Session 8 - Rescheduled - 27/4/2013 - Well that escalated quickly

Power house! Posts : 2877 Join date : 2010-01-05

Session 8
~~20/4/2013~~
27/4/2013

6pm
My place

Please let me know you availability asap.

Attending;
DAN!
JD!
Shame Moose
Timbo

In game date; September 742DS, Year of the crustacean.

Season: Autumn
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I will get an ICC post up ASAP.

"Guests, like fish, begin to smell after three days."
- Benjamin Franklin

20th of April is my birthday

Wont be able to role play.

Power house! Posts : 2877 Join date : 2010-01-05

that is two sessions running cunt hole!.

ok back a week it goes.

IM IN FUCKERS !!!!!!! lol cunt hole

Sure, I'm in.

Session 8 - Rescheduled - 27/4/2013 - Well that escalated quickly Tumblr_lthmbnemeM1r1umbl

2 sessions where its my birthday? Sweet.
I'm in that day

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So ...

Furl has returned with General Cactus and his men (500) to lend us aid (to put us further in his pocket).
King Brutus Blackwell wants to nullify our agreement with the Ruby Kingdom to offer our iron ore to Rivering (thank you Trader Topaz!).
Queen Charlotte in the south (you remember the spiders!?) is sending Bold Stoneheart to the North East to assimilate some natives.
Given this aid could be useful what would their first appointment be (point them at whom)?

Thoughts? ...

QUESTION: Who is known to rule Violetshore?????

Newbie Posts : 74 Join date : 2011-08-02

yeah, I'm in.

With this intel do you determine that assimilating these natives would be something we should aim at doing first?

Or is there a way we could sour the deal for Bold and have him tied up there for a while dealing with them while we deal with our shit down here?

Power house! Posts : 2877 Join date : 2010-01-05

Side note, i have added the HOLDINGS that Donk has put forward as reward for satisfactorily establishing defenses for your assigned sector. It will be first come first served regarding choice, so once Donk/the King are satisfied with your efforts you will get to choose and additional holding from King Blackwell right away.

Hornet wrote:: With this intel do you determine that assimilating these natives would be something we should aim at doing first?

First? No.
Something we should aim at doing? Yes. See below.

Hornet wrote:: Or is there a way we could sour the deal for Bold and have him tied up there for a while dealing with them while we deal with our shit down here?

Hmm, if we had infinite resources I would propose:

Send Melchid & troops to (A) Scout and skirmish Bold's forces and (B) defend the native people in a positive diplomatic gesture to open relations and incorporate into our protectorate.
Send General Cactus to Blackway village on an 'engage and destroy' through the Fallwood to push Queen Charlotte back.
Seek aid from the Cities in the south to push north against Queen Charlotte, boxing her in and forcing a diplomatic resolution on our terms or annihilation.

But that's just an idea given said resources. Although ...

Anyone able to add something to this theory that could lead to an actionable plan?

Have a go!

So what you want to be able to do is give a rough idea of what the ideal situation would be and then ask others to come up with the strategy? Hmmm

Well rather than giving solutions I can give you reasons why that can't work right now.

Melchid is tied up in the east with the new threat of this undead army.

Cactus has no reason for allegiance with our forces.

Time is one of our greatest enemies right now.

If you can come up with something more solid I will help you put it into action. I have never liked the idea of dividing forces more than keeping some at home and the rest focused on one task. My thoughts would be the following.

Melchid is sending word of the threat to the East. The ruby kingdom could stand to profit from helping us eradicate this threat as there are mines in the Eastern mountains that belong to the King of the iron region and will not be accessible while the threat remains.
We should convince Furl that fate has placed him at out gates with an army for a reason. He assist us to clear out the undead from the area thus reopening Mungo's Hole. This would allow us to re-broker a deal for the distribution of the iron that is mined and may improve his position. That could also allow us to appease our King by affording us enough product to also trade with rivering.

Once that is done (the reclaiming of the East) we would have greater relations with the villages and villagers therein as well as creating a relationship with the giants.
From there we could build a report' with cactus and his men, giving them reason to fight for us else where.

Just my thoughts.

Power house! Posts : 2877 Join date : 2010-01-05

Ok session is on saturday, if you have anything you wish to resolve in this out of session month let me know.

So far i know what the following people have done with there months;
Melchid
Azien

Micken and Erd, i really don't know what you have spent the month doing so if you wish to do something speak now.

Ivan feel free to get involved too if you so wish.

