CharlesAlgun says (to Bjorg), "The power of legend, of story and song -- the power is real. And its source is in the Graal."
Era_Khar'Kov says (to Diego), "Sayz U."
Maxwell mumbles, (Hm. Starlight.)
CharlesAlgun says (to Diego), "Don't worry, I'm sure we'll find some in Avalon, if not sooner."
[7thsea] Federico puts on skates and begins singing Weber songs.
[7thsea] Bjorg says, "for all newcomers, we've been chatting IC in a pub nearby for a while now"
CharlesAlgun says (to Marquis), "Ah, I'm glad you could come."
Bjorg asks (of Charles), "So without this Graal, the powers these men have would be lost?"
DiegoValdez strums his guitar. "Perhaps Avalon might appreciate a musician ... a pity I don't speak the language."
Cadiz says (to Charles), "Speaking of cups, I don't suppose you know of the Cup of the Others that our friends talked about..."
Pyotr says (to Diego), "Charles has been teaching me.  surely you can learn too."
CharlesAlgun says (to Bjorg), "Perhaps. And worse, if the Graal fell into the hands of one with less noble desires..."
Bjorg says (to Charles), "And ... perhaps, with a twin graal for the unseelie, they could have mortals doing their cruel works for them in this manner ..."
[7thsea] Federico says, "And I have to go. Damn."
BastardJack comes out of his black mood and sighs.  "I fear my path is clear..."
CharlesAlgun asks (of Bjorg), "Imagine, the power of a nation, concenrated in one evil heart?"
Pyotr says (to cadiz), "that is exactly the evil cup they speak of"
Cadiz asks, "The Graal?"
CharlesAlgun says (to Cadiz), "We were just discussing hat."
DiegoValdez says (to Pyotr), "I know a few words ... and several songs, whose meanings escape me."
Pyotr says (to DV), "ah."
BastardJack says (to Cadiz), "We have suspicions.  But we are not certain."
[7thsea] DiegoValdez says (to Federico), "Aw."
Maxwell asks (of Federico), "Before you go, could I have a look at that inscribed dagger?"
[7thsea] Pyotr says (to fed), "bye"
Federico says, "I fear there is little to keep me here with talk of foolish ling pursuing Legion. I shall take my leave."
CharlesAlgun asks (of Bjorg), "You suggest that the unseelie might form an alliance with man, the depraved mirror of the natural one?"
Federico shows the dagger to Maxwell.
Pyotr says (to Fed), "have a good evening."
Cadiz says, "Ah, that foolish Ling.  Came to a bad end, he did."
Bjorg says (to Charles), "Well I'd hope not, but it came to mind as a possibility."
[7thsea] Federico says, "Ghogg can give you info."
Era_Khar'Kov says (to Fed), "G'nite."
[7thsea] CharlesAlgun says (to Cadiz), "In short: The Cups might be the Graal. It might be an anti-Graal. Either way, we probably don't wan the Unseelie to get it."
[7thsea] Maxwell says, "just checking that Federico was willing to show it. so I can do any rolls or whatever later."
BastardJack says (to Federico), "You have a closed heart, friend.  It will be trouble for you - mark my words."
CharlesAlgun waves to Federico.
Pyotr asks (of Jack), "what's wrong with wanting to stay away from evil?"
CharlesAlgun says (to Era), "I fear I didn't notice you enter. Let me buy you a drink..."
Cadiz asks, "What's an anti-Graal?"
Era_Khar'Kov says (to Charles), "Thank you, that sounds lovely."
BastardJack says (to Pyotr), "He has a very narrow idea of what is 'evil'."
DiegoValdez says (to Cadiz), "An evil version of the Graal, I think."
[7thsea] CharlesAlgun says, "The Graal was from he (more or less benign) Seelie, and give Avalon its magic."
Maxwell says, "hm, this business with the talon is a tricky one, but it seems we no longer have a choice."
Pyotr says (to Jack), "I confess I agree with him on this."
[7thsea] CharlesAlgun says, "This Cup might be the equivalent for the (malign) Unseelie."
Era_Khar'Kov asks, "If we put the two cups together, do they become more powerful, or less?"
DiegoValdez asks (of Maxwell), "So, you will travel to Avalon with all of us, to send the talon where it belongs?"
BastardJack asks (of Pyotr), "You think that taking the talon to Avalon is 'pursuing legion'?"
[7thsea] Maxwell says, "The anti-graal is pure speculation IC, but there's something or other about it in one of the books."
Cadiz asks, "Or do the *EXPLODE*?"
Pyotr says (to Jack), "persuing legion? no."
CharlesAlgun says, "Mmm."
Cadiz says, "Er, 'they'."
Pyotr says, "Meddling with dark and evil forces?  yes"
Maxwell says (to Diego), "That may be difficult for me."
DiegoValdez asks (of Max), "Oh? Why?"
Maxwell says, "More like fleeing Legion, I'd suggest."
[7thsea] Pyotr asks, "quick: is the ussuran orthodox church worried so much about legion?"
BastardJack asks (of Pyotr), "Then what would be doing *good* her.?  Leaving it by the roadside?"
CharlesAlgun says, "Or fighting Legion."
Pyotr says (to jack), "destroying the cursed thing."
[7thsea] Era_Khar'Kov says, "Id on't think so."
[7thsea] Pyotr says, "good"
[7thsea] DiegoValdez says, "Why should they? Matushka protects them. Also, hate Porte very much."
[7thsea] Cadiz says, "They don't like him, but I don't *think* they see him in so many things."
Maxwell asks (of Charles), "Fighting?"
[7thsea] Cadiz says, "But where they do see him, they avoid it as much as the regular church."
[7thsea] Pyotr says (to DV), "yeah, I knew that"
CharlesAlgun says (to Max), "Aye -- stopping the unseelie from getting what they want."
[7thsea] Pyotr says (to cadiz), "right"
CharlesAlgun asks, "If we tried to destroy this, who could say what could happen?"
Bjorg says, "We could be unleashing a worse power upon ourselves, for all we know."
BastardJack says, "In any case, 'tis too soon to think of the powers of this Unseelie Cup - we don't even know if one exists.  Tis just a thought I had."
[7thsea] Era_Khar'Kov exclaims, "Of course, if it involves fighting, Era's not one to back down from a good fight!"
DiegoValdez says (to Charles), "We'd have lots of Rolls after our hides, that's for sure."
Pyotr asks, "And if we fiddle with forces we can't control?"
Maxwell drops the matter, seeing little hope of convincing Charles of much.
[7thsea] CharlesAlgun says, "Doesn't everyone know that when you break a really powerful artifact, it's like melting down a nuclear reactor? :)"
[7thsea] Pyotr says, "hee hee"
Bjorg says (to Pyotr), "We don't wish to fiddle with them, we just want to make sure this bit gets into the right hands."
[7thsea] Cadiz drops the Cup of the Others.  "Oops."
BastardJack exclaims, "Fiddle with it!  trying to *destroy* it would be fiddling!"
Pyotr says (to Bjorg), "Hmm"
[7thsea] Era_Khar'Kov asks, "or is it more like the quickening when you chop off an immortal's head?"
CharlesAlgun asks (of Marquis), "You said, didn' you, that you had connections with the Explorer's Society?"
Bjorg says (to Pyotr), "We cannot stand by neutral in this anymore, we have the object.  Whatever we do with it is our decision now."
DiegoValdez asks (of Max), "What are your plans, that keep you away?"
BastardJack says, "We best take it to the court of Avalon, where they will know more about it."
[7thsea] CharlesAlgun says, "Probably, but Jack's the one who was pretending to be a Highlander..."
Pyotr says (to Bjorg), "true"
GameMaster says, "Marquis says, "Ook.""
Bjorg asks, "Hmm?  Explorer's Society?"
Pyotr says, "I suppose the best bet is to return it to someplace safe, where it will not be used."
Cadiz says, "Well, we should definitely do some research before heading off after it.  Forwarned is forearmed, and all that."
GameMaster says, "[yes, he knows some people]"
[7thsea] BastardJack says, "I've never pretended to be a Highlander.  That would be beneath me."
CharlesAlgun says, "I was wondering if it would be wise to seek someone knowledged in these things who could provide us with information."
[7thsea] CharlesAlgun says, "Whatever you say, MacEwen."
[7thsea] BastardJack says, "Hee."
Maxwell says (to Diego), "Ah, well. I have some business in Eisen to attend to immediately."
Pyotr asks (of Maxwell), "what sort of business?"
Maxwell says, "Perhaps it may be swiftly concluded, but if not, I would be able to come along."
DiegoValdez says (to Max), "Surely it could wait a while."
Era_Khar'Kov asks (of Charles), "More information is usually good - any idea where?"
BastardJack says (to Maxwell), "Agh - I've never been to Eisen."
Cadiz says, "I know of some good libraries in Castille that might have the information."
Bjorg asks, "I've been looking for the Explorer's Guild, myself ... is it true that their head office is found in Avalon?"
BastardJack says, "I'd dearly like to accompany you..."
CharlesAlgun says, "The Society might know something about the artifacts we've seen, and would likely to be happy to have the opportunity to examine them."
Cadiz says, "And the nice thing about books is that they don't talk to your enemies."
Maxwell says (to Jack), "You are welcome to come along for a visit, as is everyone else here."
BastardJack says (to Cadiz), "Surely they talk to your enemies as much as to you."
CharlesAlgun says (to Bjorg), "I don't know; I've had little contact with them."
Cadiz asks (of Maxwell), "Do you require assistance?"
[7thsea] Bjorg says, "explorer's guild, society, whatever"
[7thsea] CharlesAlgun asks, "Is it a Guild?"
DiegoValdez looks torn between Avalon and Eisen.
BastardJack bites his lip.
[7thsea] CharlesAlgun realizes he doesn't know.
[7thsea] Bjorg says, "i think i'm just mixing it up, but i'll check"
Pyotr says (to Maxwell), "I passed through Eisen on my way from Ussura.  A very sad land"
CharlesAlgun says, "It is possible you might be able to visit both Eisen and Avalon..."
CharlesAlgun says, "As we haven't yet discussed *how* we are likely to reach Avalon."
Maxwell says (to Cadiz), "Oh, hard to say what may come."
DiegoValdez says (to Charles), "We could rent passage on a ship."
[7thsea] Pyotr asks, "okay, is max deliberately telling us nothign at all about this 'business'?"
[7thsea] Pyotr asks, "or have I just missed it?"
CharlesAlgun says (to Diego), "We could -- of course, that would leave us stranded, in a way."
Maxwell says, "As of now, my only duty is to report on the business that brought me to Crieux, about a week ago now."
[7thsea] CharlesAlgun says, "I think nothing, yes."
Cadiz says (to Jack), "What I meant was that if you ask someone about something, they can tell others you were asking.  And if you ask a book, it stays quiet about it."
BastardJack says (to Charles), "Ye'll be leading the expedition to Avalon, aye?  You or I is the natural choice."
CharlesAlgun says (to Diego), "It might be of value if we had a ship of our own at the ready..."
