Essar went into the jewelery shop and asked "do you have any holy symbols of the Blood available?
Othan is now waiting for everyone else to complete their purchasing and for the train to leave.
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Xov starts by searching around for the Lucky Sorcerer. Then he looks for a store with "normal" Brelish clothing--the best kind to blend in with.
"Do you happen to have another one of those?" Ebran asks, indicating the armor Othan just bought. "Also, do you have any chakram or shortbows? daggers? And how much for those regular clothes?"
"Yes, yes, yes! The regular clothes? One silver piece will get you a peasant's outfit, 10 gold pieces will get you an explorer's outfit," he says.
Kyndril goes to buy plain, serviceable Brelish clothing, scrupulously avoiding the slave market, lest he grow too angry and do something stupid, as well as the Lucky Sorcerer for his spell component pouch. Realizing he does not have enough for armor at this rate, he sighs, resolves to keep further out of combat, and looks to the fighter's guild member, and asks in Elven
Elven:
"Begging your pardon, but do you happen to have a scimitar for sale?"
- Plain serviceable Brelish clothing costs you 1 sp.
- You find a spell component pouch at the Lucky Sorcerer.
- Fighter's Guild:
"Yes on the Scimitar."
After pondering the strange oddity he has just seen, Danir enters Janel's Fine Clothing and looks around. Deciding that his limited budget dictates thrift, he opts to purchase a explorer's outfit-
Danir searches for a decent outfit to meet his needs, making sure it has sturdy boots and gloves as well
Appraise check: 1d20 + 8 ⇒ (9) + 8 = 17
Xov looks around the store.
"Ah, here we are," he says as he picks up a new spell component pouch. He looks around further and finds the material components he was missing; some wire, some soot, and a few others.
all material components for spells Xov knows are cheap enough to be "free/unlimited" in-game.
"What do you ask in return for all of these?", he asks the shop keeper, holding his arms out.
"That will be 5 gold pieces!" says the pimply teenager at the counter with a voice that goes up and down.
"Essar went into the jewelery shop and asked "do you have any holy symbols of the Blood available?"
"You mean Blood of Vol? I think we have a few, but they haven't been made holy," says the jeweler. "None of our symbols have been made holy yet."
Kyndril makes his purchases, then pauses to contemplate his funds. Together with the ticket, that cost him a total of... 25 galifars, one silver piece. He frowns, then purchases one of the leather jerkins after trying it on to ensure it is good quality. Finally, he makes his way to buy some writing implements, such as an inkpot, an inkpen, and ink. All of this finished, he makes his way to the lightning rail, privately swearing to return and try to make things better.
"Well, this should do, should it not?" He asks, eyes glittering.
I'll take a symbol of the Blood made out of Iron for five gold, I will render it holy with my own blood as is proper.
Xov pays and leaves with his supplies, carefully avoiding looking at Kyndril.
Now, he just needed some ordinary clothing, to allow himself to blend in. He hurried to find some. Although he had plenty of time before the train would leave, he wanted some extra time
Xov searched the markets for some normal-looking clothes. He needed to be able to blend in easily.
Xov made his way to the lightning rail station. Noticing Othan, he sighed.
Well, it probably wasn't his fault that he comes from a country of traitors to the Crown. He may not have even been living back then, being such a short-lived human.
Approaching silently, he nodded to Othan, without making a sound.
"Do you happen to have another one of those?" Ebran asks, indicating the armor Othan just bought. "Also, do you have any chakram or shortbows? daggers? And how much for those regular clothes?""Yes, yes, yes! The regular clothes? One silver piece will get you a peasant's outfit, 10 gold pieces will get you an explorer's outfit," he says.
"Long story short, I was hoping you'd cut me a bit of a deal for 'buying in bulk' as it were. How much would it cost me to get some studded leather armor, a dagger, twelve chakram, a buckler and the explorer's clothes?
