[OOC] Toranthar (Full)

[Sparky]

Clarifications on Life in Naedur

I edited the first real IC post to reflect the job goals. And I will be describing the growing cavern in further detail in following posts.

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The citizens of Naedur use a lottery system to staff up big 'public works' projects. It should not be confusing to anyone except the Eladrin (to whom a description like what follows would have been given).

Various groups in the city (The Farmers, the Miners, the Smiths, etc) submit a job to the Hall of Duty with the number of workers they need and the number of days they expect that they'll need to complete it.

When the job is processed, it is assigned a color and a region (or regions) of the city to draw labor from. Satchels of Stones are assembled with even numbers of black and colored Duty Stones. Stone servers are called (like Zlatan and Heskrash) to circulate through the city and distribute the Duty Stones.

When you've done a Duty you keep your Stone to show that you served (it's a punishable offense to fail to show up), and then next time someone comes around serving Stone you get skipped (but you turn in your colored stone for a black 'No Duty' Stone).

Sick and aged and young citizens are always skipped, but carry a stone anyway. A white stone. Children are given this white stone at a very young age to teach them the responsibility of keeping up with it.

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Please do not use sblocks in the IC thread for OOC comments. The OP in this thread shows how the OOC portion of IC posts should be represented.

I wouldn't have even used sblocks for the individual introductions (which everyone should read, because all of them together give you a better introduction to the game and the city) except that the post got really long without them.

 

[Redclaw]

Sorry about the sblocks. It's been long enough since you went over the guidelines that I forgot. I'll clean my post up.

 

[Sparky]

Oh, right, Shayuri, I forgot - You could have cast Comprehend Languages if you had the appropriate materials, I couldn't find a link to your character sheet to check for myself.

And please use the quote function only sparingly, quote boxes junk up the IC thread lots. More of my OCD. :/

Draconic seems a resonable thing for dragonborn to speak.

 

[Shayuri]

Re: Quote, okay. Just wanted to make sure the context of the reply was intact. I'll be more discerning in the future.

Dragonborn, by RAW, all know Draconic, I think...but languages are tinkered with in this setting so I didn't want to assume.

 

[Sparky]

I was being coy about the draconic. I wouldn't have let you burn your 'bonus' language on it and then stung you with it. But, that's meta knowledge. At the moment, Mask is figuring this out.

 

[Mathew_Freeman]

I've made my first reply to the IC thread - please let me know if I'm misunderstanding any part of the game or how to format the reply!

 

[Sparky]

BTW, totally great Tallarn - welcome to PBP!

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My last IC post is updated with attacks vs your Reflex defense. Thanks Atan for shaking me out of my 3.5e mindset.

 

[Atanatotatos]

Heh. I know it can happened. It has happened to me. Several times

 

[Shayuri]

Hm! I need some clarification on the situation.

The PC's are down in a pit, eating food that's been lowered to them. In the meantime, up in the city proper there have been these flashes of light and screams as the sunstone fell down?

Or did we come up out of the pit to eat, and are thus in the city during these events?

 

[Sparky]

Neither really...

Lunch hasn't been lowered down yet. You were to eat it down on the plinth in the cavern, because after the harvest (skill challenge), you were going to do some planting.

The cavern itself is below the city proper, a big bell of space that connects to the city above by a round hole in the top of the cavern. The sunstone just fell through that hole and shattered on the cavern floor.