The Four Lands - The Colony

[Maidhc O Casain]

OOPS: Double Post!

 

[Maidhc O Casain]

Pandak

OOC: Pandak would like to invest in Nascent, but Mowgli is a little pressed for time. I'll 'reserve' a spot and look at Pandak's character sheet. Would you reference the post with price/share to expedite research? Thanks.

 

[Nightbreeze]

[sblock=ooc] Extremely simple: each share, golden or silver, costs 1000sp.[/sblock]

 

[Scotley]

[sblock=votes]Interesting! If you and I vote together, we have just a little more voice in the company that Brightlaw does. We can, thus, nullify their votes totally, if we so choose, and let Ederin run the company as he chooses. But, then, JA will have something to say about this too, I have no doubt![/sblock]

[sblock=Hennet]Interesting indeed. And if that doesn't work, when we get to the colony, Alvar has the intimidate skill to make the Brightlaw representative vote the way he wants. "Votes, we don't need no stinking votes..." Not that JA will let us get away with such tactics, but I can dream. Ederin has things set up so that we can't all gang up on him, so lets hope he runs things right. You've got the most to gain with the largest block of gold shares if things go well, but Alvar will be looking for profit too.[/sblock]

 

[Nightbreeze]

[sblock=ooc] Ewrrr, what have I done? The only way I "set up things" was by buying low-worth equipment, keeping the gold, taking loans and investing heavily. Each one of my 1000 shares were bought, I didn't create them with tricks. Besides, I have silver shares, not golden one, and of course I am interested in profit. No one hinders Alvar's quest for profit. If I wished to set up thinks so that you can't gang upon me, (for whatever reason you may want to do that), I wouldn't have sold you silver shares. I have to admit I feel judged... [/sblock]

 

[Leif]

[sblock=ooc] Ewrrr, what have I done? The only way I "set up things" was by buying low-worth equipment, keeping the gold, taking loans and investing heavily. Each one of my 1000 shares were bought, I didn't create them with tricks. Besides, I have silver shares, not golden one, and of course I am interested in profit. No one hinders Alvar's quest for profit. If I wished to set up thinks so that you can't gang upon me, (for whatever reason you may want to do that), I wouldn't have sold you silver shares. I have to admit I feel judged... [/sblock]

[sblock=OOC, Nightbreeze]Don't let Scotley upset you. He didn't mean anything by what he said. Trust me, if he had meant to be insulting, it would have been MUCH, MUCH WORSE! And, the only thing the you have "done" is to invest a lot more time in planning this financial venture than I care to do. And, even if I did have that much time to spend, I doubt if I could have been able to do as good a job as you did.
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[J. Alexander]

Shopping

Insert Wicked DM Laughter here

More to come this evening.

 

[Scotley]

[sblock=ooc] Ewrrr, what have I done? The only way I "set up things" was by buying low-worth equipment, keeping the gold, taking loans and investing heavily. Each one of my 1000 shares were bought, I didn't create them with tricks. Besides, I have silver shares, not golden one, and of course I am interested in profit. No one hinders Alvar's quest for profit. If I wished to set up thinks so that you can't gang upon me, (for whatever reason you may want to do that), I wouldn't have sold you silver shares. I have to admit I feel judged... [/sblock]

[sblock=Nightbreeze]Hey, sorry you took my post to Hennet the wrong way. I really wasn't trying to judge. Just noting that you had a majority share. Leif was suggesting that we could balance Brightlaw's intersest and I was just saying that you had a controlling stake and so ultimately had the power to run things your way even without our help. I'm sorry if you found that insulting in any way. I admit my comments were a bit caustic as they often are when chatting privately with Leif. If anything Alvar would admire your strategy of keeping a majority holding. I am very much onboard with what you are doing and extremely pleased with the results you are getting. My own RL schedule has kept me from being as involved as I would like in all this and I was very happy to see you take a hand in getting things done for the colony. Unfortunately, you and I haven't had much of a chance to get to know one another or you would have just grinned and moved on after reading my post. Feel free to drop me a line any time (my email can be found in my profile) if you have questions or concerns about my posts. I expect we should talk sometime and make plans to keep the DM on his toes. [/sblock]

OOC: I will have some numbers for animals and equipment up shortly.

 

[Scotley]

OOC: Okay Alvar recommends we start with 25 heavy plows. The animals are just too heavy to ship more. To be pulled by a pair of oxen (just big cows trained to draft work) or 4 horses. In particularly hard rocky ground it might be necessary to use as many as 8 oxen in a team. We should take 40 mature cows/oxen, mostly young females (they are just too heavy to take more at this time) and 60 heavy horses. Another We'll need 50 harrows and 50 seeders which can be pulled by smaller teams. Alvar will buy the best quality he can find on short notice. Also 200 calves just old enough to be eating grain rather than milk for weight reasons (20 males and 180 females) to form the core of future herds. Additionally, 100 colts again mostly females. We'll need 180 days fodder for 400 animals. We'll need to hire 50 cowherds/grooms to take care of them and 180 days food for them as well. We'll need harnesses in three sizes to train the animals as they grow, so figure 900 harnesses/horse collars.

Want to give me a price for all that JA?

It is going to take up significant tonnage--figure .75 tons per ox and 0.5 tons per mature horse with the young being perhaps 4 cows or 8 horses to the ton. The food for 180 days will weigh in at 0.5 tons per animal, so thats 200 tons of food. We could cut that down to 120 days and plan on eating some beef if we can't keep them fed after we arrive. How much tonnage do we have to work with? I'm thinking the farm equipment will weigh about 10 tons.

 

[Maidhc O Casain]

Back to Nascent

OOC: Pandak would like 40 Silver shares and 10 Gold shares in Nascent, please (a piddling amount, but it's a 'foot in the door' at least).