Othan nods back to Xov, ready to manifest his mindblade if the former prisoner tries anything
OOC, Othan is in his late 20s. Also what is the standard lifespan of a shifter in Eberron?
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1.Who has the package with the message we are suppose to deliver?
2.Can it be opened/read without breaking any seals or whatever?
Ebran must have it.
OOC, ok, don't have races of Eberron only the main campaign setting book.
Now that he had his explorer's outift wrapped and paid for, Danir goes to find the rest of his group- seeing them come out of the Fighter's Guild with weapons he decided to try his luck there to get some gear. Danir enters the fighter's guild...
RE: my previous post, basically trying to get 54gp worth of stuff for about 42gp (hopefully) so i can keep 5gp for a rail ticket and 3gp for stuff like room/food/bath. failing that, I will try to buy some soap and go down to the beach and wash myself there. As a sailor, he isn't too proud to do so.
Kyndril nods politely at Danir as the artificer enters the Fighter's Guild. No reason to be impolite, after all. And maybe the artificer could help him with his magical research at some point!
Ebran is busy haggling at the moment in Elven inside the fighter's guild.
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Ebran is busy haggling at the moment in Elven inside the fighter's guild.
Haggling is an opposed Appraise to Bluff to Sense Motive.
You roll your appraise skill first then your bluff to bluff him. He opposes with Sense Motive, and then Bluffs you.
You continue to do this until both of you can arrive at a great price. (usually when you lose or he wins the Bluff test.)
Haggling is more of a Commercial Art than just paying for something. If I work my will, there would be a Haggling skill. Sometimes, having hardly any skills but most of the stuff you can do is translated into feats -- you miss out on a lot of opportunities for rp.
I think RMSS and GURPS have it right in their approaches to skills. But I didn't design the system.
1.Who has the package with the message we are suppose to deliver?
2.Can it be opened/read without breaking any seals or whatever?[/ooc]
not trying to go nuts here, as buying some simple wares has taken quite long enough so far, even by pbp standards. what is it that i need to roll? appraise, bluff, and sense motive?
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You need to pay 46 gp. you can borrow the extra from one of your team mates.
You got some clothes that make you stand out like a sore thumb. With a roll of 1, what you thought you got made you look great, but to everyone else, you're the laughing stock of the whole village. And the terrible thing is, your oblivious to the fact that you stand out like a sore thumb until your team mates say so. Your new clothes glow in the dark in rather strategic places.
Xov has bought clothes that make him really stand out. If you want, you can torture him until he "gets it." If you think he's been humiliated enough, you can tell him to buy new clothes.
After everyone has purchased their stuff, the Lightning Rail Station is probably the only thing of human construction in the whole village of Hatheril. Nonetheless, the construction is vaguely Elven. The station is open aired, with a beautiful lighting rail train that is shaped like a torpedo waiting on the tracks. There is an awful lot of steam being released at the station. You see some elven women in long gowns of different colors in hairstyles that are moderately short. Other women have long luxurious hair. And there are some that look like adventurers or travelers like yourselves.
The lightning rail has lighting arcing over the the top of the locomotive engine, and you hear the tell tail sounds of electric discharge along the bottom of the coaches. There are two, maybe three conductor stone tracks. And this particular Lightning Rail line is the line from Fairhaven to Sharn. The lightning rail has the crest of the House of Orien on it -- a heater shield with a lone unicorn. The unicorn is argent (white), the field is blue or azure. On the back of each coach is the arms for House Cannith, a sable (black) bull (gorgon) on a field of vert (green).
The arms on the back delineates who manufactured the Lightning Rail coaches and locomotive engine, while the arms on the side and the front delineates who owns the Lightning Rails. The engine and coaches are manufactured of Black Iron.
Danir waits for the clearly part elven human to finish haggling with the elven weapons merchant.
You got some clothes that make you stand out like a sore thumb. With a roll of 1, what you thought you got made you look great, but to everyone else, you're the laughing stock of the whole village. And the terrible thing is, your oblivious to the fact that you stand out like a sore thumb until your team mates say so. Your new clothes glow in the dark in rather strategic places.
