LOST TRAILS OOC

[ewancummins]

I will also be out/busy this week.

But expect updates as soon as Tuesday.

[Adam]

I assume you mean Azoun IV sired a bunch of bastards. It would be weird if the boy king did it.

[ewancummins]

Ha!

Yeah, correct that first reference to ''Azoun IV''

or else a glaring printer's error in the first run.

[alhoon]

I am back! I'll catch up tomorrow.

[alhoon]

Can I spend some gp to replace my scrolls during the three days?
Also Raen puts the siblings in rooms at a good (as in clean, with solid food and goon-natured staff, not overly priced luxurious) inn, buys them food, clothes and a couple of toys. If there is no such inn he looks for a kind old widow to take them in for a few days paying what she asks and of course he visits them often to make sure they are treated well. If he finds any troubadour\bard\entertainment person he will ask him\her to spend a little time each day to teach happy songs to the kids and he will pay such a person (reasonably, he won't pay 10 gp for 1 hour or something). Orphan-care expenses go before any other expenses.
Inwardly, Raen is afraid the kids may become too hardened by their suffering and the hard years that would follow so... he tries everything that comes to mind to prevent that.

Also, if the kids prefer to live with a kind old widow instead of an inn, he follows that. If they know anyone in the city and he or she is willing to put up with them, he would do that. If they go to an inn, he has no problem to put them to separate rooms if they want, or pay for a larger room for all of them if they want (even if he has to pay for a 4 or 6 beds room for the 3 kids). He would share his fears about how the orphans would grow up with local clerics of good religions.

He would spend about 8 hours per day for scrolls (if you permit) and a few minutes morning, lunch, dinner (totaling an hour or two) with the kids. The rest of the time he will go sight-seeing, check libraries, local clergy, sages, book collections etc for information and the like.

Can I get a price range for all of the above so I know how much money I would have for scrolls? Raen has a lot of money remaining. He's not a big spender.

[ewancummins]

gather info

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[ewancummins]

I will assume that, with a low roll, he had to keep asking around for a while and could not readily find all the stuff on his list.

But he does manage, in the three days, to secure/obtain:


decent but not fancy food and lodging for four persons/three days 12 gp

a set of new clothes for each of the three orphans 3 gp

lessons from a music teacher/minstrel for three days 1 gp

toys 2 gp

That's 18 gp.

For the scrolls, use the standard numbers:

Scribe Scroll [Item Creation]
Prerequisite
Caster level 1st.

Benefit
You can create a scroll of any spell that you know. Scribing a scroll takes one day for each 1,000 gp in its base price. The base price of a scroll is its spell level × its caster level × 25 gp. To scribe a scroll, you must spend 1/25 of this base price in XP and use up raw materials costing one-half of this base price.

Any scroll that stores a spell with a costly material component or an XP cost also carries a commensurate cost. In addition to the costs derived from the base price, you must expend the material component or pay the XP when scribing the scroll

You are able to obtain paper and ink somewhat more easily than otherwise because the Governor lets you contract with her factor, who certainly buys plenty of the stuff for administrative purposes (Old North Abbey is the center of admin and records for the entire Protectorate). Otherwise you'd have to pay a markup.
This is a good -sized town, but not a major city.

[ewancummins]

Because your first gather info roll wasn't so hot, I'm going to require a second roll for seeking out the appropriate clergy.

Unless you prefer letting Klolkulf teach them Sunday school, eh?



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[alhoon]

Certainly not that kind of clergy.
Also, Raen doesn't require as much as the kids. He can do with worse conditions.

Apparently Raen can't do much in that town. He wouldn't even get the ink if it wasn't for the Governor apparently (cause I doubt such a lousy roll would cut it).
How are the kids doing? And what are their names (they have been mentioned here and there, I know, but I forgot) ? How old is the oldest?

[ewancummins]

Well, he is operating in a strange place. This isn't his world. Some things are much the same and other things are different.

[ewancummins]

Orphans


Chara age 16
young woman

El age 11
boy

Mira age 7
girl

[ewancummins]

VAST SWAMP related intel gather roll

Gov spies/staff

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[ewancummins]

MARS RL

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[Wolfglide of the Fraternity]

Well, I suppose Klokulf is ready to meet with the Governor again, though he will be saving his Bane questions for the end of the presentation.

[alhoon]

Ehm... shouldn't anything from this post and below be in the OOC?

Gather Info Check for finding powder for the guns, for 1st day .
236166:0 +8 =9

Second Day Roll .
236166:1 +8=23 on that roll .