Glad you agree. And speaking of things of importance - Varielle, you finished those potions?"
She nods. "They're done, at least for this batch."
"Good to hear. In that case, I have a ball to attend."
Much like the balls in summer and fall, you find yourself in your same starlight-blue dress, out on the Merchant's Guild dancefloor. It's time again to ask how you'll focus your efforts while you're here.
[ ][Ball] Try to get a word in with the established investors and merchants.
[ ][Ball] Speak to the Guild officials, particularly the higher-ups, and feel them out.
[ ][Ball] Focus on looking for those of revolutionary sentiment and gathering them together.
[ ][Ball] Focus on the younger and more radical merchants to try and find recruits.
[ ][Ball] Go stand at the buffet table.
Marielle and the Kalinsha meet in the middle of the shrine. Marielle extends a hand; the Kalinsha takes it. They both nod for the music to start together.
And they dance.
Marielle is a consuming fire; the Kalinsha is a deep ocean. She dances and twirls and flits around him with consuming energy; he matches her with discipline and form. Where they meet, something new happens. Steam, erupting into the world.
The whole room fills with silver fog too dense to see through, and somehow still they dance, blind and musicless and perfect, and the mist gathers itself up into a perfect opal sphere and falls with a clatter to the floor.
Both the Kalinsha and Marielle pant from the exertion of… whatever just happened. The Kalinsha sits down heavily.
Leah claps from the bedside as you step forwards and pick up the jewel. It hisses gently against your hand, like the memory of steam.
"Does anyone have any idea what just happened?"
Everyone shakes their heads.
"Well then."
You tuck the sphere away in your purse for safekeeping.
The Steamborne Revolution 9/10
The Redcaps line up in the dojo, nice neat rows for you to command. Valerie stands one pace forwards, as do the mercenaries you've employed as a training corps.
You stand on an old harbour crate you had in the cellar, and look over it all.
"Men and women of the Redcaps," you say. "You have fought well and honorably. You have taken wounds in the service of what you believed in, risked your lives in the defense of this harbour. You are great and worthy, and perhaps some day the world will know your names; but for now, you can only be sustained by this. This comradery, this cause, this battle. It is all you can hope for."
"I think it's enough. I think I'd rather fight and die with you all beside me than try to struggle alone. I think you are the best men and women I could have chosen for this, and fuck your origins, wether rat or redcap, urchin or a rich house's castoff. You are all Redcaps today. And I thank you deeply, from the bottom of my heart, for all that you've done for me and this city I love."
You step down from your crate.
"Redcaps, Dismissed!"
They salute you as one.
You salute back.
Then you leave.
You're not sure how much longer you could have lasted before tearing up.
After basic interviews with all your staff, you've compiled This Spreadsheet regarding them.
Upgrades:
Tier 3 Wards
Tier 3 Silken Wonderland
Tier 3 Steamy Atmosphere
Tier 2 Warded Strongboxes
Tier 2 Signage
Tier 2 Escort Beauty
Tier 1 Landscaping
Tier 1 Renovated
Tier 1 Exclusive
Treasury:
40 Discretion
23 Scandal
530 Clean Æther
550 Dirty Æther
1 Silvermist Consecration
1 Steamborne Jewel?
1 Stainless Steel Rat
1 Sapphire Ring
1 Steamborne Talisman
7 Healing Potions
5 Libertine Favours
10 House Galero Favours
3 Suffragist Favours
5 Months Till Recruiting Drive
5 Months More Merchant Membership
10 Libertine Pamphlets
10 All Faiths Pamphlets
10 Suffragist Pamphlets
11 Silk Bolts
5 Fur Bolts
Current Monthly Income:
135 Clean Æther from Tea
350 Dirty Æther from Sex
5 Clean Æther from Cooked Books
5 Clean Æther from Fine Cuisine
10 Clean Æther from Ostmarkian Tea
25 Clean Æther from Hotelry
50 Clean Æther from The Band
35 Clean Æther from Apothecary Deal
200 Dirty Æther from VIP
100 Clean Æther from VIP
100 Dirty Æther Enchantress
250 Dirty Aether Harbour Tribute
120 Clean Æther from Harbour Laundry
1 Bolt Silk Silk Shop Tribute
Current Monthly Expenses:
-25 Clean Æther Room Service
-5 Clean Æther Weekly Checkups
-5 Dirty Æther Cooked Books
-10 Clean Æther Bouncers
-20 Dirty Æther Harbour Laundry
-80 Dirty Æther Gang Sponsorship
-10 Clean Æther Chef
-15 Clean Æther Gardeners
-10 Clean Æther Exclusivity
-10 Dirty Æther Exclusivity
-5 Clean Aether Cosmetics
-25 Clean Aether Etiquette Teacher
-50 Dirty Aether Apothecary Deal
-1 All Monthly Timers
Current Monthly Net:
270 Clean Aether
635 Dirty Aether
-1 All Monthly Timers
Control under Holly:
[ ][Control] Build another back of house room, at a cost of 75 Clean Æther.
