I like the idea of Erip's Avengers. :)
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Erip's Avengers works for me.
We seem awfully attached to a character nobody in-game knew for more than like 5 minutes.
It could at least be "Cuetz' Avengers" or "The Cult of Spiny" or something.
I'm being perfectly serious right now: What sort of RP sense does it make to name ourselves after somebody NOBODY had any lasting relationship with that died months ago less than an hour after we formed the group.
Did anyone even have a single conversation with Erip? Besides Farrukh...and it was entirely a business relationship between them.
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Carina and Erip knew each other decently as doctor/patient.
Tanith and Erip were drinking buddies.
Farrukh and Erip were sorta partners.
I think the sympathy is largely arising from the inherent tragedy of the forgotten. Erip's not exactly going to come up much throughout the adventure. From a roleplaying perspective, you could see it as "Erip's death brought us together", maybe.
Just spitballing. I have no horse in this race (though for my part, I think you should reference acid beetles, Ixiaxian, spiritual weapons, and/or invisible stalkers in your name! :D).
Also, this:
[Discussion on "Erip's Avengers"]
Gark: "I was trying to do something Robin-themed, but I couldn't remember anything about..."
Me: "He said 'old boy' a lot."
Gark: "Yeah, The Old Boys!"
Rodrigo: I'd prefer to avoid actually going with "Monopoly: Greyhawk Edition" for now. Among other reasons, there's the simple fact that you guys will soon be leaving Greyhawk pretty much for good. Building an Astraden-unfriendly empire might hit a slight speedbump.
On the other hand, it is an interesting PC goal. Some PCs become kings. Others become slumlords. So if you want, you can contract someone in the city to manage your affairs here as a liaison, and every now and then you can just chuck some money off and the process of conquest proceeds. It won't turn profitable any time soon (probably not within the duration of the game, by my understanding of rent pricings), but you do have the income to wrangle quite a few properties over time.
I would be careful, though—Gark has mentioned it won't sit well with Astraden, and Rodrigo still seems fairly loosely recruited.
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I was actually kinda joking about Erip. Part of "the joke" is that he is almost completely irrelevant to our adventures as a whole, and naming our group after him when half the party never even met him is, while sweet, not representative of our story. In character, Astraden would vote for something like Twice-Revived, Protectors of the Meek, or, well, Old Boys.
You could always just take Erip's name out.
Oh, wait.
I thought KC's summary was actually spot on.
I don't want to abuse them, I want to make it a better place to live. I would charge fair rent, and keep investing money in infrastructure. I was going to hold a town meeting type thing and see what they need, and then try to get it done for them. I mean we don't have to derail the game with it. I just want to throw money at it, and get rewarded with fluff. It would be really cool to have a section of the city who loves us and was built by us into an awesome place, even if we never go there. Then we can retire to it afterwards.
Edit:I'm not really expecting profits from this, it's more of a flavor thing. Not that I would complain about getting something back.
Ah, I've gotcha. The "slumlord" bit misled me. So yeah, what I said stands—you won't be spending a ton more time here, but you can have someone here act as a proxy while you're off gallivanting in search of adventure.
You'll have a couple days after the Games to get this settled, but I'd be fine with you retconning the initial couple purchases. At the very least, Forwell's shrine is up for sale now, and that's a spacious building.
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I'm with Farrukh on this one; I mean, there's the side fact that I'm the only one that wasn't a player when Erip was alive, so maybe it stands out to me even more, but, regardless of any preexisting relationships Tanith, Caruina and Farrukh had with him, half the current PCs in the group never knew Erip at all.
(Plus 'Avengers' makes little to no sense in that context either. Erip died before we ever came to the attention of or heard the words 'Ebon Triad'. So 'Avengers' only makes sense if Loris Raknian is a cunningly disguised beetle swarm.)
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Okay, well what kind of thing do the people need most? A school? A clinic? Public sewage and water?
I'll throw 10k at it. Of course everything has to have pictures and statues of me on it.
I'm with Farrukh on this one; I mean, there's the side fact that I'm the only one that wasn't a player when Erip was alive, so maybe it stands out to me even more, but, regarless of any preexisting relationships Tanith, Caruina and Farrukh had with him, half the current PCs in the group never knew Erip at all.
(Plus 'Avengers' makes little to no sense in that context either. Erip died before we ever came to the attention of or heard the words 'Ebon Triad'. So 'Avengers' only makes sense if Loris Raknian is a cunningly disguised beetle swarm.)
Me 3. I barely remember Erip.
To be honest, I don't really have any preference as to what we call our team. We've gotten this far without needing a name, haven't we?
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(Plus 'Avengers' makes little to no sense in that context either. Erip died before we ever came to the attention of or heard the words 'Ebon Triad'. So 'Avengers' only makes sense if Loris Raknian is a cunningly disguised beetle swarm.)
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*Scribble scribble*
Anyways, Eben, Farrukh, y'all need to suggest something if you want it to be set. If there's no fairly clear consensus by tomorrow morning, I'm probably going to just roll a die and say whoever gets to the clerk first ends up picking the name. :P
Okay, well what kind of thing do the people need most? A school? A clinic? Public sewage and water?
Note the small edit I just made, but: Currently one of the biggest problems is the lack of sheltering for the homeless. The Muddle (the big apartment complex owned by the current local slumlord) is all full up.
Okay, it sounds like Rodrigo's picked a name. Sound good? I'll make the game post immediately without waiting for a response.
