IC: Dichotomy's Age of Worms Redux, Part V(b)

[Dichotomy]

"That is probably all I need, then," Investigator Gust replies. "These shapechangers are extremely disturbing. I'll have to put a lot of time into figuring out precisely how extensively they've infiltrated the system. It will take a lot of solid evidence before I dare even bring a charge, particularly since, without a doubt, the courts have been affected. It will have to be solid, and it will have to be public. But I promise you, I WILL get to the root of this. However, as a bright spot for you, perhaps, I won't need to implicate your involvement. The benefit of you submitting to my spell is that, when I am made to submit to such magic, I can vouch for your reliability just as well as you could for yourselves.

"On the other hand, I don't know what I can do about this 'squid face' thing. From what you've said, he... or 'it' maybe... used these shapechangers but wasn't directly involved in their infiltration of the city. The possible danger is also more direct. My investigative services will probably not help with that. Bodyguards or mercenaries, maybe, but not investigation."

Gust reaches into a drawer and pulls out an official-looking note. He writes on it and then stamps it with a seal. "You have my great thanks for giving me the information you've found. You might not have expected it, but you're entitled to a reward. You can bring this to any money changer in the Free City." He hands the note to Kushnak, which is made out for 2,500 gold pieces.
[sblock=OOC]Did the website just get way faster today?[/sblock]

 

[o3caudata]

"Thank you. We are glad to have helped." Kushnak says tilting his head to Gust before leading the others out of the office.

Once clear of the church, Kushnak continues "That was...unexpected. Lets see about selling some of our things.."

[sblock=oc]Added the moneys to the treasure sheet. and... um.... yes.[/sblock]

 

[TiCaudata]

Erdolliel whistles happily while walking down the street. "I guess that wasn't so bad after all. Now is there anything we need to buy before we scope out this Cold Forge place?"[sblock=oc]Yeah I've been distracted this week. Trying to get some doen before the weekend when we are having a bday/sukkot/housewarming/chicken butchering (finally!)/something else I'm sure! party. I agree that selling stuff off is a good idea, maybe we should try to sell the weaponry at Cold Forge? That would be an obvious way to snoop around. Erdolliel will even try to Gather Info (+0) and maybe do a spot or listen check or 2. I'll try to check in tomorrow with you guys off boards about how to proceed.[/sblock]

 

[Dichotomy]

[sblock=OOC]Ti, it is very sweet of you to be having a party for me this weekend. I won't be able to make it...

Anyway, it'll certainly be easier to decide on the buying/selling of loots OOC by either chat or mail. We might as well try to do that before we move on.[/sblock]

 

[TiCaudata]

[sblock=oc]alright, back on the last page we had a brief discussion of what to ID, but never ID'd anything. I suggested long sword, ring, or scrolls and Neth spellcrafted the scrolls. Now I suggest that we have the ring ID'd instead for that day. For this day I say we finally ID that magic bag. O3 and I were also talking about it and decided that we should just pay to ID everything that's left. I counted up 9 things total. So, minus the bag and the ring that's 700 gold we need to spend for ID right?

furthermore, Erdolliel has 5 tanglefoot bags and some alchemist fire already and can probably keep the additional ones as well... Fireball cl8 is probably something Neth or Erd can use? I'm not sure about what the give and take for economics of selling scrolls are. Dominate person seems kind of evil but kind of potentially useful... Good thing Erd isn't lawful good... It would be wise to not have to deal with changing my alignment or anything though, so if DP would do that, we should sell it.

Finally, I was under the impression that crafting materials were essentially commodities and that if we had extras we could just hang onto them and use them for the next crafting project. Is that true? The alternative is that the crafting materials are specific to the projects we were going to assign them to, and since we aren't making those things anymore, we can't use the materials again.[/sblock]

 

[Dichotomy]

[sblock=OOC]I'm kinda rusty... But I'm not sure how you get 700 gp. Should it be 770 gp? (Seven items; 10 x caster level [1] for each casting; plus 100 for each pearl)

It is more or less up to you guys to decide who should get the fireball scroll. At this point, though, Neth's effective caster level is less than the scroll's, so he has a chance to fail.

I don't think using dominate person has any necessary effect on one's alignment. It would depend really on how you use it. (Just like killing stuff doesn't necessary do anything; depends on whom you kill.)

On the crafting goo... I don't remember discussing it, but having them be a commodity makes sense. It is certainly less mean to those of you crafting, and, given the already questionable cost-benefit analysis of crafting, I think that is probably fine.[/sblock]

 

[TiCaudata]

[sblock=oc]yeah yeah 770, so what is all the stuff?

And I think we might as well keep the scrolls.[/sblock]

 

[Dichotomy]

[sblock=OOC]Ring: protection +2
Bag: of holding, type I
Greataxe: +1 frost
Longswords: all five are +1
Wand: cure mod wounds, 26 charges

That's all, right?[/sblock]

 

[o3caudata]

[sblock=oc]updated treasure sheet with to sell, prices etc. not sure if anyone else has as much use for the ring as kush, but we can make a case if neth wants it(erd is pretty far ahead in the treasure department.)

i think we want to at least get a couple(2) true seeing scrolls, just in case. a couple(4) potions of protection from evil(cl 3 if we can?, should be same price as a level 2 potion i think) that might be useful still.... maybe....

anywho, i'm off to in the morning. i assume i'll be able to get to enworld through the great firewall, but there are no guarentees, if not i think we should/could maybe transition to a email based posting thing. i should have significantly more free time over there, since i won't be responsible for much other than training sessions and answering email.

anywho
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[TiCaudata]

[sblock=oc]I updated the treasure sheet to reflect that we are keeping the craft materials (small change, I just erased "sell" because they had not been included in the grand total of sold items). Other than that I agree with everything stated above, even that Erdolliel is overboard on the wealth scale...

How's the great firewall working out? I imagine that the first few days will be all dinner and thanks-for-coming parties.[/sblock]