[ooc]Huh? I rolled a natural 7? Modified 8? Where is this roll of 1? *confused*
Ok I will pay that price minus the 5gp for a buckler. I'll have to buy that elsewhere but my character wouldn't borrow money from people he barely knows, setting himself up to be the fool who can't control himself well enough to save 5gp for a train ticket. Long story short, paying 41gp for all items except the buckler.
@Danir, if you speak elven you can read the elven spoiler up there i made in the fighter's guild.
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You got some clothes that make you stand out like a sore thumb. With a roll of 1, what you thought you got made you look great, but to everyone else, you're the laughing stock of the whole village. And the terrible thing is, your oblivious to the fact that you stand out like a sore thumb until your team mates say so. Your new clothes glow in the dark in rather strategic places.[ooc]Huh? I rolled a natural 7? Modified 8? Where is this roll of 1? *confused*
Okay, I re-read that, I thought it was a one. you got clothes of poor quality at the price you paid for them. Although the glow in the dark clothes would have been cool. :)
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After everyone has purchased their stuff, the next day . . .
The Lightning Rail Station is probably the only thing of human construction in the whole village of Hatheril. Nonetheless, the construction is vaguely Elven. The station is open aired, with a beautiful lighting rail train that is shaped like a torpedo waiting on the tracks. There is an awful lot of steam being released at the station. You see some elven women in long gowns of different colors in hairstyles that are moderately short. Other women have long luxurious hair. And there are some that look like adventurers or travelers like yourselves.
The lightning rail has lighting arcing over the the top of the locomotive engine, and you hear the tell tail sounds of electric discharge along the bottom of the coaches. There are two, maybe three conductor stone tracks. And this particular Lightning Rail line is the line from Fairhaven to Sharn. The lightning rail has the crest of the House of Orien on it -- a heater shield with a lone unicorn. The unicorn is argent (white), the field is blue or azure. On the back of each coach is the arms for House Cannith, a sable (black) bull (gorgon) on a field of vert (green).
The arms on the back delineates who manufactured the Lightning Rail coaches and locomotive engine, while the arms on the side and the front delineates who owns the Lightning Rails. The engine and coaches are manufactured of Black Iron.
Ebran walks up to the station and looks about for those he was released with. Only once they have all gathered will he buy a train ticket.
Ebran is dressed in studded leather armor over sturdy explorer's clothing. Instead of wearing the included cloak, Ebran has it folded neatly around the package from Cassius that he is carrying, and it is tied with a leather strap. Tied around his calf is a dagger in its sheath, and at his belt there hangs a pouch.
Essar went towards the train station in his blood red robes, his dagger in a fold of the robe and his holy symbol, an iron skull wet with his own recently shed blood around his neck.
Once his turn comes, Danir looks over the elf's wares
Danir arrives to the station the next day feeling like a new man- freshly bathed and wearing the first new clothes of his own in a long time, it felt... good. Seeing the others with whom he must travel he quickly decided to sit away from the obvious lunatic in the blood red robes and the bloody iron skull symbol. Danir's faith in the Sovereign Host and Onatar might be quite lax at times but he could not bring himself to be too close to the Karrnathi priest for fear he might forget himself and brain the man.
Othan looks for the man they were sent to find, remarking to the others that they should probably move in 2-3 groups so they don't stand out as a really big group. Better to have a few guys that the enemy doesn't think are with you if the situation goes sideways.
perception
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Othan looks for the man they were sent to find, remarking to the others that they should probably move in 2-3 groups so they don't stand out as a really big group. Better to have a few guys that the enemy doesn't think are with you if the situation goes sideways.
perception 1d20+4
And skip the wonderful scene of the Lightning Rail moving out I had planned? :) Save this for when you reach the Crossroads.
Ebran has the encoded package.
On what side of the war did you serve? As I myself served in the Emerald Claw as a healer...although I did cave in my fair share of Thranian skulls.
the next day...
