Metropolis - The Weight of the World (and Found Wanting)

[Phoenix]

Admittedly, the lodging and food prices are greatly skewed anyway compaired to the price of everything else.

Just remember that, and the greater disparage between the poor and the rich.

[sblock=Pheonix]FYI, for the most part, Jasmine always adjusts her appearence when she wanders the street, and realy doesn't have a "usuall" appearance. However, what her usuall mode of operation would be, is to slowly shift her appearance, so she might walk in one way, walk out with just a minor change, but over the course of a few days, her appearance has changed enough where she is unrecongizable. When she's dealing with Riki, or others who know what she realy looks like, she drops the disguise, but her clothing is still technicaly part of all the effect of the item, and that may change a bit.

I'm mostly saying this now because it's easier to explain OOC than IC.[/sblock]

Skewed??? Hehe, it's so true.

Your cunning disguises may fool me for a long time, and get you out of many situations...am I supposed to say "but..." after this? Damn...

This may make some of the story a little more interesting methinks...of course, that assumes that you've been reading the other storylines, which I couldn't possibly imagine you doing Bront...

 

[Bront]

*Whistles inocently*

No, realy, beyond that, it just seems like good sense for someone in her line of work. If someone realy knows who they're looking for, they can probably find her, as the changes probably all have some base on her real appearance, but she's not likely to be too stupid her looks for the most part.

BTW, I see that for some reason, her age never made it in there, but she's likely just now aproaching the age of 19 or 20, though she herself is not aware of her exact age.

Anyway, I hope you're having fun with her

 

[Phoenix]

In the in-game thread gold pieces were mentioned as if they were very rare. Can you expand on this? What's the common currency, exchange rates, and whatever else we should know about money? I've browsed through this thread and begun browsing the previous Metropolis threads but beyond a couple of minor comments haven't found anything, yet.

Let me extrapolate on this for a minute to show people my reasonings and thinkings. Common fantasy worlds in d20 mostly have a standard monetary system: Copper, Silver, Gold, Platinum. These four coins create a system of economical structure able to support, let’s say, 10 million people (it’s a nice number).

Now, if 5% of the population control 90% of the wealth, it is supposed to create the system that we learn to love. Adventurers and Nobles have everything, the poor have nothing, at least in wealth. They can still survive off the land and scavenge for a living.

As soon as the population is confined to one city though, things change dramatically, it becomes much harder to live a life of nature so common to ancient people (remember there are no manufacturing plants or factories). Boost the population to say, 100 billion located in one city, it adds more chaos to the mix. Everything is a commodity, but it comes to the point were a copper and silver piece cannot truly play a sufficient part in the world. Some things are valued at less than a copper piece sometimes, or that even a copper piece is rare because there are no more mints.

As 5% of the populace controls 90% of the wealth, it creates a vast poor population squeezed into a mythically infinite city relying on a currency base which does not grow in line with population due to the lack of order. This creates a unique evolution of currency which makes stamped-scalemail pieces a form of currency in some suburbs.

This description is not supposed to be an answer, more a guideline. Metropolis is a place of despair and woe, the PCs are amazing because of what they own and the freedom that they have, as opposed to the abilities their levels and races give them. In the blink of an eye any PC could become one of the many huddling in the alley you just past…

 

[Phoenix]

*Whistles inocently*

No, realy, beyond that, it just seems like good sense for someone in her line of work. If someone realy knows who they're looking for, they can probably find her, as the changes probably all have some base on her real appearance, but she's not likely to be too stupid her looks for the most part.

BTW, I see that for some reason, her age never made it in there, but she's likely just now aproaching the age of 19 or 20, though she herself is not aware of her exact age.

Anyway, I hope you're having fun with her

I noticed the lack of age as well...funny, I kind of guessed her at about 15... Which puts a lot darker view on your story i think, especially the reactions that people have to you. And 15 may be a magic number somewhere else...*cough cough*

 

[Bront]

I noticed the lack of age as well...funny, I kind of guessed her at about 15... Which puts a lot darker view on your story i think, especially the reactions that people have to you. And 15 may be a magic number somewhere else...*cough cough*

Well, actualy, then you and I are on the same page of her past then, just view that she was in the Harram from a bit younger to that, and some of the other events happened a bit later.

I can always make her a bit younger if that suits you, I just figured I'd make her a nicer 18+, which is again, an age of some importance. Though, I guess in older feudal days, that age was a nice 12 or 13...

I'm flexable. And her age omition was an accident. I added an aproximate age, but I'm willing to change things.

 

[Phoenix]

Well, actualy, then you and I are on the same page of her past then, just view that she was in the Harram from a bit younger to that, and some of the other events happened a bit later.

I can always make her a bit younger if that suits you, I just figured I'd make her a nicer 18+, which is again, an age of some importance. Though, I guess in older feudal days, that age was a nice 12 or 13...

I'm flexable. And her age omition was an accident. I added an aproximate age, but I'm willing to change things.

I actually saw your age as more of a guess anyway, how could you accurately track it anyway? It hardly matters though....until you get aged by a ghost! Oh, wrong edition...

 

[Bront]

I actually saw your age as more of a guess anyway, how could you accurately track it anyway? It hardly matters though....until you get aged by a ghost! Oh, wrong edition...

Yup, hense the ~

 

[GlassEye]

Let me extrapolate on this for a minute to show people my reasonings and thinkings…

Thanks. That helps clarify things for me. I'll try to remember to keep Ymris from tossing gold pieces around. As one of the 5% from a gated-community type suburb she's likely to be a wee bit naive when it comes to those sorts of things. But I'm hoping her culture-shock induced paranoia keeps her alive.

 

[Phoenix]

Thanks. That helps clarify things for me. I'll try to remember to keep Ymris from tossing gold pieces around. As one of the 5% from a gated-community type suburb she's likely to be a wee bit naive when it comes to those sorts of things. But I'm hoping her culture-shock induced paranoia keeps her alive.

I'll be releasing the Metropolis: A Guide to Currency Conversion once I'm done with Airport Security Frisking Techniques: a d20 Modern Sourcebook.

 

[Bront]

I'll be releasing the Metropolis: A Guide to Currency Conversion once I'm done with Airport Security Frisking Techniques: a d20 Modern Sourcebook.

Will it come with a rubber glove for the body cavity search?