[7thsea] Era_Khar'Kov says (to Charles), "Dangerous to admit that."
[7thsea] DiegoValdez says, "Well, give us a reason to follow him to Eisen, dammit."
CharlesAlgun says (to Jack), "I was thinking that seemed wise, but I didn't want to be the one to say it."
BastardJack says (to Cadiz), "Hush. I know.  'Twas a joke, and a poor one."
[7thsea] Pyotr says (to dv), "heh"
[7thsea] Pyotr says, "exactly what I was thinking"
[7thsea] Bjorg says, ""Explorer Society", my bad"
Cadiz says, "Oops, didn't see the twinkle ;-)"
Bjorg says (to Charles), "Well now that you've said it, I'd say that's a fine idea."
CharlesAlgun says, "It was a drea of my father's, once, to own his own ship."
Cadiz asks, "You want to get your own ship?"
Pyotr asks (of Charles), "do you ahve the funds to purchase an entire ship?"
CharlesAlgun says, "He's gone now, but it's my dream now, and I'd be honored to share it with you, my friends."
BastardJack says, "Then you don't actually *need* me, even if it would be good to have more who know the land..."
CharlesAlgun says (to Pyotr), "At the moment, no. I couldn't do it on y own."
Giovanna looks sideways at the Marquis, trying to guess what he plans to do.
Pyotr says (to Charles), "ah, just talk, then."
DiegoValdez says, "Well, I have some money, though I was hoping to send it to the Castillian war effort."
Bjorg says (to Charles), "I, for one, would be glad to help you achieve that dream.  I've been longing to get back out onto the open seas, after all of these caves and tunnels."
DiegoValdez says (to Marquis), "No offence...."
Cadiz says, "I've been thinking of purchasing some land, possibly a vinyard, near the monastary I trained in.  It could provide both funds for the place, and work for those they take in."
CharlesAlgun says (to Jack), "True. We'd be honored to have you with us, especially if our travels bring us to Inishmore, but I can understand if you have reasons to avoid the nobles of the court with whom we're likely to need ally ourselves."
BastardJack brightens up. "Ye know, I still have a cache left from our late adventure, and until now I'd had no idea waht to do with it."
Giovanna mutters something about being surprised it hasn't all gone on wine and women.
CharlesAlgun says, "We have a small boat, as most of you know -- the funeral barge? I had i appraised, as I imagined we have little use for it as it is..."
BastardJack says, "Having no use for lands, and not being able to eat enough to make a dent in it..."
Pyotr asks (of Charles), "where did you all get a barge?"
Era_Khar'Kov says, "I'm sending some back home to my family.  They can hire more retainers to defend their borders."
CharlesAlgun says, "It appears to be worth abou 4500 guilders, mostly historical value. I have 500 guilders of my own I wish to spend for it -- not much, it's true, but I sent ost of my money home to my faily..."
Pyotr falls out of his chair.
[7thsea] Cadiz asks, "How much did we each get, again?"
CharlesAlgun says (to Pyotr), "Ah, that is a long story -- we can share it once we've important business out of the way."
[7thsea] CharlesAlgun says, "1500"
Pyotr says (to Charles), "I had no idea ou were so wealthy"
[7thsea] Cadiz asks, "How much is a ship?"
BastardJack says, "But a ship - I'm a poor sailor, I found the last time I was at sea.  But it may be a way to travel more widely."
Pyotr gets back up.
CharlesAlgun says (to Pyotr), "Well, the barge certainly isn't mine alone."
Pyotr says, "Indeed."
Bjorg says, "I'm rather sick of having so many of these vile guilders attached to my name.  It would be a welcome relief to get rid of them, in exchange for a sail to guide across the seas."
[7thsea] Pyotr asks, "Why have i been buying all the ale, then?"
CharlesAlgun asks (of Jack), "Indeed. Who knows where we might need to ravel after we've finished wih this claw?"
[7thsea] Bjorg says, "hee"
[7thsea] BastardJack says, "CAuse we're cheap."
[7thsea] Pyotr says, "bastards"
[7thsea] Bjorg says, "hey, i bought some"
BastardJack says (to Charles), "Anywhere in the world, my friend."
[7thsea] Bjorg says, "plus, i think we were putting it all on the Marquis' tab"
[7thsea] Pyotr says, "making the poor, homeless guy with nothing to his name but the shirt on his back buy the beer"
[7thsea] Pyotr says, "oh, that's fine, then"
GameMaster says, "gotta go"
GameMaster has disconnected.
GameMaster exits stage left.
CharlesAlgun says (to Marquis), "A--"
[7thsea] CharlesAlgun says, "Bother."
[7thsea] Pyotr says, "heh"
[7thsea] CharlesAlgun was about to hit him up for money.
Bjorg asks (of Charles), "I ask only one thing, in return for helping you fulfill your dream.  Could you assist me with mine, after this talon business is over?"
[7thsea] Pyotr says, "well, pretend you suceeded. :)"
CharlesAlgun asks (of Bjorg), "I would be honored. What is that drea?"
[7thsea] CharlesAlgun asks, "Right. 500G from the Marquis, to 1000G?"
BastardJack reaches into the pack he stowed beneath the table and, after a moment, pulls up a large sack, well wrapped in cloth to stop it from jingling.
[7thsea] Pyotr says, "right"
Bjorg says (to Charles), "Well not so much a dream, as a blood oath.  There is something I need to find, and I know not where I'll need to sail to get to it as of yet."
[7thsea] CharlesAlgun says, "Er, s/to/or/"
[7thsea] Pyotr asks, "what's a boat cost?"
[7thsea] Era_Khar'Kov says, "Regardless of who goes where, I'm more interested in exploring and fighting than intrigue."
[7thsea] BastardJack asks, "Er, how much would 1500G weigh to carry around all the time?"
[7thsea] Maxwell says, "Minimum 6000, no limit."
[7thsea] Pyotr says (to jack), "quite a lot"
[7thsea] CharlesAlgun says (to Pyotr), "Depending on how good a one we get, 3000 * N."
[7thsea] DiegoValdez says, "I like fighting and intrigue."
[7thsea] Pyotr says, "wow"
Cadiz shakes his head.
[7thsea] BastardJack asks, "Hmm.  Where the hell does Jack keep his, then?"
[7thsea] CharlesAlgun says, "I was hoping for 9000, if we could raise it."
Cadiz says, "A boat seems such a risky investment."
[7thsea] DiegoValdez says, "Guilders are all paper money, actually."
[7thsea] BastardJack asks, "Also, was it all in coin, or coin and treasure?"
[7thsea] BastardJack says, "Oh, yeah.  Right."
Cadiz says, "One misplaced reef, and it's gone."
[7thsea] Pyotr says, "I'm up for fighting, but it sounds like that's in avalon, which I'm not sure I can talk pyotr into going along with"
[7thsea] Pyotr asks (of max), "fighting in eisen?"
CharlesAlgun says (to Bjorg), "You have my word, then."
Bjorg says (to Cadiz), "Which is why a navigator must be at his finest at all times, of course."
[7thsea] Pyotr says, "or more diplomacy"
[7thsea] Pyotr asks, "?"
[7thsea] Maxwell says, "Ask IC."
[7thsea] Cadiz says, "OOC, you can read a bit of Max's stuff from a transcript (one of the later aboveg ones; forget which)."
[7thsea] DiegoValdez says, "Intrigue and fighting sounds like Eisen, and as yet Max hasn't given Diego any reason to want to go to Eisen."
CharlesAlgun says, "Mmm. We shall perhaps have to hire a navigator."
BastardJack says (to Cadiz), "Where's yer sense of adventure?  Ye won't find a poorer sailor than I, and I'm in for the ship."
[7thsea] Pyotr says (to max), "IC, I did ask what this was for, and you didn't answer"
CharlesAlgun says, "Unless someone here knows how."
Cadiz says, "Still, if one must scrimp together the funds for a single boat..."
[7thsea] Maxwell says, "well, no one mentioned fighting though."
[7thsea] Pyotr says, "DV did, indirectly"
CharlesAlgun says (to Jack), "How... er..."
Cadiz says, "Were it me, I would spend the money first on hiring one, or offering to sail someone else's."
[7thsea] Maxwell says, "and I'm not about to connect my business to fighting directly, IC."
CharlesAlgun asks (of Jack), "For the figuring, how shall I consider your share?"
[7thsea] Pyotr says, "right"
Bjorg says (to Charles), "I've started picking up some navigation know-how, and could help ..."
CharlesAlgun says (to Bjorg), "Ah, most excellent."
[7thsea] DiegoValdez asks, "No fighting? In *Eisen*??"
Cadiz says, "Then you have something left after you're attacked."
CharlesAlgun says, "You do look the part of a notorious ship's master."
Bjorg says (to Charles), "Although I'm hardly a master, so if we need hire another my pride won't be hurt."
BastardJack says (to Charles), "All of it.  Er, 1500, around, minus what I've taken out for day to day living since."
[7thsea] Pyotr doesn't really want to go back to Eisen anyway.  too desolate
[7thsea] Giovanna says, "I don't wanna fight.  I want to sneak around poisoning people."
[7thsea] DiegoValdez says, "Come on. The words are synonymous."
[7thsea] Pyotr says, "also, too near ussura"
Era_Khar'Kov says, "I can't sail for anything.  Ussura is land locked, except for the ice."
[7thsea] Maxwell says, "Of course there will be fighting in Eisen."
CharlesAlgun says (to Jack), "Excellent."
[7thsea] Pyotr says (to era), "um"
[7thsea] Pyotr says (to era), "I think it has ports on it's north and south coasts"
[7thsea] Pyotr says (to max), "hmm"
DiegoValdez asks (of Max), "Well, I don't suppose we could count on a donation from you?"
BastardJack says, "Though that will leave me with nothing, so I expect to be considered in the provisioning budget."
Maxwell says, "Well, I'm not as rich as you've all become from your previous adventure."
[7thsea] Era_Khar'Kov says (to Pyotr), "?? Russia's goal for ages was to aquire a warm-water port.  I guess I got them mixed up."
[7thsea] CharlesAlgun says, "OK, with 4500 from the trade-in, 500 from me, 1000 each from Bjorg and the Marquis, and 1500 from Jack, we're only 500 short."
[7thsea] DiegoValdez says (to Era), "and the Mirror, which is dead-calm."
Bjorg grins, and hands Jack another ale.  "Of course, and have some more provisions while you think it over!"
Maxwell says, "And I'm not sure I can commit to a voyage."
CharlesAlgun says, "That's nearly enough for a fine ship already... a hundred foot, if I gauge well."
BastardJack grins and raises his mug to Bjorg.
[7thsea] Bjorg asks, "who says i only have 1000?"
DiegoValdez says (to Charles), "Oh, count me in for perhaps 1000...."
[7thsea] CharlesAlgun asks (of Bjorg), "Isn't that what you offered to contribute before?"
