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Arguably. Remember, that applies to getting the sword, too. And with the treasure adventurers bring back to sell, the market for swords and such is likely to be competitive anywhere with many adventurers; hence, the profit margin per sword is going to be fairly small. In the meantime, you're needing to maintain all those weapons and such--no one will buy a rusty sword. It's not profitable to run a business to equip the occasional adventurer.

"Technically, she never asked. She said it might get annoying and stopped punching me, so I decided to stop screwing with her.

Seriously, you people take things too seriously. I try to be less serious and I get a punch and a nosebleed for all my troubles."

"This is real life. What, do you expect us to treat it like some kind of silly game?"

Learning the new generation, one dessert at a time

I may have found someone whose hatred for fairies equals or exceeds my own.

Because there's always room for lychee jellies

Holy Majikarp.

A second lesson on abilities

Again, HM.

Wherein I learn a lesson on Megas

I'd say the Megas learned a lesson about you. Why do you need Pokemon other than Konjac?

"A turtle soup to go, and make it snappy."

Other than critical hits, I mean.

I vote dwarves.

I say we pick goblins because they are awesome.

I suggest four of each.

Get 2 picks
2 Axes -30
1 Shovels - 10
2 Picks -40
1 Saws -20
1 Hammers -15
2 Hoes -30
4 Salted Fish -20
4 Bread -16

Replace one axe with another unit of bread and four of wheat seeds, and I'm in.

Let's head for the coast and worship the God of Blood.

Bad idea, if it's a brown bear it will clime the tree and kill you, and if it's a black bear it will knock it down and kill you.

It's the other way around, and I doubt that even a grizzly could knock over an old, sturdy tree.

((GWG, i can assure you i will not be making any Mary Sues in this game. This is not the Forgotten Realms. This is a universe of my complete creation that i have been planning for the past 10 years (and writing multiple (unpublished) books in). What (i am hoping) this Drow will come up against will more often than not seem impossible.

Again, not my opinions, just what I'm guessing others' first guesses are. And then explaining those guesses of guesses.

And one last thing, back onto GWG's point about Drizzt: FOR THE LOVE (or lack thereof) OF LOLTH, Please don't do the "Atoning for the sins of my race" cliche. It's a horrible, horrible thing ;_;

There are probably more drow atoners than atonees by now.

One other thing, multiple hair colours, unless explained to be caused by dye, is also a little too "Special", in terms of character))

White or gray interspersed with whatever isn't so bad, if the character is fairly old.

Hmm. Right now, I don't think we;'d want to draw attention to ourselves. If we can reclaim any goods without being seen, that's what we should do. If not, let's try to sneak into the cart instead. Simply put, we either take the weapons out with us, or we go put ourselves in with them. Either way, we can give them a little nasty shock when they go to uncover them.

Same here. I'm all for following the laws and such of society, but these folks laws seem to be the kind that involve killing us on sight.

As a side note, while these guys may seem like dark mages and whatnot, I doubt they're here on anything more than a supply run. The weapons were most likely a chance acquisition (I'd suspect one did knock us out, but being drow, fair play to him )

It's possible, maybe even probable, but far from certain. Assume the worst and all that...

Like fucking anything is original.

It's one thing to be unintentionally unoriginal. It's another to define your character by a cliche and refuse to budge from it a single inch.

I want a guy who can make a giant magical flying fortress. That is pretty uncommon.

Not so much...

So you were a fun kid, lots of friends.. or at least you had.. friends..

tell me more about this goblin raid.

Also just how religious are you? Are you a christmas/easter kind a guy who prays for minor things, are you the type to go to church every church day and do church stuff? are you a mad zealot?

also tell me who you worship, a little about there place in the world and their domains.

"The goblin raid? Ugh, must I? ...Fine. Goblins attacked. They...there were too many, the walls and guards were overwhelmed. The master hid in the attic, I had to hide in an ogre breastplate he would have melted down if he hadn't...if he'd had time. It was smelly, you know? The goblins came, searched. They killed the master and left. I guess they didn't expect there to be an apprentice, or that he would be hiding in armor. There weren't a lot of rooms in the forge, just a couple big rooms and the attic. I eventually left, discovering that basically everything of value was taken and most everyone dead or missing. Dad gone, mother missing. Now quiet. Bartender! Another dwarvish whiskey. You've stirred up bad memories, bastard. It'll take another half-dozen drinks to let me sleep easy tonight..."

As for religion...we weren't anything special. We do think that there are gods, of course; there's plenty of miracles, divine curses, and whatnot, who wouldn't? We also try to go to worship, if we can, and to pray when we can't. Still, we have our doubts, and can't help but wonder how much the priests say is really the Word of the Gods and how much is what the priests want you to think is. Or wanted, whatever.
As for who we worship...dwarves don't really discriminate. Any god that's performed a miracle is in the pantheon.* Personally...well, Arest the Ancient is supposed to be the first god and the father of dwarves, so there's him. Frrous the Lord of Artifice is pretty important to us, too. Lately, we've been having prayers from Cirod the God of War and curses for Grandfather Gray, our name for the goblins' god**.

*I'm imagining the dwarven pantheon being something like that of the Romans. They conquer a land, they add that land's gods to their tapestry. Take out the conquering and replace it with "big miracles they've seen" and you've got my vision of the dwarven pantheon.
**I'm further imagining this to be a misinterpretation of ancestor-worship. Hey, why only have gods?


Maybe I shouldn't type so much. I got pentuple-ninja'd.

Oh, that's fleet number, not the number of units.