Foxy Quickpaw's - Shattered Star AP

Game Master Foxy Quickpaw

The shop is just down the street and then into the street to the right. It is a nice building with a store front, an office, a storage room and a privy. The former inhabitants are packing their belongings in boxes and put them on a cart. The sign over the shop window reads 'Ben & Jerry Arts'. They are packing paintings and little statues.

"I'm not sure but I don't think so. We will sell stuff we find while we're on adventures for the Pathfinder Society. And if we have some extra time I might create some potions. That wouldn't be competition, or would it?" Gwenhwyfar asks worried.

"Yes it would." Lini replies and furrows her brow. "I deal in all kinds of magic items and alchemical potions. The most things of worth coming from adventurers are magical items. If you forget about that shop of yours I'll offer you better prices for your goods if you simply sell them to me. Let's say I buy them at 60%" Lini suggests.

"Or we buy a better shopfront, in a higher class part of town together with you and you run it and take a split of the profits?" Jimmy suggests

"How much stuff are we talking about? Even if you bring in stuff worth thousands of platinum it probably won't fill a single shelf." Lini asks. "As for the business model. If you don't need the money in an instant I can offer you to take everything on comission and if I sell it, I get 10% and you the rest. If not you get your stuff back."
which you will then not be able to sell for half price in whole Magnimar.

How much of the stuff will we sell through commision :P?

I'll roll some dice to see if someone buys it with a modification based on the kind of stuff. Lenses of Detection going easier than Golem Bane Scarabs. You will make more money than selling half price but later. Which helps prevent you to become too rich. As for later you would have higher wealth anyway. The details I'd have to think about a bit.

And you dont want to just let us open ashop using the downtime rules from ultimate campaign? We could do that and include Lini's modifiers in it and like halve the money coming out

The biggest drawback of every solution that doesn't take half the money now is actually time. We're here in Magnimar for what? Five days? You probably have more from the offered 60% in an instant than 90% in two weeks.

"Or we could sell the magic stuff to Lini and our shop is about Runelord Azlanist statues and other pices of art." Gwenhwyfar suggests.

I'm not really familiar with these rules. But if you want to give it a try. Lini is just worried about her business. It's not that I want to talk you out of your shop.

I have a convention I need to get up for in like 6 hours. So I need to head to sleep. I wasn't planning on a fancy magic item shop only, more of a general purpose store and such. Sell some potions and some art, and general antiques and the like. Have a a decent manager with decent appraise and diplomacy and buy stuff to sell later in the shop and the like. I am talking something along the lines of like 10 gp a week, something that Gwen and Jimmy can easily live off of.
Good night

I will read up on the downtime rules in my free time tomorrow :)

"I like that idea. You bring me everything magic that fits in a drawer and the bulky artsy stuff you sell yourself. And if I get something offered that fit's your business I'll send them over to you." Lini replies excitedly.

"That sounds fantastic."

Down the street comes a open carriage drawn by two horses driven by a man wearing a top hat and a tailcoat. The carriage stops in front of the shop.

A corpulent man in fine clothes gets out of the carriage and observes the clearing of the shop. He then starts to inspect the shop and argues with the other two guys, probably Ben and Jerry about damages at the building. Finally he gets loud "Get out you useless folk. No money to pay the rent. No money to pay the damage. Investing in this s*%*ty neighbourhood was a big mistake."

Ben and Jerry duck their heads and hurriedly pull their cart down the street.

"Look!" Gwenhwyfar says pointing to the man. "This seems to be the owner of the shop."

Lini looks over to the man. "Oh my. This guy." she sighs.

"Why? Who is that?" Gwenhwyfar asks.

"Alfons Mortimer Grobaras. Third cousin of our Lord-Mayor. Hopefully he will lose interest in Low Cleft. The last thing we need is the 'uptown nobles' spreading here." Lini says and spits on the ground.

Back a Heidmarch Manor
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Tauriell sits at the table and counts out the coins. Three stacks of 17pp and two of 18pp. She then remembers the pouch with the 232gp in one of the side bags of her backpack.

She pours them out and makes five stacks of 40gp. She then adds 10 gp to each of the smapper pp stacks. The remaining two she weighs in her hand and thinks about what to do with them. She sighs, and puts them on the table. She then bags her share of the coins.

That done she walks over to the meeting house to see if she can find out where this basalt statue from the vision is standing.

Knowledge(Geography): 1d20 + 8 ⇒ (16) + 8 = 24

She already knows it's the Lady's Light but she wants to refresh her knowledge in the Library.

Niamh follows Tauriell. "What are you doing now?" She asks her.