[7thsea] Bjorg says, "my broadsword didn't cost that much :)"
[7thsea] Pyotr says (to bjorg), "better buy 2"
CharlesAlgun says (to Diego), "Ah, excellent, excellent..."
[7thsea] CharlesAlgun says, "Woo, we're up to a surplus, now."
[7thsea] Bjorg says, "well i can probably add a couple hundred more ... i guess not a full 500 though"
[7thsea] Pyotr says (to charles), "now you don't have to steal from the marquis when he's drunk, like now"
DiegoValdez says (to Max), "And you have this business in Eisen ... hm, you never told us what it was...."
[7thsea] Bjorg says, "pretty close though, so good enough"
[7thsea] CharlesAlgun calls his own 500 a 600, wishing he could contribute more, but he already sent ost of his money away.
[7thsea] BastardJack says, "Er, remember I said 'less what I took out for day-to-day'?  I've been partying a lot. :-) So better drop my 1500 by a tad."
[7thsea] Bjorg says, "heh"
Maxwell says (to Diego), "As I said, I need to report on the trade arrangements I was discussing in Crieux."
[7thsea] BastardJack has no idea haw far a Guilder stretches.
[7thsea] CharlesAlgun asks, "OK, making the Marquis' paying 500, mine 600, and Jack's 1400?"
[7thsea] CharlesAlgun says, "Or I can make Jack 1000, and the Marquis 900."
[7thsea] Bjorg checks the price list again
[7thsea] Cadiz says, "I'm still not convinced buying a boat is the best idea.  But, then, I haven't contributed anything, so."
[7thsea] Pyotr says (to cadiz), "they wanna be pirates"
DiegoValdez asks (of Max), "(worriedly) Not an arms deal with Montaigne?"
[7thsea] Pyotr says, "let them go"
[7thsea] CharlesAlgun doesn't want money from anyone who doesn't want to contribute.
[7thsea] BastardJack says, "Oh, I don't wanna keep a whole 500.  I don't think."
[7thsea] CharlesAlgun says, "Well, except the Marquis, perhaps :)"
Cadiz asks (of Charles), "What would you do with a ship, were you to have one?  Are you interested in becoming a merchant?"
[7thsea] Bjorg says, "make mine 1200, that should be about right"
[7thsea] CharlesAlgun says, "Entirely voluntary, no coersion."
CharlesAlgun says (to Cadiz), "Aye, and an adventurer, perhaps..."
[7thsea] Bjorg says, "leaving me with spending money and things"
CharlesAlgun says, "My father was a sailor, you see, and the sea is in y blood."
CharlesAlgun says, "And... well..."
Maxwell says (to Diego), "Hm, well. I believe there is an arms trade, yes."
[7thsea] Bjorg says, "not that i like having these filthy guilders, ofc. :)"
Cadiz says, "But surely your father sailed with some merchant, or with the navy."
Maxwell asks (of Diego), "I hope you won't take it personally?"
[7thsea] BastardJack asks, "Is there a price list in the baak?"
CharlesAlgun says (to Cadiz), "He did serve aboard another's ship, and he died aboard another's ship."
[7thsea] Pyotr says, "I'm looking"
Cadiz says, "Sailing on the sea and owning the boat that takes you there are two different things."
DiegoValdez bites his lip. "Well, no offence taken, really ........"
Bjorg says (to Cadiz), "Aye, and the latter is far more satisfying I'm sure."
Bjorg grins.
CharlesAlgun grins, as well.
DiegoValdez asks (of Maxwell), "I don't suppose a better deal could be made with Castille?"
[7thsea] Maxwell says, "for just buying plain stuff, see pp. 166-167"
CharlesAlgun says, "And there are things you can do with your own ship tha you can't do with another's."
Cadiz asks, "So you intend to recoup your investment by finding treasure?"
[7thsea] Bjorg was looking at p. 24-25
BastardJack asks, "Remember, we'll need to hire a crew.  Will there be enough?"
Era_Khar'Kov asks (of Max), "What kind of arms?"
[7thsea] Pyotr says (to bj), "um"
[7thsea] DiegoValdez says, "the price list is in different places, depending on first/second printing"
CharlesAlgun nods, "Aye, that's one goal.
[7thsea] Pyotr asks, "24-25 in th PG?"
[7thsea] Bjorg says, "in the one i have, yeah"
[7thsea] CharlesAlgun says, "I think the cost of the crew is part of the maintenance cost."
[7thsea] Pyotr says, "cause in my book that's just 2 pages of drawing. :)"
[7thsea] DiegoValdez says (to Bjorg), "Must be first printing."
[7thsea] BastardJack says, "24-25 in 1st"
[7thsea] Bjorg says, "wah, i got the old junky one? :)"
[7thsea] CharlesAlgun says, "I.e. the first year (half year?) of their pay is in the cost of the ship, and the rest of the pay is in the annaul fees."
[7thsea] Bjorg says, "oh wait, i got mine cheap though.  thanks Jack :)"
DiegoValdez asks (of Maxwell), "I don't suppose a better deal could be made with Castille?"
CharlesAlgun asks, "Another is recovering honor, like the... what was it you sought, Bjorg?"
[7thsea] BastardJack says, "Yeah, they didn't have any 2nd printing at that shop.  I checked when I took it back."
Bjorg says, "A family treasure, which was sold by a vile traitorous Vendel."
[7thsea] Pyotr says, "mm, axe not on list"
Bjorg spits.
Maxwell says (to Diego), "Perhaps. It's farther to ship, of course, and the Montaigne navy may not like our passage around their shores once they hear of it."
DiegoValdez exclaims (at Maxwell), "Nonsense! Altamira is just across the river from Sieger!"
Maxwell says (to Era), "I don't believe I know the details... swords, bows, and the like."
[7thsea] BastardJack says, "Also, Banquet: 5+ guilders.  That means 50 guilders is 10 banquets."
CharlesAlgun nods, "If the ship was owned by another, could we take it to restore family honor at need, or would we be stuck doing the bidding of its owner?"
Bjorg says, "And a powerful treasure too, although my father died before he would explain it to me."
[7thsea] BastardJack says, "So say I've spent that much, and I'm keeping 50 on me.  The other 1400 goes to the ship."
[7thsea] Maxwell says, "oh, yeah"
[7thsea] DiegoValdez says, "Oh, a note: Diego's spent some cash on a banquet for all of us."
[7thsea] Pyotr says (to DV), "yay"
[7thsea] CharlesAlgun says, "Wow, lots of cash from everyone..."
[7thsea] Cadiz says, "10 *banquets*?  That's like *hosting* the party."
[7thsea] Pyotr tried not to be too embarassing, but failed.
Maxwell says (to Diego), "Ah, Sieger. More difficulties shipping, actually..."
[7thsea] CharlesAlgun says (to Cadiz), "Or like several smaller parties."
DiegoValdez says (to Maxwell), "I don't understand."
[7thsea] BastardJack says (to Cadiz), "Yes."
[7thsea] BastardJack says, "I'm assuming there was some time between the 1st and 2nd adventures."
[7thsea] BastardJack says, "Where I would have partied really, really hard.  Also, bought lots of fine clothes and stuff."
DiegoValdez says (to Maxwell), "Listen, if I could convince you or your lord to sell these arms to Castille instead...."
[7thsea] CharlesAlgun says, "So far, it looks like we have about 9700 guilders towards this 9000G ship."
[7thsea] CharlesAlgun says (to Jack), "About a month."
[7thsea] Bjorg says (to charles), "nothing wrong with having an operating budget :)"
DiegoValdez looks around at the other Castillians (or half-Castillians) in appeal.
[7thsea] BastardJack says, "Right.  So 10 banquets is positively sedate. :-)"
[7thsea] Pyotr asks (of charles), "yearly expenses?"
Maxwell says (to Diego), "Then come with me and plead your case, certainly."
[7thsea] Cadiz hasn't been paying attention to that conversation.  What's going on wrt maxwell?
CharlesAlgun says, "I was just adding the figures..."
[7thsea] Maxwell says (to Diego), "You type too fast, I can't answer everything at this rate."
[7thsea] Bjorg says, "diego is trying desperately to get arms for the castille army"
[7thsea] BastardJack says, "He's going back to Eisen to report on trade deals he's made."
CharlesAlgun says, "It appears that with everyone working together, we have more than enough money to purchase a fine ship..."
[7thsea] BastardJack says, "Including an arms deal with Montaigne, which Diego's trying to talk him out of."
CharlesAlgun says, "And in fact, I have an idea for the surplus which might net us an imediate monetary return on our investment."
Pyotr says (to Charles), "If you have any room for Men-At-Arms, I'd be glad to sail with you."
Pyotr says (to Charles), "it's long been my goal to see more of the world"
CharlesAlgun says (to Pyotr), "Excellent, I'm certain we'll be glad to have you."
BastardJack exclaims (at Pyotr), "A noble goal!"
Bjorg hears talk of investments and returns, and tries not to think of Vendel treachery.
Pyotr says (to jack), "Especially since i can't go home. :("
CharlesAlgun says, "My idea is to take cargo on our first voyage."
[7thsea] Era_Khar'Kov asks, "Glassess cost as much as a banquet - is poor vision a 'hubris'?"
DiegoValdez notes that everyone is busy discussing the ship, weighs for a moment his loyalty to his country against his loyalty to his friends.
BastardJack says, "Indeed? You have my sympathy - I cannot either."
[7thsea] Maxwell says, "dang, question for GM."
Cadiz turns to Diego and Maxwell's conversation.
CharlesAlgun says, "I imagine there would be Montaigne merchants who need their goods delivered to Avalon."
BastardJack says, "Though it seems I may be about to..."
Cadiz asks (of Maxwell), "Wait--you're an arms runner?"
Pyotr says (to Jack), "that's what it sounded like.  Damned nobles"
CharlesAlgun says, "And with the remaining money, we could fill the ship's hold, selling off the goods when we arrive."
BastardJack laughs. "Again, my thoughts exactly!"
CharlesAlgun asks, "What do you fellows think?"
[7thsea] Pyotr says, "wait, charles has Merchant? ;)"
Maxwell says (to Cadiz), "Well, I arrange trades. And what Eisen has to sell is fairly limited to foodstuffs and arms."
Bjorg says (to Charles), "Ah, excellent idea.  Perhaps the Marquis would know someone we could contact."
DiegoValdez says (to Cadiz), "(in relief) Senor, if you could help me, I think Castille needs a diplomatic mission to Eisen."
[7thsea] Pyotr says, "if he doesn't, we're gonna get fleeced. :)"
[7thsea] CharlesAlgun says, "Eolo does."
[7thsea] Pyotr says, "ah, fine"
[7thsea] CharlesAlgun says, "Vodacce haggling style."
[7thsea] BastardJack asks, "Do we *trust* him...?"
[7thsea] Bjorg asks, "but is Eolo with us, going to Avalon?"
[7thsea] Pyotr says, "hope he decides to come with"
[7thsea] BastardJack says, "He lost a point of rep, you know..."
[7thsea] CharlesAlgun says (to Jack), "Well. More than we trust other people, I imagine."