Didn't Tanith purchase the shrine? Can we combine forces Tanith and build a big apartment building with a temple to Kord, a YMCA type deal and a school for the kids?
(Plus 'Avengers' makes little to no sense in that context either. Erip died before we ever came to the attention of or heard the words 'Ebon Triad'. So 'Avengers' only makes sense if Loris Raknian is a cunningly disguised beetle swarm.)...
*Scribble scribble*
Anyways, Eben, Farrukh, y'all need to suggest something if you want it to be set. If there's no fairly clear consensus by tomorrow morning, I'm probably going to just roll a die and say whoever gets to the clerk first ends up picking the name. :P
Ahem. I have suggested stuff. IN CHARACTER. [thunderclap]
I was going to roll a die if there was no consensus by the time we reached the front of the line.
I really couldn't resist interrupting the reunion with a wild Korush. I don't get many chances to both advance plot and deliberately troll PCs like that.
Korush is probably Tanith's second least favorite person that he's not allowed to kill.
I think Tanith just has a problem with ambiguous Arabian fantasy analogues. He should probably talk to someone about that.
Unfortunately therapists that specialize in that are really expensive.
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Didn't Tanith purchase the shrine? Can we combine forces Tanith and build a big apartment building with a temple to Kord, a YMCA type deal and a school for the kids?
Tanith purchased the lot Varda's old shrine was on. KC was talking about Forwell's shrine, which has the conspicuous gaping hole in its floor that used to hold a surprising number of humanoid bones.
Well, how much to buy Forwell's shrine, KC?
1,100 gp. It's a fair-size property and comes with its own basement, but the price is lowered due to some sort of bad history you're told it has.
Okay. I want to have the basement cleaned and sanctified, and then converted into a monument for the departed. Then build a three story apartment building with as much low rent housing as I can squeeze in.
Those renovations will end up costing 3,600 gp in total, producing about eighteen fairly small apartments. Twenty-five if you go all-out 10x10 rooms. The monument will be fairly basic at first (just fixing up your basement is a pretty difficult endeavor) but you can add an extra 360 gp to make it properly nice (and to get a priest of Pelor or Pholtus in to properly purify the place).
And I will ask—much as I definitely appreciate some roleplaying-motivated purchases, I can't deny I'm surprised. This party's usually pretty careful with money. I'm guessing Rodrigo isn't too concerned with gear for his build? :P
Yeah, he doesn't need too much. I will mark off 3,960 gp.
I partly ask because if I know, it's easier to gauge your price range and I can try to present options that fit it, instead of wasting your time with overly expensive (or overly-cheapskate) possibilities. It seems like you're pretty much just aiming to spend most of Rodrigo's money on roleplaying expenses—if I'm misreading that, let me know.
EDIT: Alright. That's 3,960 gp + the 1,100 gp needed to buy the house itself, right?
To a point I guess. I'm happy with building apartments for now.
For now, Monopoly.
But one day...Battleship.
We're actually at or a bit above wealth by level. Now's the time to do the kind of good that only heroes with money can do - you know the stuff that the likes of Batman and Ironman should do if they weren't so obsessed with punching clay monsters.
Iron Man's money goes to a good cause: Keeping Iron Man's blood alcohol level high enough that if he punches someone without his suit on, they become intoxicated. It's a super power, really.
Yeah, the party wealth is going to be bouncing around a little over the next two installments. Don't count on it staying this high for long. :P
All the more reason to get our good will investments in now!
Maybe if you feed enough gems into the statue's mouth, you'll get a gem of true seeing like Carina wanted!
Oh, I just realized I never did ask—any thoughts on the Forwell Hog sidequest? It was a sidequest the original magazine only implied (all it gave was a story, and some stats for Forwell I all-but disregarded) so some eyeballing was required. Not all of it went exactly as planned (you can probably guess where) but I was impressed with how you guys went off-book. By splitting the villains and surprising the Festering One, you made what should have been one fairly tricky encounter into two mildly decent ones.
It helped that the alchemist got stuck in the group facing the swarm and the party's three damage machines got stuck in the group facing the toughest monster, of course. :P
It was interesting. It was juuust far enough off what I thought it'd be that I was engaged the whole way through.
And I don't usually like investigations played out in PbP format (I start to lose track of details with the stretched timeframe).
I felt the whole Forwell sidequest was an interesting diversion from the main plot. :)
It even tied into the overarching plotline well enough that I didn't think for a second that it was out of place.
Oh NOW I know why Loris Raknian's name looked so familiar to me.
I liked the side quest as well. Very creepy.
It doesn't seem like the PCs want to comment on Raknian's arrival, so I'll move things ahead soon. The Free Dinner is set to contain multiple roleplaying encounters—especially if any of you take an interest in the betting.
The rest of the party keeps harping on Farrukh about "not catching Raknian's attention", so he feels it's not worth the hassle to comment.
I had fun with the Forwell-quest, as horrifying and icy as the resolution was.
One thing I was left curious about that I assumed we just failed to follow up on- what was with Varda's neighbor that supposedly drowned himself? Was he bumped off by Forwell for being a potential witness, or was it a legit suicide?
I'm still puzzled by how Auric's the champion when it's a team event. Does he just have a way better agent than his wizard buddy?
It was a potential lead for you to follow, but not a necessary one thanks to Sombra. Had you found the location where he'd jumped, you'd have noticed evidence of something like druidic magic tampering with the ground on which he'd been standing.