[note]First, credit is due to Steerpike who created the Cadaverous Earth Setting (http://www.thecbg.org/index.php/topic,56772.0.html), which he has graciously permitted me to use as the flavor.
The game will have deviations from Steerpike's piece-de-resistance, none of which are canon unless Steerpike states. For purpose of this game, deviations will take precedence over the actual text.
Cadaverous Earth suits the subject well even though I considered a number of setting styles, but I relish the opportunity to read again the tome Steerpike wrote and it seemed best to go with a slightly darker, already fully-conceptualized world.
Ultimately, Cadaverous Earth suits that requirement best- the setting provides limits for players, the tone is consistent, still, there is a vast canvass on which they can paint.
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Forum Game: Bounty Hunters of the Cadaverous Earth
[ooc=What Is This?]
* Play as a Bounty Hunter Company Owner who has a stable of three bounty hunters, or play as three independent hunters, closely allied.
* Seek Quarries/Bounties, Hunt them down, Gain Wealth and Notoriety. Build your Bounty Hunter Stables, make it, and your home grand. Grow your investments and build the greatest Bounty Hunter Stable of them All.
Live Under the Guild or Challenge it.
Choose who lives and who dies.
Compete or Cooperate.
It is your choice.
Time Commitment
* 20-30 min/week for players, probably less though.
* 2 hours/week max for GM.
Basic Concepts:
-GM rolls all the checks. Players do not need to roll anything.
-Round down if under .5, up if over or at .5
-Players choose their strategies (the Actions).
-Asynchronous Play. No two players or Player/GM needs to be online at the same time.
-Play by Post.
-The cheaper the bounty, the less complications.
-1 Post a week. But players can post more.
-Rewards for Posting Tales and flavour-text.
-How to Win? Set your own goals- level up your bounty hunters, build a better company hall, build a better home, take on the Bounty Hunter's guild, go independent, sabotage other players, it's up to you.
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[ic=Setting]
The setting is the blood-spattered City of Bodysnatchers, Macellaria, located deep in the wastes of the Cadaverous Earth, a dying land, where the dead walk and the living die.
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[ic=Guild or Independence?]A tiny, almost imperceptible string dangled from Tywin's ankle. On its end, a metal hook dangled. Tywin saluted a guard as he walked, then bent down to tie his shoelace, hooking the hook onto a nail as he did. Then, he walked across the street and sat.
Moments later, a man came running down the alley. Tywin stood, yawning and stretching and holding his leg out straight...and the line out taut.
The man's stride took him almost over the line, but not quite, and he stumbled, then fell.
Behind him, a man with a sword ran. Tywin, however, pulled out his blade in one hand, and handcuffs in the other, which he snapped onto the running man's arms.
"No no no... Balon, this one's for me." He smiled at the pursuing swordsman, and opened his cape to show a glint of the Bounty Hunter's medallion. "This one's mine."
Balon grumbled.
"Guild rules." Tywin tittered.
Balon's thrust stabbed into Tywin's right breast. "F--- the Guild."
Tywin fell, blubbering blood. Balon stepped over him, grabbed handcuffs and dragged the man to his feet. Then he spat on Tywin's corpse. "I'm independent."[/ic]
[ooc=How to Play]
1. Character/Hunter Creation
First, you create 2 Bounty Hunters (See Creating a Bounty Hunter section, below)
Second, you create Your "Stable Master", who controls the money, divvies out assignments and orders the hunters around. This is your alter-ego (See Creating a Stable Master section, below)
Third, you choose your 3d bounty hunter from a list of those who are looking for work. (See For Hire Below)
2. Once The Game Has Started
Turn Actions:
Each turn/week, each Bounty Hunter may take 2 Simple or Advanced actions. (See Below in this Section).
The Stable Master may also take an unlimited amount of Corporate Actions. (See Below in this Section).
That's it. It's that simple.
SIMPLE ACTIONS
Simple Actions are explained below in the ACTION section of this thread.
1. Hunt Quarry (Choose when you are in the same city as the quarry)
-----When you hunt a Quarry, an Event and a Complication will happen. A Complication, which is negative, is avoided through Research.
-----More Complications occur when you hunt a more difficult Quarry.
2. Research a Quarry
3. Travel (travels to a city) (an Encounter may happen on the way unless Geography is researched).
4. Shop For Magic/Grafts/Tattoos/Potions/ Rare Weapons-Armor. Look for a particular rare item or a group of less rare items.
5. Training Train a skill under an expert.
ADVANCED ACTIONS:
1. Harass Another Bounty Hunter (Must be in the same city)
- Your Clever v. Their Perception (Roll v. Roll)
- A win on Clever v. Perception: (Delays the other Bounty Hunter).
2. Steal an Item
- Not enabled yet.
- May steal from a NPC or another player.
- Will need Thieves Guild Registration. Without, it you may be waylaid occasionally and your Charterhouse will be assaulted by Thieves more often than normal.
CHARTERHOUSE ACTIONS:
1. Hire a new Bounty Hunter (from the list of Bounty Hunters,if you can afford one)
2. Hire Away. Offer to hire away another Bounty Hunter
- (1) Can the Master meet the cost of a legal Buyout (5000 fee to the losing firm);
- (2) Master determines appropriate bribe (the Hunter's current salary [for generated Hunters, this is 5000/year]+500 is the base purchase price, add an additional 1000 to gain an additional 1 point bonus in stage 3);
- (3) (Your Firm's Notoriety - The Hunter's Loyalty) for the test.
- (*) If a Hunter's Loyalty is greater than or equal to 10, the Hunter cannot be Legally Bought Out/Bribed.
- (*) The Final Hunter may not be hired away from a Stable.
3. Sell Gear
- Gear can be sold for 1/4 of the original price.
4. Advance your Hunters (Experience)
- See Character Advancement Section.
[note]Other inspirations are: Lies of Loch Lamore by Scott Lynch, Great Train Robbery by Michael Crichton, Downton Abbey.
Some influence will likely arise from my GrimDark IdDark (http://www.thecbg.org/index.php/topic,78787.0.html), an over-the-top absurdist reaction to Grimdark settings. Other ideas I considered were to create a fantasy setting, or a Planet Stories Burroughs-like piece with steam (pteradon flown and tensile-launched flying contraptions), a steampunk world, my reaction to the New Weird- Gloria, a Sci-Fi Setting, WH40K, Cyberpunk world... but, given the subject matter[/note]
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[ic=Actions Explained]
Actions Explained
[ic=Hunt Quarry]
Hunt Quarry
As a Player, you may choose to Hunt if you have successfully Researched your Quarry's location.
Tell the GM
1. Choose Options for your attack (See Step II.)
2. Choose any contingencies you want to write up in detail for what to do if certain things happen during the attack (See Step II.).
3. Identify whether you plan to Spare or Slay the Target after the Target/Quarry has been acquired. (See Step III.).
If the Hunt is in a city other than the city you are in [on the first turn, this is Macellaria], you must first travel there by using an Action.
If your hunter is in the city where the target is located, you must still first identify, through Research, where your quarry may be located before you may go in search of the quarry. If the quarry has changed its appearance, then you will be unsuccessful in your hunt even if you know where the target is located unless your Luck is high.
Step I. Who Gets the Drop?
Once the target has been tracked down and located, we determine who gets the drop on whom in the encounter.
The GM will make the following tests:
If the Quarry is AGGRESSIVE: GM Tests: Your Perception v. Their Perception
If the Quarry is DEFENSIVE: GM Tests: Your Perception v. Their Conceal
If the Quarry wins its Conceal test, they are hidden.
The Hunter will need to try again to locate them. Keep in mind that the Quarry may have moved after the failed attempt. (So you may benefit from another Research Action).
If the Quarry wins its Perception test, they get the jump on you.
The Person who Gets the Drop on another gains +2 to the primary attack rolls (Aim, Strength, Magic check to hit) in Step II.
Step II. Battle
Declare your Option. (Aim or Strength Attack) AND Defend by (Dodge or Strength)
Declare your Tactic. (IF you choose no tactic, Confront is the default)
Declare Spare or Slay for the Quarry and whether it's a different instruction for any associates of the Quarry who get in the way.
Optional: Declare Instructions (e.g. Flee if at 50% damage).
A. Options are:
1. Attack. Declare that you will attack with your Aim or Strength.
[ooc]i.)-Aim* tests against Dodge
Special Rule for Aim: If the person choosing Aim got the drop on the other person- then they get an extra unopposed round to attack (thus balancing the Aim weapons' greater cost).
Jamming Weapons: Some Gun-based may Jam if your Knowledge was not high enough so you are able to avoid problems with the powder.
On each use there is an x% chance it will jam, see the Aim Weapons sheet for the chance).
Before each encounter the GM makes a Knowledge check for you to see if there is a risk of jams.
If you pass, nothing jams.
ii.)-Strength tests against Strength or Dodge (GMs choice).[/ooc]
Damage. Calculate Damage
Each Weapon does a different amount of Damage (See weapons).
Enemy Attacks.
The enemy will choose either Aim or Strength to attack you, testing against your Dodge or Strength (Declare your preference)
The Flow of Battle
Repeat rolls until one side dies because more Damage was dealt to them than they had HP remaining.
A fight is conducted concurrently, so both opponents could shoot each other dead in the same round.
B. Tactics
Choose a tactic for your Acquisition of the Quarry. IF you choose no tactic, Confront is the default.
[ooc=Tactics]-Conceal. (+2 to Stage III Rolls if success. -2 if Fail) (GM Rolls a Concealment check. Roll under d20= Success).
You hide yourself, then spring out in Attack!
-Confront. (The default) (no modifiers/checks)
A confrontation is a straight up battle. You meet your quarry and attack.
-Trick (+2 to Stage III Rolls if success. -2 if Fail) (GM Rolls a Charm check. Roll under d20= Success).
Befriend the Quarry, then strike when the Quarry least suspects.
-Entrap (+2 to Stage III Rolls if success. -2 if Fail) (GM Rolls a Clever check. Roll under d20= Success).
Set up a trap for the Quarry, then lead them into it.[/ooc]
C. Instructions
Instructions are optional. They are advanced battle tactics. They allow you to plan and react based on actions an enemy may take.
[ooc]A common instruction: Avoid Damage to Non-combantants (This will reduce your Attack statistics depending on the type of non-combatants who are around but it will also reduce the chance that you kill someone who is not your target and for whose death you will not be fined/gain enemies from, etc.)
Eg. "If the enemy dodges my aim, switch to a Strength attack for my next attack." or "After I reach 50% health, I flee". (See Step III for Fleeing Rules).[/ooc]
Step III. Aftermath
1. Spare or Slay. Notify GM whether you Spare or Slay the quarry (and/or the Quarry's associates)?
Default position will be to choose the option that nets more obeloi for the Quarry and to slay all associates.
If you Choose to Spare, the GM will make a LUCK check with your statistics. If you fail the LUCK check, then you have Slain the quarry.
2. Fleeing. If you Fled, an aggressive quarry may attempt to pursue you. A defensive one will not.
The aggressive quarry's Haleness will be tested against yours (roll+hale v. Roll+hale). If the quarry's Haleness is greater, they will have caught up to you and the fight will continue.
3. Complications.
-Complications, or unforeseen events may happen.
GM decides if Complications occur.
Prior Research reduces the likelihood of Complications.
(e.g. extra fees are imposed by a local constable for damages sustained in the barroom brawl capture of a Quarry; the Quarry has an ally who also attacks you; Noncombatants are involved).
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[ic=Research]Research
If research is chosen, the GM rolls a 1d100+(Researching Hunter's Knowledge * 5) (The total number can grow higher due to items and rooms)
Each 25 points reached reveals an aspect of the hunt.
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Action: Notify the GM what your priorities are for Research.
Example: "I'd like to learn about (3)(1)(2)(5)(6)(7), in that order, depending on how well my character rolls (GM will do the roll and then GM will tell you what you have discovered).
1-Location. Last whereabouts/favorite haunts of the quarry.
A must have. Location Location Location. Without researching this fact, you will not find the Quarry and you will be unable to cash your bounty.
2-Targeted Location Know exactly where the quarry will be when. (May only research if succeed on Location research first)
For certain cases, such as preparing the delivery of poison in food, a more precise study of the target's location is necessary.
Allows for Complete Surprise if you also succeed on Conceal+Clever greater than opponents' Perception+Luck. If failed, opponent gets the jump on you. If you succeed, you get the Drop on the opponent and 1 turn to deliver poison or drugs.
3-Vital Statistics. True vital statistics, weapons, cosmetic alterations and abilities of the quarry.
If the Quarry has changed how it looks, then you will be hard pressed to find it unless you research this category.
4-Allies/Associates. Known associates/relatives of the quarry.
This lets you know if anyone else will be assisting the quarry. will the quarry have allies you need to plan to confront.
5-Local Laws. Local Laws/Regulations/Attitudes (max 2 target areas).
Are there local laws in this city that may affect how you entrap your quarry. Perhaps Skein has a ban on slashing weapons and they will be confiscated at the gate? If you know ahead of time, you can make contingency plans.
6-Competitors. Competitors on the hunt/Rivals/etc. Learn about their weapons and vitals.
If there are competitors or enemies who are also seeking the Quarry, learn about them, lest they beat you to your goal.
7-Local Trade. Local Goods/Equipment/Items for trade (max 2 target areas).
If you are going to another city, this can be useful to gain extra money. Take along special spices to Sonambulon and sell High.
This is different from the Shop option- this refers to trade goods.
8-Geography and Dangers. Geography and dangers of the journey. (max 2 target areas).
If you want to avoid random encounters that will almost certainly lead to peril and absolute death, research this.
9-More Targets. Research more targets/deals in the city where you are located.
If you don't like options available from the Guild, research special deals from third-parties.
9-Enemy's Tactics. Research what the Enemy's tactics are likely to be in the upcoming battle.
Reveals the Enemy's Tactics and whether it will attack with Aim or Strength.[/ooc]
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[ic=Travel]Travel-
Travel to a new city to Hunt.
Action: Tell the GM which city you are heading to
Example: I am heading to Skein. or "Assuming that my Research succeeds, I am heading to the LOCATION of the Quarry."
You may have encounters on the way unless you research the Geography and Dangers. Encounters are rarely good. This is the CE, after all.
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[ic=Shop]Shop
Attempt to acquire a rare artifact, or a more common one.
Items are listed under Gear.
[ooc=Common Shops]
Just some names...
The Odditorium - Odd Items/Relics
Abernathy's Alliterative Apothecary - Potions
Petulant Potions - Potions
Carver's Den - Grafts/Tattoos
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[ooc=Rare Artifact]
These are quests. Not enabled yet. Are enabled through a Room in the Charterhouse.
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[ic=Training]Training
Enabled through a Training Room in the Charterhouse.
Train under an expert and improve a Hunter's statistics.
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[ic=Creating a Bounty Hunter]
Creating a Bounty Hunter[ic=Character Type Advice]I want a Spell Caster!
-Invest in Magic, Clever, and Luck
I want a Gunslinger!
-Invest in Knowledge and Aim
I want a Fighter!
-Invest in Strength and Dodge or Haleness
I want a Rouge!
- Invest in Concealment and Charm or Clever[/ic]
Base Statistics[ooc=What Do I Do Here?]Each Bounty Hunter's starting base statistics, which can be added/modified.
* Choose a Name, Age, Race, City of Birth.
(Name and Age have no in-game effects)
Races: - Options are explained in detail in a below post.
[ooc=Cities]
Cities you may choose, and their bonuses:
Crepuscle (A city of great rapscallion traders) May Shop for free as an Action in Crespucle once per Turn.
Dolmen +1 Core Statistic
Erebh +1 Core Statistic
Lophius +1 Core Statistic
Macellaria (The city where your charterhouse sits!) +1 Core Statistic
Marainein +1 Notoriety
Moroi Immune to 1 type of Drug.
Skein 1 Research is Free per Turns when in Skein.
Somnambulon Immune to effects that negate Magic. (Unless the effect is an Epic effect).
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* Distribute 12 points among the Hunter's
CORE STATISTICS only. No category may have 5 more points than the lowest (Thus, 5 is the highest any statistic may be at the start).
* Each Hunter you create starts with 200 obeloi and any wealth that their Master (you) gives them to purchase other items.
* The most important stats probably are: Strength or Aim, Dodge, Luck or Clever.
See Post below this for an explanation of what the statistics do/are.[/ooc]
[ic=Your Hunters]
Name:Age:Race:City of Birth:
| HP (Haleness+10) | 11 |
| ARMOR | 0 |
DISPOSITION: Aggressive (or) Defensive (choose one)
CORE STATISTICS
| Haleness | 1 |
| Perception | 1 |
| Concealment | 1 |
| Clever | 1 |
| Luck | 1 |
| Strength | 1 |
| Aim | 1 |
| Dodge | 1 |
| Magic | 1 |
| Charm | 1 |
| Knowledge | 1 |
ATTRIBUTE:OTHER STATISTICS:Notoriety 1
Loyalty 2 (Moves up due to rooms...needs to be 5 to avoid negatives)
GEAR: _______
MAGIC: (like gear mechanically but limited to carrying as many spells as you have Magic+(Clever/2)) _______
Successful Quarries Harvested0
Wealth in Hand: 250 obeloi to initially spend Plus whatever is left over from Stable Master
Flavor Text:[ooc=Flavor Title]Flavor Text[/ooc]
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[ic=Creating a Stable Master]
[ooc=]The Stable Master holds all the money and tells the Hunters where to go and what to do.
-Each Stable Master starts with 2 hunters under the Master's supervision+1 who you recruit.
-You previously generated these two hunters.
-You may distribute some of your obeloi to the Hunters to purchase gear for them or for them to hold the money.
-You also need to determine if you keep your money in a bank (determine which below), at the office, or at your residence. (Masters do not keep gold in Hand). [/ooc]
Your Stable MasterName:
Age:
Race:
Birth City:
[ooc=Cities]
Cities you may choose, and their bonuses:
Crepuscle (A city of great rapscallion traders) 10% less cost on Upgrades to Rooms (not on the servant only upgrades).
Dolmen Lillix hunters at 75% cost. Half cost Webbery.
Erebh Demon-Touched. Special events will occur.
Lophius Half cost Terrari Room and Blood Bath Room. Hagmyn and Leechkin hunters at 75% cost.
Macellaria (The city where your charterhouse sits!) 10% Less Tax/week.
Marainein No upkeep cost for Priests or Acolytes of the Wasting God; begin play with a Shrine to the Wasting God instead of a Utility Room. Begin play with extra 1 Notoriety.