[7thsea] Giovanna says, "he was talking earlier about going to Eisen.  But I don't know."
[7thsea] Maxwell says, "I believe Eolo intends to go to Eisen."
[7thsea] CharlesAlgun says, "Hmm."
DiegoValdez says (to Maxwell), "Senor, with a learned Church scholar to guide the farmers, Eisen should be back on her feet in no time."
[7thsea] BastardJack says, "Oh, also, Jack has Merchant."
Cadiz says, "I'm afraid I'm not a very good diplomat.  I need my own diplomatic mission to Federico."
[7thsea] Pyotr says (to Jack), "so he bargains Mafiastyle"
[7thsea] CharlesAlgun asks (of Jack), "Almost forgot?"
[7thsea] Pyotr says (to Jack), "woo"
Cadiz says, "But perhaps Federico himself would go to argue Castille's case."
[7thsea] BastardJack says, "It's only Tailor, though."
Pyotr laughs.
[7thsea] Pyotr says, "okay, we're shipping clothes to Avalon"
[7thsea] Pyotr :)
[7thsea] CharlesAlgun says, "Hee."
[7thsea] CharlesAlgun asks, "You have the haggling sort of skill, right?"
[7thsea] BastardJack says, "No.  That's an Advanced, I think."
Cadiz says, "Since he seems unlikely to wish to pursue the urgings of a magical talisman."
[7thsea] Bjorg says, "fine Montaigne wigs and outfits, for the children of Avalon to wear on halloween"
Maxwell asks (of Cadiz), "Ah yes, the priest left before you arrived. Did you say you had some marvelous excuse to allay his suspicions?"
[7thsea] Pyotr asks, "all the ladies at court want the finest Montaignaise styles, right?"
[7thsea] BastardJack exclaims, "Yay!"
[7thsea] Maxwell asks, "or was that OOC as of yet?"
[7thsea] BastardJack says, "That's true, actually."
[7thsea] CharlesAlgun says, "Well, you can roll unskilled. Our GM is nice about that."
[7thsea] Pyotr says, "true"
Cadiz says, "I decided silence was a better story than a fiction."
Bjorg exclaims (at Cadiz), "So you really have this power, to turn into an animal?  Fascinating!"
Cadiz sighs.
DiegoValdez says (to Bjorg), "Power? I thought it was another one of this Roll's accursed spells...."
[7thsea] Pyotr says, "man, he's not admitting the one magic pyotr would approve of. :)"
[7thsea] DiegoValdez sticks head in sand.
[7thsea] CharlesAlgun asks, "How much Montaigne finery can we get for 1200 G?"
[7thsea] Pyotr says, "a lot"
[7thsea] CharlesAlgun says, "More importantly, how much can we turn around and sell it for? :)"
[7thsea] Pyotr says, "dress, fancy, 5g+"
Maxwell says (to Cadiz), "I admit you were the second last of our group I would have suspected of sorcery..."
Maxwell trails off, wondering if he's offending the monk.
[7thsea] CharlesAlgun says, "Mmm, 240 dresses."
[7thsea] Pyotr says, "gown, exotic, 7g+"
[7thsea] CharlesAlgun says, "Giovanna won't need Cadiz to help her find clothing."
[7thsea] Pyotr says, "coat, gentleman's, 5g+"
[7thsea] Pyotr says, "etc"
[7thsea] CharlesAlgun says, "Well, actually, that's retail."
Cadiz says (to Bjorg), "Please keep your voice down--I'm afraid the Inquisition has people everywhere.  While the church has no official stance on Ussuran magic, they don't understand it, and what they don't understand they fear.  Should they suspect me of posessing it, they would watch me that much more closely, and would surely find some excuse to imprison me if they felt me a threat."
[7thsea] CharlesAlgun says, "We're getting the wholesale. I imagine the book doesn't ention that."
[7thsea] Maxwell says, "yay, by the time it gets to Avalon it'll be exotic."
DiegoValdez says, "Nonsense. Brother Cadiz was obviously the victim of this Roll's treacherous transformations, just like Senor Ferenc."
Bjorg says (to Cadiz), "My deepest apologies, senor.  I let my enthusiasm get in the way of my sense."
[7thsea] Pyotr says, "hee"
Giovanna smiles brightly at Diego
DiegoValdez asks (of Cadiz), "What?"
[7thsea] Pyotr says, "the most expensive thing (clothes) on the lit is the 7g+ gown"
Giovanna says (to DiegoValdez), "Nothing important, I'm sure."
Cadiz asks (of Diego), "What what?"
BastardJack says, "We have a lot of sorcery in such a small group.  A sign of Fate, if I believed in such things..."
Giovanna pours some wine.
DiegoValdez says (to Cadiz), "You were saying something about Ussuran sorcery."
Pyotr says (to Jack), "or a sign of something els,e but I'll not say it."
Maxwell says, "Fate? I fear what sort of fate sorcery might bring."
[7thsea] BastardJack asks, "Hmm.  We'll want somebody with Accounting, right?"
DiegoValdez says (to Jack), "I thought there was just, er, you and Senora Era."
[7thsea] CharlesAlgun says, "So nice Montaigne dresses worth 6G, bought for 4G wholesale, sold for 8G in Avalon as exotic..."
Pyotr mutters, "How did I ever get involved with these heathens?"
Cadiz says (to Diego), "Yes--I'm saying that if the Inquisition believed me to posess it, they would surely make life difficult for me."
[7thsea] Pyotr says, "hee hee"
Maxwell asks (of Diego), "Senora Era?"
[7thsea] CharlesAlgun says, "That's what I call doubling our money :)"
[7thsea] Pyotr says, "love that 100% markup"
DiegoValdez says (to Cadiz), "Ah. Of course."
BastardJack exclaims, "And those of us without such knacks are skeptics - what irony!"
[7thsea] Pyotr says, "wish i had some capital to invest, at that rate."
BastardJack says (to Diego), "Even two out of a dozen is a lot."
[7thsea] DiegoValdez says, "Okay, um, I find the word "Senorita" just too clumsy..."
[7thsea] Pyotr says, "ah, well, I shall sve my wages"
[7thsea] Maxwell says, "or wait, I guess I heard the story."
[7thsea] Pyotr asks, "you are paying wages, right?"
Bjorg says (to Jack), "Aye, and three out of a dozen is astronomical."
DiegoValdez says (to Jack), "Ah"
Bjorg says, "I don't think it's been any secret that I have such a gift."
[7thsea] CharlesAlgun says, "I'm not sure how the money will work out -- there are, theoretically, 21 shares based on ownership..."
[7thsea] Cadiz says, "I want to know why Bjorg is fine with a mercantile expedition ;-)"
[7thsea] Pyotr says, "heh"
[7thsea] Bjorg says (to cadiz), "damn, shhh :)"
[7thsea] CharlesAlgun says, "And I'm guessing there should be a few more shares added based on role -- an exrta two shares for Captain, an extra two shares for Master..."
BastardJack grins at Bjorg. "Just think if there were six out of the dozen!  But that would be unthinkable."
[7thsea] DiegoValdez says, "He hopes to go a-pirating against the Vendel, of course."
[7thsea] Bjorg says, "stealing business from the Vendel sounds fine to me"
[7thsea] BastardJack says, "Because it's not sanctioend by the Vandel, so we - yeah."
[7thsea] Cadiz says, "There we go."
Maxwell says (to Bjorg), "Ha, I find it hard to imagine someone without such 'abilities' to be so proud of the Vestenmannavnjar."
[7thsea] Bjorg says, "as long as i get to sing songs of Vesten heros, and use my weather sorcery on the way"
[7thsea] CharlesAlgun asks, "And I'm thinking we'd keep a chunk of money in the ship's coffers for the next trip. Sounds about right?"
[7thsea] CharlesAlgun asks, "Am I missing any important shares?"
[7thsea] Pyotr asks (of charles), "gonna pay the crew?"
DiegoValdez shakes his head, and decides not to think about who might or might not be sorcerous in his circle of friends.
[7thsea] Pyotr asks, "or did I miss that?"
[7thsea] BastardJack says, "Anyway - should I'm gonna change my mind about my Finesse advance (damn) and take some Merchant skills."
[7thsea] Cadiz asks, "What's diego's take on sorcery?"
Pyotr says (to DV), "good idea."
[7thsea] CharlesAlgun says (to Pyotr), "I'm not sure, but I *think* their pay is part of ship maintenance."
Bjorg says (to Maxwell), "There are many without my gift who recognize our nation for the true greatness that it is.  It's a pity that so many, even those WITH these gifts, have chosen to throw away their own true identity."
[7thsea] CharlesAlgun says, "So they'd only have to be paid either once or twice a year."
[7thsea] DiegoValdez says (to Cadiz), "Lip service to whatever the church says."
[7thsea] DiegoValdez says (to Cadiz), "Otherwise, neutral."
[7thsea] Pyotr says, "ah ha"
[7thsea] BastardJack says, "There's Accounting/Appraising/Haggling.  Which do I want."
[7thsea] Cadiz nods.
[7thsea] Pyotr says (to Jack), "haggling, for this"
Bjorg says (to Maxwell), "And trust me when I say that even those who have the same power as I, can choose to be traitors when offered enough gold."
[7thsea] Pyotr asks, "but are you sure you want to throw a trait raise?"
[7thsea] CharlesAlgun says (to Jack), "I'd do Haggling."
[7thsea] BastardJack says, "Yep."
DiegoValdez says, "Speaking of gold...."
[7thsea] BastardJack says, "I think Accounting, too."
CharlesAlgun looks up from his figuring.
[7thsea] Pyotr says, "I mean, the most you could get is a 1, which isn't that big a help versus a default trait roll"
Maxwell says (to Bjorg), "One certainly wouldn't need sorcery to live the simple noble life of his ancestors."
[7thsea] CharlesAlgun asks, "So... doing a job like Captain or Ship's Master -- what would you say that's equivalent to, in cash contribution?"
DiegoValdez says (to Charles), "I may have to reduce my share, by perhaps 250 ... I may have need of the added money in Eisen."
[7thsea] BastardJack says, "What do you mean?  I can get more than a 1."
[7thsea] Pyotr says, "You can only take a knack one rack per story, I thought"
[7thsea] BastardJack says, "Also, I have 2 XP left, and I wanted to spend 3 to raise my Background before getting to Avalon. :-)"
[7thsea] Pyotr says, "lemme check"
[7thsea] BastardJack asks, "Really?"
[7thsea] Maxwell says, "yup, 1 per act"
[7thsea] CharlesAlgun is thinking that 200G = 1 share in the boat.
[7thsea] Pyotr says, "one rank per story"
[7thsea] Pyotr says, "p 191"
[7thsea] CharlesAlgun asks, "So how many bonus shares should Bjorg and I get -- or Pyotr, for working at ars, or anyone else who has a useful skill to fill a job onboard?"
[7thsea] Cadiz says, "What if you shoot for a total cost of 10,000?  Nice round figure, and easy to calculate percentages."