[ ][Control] Call in a favour with the Libertines and have a room built on the cheap. Cost: 30 Clean Æ, 1 Libertine Favour
[ ][Control] Search for more contacts who sell goods & services under the table. (IE, that you can pay in dirty money.)
[-][Control] Upgrade a business room into a VIP room. 3 Bolts Silk, 30 Clean Æther.
[-][Control] Upgrade the entire second floor to a silken wonderland. 20 Bolts Silk, 200 Clean Æther.
[ ][Control] Distribute your leaflets covering revolutionary topics. (Opens menu for where to send leaflets.)
[ ][Control] The Suffragists' Union is dedicated to political and mercantile equality. Go see what they're doing.
[ ][Control] Invest in a Bay Run. 500 Clean Æther; returns 600 Clean Aether in 2 months, with a small chance of disaster.
[ ][Control] Attend the Merchants' Spring Ball.
Charm under Edie:
[ ][Charm] Search for contacts among the Ceverra.
[ ][Charm] Search for contacts in the city.
[ ][Charm] Start targeting and looking for noble clients.
[ ][Charm] Upgrade the landscaped courtyard with a water feature, like a pond or a stream. 250 Clean Æther.
[-][Charm] Buy out the fishmarket next door so that the smell of fish won't disturb the customers. 1000 Clean Æther.
[ ][Charm] Make a public donation to charity to improve the business' good name. 100 Clean Æther.
Intrigue under Filia:
[ ][Intrigue] Continue Filia's education in Markish and Tradecraft.
[ ][Intrigue] Talk to the Sharks and get a better idea of what the gang is doing.
[ ][Intrigue] You've grown accustomed to the underworld here, but more contacts are always a good thing. Cultivate more criminal contacts.
[ ][Intrigue] Continue cultivating contacts along the local waterfront. Surely there's something more interesting than the fish market next door?
[ ][Intrigue] The Succubus Liberation Front claims that the succubi are badly mischaracterized. Attend a monthly meeting and keep your ear to the ground.
[ ][Intrigue] Make an anonymous donation to charity. 100 Dirty Æther.
[ ][Intrigue] Make an under-the-table donation to the cause. 100 Dirty Æ becomes 1 Libertine Favour.
[ ][Intrigue] Make a major under-the-table donation to the cause. 500 Dirty Æ becomes 5 Libertine Favours.
[ ][Intrigue] Make a further "donation" to the struggling House Galero. 250 Dirty Æ becomes one House Galero favour.
[ ][Intrigue] Buy another tenth-share of House Galero's debt. 1,250 Dirty Æ, +5 House Galero favours.
[-][Intrigue] Ask that you be introduced to Court. Costs 10 House Galero favours and requires that you both have appropriate attire for Court and know the proper etiquette.
Lore under Varielle:
[ ][Lore] Expand the front of house to add storefront for a magic shop. 250 clean Æ.
[ ][Lore] Build a new magic store on the vacant lot you purchased. 500 clean Æ.
[ ][Lore] Build a magic store on the vacant lot with Libertine help. 300 clean Æ, 5 Libertine Favours.
[ ][Lore] Having witches and wizards on your side can only ever help. Try to make more contacts in the magical community.
[ ][Lore] Innumerable Aspect seeks to promote freedom of Orbite, encouraging the unbanning of proscribed Aspects. Go to their monthly meeting and keep an ear to the ground.
[ ][Lore] The Progressivists' Guild advocates for the free development of new magic and technology, and the reversal of laws that ban specific technologies. Contact them and stay in touch.
[ ][Lore] Purchase a smuggled load of succubus artifacts in order to research them. 100 Dirty Æther, success has a chance at unique items.
[ ][Lore] Talk to the magical girl contract magicians and see what they have to say.
[ ][Lore] Have Varielle brew some healing potions, just in case. 100 Dirty Æther should suffice for a batch for six.
Faith under Leah:
[ ][Faith] Send Leah to attend this month's meeting of All Faiths Harmonious and keep her ear to the ground.
[ ][Faith] Reach out and try to connect with the local preachers, temples and shrines.
[ ][Faith] Idols, Magical Girls, and the radio broadcasters who make them famous can all be found here in Gradentine. Try to get closer to that brilliant glamour.