Xov sighed. He had just finished
Approaching the station, he waved at Ebron.
"Good morning! It certainly is nice to a fellow Aundarian."
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the next day...Xov sighed. He had just finished ** spoiler omitted **.
He quickly walked out of the inn. Noticing the sun, he made sure to protect himself from its blinding rays magically
Approaching the station, he waved at Ebron.
"Good morning! It certainly is nice to a fellow Aundarian."
[dice=perception Xov]1d20+5
[dice=perception Ven'Xol]1d20+4
As observant as ever, you notice no suspicious characters. Yet!
To Xov's greeting, Ebran replies amiably, "Indeed! I am eager to get this business completed and see what has become of the world in the past few years. From what part of Aundair to you hail? Forgive me, but you don't look like the average Aundarian, so the mind wonders."
Aside from speaking with Xov, Ebran walks up to the others (in turn if they are hanging out separately) and lets them know that he is taking the next train, and if they are not inclined to converse with him during the train ride, he will meet them again at Crossroads. That said, he invites them to converse on the train ride anyway.
Additionally, he asks the ticket seller about how long the ride to the next stop will be.
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To Xov's greeting, Ebran replies amiably, "Indeed! I am eager to get this business completed and see what has become of the world in the past few years. From what part of Aundair to you hail? Forgive me, but you don't look like the average Aundarian, so the mind wonders."
Aside from speaking with Xov, Ebran walks up to the others (in turn if they are hanging out separately) and lets them know that he is taking the next train, and if they are not inclined to converse with him during the train ride, he will meet them again at Crossroads. That said, he invites them to converse on the train ride anyway.
Additionally, he asks the ticket seller about how long the ride to the next stop will be.
"This is an experimental Orien Lightening rail, so it will take about three days to reach Crossroads," the un-dragonmarked Orien ticket seller said.
"Ah, very good. And how do eating and sleeping arrangements work for the class of ticket I just purchased?"
Tis time to begin our trip then, my fellows a question do any of you like good wine?
To Xov's greeting, Ebran replies amiably, "Indeed! I am eager to get this business completed and see what has become of the world in the past few years. From what part of Aundair to you hail? Forgive me, but you don't look like the average Aundarian, so the mind wonders."
Aside from speaking with Xov, Ebran walks up to the others (in turn if they are hanging out separately) and lets them know that he is taking the next train, and if they are not inclined to converse with him during the train ride, he will meet them again at Crossroads. That said, he invites them to converse on the train ride anyway.
Additionally, he asks the ticket seller about how long the ride to the next stop will be.
"I hail from Thalios. Sadly, my home was destroyed when Thrane conquered the region, and none of my family survived as far as I know."
What part of Aundair are you from?
Also, I noticed yesterday that you bear the Mark of Storm. That is strange, you certainly do not appear to be a half-elf.
Ebran walks up to the others (in turn if they are hanging out separately) and lets them know that he is taking the next train, and if they are not inclined to converse with him during the train ride, he will meet them again at Crossroads. That said, he invites them to converse on the train ride anyway.
[B]"I am also going on the next train," Xov said in reply.
Tis time to begin our trip then, my fellows a question do any of you like good wine?
Xov shakes his head in refusal. Despite the wine's popularity in Aundair, Xov preferred to remain alert at all times.
To the Station employee, Ebran says, "Sounds great. Thank you."
To Essar, Ebran replies, "Of course, I love good wine. Dark rum as well."
GM: What does Ebran know of Thalios?
To Xov, Ebran says, "I spent most of my time in Stormhome. And yes, this is a mark of storm. The folks I worked with at House Lyrandar told me a little about it. They seemed quite astonished that it appeared on me as well, but I do have distant elven ancestors. Just not close enough to give me the ears or the eyebrows or disdain for manual labor, ha ha!"
Wine would be nice, as long as there is some meat soon, it has been far to long since I have had some good, red meat.