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I will most certainly continue to follow this campaign where time allows (such as holiday weekends like this one). I just don't think I'd be able to regularly contribute often enough to avoid stalling the game over much (I'd be lucky to manage 3 updates a week I think).
On the plus side, if nothing else Vethran can assist the party pretty much anywhere within a 1000 mi. radius of Sandpoint. Alwyn just has to give a sending with a detailed description and Vethran can provide site-to-site teleportation.... or heavily discounted magic item crafting. :D
This is, of course, at Aubrey's discretion, but I don't see any reason why Vethran would just stop helping with what is clearly an important quest. It does seem fitting that he would remain to help lend his intellect and magical prowess to the rebuilding of Sandpoint though. I strongly doubt anyone else in town has his capabilities.
I'll take some sweet n sour pork.
It was a very evocative description, wasn't it? Awesome scenery!
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In case you are interested, most of this is based on this, which describes how they climbed the (then) highest mountain in India - particularly the first half, where they had to hike and climb into the "sanctuary" surrounding the mountain, made up a series of other giant peaks surrounding a valley. There's also a bit of this, which describes the Mallory expeditions to climb Everest in the 20's - for me, the most interesting bit and the largest section of the book is the initial exploration of the region around Everest, given that until Mallory and Co got there in (I think) 1921, no white man had ever been there. I started reading these as research for that abortive Steampunk campaign I was thinking about, which was going to be set in the Himalayas. If you likea bit of exploration lit, these are pretty good (though the Mallory one is massive, and since you know he's going to die, a bit doomy at the end; and there's lots of homoeroticism in Cambridge and more doomy stuff about WW1, with a Wifred Owen poem quoted - bloody good poem, but not uplitfting).
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The Mallory book has been on my to-read list for a while. I'll move it up the line a bit. The Shipton book looks interesting, too. And, yeah, the Owen poem is as good/depressing as it gets.
Currently I'm working my way through several histories of the WW2 genocide in Eastern Europe. Hopefully none of that'll make its way into any games I'm part of.
Taking the GRE tomorrow (grad school entry exam, for those from not USA who call their tests differently) may not be around much today.
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Good luck on your exam!
thanks!
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Sef-
I took a spell that among other things will set you up for charms in the future, but it is a single target. Pugwampis grace makes a target roll twice on d20 rolls and take the worse result. It doesn't affect animals gnolls or gremlins, but otherwise I have a pretty high enchantment DC to soften targets up for you when you want. Also- I didn't take tiny but just for camping. I figured a 20 foot dome of total concealment might be handy while giants rain boulders down, but we might not be as strong with long range casting or bows to effectively return fire. Still- it might make them come to us.
Very cool, Ithers. I was hoping to see how a pet kitty could augment our forces, but it was not to be.
No, it's Scarborough this time.
Tell her to find me an acre of land.
Parsley, sage, rosemary, and thyme.Between salt water and the sea strands.
Then she'll be a true love of mine.
Dividends are not expenses.
At my house we are in the final run-up to our annual fall adventure. This year, we will not have access to wifi for at least four days. In addition, pressure at work related to my anticipated absence and ongoing major project may take me out of the game earlier than that and may keep me off the boards for a while after.
I wanted to post this to all my games while I could to explain that I may go silent for a while. I may get a few more posts in - I'm not sure when radio silence will begin. It could start as early as today - probably late tomorrow - and might run through the 26th if the project goes poorly.
Please don't let my absence stall the game. Bot me as necessary and we will pick up the pieces (or roll up my new character) when I return.
Peace.
Welcome to the wonderful world of accounting!
How are things is grad school?
Busy.
Fun.
Busy.
lol why you Europeans don't value land at historical cost?
Curiosity; how does that work actually? Does land value increase retained earnings? And how is the land valued exactly?
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I'm not so up on accounting these days, but my understanding is that rather than going to P&L the changes in land and building values go to a separate reserve called the revaluation reserve, which is non-distributable. Then, when the land and buildings in question are sold, the value of the revaluation reserve goes to P&L where it can be distributed. The point of using market values is that historical cost accounting only tell you what something was worth at the time of purchase, not what it is worth now, and not having that information in your balance sheet can be distorting to the accounts. Of course, mark-to-market has its own problems...
I'm not so up on accounting these days, but my understanding is that rather than going to P&L the changes in land and building values go to a separate reserve called the revaluation reserve, which is non-distributable. Then, when the land and buildings in question are sold, the value of the revaluation reserve goes to P&L where it can be distributed. The point of using market values is that historical cost accounting only tell you what something was worth at the time of purchase, not what it is worth now, and not having that information in your balance sheet can be distorting to the accounts. Of course, mark-to-market has its own problems...
I get the problem with historical i.e. its current value isn't reflected in the balance sheet. I just don't see how it's possible for the real estate value to be known that well......real estate values being as highly variable as they are. My mom bought a house and sold it for double in like 3 years, then (when the real estate bubble burst) the poor guy who bought it from her sold it for less than she bought it for.....
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Valuation is, in general, a real issue when it comes to accounting. At my previous place there was a whole team who looked at valuations of securities because there are so many ways of coming up with (different) valuations for illiquid securities. You generally value land an buildings by getting someone in the know (a chartered surveyor, for example, in the UK) to give you their professional opinion, but of course that is fraught with difficulties too. And the other big problem with market values is that they only tell you what the thing was maybe worth on the balance sheet date, not right now. As we know from the crisis, these valuations are, ultimately, what someone will buy the thing from you for and that can change rapidly depending on market sentiment, which is likely to be volatile for some time given current uncertainties. Of course, historical values can be seriously out of whack with what an asset is currently worth now too. In the end, there is no perfect solution.
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Packing up and going home at midnight: Achievement Unlocked.
Decision made about 11pm. All kids tucked up in their own beds: 2am. Camp Struck and 80 mile journey in between....
This is what happens when one child throws up in the tent, the wife gets a migraine on set, and rain is forecast for the whole next day....
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Wow, Nev, sorry to hear it was such a rough one. I'm happy to report our adventure went better than we'd hoped. We hiked rim-to-rim at the Grand Canyon with a guide and three other first-time backcountry hikers. It was hard, it was amazing, it was worth it, and I can't wait to return to do it again.
Will see tomorrow what work holds in store. That's going to impact posting availability - I just hope the vacation was enough to keep me sane over the next couple of weeks.