[ ][Faith] Dance with Leah and practice its use as a channel for Steamborne power.
[ ][Faith] Dance with Leah and try to produce one of those jewels.
[ ][Faith] Try to organize another dance between the Kalinsha and Marielle.
[ ][Faith] Try to find someone who can explain the jewel the Kalinsha and Marielle made last time.
[ ][Faith] Spend some time experimenting with the jewel the Kalinsha and Marielle made.
[ ][Faith] Look into the Coppergold faith of the Ceverra.
Personal:
[ ][Personal] Take more time alone to cultivate your Aura and Orbite.
[ ][Personal] Personally teach your Redcaps some more Broken Fang Way.
[ ][Personal] Spend time overseeing one of the major business areas. (Write in a stat; Control, Charm, etc.)
[ ][Personal] Take some time to get to know one of the staff. (Write in a name.)
[ ][Personal] Spend some time relaxing and unwinding in the gardens.
[ ][Personal] Experiencing your own business from time to time can generate real insights. Take tea at Harbour Tea.
[ ][Personal] Take time out of your schedule to go on a date with Leah.
[ ][Personal] Take Edie aside and try to talk her out of succubus liberation. It's just a bad move.
[ ][Personal] Go to the adventuring store and purchase supplies or weaponry from them.
[ ][Personal] Go to the Progressivist Jeweller's and see what he has in stock. (Opens jewellery store event; likely to cost a few hundred Dirty Æ.)
[ ][Personal] Go to the local magic shop and see what trinkets and doodads they have on sale. Perhaps they'll have a radio or a record player? (Opens magic store event; likely to cost a few hundred Clean Æ.)
[ ][Personal] Go to the proscribed apothecary and haggle over lines on spices, teas, medicines and potions. (Opens apothecary event; likely to cost a few hundred dirty Æ)
[ ][Personal] Try to find somebody selling silk, so that you can renovate the second floor with it as well. (Opens silk merchant event; likely to cost a few hundred clean Æ)
[ ][Personal] Go down to the docks and purchase "lost" or confiscated cargoes from the Port Authority on the sly.
[ ][Personal] Go to the underground printer's and have some leaflets commissioned.
[ ][Personal] Go to the transmuter to have something duplicated.
"Yes, Mistress," Holly reports. "The fur and silk are safely in the cellar, while we've set up the soundstage equipment on the indoor stage. We've already sold all the grapes, actually - they went quite fast - for a total profit of 30 clean Æther."
"Less than I'd hoped, but cleaner on the books. Probably worth the purchase."
Holly nods. "Probably."
"Edie, how did the donation to charity go?"
"In addition to being in a good cause, it seems to have quelled some of the rumours about us. Not many, but some."
You nod. "It's to be expected that clearing your name takes longer than muddying it."
"Exactly."
"As for our other investment in our name… we now own a third of all of House Galero's debt. That ought to give us some major leverage, oughtn't it?"
"It certainly sounds like we're doing something of importance."
You smile. "Glad you agree. And speaking of things of importance - Varielle, you finished those potions?"
She nods. "They're done, at least for this batch."
"Good to hear. In that case, I have a ball to attend."
Much like the balls in summer and fall, you find yourself in your same starlight-blue dress, out on the Merchant's Guild dancefloor. It's time again to ask how you'll focus your efforts while you're here.
[ ][Ball] Try to get a word in with the established investors and merchants.
[ ][Ball] Speak to the Guild officials, particularly the higher-ups, and feel them out.
[ ][Ball] Focus on looking for those of revolutionary sentiment and gathering them together.
[ ][Ball] Focus on the younger and more radical merchants to try and find recruits.
[ ][Ball] Go stand at the buffet table.
Marielle and the Kalinsha meet in the middle of the shrine. Marielle extends a hand; the Kalinsha takes it. They both nod for the music to start together.
And they dance.
Marielle is a consuming fire; the Kalinsha is a deep ocean. She dances and twirls and flits around him with consuming energy; he matches her with discipline and form. Where they meet, something new happens. Steam, erupting into the world.
The whole room fills with silver fog too dense to see through, and somehow still they dance, blind and musicless and perfect, and the mist gathers itself up into a perfect opal sphere and falls with a clatter to the floor.
Both the Kalinsha and Marielle pant from the exertion of… whatever just happened. The Kalinsha sits down heavily.
Leah claps from the bedside as you step forwards and pick up the jewel. It hisses gently against your hand, like the memory of steam.
"Does anyone have any idea what just happened?"
Everyone shakes their heads.
"Well then."
You tuck the sphere away in your purse for safekeeping.