Moroi Purchase Drugs as a Stable Master rather than as a Hunter Event.
Skein +1 extra Defense from up to 4 rooms that grant Defense.
Somnambulon +1 extra Loyalty from up to 4 rooms that grant Loyalty.
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Notoriety:
Hunter Loyalty: (Varies Hunter by Hunter)
Staff Loyalty:
Defense:
Wealth in Bank:
Wealth in Charterhouse:
Total Wealth: 6,000 obeloi
Weekly Costs:
TOTAL: 202/Week50/Week (Charterhouse Staff)
22/Week (Taxes)
100/Week (Toward Hunting License for Charterhouse in Macellaria)
30/Week (Toward 3 Hunters' License Renewals (10 each))
Long-Term Costs (annualized above) (For reference for both you and the GM:5200/Year (Hunting License for Charterhouse for Macellaria)
1040/Year (Hunting License for Individuals for Macellaria- License for your Hunters)
520/Year (Hunting License for Individual for Macellaria- Renewal)
1144/Year (Taxes on CharterHouse)
Flavor Text:[/ic]
[ic=Statistics Explained]Statistics Explained
HP - How many points of damage you can suffer before dying.
ARMOR - "Soak" Damage. Enemy must do more damage than your armor to hurt you (unless they have an armor-bypassing attack or the attack method states something different)
Disposition: Aggressive or Defensive. An aggressive person who is being hunted, does a perception v. perception check. A defensive person does a conceal v. Perception check.
Core Statistics
Haleness - Resistance to Disease and Health Points.
Perception - Chance to detect a hiding opponent.
Concealment - Hide from Sight. Hiding can lead to attack bonuses.
Clever - How "bright" you are. (Must be 3+ to use 2 strength weapons, or 1 non-natural graft in coordination with a strength weapon to fight)
Luck - How lucky you are. Adds a modifier in certain situations.
Strength - How strong you are. (Must be 5+ to use a two-handed weapon)
Aim - How well you can fire/shoot a ranged weapon. (Must be 5+ to use two aim weapons concurrently)
Dodge - How well you can avoid an attack or trap. Traps are present in Complications and in some Events.
Magic- How many spells you may have equipped (also add clever).
Charm - How personable you are. Useful for dealing with Complications and gaining better rewards from Events.
Knowledge - How much you know about ... things. Useful for Research checks.
Other Statistics
These statistics are modified by how you play.
Notoriety - All start with 1. As this grows, you will find some missions easier, you may be given extra special challenges or honors, and you will attract more notice. Notoriety is gained by bringing back quarries fast (1 week successes); by sabotauging your rivals; by writing good story writeups for your successes.
Loyalty - How loyal your hunter is to the cause. Important to keep relatively high so that they are not bribed away by enemy players. Loyalties may be negative.
Base Loyalty is 2
[ooc=Loyalty Chart]
Loyalty of -5 = Leaves your service
Loyalty of -4 to -2 = -3 to all checks
Loyalty of -1 to 1 = -2 to all checks
Loyalty of 2 to 4 = -1 to all checks
Loyalty of 5 to 7 = 0
Loyalty of 8 to 10 = +1 to all checks
Loyalty of 11 to 12 = +2 to all checks
Loyalty of 13 to 15 = +3 to all checks[/ooc]
Wealth: Wealth in Hand can be spent in the city you are in. If you are in a different city than Macellaria, it is the only wealth that hunter can access. Wealth in a residence or an office is generally safe and it can be spent. Wealth in a bank can grow, but it also is more likely to be stolen or lost.
Notoriety (Charterhouse): A notorious Charterhouse will attract better bounties, more bounties, and it will find it cheaper to hire new hunters. Free things will be given to you.
Loyalty (Servants): Important when events are rolled for the home. A Low loyalty can lead to negative repercussions.
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[ic=Attributes]
Attributes
Each Hunter has one attribute from the list below.
(Su) Born Under an Evil Sign - 1 More Complication per Mission; Add 3 Core Statistics Points.
(Ps) Drunkard - Costs an additional 50 Obeloi a week to pay for drink and damage. The cost rises as the Hunter becomes accustomed to a higher standard of living; Add 1 Core Statistics Point.
(Ps) Misanthrope - Will not work with anyone else. Only Solos missions; Add 1 Core Statistics Point.
(Ps) Philosopher - +10 to Research; Cannot use STR weapons.
(Ps) Teamster- Will only go on hunts with another; Add 1 Core Statistics Point.
(Ps) Wigged Out - Costs an additional 20 Obeloi a week to pay for drug addiction (free with Opium Den); Occasionally does not Act in a Round When acquiring a Quarry; Add 1 Core Statistics Point.
(--) Unremarkable - No Attributes
Types of Attributes
(Su) = Supernatural
(Ps) = Psychological
(Sk) = Skilled
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[ooc=Further Explanation of Core Statistics]
Strength Weapons
Focus on: Hale, Strength, Dodge
Benefits: Riskier, Cheaper
Aim Weapons
Focus on : Aim, Knowledge, Concealment
Benefits : Higher Damage, Modular, Expensive, 1 Extra Attack
Aim, Conceal
-1 Extra Attack
Magic Weapons
Focus On: Aim, Magic, Clever
Benefits: -Nuanced Punches
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[ic=Character Advancement]Character Advancement (Experience)
The Hunters advance based on:
1. Training, which is unlocked by a Trainer from a Training Room.
2. Other special Rooms
3. At GM's discretion, an Advancement may be awarded after every 4th successful Quarry (keep track on your sheet).
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The Hunters and the Master's Accommodation.Hunters and the Master live in a Charter House, wherefrom they conduct business and rest their bodies at night. The Master's dwelling is incorporated into the Charter House. Space is at a premium in the City of Bodysnatchers.
The Master will need to carefully manage the money flow so that taxes may be paid. Reckless expansion plans may attract unwanted attention, and they will lead to trouble.
Not Paying Taxes: If taxes cannot be paid, a Hunter will be pressed into Debtor's prison for the next week. If no Hunters are not in the Debtor's prison, then the Master must surrender items sufficient to pay the tax. If that is not possible, then the Master goes bankrupt.
- Once a Hunter is in Debtor's Prison, the Master has a choice:
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- Sell the Hunter into Slavery in the Gladiator Pits. (Gain half the Hunter's cost of contract. If the Hunter had no cost of contract, gain 1000 obeloi)
- Permit the Repossession of Items or Fire Servants so as to recover the Hunter.
- Continue permitting the Hunter rot in Debtor's Prison. (A Hunter in Debtor's prison loses 2 Loyalty per week; Loyalty of -5 (see chart above) means they leave your service).
Taxes may eventually be decreased through:-Bribery of officials
-High Notoriety (they fear and respect you)
-Special Quests unlocked through the Gardens- Private Clearing
STEP 1: Players select where the Hunters' Charter House is located.
Is it in Pulsetown, with the teeming residential hordes, in Hexwarren amongst the arcanery, or in the Skin Markets between the rotting corpses and scrimshawed bones carved by grave-faced ghuls and collected by discerning travelers.
(See Location, Location, Location, below).STEP 2: Players incorporate the floorplan onto their character sheets. Floorplans may be changed.
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STEP 1: Location, Location, LocationThe house's location will affect what types of special opportunities are available to the Hunters.
Hexwarren Chapters are safer, but they will be more expensive. (10% upkeep premium) (negative events likelihood only once in every 10).
Pulsetown Chapters have no modifiers either way.
Shanties or Resurrection Gate Chapters are riskier and bounties will pay less because who trusts a chapter that doesn't spring for good digs, but your Charterhouse will be cheaper. (10% upkeep discount) (10% less obeloi for bounties) (likely to be attacked/assaulted/have money stolen once every 2-3 turns).
Skin Markets Chapters have a damper on morale and loyalty due the foetid smells that drift within. (-1 Loyalty to all except Hagmen who gain an additional +2 Loyalty and Ghuls who are unaffected). (10% discount on Drugs).
Velveteen Circus Chapters earn more income from Red-Light-inspired rooms; but Defense will be 2 Lower.
STEP 2: Floorplans.-Below is a suggested Floorplan.
[ic=Where The Hunters and the Master Live]
This is the suggested starting floorplan.
- Players may use a different floorplan than the suggested one below.
- The Master gains Obeloi equal to the amount of each room the Master decides to not build.
- Below the suggested Floorplan are upgrades to rooms and additional rooms that may be constructed.
| Room Name | Notoriety | Loyalty | Defense | Special | Prerequisite | Tax | Upkeep | Cost |
| Armory, Basic | 0 | 1 | 1 | (Shop for Normal Weapons as Stable Master instead of individual hunters; May store spare weapons) | None | 2/week | 0/week | 2000 (new) 1500 (convert)
[note=Optional Upgrades (Not Added)]
| (II) Improved | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2/week | 5/week (Steel Polisher) | 2000 | | (III) Refined | 1 | 2 | 1 | 3/week | 0/week | 5000 |
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| Hunter Room (1) | 0 | 0 | 0 | If houses 2 Hunters, both lose 2 Loyalty. | Privies | 1/week | 0/week | 500 (new) 200 (convert)
[note=Optional Upgrades (Not Added)]| Personal Valet (Servant) (Limit 1/Hunter) | 0 | 1 (to 1 hunter) | 0 | 0/week | 10/week | 200 | | Night Companion (Limit 1/Hunter) | 0 | 2 (to 1 Hunter) | 0 | 0/week | 50/week | 1000 to Hire | | Cleaning Maid/Made (Male Version) (Limit 1/Room) | 0 | 1 (to the Hunters) | 0 | 0/week | 10/week | 200 |
| Tier II (Decent) | 0 | 1 (to Hunter) | 0 | 1/week | 0/week | 2000 Obeloi | | Tier III (Merchant-Class) | 0 | 1 (to Hunter) | 0 | 2/week | 20/week | 4000 Obeloi | | Tier IV (Noble-Class) | 0 | 1 (to Hunter) | 0 | 5/week | 50/week | 10,000 Obeloi | | Tier V (Opulent) | 0 | 1 (to Hunter) | 0 | 5/week | 100/week | 25,000 Obeloi/td] |
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| Hunter Room (2) | 0 | 0 | 0 | If houses 2 Hunters, both lose 2 Loyalty. | Privies | 1/week | 0/week | 500 (new) 200 (convert) |
| Hunter Room (3) | 0 | 0 | 0 | If houses 2 Hunters, both lose 2 Loyalty. | Privies | 1/week | 0/week | 500 (new) 200 (convert) |
| Kitchens | 0 | 0 | 0 | None | (Pantries, 1 per kitchen) | 1/week | 20/week (Head Chef) | 1500 (new) / 1400 (convert)
[note=Optional Upgrades (Not Added)]
| Scullery Maid/Made (Servant) (Limit 1/Kitchen Tier) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0/week | 10/week | 200 | | Chef's Assistant (Servant) (Limit 1/ Kitchen Tier) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0/week | 10/week | 500 | | Tier II (Remarkable Kitchen) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1/week | 100/week | 5000 Obeloi; Scullery; Chef's Assistant | | Tier III (Noted Kitchen) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1/week | 400/week | 10,000 Obeloi; 2 Scullery; 2 Chef's Assistant | | Victuals, Tier II (Decent) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0/week | 60/week | 1000 Obeloi | | Victuals, Tier III (Good Quality) | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0/week | 120/week | 2000 Obeloi; (II);Remark. Kitchen | | Victuals, Tier IV (Fine Dining) | 0 | 2/(3 Staff) | 0 | 0/week | 300/week | 5000 Obeloi; (III); Noted Kitchen | | Victuals, Tier V (Opulent) | 1 | 2/(4 Staff) | 0 | 0/week | 600/week | 12,000 Obeloi; (IV); Noted Kitchen |
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| Library, Individual's | 0 | 0 | 0 | (Permits Research to be Done) | none | 1/week | 0/week | 1000 (new) / 600 (convert)
[note=Optional Upgrades]
| (II) Merchant's | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2/week | 0/week | +10 Research | 2000 | | (III) Noble's | 2 | 0 | 0 | 5/week | 0/week | +15 Research | 5000; (II) | | (x) Mage's | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5/week | 40/week (Archivist) | +20 Research | 4000; (III) |
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| Master's Chambers | 0 | 0 | 0 | (Req. for Master) | None | 1/week | 20/week (Butler) | 1000 (new) / 500 (convert) |
| Master's Bath | 0 | 0 | 0 | (Req. for Master) | None | 1/week | 0/week | 1000 (new) / 800 (convert) |
| Master's Entryway | 0 | 0 | 0 | (Req. for Master) | None | 2/week | 0/week | 500(new) / 400 (convert) |
| Meeting Room, Basic | 0 | 0 | 0 | (Required to Hire 3 or More Hunters) | None | 1/week | 0/week | 500 (new) 400 (convert)
[note=Optional Upgrades]
| II (Decent) (Required to Hire 7+ Hunters) (Includes Footserf) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1/week | 10/week | 1500 Obeloi | | III (Merchant-Class) (Required to Hire 14+ Hunters) | 0 | - | 0 | 1/week | 10/week | 4000 Obeloi; Furnishings Tier II | | IV (Noble-Class) (Required to Hire 25+ Hunters) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1/week | 10/week | 10,000 Obeloi; Furnishings Tier III | | V (Opulent) (Required to Hire 50+ Hunters) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1/week | 10/week | 20,000 Obeloi; Furnishings Tier IV |
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| Pantries and Coal Room | 0 | 0 | 0 | Req. for Kitchens | None | 1/week | 0/week | 400 (new) / 200 (convert) |
| Privies | 0 | 0 | 0 | (Required to Hire 1 or 2 Hunters) | None | 1/week | 0/week | 400 (new) / 200 (convert) |
| Reception Room, Basic | 1 | 0 | 0 | (Permits Chapterhouse to take Personal Missions) | None | 1/week | 10/week (Low Footserf) | 500 (new) 400 (convert)
[note=Optional Upgrades]
| Receptionist | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0/week | 10/week | 500 Obeloi (Unlocks item quests) |
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| Servants' Bunkroom | 0 | 0 | 0 | (Required to Have 1 Servant; Houses 10) | None | 1/week | 0/week | 500 (new) 500(convert) |
| Staircase | 0 | 0 | 0 | (1 Required to build the 11th, 21st, etc. Rooms) | None | 2/week | 0/week | 500 (new) 500(convert)
[note=Optional Upgrades]
| II (Grand Staircase) | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0/week | 0/week | 2500 Obeloi |
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| Utility Room (1) | 0 | 0 | 0 | (Can be converted into any other type of room) | None | 1/week | 0/week | 400 (new) / 100 (convert) |
| Utility Room (2) | 0 | 0 | 0 | (Can be converted into any other type of room) | None | 1/week | 0/week | 400 (new) / 100 (convert) |
| Utility Room (3) | 0 | 0 | 0 | (Can be converted into any other type of room) | None | 1/week | 0/week | 400 (new) / 100 (convert) |
| TOTALS | 1 | 1 | 1 | (x) | None | 22/week | 50/week | x |
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[ooc=Notes]
NotesTo Hire 1 or 2 Hunters, you need Privies.
To Hire More than 3 Hunters, you need a Meeting Room, Basic
To Build More than 11 Rooms, you need a Staircase.
To Hire more than 11 Servants, you need another Servants' Bunkroom and a second Kitchen (for the servants).[/ooc]
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Room Descriptions-Armory, Basic An armory provides a convenient location for your Hunters to place their weapons and it provides a convenient array of weapons for your servants to take up in defense of the Chapter when it is assaulted.
-Hunter Room 1,Sparsely furnished, but hey, it's a private room.
KitchensProvides Sustenance for the mighty horde. Comes with a Head Cook.
-Library (Pauper's)For Research. This room is lightly stocked with tomes.
It likely contains an atlas, a couple of dictionaries, an encyclopedia, and an assortment of travelogues, including "Dare an' Back- a Cutpurse's Guide to Skein" and a few popular works of dubious worth to your current work, such as "I-Jatayi"- a book about a one Sir Richard Barton's masquerade as a wing-damaged Jatayi on the twice-in-a-century heyji, or pilgrimage-gathering of Jatayi.
Master's BathThe Master's Bath is where the master draws water and relaxes.
Master's BedroomThe Master's Bedroom provides a place of quite retreat for the Charterhouse master. It also comes with a High Footserf who doubles as a Valet and Butler.
Master's Entryway and Receiving Hall or StairWhere the Charterhouse transitions to actual house.
-Meeting Room (Small), with Table
The Meeting Room, though small, provides the Hunters a place to plan, to meet, either amongst themselves, or with customers.
Pantries and Coal Pile RoomA place for storing food and fuel.
PriviesSimple Privies (Toilets).
-Reception Room, Basic with Low Footserf
A reception room is a necessary part of a Chapterhouse; without it, customers could not be kept separate from the rest of the Chapterhouse.
Without a reception room, the Chapterhouse cannot accept personal Hunts. A Low Footserf, or (receptionist) is necessary to take care of guests' needs.
-Staircase, SimpleA Staircase provides access to additional floors, which are necessary for additional rooms in this cramped metropolis.
-Utility Room, A Utility Room can be converted into any other type of room.