[7thsea] Pyotr asks, "ars?"
[7thsea] BastardJack says, "Well, then - I'll take Haggling and Accounting (cause I think you may need the knack for Accounting) and save the rest for the trait raise next game."
[7thsea] Maxwell says, "Ships can only be built for 3000N."
[7thsea] CharlesAlgun realizes he forgot to add Eolo.
[7thsea] Pyotr says (to Jack), "sounds good"
[7thsea] Cadiz says, "9000 for the ship, 1000 for stuff."
[7thsea] CharlesAlgun says (to Maxwell), "Right, but we -- what Cadiz said."
[7thsea] Cadiz asks, "N?"
[7thsea] Bjorg asks (of charles), "is eolo parting with his money?"
[7thsea] Alex says (to Cadiz), "Awwwk! Word on the street is that N is part of 'no'. So which part of 'no' don't you understand."
DiegoValdez says (to Maxwell), "In any case, take me to your leader."
[7thsea] Maxwell says, "oh, I see."
CharlesAlgun says (to Cadiz), "But the thing is, I'm adding in doing work on board."
[7thsea] CharlesAlgun says, "E.g. Ship's Master should get paid a little extra, etc."
[7thsea] Bjorg says, "hmm ... won't complain there :)"
Maxwell asks (of Diego), "Ah, good. So you and Eolo will join me, perhaps Federico -- who else?"
[7thsea] Bjorg says, "that'll go to my esploding-wolf-sword fund"
[7thsea] Pyotr says, "mmm. give workers an extra half share, I'd say"
[7thsea] CharlesAlgun says (to Bjorg), "He said he would, but since we seem to have enough anyway, I'll probably suggest he not bother."
[7thsea] BastardJack says, "Speaking of work on board, I guess I'll be (reluctantly) keeping the books, if I've got merchant.  Plus I can be master of the sails, or whatever the term is."
[7thsea] DiegoValdez says (to Charles), "Wait, you had 9700? Diego is withdrawing 200...."
Cadiz says (to Charles), "Count that as wages, perhaps, and figure it against expenses."
[7thsea] CharlesAlgun says (to Diego), "OK."
[7thsea] BastardJack says, "Bring that up IC, BTW.  (Keeping the books.)"
Cadiz says, "Or deduct it from earnings."
[7thsea] DiegoValdez says (to Jack), "I did."
CharlesAlgun says (to Cadiz), "Mmm..."
Pyotr says (to Maxwell), "I wish you luck, but that is too near ussura for my taste."
DiegoValdez says (to Maxwell), "Charles, of course, seems to be head of the Avalon expedition...."
[7thsea] CharlesAlgun says, "OK, I want to verify:"
[7thsea] Cadiz says, "I have Merchant/Calligrapher, but I don't think that's what you mean."
[7thsea] BastardJack says, "I mean, give me an opening to talk about it now..."
[7thsea] CharlesAlgun says, "Me, 600. Bjorg, 1200. Jack, 1400. Marquis, 1000. Diego, 800. Maybe Eolo, 500."
[7thsea] Cadiz says, "There's accounting stuff under Servant; I have Servant but not the accounting.  I could easily spend 2 XP to get it, though, if you really needed someone to take care of the books."
Maxwell asks (of Pyotr), "What? You have no wish to return to your homeland, I take it?"
Pyotr says, "I would dearly love to return."
Pyotr says, "However, I would dislike the sharp pointy things in my ribs afterwards."
[7thsea] BastardJack says, "Ok.  So me and you can fight for it."
[7thsea] DiegoValdez says (to Jack), "Recap: ..Charles I may have to reduce my share, by perhaps 250 ... I may have need of the added money in Eisen."
Bjorg laughs.
CharlesAlgun makes more figures in his journal... "Arr, the math I learned never covered keeping track of money..."
CharlesAlgun says, "I'm better off with a triangle than a round coin, for numbers."
Pyotr says (to Bjorg), "This isn't a laughing matter."
[7thsea] Cadiz says, "Oh, yeah, I do have Math."
[7thsea] Cadiz asks, "Anyone else have Servant?"
BastardJack squints. "Hmm - that's not something we want to mess up."
[7thsea] CharlesAlgun asks (of Diego), "I had 1000, dropped it to 800. Drop it more?"
[7thsea] CharlesAlgun says (to Cadiz), "I have math, at rank 1."
BastardJack asks, "Does anyone here have skill with money?"
[7thsea] CharlesAlgun says, "But Jack wanted it brought up IC, so I did."
[7thsea] BastardJack says (to Diego), "That's the kind of opening I was looking for."
[7thsea] CharlesAlgun says, "Of course, I don't have accounting."
[7thsea] DiegoValdez says (to Charles), "800 is good."
[7thsea] Cadiz says, "'Accounting' is "track the income and expenditures of a large household or business"."
[7thsea] Maxwell says, "well, sounds like they're starting a business."
[7thsea] CharlesAlgun says, "OK. If we add Eolo, and he'll probably want in, if there's money in it, then that makes an even 10000."
[7thsea] Cadiz says, "Er, I guess I don't know if 'large' also modifies 'business'."
[7thsea] DiegoValdez says (to Jack), "well, take it then."
[7thsea] CharlesAlgun says, "9000G for the boat, 1000G for cargo on the first voyage."
[7thsea] Pyotr says (to cadiz), "at rank 3 or 4, sure. :)"
[7thsea] Cadiz says, "Because if not, you probably don't need the skill to track such basic numbers."
BastardJack reluctantly says, "I *do* have a bit of skill at a trade - I'm sure I could koop track of expenses if I have to.  But I'd prefer not..."
CharlesAlgun nods.
CharlesAlgun says, "Well, I've done numbers before."
CharlesAlgun says, "If we hire a purser, perhaps I can hand it over to him later."
[7thsea] Cadiz asks, "Is 'Accounting' under anything else?"
CharlesAlgun says, "It's just that numbers move funny when they start to stand for things like money."
[7thsea] BastardJack says, "Merchant."
DiegoValdez says (to Jack), "You can keep accounts? I may have need of an accountant."
Cadiz says, "I have enough basic training that I could learn how to keep a basic account of things with little trouble."
BastardJack says (to Diego), "No - well, that is, I was taught the basics once.  It's never been something I wanted to learn more of, then."
[7thsea] CharlesAlgun says, "OK, I'm going to say that the 5500 everyone contributes is 55% of the net profits, going into their hands at the end of each trip."
[7thsea] Maxwell asks (of Cadiz), "You declined to help in Diego's business mission, right?"
[7thsea] Cadiz asks (of Jack), "What skill are you talking about?"
[7thsea] BastardJack says (to Cadiz), "I went through this a while ago."
[7thsea] Cadiz says, "I think I'd prefer not to."
[7thsea] CharlesAlgun says, "The other 4500, from the barge we're trading in, is part of the ship, and will do things like pay wages, maintenance, buy more cargo, etc. The ship's coffers."
DiegoValdez says (to Jack), "it is better than nothing. I have to convince Maxwell's lord that it would profit him more to be trading arms to Castille."
[7thsea] CharlesAlgun asks, "Sound fair?"
[7thsea] BastardJack says, "We're gonna want Accountant for day to day accounting, and Haggling for buying stuff."
[7thsea] BastardJack says, "And maybe Appraising too."
[7thsea] BastardJack says, "Accounting is under Servant and Merchant.  Haggling under Merchant."
[7thsea] BastardJack says, "I can spend some to get either of these, but it's not really in character."
[7thsea] DiegoValdez says, "Sounds like Cadiz' job."
[7thsea] BastardJack says, "Aye."
[7thsea] CharlesAlgun asks, "5% for Captain, 5% for Master, 5% for the regular crew (who don't get real names), and the rest back into the ship. Good?"
[7thsea] DiegoValdez says, "aye"
BastardJack says (to Diego), "No, not for me.  Sorry to disappoint you, but it would bore me to tears, I think."
[7thsea] Cadiz says, "Appraising is probably good, too."
DiegoValdez looks disappointed.
[7thsea] Maxwell asks, "I thought crew pay was included in ship maintenance?"
[7thsea] CharlesAlgun says, "So whatever you contributed, divide by 100 to get your percent of the profits. If you're Bjorg or myself (the two main sailors, I think), add 5% to that."
[7thsea] Cadiz says, "I didn't realize you could get them from being a Merchant in something (which I also took--Calligraphy)."
BastardJack asks (of Cadiz), "Now, you say you know a bit as well - did you want to join the crew then?  I thought you were down on the idea of a ship?"
[7thsea] CharlesAlgun says (to Maxwell), "Right, and that 10% is going to go into maintenance."
[7thsea] BastardJack says, "You just need the skill.  They're advanced."
Cadiz says, "I'm not interested in investing in such an endeavor."
[7thsea] BastardJack says, "Ah."
BastardJack says, "Ah."
[7thsea] CharlesAlgun says, "11% for me, 17% for Bjorg, 14% for Jack, 10% for the Marquis, 8% for Diego, 5% for Eolo, and 10% into the ship's coffers."
Cadiz says, "But I would not be adverse to going along for the adventure of the talon.  And if the venture requires the services of an accountant, perhaps I can assist in that way, too."
[7thsea] Pyotr says, "sounds good"
Bjorg says (to Cadiz), "I'm sure we'd be glad to accept your help, whether in money or simply joining us for the adventure."
[7thsea] Pyotr asks, "what pay does a sailor get?"
[7thsea] CharlesAlgun says, "Since the Marquis is drunk, can we get him to agree to let his 10% slide back into the ship? :)"
[7thsea] Bjorg says, "yay"
[7thsea] Pyotr says, "hee"
[7thsea] CharlesAlgun asks (of Pyotr), "Plain sailor, or Bjorg/Me important PC sailor?"
BastardJack says, "Good, then.  You keep the books.  And I'm sure I'll find some otnher way to contribute on board."
[7thsea] Pyotr asks, "like, say, an axe-weilding barbarian man-at-arms?"
BastardJack looks a little relieved.
[7thsea] Bjorg says (to pyotr), "you'll get enough pay to buy all the raw meat you require, don't worry"
[7thsea] Pyotr says, "okay"
[7thsea] CharlesAlgun asks (of Pyotr), "Mmm. Do you have the Sailor skill?"
[7thsea] Cadiz says, "I have to figure out how much XP I have left over."
[7thsea] BastardJack says, "I'll take Appraise and Haggle, and you take Accountant, then."
[7thsea] Bjorg says, "also, i'm making sure our ship has a well-stocked armory"
[7thsea] Pyotr worries about things like food and a place to sleep, sicne he didn't get paid for his last job.
[7thsea] CharlesAlgun asks, "Oh, wait, you don't own a share, do you?"
BastardJack says, "I can mend the sails, or something."
[7thsea] CharlesAlgun says, "Sorry, I forgot that."
[7thsea] Cadiz says, "If all you need is Accountant, that's fine."
Maxwell says (to Diego), "I do have some skill with numbers, if you can find no one with practice with moneys to sum up your figures."
