Sarachim

Originally Posted By: The Turtle Moves It's strange to me how easily Americans accept the idea that because some people strongly disapprove of abortion, no taxpayer money should ever be used to pay for it. This standard doesn't seem to apply to any other issue. Policies that substantially restrict access to abortion for the poor but only mildly inconvenience the middle class tend to pass pretty easily.

Originally Posted By: Nioca Click to reveal.. (These lessons are actually kinda spoilery) *Trick Dice: 12 gold. Convincing a logging operation that they're worth 10,000 gold: Priceless. Click to reveal.. In fairness, there actual value is probably closer to 10,000 than 12.

I'll be about an hour late tonight. Sorry.

Tuesday would be okay for me, but I'd be a bit late. Thursday and Friday also work.

Hey, Dee? It kinda defeats the purpose of having a watchman if you spend the watch hallucinating.

Originally Posted By: Locmaar Originally Posted By: Enraged Slith The newspaper is where humor goes to die. Really? I love Calvin and Hobbes. Didn't the creative restrictions of newspapers make Watterson ragequit (rageretire?) after only 10 years?

Originally Posted By: RCCCL Originally Posted By: Nioca Anyway, I think I need to apologize. I was not doing 100% last night, what from being dead-tired the whole night. Hopefully, I'll be more cognizant next session. No need to apologize, I didn't notice any difference. Me too. I mean that in the friendly way, not the backhanded compliment way.

Hey, this isn't about bread, but we survived session 5! And actually worked together as a group without doing anything stupid! Instead, we just got beat up a lot!

There's a compendium? Where?

Click to reveal.. Samos Elf Occupation: Detective Alignment: Pragmatic 2 Str/5 Dex/5 Int 12/16 HP, 10/10 stamina Magic (Divination): 5 Stealth: 4 Martial (Blowdarts): 3 Streetwise: 2+1 Thievery: 2 Nature: 2 Perception: 1 Artifice: 1 Composure: 0+1 Spells: Location: Gives information on the location of an object or person. The more familiar the caster is with the target, the more accurate the intel.. Vision: Gives a vision of a location, allowing the caster to see and hear things as if they were present. The closer the area is and the more familiar to the caster, the longer and clearer the vision will be. Portent: Offer advice regarding a person's immediate future. Stamina is recommended for accuracy. Enhance Senses: Temporarily improves the caster's sensory acuity, giving a bonus to Perception rolls and the ability to sense things even in very suboptimal conditions. Lehun's Messenger: Allows the caster to send a brief verbal message to someone they are personally acquainted with, even across great distances. The recipient may make a brief reply. Costs 1 stamina.

Click to reveal.. Porifio Male Elf Occupation: Aristocrat Alignment: Conceited 4 Str/2 Dex/6 Int, 17 HP Magic (Enchantment): 5 Magic (Abjuration): 4 Streetwise: 3+1 Martial (Epee): 3 Composure: 1+1 I'll pick a new spell before the next session.

"Look at our Precursor vessel. Is it not unique?" "Yes, your vessel is unique, and here is the crux of the problem. A `unique', meaning singular, starship is not equal to the task of destroying the entire Ur-Quan armada. If you had, say, ten thousand similar starships, we could take your boasts more seriously."

EDIT: Never mind, I misread Lilith.

Click to reveal.. Samos Elf Occupation: Detective Alignment: Pragmatic 2 Str/5 Dex/4 Int, 14 HP Magic (Divination): 4 Stealth: 3 Martial (Blowdarts): 3 Streetwise: 2+1 Thievery: 2 Perception: 1 Nature: 1 Composure: 0+1 Spells: Location: Gives information on the location of an object or person. The more familiar the caster is with the target, the more accurate the intel. Resmancy: When cast on an object, determines facts about the object's past. Portent: Offer advice regarding a person's immediate future. Stamina is recommended for accuracy. Lehun's Messenger: Allows the caster to send a brief verbal message to someone they are personally acquainted with, even across great distances. The recipient may make a brief reply. Costs 1 stamina.