[ooc=House Description]
Describe the Exterior:
Describe the Interior:
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Upgrades/New RoomsList of Rooms
| Room Name | Notoriety | Loyalty | Defense | Special | Prerequisite | Tax | Upkeep | Cost |
| Apothecary | 0 | 1 | 0 | (Add 3 HP to all Hunters) | None | 2/week | 20/week | 2000 (new with Arcane Well & Hedge Witchery); 4000 and Hedge Witchery and weekly upkeep is 40/wk (without Arcane Well) |
| Arcane Portal | 1 | 0 | -3 | (Additional 10% discount on magic) | None | 1/week | 0/week | 5000 (new); Arcane Well |
| Arcane Well of Mystery | 0 | 0 | 0 | (10% discount on Magic) | None | 1/week | 0/week | 2500 (new) |
| Hottub Room with Sauna | 0 | 1 | 0 | x | None | 1/week | 5/week | 2000 (new) 1000 (convert); Furnace
[note=Optional Upgrades]
| Open to Clients | 1 | 0 | -1 | 0/week | 5/week | 1 Att./2 Companions | | Attendant | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0/week | 8/week | 200 Obeloi; | | Companion | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0/week | 40/week | 500 Obeloi |
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| Bar, Full | 1 | 2 | -3 | (Open to the Public) | None | 10/week | 20 EARNED/week | 1500 (new) 1000 (convert); Deep Cellars |
| Blood Bath Room (Leechkin) | 0 | 0 | 0 | (Required for a Leechkin Hunter; Reduce upkeep by 10/week if exsanguinate per 1 target a week [include in orders]) | None | 1/week | 30/week | 2000 (new) 1000 (convert) |
| Bordellaire | 1 | 2 | -2 | (More Events Threatening your Charterhouse) | None | 0/week (6 Servants) | ADDS 10/week | 5000 (new); 2nd Privies |
| Cages | 0 | 0 | 0 | (Each Houses 10 Creatures) | None | 1/week | 10/week (Gaoler-cost is only for first Cages) | 1000 (new) |
| Clocktower | 1 | 0 | 0 | (Adds 3 Loyalty to Jatayi) | None | 1/week | 10/week | 2000 (new) |
| Crypt | 0 | 0 | 0 | Add Loyalty +1 after burying the first fallen hunter (Burial Cost 1000 obeloi) | None | 0/week | 0/week | 1000 obeloi |
| Deep Cellars (Wine) | 0 | 1 | -1 | (More Events Threatening your Charterhouse; Access to Cestoids) | None | 0/week | 30/week | 1000 (new) |
| Dissectionary | 0 | 0 | 0 | (For each race sample brought back, gain a +1 Aim against that race) | None | 1/week | 10/week (Vivisector) | 500 (new) |
| Fountain, Wide | 0 | 0 | 0 | (+1 Hagmyn and Leechkin Loyalty) | None | 0/week | 1/week | 500 (new); Gardens |
| Furnace | 0 | 0 | 0 | | None | 1/week | 5/week (Pantries and Coal Room) | 600 (new) |
| Gaming Haven | 1 | 1 | -2 | (More Events Threatening your Charterhouse) | None | 0/week (4 Servants) | ADDS 4/week | 4000 (new); 2nd Privies; Deep Cellars |
| Gardens | 0 | 1 | 0 | (x) | None | 5/week | 10/week (Gardener) | 2000 (new) (Counts as 0 Rooms) |
| Gardens- Private Clearing | 0 | 0 | 0 | (Access to Lucrative Cloak/Dagger uests) | None | 0/week | 0/week | 200 (new); Hedge Maze (Counts as 0 Rooms) |
| Hall of Statuary | 0 | 1 | 1 | (x) | None | 2/week | 1/week | 2000 (new) |
| Hatchery | 0 | -2 OR +4 | 0 | (+4 Loyalty to Lillix; -2 all non-Lillix) | None | 5/week | 30/week | 4000(new);Webbery. |
| Healer's Room | 0 | 1 | 0 | (A contractor's office where a healer comes; fully heals 1 Hunter each week per 10 upkeep paid (advance by upgrading upkeep cost) | None | 1/week | 10/week (Healer) | 500(new) |
| Hedge Maze | 0 | 0 | 0 | (Adds 1 HP to all Hunters) | None | 0/week | 10/week (Gardener) | 500(new); Gardens (Counts as 0 Rooms) |
| Hedge Witchery | 0 | 0 | 0 | (Adds 1 HP to all Hunters) | None | 1/week | 10/week | 2000 (new) |
| Infusionary | 0 | 0 | 0 | (+2 to each's Haleness) | None | 1/week | 5/week | 1000 (new); Apothecary |
| Inventor's Workshop | 0 | 2 (For Mantids) | 0 | (+2 to each's Research) | None | 1/week | 2/week | 2000 (new) |
| Laundry, Onsite | 0 | 0 | 1 | (x) | None | 1/week | 10/week | 500 (new) |
| Library, Specialty | 0 | 0 | 0 | (+2 each's Research) | None | 1/week | 1/week | 500 (new); Library (Individual's) |
| Lightning Spire | 1 | 0 | -1 | (+1 each's Luck; Increased chance of Fire) | None | 0/week | 0/week | 3000 (new) |
| Magical Experimentation Room | 0 | 0 | 0 | (+1 Magic all Hunters & Each rare Magical Sample unlocks 1 bonus Magic for 1 Hunter) | None | 3/week | 20/week | 1500 (new) |
| Mushroomery | 0 | 0 | 0 | (Reduce Terrari Room upkeep to 5/week) | None | 0/week | 0/week | 800 (new); Terrari Room |
| Opium Den | 1 | 1 | -1 | (More Events Threatening your Charterhouse) | Deep Cellars; 2d Privies | 0/week (3 Servants) | ADDS 2/week | 3500 (new); 2nd Privies; Deep Cellars |
| Pool, Interior | 1 | 2 | 0 | (Additional +1 Loyalty and +1 Core Stat to Hagmyn, Leechkin) | None | 5/week | 20/week | 4000 (new); (counts as 4 Rooms) |
| Pool, Exterior | 2 | 2 | 0 | (Additional +1 Loyalty and +1 Core Stat to Hagmyn, Leechkin) | None | 10/week | 20/week | 8000 (new); (counts as 0 Rooms, may only build in Shanties or Pulsetown) |
| Potion Stores | 0 | 0 | 0 | (Purchase Potions as a Stable Master instead of an action) | None | 0/week | 5/week | 500 (new); Apothecary |
| Pit Fighting Arena | 1 | 1 | -2 | (More Events Threatening your Charterhouse) | None | 0/week | ADDS 5/week | 2500 (new); 2nd Privies; Cages |
| Printing Press | 1 | 0 | 0 | (Publish broadsheets of your accomplishemnts) | None | 1/week | ADDS 3/week | 3000 (new) |
| Prison Cells | 0 | 0 | 0 | (Hold quarries for later retrieval or eternal capture) | None | 1/week | 20/week (gaoler) | 2000 (new)
[note=Optional Upgrades]
| Magic Warded | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0/week | 10/week | 5000 Obeloi |
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| Protective Hexes | 0 | 0 | 1 | (Only take Once) | None | 0/week | 5/week (Renewal) | 2000 (not a room) |
| Recreation Field | 0 | 0 | 0 | (Dodge +1 for all Hunters) | None | 0/week | 1/week | 2000 (new); (counts as 0 Rooms, may only build in Shanties or Pulsetown) |
| Rumpus Room | 0 | 0 | 0 | (Dodge +1 or Str +1 for all Hunters that have less than 3 Dodge or Str, respectively) | None | 0/week | 1/week | 800(new) |
| Room of Curiosities | 0 | 0 | 0 | (Clever +1 for all Hunters) | None | 0/week | 0/week | 1000 (new); Need to recover or purchase at least 4 extra special curiosities |
| Sewer Entrance | 0 | 0 | -2 | (Hagmyn and Leechkin Loyalty +1 and +1 Core Stat) | None | 1/week | 1/week | 200 (new) |
| Shrines | 0 | 2 (To Hunter Who Worships the God) | 0 | (More Events Threatening your Charterhouse) | None | 1/week | 0/week | 1000 (new); 500 (convert)
[note=Optional Upgrades]
| Priest | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0/week | 30/week | 1500 Obeloi; | | Acolyte | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0/week | 10/week | 500 Obeloi; Priest |
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| Sitting Room | 1 | 1 | 0 | (Artist paints/sketches your exploits) | None | 0/week | 20/week (Artist) | (1000 (New) |
| Spinnery | 0 | 0 | 0 | (Make money during downtime) | None | 0/week | 5 EARNED/week (Spinner when Lillix Hunter is in Macellaria- 2/week cost when not) | 2000(new); 1 Lillix Hunter to earn Income when in same city; Webbery. |
| Target Room | 0 | 0 | 0 | (+1 Aim to each Hunter) | None | 1/week | 1/week | 600 (new) 200 |
| Taxidermy | 0 | 0 | 0 | (Trophies of dead targets may be sold if they are 'rare' races) | None | 2/week | 10/week (Taxidermist) | 2000 (new) 1000 (convert) (1/2 cost in Skin Markets, Upkeep also 1/2 in Skin Markets) |
| Terrari Room (Hagmyn) | 0 | 0 | 0 | (Required for a Hagmyn Hunter) | None | 2/week | 15/week (Special Maintenance) | 2000 (new) 1000 (convert) |
| Thieves' Door | 0 | 0 | -2 | (Unlocks Thieves Guild Quests if you are a member) | None | 0/week | 0/week | 1000 (new) ; (Deep Cellars) |
| Torture Room | 1 | 0 | 0 | (Question prisoners) | None | 0/week | 5/week | 1000 (new) (Prison Cells) |
| Treasury Room | 1 | 0 | 1 | (Stores Obeloi More Discreetly) | None | 1/week | 0/week | 2000 (new) / 1400 (convert) |
| Vault | 0 | 0 | 2 | (x) | None | 1/week | 0/week | 2000 (new) |
| Webbery | 0 | 0 | (2 to Lillix Only); -1 to others | (Required for Lillix Hunters) | None | 1/week | 0/week | 3500 (new) |
| Whittlemaestro's Workshop | 0 | 0 | 0 | (Unlocks Some Cheaper Weapons) | None | 0/week (Pays for own taxes) | ADDS 1/week (WhittleMaestro) | 2000 (new) |
| Workout Room | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 Strength to each Hunter | None | 1/week | 0/week | 1500 (new) |
| Wyrdwitch Lair | 2 | 0 | 0 | (Unlocks Some Cheaper Magic) | None | 3/week | 50/week (WyrdWitch) | 5000 (new); Hedge Witchery and Arcane Portal |
ApothecaryOffering cures and mystic roots, the Apothecary can make your Hunters feel refreshed.
Arcane PortalA portal to the lands of hell.
Arcane Well of MysticsThe Arcane Well of Mystics pulses with a bulbous and strange magick. This magic can be bottled and traded to Witches for a discount on the spells they craft.
10% discount on Magic spells.
The Well may sometimes cause strange magical effects on your Charterhouse.
Blood Bath Room (For Leechkin): Key for keeping Leechkin Hunters and Masters happy. A room for relaxing; the tub can be filled by IV units and the Leechkin can sup and relax. The Blood Bath has a high weekly upkeep due to drainage fees related to problems coordinating with the Guild of PlumberSerfs, and PipefitterCestoids (520/year).
BordellaireA room for drunken debauchery, filled with a delectable selection of the flesh. The Bordellaire earns income from the outside, but the profit making opportunity comes with threats. Defense is lowered and more events threatening your house will arise. But your Hunters will love the easy access to a variety of delights.
CagesFor criminals, or for holding cells for beasts diseased and frightening. Each cages holds 10 creatures.
Deep CellarsAge wines, preserve cheeses and more in these constantly cool cellars that are nicely nestled in the sod. The cellars cost no taxes because none need know that they exist; however there is a cost in the taxes section due to the need for constant replenishment. The cellars provide more and better wines to your hunters, increasing their Loyalty.
Gaming HavenA place for people to play bones
Hedge WitcheryA simpler, but less well stocked or staffed Apothecary.
Inventor's WorkshopIncreases the happiness of Mantids.
Opium DenA place perfectly calibrated to appeal to the hunter looking to relax. Thrum, smoulder, lush, they're all available to sate the thirst.
Shrine (Specific)Choose a god for each shrine. Mechanically, there's one god for each race of creatures. Your hunters who worship at the shrine will feel inspired.
TerrariRoomA wet room for Hagmyn.
Treasury Room Contains the safe; doubles as a protected fall-back position for the House.
VaultThe ultimate panic room.
WebberyA room for Lillix.
Workout Room (Masshall)Pump some steel, sock a sand-filled cestoid.
+1 Strength to each hunter.
Whittlemastro's WorkshopThe Whittlemaestro works, sawing logs and transforming them into expert weapons of death. The Whittlemaestro reduces the cost of certain weapons, unlocks new, deadlier weapons, and produces 1 Obelus a week.
Wyrdwitch RoomA room for your own personal Witch to do its own personal Wyrd Rituals. The Witch recieves a stipend, a cauldron, and an assortment of the latest potions alchymical and magickal.
Races
Different races can use different weapons, armors, grafts and they may have different special natural weapons.
[note=On Attacks]On Attacks
All Hunters may have at most 2 weapon-based attacks. If, however, they have multiple appendages like the Lillix, they can attack with all their natural attacks and 2 weapon-based attacks.
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More information on the races can be found in Steerpike's thread
Cestoid
Hybrids of giant centipedes and tapeworms, with long segmented bodies, chitin exoskeletons and soft underbellies.
[ic=From Steerpike's Thread]
Despite their monstrous appearances cestoids once ruled a vicious and expansive empire established by the hideous entity called Hirud the Ravager-Worm, a dark, animalistic god and possibly sire of the entire race. For nearly a millennia after the Pallid Decimation the cestoids held power over much of the Cadaverous Earth, enslaving lesser races for their own purposes, ruling from the subterranean city of Riquis-Erebu, capitol of their Imperium. They communicated their desires through human interpreters trained in comprehending their opaque language and devoured all who resisted them. After Riquis-Erebu fell - brought down by an alliance of rebel states spearheaded by the Witch Army of Moroi during the height of that city's power - the Imperium collapsed and the cestoids were scattered. Many were killed in a genocidal scouring campaign, hunted to near extinction.
Though still distrusted today, the remaining cestoids have reintegrated somewhat over the long ages as the world died and history withered. They are a dwindling, pariah race tolerated in the Twilight Cities but pushed to the margins, usually underground. They often dwell in sewers, or the maze-like tunnel systems that riddle most of the old cities, subsisting on garbage and filth. Those few who rise above this degradation are usually merchants of some variety or mercenary warriors - cestoids are incredibly terrifying combatants, wielding numerous melee weapons at once, gnashing at enemies with their maws while blows bounce off their armoured hides.[/ic]
[ooc]Tough Hide (1 AC)
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Ghul
-Once humans, the Ghilian (sing. Ghul) live their not-quite life in a mummified existence, incapable of reproducing, but capable of satiating a carnal hunger for raw meat and whatever other earthly desires exist.
[ooc]Claw (1 to Strength per pair); (2 Damage, each)
Claw (1 to Strength per pair); (2 Damage, each)[/ooc]
Hagmyn
-Essentially anthropomorphic eels. " Their upper bodies are more humanoid, including a pair of long, bony arms and vaguely human heads, albeit with vertical mouths with many teeth, beady eyes (though not blind, hagmyn have poor eyesight), and whisker-like barbs; they often sport a mane of shaggy hair that looks like swampy vegetation, especially if a hagmyn submerges itself in water, a common hunting tactic."
[ooc]2 Extra Core Statistic Points
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Human
-Self-Explanatory
[ooc]2 Extra Core Statistic Points
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Jatayi
[ic=From Steerpike's Thread]
"The avian jatayi (singular: jatayu) are a dwindling race of fablers who roam the skies of the Cadaverous Earth. Once many tribes of this species are said to have flown the skies: now only one [major organized] tribe remains, a few hundred winged humanoids passing from settlement to settlement, singing for their suppers. "
" Physically jatayi resemble humans with enormous feathered wings emerging from their shoulder blades, similar in shape and colouration to a vulture's. They also have avian eyes, allowing them to see at great distances and to detect ultraviolet light and magnetic fields ("the earthsong"), the perception of which influences the tribe's cyclic migratory patterns. They are necrophagic, eating carrion they find in the waste and what food they can buy or earn in the towns and cities of other creatures."[/ic]
[ooc]2 Extra Core Statistic Points
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Leechkin
[ic=From Steerpike's Thread]
"Leechkin are hairless humanoids with green or black skins, bloated torsos (which shrivel if the leechkin hasn't fed), and long, spindly limbs. Their faces are rudimentary: leechkin have almost no neck, their ears are mere holes, and they have no mouths on their faces - only three pairs of small yellow eyes and a set of nostrils. Instead, they possess two individual mouths on their palms, each resembling a lamprey's maw with many serrated teeth. While hermaphroditic like the hagmen, leechkin do not possess the shifting mutability of gender of that species: instead they are essentially sexless, with individuals assuming the role of male or female in a temporary fashion during procreation (the 'male' grows a sperm-sac which the "female' consumes, impregnating 'herself').
Leechkin are haematophagic, consuming a diet entirely of blood."[/ic]
[ooc]Claw (1 to Strength per pair); (2 Damage, each)
Claw (1 to Strength per pair); (2 Damage, each)
Tough Hide (1 AC)
2 Less Core Statistics[/ooc]
[ooc=Requirements]
Requires a Bloodbath Room.
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Lilix
[ic=From Steerpike's Thread]
the lilix are spiderfolk, a race of anthropomorphized arachnids, each possessing eight limbs and eight eyes. Other than these obvious differences the lilix are essentially humans with grayish, sometimes hairy skins. They are further distinguished by their ruthlessly matriarchal culture, their appetite for blood, and their capacity for artistic, political, and intellectual intricacy. Those few lilix that live in cities other than Dolmen tend to be advisors, architects, artists, and spymasters.[/ic]
[ooc]Fangs, Advanced Concealable, Legal 2 to Strength 4 Dam (Extra Attack for Strength Users)
Claw (1 to Strength per pair); (2 Damage, each)
Claw (1 to Strength per pair); (2 Damage, each)
Claw (1 to Strength per pair); (2 Damage, each)
Claw (1 to Strength per pair); (2 Damage, each)
4 Less Core Statistics Points; Requires Webbery
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[ooc=Requirements]
Requires a Webbery.
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Mantid
[ic=From Steerpike's Thread]
[Mantids] are more human than insect, with green flesh of varying shades and an additional pair of arms that terminate in chitinous, scissor-like claws. After entering puberty all mantids develop large wings that extend from their backs, allowing for limited flight. Mantid faces are the most insect, with a pair of glistening mandibles - they are a carnivorous race - and bulbous compound eyes, usually a shade of vivid crimson; an extremely flexible neck means that they can also turn their heads one hundred and eighty degrees around. [/ic]
[ooc]Claw (1 to Strength per pair); (2 Damage, each)
Claw (1 to Strength per pair); (2 Damage, each)[/ooc]
Zerda
Miniature foxfolk, somewhat less intelligent on the average than humans.
[ooc]2 Extra Core Statistic Points
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[ic=Gear]Gear
There are several types of gear. Although certain gear may seem better than others, keep in mind that if a type of weapon is not legal, there will be complications in possessing it.
A being with two arms may have 2 Gear on them, one for each hand. (See Statistics above for rules on using 2 weapons or a 2-Handed Weapon in a fight; Clever and Strength are important Attributes)
Legal- You can wear this on the street. No one will stop you or question you. People often go armed in the Cadaverous Earth and no person is denied the ability to defend themselves.