"I'm going to look up a rather impressing monument we're going to visit soon." Tauriell explains while searching through the libraries entry. "Do you know the lady's light?"

Geography: 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (20) + 7 = 27
"Yes, I know it. And we're going to visit that?" Niamh asks looking up to Tauriell.

Tauriell mumbles the index on the card the Lady's Light references. "M3.2, M3.2"

"M3.2, M3.2" she continues while walking along the shelves and checking their labels. "Here it is. M2-M3.8" Walking into the aisle her finger slides over the shelf followed by her eyes until she grabs a large tome. "The Mushfens. Here we will find it." Carrying the tome to a reading corner she places it on the table and starts flipping through the pages.

"Do you know which shard it is?" Niamh asks taking in premium to be annoying.

Knowledge History: 1d20 + 8 ⇒ (14) + 8 = 22
"I'm sorry, but I don't know that. I'm sure Mrs. Heidmarch knows." she says remembering the drawing in Mrs. Heidmarch's notes but not the details.

"That only Mrs. Heidmarch knows isn't really helpul!" Niamh snorts and looks over the table into the book with Tauriell.

"Why is that? I'm sure she will tell us." Tauriell replies.

Finally she finds what she searches for. "Oh great. We have to go through the mushfens. Which means either walking for days through the swamp or rowing along the chaotic waterways even longer. Do you like mosquitoes and boggards?" Tauriell asks.

"Or we would have to find some captain who is willing to bring us there from the sea side."

"I'm for taking a ship." Niamh says.

"I guess that will be an unanimous vote. Just the ships captain could be a problem. The region is not too ship friendly. Look at the map. It has several shelves around the peninsula where the monument stands." Tauriell explains lining them out with her finger on the map.

"Then we'll have to buy a ship. I hope you can steer a ship. Do you?"

"I'm a professional sailor. Jimmy too. If you have saved up enough to buy a ship we surely get it there. We might be not good enough to not sink it there. But at least we will get there." Tauriell jokes.

Niamh shakes her head. "Okay. Terrible idea."

"Wanna come to Mrs. Heidmarch. We could ask her about the next shard and if she has some contacts that would get us a passage on a ship." Tauriell suggests closing the book.

Niamh walks with Tauriell out of the library and to the office house.

Tauriell walks to the Manor house and knocks. As Margaret opens she asks "Hello Margaret. We'd like to talk to Mrs. Heidmarch. We'd have some questions about our next target and if she can arrange a ship passage to the Lady's Light."

Margaret looks at Tauriell and then at Niamh. Her eyes resting on the halfling she says "No."

Looking back up to Tauriell she adds "But I will tell her your concern and let you know how she responded. Please wait here." With that Margaret closes the door again.

"What did you do last time?" Tauriell asks Niamh.

"I told you she won't let me in. Everyone hates me. You see?" Niamh asks Tauriell with a criminative voice.

"I don't hate you. I think you're cute and would love to cuddle all that misery out of you." Tauriell replies with a smile.

After a few minutes Margaret comes back to the door. "Miss Tauriell." and as she has her attention she adds "Mrs. Heidmarch will see what she can do about the passage. Besides that there will be a meeting tomorrow afternoon in the meeting house. Please make sure all members of Mrs Gwenhwyfar's team are present at 4 PM sharp." She then waits if there are any questions.

"Nice." Tauriell replies. "That's perfect. Thank you."

"By the way, what did Niamh do to earn a ban on the Manor House?" she asks.

"I really did nothing! Don't listen to her." Niamh replies in a hurry.

Margaret looks at the halfling. "Nothing?" she replies and to Tauriell adds "She was very insistent on refashioning the guest house even after Mrs. Heidmarch made it clear that she will not allow that."

"She didn't even listen to my suggestions!" Niamh throws in.

"And to make sure she hasn't to you're no longer allowed into the house." Margaret tells Niamh looking at her over her glasses.

"Mph." Niamh snorts and crosses her arms. "You see?" She asks Tauriell.

"Yes I see. You're a poor misunderstood girl." Tauriell says and pats Niamh on her head. "Thank you again Margaret. We will be there tomorrow at four. Good bye."

She then takes Niamh with her to the guest house. "We probably should really see to finding a house for us. This one is to small anyway. Then you could paint your room whatever you want. And if you're good at it I would allow you to paint mine too."

Niamh's face brightens up. "I want a circular room with a pool in it. And I have to ask Lockerbie which colours he used for his painting."

"I suggest a dry room with the painting and casting an illusion of water into it. Or do you want to sleep in a swimming bed?" Tauriell inquires.