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I MAKE THIS STUFF HAPPEN

Aizen will organise to re-train the 'Ravens' facilitating inter-city / ally communication.
Aizen will attempt to produce an accurate map of the Iron Ridge region with an emphasis on military stratagem and tactics.
From this he will divide his territory into 4 x quadrants with which to assign patrols.
Manpower will be draw from Peach's Irregulars currently numbering only 100 odd men then split north and south 50/50.
These men shall patrol in 2 x 6 man patrol units in each quadrant.
The Triple Deuces '222' will patrol (4 x 6 man patrol) in an elliptical route that overlaps Peach's Irregulars own patrol route but limit themselves to the central region including Royalwell and Blackwell.
Resources will be made available for each patrol to adequately supply them for their assigned patrol routes.
Patrol units will be informed of their expected role and duties with strict adherence to a binding code of station (punishable by law).
All this will be passed through General Donk to facilitate officiality and expediency.

Aizen will back this up with his expansive skill repertoire and keen insight into; Animal Handling (Raptors), Falconry, Veterinary, Navigation (Land), Strategy (Land) and Tactics.

P.S. I would also like to check on the progress of the stockade prototype and commission the two Alott to be fitted as collapsible crane and wagon.

The idea sounds good I just don't know if dividing the troops into units that small is wise. The numbers are too small and vulnerable for easy dispatch.

Power house! Posts : 2877 Join date : 2010-01-05

Physicist wrote:

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Aizen will organise to re-train the 'Ravens' facilitating inter-city / ally communication.

Ok, the Keeper has previous experience with holding birds and is already began breading young ravens. These ravens will be trained to return to Blackwell castle upon release.
Aizen will attempt to produce an accurate map of the Iron Ridge region with an emphasis on military stratagem and tactics.

Utilizing your speed of travel you can generate a map of the iron region in one week (assumed 12hrs per day working on it). Once the week is spent you will make a Cartography roll to determine the quality of the map. For each additional week spent working on the map you gain an additional +1 to your effective skill level. If you default on the skill roll any critical successes only count as a normal success.

Physicist wrote:: .
P.S. I would also like to check on the progress of the stockade prototype and commission the two Alott to be fitted as collapsible crane and wagon.

Remind me what you were doing with the stockade again? who was building it. And ok on the Alot's, they can be outfitted as such for 100g.

The stockade was to go to Royalwell as a prototype and then roll out as per required.

I don't think it ever got past Dan assigning 12 days to its design but was unable to do so.

So moving on, I would like to get it done. Aizen will speak to someone having this knowledge or someone knowing someone who would have this knowledge to get a fucking move on and make it 3 months ago.

Invoice King Blackwell's military budget or me as a last resort.

Cool, so Alott's organised now prototype stockade plan to make it a reality and move it all out to Royalwell using Alotts to expedite construction. (erecting pre-fabricated structures).

Got a better map idea. Having ALREADY done the travelling, I will just make it now. Then task the Patrols to 'correct' the map. Funnel all that info back into original map and recirculate the updated maps. Division of labor and constant improvement. A SMALLER portion of my time to consolidate and error check.

I pay for the Alotts.

Physicist wrote:: QUESTION: Who is known to rule Violetshore?????

What kind of timeline has progressed since leaving Rivering last session? I honestly have no sense of time from all this out of sequence shit.

It's kind of MASSIVELY IMPORTANT TO ME to understand this for PvP timings etc... also for understanding just how inefficiently our time is being used.

Power house! Posts : 2877 Join date : 2010-01-05

Physicist wrote:: The stockade was to go to Royalwell as a prototype and then roll out as per required.

I don't think it ever got past Dan assigning 12 days to its design but was unable to do so.

So moving on, I would like to get it done. Aizen will speak to someone having this knowledge or someone knowing someone who would have this knowledge to get a fucking move on and make it 3 months ago.

Erd can do this, it shouldn't take more then a day to do the designs.

Physicist wrote:: Invoice King Blackwell's military budget or me as a last resort.

Alright lets nut this shit out quickly.

I know you told me how many men you wished this thing to house but i cant find the post.

so for arguments sake a basic timber barracks will cost you 200 gold to build, and will house 10 men. If you wish to house more men it will work as such; each additional 10 men cost 75g.

The construction time for one of these barracks will be 1 month + 1 additional week for every additional 10 men to be housed.

Your mobile Alot crane will cut construction time by 50% if it is onsite.

Basic outfitting for a barraks will cost you 1g per man it is to house.
Basic outfitting includes;
Furnishings for sleeping, eating, cooking.
Basic equipment to repair cloths, armor and weapons.

