I like this plan, wouldn't mind if if won, it's just that if we are going to visit a black market it might as well be once we have some money and that is what I hope the baron can give us. As for learning about the local gods I fear that at best we will get some pretty surface level information that will do little to help us navigate interfaith relations. Given the baron's proclivities for life extending alchemy (called out in the vote) I am counting on him to choose a discreet priest.
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I like this plan, wouldn't mind if if won, it's just that if we are going to visit a black market it might as well be once we have some money and that is what I hope the baron can give us. As for learning about the local gods I fear that at best we will get some pretty surface level information that will do little to help us navigate interfaith relations. Given the baron's proclivities for life extending alchemy (called out in the vote) I am counting on him to choose a discreet priest.
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Whooo, black market time
Edit: Damn, @DragonParadox makes a good point. No money makes markets moot. Guess it's time for
[X] Take up a pseudonym? Your appearance could pass for a local, but your name surely does not. A pseudonym should help you stick out a little less. (Free, if taken)
-[X] Verona Mina Harkon
[X] Plan Rebirth of the Living, Gossip with the Dead
Whooo, black market time
Edit: Damn, @DragonParadox makes a good point. No money makes markets moot. Guess it's time for
[X] Take up a pseudonym? Your appearance could pass for a local, but your name surely does not. A pseudonym should help you stick out a little less. (Free, if taken)
-[X] Verona Mina Harkon
[X] Plan Rebirth of the Living, Gossip with the Dead
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It comes down to a difference in opinion about our chances of getting paid by the Baron right now. It's probably up to a dice roll and in my opinion our odds are not good.
I would say the black market is an option because it is a lead in our investigation. Actually having someone who's going there to help us make the introductions (who's going because of the investigation) is just a nice bonus. Because of the circumstances I think Oswald's and Mikhail's help here might be time limited. Presumably if we don't go in the next couple of turns Oswald just comes back and reports what he finds out?
I would say the black market is an option because it is a lead in our investigation. Actually having someone who's going there to help us make the introductions (who's going because of the investigation) is just a nice bonus. Because of the circumstances I think Oswald's and Mikhail's help here might be time limited. Presumably if we don't go in the next couple of turns Oswald just comes back and reports what he finds out?
You have some money now in additional to materials; you did save the person responsible for the budget and a made an explicit request. I just suffered the typical "forgot about charsheet" QM illness.
Something like 50 GoldCoins, subject to change if I misremembered my "very substantial but not fantastic" benchmark for money from WHRP. In terms of Exalted, if that's helpful, you got... Resources 2ish, on the upper range of that.
Something like 50 GoldCoins, subject to change if I misremembered my "very substantial but not fantastic" benchmark for money from WHRP. In terms of Exalted, if that's helpful, you got... Resources 2ish, on the upper range of that.
Good to know but I am sticking to my plan, that does not seem like a lot to spent in your typical black market.
Same. The black market is interesting but it makes little sense to visit until we have that sweet noble passive income to tap. Although, I'm curious as to whether gold in Sylvania is significantly more valuable than it would otherwise appear due to how dirt-poor the province is. As one anon put at char. gen you could likely buy someone's life with silver and their soul with gold, which I consider to be an understatement since Sylvania is in some way even worse than Bretonnia. I doubt the peasantry even knows what gold looks like. Speaking of wealth, I think it would be really cool if we could develop a type of cursed currency like in Pirates of the Caribbean. Picture this, we innovate Death and Sky Bargain (which is a spell focused on Oaths, bargains, trade, and inevitability) so that we perform a similar trade we do with the dead, i.e. service in exchange for postponing their final judgment, with the living. Come to think of it, this reminds a little of Davy Jone's deal with his crew. People live short and brutal lives in Sylvania with death always around the corner and would likely agree to anything if it meant they not only could get wealth they otherwise could never acquire, in addition to getting to live longer. The coins would not even have to extend their lives, but could just ward off things likely to end their life prematurely, chief among them being undead, followed by the living dead (ghouls and other servants of the undead), disease, and time-based ailments.
