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So, here's the plan: Get Foghorn to tell us where Alice is. Invite Alice to stay with us at our ranch while she recovers. Then, once Alice is safe and settled, we go on a day trip to the tower to get the dwarf whatever he needs for his artifact. Artifact in hand, we abduct Clairia.

The first step is the most important and least certain.

You guys seem to forget that unconverted Alice can do whatever she want and I suspect that it's quite possible that she will run away\plot a revenge against her father. Especially if left alone

Also, I'd not spend too much time in preparations, or Vindel may marry Caira

Also I don't understand why to not go to the tower now. 

Also, I see no real reason to revenge Vindel, he treated us quite nicely after we attempted to kill him. Besides doing something bad to his love is a much better revenge

We're saving the girl who already owes her life to us, a possible consideration but if we rush and screw up we'll lose more time, we don't know where Alice is, he kinda enslaved us...hm, you gave me an idea. Could we use that enslaving gift on Caira?

Quote from: Ukrainian Ranger on November 30, 2012, 06:48:20 am

Little problem... To release Alice we need to learn where we can find Alice

Also if we do bring birds with us to the tower, why not do it know? I'd rather not destroy food supply in that way

Gwen is going for the birds while we ask Foghorn about Alice. He just said that we can have her, so he shouldn't object to us letter her out of the torture machine.

You're implying that there are circumstances people would not want to be rescued from torture machines...

You start to drink yourself drunk, but are interrupted...

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You find yourself back in the "commercial" district. There's the buildings, the dog, the twins. Almost everything's like it was when you first made it here. Weird.

"I'll take a Sandwich of the Day, and a beer, too."
"Sure thing," says Jim, filling a glass with beer. "The sandwich should be ready in about five minutes. With tax, that's $4.28."
You pay Jim with a nice, crisp five-dollar bill you have in your wallet, get change, and sip your beer.

Attack the bandit in front of me!
Cut off his head if possible; slash across the chest if not.

Coins are just slugs of metal, with no more value than the material they're crafted from; they're not actually useful for anything.  They should barter for less than goods, as if you were trading scrap copper (or whatever metal) that has to be melted down, purified and worked before you can do anything good with it.

By that logic, anything without a good, practical use is also worthless except for scrap.

Currency allows you to easily transfer and redeem debts in a non-specific way, but only if everyone involved recognizes the value and nature of the debt, and the trading tokens.

I'm thinking coins should barter for significantly less than their value (because they have no inherent use) under normal circumstances, but within your own civilization (assuming a working economy), and with allied civilizations that maintain trade agreements with yours, they should barter at a higher value because of their attractive fungibility.  Merchants would take their profit cut either way.

I think that "within your own civ" was implied. If not...well, many non-American nations accept the American dollar; perhaps human or elven nations would accept coins from a powerful dwarven nation, or at least one they regularly trade with. Currency from their own nation would be preferred, of course, but dwarven coins would be worth more than mere "slugs of metal."

Just FYI, once they get out of the hospital they can probably crawl around and work that way.

Is it just me, or did they just have a picture of a DF world?
They should so have had a screensaverey thing of a world being created, a fortress being built, etc, all abbreviated and on a loop.
...I now want a Dwarf Fortress screensaver like that.

Isn't it being a vampire that locks attributes?