The Steamborne Revolution 9/10
The Redcaps line up in the dojo, nice neat rows for you to command. Valerie stands one pace forwards, as do the mercenaries you've employed as a training corps.
You stand on an old harbour crate you had in the cellar, and look over it all.
"Men and women of the Redcaps," you say. "You have fought well and honorably. You have taken wounds in the service of what you believed in, risked your lives in the defense of this harbour. You are great and worthy, and perhaps some day the world will know your names; but for now, you can only be sustained by this. This comradery, this cause, this battle. It is all you can hope for."
"I think it's enough. I think I'd rather fight and die with you all beside me than try to struggle alone. I think you are the best men and women I could have chosen for this, and fuck your origins, wether rat or redcap, urchin or a rich house's castoff. You are all Redcaps today. And I thank you deeply, from the bottom of my heart, for all that you've done for me and this city I love."
You step down from your crate.
"Redcaps, Dismissed!"
They salute you as one.
You salute back.
Then you leave.
You're not sure how much longer you could have lasted before tearing up.
After basic interviews with all your staff, you've compiled This Spreadsheet regarding them.
Upgrades:
Tier 3 Wards
Tier 3 Silken Wonderland
Tier 3 Steamy Atmosphere
Tier 2 Warded Strongboxes
Tier 2 Signage
Tier 2 Escort Beauty
Tier 1 Landscaping
Tier 1 Renovated
Tier 1 Exclusive
Treasury:
40 Discretion
23 Scandal
530 Clean Æther
550 Dirty Æther
1 Silvermist Consecration
1 Steamborne Jewel?
1 Stainless Steel Rat
1 Sapphire Ring
1 Steamborne Talisman
7 Healing Potions
5 Libertine Favours
10 House Galero Favours
3 Suffragist Favours
5 Months Till Recruiting Drive
5 Months More Merchant Membership
10 Libertine Pamphlets
10 All Faiths Pamphlets
10 Suffragist Pamphlets
11 Silk Bolts
5 Fur Bolts
Current Monthly Income:
135 Clean Æther from Tea
350 Dirty Æther from Sex
5 Clean Æther from Cooked Books
5 Clean Æther from Fine Cuisine
10 Clean Æther from Ostmarkian Tea
25 Clean Æther from Hotelry
50 Clean Æther from The Band
35 Clean Æther from Apothecary Deal
200 Dirty Æther from VIP
100 Clean Æther from VIP
100 Dirty Æther Enchantress
250 Dirty Aether Harbour Tribute
120 Clean Æther from Harbour Laundry
1 Bolt Silk Silk Shop Tribute
Current Monthly Expenses:
-25 Clean Æther Room Service
-5 Clean Æther Weekly Checkups
-5 Dirty Æther Cooked Books
-10 Clean Æther Bouncers
-20 Dirty Æther Harbour Laundry
-80 Dirty Æther Gang Sponsorship
-10 Clean Æther Chef
-15 Clean Æther Gardeners
-10 Clean Æther Exclusivity
-10 Dirty Æther Exclusivity
-5 Clean Aether Cosmetics
-25 Clean Aether Etiquette Teacher
-50 Dirty Aether Apothecary Deal
-1 All Monthly Timers
Current Monthly Net:
270 Clean Aether
635 Dirty Aether
-1 All Monthly Timers
Control under Holly:
[ ][Control] Build another back of house room, at a cost of 75 Clean Æther.
[ ][Control] Call in a favour with the Libertines and have a room built on the cheap. Cost: 30 Clean Æ, 1 Libertine Favour
[ ][Control] Search for more contacts who sell goods & services under the table. (IE, that you can pay in dirty money.)
[-][Control] Upgrade a business room into a VIP room. 3 Bolts Silk, 30 Clean Æther.
[-][Control] Upgrade the entire second floor to a silken wonderland. 20 Bolts Silk, 200 Clean Æther.
[ ][Control] Distribute your leaflets covering revolutionary topics. (Opens menu for where to send leaflets.)
[ ][Control] The Suffragists' Union is dedicated to political and mercantile equality. Go see what they're doing.
[ ][Control] Invest in a Bay Run. 500 Clean Æther; returns 600 Clean Aether in 2 months, with a small chance of disaster.
[ ][Control] Attend the Merchants' Spring Ball.
Charm under Edie:
[ ][Charm] Search for contacts among the Ceverra.
[ ][Charm] Search for contacts in the city.
[ ][Charm] Start targeting and looking for noble clients.
[ ][Charm] Upgrade the landscaped courtyard with a water feature, like a pond or a stream. 250 Clean Æther.