I also used to have one of Drakey's Marathon titles. In fact, I'm not sure what happened to it. Was that a UBB thing?

Originally Posted By: Nikki. Haha, thanks for noticing. The wish was actually more influenced by the last film, when the Russian dudette wants to know "everything" (and Meredith was originally going to wish for that before she got wrestled to the grouund whilst taking too long figuring out how to word it. I ultimately felt it was too obvious - and much more likely to go disasterously wrong though, so I changed it ). As I said after the session, I really didn't anticipate Meredith survivng her encounter with the Altar. She wasn't pure enough of heart. The last movie? We were already talking about Last Crusa- oh. For shame, Nikki.

Originally Posted By: Dintiradan Click to reveal.. (Hey, wait a second.) Remember how, at the beginning of this campaign, everyone was pointing out the similarities between its premise and the Indiana Jones series? And the parallels between Meredith and Elsa? And yet not one person remarked "She chose... poorly..." after Meredith made her wish. Not going to lie, pretty disappointed in all of you. No champagne for you! I'm pretty sure someone (maybe Triumph?) said exactly this in parentheses, and that it got excised from the log.

Pretty sure he meant March, as April 2 is not a Wednesday.

Hmm. I say we do plot first, exploring later.

Originally Posted By: Rowen Some Known Islands of Mote Somebody ought to add Elpis and Korossia to this.

1. Yes, you were thinking of Kel before. Marlenny's married to Creator now (the older one). 2. http://www.spiderwebforums.com/forum/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=196450#Post196450

Originally Posted By: Dantius Originally Posted By: Sarachim Mariona help me, you guys have made me go and cite sources: http://www.spiderwebforums.com/forum/ubb...true#Post192240 Quote: "Quera is a walled town of moderate size (several hundred people)." Quera is one of the largest settlements on its island, and sufficiently noteworthy that it appears on a map of the world. The same is true of Riole, which was only slightly bigger. We haven't seen anything close to a city of 100,000 yet, and if there were one it would be big enough to be a world power, like Eolith. Several hundred people is a small enough size that you start to run into Dunbar's number, where it becomes eminently possibly that a group of 4-5 people could know literally everyone in the city. That's not a "city", that's a "small hamlet"- it is literally smaller than my elementary school. This is important because the psychology and sociology of a small town is totally different than that of a city- there's no anonymity, very little crime, extremely small economy, certain jobs wouldn't logically appear (I'm looking at you sage), etc. A "city" would have to have a population well into the thousands at least, if not tens of thousands, to be considered one, and there are absolutely places on Mote where we have experienced the "city" mentality (like every city we went to in Brigandage). So, if even towns are large enough to be major population centers, then there are very few "cities" as you define them on all Mote. Cities in the tens of thousands would be exponentially less common, so you're already dealing with just a handful on the entire map. There's room for about one city of 100k at the top. I prefer this interpretation because it fits better with the concept of Mote as a world in decline. Civilization of any kind is the exception, not the rule. Having dozens of large, thriving urban areas would clash with that pretty severely.

Mariona help me, you guys have made me go and cite sources: http://www.spiderwebforums.com/forum/ubb...true#Post192240 Quote: "Quera is a walled town of moderate size (several hundred people)." Quera is one of the largest settlements on its island, and sufficiently noteworthy that it appears on a map of the world. The same is true of Riole, which was only slightly bigger. We haven't seen anything close to a city of 100,000 yet, and if there were one it would be big enough to be a world power, like Eolith.

The "cities" we've seen so far were mostly in the range of several hundred to several thousand. If Eolith had a hundred thousand people, that would make it two or three orders of magnitude larger than the typical city on Mote.

Originally Posted By: radix malorum est cupiditas Originally Posted By: Sarachim I doubt this is what Lilith was thinking at the time, but now that I've said it she can take credit for it if she wants. So all this time Thuryl's really been a girl. Huh. I wonder what Marlenny's take on all this is. EDIT: Or was it Kel she was dating? And didn't she break up with whoever it was? Just goes to show how long I haven't been here. First I was annoyed, then I laughed.