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Quote from: areyoua on August 29, 2011, 11:18:46 am

This isn't even a question. We must advance the plot find more information!

The story will move forward at your pace, and your choices will change the story. I have no specific direction I want you to go, so don't feel as if you're being railroaded. If you want to ignore the last event and do something else, that's fine too. The only reason I'm offering 4-5 choices is to keep it somewhat sane. You've seen how many things people have suggested already.

That may be true, but my pace is 5 lightyears/second, so...

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This isn't even a question. We must advance the plot find more information!

"Who needs to defend the tower when we can let them in and give them loans at predatory rates?"

Quote from: Dwarmin on August 21, 2011, 09:35:37 am

Well, if your looking to attract players...mission accomplished!

Spoiler: Char Sheet (click to show/hide)

Name: Oriana De Lia
Occupation: Horse Rancher and Entrepreneur
Age: 27

Description: Oriana De Lia is a moderately wealthy owner of a string of renowned Horse Ranches-"De Lia Pafilia".

She inherited from her husband five years ago-he had an accident...nowadays she spends most of the year tending to her herds personally, not trusting in hired help overmuch, but recently she's become more and more fond of visiting court, hoping to snag the favor of the nobles and raise her standing. Oriana is a frisk entrepreneur-bold when spending her money on new and interesting ideas, hoping she'll luck out eventually.

Looks: An imposing woman, tall and well built, she bears the marks of an physcially fit lifestyle. Her brown hair is usually long and allowed to flow freely, and it complements her dark brown eyes quite nicely. When in court, she tends to wear the style of the "nouveau riche"-the rapidly rising middle class of new, wealthy landowners-with non-formal, comfortable and brightly colored clothing, with few accoutrements such as necklaces and bangles. She usually wears a long, finely honed rapier on her belt-not ostentatious or ceremonial, but functional and well honed-as many luckless rivals have learned, far too late.

Misc:

•Supports the rest of her family financially-father, mother and younger sister
•Her Father was a famous military officer and fencer in his prime, but is now penniless otherwise.
•Her Mother and Sister manage a smaller business of clothiers. It's not very profitable right now, and without Orianas help, it would have tanked long ago.
•Her husband died of unusual circumstances. Which everyones wants to say is,that evil witch murdered him in cold blood for his money. Not to her face, though. Her former Husbands family has of course, swallowed the line whole and vowed to destroy her.
•Deathly afraid of fire, from an childhood accident.
•Still technically a widow, Oriana has decided that particular issue has gone on long enough...she's currenty shopping for a husband.
•Self Trained in the arts of Fencing by her father. She enjoys duels-and not the kind to first blood or for match points. She was trained in the art of "practical" swordfighting-go for the throat. She's killed 2 men and 3 women in duels over the last 10 years, all declared just and right in accordance with the laws of the land.

[4] Oriana did start in Lencil.
[6]
De Lia Pafilia is a ranch in 1d7=[6] 7th parcel of Lencil. It provides you with an income of 2f/quarter. though this does not count as a "fine horse" resource. Your innovation, while propelling you into becoming one of the royal horse suppliers, also saddles you with a debt of 40f from your investment. It is still serviceable at the moment, paid by income from de lia Pafilia.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

de lia Pafilia (horse ranches)
+2f/quarter from de lia Pafilia after interest
40 florin debt, interest serviced by income from de lia Pafilia
5f cash

From the beginning, Dwarmin. It was 4f in my last update because I just added le agua to it. I don't seem to recall it being buffed up to +4.They're in separate sections this time. Also, shouldn't it be l'agua?

Send William off to kill Prince GeorgeInstead give the business to Alexander the Great _{of Macedon}and have Grigori traet me

The first part seems logical, but you probably can't treat yourself twice in the same quarter. Although, I could just take away more money for rush treatment...

[92!] whoops, not 1d100... [3] Alexander takes over with incident. What incident you ask? His ego gets a bit inflated and starts calling himself by an even longer name, Alexander the Great _{of Macedon} but he for some reason mumbles "of macedon." [5] William doesn't seem to put out at getting fired for some reason.

You can't fault me for posting again. Unless you can...