[-][Charm] Buy out the fishmarket next door so that the smell of fish won't disturb the customers. 1000 Clean Æther.
[ ][Charm] Make a public donation to charity to improve the business' good name. 100 Clean Æther.
Intrigue under Filia:
[ ][Intrigue] Continue Filia's education in Markish and Tradecraft.
[ ][Intrigue] Talk to the Sharks and get a better idea of what the gang is doing.
[ ][Intrigue] You've grown accustomed to the underworld here, but more contacts are always a good thing. Cultivate more criminal contacts.
[ ][Intrigue] Continue cultivating contacts along the local waterfront. Surely there's something more interesting than the fish market next door?
[ ][Intrigue] The Succubus Liberation Front claims that the succubi are badly mischaracterized. Attend a monthly meeting and keep your ear to the ground.
[ ][Intrigue] Make an anonymous donation to charity. 100 Dirty Æther.
[ ][Intrigue] Make an under-the-table donation to the cause. 100 Dirty Æ becomes 1 Libertine Favour.
[ ][Intrigue] Make a major under-the-table donation to the cause. 500 Dirty Æ becomes 5 Libertine Favours.
[ ][Intrigue] Make a further "donation" to the struggling House Galero. 250 Dirty Æ becomes one House Galero favour.
[ ][Intrigue] Buy another tenth-share of House Galero's debt. 1,250 Dirty Æ, +5 House Galero favours.
[-][Intrigue] Ask that you be introduced to Court. Costs 10 House Galero favours and requires that you both have appropriate attire for Court and know the proper etiquette.
Lore under Varielle:
[ ][Lore] Expand the front of house to add storefront for a magic shop. 250 clean Æ.
[ ][Lore] Build a new magic store on the vacant lot you purchased. 500 clean Æ.
[ ][Lore] Build a magic store on the vacant lot with Libertine help. 300 clean Æ, 5 Libertine Favours.
[ ][Lore] Having witches and wizards on your side can only ever help. Try to make more contacts in the magical community.
[ ][Lore] Innumerable Aspect seeks to promote freedom of Orbite, encouraging the unbanning of proscribed Aspects. Go to their monthly meeting and keep an ear to the ground.
[ ][Lore] The Progressivists' Guild advocates for the free development of new magic and technology, and the reversal of laws that ban specific technologies. Contact them and stay in touch.
[ ][Lore] Purchase a smuggled load of succubus artifacts in order to research them. 100 Dirty Æther, success has a chance at unique items.
[ ][Lore] Talk to the magical girl contract magicians and see what they have to say.
[ ][Lore] Have Varielle brew some healing potions, just in case. 100 Dirty Æther should suffice for a batch for six.
Faith under Leah:
[ ][Faith] Send Leah to attend this month's meeting of All Faiths Harmonious and keep her ear to the ground.
[ ][Faith] Reach out and try to connect with the local preachers, temples and shrines.
[ ][Faith] Idols, Magical Girls, and the radio broadcasters who make them famous can all be found here in Gradentine. Try to get closer to that brilliant glamour.
[ ][Faith] Dance with Leah and practice its use as a channel for Steamborne power.
[ ][Faith] Dance with Leah and try to produce one of those jewels.
[ ][Faith] Try to organize another dance between the Kalinsha and Marielle.
[ ][Faith] Try to find someone who can explain the jewel the Kalinsha and Marielle made last time.
[ ][Faith] Spend some time experimenting with the jewel the Kalinsha and Marielle made.
[ ][Faith] Look into the Coppergold faith of the Ceverra.
Personal:
[ ][Personal] Take more time alone to cultivate your Aura and Orbite.
[ ][Personal] Personally teach your Redcaps some more Broken Fang Way.
[ ][Personal] Spend time overseeing one of the major business areas. (Write in a stat; Control, Charm, etc.)
[ ][Personal] Take some time to get to know one of the staff. (Write in a name.)
[ ][Personal] Spend some time relaxing and unwinding in the gardens.
[ ][Personal] Experiencing your own business from time to time can generate real insights. Take tea at Harbour Tea.
[ ][Personal] Take time out of your schedule to go on a date with Leah.
[ ][Personal] Take Edie aside and try to talk her out of succubus liberation. It's just a bad move.
[ ][Personal] Go to the adventuring store and purchase supplies or weaponry from them.
[ ][Personal] Go to the Progressivist Jeweller's and see what he has in stock. (Opens jewellery store event; likely to cost a few hundred Dirty Æ.)
[ ][Personal] Go to the local magic shop and see what trinkets and doodads they have on sale. Perhaps they'll have a radio or a record player? (Opens magic store event; likely to cost a few hundred Clean Æ.)