Semi-Legal This weapon is technically illegal but most people violate the ban on the weapon and carry it. A member of the guard can confiscate this weapon if a complication arises. It is strongly suggested you also carry a Legal weapon to guard against this possibility. Confiscated weapons may be returned by a
Charm check by the same Hunter on the following week. Alternatively, you might have standing orders to bribe any guards who want to confiscate the weapon. In that case, a certain obeloi/week fee will be deducted each week that the Semi-Legal weapon is carried.
Illegal- This weapon will be confiscated if discovered. You may have standing orders to bribe any guards who want to confiscate the weapon. In that case, a certain obeloi/week fee will be deducted each week that the Semi-Legal weapon is carried, but even with those standing orders you may find yourself in battles to defend your right to carry the weapon- battles which will drain resources come the time to reach your Quarry. Alternatively, your standing orders could be to attack on sight any who attempt to confiscate the weapon.
License- Those possessing a registered license may carry the weapon. Weapons are licensed at the Guild of Bountyhunters, at the Cathedral of the Effaced Skull or at the Town Guardhall, near the howling Watchdogs. Alternatively, if you wish to avoid all possible problems, you may license the weapon at both locations. License costs are variable; they generally range from 5 to 50 obeloi a week.
Concealable If a weapon is concealable, yet illegal, you can make a Concealment check when the Complication of weapon confiscation arises.
Semi-Concealable- A more difficult Concealable check.
Open- This weapon is too large to conceal. It is worn in the open.
Contact (Hard)- Effect is delivered by an injection, a pinprick.
Contact (Soft)- Effect is delivered by mere touch.
Olfactory- Must be smelled to have an effect.
Ingested- Must be consumed or drunk to have an effect.
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Strength WeaponsTo use two Strength Weapons concurrently, you need Clever of at least 5.
| Fists | Concealable, Legal | -1 to Strength | 1 Dam. | Free |
| Gauntlet | Concealable, Legal | 0 to Strength | 1 Dam. | 30 Obeloi |
| Brass Knuckles | Concealable, Legal | 0 to Strength | 2 Dam. | 50 Obeloi |
| Club | Semi-Concealable, Semi-Legal | 0 to Strength | 2 Dam. | 50 Obeloi |
| Quarterstaff | Open, Legal | 0 to Strength | 2 Dam. | 50 Obeloi |
| Chainclubs (Nunchucks) | Concealable, Semi-Legal | 0 to Strength (Two Handed) | 1 Dam./ 1 Dam. (Second Atk.) | 50 Obeloi |
| Dagger | Concealable, Semi-Legal | 0 to Strength | 2 Dam. | 50 Obeloi |
| Hand Axe, Mstwk. | Concealable, Legal | 1 to Strength | 3 Dam. | 150 Obeloi |
| Whip | Concealable, Legal | 1 to Strength | 2 Dam. | 150 Obeloi |
| Sai (Pair) (http://turtlepedia.wikia.com/wiki/Sai) | Concealable, Semi-Legal | 0 to Strength | 2 Dam. (Adds 2 HP deflection bonus) | 200 Obeloi |
| Quarterstaff, Oak-Hewn | Open, Legal | 1 to Strength | 2 Dam. | 200 Obeloi (Specialty Item) or 10 with a WhittleMaestro |
| Club, Studded | Semi-Concealable, Illegal | 1 to Strength | 3 Dam. | 250 Obeloi |
| Quarterstaff, Yew-Hewn | Open, Legal | 0 to Strength | 3 Dam. | 300 Obeloi (Speciality Item) or 50 with a WhittleMaestro |
| Short Sword | Semi-Concealable, Semi-Legal | 2 to Strength | 3 Dam. | 300 Obeloi |
| Spiked Knuckles | Concealable, Semi-Legal | 1 to Strength; add 1 HP (temp) when used to represent soak | 4 Dam. | 300 Obeloi |
| Whip, Lacerating | Semi-Concealable, Legal | 1 to Strength | 4 Dam. | 350 Obeloi |
| Mace, Light | Semi-Concealable, Illegal | 2 to Strength; bypasses 1 armor | 4 Dam. | 500 Obeloi |
| Long Sword | Open, Semi-Legal | 3 to Strength | 5 Dam. | 600 Obeloi |
| Wytch's Rod (Staff, Enchanted) | Open, Semi-Legal | 1 to Strength | 2 Dam.; Heals 2 per Encounter | 750 Obeloi; Requires WyrdWitch Contact or Room |
| Cane Short Sword | Concealable, License | 2 to Strength | 3 Dam. | 750 Obeloi |
| Axe | Open, Semi-Legal | 3 to Strength; bypasses 1 armor | 5 Dam. | 900 Obeloi |
| Mace, Heavy | Open, Illegal | 3 to Strength; bypasses 1 armor | 6 Dam. | 1000 Obeloi |
| Great Axe | Open, Illegal | 4 to Strength; bypasses 1 armor; (2-Handed) | 6 Dam. | 1300 Obeloi |
| Greatsword | Open, License | 4 to Strength; (2-Handed) | 8 Dam. | 2000 Obeloi |
Grafts/Natural Weapons
| Claw (Replacing hand) | Concealable, Legal | 1 to Strength, per pair | 2 Dam, each | 500 obeloi (each), Haleness of at least 5 |
| Tentacle Graft (Replacing Arm) | Concealable, Legal | 2 to Strength | 1 Dam | 500 obeloi, Haleness of at least 5 |
| Fangs | Concealable, Legal | 1 to Strength | 2 Dam (Extra Attack for Strength Users) | 2000 obeloi; Haleness of at least 5 |
| Tentacle Graft (Extra Arm) | Concealable, Legal | 2 to Strength | 1 Dam | 5000 obeloi, Haleness of at least 7 |
Nonviolent Weapons
| Net (Dog sized) | Open, Legal | Aim v. Dodge | +1 to your Aim. Captures on Success | 50 obeloi |
| Net-Trap (Human sized) | Open, Legal | Concealment+Clever v. Dodge+Perception+Luck (a specialty-Requires an extra Research spent on the best place to lay the trap after 1 Research to locate the Quarry) | Ensnares for 7 Turns minus their Clever or Strength (Min 1) | 400 obeloi |
Aim WeaponsUnless otherwise noted, Aim Weapons are two-handed.
To use two Aim Weapons concurrently, you need Aim of at least 3 and Clever of at least 5.
| Slingshot | Concealable, Legal | 0 to Aim (rest after 2nd shot) | 1 Dam. | 10 Obeloi |
| Dart | Concealable, Legal (no rest) | 0 to Aim (no rest) | 1 Dam./1 Dam. (2 attacks/round) | 10 Obeloi [10/use for darts); 2 Strength to Use |
| Javelin | Open, Semi-Legal (1 Handed) | 1 to Aim (rest after 2nd shot) | 3 Dam. | 50 Obeloi [50/use for javelins); 3 Strength to use |
| BlastCannon (http://www.silcom.com/~vikman/isles/scriptorium/firearm/handgonn.html) | Open, Semi-Legal | -1 to Aim (rest after 1st shot) (Jam 50%) | 3 Dam. | 50 Obeloi [20/use for bullets) |
| Short Bow | Open, Legal | 1 to Aim (rest after 3rd shot) | 2 Dam. | 100 Obeloi [10/use for arrows] |
| Musket | Open, Illegal | 1 to Aim (reload after 2nd shot) (Jam: 40%) | 6 Dam. | 250 Obeloi [50/use for bullets] |
| Longbow | Open, Legal | 2 to Aim (rest after 2nd shot) | 6 Dam. | 300 Obeloi [10/use for arrows] (Req. Aim 3+ and Str 3+ to properly use) |
| Shuriken (http://turtlepedia.wikia.com/wiki/Shuriken) | Concealable, Legal (no rest) | 1 to Aim (no rest) | 2 Dam./2 Dam. (2 attacks/round) | 300 Obeloi [20/use for stars); 3 Strength to Use |
| Propelled HookChain | Open, Illegal | 3 to Aim (reload after 1st shot) (Jam: 40%) | 4 Dam. | 350 Obeloi [no ammunition; hook retracts] |
| Pistol, Dueling Wheellock (1 Handed) | Concealable, License | 1 to Aim (reload after 1st shot) (Jam: 30%) | 3 Dam. | 350 Obeloi [30/use for bullets] |
| Pistol, Flintlock (1 Handed) | Concealable, License | 1 to Aim (reload after 1st shot) (Jam: 30%) | 5 Dam. | 400 Obeloi [30/use for bullets] |
| Jatayi Wing-Crossbow | Concealable, Semi-Legal | 2 to Aim (reload after 2nd shot) | 5 Dam. | 500 Obeloi [40/week for bolts] (Jatayi Only) (Req. Aim 4+ to properly Use) |
| Crossbow | Open, Semi-Legal | 2 to Aim (reload after 2nd shot) | 4 Dam. | 500 Obeloi [20/use for bolts] (Req. Aim 3+ to properly Use) |
| Crossbow, Master's | Open, Semi-Legal | 4 to Aim (reload after 2nd shot) | 4 Dam. | 800 Obeloi [20/use for bolts] (Req. Aim 5+ to properly Use) |
| Pistol, Repeating (1 Handed) | Concealable, Illegal | 1 to Aim (reload after 6th shot) (Jam: 40%) | 4 Dam. | 1000 Obeloi [30/use for bullets] |
| Longbow, Mstwk. | Open, Legal | 2 to Aim (rest after 2nd shot) | 8 Dam. | 1000 Obeloi [10/use for arrows] (Req. Aim 6+ to properly use) |
| Rifle | Open, License | 2 to Aim (reload after 1st shot) (Jam 20%) | 8 Dam. | 1300 Obeloi [40/use for bullets] |
| Blunderbuss | Open, Illegal | 1 to Aim (reload after 1st shot) (Jam: 30%) | 3 Dam./3 Dam./3 Dam./3 Dam. (4 targets) | 2250 Obeloi [40/use for bullets] |
| Repeating Rifle with Sights | Open, License | 4 to Aim (reload after 6th shot) (Jam 20%) | 9 Dam. | 2500 Obeloi [40/use for bullets] |
| Blunderbuss, Dual Barrelled | Open, Illegal | 1 to Aim (reload after 2nd shot) (Jam 20%) | 3 Dam./3 Dam./3 Dam./3 Dam. (4 targets) | 4000 Obeloi [40/use for bullets] |
[ic=Ammunition]
Advanced AmmunitionSome advanced ammunition will be needed, particularly if the enemy wears a type of armor that repels Aim weapons.
| Separating Bullet | Bullet | Adds 2 Damage | 50 Obeloi per Hunt |
| Piercing Bolt | Bolt | Adds 1 Damage; Penetrates 1 Armor | 150 Obeloi per Hunt |
| Exploding Bullet | Bullet | Adds 1 Damage; Penetrates 1 Armor | 150 Obeloi per Hunt |
| Agony Bullet | Bullet | Adds 4 Damage | 250 Obeloi per Hunt |
| Devastating Bullet | Bullet | Adds 1 Damage; Penetrates 2 Armor | 400 Obeloi per Hunt |
| Enchanted Bolt | Bolt (Magic) | Adds 1 Damage; Penetrates 2 Armor | 400 Obeloi per Hunt |
| Horror Bolt | Bolt (Magic) | Enemy Loses Their Next Turn | 400 Obeloi per Hunt; If have access to a WyrdWitch (200/Hunt) |
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[ic=Magic]
Magic-Magic will fail/fizzle if magic+luck is lower than a d20 roll.
-Spells are learned, not consumed.
-You may only have a number of spells prepared equal to your Magic+Clever.
0th Order (Minimum 1 Magic)
| Fireflare | -2 Aim | 1 Dam. (Fire) | 50 Obeloi |
| Close Wound | Heals 2 HP | (Magic) | 50 Obeloi |
1st Order (Minimum 2 Magic)
| Magic Arrow | +1 Aim | 4 Dam. (Magic) | 400 Obeloi |
| Summon Miniature GoreFly Swarm | 4 Aim for Creature (3 Rounds, starts NEXT Round) | 1 Dam. (Creature) | 400 Obeloi |
| Acid Splash | +1 Aim; damages up to 3 adjacent enemies | 3 Dam. (Acid) | 600 Obeloi |
| Hands of Flame | +1 Aim; damages up to 3 adjacent enemies | 3 Dam. (Fire) | 600 Obeloi |
| True Aim | +2 Aim to Ally or Self for Future Round | (Magic) | 800 Obeloi |
| Enfeebling Ray | Reduces enemy's Strength to 0 for next 3 Rounds, not the Round the enemy is Zapped | (Magic) | 800 Obeloi |
| Gorgondaze | Temporarily blinds one enemy. Enemy loses next turn- Resists by Dodge+Luck v. your Magic+Aim | (Magic) | 1000 Obeloi |
2nd Order (Minimum 4 Magic)
| Color Spray | Temporarily blinds up to 3 enemies. Enemy loses next turn. Resists by Dodge+Luck v. your Magic+Aim | (Magic) | 3000 Obeloi |
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[ic=Armor]
Armor
| Street Clothing | 0 Armor | xxx | Free |
| Tough Hide | 1 Armor | xxx | Free for Certain Races |
| Fleshcoat | Temp +2 HP | xxx | 400 Obeloi |
| Leather Armor | 1 Armor | Hale or Strength of 2+ | 600 Obeloi |
| Studded Leather Armor | 1 Armor; Temp +2 HP | Hale or Strength of 3+ | 800 Obeloi |
| Leather Armor, Mstwk. | 1 Armor; Repels Aim Weapons of 1 Dam and Lower unless they have a modifier (eg. Fire, Magic) | Hale or Strength of 3+ | 2000 Obeloi |
| Chain Mail Armor | 2 Armor; Repels Aim Weapons of 1 Dam and Lower unless they have a modifier (eg. Fire, Magic) | Hale or Strength of 4+ | 4000 Obeloi |
| Plate Armor | 4 Armor; Repels Aim Weapons of 2 Dam and Lower unless they have a modifier (eg. Fire, Magic) | Hale or Strength of 6+ | 10,000 Obeloi |
Grafts/Natural Armor
| Chitin Plates | Partially-Concealable, Legal | 2 Armor | Cannot Wear Other Armor | 4000 obeloi, Haleness of at least 6 |
| Squamous Skin | Partially-Concealable, Legal | 2 Armor; Repels Aim Weapons of 1 Dam and Lower unless they have a modifier (eg. Fire, Magic) | Cannot Wear Other Armor | 5000 obeloi, Haleness of at least 6 |
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[ic=Shield]
Shield
| Buckler | 1 Dodge | Free Hand and Dodge of 2+ | 250 Obeloi |
| Light Shield, Wooden | 1 Dodge; Temp +2 HP | Free Hand and Dodge of 3+ | 400 Obeloi |
| Medium Shield, Wooden | 2 Armor | Free Hand, Dodge of 4+, Str or Hale of 3+ | 600 Obeloi |
| Light Shield, Steel | 1 Armor | Free Hand and Dodge of 3+ | 1000 Obeloi |
| Medium Shield, Steel | 2 Armor; 2 Dodge | Free Hand and Dodge of 3+, Str or Hale of 4+ | 2000 Obeloi |
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Miscellaneous Items[ic=Drugs]
| Ophidian Opiate | Concealable, Legal, Olfactory | Causes Target to slumber if smelled-Delivered by Censor or Cigarette | 25% Chance | 100 Obeloi per dose |
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[ic=Poisons]
| Paralytic | Concealable, Legal, Ingested | Paralyzes Target if consumed | 50% Chance | 200 Obeloi per dose |
| Ophidian Opiate | Concealable, Legal, Olfactory | Causes Target to slumber if smelled-Delivered by Censor or Cigarette | 25% Chance | 100 Obeloi per dose |
| Waspsting | Concealable, Illegal, Contact (Hard) | Delivered by a pinprick, May cause death within 24 hours-remember to recover the corpse. | 30% Chance | 500 Obeloi per dose |
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[ic=Tattoos]
N/A
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[ic=Creation Rules]
General Rules for Crafting a New WeaponWhat is X worth?
| 1 Damage | 30 Obeloi |
| 2 Damage | 50 Obeloi |
| 3 Damage | 150 Obeloi |
| 4 Damage | 250 Obeloi |
| 5 Damage | 350 Obeloi |
| 6 Damage | 500 Obeloi |
| 7 Damage | 800 Obeloi |
| 8 Damage | 1200 Obeloi |
| 1 Strength | 100 Obeloi |
| 2 Strength | 200 Obeloi |
| 3 Strength | 400 Obeloi |
| 4 Strength | 800 Obeloi |
| 1 Aim | 150 Obeloi/10 Upkeep |
| Bypass 1 Armor | 100 Obeloi |
| Concealable | Varies |
| 20% Miss | Reduce by 10% |
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[ic]Bank Options[/ic]
-You will want to invest some funds in a bank. Your base can be robbed. A bank is (usually) a far safer depositary for your funds. And the money can earn interest. Choose well.
The Depositary
A Ghilian bank.
Interest: 0.2% interest/week (e.g. put in 1000 obeloi, get 2/week)
Minimum to Receive Interest: 5000 obeloi.
Skaver's
A human bank.
Interest: No interest.
Minimum: None.
Downsiders
A leechkin bank.
Interest: 0.2% interest/week (e.g. put in 1000 obeloi, get 2/week)
Minimum to Receive Interest: 5000 obeloi.
Notes: Deposit blood of one being legally killed for 100 obeloi if you have an account with a minimum investment of 2000 obeloi. You must show a legal writ authorizing the execution.
Odo's
A human bank. The owner may be skimming and/or investing in questionable endeavours.
Interest: 0.8% interest/week (e.g. put in 1000 obeloi, get 8/week)
Minimum to receive Interest: 2000 obeloi.
Notes: 100 obeloi fee to reduce account below 2000 obeloi.
Warning: There is a slight chance that some of your money might "disappear" each week it is deposited at Odo's.
Hunters for Hire
[ic=Moan, "The Draining Death"]
Name: Moan, "The Draining Death"
Age: Middle Years
Race: Leechkin
City of Birth: Macellaria (+1 Statistic)
HP (Haleness+10) 15
ARMOR 1
DISPOSITION: Aggressive
CORE STATISTICSHaleness 5
Perception 5
Concealment 1
Clever 1
Luck 2
Strength 3
Aim 1
Dodge 2
Magic 1
Charm 1
Knowledge 1
ATTRIBUTE: (Su) Blood Debt: Moan's insatiable appetite requires it to suck blood from his quarries with each capture. A Haleness check will be made for Moan per each quarry who you choose to save. If Moan fails its Haleness check, itsucks all the blood out of a quarry, slaying the creature.