Physicist wrote:: Cool, so Alott's organised now prototype stockade plan to make it a reality and move it all out to Royalwell using Alotts to expedite construction. (erecting pre-fabricated structures).

Ok JD i still don't think this prefabricated barracks idea will work as well for you as you think. I am going to list my thoughts on the idea here, refute them as you wish, then we will come to an agreement and move on.

Spoiler:

Physicist wrote:: Got a better map idea. Having ALREADY done the travelling, I will just make it now. Then task the Patrols to 'correct' the map. Funnel all that info back into original map and recirculate the updated maps. Division of labor and constant improvement. A SMALLER portion of my time to consolidate and error check.
that they

Cool, that will be a cartography roll at -4 effective skill level due to working from memory.

Physicist wrote:: I pay for the Alotts.

Cool.

Physicist wrote:: QUESTION: Who is known to rule Violetshore?????

Last you heard it was under the ruler-ship of a religious group calling themselves the "Brothers of Wind". The area is a little volatile so that may not still reign true.

Physicist wrote:: What kind of timeline has progressed since leaving Rivering last session? I honestly have no sense of time from all this out of sequence shit.

It's kind of MASSIVELY IMPORTANT TO ME to understand this for PvP timings etc... also for understanding just how inefficiently our time is being used.

Ehhh

Return to Blackwell
Furl arrives
council meeting
you return to Riverring
Melchid departs east

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EDIT: I am willing to give you 2 months retroactive time on the Barracks in Royalwell venture as it has been dicking around in the "being done" section for so long.

Subject: last minute sorry matty Sat 27 Apr 2013 - 17:33

i was supposed to put somethin up before the weekend but atm the powers farked here...

After making sure everything is in order in the manor i will depart for the proposed area in the north of the western ranges once there i will help prepare the foundations for construction to begin.
i will leave myself time to return to blackwell.

this will use my entire month

Power house! Posts : 2877 Join date : 2010-01-05

Good session guys,

You can all have 15cp for your efforts defeating the necromancer Saw,

I will get some more info up re the next session and stuff you found in the dwarven outlook soon.

Re: CP

I spend those 15cp and the remaining cp I had to boost my strength to 20. Thus finally negating the issue with the readied weapon. I believe the use of the weapon in battle justifies my strength increasing.

Once the battle concludes we obviously loot the fuck out of the Dwarven lookout.

My goal this month before heading back is to try and find the Stone Face clan and the rest of my family, where ever they are. Also to get the word out to the villagers that the necromancer is no more and they should rally together to dispatch the straggling undead in the area.

Power house! Posts : 2877 Join date : 2010-01-05

Hornet wrote:: Re: CP

I spend those 15cp and the remaining cp I had to boost my strength to 20. Thus finally negating the issue with the readied weapon. I believe the use of the weapon in battle justifies my strength increasing.

Yeah no problem there.

Generally speaking i can't ever foresee me ever having an issue with gradually raising core stats like this.

Hornet wrote:: Once the battle concludes we obviously loot the fuck out of the Dwarven lookout.

Yeah i will get to this, hopefully once im home from work today.

Hornet wrote:: My goal this month before heading back is to try and find the Stone Face clan and the rest of my family, where ever they are. Also to get the word out to the villagers that the necromancer is no more and they should rally together to dispatch the straggling undead in the area.

The Stone faces are easy enough to locate, it appears the eastern face of the mountain fared better then the west. They had incursions from mindless hordes of undead but nothing they weren't able to repel.

The villages themselves are glad to hear of a possible end to their torment, though they will no doubt require assistance dispatching the remaining undead and dealing with the corpses left behind.

Power house! Posts : 2877 Join date : 2010-01-05

Ok here is the lot items found on Saw and in his Lab/research area.

Saw laboratory: This area looks some where between Frankenstein's laboratory and the bedroom of a lazy, WoW obsessed teenage boy. There are all manner of arcane paraphernalia scattered around the place, from bubbling beakers to a dissected Ogre corpses and everything in between. There are piles of journals, books and scrolls all over the place. Some are old and musty and others seem to be recently written in the same erratic scrawl. There are also many items of you assume to arcane reagents, but as none of you are magically trained in any way that pile of what you think could be eye of newt may actually just be the remains last Wednesdays breakfast that Saw neglected to dispose of.

So to break it down.
Magical stuff – Qty = lots. (This probably requires a more knowledgeable eye to assess properly)
500gold in miscalanios coin
300gp worth of asorted small gems
Cowl of the Rat King

I will get to what was in the secret stash ASAP

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