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I'll check it out. There's got to be a few places that sound like they'd need a good magic market.

I am going through the Ultimate Campaign and getting all the info needed for a university and the needful things to run it. I love this book. So many good things. Never thought I would actually use it for more than just character backgrounds with traits and all.

Alright, think I know where I'd like the markets. I was thinking Absalom, New Stetven, Quantium, Katapesh, and Goka. Would this be alright, Fnord?

I have decided that I wanted a university larger than what was listed so I quadrupled the cost and rooms listed. Rose University is going to be grand!

I have yet to build Rose Manor.

Not bad, GMV! Though I don't think I can afford anything that necessarily expensive on my end. Maybe I aught to retool a bit of gear...

Now you're wishing you spent a couple feats on magic crafting?

I picked up three already. And Leadership as well. Though I'm starting to wonder if I need FOUR diamonds for Wish. Or maybe I could find something else to drop for more shop capital.

Also, Fnord, how would those cities I picked so far be for shops?

Lol, I think we're doubling up in a couple of places. Kind of expect it in Absolom. But I'm planing to be trading in fine foods/wines and other exotics.

I'm fine with where ever you pick. But just know that if there are characteristics of a place that is cannon (from an official Paizo sourcebook) its going to take precedence. I.e. The government of Timbuktu confiscates all magical potions on Wednesdays.

GMV, my university is in Mangimar. So pick someplace else!!! :)
Unless you want to split the cost and run it as a joint venture?

I had planned on the university being in Absalom. However, it is entirely possible that she would go in on a joint venture such as that. Hmm, now to mull over whether I want to have a university plus a joint venture or just the venture. I'll let you know.

I think I'll drop some of the Strength tome in order to get more money. Will figure it out after work. Right now, though, I think I'll stick with those cities, maybe grab a couple more, and say I'm ready for all adventures.

Fnord, I've shifted some funds around. I'll be adding Furnishings to a couple rooms in all my marts. At the moment, though, I still don't have much canon material about these cities. The wiki only gives so much information and most of what I know is the alignment of the cities I picked so far, mostly neutral or lawful neutral. If there are specifics to those cities you could tell me about, such as laws against magic items or the like, I'd appreciate knowing now.

So far, I picked metropolises and trade ports. Does this seem pretty reasonable?

Anyone around?

I'm here. Just dealing with some things right now.

Good to hear. Just curious on where to go from here.

Looking through who you know, and where you know them...

I'm getting a posting up in the main thread, pick one of the options listed.

And let me know when you are done with your background and rebuild stuff.

Ugh, decisions decisions. Both two and three sound really fun. Two would certainly be good for Jacob's business acumen, but I think I'll go with Option 3. Ancient ruins hold the possibility of long forgotten items to unearth.

On rebuilding notes, I'll stat out some stuff for Jacob's employees and crafters. They'll probably need a barracks or some sort of place to sleep, I'd gather. I'll update everything relevant and necessary within the next couple hours. Barring the possibility my train shuts down.

Here as usual. After thinking it over, I have decided that Nagato will stay Monk 2/Druid 23. 11th level spells and three more uses of Ye Olde Miracle beat anything taking another two levels of monk could offer.

Updated the shops so far. Paid for five of them at the aforementioned cities. Probably should find one or two more places to drop a franchise. As for workers, I have no idea if I aught to buy lodgings or just think they'd deal with it on their own salary. Thoughts, Fnord? What would you want me to do?

I am still working on the additional info for Rose University. Lots of details to work on. As to the cost of a joint venture, how much would I need to split? If it is possible I would like to have both Rose University and the partnership with Validk.

I dropped Validk's university in Magnimar, if you want to split it 50/50, that's fine and dandy by me.

Good to see you around Nagato!

It's not as much what I want you to do,m but what you would like for your background. The different options are just methods of introducing the story to different types of characters.

Pick one and own it. All roads will be leading to the same adventure anyway.

And if tumblr is still lurking about, he should consider putting together his own character and jumping in.

I'm sorry, upon rereading what I wrote I realized that it could have been clearer. How much does Katja need to spend for her share of the venture? I am looking for an exact monetary amount.

Chose option 3 in the gameplay thread.

Fnord, since we're adding rule sets as is, do you think that under this game we might break out some Mythic rules? May be reaching a bit high here as is, but I'm just curious.

I would rather that be a unanimous decision, future DMs can allow/disallow downtime without impact to the PC for an adventure. Mythic is another level of complexity all on its own.

Having said that, I am for it. I would suggest that we either flashback a week to having a meeting with the deity of our choice after handling the spawn of rovagug, or I could introduce it at some point during the upcoming adventure.

I'm up for it as well. And we did successfully imprison a Spawn...

Though I'd be happy with anything, really. Just my two cents.

Also, did you want to make a post regarding the messenger or should Jacob teleport out to Swordmeet Lodge?

You can make that post, stretch your writing talents...