OTHER STATISTICS:Notoriety 1
Loyalty 2
GEAR: Claw (1 to Strength per pair); (2 Damage, each)
Claw (1 to Strength per pair); (2 Damage, each)
Tough Hide (1 Armor)
MAGIC: Null
Wealth in Hand: 0
Cost of Contract: 2000 obeloi and Blood Bath Room.
Flavor Text:[ooc=Moan in the Darkness]
Moan the Leechkin stalked alleys in search of animals; Moan never found itself satisfied by the Toll, the offering of blood as a pity-offering, as charity. Moan also never lay in rest. Moan's hunger propels Moan to seek blood. When Moan killed the man in the alley that night- Moan was a murderer. Until the Guard delighted in seeing the face of the corpse as the man who was, or who at least had a countenance similar to a villain, wanted for the murder of twelve-the Dodecagon-he was, the dread killer who drew the image in the carcass of those whose lives he tossed away. Then Moan was lauded. Rewarded. And deputized. To hunt. To kill. The dregs fear Moan. But Moan's hunger cannot be sated through the sanguine taste of merely Macellaria's villains, so Moan has been licensed. Now. Moan the bounty hunter thirsts; and Moan, the Draining Death seeks a patron.
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[ic=Lady/Lord of the Flies]
Name: Lord/Lady of the Flies
Age: Ancient
Race: Hagmyn
City of Birth: Lophius (+1 Stat)
HP (Haleness+10) 11
ARMOR 0
DISPOSITION: Aggressive
CORE STATISTICSHaleness 1
Perception 1
Concealment 1
Clever 5
Luck 1
Strength 1
Aim 5
Dodge 1
Magic 5
Charm 1
Knowledge 4
ATTRIBUTE: (Su) MagicCursed: (All weapons fire when change gender. Go inert for 3 rounds thereafter. Cannot worship at a Shrine). See Flavor for explanation.
OTHER STATISTICS:Notoriety 1
Loyalty 2
GEAR: Null
MAGIC: Fireflare -2 Aim 1 Dam. (Fire) 50 Obeloi
Close Wound Heals 2 HP (Magic) 50 Obeloi
Miniature GoreFlySwarm (4 Aim, 1 Dam.) (Creature) (3 Rounds) 400 Obeloi
Magic Arrow +1 Aim 4 Dam. (Magic) 400 Obeloi
Acid Splash +1 Aim; damages up to 3 adjacent enemies 3 Dam. (Acid) 600 Obeloi
Wealth in Hand: 0
Cost of Contract: 3000 obeloi and Terrari-Room.
Flavor Text:[ooc=Endless Quest]
The Lord of the Flies' relatives have died, his friends have died. She killed them. The Lady of the Flies changes gender as do all of her race. But when she changes gender, her magic fires. He goes inert for 3 Rounds and then wakes to see what chaos has been wreaked. This happened again and again in an orgy of flame after He denied the Goddess of the Sea her due. He changed to her and awoke to sounds of screams, feared the conversion was wrong, then changed again, then again, then again in a horrible spiral of confusion. Now she shrieks in pain, but she can control her change. She fled to Macellaira after her crime and she is likely being hunted herself...which is why no other stable has hired her yet...but as far as you know there isn't a price on her head...
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[ic=Naxtor, The Muse]
Name: Naxtor, The Muse
Age: Middle Years
Race: Mantid
City of Birth: Macellaria (+1 Stat)
HP (Haleness+10) 11
ARMOR 0
DISPOSITION: Defensive
CORE STATISTICSHaleness 1
Perception 3
Concealment 5
Clever 1
Luck 1
Strength 1
Aim 4+3 (with gear)
Dodge 1
Magic 1
Charm 3
Knowledge 3
ATTRIBUTE: (Ps) Effete: Naxtor demands the best in everything. He adds an additional 10 upkeep a week and he demands Gardens, a Wine Cellar, and an Upgraded Room, although he will permit you to wait up to 4 weeks before upgrading his room, he understands you have other expenses.
OTHER STATISTICS:Notoriety 1
Loyalty 2
GEAR: Claw (1 to Strength per pair); (2 Damage, each)
Claw (1 to Strength per pair); (2 Damage, each)
| Propelled HookChain | Open, Illegal | 3 to Aim (reload after 1st shot) (Jam: 40%) | 4 Dam. | 350 Obeloi [no ammunition; hook retracts] |
Chainclubs (Nunchucks) Concealable, Semi-Legal 0 to Strength (Two Handed) 1 Dam./ 1 Dam. (Second Atk.) 50 Obeloi
MAGIC: Null
Wealth in Hand: 0
Cost of Contract: 2000 obeloi and Gardens or Wine Cellar. (-2 Loyalty unless both are built)
Flavor Text:[ooc=The Limericist]
Mantis Fisher of Beasts and Urbane Character. The Tuxedo-garbed Mantoid enjoys Sherry, strolls through an exquisite Garden, and a good read after a day spent upbraiding malefactors and recovering runaways. Often sprouts Poetry from the Fallen Hecatomb Cities and Limericks from the Firesong Marches, which he argues date back to the Mantid Striking Age, their Glory Days of Dominion as an Empire that were cut short by the explosion of the Unwound Clock. One of his favorite Limerick is: "There once was a nasty Lillix Lass / Who peppered her words with Sass / A mantid thought and did craft/ Plans he Wrote and did draft / An in her mouth he placed a Pass." Most beings are a bit confused at the last line, ascribing it to Mantid addlery and a total lack of understanding of what a limerick is supposed to be, but if asked to explain, Naxtor elaborates that a Pass is Mantid slang for Pacifier.
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[ic=The Hunger]
Name: The Hunger
Age: Middle Years
Race: Ghul
City of Birth: Macellaria (+1 Stat)
HP (Haleness+10) 11
ARMOR 0
DISPOSITION: Aggressive
CORE STATISTICSHaleness 1
Perception 2
Concealment 1
Clever 1
Luck 4
Strength 1+1 (with gear)
Aim 5
Dodge 2
Magic 1
Charm 1
Knowledge 5
ATTRIBUTE: (Ps) Wigged Out - Costs an additional 20 Obeloi a week to pay for drug addiction (free with Opium Den); Occasionally does not Act in a Round When acquiring a Quarry.
OTHER STATISTICS:Notoriety 1
Loyalty 2
GEAR: Claw (1 to Strength per pair); (2 Damage, each)
Claw (1 to Strength per pair); (2 Damage, each)
MAGIC: Null
Wealth in Hand: 0
Cost of Contract: 2000 obeloi and Gardens or Wine Cellar. (-2 Loyalty unless both are built)
[ooc=The Addict]
A corpulent Ghul with an addiction to everything that can kill. This hedonist shambles and careens from side to side, filling every hall and doorway with his mass. Many a mark has laughed at the creature's mass before falling dead to his skill with a rifle.
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[ic=Odd Amy]
Name: Odd Amy
Age: Twenties
Race: Human
City of Birth: Macellaria (+1 Stat)
HP (Haleness+10) 13
ARMOR 0
DISPOSITION: Aggressive
CORE STATISTICSHaleness 1
Perception 3
Concealment 1
Clever 4
Luck 3
Strength 5+1 (with gear)=6
Aim 1
Dodge 5
Magic 1
Charm 1
Knowledge 1
ATTRIBUTE: (Ps) Collector : Odd Amy feels a compulsion to collect a trophy from each quarry. If she does not (order her ahead of time to not), her loyalty will decrease by 2 for the next mission. The trophies she demands are, a digit, an ear, an eye, etc.
(Ps) Graveborn-Protector: Odd Amy will only kill a Ghul or any other Graveborn in self-defense. She will not take the unlife of a Graveborn.
OTHER STATISTICS:Notoriety 1
Loyalty 2
GEAR: Fleshcoat Temp +2 HP xxx 400 Obeloi
Whip Concealable, Legal 1 to Strength 2 Dam. 150 Obeloi
Hand Axe, Mstwk. Concealable, Legal 1 to Strength 3 Dam. 150 Obeloi
MAGIC: Null
Wealth in Hand: 0
Cost of Contract: 500 obeloi; but (add 300 cost to room for an oversized bed and reduce Defense by 1 due to the large amount of "guests" that she attracts).
[ooc=The Collector]
Odd Amy gathered pieces of dead plants when she was five, placing them around her bed, then weaving them into her sheets, then weaving them into her clothes. Then, she discovered dead insects and bedecked herself with them similarly. Later, she found pleasure only in splattering herself with viscerea of dead animals. Now that she's grown, she collects both trophies from the dead and she collects the dead themselves. She has a collection of Ghul lovers of both genders (add 300 cost to room for an oversized bed and reduce Defense by 1 due to the large amount of "guests" that she attracts).
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[ic=The Noble Fabler]
Name: Ilya-Go-Fartha (The Noble Fabler)
Age: Older
Race: Jatayi
City of Birth: ??? Wherever the Tribe was wandering at the time. (+1 Stat)
HP (Haleness+10) 12
ARMOR 0
DISPOSITION: Defensive
CORE STATISTICSHaleness 2
Perception 5
Concealment 4
Clever 1
Luck 1
Strength 1
Aim 5
Dodge 4
Magic 1
Charm 1
Knowledge 1
ATTRIBUTE: (Su) Addled: The lie is the truth, and Ilya has panic attacks that manifest in bizarre ways. Occasionally, she will ignore your orders and approach a situation how she intends (likely the exact opposite of what yo order). These panic attacks can be kept under control somewhat by the addition of an Opium Den and they can be fully managed by the addition of an Apothecary.
OTHER STATISTICS:Notoriety 1
Loyalty 2
GEAR: Jatayi Wing-Crossbow Concealable, Semi-Legal 2 to Aim (reload after 2nd shot) 5 Dam. 500 Obeloi [40/week for bolts] (Jatayi Only) (Req. Aim 4+ to properly Use)
Jatayi Wing-Crossbow Concealable, Semi-Legal 2 to Aim (reload after 2nd shot) 5 Dam. 500 Obeloi [40/week for bolts] (Jatayi Only) (Req. Aim 4+ to properly Use)
MAGIC: None.
Wealth in Hand: 200
Cost of Contract: 1000 obeloi.
[ooc=The Lie is the Truth]
Jatayi are not dying. There are millions of them. High. Up in the sky. Above the Shadowglass Steppes. No. Hidden within the Fecunidty... Deep within the Suppuration. They're waiting. For the right moment. To Pounce. To Revenge. To take control. So you best treat Jatayi with the best of respect. Give to the Tribe. Honor the caravan. Mend a Wing.
Why is she a bounty hunter? Who's to say she is. Maybe she's just researching tales. Maybe she's a dilettante. She's rich really. Doesn't need the money. Has a rich Uncle in Crepsucle. Owns the maze he does. He invented the mazeborn. Makes a killing from their prophecies, he does.
The Noble Fabler tells a tirade of half-truths such that it is difficult to divine reality from fiction. Titillating though her tales may be, even more impressive is her skill with Jatayi Wing Crossbows.
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[ic=Gholam, the Witch]
Name: Gholam
Age: Early Adulthood
Race: Lillix
City of Birth: The Suppuration, Essentially (+1 Notoriety)
HP (Haleness+10) 11
ARMOR 0
DISPOSITION: Defensive
CORE STATISTICSHaleness 1
Perception 2
Concealment 2
Clever 1
Luck 1
Strength 5
Aim 1
Dodge 2
Magic 4
Charm 1
Knowledge 1
ATTRIBUTE: (Ex) Plodding: Gholam, the slow, calculating, demented, and meditationg Lillix, can only take one action per turn.
OTHER STATISTICS:Notoriety 2
Loyalty 2
GEAR: Fangs, Advanced Concealable, Legal 2 to Strength 4 Dam (Extra Attack for Strength Users)
Claw (1 to Strength per pair); (2 Damage, each)
Claw (1 to Strength per pair); (2 Damage, each)
Claw (1 to Strength per pair); (2 Damage, each)
Claw (1 to Strength per pair); (2 Damage, each)
MAGIC: Acid Splash +1 Aim; damages up to 3 adjacent enemies 3 Dam. (Acid) 600 Obeloi
Enfeebling Ray Reduces enemy's Strength to 0 for next 3 Rounds, not the Round the enemy is Zapped (Magic) 800 Obeloi
Wealth in Hand: 500
Cost of Contract: 1200 obeloi; Webbery
[ooc=The Collector]
I WAS DEAD. BUT NOW I AM ALIVE.
GHOLAM THE WITCH IS NOT HUMAN, YOU SAY? I SAY MORE THAN HUMAN.
WHAT OTHER HUMAN HAS MORE THAN TWO LEGS? WHAT OTHER HUMAN HAS FANGS? I HAVE TRANSCENDED HUMANITY!
Gholam the witch is actually a Lillix. Or a Human that looks like a Lillix. Gholam the Witch is what happens when an adventuring party of idiots decides that there is a hoard of treasure hidden within the Suppuration... and walks back alive. Gholam has a human torso and essentially looks like a traditional Centaur; except one with a Lillix body and with a number of arms. Gholam has little memories of her, or is it he-the Witch seems to think she's a man, past. What Gholam does know is that Gholam needs an income. Starving on the streets does not suit Gholam, and Gholam has a vague half-remembered recollection of the Guild of Bounty Hunters, so, half-starved, she sought them out in Macellaria. They directed her toward your Chapterhouse as one that might be hiring.
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Locations
Notes for self:
Webways of Upper Macellaria.
Quarries.
Quarries are the Bounties you hunt.
Below are the available Bounties.
[ic=Ways to Unlock Quests]
Quests can be unlocked in a variety of ways:
Bounty Hunter Guild - Public Quests Available to All.
Complications/Events - May unlock new Quests.
Hunter Present in Different City - Sometimes unlocks new quests
Notoriety Increases - Specific Quests unlocked due to your fame.
Race Specific Hunters - Unlocks certain quests.
Research - A successful Research option can grant Quests.
Hedge Maze (Room) - Lucrative Cloak/Dagger Quests
Reception (Room) - Small Quests.
Thieves' Door (Room) - Thieves Guild quests
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[ooc=Threat Levels Explained]Threat Levels Explained!
0 (Lowest) ------Reward: 50-200 ------ No Complications
1 (Minimal) -----Reward: 200-600 ----
2 -----------------Reward: 500-1000
3 -----------------Reward: 1000-2000 (About the highest recommended to send a beginning character to Solo)
4 -----------------Reward: 2000-5000--------- (Possibly Multiple Complications)
5 -----------------Reward: 5000-10,0000----- (Multiple Complications)
6 -----------------Reward: 10,000-25,000---- (Multiple Complications)[/ooc]
[ic=Posted by the Guild of Bounty Hunters]
[ooc=Religious Incubus]
Case of the Religious Incubus
Hear Ye. Hear Ye, a proclamait hath been issuefh:
-The Sanguine Church of Pulsetown, a glittering glass citadel of worship, was visited by this incubus, this eidolon, this malefactor who came trading its wares and seducing at least one high in the Striga's hierarchy, who, quite regrettably because his youth had been remarked on quite significantly, aged past his time and fell dead before a group of outsiders who gossiped most foully about what type of bargains that one must have made and about how Striga's embrace must not be as desirous as they once had considered.
Avenge this insult.
Track the Eidolon incubus to his hideout, then bring him back to the Church for questioning.
ALIVE
Reward: 4000 obeloi alive; 400 obeloi dead
Danger: High (5)
City: Macellaria
Contact: Vraxtor Malsaith, Guild-Warden
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[ooc=Jolly Orange Giant]
Case of the Jolly Orange Giant
Hear Ye. Hear Ye, a proclamait hath been issuefh:
Oranje Julius, the Anthraphagoi hath kilt a Human in single combat.
The Human's friends wish to see Oranje Julius dead. They want him to suffer
Kill him up close, cutting him with a Sai or a Dagger and see bonus Obeloi.
DEAD
Reward: 0 obeloi alive; 2000 obeloi dead (1000 bonus for close carving action)
Danger: Elevated (4)
City: Macellaria
Contact: Vraxtor Malsaith, Guild-Warden
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[ooc=Blood Donor]
Case of the Blood Donor
Hear Ye. Hear Ye, a proclamait hath been issuefh:
Sommat hath been splicing tranfixtionth of bloodth into Orphans, infeting them wifth the Red Rain.
Dis is bad bufithness for all involfed for wifouth Orphans who have no skills and nowhence to go, who wfoudth fill our Bordellaires and serve at our Opium Denth?
DEAD OR ALIVE
Reward: 1000 obeloi alive; 1000 obeloi dead
Danger: Elevated (3)
City: Macellaria
Contact: Vraxtor Malsaith, Guild-Warden
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[ooc=Ripper of Slimesquallor]
Case of the Gutted Ghoul
Hear Ye. Hear Ye, a proclamait hath been issuefh:
Der Ripper of Slimesquallor hath struck again.
Ghuls hafth been left gutted in der streets.
Why? The Relatives ask!
Why die again before their times!
The guard kant do nofthink.
The Ghuls think the killer do be a Cestoid because of the Bites. Perfhaps there iffth some sfthrange ritual afhoot.
Mog-Dahn at the Charterhouse of the Foetid Fiends is on the trail already. Can you beat him?
DEAD
Reward: 0 obeloi alive; 1000 obeloi dead
Danger: Somewhat (2-3)
City: Macellaria
Contact: Vraxtor Malsaith, Guild-Warden
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[ooc=Hagmyn: Interrupted]
Case of the Outraged Hagmyn
Hear Ye. Hear Ye, a proclamait hath been issuefh:
The Hagmyn, Chester, who never changes to female was haraffthed at night, chained to his bed and by means of pheromes and drugs organick forced to change to a Hagwyman, outraged most vilelly, then slain. Chester's family seeks the killers.
DEAD: Multiple Targets (1-2 a mission)
Reward: 0 obeloi alive; 1000 obeloi for each dead (unknown number of assailants)
Danger: Somewhat (2-3)
City: Macellaria
Contact: Vraxtor Malsaith, Guild-Warden
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[ooc=Hanged Man]
Case of the Hanged Ghul
Hear Ye. Hear Ye, a proclamait hath been issuefh:
Novos Keght, the Ghul hanged for forcefull Ghulization of several people, the Ghul who shocked the streets of Macellaria by feeding pieces of his dangly bits to his partners, has been seen near the Beggar's Gate. Several have already succumbed unwillingly to Ghulization! The Committee for the Preservation of the Living has posted a reward to stop this madman.