[ ][Personal] Go to the proscribed apothecary and haggle over lines on spices, teas, medicines and potions. (Opens apothecary event; likely to cost a few hundred dirty Æ)
[ ][Personal] Try to find somebody selling silk, so that you can renovate the second floor with it as well. (Opens silk merchant event; likely to cost a few hundred clean Æ)
[ ][Personal] Go down to the docks and purchase "lost" or confiscated cargoes from the Port Authority on the sly.
[ ][Personal] Go to the underground printer's and have some leaflets commissioned.
[ ][Personal] Go to the transmuter to have something duplicated.
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- Location
- Israel
That was beautiful. Red Caps and Rats united together. Beautiful scene. Also very interesting about the whole dance thing of our new religion, we need to figure it out eventually.
Shouldn't we have 10 House Galero favors now, not 0? And shouldn't either our Discretion have gone up or our Scandal have gone down? I also don't see any silk in our treasury even though we have per-month silk income and we just bought a bunch of stuff from the harbormaster.
- Location
- Israel
Okay, I'm trying to think of something. Expect it to suck.
[X] Plan Meetings.
-[X][Ball] Speak to the Guild officials, particularly the higher-ups, and feel them out.
-[X][Control] The Suffragists' Union is dedicated to political and mercantile equality. Go see what they're doing.
-[X][Charm] Search for contacts among the Ceverra.
-[X][Intrigue] Talk to the Sharks and get a better idea of what the gang is doing.
-[X][Lore] Purchase a smuggled load of succubus artifacts in order to research them. 100 Dirty Æther, success has a chance at unique items.
-[X][Faith] Dance with Leah and practice its use as a channel for Steamborne power.
-[X][Personal] Personally teach your Redcaps some more Broken Fang Way.
Okay, I don't know who to really pick at the ball, but either merchants or guilds would make us and our business have a more legitimate front by at least being seen around merchants with a high standing reputation or official city guilds, right? I picked the guilds, but well-known merchants are still a possibility.
With the Ceverra I think getting contracts through them might still be helpful and might help us gain favor, right? I don't really remember and I can easily change it to something else like looking for noble or rich clients.
I want to meet the Suffragists' Union because I think they might be a good addition to the revolution and keeping up contact could be handy. I also want to meet with The Sharks to see how we stand with them and if we can find a weak spot to somehow convince them later to merge with us.
More potions helped in the past, and it will help in the future.
The dance I want to do with Leah to get to the 10/10. Feels right to me. I also want to keep training our soldiers in the Broken Fang Way as we were before we became a teacher. Sweet memories~.
[X] Plan Meetings.
-[X][Ball] Speak to the Guild officials, particularly the higher-ups, and feel them out.
-[X][Control] The Suffragists' Union is dedicated to political and mercantile equality. Go see what they're doing.
-[X][Charm] Search for contacts among the Ceverra.
-[X][Intrigue] Talk to the Sharks and get a better idea of what the gang is doing.
-[X][Lore] Purchase a smuggled load of succubus artifacts in order to research them. 100 Dirty Æther, success has a chance at unique items.
-[X][Faith] Dance with Leah and practice its use as a channel for Steamborne power.
-[X][Personal] Personally teach your Redcaps some more Broken Fang Way.
Okay, I don't know who to really pick at the ball, but either merchants or guilds would make us and our business have a more legitimate front by at least being seen around merchants with a high standing reputation or official city guilds, right? I picked the guilds, but well-known merchants are still a possibility.
With the Ceverra I think getting contracts through them might still be helpful and might help us gain favor, right? I don't really remember and I can easily change it to something else like looking for noble or rich clients.
I want to meet the Suffragists' Union because I think they might be a good addition to the revolution and keeping up contact could be handy. I also want to meet with The Sharks to see how we stand with them and if we can find a weak spot to somehow convince them later to merge with us.
More potions helped in the past, and it will help in the future.
The dance I want to do with Leah to get to the 10/10. Feels right to me. I also want to keep training our soldiers in the Broken Fang Way as we were before we became a teacher. Sweet memories~.
- Location
- Somewhere in the area
- Pronouns
- He/She/They
[X] Plan: Spending Aether
-[X][Ball] Go stand at the buffet table.
-[X][Control] Upgrade a business room into a VIP room. 3 Bolts Silk, 30 Clean Æther.
-[X][Charm] Upgrade the landscaped courtyard with a water feature, like a pond or a stream. 250 Clean Æther.
-[X][Intrigue] Talk to the Sharks and get a better idea of what the gang is doing.