[7thsea] Pyotr says (to charles), "no share, no sailor skillz"
[7thsea] CharlesAlgun asks, "OK. How about 2%, for unSailory work?"
DiegoValdez says (to Maxwell), "True, but you're one of the people the numbers are supposed to convince."
[7thsea] BastardJack says (to Pyotr), "bring it up IC."
[7thsea] CharlesAlgun says, "Even better idea."
[7thsea] Pyotr says (to Jack), "right, but i can't figure an angle"
CharlesAlgun shows everyone the numbers he came up with for percentages and pay of the net profits.
DiegoValdez grins. "But I suppose you could be trusted...."
Pyotr asks (of Charles), "what part will I take in this?"
Giovanna has disconnected.
DiegoValdez says (to Charles), "That seems reasonable."
Pyotr asks (of Charles), "do you even have ened of me?"
[7thsea] Maxwell says, "There's something in the book about always having day-to-day expenses covered."
CharlesAlgun says (to Pyotr), "Ah, well, it's based on your share of the contr-- well, I guess there isn't one... So it's based on your sailing ski-- er..."
BastardJack says (to Pyotr), "You mentioned Man-at-Arms earlier..."
Pyotr says, "Right"
CharlesAlgun says, "Ah, yes."
Pyotr says (to Jack), "yes"
Pyotr says, "That's my main skill these days."
Pyotr says, "Keeps something dry over my head at night"
CharlesAlgun says, "Man At Arms, certainly a worhy position..."
Pyotr says, "except, ofc, when I don't get paid for jobs."
CharlesAlgun says, "Room and board, of course."
BastardJack says (to Charles), "If ye need to juggle the numbers around, take it out of my share.  I've no great yearning for wealth."
CharlesAlgun asks, "And perhaps 1% of net profits?"
CharlesAlgun says (to Jack), "Ah, that's most noble."
Pyotr says, "profits would be a bit much"
BastardJack says, "And it seems to me that I've got the most coming to me... another of life's ironies."
CharlesAlgun asks (of Pyotr), "Are you certain?"
[7thsea] (from Bjorg) BastardJack says, "noble?!  eeagh, no, wait i do something dastardly!  arr, there goes my rep ..."
Pyotr says, "All i ask for is an hionest wage, and a chance to see new sights"
[7thsea] Pyotr says, "hee hee"
[7thsea] CharlesAlgun says, "1% of the profits being something like 10G, at this point."
BastardJack believes he's found a kindred spirit in Pyotr.
[7thsea] Pyotr says, "okay, that's honest wage level. :)"
[7thsea] DiegoValdez composes a song about Jack's noble qualities.
[7thsea] Pyotr says, "but pyotr can't do the math to realize that. :)"
CharlesAlgun says, "Then I'll ove 1% from Jack to Pyotr..."
[7thsea] CharlesAlgun asks, "Is Cadiz going to work as purser?"
[7thsea] CharlesAlgun says, "If so, he should get a percent too, probably."
Pyotr says (to Jack), "thank you.  we'll ahve to swap tales of where we've been."
[7thsea] CharlesAlgun asks, "Or is he staying in Eisen?"
[7thsea] Pyotr says, "he's going with"
[7thsea] Pyotr says, "he said"
[7thsea] Maxwell says, "I thought he wasn't going to Eisen."
[7thsea] Pyotr says, "going with us, I should say"
[7thsea] CharlesAlgun asks, "Should I take is percent from Jack's, too?"
[7thsea] Pyotr says, "he'll just give it to the church"
[7thsea] BastardJack says, "Who *is* going to Eisen?  You and Diego..."
[7thsea] Bjorg says, "take it from me if you wish, not like i'll need a lot of cash"
[7thsea] Bjorg says, "just balance it out"
[7thsea] Maxwell says (to Jack), "And Diego was going to try to convince Federico."
[7thsea] Pyotr says, "mmm, unbalanced groups"
[7thsea] BastardJack says, "That shouldn't be much of a problem."
[7thsea] Bjorg asks (of pyotr), "how so?"
[7thsea] BastardJack says, "That means you don't have any mages..."
[7thsea] Pyotr asks, "where's era going?"
[7thsea] DiegoValdez says, "Haha. Federico has a +5 against me in all dealings...."
[7thsea] Maxwell says, "well, good."
[7thsea] Pyotr says (to bjorg), "9 vs 3"
[7thsea] Bjorg says, "whoah"
[7thsea] Maxwell asks (of Diego), "Are you sayig I should ask him on your behalf?"
Bjorg counts on his hands.
Bjorg LAC
[7thsea] BastardJack says, "If we can't balance 'em, I can go to Eisen."
[7thsea] DiegoValdez says (to Maxwell), "No, it makes more sense for Diego to do the asking."
[7thsea] BastardJack says, "I have IC reasons to do either."
[7thsea] Pyotr asks (of jack), "do they need to be balanced?"
[7thsea] Pyotr asks (of cadiz), "and are you and era staying in seperate groups?"
[7thsea] Maxwell says, "right, haven't heard from Era..."
[7thsea] DiegoValdez says, "What about Giovanna? She blinked out...."
[7thsea] Bjorg says (to pyotr), "well if one group is still really really big, it'll be awkward.  thus the reason we split in the first place"
[7thsea] Maxwell says, "oh, that"
[7thsea] BastardJack says, "9's a bit big for a group, I think.  8 and 4 seems better."
[7thsea] Pyotr says (to DV), "gio was avalon"
[7thsea] BastardJack asks, "Wait - aren't there 11 total?"
[7thsea] DiegoValdez says, "right"
[7thsea] Maxwell says (to Diego), "She's going with the Marquis. So presumably to Avalon."
[7thsea] Pyotr asks (of Jack), "counting the marquis?"
[7thsea] BastardJack says, "Oh.  I wasn't counting him, no."
[7thsea] Bjorg says, "don't count the marquis"
[7thsea] Pyotr says, "I'm adding him in, cause he's acting like a party member, paying for boats, etc"
[7thsea] Bjorg says, "not a PC, he could disappear at a moment's notice :)"
Giovanna has connected.
[7thsea] BastardJack says, "That's 8 and 3.  Or 7 and 4."
[7thsea] Maxwell says, "since he'll just take your dresses and run."
[7thsea] Pyotr says, "hee hee"
[7thsea] Bjorg laughs
CharlesAlgun says (to Giovanna), "Welcome. We saved a bottle of red wine for you."
[7thsea] DiegoValdez says, "Yay Giovanna's return."
Pyotr says (to Gio), "Ah, welcome back awake, lady"
[7thsea] BastardJack says, "No, the point is to keep the number of *players* small, to keep the game manageable."
Giovanna accepts the bottle from Charles.
DiegoValdez says (to Giovanna), "have some Madeira, m'dear."
[7thsea] Bjorg asks, "so who's going to Eisen?"
[7thsea] Pyotr says, "Max, DV, Fed, ..."
[7thsea] CharlesAlgun asks, "Max, Eolo, Diego, Federico?"
[7thsea] Giovanna says, "see, I get the feeling that Eisen will be more plotting than fighting"
[7thsea] CharlesAlgun says, "(Diego switched?)"
[7thsea] Pyotr says, "oh, forgot eolo"
[7thsea] CharlesAlgun says (to Giovanna), "Me too."
[7thsea] Giovanna says, "which is what I'd like -- but I also have this obsession with the talon"
[7thsea] Maxwell says, "right, except Federico is unknown."
[7thsea] Pyotr says (to gio), "heh"
[7thsea] Giovanna says, "but I really would be useless on a fighting/exploring expedition"
[7thsea] Pyotr says (to max), "but unlikely to go with weird magic"
[7thsea] Giovanna says, "whereas I just bought poisoning..."
[7thsea] Pyotr says, "even less likely than pyotr. :)"
[7thsea] DiegoValdez exclaims, "Must go to Eisen to divert arms from Montaigne to Castille! Arr!"
[7thsea] CharlesAlgun asks (of Giovanna), "You can poison the Unseelie?"
[7thsea] Giovanna says, "I doubt it."
[7thsea] Pyotr says (to Charles), "had a thought"
[7thsea] Bjorg says, "i really think either way is going to involve some plotting and some fighting"
[7thsea] Pyotr exclaims (at charles), "Forget dresses.  Let'ss tock up on almonds!"
[7thsea] Alex awwwks. "Want cork nut!"
[7thsea] Bjorg says, "i mean, we are heading to a royal court in Avalon"
[7thsea] Maxwell says (to Bjorg), "exactly"
[7thsea] Bjorg asks, "and, well, Eisen.  need I say more as to fighting?"
[7thsea] DiegoValdez exclaims, "Arr, broadswords!"
[7thsea] CharlesAlgun asks, "Well, if Jack or Giovanna (or any of the currently Avalonish folks) went to Eisen, that'd be 6+1 vs 5, right?"
[7thsea] Pyotr says, "right"
[7thsea] CharlesAlgun says, "Which would be a good dividing of people."
[7thsea] Maxwell says, "I think Ghogg wants us to split based on IC reasons."
[7thsea] CharlesAlgun says, "Of course, if we lose Jack, we lose our Haggler."
[7thsea] BastardJack says, "I have IC reasons for either."
[7thsea] Bjorg says (to maxwell), "yeah, but a couple of people are ready to go either way"
[7thsea] DiegoValdez says, "I SO should buy Ferenc as a Background: Rival...."
[7thsea] Pyotr asks, "as opposed to last time's oh-so-subtle methods?"
[7thsea] Giovanna says, "hmm"
[7thsea] BastardJack exclaims (at Diego), "YAY!"
[7thsea] DiegoValdez says, "Except the fellow could mop the floor with me."
[7thsea] Bjorg says (to charles), "the Marquis is probably a good haggler, if we trust him"
[7thsea] CharlesAlgun exclaims (at Diego), "And give you XP every time he did it!"
[7thsea] Bjorg says, "i mean he did buy all those artifacts"
[7thsea] BastardJack exclaims, "Dammit.  I don't know what to do!"
[7thsea] CharlesAlgun says (to Bjorg), "Hmm. I'd probably trust him in anything where betraying us wouldn't gain him anything."
[7thsea] Bjorg says (to charles), "well then we can trust him with our trades, since he's already far too rich to care. :)"
[7thsea] CharlesAlgun says (to Bjorg), "And haggling well would be, if anything, in his favor."
[7thsea] DiegoValdez says (to Jack), "Diego's already asked you to be numbers-man on the mission."
[7thsea] BastardJack says, "Pro-Eisen: (') I've established that I've never been there, and want to see the world as much as possible, (2) I have a background that means I should stay away from Avalon"
[7thsea] Pyotr says (to charles), "unless he betrays us to merchant friends of his"
[7thsea] Bjorg says (to Jack), "follow your nose, it always knows"
[7thsea] Pyotr says (to Jack), "but if you go to avalon and your background comes up, bonus XP"
[7thsea] CharlesAlgun says (to Pyotr), "Mmm."