DEAD
Reward: 200 obeloi alive; 400 obeloi dead
Danger: Minimal (1)
City: Macellaria
Contact: Vraxtor Malsaith, Guild-Warden
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[ooc=Bad Doggy]
Case of the Shopping Puppy
Hear Ye. Hear Ye, a proclamait hath been issuefh:
A chitinous hellhound has been seen clattering through the streets of the Curio Bazaars district, frightening customers. Kill it.
DEAD
Reward: 0 obeloi alive; 250 obeloi dead
Danger: Minimal (1)
City: Macellaria
Contact: Vraxtor Malsaith, Guild-Warden
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[ooc=Addled Witch]
Case of the Addled Witch
Hear Ye. Hear Ye, a proclamait hath been issuefh:
Svastas-Tahn, WyrdWitch of Hexwarren has disappeared.
Most would welcome this event.
Except.
He left a strange apparatus running in his home.
That none know how to operate. And that many fear to operate.
Find him before it blows.
ALIVE (Timed 3 weeks remaining)
Reward: 500 obeloi alive; 0 obeloi dead
Danger: Minimal (1)
City: Macellaria
Contact: Vraxtor Malsaith, Guild-Warden
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[ic=Personal Quests]
Personal Quests
These are only available if you have the Reception Room, which grants access to Personal Quests.
[ooc=The Misplaced Corpse]
Case of the Misplaced Corpse
Deep in the catacombs, there was a corpse, you see.
I visited it often, verily.
Not a ghul, o wearily.
But a corpse, dessicating clearily.
That corpse I loved so beauteously
My one, my only, Annabel Lee.
And now, she's gone. She's free.
As free, floating, as the sea.
My one, my only, Annabel Lee.
Find her please, for me.
My one, my only, Annabel Lee.
The obvious question to ask the picayune ivory-skinned man standing in the Reception Room is How Much? The answer...his entire savings... below.
The next most obvious question, you ask, as the man removes his bowler-hat, worrying it between his hands, is- why wasn't the corpse kept closer to home for easy viewing. The answer- oh so simple- the man's progenitors did not look kindly to keeping a rotting corpse in their reception room, and he could not afford to place her in a more suitable place.
ALIVE?
Reward: 2000 obeloi alive; 0 obeloi dead
Danger: Somewhat (2-3)
City: Macellaria
Contact: Phu^l, Devoted Lover in Shambles[/ooc]
[ooc=Farewell to Arms]
Case of the Missing Pieces
A middle aged man, his head hung low, shuffles into your office
Misters, Missuses, I gots tha saddest story in the world. He starts. Yeah right. You've heard that one before. Then he holds up his armless seven-year old son and explains himself.
Little Dory's arms were repossessed by a debt collector. Now his father has clawed back enough coin to recover the arms from the pawnshop. Only trouble is the shop sold them to a Witch who wanted a child's arms attached to his midriff for some odious reason. Your mission: repossess the arms. You've been given inertia gas to put the Witch under while you do your work, and pickling juice for preservation of the arms, but you must first subdue the witch. Old Dory would prefer that the witch is killed so it does not seek revenge, but he cannot afford to pay more than the 200 he's already offering for the arms.
Only detail is... as the man's leaving, he mentions that the arms are child-sized tentacles that will grow with the child. Little Dory had been born armless and had been using a special graft-the cheapest and most malleable.
DEAD OR ALIVE
Reward: 200 obeloi alive; 200 obeloi dead; or, you know, you could keep the tentacles and get them attached to you for a fraction of the price.
Danger: Minimal (1)
City: Macellaria
Contact: Old Dory
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[ooc=Lost Doggie]
Case of the Missing Pup
Bernice Berthilde has lost her precious Ghilian hound, which has been in her family since it first lived 40 years past when she was young. She does not have a great deal of money to find the hound, however.
Note: The hound will need to be restrained in a non-violent manner, such as by a net or by drugs.
ALIVE
Reward: 100 obeloi.
Danger: None (0)
City: Macellaria
Contact: Bernice Berthilde[/ooc]
[ooc=Slake Root]
Slake Root
Events like this are Available if Reception Room has a Receptionist Upgrade
This rare root can only be found near the Suppuration or in Crepsucle. Acquire it by shopping or entering the suppuration.
ITEM
Reward: 100 obeloi (net)- who knows how much the item will cost.
Danger: None (0) or (4)
City: Suppuration or Shop
Contact: Vox Dram[/ooc]
[ooc]Secret One to be unlocked by built room[/ooc]
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When you hunt a Quarry, an Event and a Complication will happen. The Complication, which will be negative, will be avoided through Research.
Event
Some events are complications and some are boons. Others are neutral.
Example:
Boon or Neutral (if you wanted the Quarry alive) - A passing Ghul comes to your aid in the battle, helping tear your Quarry apart in a feverish display of wrath.
Complication
A negative event.
Example:
Your Illegal weapon is confiscated.
[spoiler=OLD Housing System]
The Starting Bounty Hunter Charterhouse consists of:-Reception Room, Basic with Low Footserf
A reception room is a necessary part of a Chapterhouse; without it, customers could not be kept separate from the rest of the Chapterhouse.
Without a reception room, the Chapterhouse cannot accept personal Hunts. A Low Footserf, or (receptionist) is necessary to take care of guests' needs.
| Specials | Notoriety | Loyalty | Defense | Tax | Upkeep | Cost |
| (Permits Chapterhouse to take personal Missions) | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1/week | 10/week | 500 (new) 400 (convert) |
-Armory, Basic An armory provides a convenient location for your Hunters to place their weapons and it provides a convenient array of weapons for your servants to take up in defense of the Chapter when it is assaulted.
| Specials | Notoriety | Loyalty | Defense | Tax | Upkeep | Cost |
| (x) | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2/week | 0/week | 2000 (new) / 1500 (convert) |
-Meeting Room (Small), with Table
The Meeting Room, though small, provides the Hunters a place to plan, to meet, either amongst themselves, or with customers.
| Specials | Notoriety | Loyalty | Defense | Tax | Upkeep | Cost |
| (Required to Hire 3 or More Hunters) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1/week | 0/week | 500 (new) / 400 (convert) |
PriviesSimple Privies.
| Specials | Notoriety | Loyalty | Defense | Tax | Upkeep | Cost |
| (Required to Hire 1 or 2 Hunters) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1/week | 0/week | 400 (new) / 200 (convert) |
-Staircase, SimpleA Staircase provides access to additional floors, which are necessary for additional rooms in this cramped metropolis.
| Specials | Notoriety | Loyalty | Defense | Tax | Upkeep | Cost |
| (Required to build more than 10 Rooms) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2/week | 0/week | 500 (new) / 500 (convert) |
-Utility Room, A Utility Room can be converted into any other type of room.
| Specials | Notoriety | Loyalty | Defense | Tax | Upkeep | Cost |
| (Can be converted into any other type of room) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1/week | 0/week | 400 (new) / 100 (convert) |
-Utility Room, A Utility Room can be converted into any other type of room.
| Specials | Notoriety | Loyalty | Defense | Tax | Upkeep | Cost |
| (Can be converted into any other type of room) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1/week | 0/week | 400 (new) / 100 (convert) |
-Hunter Room 1,Sparsely furnished, but hey, it's a private room.
| Specials | Notoriety | Loyalty | Defense | Tax | Upkeep | Cost |
| (Permits Hiring of 1-2 Hunters) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1/week | 0/week | 500 (new) / 200 (convert) |
| Each Hunter Room may house up to 2 Hunters. Each additional Hunter in a room lowers both hunters' Loyalty by 2. Loyalty may be negative. |
-Hunter Room 2, Sparsely furnished, but hey, it's a private room.
| Specials | Notoriety | Loyalty | Defense | Tax | Upkeep | Cost |
| (Permits Hiring of 1-2 Hunters) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1/week | 0/week | 500 (new) / 200 (convert) |
| Each Hunter Room may house up to 2 Hunters. Each additional Hunter in a room lowers both hunters' Loyalty by 2. Loyalty may be negative. |
-Hunter Room 3,Sparsely furnished, but hey, it's a private room.
| Specials | Notoriety | Loyalty | Defense | Tax | Upkeep | Cost |
| (Permits Hiring of 1-2 Hunters) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1/week | 0/week | 500 (new) / 200 (convert) |
| Each Hunter Room may house up to 2 Hunters. Each additional Hunter in a room lowers both hunters' Loyalty by 2. Loyalty may be negative. |
-Library (Pauper's)For Research. This room is lightly stocked with tomes.
It likely contains an atlas, a couple of dictionaries, an encyclopedia, and an assortment of travelogues, including "Dare an' Back- a Cutpurse's Guide to Skein" and a few popular works of dubious worth to your current work, such as "I-Jatayi"- a book about a one Sir Richard Barton's masquerade as a wing-damaged Jatayi on the twice-in-a-century heyji, or pilgrimage-gathering of Jatayi.
| Specials | Notoriety | Loyalty | Defense | Tax | Upkeep | Cost |
| (Permits Research to be Done) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1/week | 0/week | 1000 (new) / 600 (convert) |
Master's BedroomThe Master's Bedroom provides a place of quite retreat for the Charterhouse master. It also comes with a High Footserf who doubles as a Valet and Butler.
| Specials | Notoriety | Loyalty | Defense | Tax | Upkeep | Cost |
| (Req: for Master) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1/week | 20/week | 1000 (new) / 500 (convert) |
Master's BathThe Master's Bath is where the master draws water and relaxes.
| Specials | Notoriety | Loyalty | Defense | Tax | Upkeep | Cost |
| (Req: for Master) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1/week | 0/week | 1000 (new) / 800 (convert) |
KitchensProvides Sustenance for the mighty horde. Comes with a Head Cook.
| Specials | Notoriety | Loyalty | Defense | Tax | Upkeep | Cost |
| (xxx) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1/week | 20/week | 1500 (new) / 1400 (convert) |
Master's Entryway and Receiving Hall or StairWhere the Charterhouse transitions to actual house.
| Specials | Notoriety | Loyalty | Defense | Tax | Upkeep | Cost |
| (Req. for Master) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2/week | 0/week | 500(new) / 400 (convert) |
Pantries and Coal Pile RoomA place for storing food and fuel.
| Specials | Notoriety | Loyalty | Defense | Tax | Upkeep | Cost |
| (xxx) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1/week | 0/week | 400 (new) / 200 (convert) |
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I definitely like the concept of the game (and obviously approve of the setting choice). The complexity of the rules (i.e., managing stable master, HQ, multiple 'PCs', each with different mechanics) is the only thing that makes me hesitate jumping in to play. I'll have to reread the rules more closely, since my initial impression might be off. Very exciting concept though -I look forward to seeing it progress, regardless of whether I'll be a participant or spectator!
EDIT: I also love the first mission. Incubus hunt for Strigan templars. Very cool.
I'll throw in a "I'm in", with the caveat I need to finish characters for GG and BB First. :)
Thank you both for the interest.
The rules are quite simple especially once you have set up your initial characters. All you need to do each turn is determine 6 actions- 2 for each character, and figure out where you are putting your wealth. Now, the actions can get quite complicated if you want them to be- with contingencies, etc., but that's all up to you. At the most basic, your turn could be:
Hunter 1:
Research Target 1 (Research Location, Vitals, Associates, achieving success on each category depending on how high GM rolls the check)
Research Target 1 (Research Location, Vitals, Associates, achieving success on each category depending on how high GM rolls the check)
Hunter 2:
Travel to Target 1 Using Hunter 1's information.
Hunt Target 1 ---Choose to attack with Aim. Choose to Spare.
If successful: Collect reward.
Hunter 3:
Research Target 2 (Research Location, Vitals, Associates, achieving success on each category depending on how high GM rolls the check)
Hunt Target 2 ---Choose to attack with Strength. Choose to Slay.
If successful: Collect reward.
The GM does all the rolls, all the results, and subtracts the money.
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This being said, I have considered that perhaps each player would prefer to control less hunters at the beginning, so as to better ease into the game? More could be hired relatively quickly. Would you rather control only 2 you make, or 1 you make and 1 you hire from my pre-gens? I suspect that characters may die fairly easily, thus, my initial idea that each player should create 2 characters, so the loss of one won't be missed.
To clarify, it's not the hunting mechanics that I find particularly cumbersome. Even controlling a minor handful of hunters wouldn't be too hard (although creating several is far more time-consuming, so I like your idea of creating 1 and controlling 2 at the beginning). But the combination of multiple hunters, coupled with corporate actions might be unwieldy -especially since the corporate actions can be quite disparate.
More importantly, some of the corporate crunch seems a bit bland. For example, do we really need to know or care about how many clothes stands are in a building? Or whether the chair is varnished or sturdy? Not only does such material seem unnecessary, but it also seems rather mundane, and thus a bit incongruent with CE's gritty, bizarre, eclectic tone.
One potential alternative is simply to provide costs for tiers of HQs. Provide the cost to upgrade/purchase said tier/rank, and then make higher tiers provide bonuses. For example, we might start with a rank/tier/level/etc 1 space (which could be anything from a shanty outside the Walls, a floor or two in a Pulsetown row home, or a series of connected chambers in the Catacombs). A tier 2 might provide a +1 bonus to research checks, notoriety, or loyalty, while a tier three bonus would be +2, etc.. Players would then be free to describe whether their chairs are upholstered with moth-eaten embroidery, sutured ghul-hide, or wine-stained satin.
Or, HQs could have 'stats'.
Opulence might represent how comfortable and aesthetic a place is, and thus would include everything from the richness of its dinning ware to the etiquette and exoticness of serving staff. This might add a bonus to notoriety and hunter loyalty (assuming the hunter cares for posh and pampering). However, the higher a HQ's opulence, the more tempting it is to robbery and rivalry -and if you are successfully robbed, your charter's notoriety -and loyalty of hunters- typically decreases.
Defense might represent how secure your HQ is. It represents how skilled and vigilant your guards are, how numerous, cunning, and powerful any traps might be, the strength of your walls and wards, etc. Defense would add a bonus against robbery attempts, deter such attempts in the first place, and may, if the GM decides, increase the notoriety of a charter after a notably thwarting a robbery/attack/etc.
Resource might represent how well stocked your library, laboratory, etc. are. It would also represent how erudite and intellectually helpful your staff are (e.g., your mephit butler plays hexagonal chess with you every evening, during which time you talk strategy and politics). A Resource score would thus add a bonus to research checks. It would neither attract nor deter robbery attempts, nor would it directly increase notoriety checks (but better research would likely lead to greater successes and thus increased notoriety). It likewise wouldn't directly affect hunter loyalty, except perhaps to a more scholarly bounty hunter (GM call).
One could spend money to upgrade any of these stats (and thus increase their bonuses). Generally, robberies wouldn't decrease any of these stats (e.g., thieves are generally after your bone-pennies, not your chandeliers and upholstered chairs), but the GM might rule otherwise in specific cases (e.g., a rival breaks in and manages to partially torch your library, decreasing your resource score, or a robber made off with your well-known collection of silk screens allegedly commissioned by the Mad Magister himself, decreasing your Opulence score).
Regardless, players would have artistic freedom to describe their HQ's location, accommodations, staff, layout, etc. Naturally, the GM would supervise. For example, an Opulence 1 HQ isn't going to be an ornate cathedral in Hexwarren, lush with gilded tapestries, stuffed sand-rays, and crystal decanters of aged gloomwine. It might, however, be a mold-infested shrine in Slimesquallor, with a blood-stained tapestry, a rotting, poorly-stitched piranha rat, and half-drunk bottles of kombucha and cloth-wine.
Or, depending on player discretion, it could just as easily be a timber-nailed structure in the Shanties, stocked with a keg of piss-beer and blood, with splintering chairs upholstered with ostrich hide, and a bullet-ridden roof of rusting tin.
Personally, I think such a system fosters greater creativity, while still providing mechanical incentives and strategy to upgrade a charter's HQ -and does so in a way that doesn't require a lot a lot of menial work (e.g., no need to count how many chairs and clothing racks you have). Additionally, players can choose the depth of detail they prefer. Some players might simply give a basic description of their HQ and select their stats. Others might meticulously detail each room. Both can play the game to their preferred style in a way that does not impinge on the other.
Or, at least, that's my take on things. :)
You are correct that Headquarters may be a better term than Office. I will change that.
The hunting is what matters more than anything else. Thus why I didn't really bother to stat out the building upgrade rules yet. The Headquarters and Home are for prestige, a measure of how good the players are doing and essentially as a different way to get bonuses and to suffer negatives than just through equipment.
I had imagined all the HQs to be essentially next to each other and my goal is to have them standardized- to have the same building blocks inside and the same servant types inside so that it is easy to compare 1:1 how well someone is doing. Essentially in building a home and stables, each player is building a sort of Gormenghast Castle, a sprawling nightmarish monstrosity that is collapsing under the weight of its servants and its grounds. The players will be making choices on what to construct, much as they chose buildings in Underdeep or as players gain "upgrades" in flash games like Protector or build upgrades in games like "Rogue Legacy", and trying to avoid bankruptcy.
Bureaucracy and increasing costs are meant to be a large theme here. People will need increasingly large amounts of licenses and fees, to be able to meet regulations and requirements. Thus, while I see a large benefit to doing away with precise numbers of wealth and abstracting it, I decided to keep things by the obelus rather than White Wolf-it into abstract Resources (there is much good to be said about abstracting money, but here, it made sense not to do that).
Given your comments, I can see a benefit to allowing players choose where to locate their Headquarters, so that's a good point. From the exterior, the buildings can look like whatever- but their floorplans will necessarily be the exact same with the same types of rooms to choose from.
I'm afraid I don't understand what you mean by menial work. There isn't any menial work in the current system; as I wrote it up the descriptions are illustrative of what the level included. Level 3 included 4 clothing racks b/c 4 racks are a symbol of status. Everyone's room upgrades need to be equalized or else it could be confusing to compare what level of success each person has; so rather than just writing Level 3- I wrote (3) and then described what 3 includes; essentially it already presents the room's level of opulence. The only things that matter ultimately is how the room upgrades affect the statistics. At the moment, the building rules are for my pleasure as a GM and as a source of versimmiltude-you're playing bureaucrats, not adventurers- and this is a strategy game, not a RPG adventure- from a Players point of view, the building rules present the realism of money-sinks that are necessary costs of doing business as legitimate bounty hunters.
I do appreciate the amount of thought you put into your response. Thank you for the clarification!