-[X][Lore] Build a magic store on the vacant lot with Libertine help. 300 clean Æ, 5 Libertine Favours.
-[X][Faith] Try to find someone who can explain the jewel the Kalinsha and Marielle made last time.
-[X][Personal] Take time out of your schedule to go on a date with Leah.
Each time we've went to the Ball there's been the option to hangout at the food/drinks area, and I'm curious what it will bring. I doubt that its a "skip" option.
For the Plan, building the Magic shop on the vacant lot with Libertine Favors leaves us with enough clean Aether to buy a water feature for the courtyard, as well as start adding silk to the second story. With the silk tribute, we can upgrade a room every three months until we can finish the rest all at once.
I also talked last time about checking in on the Sharks to see what their plans are now that they've achieved their goal. Finding that out will probably decide how we approach our intigue actions in the near future.
Next, I think we should look for experts on either magic/faith/or failing both, jewelry to look at the steamborne gem before poking at it ourselves. I doubt they'll understand it fully, but they should eliminate dead ends for us.
Finally, its been a few months since we've had a date with Leah, and they have been a stressful few months. I think a date will help us relax, as well as develop our relationship with her.
(I'm hoping if we can recreate the steamborne gem, that we can make a set of matching jewelry for the two of us.)
-[X][Ball] Go stand at the buffet table.
-[X][Control] Upgrade a business room into a VIP room. 3 Bolts Silk, 30 Clean Æther.
-[X][Charm] Upgrade the landscaped courtyard with a water feature, like a pond or a stream. 250 Clean Æther.
-[X][Intrigue] Talk to the Sharks and get a better idea of what the gang is doing.
-[X][Lore] Build a magic store on the vacant lot with Libertine help. 300 clean Æ, 5 Libertine Favours.
-[X][Faith] Try to find someone who can explain the jewel the Kalinsha and Marielle made last time.
-[X][Personal] Take time out of your schedule to go on a date with Leah.
Each time we've went to the Ball there's been the option to hangout at the food/drinks area, and I'm curious what it will bring. I doubt that its a "skip" option.
For the Plan, building the Magic shop on the vacant lot with Libertine Favors leaves us with enough clean Aether to buy a water feature for the courtyard, as well as start adding silk to the second story. With the silk tribute, we can upgrade a room every three months until we can finish the rest all at once.
I also talked last time about checking in on the Sharks to see what their plans are now that they've achieved their goal. Finding that out will probably decide how we approach our intigue actions in the near future.
Next, I think we should look for experts on either magic/faith/or failing both, jewelry to look at the steamborne gem before poking at it ourselves. I doubt they'll understand it fully, but they should eliminate dead ends for us.
Finally, its been a few months since we've had a date with Leah, and they have been a stressful few months. I think a date will help us relax, as well as develop our relationship with her.
(I'm hoping if we can recreate the steamborne gem, that we can make a set of matching jewelry for the two of us.)
The only thing I don't like about this plan is the ball. I'm with you that I doubt it's a "skip" option, but I think we should look into the Guild officials sooner rather than later.
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I feel that the guild higher ups and established investors won't really give us anything worthwile until we've been introduced to court. We're kind of a nobody outside the harbor until that happens.
Why would the Merchant Guild be stuffy about people who aren't at court? Speaking from real-world history here since we know very little of this world's history, merchants and nobility were at odds pretty much the entire time they both existed as institutions. Merchants are dirty commoners while nobles are stuck-up fops. There's no reason to think that the Guild would stick its nose up at us for being a merchant when their entire reason to exist is to leverage their collective power against the nobility.
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- Canada
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*rubs her forehead* think I copypasted something incorrectly, let me see here.
... annnd should be fixed.
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- Sol III
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Is that... some sort of Orbite?
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- USA
Evenstar
What more is required for being introduced at court?
10 favors are accumulated, etiquette lessons have been going on for several months, and M. Estellé has what I thought was a high-quality outfit.
Is it possible to extend the hotelry and other businesses into the empty lot?
Instead of building a magic shop?
How many people are employed in the fishmarket?
As good as closing it might be for improving the class of the business, I don't want to throw a bunch of people out of work.
What more is required for being introduced at court?
10 favors are accumulated, etiquette lessons have been going on for several months, and M. Estellé has what I thought was a high-quality outfit.
Is it possible to extend the hotelry and other businesses into the empty lot?
Instead of building a magic shop?
How many people are employed in the fishmarket?
As good as closing it might be for improving the class of the business, I don't want to throw a bunch of people out of work.
Yeah, I'm wondering that as well. It would dovetail nicely into ... whichever group it was that offered to respec our Orbite for us.