:)

It's not so much stretching my talents as it is cramping my fingers. This iPad offers little typing room. But I'll put in at least something to introduce the Venture Captain soon enough.

Jacob needs to pick a pathfinder faction to belong to.

Fnord, I don't know much in terms of factions within the Pathfinder society. Could you get me a link where I could look up factions?

I'm sorry for this sort of thing, I just don't have a lot of experience with the Golarion world setting. Most the games I've played have had homebrew settings and there wasn't even a Society presence. My research into the Society so far said there was a strong Pathfinder Society presence in Absalom, though. Is there a faction an Absalom native would be likely to get swept up in?

EDIT: Alright, I think that as a merchant, Jacob would throw himself in with Qadira. Though if that seems too extreme in it's ruthlessness for everyone else's tastes, I think he'd be fine with the Grand Lodge faction.

Here's the first link when I googled "pathfinder society wiki"

http://www.pathfinderwiki.com/wiki/Pathfinder_Society

How much does Katja need to spend for her share of the venture? I am looking for an exact monetary amount.

I still would like to know. I am unable to finish purchases until I get this info.

Thanks, Fnord, found that too. I'm just not sure if it's out of the question to pick Qadira. Unless I hear otherwise, I'll go with that.

Haven't forgotten about you GMV, at the same time that I am working on the next quest, I'm also trying to figure out the downtime rules.

I had started by completely customizing every shop, I scrapped that and went to off the shelf buildings with a few mods here and there.

Hopefully I can have that part finished up today.

Fnord, which method will we be using for resonant powers and ioun stones in wayfinders? I think I'd like to pick up one or more wayfinders instead of necessarily implanting them into Jacob.

It will probably be a bit before I try to get him either, though, so no rush.

Ok. Just making sure. I will get another post up soon. I think I will do one about her departure and subsequent arrival at the mine. I have a couple ideas that should be fun to put into words. :)

Let's keep in mind that the long term goal was to find immortality.

The Decemvirate are rumored to be immortal. Whether this is innate, or a function of their Decemvirate Helms (artifacts) is a subject of much debate.

If Jacob were a member of the Qadira faction, why is his headquarters not in Katapesh?

Jacob could know any of the venture-captains well based on his past accomplishments for the society (what are they?)

Those are good questions. I would think that his background of rags to riches gives him a sentimentality to the first family store, which is why it is the flagship of the Radigan marts. Moving his family from their home to Katapesh certainly seems like it would be unnecessarily cruel to someone who has the Family Ties drawback. So I guess that out of all of this, Jacob should have his ties stay in Abasalom with the Grand Lodge.

As for contacts, maybe some acquaintances like Adril Hestram, Eliza Petulengro, and Ambrus Valsin would make sense. Nieford Sharrowsmith and Luna Aldred may be other acquaintances from what I can gather, who Jake may have had the honor of meeting while adventuring away from his home city.

And I'm as ready to jump on the search for immortality as much as anyone. Just waiting on more posts.

I'd be inclined to go with method 1 on the ioun stones, static improvements.

Too much bookkeeping for the variable method.

Please confirm that Jacob was teleporting to Swordmeet Lodge in Rahadoum, and not the Grand Lodge in Absalom.

Didn't I say Swordmeet Lodge in my last post? It's in the last sentence of the post before the OOC stuff.

I just wanted to confirm before I made my post...

bwahahahaha

I have a good feeling about this!

Hmm, how far is it from Absalom to Swordmeet Lodge? I think-

*reads the option prompt again*

Oh dammit all, when did I become illiterate? I'll have Jacob get to the Grand Lodge immediately. Just give me a sec to get things in order.

How long would it take for Katja to get to Rahadoum by flight?

Well I'm looking at the tiny online map and its looking like 500 miles from Absalom straight to Manaket.

At 250' per round, a dragon can go 2500' per minute, or 150,000' per hour, which translates to 28.41 miles per hour.

So 500 miles would take something around 18 hours of flight time. Of course that doesn't account for bursts of speed. A boat takes a week from Absalom to Manaket, another 3 days to Azir.

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If you are learning any of this, describe how in your post.

Whether by querying agents, divination, repeated teleportation attempts (let me know if you use regular teleport), or anything else I haven't mentioned. (If you try plane hoping in, post up to activating the spell to come back to Golarion.)

Rahadoum from the Napsune Mountains to the Uta river, and from the barrier wall to the ocean are affected.

Whatever the effect is, it's blocking teleportation effects. Divination are having a hard time locking onto specifics. And it gets worse the further away from the ocean you get.

If it was easy, anyone could do it.

I had intended for her to fly and was curious about the details. If Katja used control winds to aid her, how much faster would she make it by?

Isn't 250'/round with control winds?

Flight in d20 is really really slow.

No, her 250' is regular flight speed.

I finally found a way for a monk to bypass DR from Cold Iron to Epic. +4/5 Amulet of Mighty Fists plus Bane Baldric. Only works for five rounds, but those five rounds are awesome.