General Comment to all:
The system, with the exception of the building rules is finished. It's extremely simple and straightforward. It even has less overhead than my Righteous Empire game, which was extremely simple to run- and is set in a setting that people are familiar with and which has limits because it is in a familiar setting-I can't quite do whatever I want willy-nilly (though that does make more work on my end), but it allows players to can go into it with certain expectations rather than everything being a surprise. I could start a game extremely soon (as soon as I write up some more bounties and hunters for hire). Not really sure what I may be doing wrong here since I've gotten feedback from others (not just in this thread) that it's confusing?
Quote from: Light Dragon
You are correct that Headquarters may be a better term than Office.
Charterhouse might the most accurate term, if you're looking for a mechanical title. IG, I could see different charters using a vast array of terms, titles, and names. For example, I could imagine a charter named the
Fetch's Fane, a double entendre reflecting the charter's focus on bringing back escaped slaves for the Fleshmongers as well as their ties to the Church or Striga and the House of Untainted Flesh. But I digress.
QuoteThe hunting is what matters more than anything else. Thus why I didn't really bother to stat out the building upgrade rules yet. The Headquarters and Home are for prestige, a measure of how good the players are doing and essentially as a different way to get bonuses and to suffer negatives than just through equipment.
I agree that the hunting is the most important part, and I think the hunting rules are definitely the best part of it. I also like the concept of a game where you do get to measure and build your organization. My point, however, was that the building rules seemed to be unnecessarily bland and uniform, likely squelching creativity and diverging from the motley nature of the city and setting as a whole. Naturally, tis your game, but I thought I would share my two pennies and offer a potential (from my perspective) solution.
QuoteI had imagined all the HQs to be essentially next to each other and my goal is to have them standardized- to have the same building blocks inside and the same servant types inside so that it is easy to compare 1:1 how well someone is doing. Essentially in building a home and stables, each player is building a sort of Gormenghast Castle, a sprawling nightmarish monstrosity that is collapsing under the weight of its servants and its grounds. The players will be making choices on what to construct, much as they chose buildings in Underdeep or as players gain "upgrades" in flash games like Protector or build upgrades in games like "Rogue Legacy", and trying to avoid bankruptcy.
As mentioned above, having the buildings all be the same, inside or out, seems to contradict the motley, variegated nature of Macellaria. It also doesn't seem very fun, at least from a player's perspective.
Moreover, with either of the two alternatives I suggested, you could still do all the things you listed. You could compare charterhouse stats and instantly get a feel for their relative advantages and weaknesses. The players would still have choices on how they wanted to upgrade. There would be costs, tactics, strategies, and consequences.
QuoteBureaucracy and increasing costs are meant to be a large theme here. People will need increasingly large amounts of licenses and fees, to be able to meet regulations and requirements.
Agreed. I don't see how the alternative mechanics would compromise that though. Increasing a charterhouse's Opulence of Defense by 1 rank would not only have a hefty initial cost, but then an uptick in upkeep as well. The costs for both might well geometrically progress.
QuoteThus, while I see a large benefit to doing away with precise numbers of wealth and abstracting it, I decided to keep things by the obelus rather than White Wolf-it into abstract Resources (there is much good to be said about abstracting money, but here, it made sense not to do that).
Once again, I agree. Similarly, I'm not sure how that applies to the proffered alternative (or maybe that comment wasn't made in regards to it?).
QuoteFrom the exterior, the buildings can look like whatever- but their floorplans will necessarily be the exact same with the same types of rooms to choose from.
Could you explain your reasoning behind the latter? Why is it necessary to have exact floorplans?
QuoteI'm afraid I don't understand what you mean by menial work. There isn't any menial work in the current system
Menial, as in not requiring muck skill and lacking prestige. 'Pick and click' choices -e.g., Do I choose the (1) simple bed and mattress with possible bedbug infestation, some simply woven sheets with holes and stains, a rotten table, a second-hand rickety chair and a clothes stand, or (2) simple bed with railings and mattress, some well-woven sheets without holes or stains, a sturdy unfurnished chair, three clothes stands and a weapons-stand.
There's not much imagination required or prestige offered in either choice. Same thing with a running a laundry list of monthly salaries for footserfs and maids. It's (to me at least) not very evocative or enjoyable.
But if you give me the choice of spending hard-earned obeloi on either increasing my HQ's defenses, decorations, or lore -and then give me the flexibility to describe what that increase looks like, then that sounds evocative and enjoyable, even as it retains the tactical and strategic complexity and economic verisimilitude you seem to be aiming for. Especially since a character's description wouldn't change the mechanically ramifications of their OOC choice (e.g., if you paid to advance your HQ's Defense stat from 3 to 4, the mechanically bonus against robbery and attack would be the same, regardless of whether the player described the advancement as a function of buying better armor for her extant guards, hired more or better skilled guards, bound a minor demon to patrol the place, paid a witch to inscribe a few protective glyphs on the windows and doors, or bought massive locks.
It's cosmetic, but it's more creative, and likely more enjoyable to decide and describe than picking between a "second-hand rickety chair and a clothes stand" or a "sturdy unfurnished chair, three clothes stands and a weapons-stand".
QuoteNot really sure what I may be doing wrong here since I've gotten feedback from others (not just in this thread) that it's confusing?
Perhaps I've miscommunicated my sentiments. I'm not saying you've done anything wrong here. To the contrary, I think your game has an awesome concept. The setting and region are perfect for it, for many of the reasons you have already listed. Additionally, I love the first bounty hunter and contract. Both are evocative, well-written, and engaging. The Hunt, Research, Travel triad are great. I like the different categories of weapons and how you made armor act as DR. The Notoriety and Loyalty concepts are perfect. I love how it all fits perfectly for asynchronous play-by-post play.
Consequently, my intent was to suggest ways to make a good game even greater, and the biggest area for improvement (that I saw) was the building rules -not the concept, but the mechanical execution. Hence my first post and proffered solution.
There are some smaller issues that I think could be tweaked as well, but I didn't bring them up, because I didn't want the negative to outweigh the positive feedback. For example, the second step of the Hire Away rules is a little confusing to me. Additionally, I don't see the point of having a separate domicile for the charter's boss. Just roll that into the charterhouse. Not only would this make the mechanics more parsimonious, but it would also reflect how the most of the city works -e.g., the Robber Barons, like Mr. Rasp, dwell in their Guildhouses.
The weapon rules are likely okay, but their visual format makes them a bit cumbersome to read and compare at the moment. The one thing I do see is a lack of guns. All I see is a repeating rifle. No six-shooters, pistols, muskets, blunderbusses, etc.
Hopefully the above clarifies my intent and feedback.
Thank you again. I'll do what I can to respond to and address the rest later, but for the moment, I have acted on and improved the weapons based on your good feedback.
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QuoteThe weapon rules are likely okay, but their visual format makes them a bit cumbersome to read and compare at the moment. The one thing I do see is a lack of guns. All I see is a repeating rifle. No six-shooters, pistols, muskets, blunderbusses, etc.
== Fixed. Weapons now in tables. New Aim weapons added.
The tables really improve the readability. The expanded firearms are also a welcome addition.
Looking over the weapons though, I think that guns are prohibitively expensive, especially since they don't seem to provide any significant advantage. Perhaps I am missing some rule?
For example, compare the repeating pistol to the shortbow.
The former is 1,500 obeloi (30 obeloi/bullet), +1 Aim, 1 damage, concealable & illegal.
The latter is 150 obeloi (10 obeloi/arrow), +1 Aim, 1 damage, open & legal.
So, despite having the same bonus to attack and damage, the gun is 10 times more expensive? What's more, it has a 60% chance of jamming?
And that's not the only such disparity. Look at the longbow and rifle -same attack and damage, but the rifle -and its ammo- costs 5 times more and has a 25% chance of jamming.
Are the prices a typo? Or is there some rule/advantage I'm missing?
It is a mistake in part.
The reloadability and the concealability can be a big advantage.
The repeating pistol can be fired more times without rest than a shortbow can be fired. I intended to account for the cost somewhere. And I did... in the bullet cost.
Thank you for pointing out that I never reduced the actual item's cost proportionately. Essentially I was charging twice for the same thing. That's now fixed. Thank you.
Guns are a long-game purchase. They are good for protracted shootouts.
Bows are good for short/small encounters.
Magic is a utility hammer, but you have to invest your character points in Magic, Luck, and Clever to make good use of it because it can fizzle.
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The repeating pistol can be fired more times without rest than a shortbow can be fired.
How so? Mechanically, that is? I looked, but didn't see any rules on reloading, action economy, or whatnot.
QuoteGuns are a long-game purchase. They are good for protracted shootouts.
Bows are good for short/small encounters.
As above, could you explain how/why this is the case? A pistol has to be reloaded every time, theoretically just like a bow. And a bow has no chance of jamming. Relatedly, I may be misunderstanding the jam %. Does a repeating pistol have a 50% chance of jamming every time it is fired? So on average, the weapon only works half the time? Or does it means something else?
QuoteMagic is a utility hammer, but you have to invest your character points in Magic, Luck, and Clever to make good use of it because it can fizzle.
Makes sense.
QuoteHow so? Mechanically, that is? I looked, but didn't see any rules on reloading, action economy, or whatnot.
QuoteAs above, could you explain how/why this is the case? A pistol has to be reloaded every time, theoretically just like a bow. And a bow has no chance of jamming. Relatedly, I may be misunderstanding the jam %. Does a repeating pistol have a 50% chance of jamming every time it is fired? So on average, the weapon only works half the time? Or does it means something else?
JAMMING WEAPONSRegarding Jamming- yes, that is the chance for a weapon to jam. Perhaps the chances could be adjusted a bit, but on my current read of the rules, this makes sense. Jams are auto-cleared in the next battle round- I didn't want to get into adding rules of un-jamming a weapon.
I see the CE's pistols and weapons as being new inventions, devilishly difficult and prone to malfunction.
Up in the battle rules, I had some elaboration on Jamming:
Jamming Weapons: Some Gun-based may Jam if your Knowledge was not high enough so that you were able to avoid problems with the powder. On each use there is an x% chance it will jam, see the Aim Weapons sheet for the chance). Before each encounter the GM will make a Knowledge check for you to see if there is a risk of jams. If you pass, nothing will jam. (The Rule on Jamming weapons was here before I read your feedback, but I added the final sentence to clarify the issue).
Thus, when using pistols, you may want to invest in both Aim and Knowledge.
RELOADINGThe rules regarding reloading are in the same chart as the Aim weapons themselves. For the Repeating pistol, for example:
1 to Aim (reload after 6th shot) (Jam: 50%)
The pistol can fire in 6 rounds of attack concurrently. The short bow, however, can only fire in 3 rounds of attack concurrently. 1 to Aim (rest after 3rd shot), so your opponent may get an extra attack on you while you are reloading.
This did point out an important thing I did omit in the Battle rules. There were no rules for how the enemy actually damages the Hunter. The rules were implied, but they were not explicit. Now they are. Thank you.
CHARTERHOUSESQuoteAdditionally, I don't see the point of having a separate domicile for the charter's boss. Just roll that into the charterhouse. Not only would this make the mechanics more parsimonious, but it would also reflect how the most of the city works -e.g., the Robber Barons, like Mr. Rasp, dwell in their Guildhouses.
That makes sense and it is a good point. I forgot that Mr. Rasp lived in his guildhouse. The two houses are now one.
QUESTIONAlso, I have been considering to eliminate this rule:
"When you fight, the GM will
ADD a bonus of your
(Clever+Luck/2) to the rolls"
Because I was able to add other instances where Clever and Luck are important, and the rule will significantly increase my overhead in time management. Without it, I will save time from having to do additional math. I don't necessarily *like* cutting it out from a system-strength point of view. But do you think it's necessary? Without that rule, do I lose something valuable? Should I keep it? I keep going back on forth on it.
I like the direction of your revised building rules, though I might suggest having some more of the upgrades provide bonuses to stats or be a bit more CE-ish. For example, maids, valets, and meeting rooms are okay, but they don't necessarily scream grotesquerie, transformation, addiction & appetite, and adventure (i.e., the setting's themes).
Instead, consider adding things like opium dens (perhaps filled with thrum, smoulder, lush, etc.), slatterns (i.e., cheap whores in addition to the more exclusive night companion/courtesan you already have), shrines to strange gods (increase loyalty to hunters of that faith?), gambling halls, small pit-arenas for bizarre bugs, serpents, rats, and other beasts to fight for the pleasure of the hunters. Stuff like that, or more bizarre.
Quote from: Light DragonI see the CE's pistols and weapons as being new inventions, devilishly difficult and prone to malfunction.
Considering the technologies, both past and present, in CE, I find this a bit contrary to my understanding of the setting. So your comment made me wonder, do you interpret CE's flavor differently, or are you intentionally altering the setting's flavor?
If you're looking to create a wider range, you could create matchlock, wheellock, and flintlock versions of pistols, muskets, and rifles. Revolvers, however, be percussion cap and cartridge-based.
QuoteOn each use there is an x% chance it will jam, see the Aim Weapons sheet for the chance). Before each encounter the GM will make a Knowledge check for you to see if there is a risk of jams. If you pass, nothing will jam.
What kind of Knowledge DC are talking about?
Regarding guns, though, shouldn't a revolver have a far lower chance of jamming than a flintlock pistol? Perhaps my firearms lore is faulty, but the current set-up seems backwards.
Related, firearms, and weapons in general, seem like they do very little damage. Moan, for instance, would have to be shot 15 times with a shortbow or pistol before dying -and technically, with his leather armor, Moan is immune to shortbows, pistols, revolvers, and many other weapons. All in all, it seems like the weapon damage are really low. Am I reading something wrong? For instance, do you also add Aim or Strength plus the weapon to your damage? That would seem to make the math work, but I don't see any such rule.
Regarding the Luck & Clever question, I would indeed drop them from the roll. They have other roles.
Regarding firearms, I see them as being a mixture. You'd have ancient, beautifully crafted archaic duelling wheellocks that have been heirlooms in, say, a magister's family for centuries (that might be stolen or looted and resold) and that might very well have some minor witcheries placed on them, but then there are also have crappy matchlock hand-cannons that got forged by some gutter-smith in Macellaria from melted-down scrap.
Also, I really like Moan.
BUILDINGQuote from: RoseI like the direction of your revised building rules, though I might suggest having some more of the upgrades provide bonuses to stats or be a bit more CE-ish. For example, maids, valets, and meeting rooms are okay, but they don't necessarily scream grotesquerie, transformation, addiction & appetite, and adventure (i.e., the setting's themes).
Certainly there will be more room types, many of which will be oriented toward bonuses.
The other unspoken, but implied point is also well taken. It might be more interesting to focus on different rooms to build rather than "Tiers" of the same room.
A note about the maids, valets, etc. When writing about them, I think of Downton Abbey and Gosford Park and their scheming servants, but I also think of Gormenghast Castle, and of Edward Gorey. There is a little decay and soot in the age where servants were needed for these tasks. I'm not imagining Maid!-style or Lolita Maids, but Something more dreadful and Gothic, like This (http://nouvellegamine.files.wordpress.com/2011/11/addams04.jpg).
For an example of Evil servants:
Quote from: From a Dissertation"Mervyn Peake's world of Gormenghast suffers the misdeeds of a most enigmatic and attractive protagonist: Steerpike, the kitchen boy whose ambition raises him from the underground steams to the high roofs of manipulation and contagious madness...Even though Steerpike shows an appreciation for the quality of well-made objects, such a banal excuse for murder as Barquentine's ugliness only confirms that Steerpike's rational behaviour is not flawless. Steerpike will kill the Master [of Ritual], but at a high price: " (http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/hidalgopaper.pdf)
Quote from: Rose
Instead, consider adding things like opium dens (perhaps filled with thrum, smoulder, lush, etc.), slatterns (i.e., cheap whores in addition to the more exclusive night companion/courtesan you already have), shrines to strange gods (increase loyalty to hunters of that faith?), gambling halls, small pit-arenas for bizarre bugs, serpents, rats, and other beasts to fight for the pleasure of the hunters. Stuff like that, or more bizarre.
All very good ideas that I will make a point to add. Thank you for the suggestions!
FIREARMSQuote from: Rose
Regarding guns, though, shouldn't a revolver have a far lower chance of jamming than a flintlock pistol? Perhaps my firearms lore is faulty, but the current set-up seems backwards.
You're likely more correct than I. I won't claim to know much about weapons, especially firearms. I'll review them again.
A note though- I figure they haven't gotten repeating pistols working perfectly; or else everyone would have one. The temptation would simply be too much to restore industry capable of producing the wonders.
QuoteRelated, firearms, and weapons in general, seem like they do very little damage. Moan, for instance, would have to be shot 15 times with a shortbow or pistol before dying -and technically, with his leather armor, Moan is immune to shortbows, pistols, revolvers, and many other weapons. All in all, it seems like the weapon damage are really low. Am I reading something wrong? For instance, do you also add Aim or Strength plus the weapon to your damage? That would seem to make the math work, but I don't see any such rule.
Good point; that being said-->
1. My thinking here was generally that I do want battles to take 4-8 rounds.
2. Also, With the Aim weapons, the ammunition is key in many cases. Ammunition will add an extra few damage points per hit.
I'll give the chart a look over and adjust some things to accurately represent the propellant power of firearms. It's entirely possible that I was too conservative w/r/t damage. It's also possible that I left a skewed image by only putting 2 types of ammunition up- I planned to add some more types and I will get on that.
for a knowledge check, it would be roll a D20; if the GM rolls under or equal to your knowledge, then you were able to find the flaw in the powder.
Quote from: Steerpike
Regarding firearms, I see them as being a mixture. You'd have ancient, beautifully crafted archaic duelling wheellocks that have been heirlooms in, say, a magister's family for centuries (that might be stolen or looted and resold) and that might very well have some minor witcheries placed on them, but then there are also have crappy matchlock hand-cannons that got forged by some gutter-smith in Macellaria from melted-down scrap
That is very helpful! I will use that as a guide.
Quote from: Steerpike
Also, I really like Moan.
Thank you!
Thank you again for the feedback Rose and Steerpike. The revised weapon list (Mark 3.0) is now up, along with a table that explains costing. A revised building list is also up (Mark 3.0). More buildings will be added and a few more weapons will be added, but the general framework is now set there.
We now have dueling wheellocks, exploding hand cannons in addition to flintlocks, rifles, and blunderbussi.
We now have special hex-driven weapons.
And Master-wrought weapons.
Weapons that can be bought only with the right connections, or at a reduced price with the right rooms.
If there's a direction anyone wants to take their character but I haven't provided the tools yet, please speak up.