[7thsea] CharlesAlgun says (to Pyotr), "He wants IC reasons, I think."
[7thsea] Pyotr says (to charles), "just trying to talk him into it"
[7thsea] BastardJack says, "Pro-Avalon: (1) I'm concerned about the Talon, and my expertise would be cood there (2) I have a background that means I should stay away from Avalon"
[7thsea] DiegoValdez exclaims, "Hee!"
[7thsea] Pyotr says (to jack), "you can go to Eisen anytime."
[7thsea] CharlesAlgun says, "Jack isn't one to do what he should, I've guessed :)"
[7thsea] Pyotr says, "it's not going away"
[7thsea] CharlesAlgun says (to Pyotr), "You never know."
[7thsea] BastardJack says, "No, I think I gotta go to Avalon.  It's just more interesting to me right now."
[7thsea] Pyotr says, "true.  damn porte"
[7thsea] CharlesAlgun asks, "Is Era going to Avalon?"
[7thsea] CharlesAlgun says, "If Cadiz is, she probably isn't."
[7thsea] Pyotr asks, "are she and cadiz still splitting?"
[7thsea] CharlesAlgun says, "Since they're on the same computer, they'd probably want to."
[7thsea] Pyotr says, "they're both heavily idle, tho"
[7thsea] BastardJack says, "Anyway: bought Haggling 1, Appraising 1, Background 2.  That gives me 10 XP left, so at our 1st 5-pt XP I can up the Finesse."
[7thsea] (from Bjorg) Pyotr says, "IYKWIM"
[7thsea] Pyotr says (to Jack), "woo"
DiegoValdez asks (of Era), "I beg your pardon, Senora, we seem to have missed your opinions ... what are your plans?"
[7thsea] Pyotr exclaims (at bjorg), "eeeagh!"
[7thsea] CharlesAlgun asks, "So that puts Max, Diego, Eolo, Era, and Federico as likely Eisenvolken?"
[7thsea] Giovanna says, "and me undecided"
[7thsea] Pyotr says, "that's not a bad split"
[7thsea] CharlesAlgun says (to Jack), "Nifty."
[7thsea] BastardJack says, "Also, I'd suggest Cadiz run numbers for Diego, but he seems to want to go to Avalon."
[7thsea] Pyotr asks (of jack), "eolo can do numbers, right?"
[7thsea] BastardJack says, "Dunno."
[7thsea] Bjorg says, "he seems to want to hide from Federico right now :)"
[7thsea] Pyotr asks, "and he'd prolly only skim, what, 15-20% off the top?"
[7thsea] CharlesAlgun says, "Charles, Bjorg, Giovanna, Cadiz, and Jack in Avalon, and Giovanna flailing in the ocean somewhere in between."
[7thsea] DiegoValdez says, "Oh yeah, that's true ... he has Merchant: Glassblower."
[7thsea] CharlesAlgun asks, "Either 6/5 or 5/6, according to her decision?"
[7thsea] Pyotr says (to charles), "um"
[7thsea] Giovanna says (to DiegoValdez), "Yeah, I'm sure that'll come in REAL handy"
[7thsea] CharlesAlgun says, "Oh, right, Pyotr."
[7thsea] Pyotr says (to chrales), "check that list again"
[7thsea] CharlesAlgun asks, "How did I just count 12 people?"
[7thsea] Giovanna says, "you counted me twice"
[7thsea] Pyotr says, "you listed Gio twice"
[7thsea] CharlesAlgun asks, "I did?"
[7thsea] Bjorg says, "ha ha"
[7thsea] Giovanna says, "not that I'm not twice as important as anyone else, ofc"
[7thsea] Giovanna says, "but I think it will throw things off"
[7thsea] Pyotr says, "and while I don't mind being mistaken for a pretty young vodacce witch, I mind."
[7thsea] CharlesAlgun says, "Drat. Thanks."
[7thsea] CharlesAlgun says, "Pyotr, of course, is the first Giovanna :)"
[7thsea] Giovanna says, "so hard to tell us apart..."
[7thsea] Pyotr says (to Gio), "I giuess that makes you second Giovanna.  However, I registered the trademark, so ha ha"
[7thsea] CharlesAlgun says (to Giovanna), "It's the beard. You really ought to do something about it."
[7thsea] Pyotr says, "also, I'm getting sleepy, so dumb jokes."
[7thsea] BastardJack says, "Maybe Giovanna is Pyotr's Ussuran shape-shifter form."
[7thsea] CharlesAlgun says, "Anyway, either way, it looks like a good split."
Maxwell asks (of Giovanna), "So you said you wanted to see the talon to Avalon?"
[7thsea] Pyotr says (to jack), "um"
[7thsea] DiegoValdez exclaims (at Jack), "Hah!"
[7thsea] Bjorg says, "Pyotr is sort of beast-like"
[7thsea] CharlesAlgun says, "And I still never got to ask the Marquis about the knobbly stick in his artifact room."
[7thsea] Pyotr asks (of Bjorg), "I live close to the land, what can I say?"
[7thsea] BastardJack asks, "Is Ghogg coming back?"
[7thsea] CharlesAlgun says, "Or about Ian's spheres."
DiegoValdez says (to Giovanna), "Hm. You seem to be developing an unhealthy, er, obsession with the thing."
[7thsea] CharlesAlgun says (to Jack), "Doubt it."
[7thsea] BastardJack says, "Hrm."
[7thsea] CharlesAlgun asks, "OK, next question, who plays on which night?"
Giovanna says (to Maxwell), "I haven't decided.  I'd like to, but on the other hand, I fear that the adventure may not be to my taste."
[7thsea] CharlesAlgun says, "Friday and Saturday are fine with me, and for the next couple months at least, Sundays should be too."
[7thsea] CharlesAlgun asks, "Are Federico and Cadiz the only problems?"
[7thsea] Pyotr says, "yeah, I'm good either night"
BastardJack asks (of Giovanna), "You may be better off parting from it.  Who knows what lasting effects it may have?"
[7thsea] DiegoValdez says, "Good either night here, too."
[7thsea] Pyotr says, "and in different groups again"
[7thsea] BastardJack asks, "What's their problem?"
[7thsea] CharlesAlgun asks, "Should we just switch them from how they were before, for evenness?"
Giovanna says (to BastardJack), "You only say that because you have not touched it yourself :)"
Maxwell says (to Giovanna), "Oh, hm. If you were to ask me, I'd advise you to get away from the talon. I'm a bit concerned about the way you've been acting."
[7thsea] CharlesAlgun says (to Jack), "They each have requiresments that sometimes keep the busy Friday evenings."
Giovanna bristles at the imputation that there's something amiss with her behavior.
BastardJack says (to Giovanna), "Aye.  I'm impartial, I am."
[7thsea] BastardJack says, "Damn."
[7thsea] Pyotr asks (of cadiz), "sure you don't want to go to Eisen?"
[7thsea] DiegoValdez says, "Hm. Cadiz is really more suited for the Eisen trip ... Era's more action and adventure, which at the moment is the Avalon trip."
[7thsea] DiegoValdez says, "Also, Three Castillians and an Eisen."
[7thsea] Pyotr says, "we can talk to them about it when they get back"
[7thsea] CharlesAlgun says, "As long as we had Jack to Haggle, we could probably get by without Cadiz to Account..."
[7thsea] BastardJack says, "I notice we've stuck everybody who's gone and/or idle in Eisen."
Giovanna takes another pinch of the powder.
[7thsea] Pyotr says (to jack), "hee hee"
[7thsea] Bjorg says, "i still don't get where people are coming up with this avalon=action, eisen=intrigue thing"
[7thsea] CharlesAlgun says, "Since we have at least one or two people with math."
[7thsea] Pyotr says (to bjorg), "out of their <beep>es."
[7thsea] BastardJack says, "I think Ghogg hinted at it earlier."
[7thsea] Maxwell says (to Bjorg), "Neither do I, really."
[7thsea] CharlesAlgun says (to Bjorg), "My guess is because the talon came from a ruin."
[7thsea] CharlesAlgun says, "So returning it could stick us into more ruins."
[7thsea] BastardJack says, "Anyway, Accounting is important during the buying stuff phase."
[7thsea] Bjorg says (to charles), "but we're not going to a ruin, we're going to a court"
[7thsea] Pyotr says, "and haggling during the selling"
[7thsea] CharlesAlgun says (to Bjorg), "To get information."
[7thsea] CharlesAlgun says, "Once we've gotten a couple Sidhe experts on our side, they can tell us where to go from there."
[7thsea] BastardJack says, "I wanted an excuse to ask Ghogg 'we're not missing anything, are we?  All the wages paid up?  Port fees?  Tolls?  I have Accounting!'  Cause otherwise he'll stick something on us."
[7thsea] CharlesAlgun says, "Like Janice. Heck, she might even want to go on an expedition with us."
[7thsea] BastardJack says, "s/an excuse/the ability"
[7thsea] Maxwell asks, "Janice?"
[7thsea] DiegoValdez says (to Max), "Charles' imaginary friend."
[7thsea] Pyotr rolls 4k4: 1 3 3 8 | 15
[7thsea] BastardJack asks, "I assume we're dropping people off in Eisen and continuing to Avalon?  Or are the Eisen-people going overland?"
[7thsea] BastardJack asks (of Diego), "I thought that was the rat?"
[7thsea] DiegoValdez says, "Hee. No, the rat's not imaginary."
[7thsea] BastardJack says, "Well, it's a real rat.  He just imagine's it's his friend."
Maxwell asks (of Charles), "Say, what happened to that rat I heard something about? From that island you were all on?"
Pyotr asks, "rat?"
[7thsea] CharlesAlgun says, "Janice is an NPC I'm going to try to get in touch with."
CharlesAlgun asks (of Max), "He's in my room at the inn right now -- I keep him in a esh cage, most of the time. Would you like to meet him?"
[7thsea] CharlesAlgun says, "In Avalon."
CharlesAlgun says, "His name is Rawlsworth. He seems unusually bright for a rodent."
Maxwell says (to Charles), "Uh, er, that's really alright."
Pyotr says, "mmhmm"
Bjorg looks at Cadiz and Era.
[7thsea] (from CharlesAlgun) CharlesAlgun says, "His Wits is 2, just like Pyotr!"
DiegoValdez frowns. "Hm. I shall have to learn Eisen."
[7thsea] Pyotr exclaims, "hey!"
[7thsea] CharlesAlgun says, "Sorry, couldn't resist :)"
[7thsea] Pyotr says, "I can't be the only wits 2 character in the party"
CharlesAlgun asks, "Have you heard about what happened to us on the island?"
CharlesAlgun tells the story.
[7thsea] CharlesAlgun rolls 3k3: 1 5 3 | 9
CharlesAlgun tells the story poorly.
Pyotr says, "uh huh."
[7thsea] DiegoValdez rolls 5k3: 7 9 5 9 1 | 25
Maxwell says (to Diego), "I'm not sure you'd have the time. I might be able to help you, I suppose."