IIRC this vacant lot is down the street, not right next door like the fish market is.
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- Somewhere in the area
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- He/She/They
You know, I think you're right about it being an Orbite. That might change my plan for the faith option now that you've pointed it out.
I wonder if the lead singer for our band can help us with that second part, I think she was described as something similar to Elædrin, she's a member of all faiths so she is trust worthy to approach.
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- Somewhere.
Innumerable Aspect, and the MG contract magicians had something similar?
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- Somewhere in the area
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- He/She/They
The contracted Magical Girls were more about Class change, it was the Succubus Contract magicians that could let you change your Orbite.
I don't remember how Innumerable Aspect changed people's Orbites. They'll definitely want to know about a new Orbite though, especially if its not one innately tied to the Noble houses.
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- Somewhere in the area
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- He/She/They
It's less about the Nobility aspect, and more about being a known name. Like I said, we haven't really done much outside the Harbor. Hotel Variety is pretty popular and has grown relatively rapidly, but its not a major investment opportunity. Its more a source of Noble gossip due to its secondary business, and bailout of House Galero's debts.
And with the Sharks being in control of the Port Authority, the warehouses, and the sailors/deckhands, even someone who's kept an eye on the Harbor underworld isn't likely to know of us due to the Redcaps. And we've taken great efforts to separate our public persona and our leadership of the Redcaps on top of that.
[X] Plan Waterfront Business
-[X][Ball] Speak to the Guild officials, particularly the higher-ups, and feel them out.
-[X][Control] Upgrade a business room into a VIP room. 3 Bolts Silk, 30 Clean Æther.
-[X][Charm] Upgrade the landscaped courtyard with a water feature, like a pond or a stream. 250 Clean Æther.
-[X][Intrigue] Talk to the Sharks and get a better idea of what the gang is doing.
-[X][Lore] Build a magic store on the vacant lot with Libertine help. 300 clean Æ, 5 Libertine Favours.
-[X][Faith] Try to find someone who can explain the jewel the Kalinsha and Marielle made last time.
-[X][Personal] Take time out of your schedule to go on a date with Leah.
OK, it's late so just a quick breakdown: I want to talk to the Guild officials so we can get an idea about how friendly they are to our revolutionary sentiments. If they're friendly, we have a potential ally. If they're not, we know that the lower-tier members are, so that's a possible lever to push at a future point. Valuable info either way. Control, Charm, and Lore are all about upgrading our existing properties. Intrigue is about consolidating the waterfront—the Sharks were primarily opposed to the Mob, so maybe now that we've helped them with that we can work out some kind of deal or even absorb them as well. The Faith option is because I want to see if it's an Orbite; if so, I will be campaigning for us to shift ours to it ASAP. And finally, Personal is for Leah since we didn't spend any time with her last month.
@Evenstar what else do we need to be introduced to court? A better dress (or just more dresses, I imagine nobles would laugh at someone who showed up to every court event with the same clothes)? Court-appropriate jewelry? Something else I'm not thinking of?
-[X][Ball] Speak to the Guild officials, particularly the higher-ups, and feel them out.
-[X][Control] Upgrade a business room into a VIP room. 3 Bolts Silk, 30 Clean Æther.
-[X][Charm] Upgrade the landscaped courtyard with a water feature, like a pond or a stream. 250 Clean Æther.
-[X][Intrigue] Talk to the Sharks and get a better idea of what the gang is doing.
-[X][Lore] Build a magic store on the vacant lot with Libertine help. 300 clean Æ, 5 Libertine Favours.
-[X][Faith] Try to find someone who can explain the jewel the Kalinsha and Marielle made last time.
-[X][Personal] Take time out of your schedule to go on a date with Leah.
OK, it's late so just a quick breakdown: I want to talk to the Guild officials so we can get an idea about how friendly they are to our revolutionary sentiments. If they're friendly, we have a potential ally. If they're not, we know that the lower-tier members are, so that's a possible lever to push at a future point. Valuable info either way. Control, Charm, and Lore are all about upgrading our existing properties. Intrigue is about consolidating the waterfront—the Sharks were primarily opposed to the Mob, so maybe now that we've helped them with that we can work out some kind of deal or even absorb them as well. The Faith option is because I want to see if it's an Orbite; if so, I will be campaigning for us to shift ours to it ASAP. And finally, Personal is for Leah since we didn't spend any time with her last month.
@Evenstar what else do we need to be introduced to court? A better dress (or just more dresses, I imagine nobles would laugh at someone who showed up to every court event with the same clothes)? Court-appropriate jewelry? Something else I'm not thinking of?
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