Destiny's Tears: Convocation Goers

[Rystil Arden]

[SBLOCK=Melody]*The Shipmaster, a Larakese-looking woman with her hair tied in an elaborate pattern and fastened by two small sticks, smiles and waves to Melody as she enters.*

"Ah, yes. Melody. You were the first Convocation-goer to sign on with us and one of the first to gather a crew and request a ship."

"So then, first I must ask a few questions--how many others who have signed on with us have you gathered? How many more would you like us to provide? And finally, how many obligatory missions would you like to accept before you start having significant leeway in your use of the ship--the more you accept, the more expensive Spelljamming equipment you will receive from us."[/SBLOCK]

 

[Thanee]

Melody

[SBLOCK]“Well, I make up my mind quick usually.”

“As for the crew, we are four right now, but another two to four will join in within the next days, they are currently preoccupied and thus unfortunately unable to come here in person.”

OOC: I hope that's right... we have Melody (obviously), Zykovian, Fedowin and Priya right now; plus the 'android', but I guess she cannot be counted as a crewmember, as well as Molpe, who definitely won't be a crewmember IIRC. In addition there are still Abdiel (if you want to NPC him), Mhrazhar, Alire (? she was going with Abdiel and Mhrazhar, IIRC, I'm fairly sure *someone* was going with them to the moon...) and Bellevere (if we can get her out of prison).

“As for your next questions, the simple answer is... it depends. If you can entrust us with a bigger and/or faster ship, than the basic dragonfly class, which we should be able to man already even with some auxiliary crew, additional crewmembers would, of course, be necessary and welcome. Naturally, I would like to see them first, get a first impression, but I'm sure your selections will only be in everyone's best interest. So, if you could detail the options here a little further, how many crewmembers you require us to have for what ship and how many crewmembers you can provide us with at most, that would be most appreciated. Same with the obligatory missions. I am here to help, as is my crew. Of course, we all have our own motives as well, I, for one, like to travel and this is a great opportunity to see more of the Wildspace. It's a great honor to be able to help your organization, and I'm sure that my crew will agree, that we can do some missions for you, to repay the debt, so to say. However, knowing a little more about the missions, to have some means to gauge the effort and time needed to complete them, is obligatory before I can give you a finite answer. But there is a limiting factor as well, which I do have to mention. There is something, a trail, we wish to pursuit sooner or later, and the sooner the better as with all trails. If it was possible for us to do so while executing missions for you, which would be perfectly possible, if they bring us into the right regions, that would greatly increase the number of missions we could do for you, because otherwise we have to keep the number lower so we do not lose the trail entirely. I'm sure you understand. As captain, it is my responsibility to reconcile and balance all the interests here. I could also see us perform some smaller missions for you first, it's a given that we start there, of course, to get a better feel for the whole new world we are about to enter, then take a little break to pursuit our interests and afterwards accept more missions, maybe even some bigger ones.”[/SBLOCK]

 

[Rystil Arden]

[SBLOCK=Melody]

OOC: I hope that's right... we have Melody (obviously), Zykovian, Fedowin and Priya right now; plus the 'android', but I guess she cannot be counted as a crewmember, as well as Molpe, who definitely won't be a crewmember IIRC. In addition there are still Abdiel (if you want to NPC him), Mhrazhar, Alire (? she was going with Abdiel and Mhrazhar, IIRC, I'm fairly sure *someone* was going with them to the moon...) and Bellangere (if we can get her out of prison).

(OOC: Yup, that's about right)

"Well, we have a good number of the Dragonflies, but we also have several Wasps, which require at least 8 crew members and at most 18, a pair of Angelships, which require 8 crew members but can hold up to 33, and a single Infiltrator, which require 2 crew members and can hold 12."

"I am unsure how many crew members we can find for you, but we can at least get you enough to man any of those ships at least."

"As for the missions, you will be expected to continue on missions periodically when requested, while pursuing your own goals in between--though you may of course choose to perform additional missions. The missions will help pay off the equipment cost at first, and once that is done, we will provide additional recompense for later missions. However, you will need to perform the initial missions more or less immediately to earn our trust--you'll have at most one week after the end of the Convocation before we assign the first. Will that be sufficient?"

[/SBLOCK]

 

[Thanee]

Melody

[SBLOCK]OOC: You can surely guess my first question. Can you give at least some information about the different ship types (none of them is on the page where the dragonfly details are, or at least I couldn't find them there)? We have a rough size for now, how about the speed, or is that the same for all spelljamming ships? Also, any specialities (that obviously aims at the Infiltrator mostly).

That sounds good... Melody thinks, as she listens to the shipmaster's reply.

“A week would be splendid! That's more than we could have hoped for, really. If we can get our other obligations out of the way even before we begin here, we would be free for anything you have, pretty much,” Melody explains a little overenthusiastic. “As for the ship, the obvious choice is between an Angelship and the Infiltrator then. I like the name of the latter, it sounds so adventurous. Quite fitting, don't you think? Give me a moment to make up my mind here, not all decisions should be done quickly. And that brings up another question... does the ship we get commissioned affect the missions we get assigned?”[/SBLOCK]

 

[Rystil Arden]

[SBLOCK=Melody](OOC: Yeah, that page doesn't have them all. The Wasp is 18 tons, Crew 8/18, generally with 9 tons of carrying capacity, the Angelship is 33 tons, Crew 8/33, generally with 21 tons of carrying capacity, the Infiltrator is 12 tons, Crew 2/12, generally with 4 tons of cargo capacity

Speed depends on the helm more than the ship--the ship determines manoeuvrability, which is D for the Wasp and C for the others.

The Infiltrator is not as good at head-on combat as some of the others, particularly the Angelship, but it specialises in stealth)

"Yes, ship choice might possibly affect the missions, though probably not all that much."[/SBLOCK]

 

[Thanee]

Melody

[SBLOCK]“Having a crew were most know each other already is a boon, and it seems like a good idea not to tinker with that too much, therefore we will go with the Infiltrator. We have plenty crewmembers to man that including auxiliary positions, even with the four we are right now.”[/SBLOCK]

 

[Rystil Arden]

[SBLOCK=Melody]"Very well then. Keep in mind that the Infiltrator is the most expensive. We'll start you off with a Minor Helm unless you would prefer to get a better one and owe us more missions. There are also other add-ons you may want, such as a Celestial Compass and Astrolabe, some weaponry, and the like."[/SBLOCK]

 

[Bront]

[sblock=F&P]Priya nods, "That sounds good. You know the way? I don't realy."[/sblock]

 

[Thanee]

Melody

[SBLOCK]“Once we start into one direction, we should go the whole way, so yes, I would prefer a better helm, actually. A higher speed will allow us to achieve more in shorter time, which can only be good. Also the most utilitarian upgrades can only help us on our quests. And once we got our current issues sorted out, we will be free to carry out missions for you, and quite honored to do so as well. I don't see any problem there.”[/SBLOCK]

 

[Rystil Arden]

[SBLOCK=Melody]"Very well then. I'll give you a Lesser Helm then. All of that totals up to 75,000 gold that you owe us. We'll want you to perform at least three missions right off the bat then, and of course continue on missions later on, interspersed with your own business of course."[/SBLOCK]