Treat myself and assign William to run my businesses. meanie dice

Meanie dice indeed. [1] You're not a doctor, so you can't treat yourself, but you try anyway, and only end up getting scammed for 2f on snake oil. ((cough, Gergori, cough)) [4] William takes over without incident, but doesn't have much to run except a plot of empty land, [1] and he doesn't think of rebuilding the tavern even though he's a carpenter. Alexander looks a bit jealous...

What do you mean I shouldn't be double posting?!

I... can't be bothered to double check Oriana's math, or can I? I can. The spoiler with your stats from my last update for you was actually supposed to go on the bottom as that shows your stats at the end of that quarter, so the real stats (assuming that you bought the land and the flood-proofing is as follows)


A considerable amount less, by 2f/quarter, however, then you account for the +5, so you'll have 11 rather than 6f. God, bookkeeping is hard.

Scrimp and Save!

[4] You scrimp and you save, and then you save some more, then you scrimp some more. Doing it seperately may have taken away from the effectiveness, but you do manage to save a one time boost of 3f for a total of 14f.

She wondered how long it would be till the prince come-a-calling?

[1] The prince has recently gotten engaged, and the news went across the land. [4] However, there's still hope (if I'm interpreting that quote correctly) as the marriage would have been one of convenience, but the bride's family has recently fallen out of power after the revolts of 653.

((as a side note, when you rolled a one, I considered making George a homosexual, but figured that would be too harsh.))

I'll have firelordsky after I eat lunch.

Before he sold the tavern, he was going to burn it down and say that lightning did it, so he took out a [6] [6] [6] [6] [6] [6] [6] [6] 200,000f insurance policy on the tavern. [1] However, due to poor book keeping (in the literal sense) and damp weather, 4 zeros simply fell off the notice, so only 20f was payed out.

I guess I'll always have this missed opportunity.

Things are looking up again for Lencil. Admittedly, things were looking good when the Carrerans only demanded one parcel of land when they could've grabbed all ten, and things were looking stellar before that, so the experts said it was all square. It was in this time of plenty that a simple mercenary captain from Morwood tried to grab a piece of the ever growing Lencil pie (which taste oddly like dirt).

Buy out one of the local taverns after I get paid and try to haggle down the price.

Although Lencillians aren't known for their racism, and are normally quite nice, except to the bloody Carrerans, the Barbarians from Morwood don't exactly have the best reputation since they invaded in 549. Lencil won, and got their tiny bit of forest, but the destruction was still devastating.

Alexander the Great Bard wandered the land in search of a tavern to buy in these times [5] and found one. It was in decent shape, but the owner needed money after having heard of il Basterdo's escapades and trying to gamble like a pro. Alas, he wasn't a pro and the rest isn't history, but it is obvious. [2] However, he needs quite a lot of cash to pay off his loans, totaling 8f. 80% of the Bard family's reserves. Alexander the Great tried haggling the price down, and at one stage threatened to conquer all of the known world if he didn't lower the price, [4] which confused the owner so much he accidentally said 7f. Alexander snatched up the the deal, and cut a complex knot for no other reason than to insert a reference to history. The owner and his workers would stay in place, but you would take the profits. How much profit? ((I accidentally pressed "generate" twice on Random.org and got two 6's. I rolled again just to see, and got another, so you know what's next))

Gigantic Overreach [6][6][6] The ink on the transfer notice had barely dried when the jaws of hell opened up and swallowed the tavern! No, not a joke. However, everyone managed to get out, but because they were all drunk, no one will be able to relate this tale with any sort of certainty. Except Alexander, who continued to tell the story until he later died of malaria. Luckily, the tavern was insured to the effect of 20f, which you as the owner now receive. The tavern was in a rural area and was more a stopping point for travelers, so the travelers just assumed it had been dismantled. It didn't cause a great commotion amongst the drunks, [2] but a few stopped to "ask" to hold 6f. [3] Alexander reminded them that he was going to conquer the known world, so they only walked away with 5f.


If you really want to, replace "jaws of hell" with rampaging, pyromaniac travelers.

Also, I'll wait for winter to come.