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Same. The black market is interesting but it makes little sense to visit until we have that sweet noble passive income to tap. Although, I'm curious as to whether gold in Sylvania is significantly more valuable than it would otherwise appear due to how dirt-poor the province is. As one anon put at char. gen you could likely buy someone's life with silver and their soul with gold, which I consider to be an understatement since Sylvania is in some way even worse than Bretonnia. I doubt the peasantry even knows what gold looks like. Speaking of wealth, I think it would be really cool if we could develop a type of cursed currency like in Pirates of the Caribbean. Picture this, we innovate Death and Sky Bargain (which is a spell focused on Oaths, bargains, trade, and inevitability) so that we perform a similar trade we do with the dead, i.e. service in exchange for postponing their final judgment, with the living. Come to think of it, this reminds a little of Davy Jone's deal with his crew. People live short and brutal lives in Sylvania with death always around the corner and would likely agree to anything if it meant they not only could get wealth they otherwise could never acquire, in addition to getting to live longer. The coins would not even have to extend their lives, but could just ward off things likely to end their life prematurely, chief among them being undead, followed by the living dead (ghouls and other servants of the undead), disease, and time-based ailments.
I think this is broadly doable and even within Nefertari's skill-set, it is kind of the way the lesser undead of Nehekara work, they serve not because they have been forcefully raised with Dhar but due to the vows they swore to serve in life and in death. That said a coin of repulse undead would be hard to mass produce. It would have to be a single grand ritual that binds the coinage to its purpose and then you could make more of it as needed and I think it would have to be made by the lord of the land or cast in their likeness. This is something if not for end game than at least late mid game.
More like skill issue for Nefertari as she never willingly get her hands dirty and let the Lahmian Sisterhood do all the heavy lifting for her. Lazying around at the Silver Palace should make her very rusty.
I meant the PC not Neferata the Progenitor.
Oh right, my bad.
But still does Neferata even do anything at all? Not pretending to be a totally average Lahmian to make some surprise inspection on other Lahmians to see if they're doing their jobs or not, or just go around for the giggles.
Got it. So basically once Vlad's in power he starts minting coins because there is no way he will not put his face on coinage given every other province mints their own currency and Vlad's ego. That is pretty likely given that Stirland, the closest province, has their province founder's mother's face on their currency.
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Got it. So basically once Vlad's in power he starts minting coins because there is no way he will not put his face on coinage given every other province mints their own currency and Vlad's ego. That is pretty likely given that Stirland, the closest province, has their province founder's mother's face on their currency.
Currency
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In the meantime the best thing we can do for Sylvania is to teach the vampires how to make their undead without spilling Dhar and warpstone dust all over the place. The amount of Dhar the vampires themselves produce is negligible next to the armies of skeletons and zombies.
Agreed. The most valuable resource we can provide is time. The lower the amount of Dhar and the fewer amounts of reckless unthinking beastial undead the better since Dhar, like chaos corruption, will corrupt everything (the mind, body, and soul of the living and the dead, the plants, the waters, the very earth itself, etc...). My theory is that the war will only kick off when Dhar reaches critical levels and it is no longer possible to maintain the masquerade or when even the pretense of Sylvania not being completely owned and operated by the undead is thrown away. The more time we have, the more resources we can gather, the more people we can turn, the better the selection process for creating vampires will be, and the more ushabti we can make.
Don't forget abaout the Skaven invasion.
That was a pretty big part of what brought abaout the rise of the Von Carstein.
"Have generations upon generations of people buried with their lords under mortuary cult wards in a way that interacted real strangely with Nagash's turbo-ritual. That's what worked for Nehekhara to get easily raised armies, so that's what I recommend. Look, I assure you that this can be easily done if you just bring in more of my fellow cultists and let me start nabbing magically talented locals for induction into the mysteries. And if you increased my budget. Sylvanian generations have a pretty rapid turnover rate, so it shouldn't take too long."
It pretty much interacted as intended by Nagash, he just never got to cast part two where he would have enslaved everyone to his will. We can just leave out that part... and also the part where you kill all the living.
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Just for curiosities sake, what do you use to write the drafts?
Will the light of Petra shine upon us soon oh kindly GM of many titles each more impressive than the last?