Ambrus
Explorer
It's no problem on the accounting front; it's my pleasure to be able to help out in someway. So far none of the PCs have shown any interest in the wolf-spiders' remains or bothered to claim ownership of them. Likewise none of them seemed to care about what Maelicent planned to do with them or offered to help him with the grisly task. It'd be somewhat odd if they suddenly did take an interest in the matter. Maelicent will consider the issue of dividing up the profits on the sales if ever the other PCs inquire about it.
PCs crafting stuff on their own usually isn't a great proposition since they keep moving around and adventuring and stuff. Since making armor and weapons requires weeks of dedicated effort it's not usually something that can easily be done by PCs who are on the move. Trying to accomplish it during the few hours a night the PCs are making camp would simply increase the amount of time to accomplish each task; likely fourfold since the PC would be spending only two hours a day on the task instead of eight.
Maelicent does react a bit adversely to the city but I imagine his reaction to the place was much more extreme in his early days here. He probably did little more than sneak around at night, steal food and spy on people for the first few weeks. It was likely a month before he tried speaking with an actual giant-kin. Although he might come off as rather paranoid and secretive, he's actually mellowed out quite a bit in the past few months. The building interiors aren't really all that different from large caves.
The stables with its sturdy ceiling beams, available rope and convenient assortment of buckets and troughs for holding ichor and organs is actually rather ideal for the task at hand. I figure the wooden supports are sufficient considering that the wolf-spiders don't likely weight as much as they might appear to; insects and arachnids don't have the same kind of weighty body density of mammals. Even if these wolf-spiders are otherworldly, it still seems likely that they're much lighter than they seem.
I don't plan on having Maelicent be entirely nocturnal. In this case I'm simply trying to expedite the butchering so as not to retard the party overmuch. Like I said, Maelicent will likely stay up till about 4 or 5 am and then turn in, waking up sometime before noon to resume his efforts. Unfortunately the goblin only has 14 gp left on hand. Maybe he can pay a butcher to rent him the required knives for a few days or simply pay half now and deliver the remainder after the chitin sales are complete. The DC of the check is up to you. Maelicent has a +6 Survival. If he acquires the knives then he'll have a +8. If you allow Maelicent to now acquire evil outsiders as his favored enemy then he'll gain a further +2 on his survival skill to butcher them. That way, with a +10 to the check, Maelicent can simply take 10 to properly butcher the demons.
PCs crafting stuff on their own usually isn't a great proposition since they keep moving around and adventuring and stuff. Since making armor and weapons requires weeks of dedicated effort it's not usually something that can easily be done by PCs who are on the move. Trying to accomplish it during the few hours a night the PCs are making camp would simply increase the amount of time to accomplish each task; likely fourfold since the PC would be spending only two hours a day on the task instead of eight.
Maelicent does react a bit adversely to the city but I imagine his reaction to the place was much more extreme in his early days here. He probably did little more than sneak around at night, steal food and spy on people for the first few weeks. It was likely a month before he tried speaking with an actual giant-kin. Although he might come off as rather paranoid and secretive, he's actually mellowed out quite a bit in the past few months. The building interiors aren't really all that different from large caves.
The stables with its sturdy ceiling beams, available rope and convenient assortment of buckets and troughs for holding ichor and organs is actually rather ideal for the task at hand. I figure the wooden supports are sufficient considering that the wolf-spiders don't likely weight as much as they might appear to; insects and arachnids don't have the same kind of weighty body density of mammals. Even if these wolf-spiders are otherworldly, it still seems likely that they're much lighter than they seem.
I don't plan on having Maelicent be entirely nocturnal. In this case I'm simply trying to expedite the butchering so as not to retard the party overmuch. Like I said, Maelicent will likely stay up till about 4 or 5 am and then turn in, waking up sometime before noon to resume his efforts. Unfortunately the goblin only has 14 gp left on hand. Maybe he can pay a butcher to rent him the required knives for a few days or simply pay half now and deliver the remainder after the chitin sales are complete. The DC of the check is up to you. Maelicent has a +6 Survival. If he acquires the knives then he'll have a +8. If you allow Maelicent to now acquire evil outsiders as his favored enemy then he'll gain a further +2 on his survival skill to butcher them. That way, with a +10 to the check, Maelicent can simply take 10 to properly butcher the demons.
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