OOC: The hunt for the blue palace (Troika!/Yoon-Suin, full for now).

[Ancalagon]

So just a quick note on money. The rupee is basically a double silver. The 10% advance is enough to pick up a few rations etc, but not enough to get serious gears.

Dubi Gan is essentially offering a sum so you don't have to worry about feeding yourselves for a couple of weeks. It's all he can afford. But at 25 rupees ( ie 50 silvers) each, it's a notable improvement in your financial situation, which is currently dismal. Without any income, a few more days and you will have to find honest work, steal, beg or start selling gear...

 

[JustinCase]

@JustinCase I'm going to start the ball rolling, I hope you can jump in soon

Must've missed this OOC thread, so thanks for the mention. I just posted in the IC, and posted my character basics in the RG. I will add a short backstory later.

 

[Ancalagon]

@FitzTheRuke has agreed to play Dubi Gan!

 

[tuffghost12]

Nice!
Welcome aboard @FitzTheRuke !

 

[Ancalagon]

@FitzTheRuke , do you agree to paying half now, half after? You don't have the money on you, and you will have to go grab your adventuring gear at home....

 

[FitzTheRuke]

Mmm. I will offer a third down.

 

[JustinCase]

Pinpehlu is a porter, like his father before him, and his grandfather, and, well, not his great-grandfather probably because he came from Xian and his great-grandmother rarely spoke of him.

There is a simple truth in carrying goods to where they ought to be, and Pinpehlu has always enjoyed it as both an honest job and a way of life. Wherever things needed to be moved, he went; from the docks of his beloved Yellow City, to the ports of exotic places like Luhag, the ports of Xian, and even far-off Yongardy.

It was there in Yongardy, that his life took an unexpected turn. His employer, a slugman from a house known to be involved in various illegal activities, blamed him for the disappearance of a priceless jade artifact, which Pinpehlu had witnessed being traded for opium by another slugman. His honesty was not appreciated, and both slugmen demanded the insolent porter was to be tried in a Yongardy court. They had even found a so-called lawyer.

Pinpehlu's eternal smile momentarily vanished from his face as he beheld the broken and filthy sollicitor who was to be his champion, still reeking of the pipe. The porter had lost more than a few colleagues to that insidious addiction, and now his life depended on one who would do anything for one more smoke.

Whether it was his desperation or just plain luck, Pinpehlu managed to get through to the lawyer, and convince the man he came to know as Subötaï that this case was about more than a simple porter being falsely accused by his employer, no, it was a matter of justice in a cruel world and the casual discarding of lives by the higher-ups. It was worth fighting for!

Of course, after Subötaï proved victorious, they had to flee Yongardy to escape the wrath of both the prosecution and the two slugmen... So what better place to disappear than in the great jewel on the Mighty God River, the Yellow City?

How's this?

 

[Ancalagon]

Definitely can work, if @Fradak is ok with it.

One thing I would note is that your character wouldn't have developed an enmity towards slugmen in general because of this, otherwise you wouldn't have befriended Frog Moth...

 

[JustinCase]

True, but that would make sense because not all slugmen have treated him unkindly. Some have even been very friendly, and Frog Moth was likely one of those.

 

[FitzTheRuke]

Only racists hate ALL Slugmen over the acts of a few!