Thumbs up on the changes and clarifications, LD. When were you thinking of starting this game?
*6 Quarries added.
*More rooms/upgrades added.
*Weapons are pretty much finalized now. I *think* I have the costing right.
*EDIT: Also added the Lady/Lord of the Flies.
I could start it soon after someone gets characters up. I think I could run this with even one player. The competitive aspect will be missing, but other than that, it should be entertaining.
Wow, massive additions. Definitely ups the ante to get a charter posted.
Couple small questions: Bordellaire? I'm not familiar with this term; how does it compare to a bordello?
Bloatfly? Do you mean gorefly, or is the former some new kind of species you're proposing?
I just added a bunch of character Flavor Texts. I think I might add two more to give enough options. Stats will be up later for the new Hunter options.
1. I added Attributes. You can take "unremarkable" and there is no effect. Originally Attributes were only going to be for the Hireable characters, but I thought that it might add some interesting options for players to choose an Attribute.
2. Races have some special tidbits under them now. (Mostly codifying the special attacks they have, but adding 2 extra points for character creation for certain races).
3. Bordellaire- Lair of the Bordello, it sounded Cadaverous-Earthesque and threatening. Also, Bordello seems to imply females, I wanted a word without those connotations since either gender could be in the Bordellaire. I suppose I could have used "Stews"... but that seems too nasty and archaic.
4. Bloatflies==Goreflies. Thank you for the correction. I've been playing too much Fallout and conflated them.
5. Added 3 more Bounties and an explanation of what the Danger scale means.
1. Finished the Location, Location, Location section.
2. Added a couple more rooms.
3. Statted up all the available Bounty Hunters for hire, from the Hagmyn Lord/Lady of the Flies...or Lady/Lord of the Flies:
[ooc]The Lord of the Flies' relatives have died, his friends have died. She killed them. The Lady of the Flies changes gender as do all of her race. But when she changes gender, her magic fires. He goes inert for 3 Rounds and then wakes to see what chaos has been wreaked. This happened again and again in an orgy of flame after He denied the Goddess of the Sea her due. He changed to her and awoke to sounds of screams, feared the conversion was wrong, then changed again, then again, then again in a horrible spiral of confusion. Now she shrieks in pain, but she can control her change. She fled to Macellaira after her crime and she is likely being hunted herself...which is why no other stable has hired her yet...but as far as you know there isn't a price on her head...[/ooc]
To the scavenger human Odd Amy,
[ooc]Odd Amy gathered pieces of dead plants when she was five, placing them around her bed, then weaving them into her sheets, then weaving them into her clothes. Then, she discovered dead insects and bedecked herself with them similarly. Later, she found pleasure only in splattering herself with viscerea of dead animals. Now that she's grown, she collects both trophies from the dead and she collects the dead themselves. She has a collection of Ghul lovers of both genders (add 300 cost to room for an oversized bed and reduce Defense by 1 due to the large amount of "guests" that she attracts).[/ooc]
The addled Lillix GHOLAM,
[ooc]I WAS DEAD. BUT NOW I AM ALIVE.
GHOLAM THE WITCH IS NOT HUMAN, YOU SAY? I SAY MORE THAN HUMAN.
WHAT OTHER HUMAN HAS MORE THAN TWO LEGS? WHAT OTHER HUMAN HAS FANGS? I HAVE TRANSCENDED HUMANITY!
Gholam the witch is actually a Lillix. Or a Human that looks like a Lillix. Gholam the Witch is what happens when an adventuring party of idiots decides that there is a hoard of treasure hidden within the Suppuration... and walks back alive. Gholam has a human torso and essentially looks like a traditional Centaur; except one with a Lillix body and with a number of arms. Gholam has little memories of her, or is it he-the Witch seems to think she's a man, past. What Gholam does know is that Gholam needs an income. Starving on the streets does not suit Gholam, and Gholam has a vague half-remembered recollection of the Guild of Bounty Hunters, so, half-starved, she sought them out in Macellaria. They directed her toward your Chapterhouse as one that might be hiring.[/ooc]
and others.
Your link reminded me of this. Rereading it all, is there any interest in running a game still? If so, how many players would you want?
Thanks for the interest!
I'd like 3 players so that people could feel the the competition.
But 2 players would probably be fine :)
I'd likely not be able to start it until later in march, but I might get some downtime at work and be able to start it sooner :)
Well, if another interested player or two chime in, I'll draft up a charterhouse.
Thanks!
I know I very quickly flaked out on the last Cadaverous Earth forum game I was part of before disappearing for months, but the pace of the game looks like it'd be a much better fit with my schedule and the style really satisfies my craving for playing managerial roles.
Ms. Saturnine is always there waiting for you, and the game has slowed down substantially for the two current players (Steerpike & False Epiphany).
That said, I'd be happy to play with you on either or both games, Superbright.
Thank you for the interest! I will review the rules over the next few weekends to reacquaint myself with the nuances and plan for something starting in mid to late March.
I made some updates.
The Hunter Rooms are still in Flux.
Please feel free to create your characters now--the only thing in flux that matters much for character creation at the moment is the hunter rooms/ rules for the charterhouse, which I am still cogitating on.
Todos:
-Write out Potions/Drugs/Shop rules.
-Write out training rules.
-Fix Hunter Room Rules; add rooms; confirm balance.
The hunter rooms are still not finalized but all the other todos are completed and I have now reviewed all the races, gear, etc., so anything is fine to make except the Stable Master and the Charterhouse itself.
Thanks for the update, LD.
If I had one comment, it's that I'm confused about how the races are balanced against one another. It seems like the races that give bonus statistics are the obvious best choice, the ghuls and mantids are mechanically identical, and the lilix just look like a colossal money-pit.
Thank you for the questions.
A Hunter may not have starting statistics higher than 5, so the 2 extra core statistic points are not as overpowering as would be presumed.
Lillix may be a moneypit to some degree, but they get to naturally attack with all their attacks each round, so they only need to focus on strength. I would see them as operating best mid-game. The question raised would be, can you give them weapons in each of their many hands, so they would have multiple weapon attacks instead of just natural attacks. My current thought is to only allow 2 weapon-based attacks in addition to the natural ones.
The rooms may need a bit more balancing and a few more rooms and upgrades may sneak in, but all the rooms are up now.
So feel free to create your stable masters and charterhouses!
At this point, I'm thinking of using Madame Zamorra (aka, the Beldame Mouldegill) as my stable master.
Quote from: Clockwork Abattoir[ic]Seated beside the cluttered escritoire is a piscine woman, with squamous skin a glistening mottle of azure and indigo. Fin-like ears sprout from an ovoid head that tapers into a ridged pair of operculum head-flaps. Vermillion-hued eyebrows flutter and pulse like external gills. Her eyes are sallow, phlegmy orbs, and her nostrils are slimy orifices. She wears a massive hoopskirt with ruffled silk dyed to match her skin and a tight corset of tooled leechskin that brazenly displays her décolletage. A large, orichalum pocketwatch hangs from her neck like a pendant, while a pair of petite stilettos peek out from the ruched hem of her dress. There is a practiced, haughty mannerism to her ichthyic features and movements, but Phrixia also notices a hidden fatigue and trepidation.[/ic]
[ooc]Although this is the first time you have seen Madame Zamorra, you have heard of her. Behind her back, she's more commonly known as Beldame Mouldegill. Zamorra is an oddity, with a circus of rumors surrounding her origins. Some claim she is a spawn of the Southern Swamps warped by an Utterance of the Beast-Gods. Others say she is a liberated mere-creature from the Lesion Sea, or is a hideous product of Macellarian fleshwork, or the cursed result of Slow Plague. Regardless of her origins, she controls a major pleasure-pier in the Indigo Ward. Although her inhuman nature makes her despised by most of Skein's xenophobic citizens, her fortunes are predicated upon her business acumen, her special blend of quarinah, asherat, rare fish oils & blue-green algae (a product called Cerulean Bliss), and her practice of harboring and caring for pregnant prostitutes from the Violet Ward (she allegedly sells the children to foreign slavers and has the post-partum prostitutes work as indentured servants until they repay the debts they accrued during their pregnancies)[/ooc]
Basically, after the incident with the Cagastric Rapture, she fled Skein before anti-miscegnationists and radical nationalists kicked her out, or worse. She resettled in the City of Bodysnatchers, and is trying her hand at bounty hunting (or more precisely, managing bounty hunters known as the Beldame's Manglers -"Man-Anglers"). Regarding those Manglers, here's the rough idea for the first two:
Barneby "Gorgonglass" Crowl: Moroi-born schizotypal witch. Disowned heir of aristocratic Crowl family, previous student at the University of Moroi, lost much of his sanity experimenting with the Medusalem. He now obsessively collects mirrors, breaks them, and then tries to re-assemble the shards. He also jars his feces and urine, afraid that cestoids will come in the night and devour his "essences". Disturbingly flat affect. Alexithymic. Generally wears a brown trench-coat, and little else, save for his cancerous constellations of tattoos.
Iderales Smirch (aka, the Mazarine Skull): Macellarian ghul gunslinger and former tomb-raider. Defected from the House of Hungry Ghosts, after the Assumption stole his memories and ambition. His skin is afflicted with stage two blanche-phage; he wields a black-iron revolver allegedly forged from a witch's cauldron, and wears man-leather armor, a dented tricorne, and his namesake blue-deathmask. He stores two coffins in his room: one for his pre-Assumption wife and son, their bodies embalmed, adorned with desiccated flowers, and bearing a single bullet-hole in each of their foreheads.
Quite evocative, imaginative and ... well mellifluous is not quite apt here, but you get the idea- imagery.
Re: Barneby
So Barneby is sort of Howard Hughesish :). What are his tattoos of?
-As he levels up and spends more time in the house, I have a good idea for a complication (probably at least 12 weeks down the line)- he's going to need a separate room for his "Essences" or else his loyalty would sink- since otherwise he may not be able to fit in his room-probably a large closet or vault under his floor. With a closet, there would be a chance that his essences may be disturbed or removed, so I'm thinking only 200 obeloi to 300 obeloi for a base closet with no additional upgrades, protections. A vault would be much more expensive (2500 obeloi?), but it would be very secure. We also may find thieves accidentally attempting to break into it from time to time, believing it contains something more universally valuable, so it would probably raise Defense by 1.
-Also, for an ongoing subscription of 20 obeloi a week, I think we can get him a mirror or two, which will raise his Loyalty by 1.
Re: Smith
Sounds good. If he wants a private crypt down the line for his relatives, that could provide a Loyalty bonus, although I have the impression that he probably prefers having them close by.
Re: Zamora
-Did you mean despised by most of Macellaria's xenophobic citizens rather than Skein's?
-How long does it take her indentureds' to repay their debts, on average? And what exact type of work are they doing? I assume they generally have positive views towards her and that they were previously working by themselves or else she would be incurring not a few companies/pimps' anger by holding onto them. Also, I suppose a question...how long would she really be caring for them- I would assume they can work until about a month before giving birth (unless some are worried about violence and want to give birth but don't want to keep the child?) and need her medical aid because it's cheaper? It would seem more that the prostitutes who come to her are those who would want to keep the children rather than to abort them or give them away? And those who may want to work their way out of prostitution now that they have a family?
Quote from: Light Dragon
Quite evocative, imaginative and ... well mellifluous is not quite apt here, but you get the idea- imagery.
Thanks, LD, I'm glad they're to your liking!
QuoteSo Barneby is sort of Howard Hughesish.
Ah, there's some similarity. However, Barneby hasn't attempted to build the world's largest ornithopter out of bloodwood... yet.
QuoteWhat are his tattoos of?
Snippets of poetry and mathematical formulae masquerading as hexes, and hexes masquerading as snippets of poetry and formulae. To read them, though, one needs a mirror, as the inked words and figures are reversed.
Quote-As he levels up and spends more time in the house, I have a good idea for a complication (probably at least 12 weeks down the line)- he's going to need a separate room for his "Essences" or else his loyalty would sink- since otherwise he may not be able to fit in his room-probably a large closet or vault under his floor. With a closet, there would be a chance that his essences may be disturbed or removed, so I'm thinking only 200 obeloi to 300 obeloi for a base closet with no additional upgrades, protections. A vault would be much more expensive (2500 obeloi?), but it would be very secure. We also may find thieves accidentally attempting to break into it from time to time, believing it contains something more universally valuable, so it would probably raise Defense by 1.
-Also, for an ongoing subscription of 20 obeloi a week, I think we can get him a mirror or two, which will raise his Loyalty by 1.
Sounds great.
QuoteRe: Smirch
Correct -he likes 'em close.
QuoteRe: Zamora
The above blurbs were taken from my Clockwork Abattoir game. Zamorra was a once-mentioned/seen NPC in Skein. I'm thinking of having her leave the Clockwork City and resettle in Macellaria for the above-stated reasons. Now, in the City of Bodysnatchers, where the Fleshmongers are well-entrenched and slavery is legal, she has abandoned her previous line of profession. She's now trying her hand at the Bounty Hunting game, as it is potentially lucrative and easier to break-into than other professions in Macellaria (e.g., the Circus, Fleshmongers, and Splicing Consortium have strong monopolies).
So rather than pimps, pregnant prostitutes, and drug-dealers, her employees now consist of bounty hunters and the charter house servants -which I was thinking currently included:
Grunt: A tall, lanky, muttering manservant. Grunt is a stitched servitor that Zamorra purchased decades ago during her first visit to Macellaria. Since then, Grunt's raiment has become more milden, but he remains her personal butler-valet.
Gran "Granny Grease" Algease Meant: A small, gibbous woman. Former chef to now-deceased magistra, Delepitore Mei-Vourne. Neither the loss of her octogenarian employer, nor her own advanced years or burgeoning dementia, have been kind to Algease. Her amber eyes hide behind cataracts and half-moon spectacles, and her once-lustrous hair is course and brittle as a scullery-maid's iron-brush. Still, the wrinkled chef can sometimes do wonders in a kitchen -at least when she remembers that arsenic is a poor substitute for parsley.
Mordecai "Lorde Salmagundi" Streeche: A former member of the Dogskull Thief-Clan who ran afoul of the Splicing Consortium after running parcels for a rogue flesh-parlor. The consortium caught Mordecai and the parlor operator, killed the latter, and then spliced his body parts into Mordecai. Consequently, he's a cruel mishmash of parts: seven- and six-fingered hands; discolored, beady eyes; bactrian lips; and a strange gait from uneven, too-many jointed limbs. After falling into destitution, he sold himself into slavery, where he was purchased by Zamorra. To her face, he is a slimy sycophant (e.g., he's dyed his hair an algae blue), but in truth is a terrible, self-interested gossip. He serves as the charterhouse's majordomo and butler.
Voermfelsch "Vormer" Hagman, former prostitute-priestess of Myx from Slimesquallor, who made coins by coupling with outsiders. For this taboo, Vormer was ostracized and cast out of the temple. He/she accepted Zamorra's employ and toils as one of the charterhouse's maids. He/she dreams of buying new eyes, and has secret graftpunk fantasies.
Lillias Solcur: Macellarian human girl, orphaned during the recent Banehulk-spred plague. Her parents were Morgatch & Gorte, costermongers of a Rag-and-Bones cartel (Slavering Torch), allied to the House of Howling Sun. Although her parents were both gutter-witches, she lacks magical aptitude. Her face and shaved scalp bear a large tattoo -an anthropomorphic sundog- that is partially concealed by funerary bonnet that matches her charcoal-grey eyes. Lillias serves alongside Vormer as a maid.
>>Snippets of poetry and mathematical formulae masquerading as hexes, and hexes masquerading as snippets of poetry and formulae. To read them, though, one needs a mirror, as the inked words and figures are reversed.
I see he didn't want anyone else reading his book easily when at close range :P.
>>So rather than pimps, pregnant prostitutes, and drug-dealers, her employees now consist of bounty hunters and the charter house servants
Great. That makes more sense to me!
The servants seem good. I'm working on brainstorming some specials as a reward for the descriptions. Some ideas...
Grunt's Quest - When laid on the frigid obsidian slab of his creation, Grunt recalled sensing his other parts be placed in another being, a servitor like himself. He wants his parts back. This quest will take you into the unknown. (3 levels of Research and then a medium difficulty Clever test to unlock the Servitor's location.
Mordecai reminds me of Thomas from Downton Abbey. I like the detail of how he dyed his hair so as to be seem appealing to his mistress. :P.
Quote from: Light DragonGrunt's Quest
Cool. I totally wrote the flavor for flavor's sake, but I'll gladly accept crunchy-rewards -particularly when they in part are so flavorful!
QuoteMordecai reminds me of Thomas from Downton Abbey.
Now that you mention it, yes, he certainly does. Very, very much so. Apart from the whole spliced body. :)
>>Cool. I totally wrote the flavor for flavor's sake,
Well, I'd like to encourage such involvement from players, so it is much appreciated :)
Here are my more developed ideas.
Special Modifiers Based on the Servants
- Eyebite plague spreads as rapid as water if not properly contained by practiced sorceries. Mordecai's unobtrusive snooping in the female bunkroom revealed the most concerning information that Lillias Solcur had not yet fully surrendered the memory of her parents. A mason jar, near-overflowing with pickling juice, contains jaundiced eyeballs of Lillias' parents, all that remains of the disease that ate them inside-out--the dread disease that preserves the one infectious portion to the last, so that its communicativeness can be preserved.
The Stable Mistress may have a standing order to retreat to Lillias' room and to hurl the jar and eyeball at intruders in the event of assault on the Charterhouse. If so, there is a chance that the disease spreads among the denizens, and there is a chance that the enemies will immediately retreat, for Eyebite plague is fatal if not remedied in its important first hours.
- Unleash Mordecai's Audacity.
If you choose to give him full reign as a spy and taskmaster over the other servants and the tradespeople who come and go from the home- add 10% to upkeep cost per week due to his alienation of many suppliers, but increase Defense by 1. Occasionally, he may give you advance warning regarding Complications, or prevent them outright.
Grunt's Quest - When laid on the frigid obsidian slab of his creation, Grunt recalled sensing his other parts be placed in another being, a servitor like himself. He wants his parts back. This quest will take you into the unknown. (3 levels of Research and then a medium difficulty Clever test to unlock the Servitor's location. After that, it remains up to the Hunter to retrieve the parts, and any associated baggage and Complications that accompany them.
Most excellent and appreciated, LD. I've started the bounty hunters' crunch, but I might hold off till Superbright or another player finalizes his/her interest (as I have some RL tasks to complete this week).