Pyotr says, "pass the pitcher, I'll tell you another whopper"
DiegoValdez smiles and retells the story, moving the crowd.
[7thsea] CharlesAlgun asks, "You have storytelling?"
Pyotr says (to dv), "ah, excellent."
[7thsea] BastardJack rolls 3k3: 3 4 3 | 10
[7thsea] DiegoValdez says, "Oratory. Close enough."
[7thsea] BastardJack says, "Oops."
[7thsea] CharlesAlgun says, "Bah. Totally different. :)"
[7thsea] BastardJack rolls 4k3: 7 4 4 1 | 15
[7thsea] Maxwell says, "I think Bjorg told some of it before we got to the cave."
[7thsea] Bjorg says (to charles), "he might not have told the story well, but he convinced us he did :)"
[7thsea] CharlesAlgun exclaims, "Ha!"
CharlesAlgun tries to ebellish the bits Diego glossed over.
[7thsea] CharlesAlgun rolls 3k3: 1 5 8 | 14
BastardJack listens to Diego's version appreciatively, noting that he wouldn't have told it as well. (Though bettor than Charles.)
CharlesAlgun sighs, and just concentrates on drinking.
Maxwell asks, "So you still have this strange potion?"
CharlesAlgun coughs, setting aside his ale.
[7thsea] Maxwell says, "bringing up something else from this act..."
CharlesAlgun says, "Ah, yes, yes."
CharlesAlgun says, "Federico has it -- it will probably go with him to Eisen..."
CharlesAlgun says, "Poison, apparently."
DiegoValdez says (to Charles), "Assuming, of course, that I can convince him to come with us."
CharlesAlgun says, "Or so says Umberto. Whatever the case, it's certainly valuable, because Umberto wanted to take it himself."
Maxwell says, "hm, how interesting."
[7thsea] CharlesAlgun says, "BTW, I just remembered, I still have that Vesten armour."
[7thsea] CharlesAlgun asks, "Should we try to sell it off to someone, like the Explorer's, or keep it?"
[7thsea] Bjorg says, "hmm"
[7thsea] DiegoValdez says, "Sell it to the Vendel League."
[7thsea] Bjorg says (to Diego), "oh, you're so dead"
[7thsea] CharlesAlgun asks, "Because of their great respect for their heritage?"
[7thsea] Bjorg says, "i could bring it to the Explorers ... that'd give me a great way to make a contact there"
[7thsea] DiegoValdez flexes his sword experimentally. "Oh, am I?"
[7thsea] BastardJack says, "Put it on the figurehead of our ship.  It can be our symbol."
[7thsea] Bjorg says, "i mean, ofc it wouldn't have to be just me, but you know"
[7thsea] Maxwell asks, "hm, should we make a list of questions for the Marquis and GM?"
[7thsea] DiegoValdez says (to Max), "And the people currently not here."
[7thsea] CharlesAlgun says (to Bjorg), "Why 'just' you? Heck, we could tag along... :)"
[7thsea] CharlesAlgun says (to Jack), "Hmm. That'd add to gaudy, I imagine..."
[7thsea] CharlesAlgun says (to Max), "Yes."
[7thsea] BastardJack says, "Hmm.  I should take 'Shopping'..."
CharlesAlgun says, "I have, in my spare time, drawn up a few ideas about what sort of ship might be fitting..."
CharlesAlgun shows his notes to everyone.
DiegoValdez says (to Charles), "Really? I've had a few ideas myself."
[7thsea] CharlesAlgun | Traits:         Brawn 3, Finesse 4, Resolve 4, Wits 4, Panache 3
[7thsea] CharlesAlgun | Flaws:          Gaudy (3)
[7thsea] CharlesAlgun | Draft:          4
[7thsea] CharlesAlgun | Crew:           4
[7thsea] CharlesAlgun | Cargo:          4
[7thsea] CharlesAlgun | Reputation:     0
DiegoValdez glances through notes.
[7thsea] CharlesAlgun says, "Er, sorry about the wrapping."
[7thsea] BastardJack asks, "What's Gaudy?"
DiegoValdez says (to Charles), "I think a figurehead representing Santa Maria Maris Stella would be auspicious."
[7thsea] CharlesAlgun says, "Mechanically, negative reputation stuff is increased by one (if we do anyhing to get negative rep)."
BastardJack mutters, "Not very original, though."
DiegoValdez says (to Charles), "Santa Maria, hands spreading out to calm the storms.... her star shining brightly to guide the ship...."
[7thsea] CharlesAlgun says, "In practice, it means she's decorated garishly. Not exactly eye-pleasing."
CharlesAlgun adds a figure head of Santa Maria, sticking it under the figurehead of the flying hawk...
BastardJack says, "If our maiden voyage is to reach Avalon, The Lady of the Lake would be a figure of good omen."
CharlesAlgun says (to Jack), "Mmm..."
DiegoValdez asks (of Jack), "There won't be room, surely?"
CharlesAlgun tries to figure out how to add the Lady of the Lake, and winds up with a figurehead of two women side be side, the hawk between them...
BastardJack says, "Although she has dominion only over the waters o' the Isles themselves, not Mother Ocean..."
BastardJack says (to Charles), "Face them back to back, with the Lady looking ahead and Sana Maria watching over the ship."
[7thsea] Maxwell says (to inky), "Hey, get Eolo."
DiegoValdez says, "Si. Perhaps this Lady of the Lake would be better off decorating the mainmast."
Eolo has connected.
Eolo says, "arr"
BastardJack exclaims, "Eolo!  Have a seat!  Have a drink!  Ye've missed all our plotting!"
CharlesAlgun says (to Jack), "Ah, perhaps a good idea..."
DiegoValdez exclaims (at Eolo), "Buenas noches! We thought you weren't coming!"
Pyotr exclaims (at Eolo), "Arr!"
CharlesAlgun tries to add these things to the ship.
Eolo says, "I was delayed by some friends and a meal. I wasn't sure if deliberations were still going on"
Giovanna asks (of DiegoValdez), "There are nachos?  Those strange things you told me of, with cheese?"
CharlesAlgun says (to Eolo), "Ah, welcome, we were just looking over the ship..."
DiegoValdez says (to Charles), "No no, You want Santa Maria looking out to the sea, to calm the storms."
[7thsea] CharlesAlgun asks, "So do those numbers sound decent?"
[7thsea] Bjorg has no idea what good numbers for a ship are.
BastardJack asks (of Diego), "And what good would the Lady of the Lake watching the ship do?  Have dominion over leaks?"
DiegoValdez says (to Giovanna), "(laughing) Noches. Night. Nachos are something else."
[7thsea] Giovanna asks, "A ship has resolve?"
[7thsea] CharlesAlgun nods. "It's hard to figure. I tried to make it lots of cargo, decently maneuvrable.
Giovanna shakes her head over this tricky foreign tongue.
[7thsea] BastardJack says (to Giovanna), "Aye.  Like any lady."
[7thsea] CharlesAlgun says (to Giovanna), "It's kinda like the size and sturdiness of the hull."
[7thsea] BastardJack says, "Some have too much."
[7thsea] Eolo says (to Jack), "tell me about it."
DiegoValdez says (to Jack), "This Lady of yours doesn't sound like she might have much power over the waves."
[7thsea] CharlesAlgun says, "How many hits it can take, how much cargo fits in her,how deep her keel is."
BastardJack says (to Eolo), "We've resolved to buy a ship."
Eolo asks, "and will everyone be sailing the ship to avalon?"
CharlesAlgun says, "So, by Diego's suggestion..."
Maxwell asks (of Eolo), "I thought you were accompanying me to Eisen?"
DiegoValdez says (to Eolo), "No, I must be off to Eisen with Senor Maxwell....."
Bjorg chuckles at the thought of some statue on the ship having power over the waters.
CharlesAlgun says, "Perhaps the Lady along the mainmast, looking ahead over the deck..."
Bjorg . o O ( well, unless the statue was inscribed upon ... hmm ... )
BastardJack says (to Diego), "She is the guardian af the lakes and streams of Avalon!  O' course she has power over the waters!  Though not, perhaps, of the oceans... So you may be right."
CharlesAlgun says, "Maria at the bow, arms outstretched..."
CharlesAlgun asks, "And the hawk emblazoned on the sails?"
BastardJack asks (of Charles), "So much ornamentation?  Doesn't that sound a little - gaudy?"
[7thsea] DiegoValdez says, "hee"
CharlesAlgun says (to Jack), "Oh, it'll give her spirit."
Eolo says (to Maxwell), "I was planning on it, yes. But I had expected others to be lured off by the promise of sidhe"
Maxwell says, "I would trust no promise of a Sidhe."
CharlesAlgun asks, "Better to be memorable than unknown, no?"
BastardJack says, "Aye!  'struth."
DiegoValdez says (to Eolo), "The affairs of Castille take precedence for me, I'm afraid. I must convince Senor Maxwell's lord to trade his arms to Castille rather than to Montaigne."
[7thsea] CharlesAlgun says (to Eolo), "So I put you down for 500G, which will be worth 5% of the net profit from the ship."
[7thsea] Bjorg says, "and we're making a cargo run on the way to Avalon, so this isn't imaginary profits"
[7thsea] Eolo says, "excellent"
[7thsea] CharlesAlgun says, "(Also, this is the point where Eolo's supposed to ask for the ship to be painted black and Bjorg to ask for runes to be painted all over it...)"
[7thsea] Eolo asks, "what is the breakdown going to be? 5% per 500G-share?"
[7thsea] Bjorg says (to charles), "oh, there'll be runes"
[7thsea] CharlesAlgun says (to Eolo), "Right, plus extras for people with on-ship jobs."
[7thsea] Eolo says, "hmm, mkay."
DiegoValdez looks pleased. "Any other suggestions?"
[7thsea] CharlesAlgun says, "(Captain, Ship's Master: 5%, Man at Ars, Purser: 1%)"
Bjorg says, "I don't mind what you put on the mast of the ship - just allow me to call on whatever runes I need where I do the ship's navigation."
CharlesAlgun nods, "Mmm..."
[7thsea] Maxwell notes that no one has yet talked to Eolo about his share IC.
[7thsea] BastardJack says, "5500 contributed total = 55% of the profits.  Plus some bonuses for on-ship jobs.  The rest goes toword maintenance."
Pyotr growls slightly, but keeps it to himself.
DiegoValdez looks doubtful about the runes. "I'm sure the influence of a saint and a, er, sidhe would be sufficient...?"
CharlesAlgun asks (of Eolo), "I had heard you mention, earlier, that you'd be interested in investing if I arrange to a ship to be purchased?"
Eolo asks, "possibly, though it appears I won't be accompanying the ship on its maiden voyage. how much of a sum were you thinking?"
CharlesAlgun hands Bjorg his pencil, since Bjorg surely knows the appearance of runes better than he.
Bjorg says (to Diego), "Trust me, you'll find the sailing to go much more smoothly if you allow me this.  The weather tends to like what I do."
CharlesAlgun asks (of Eolo), "Perhaps 500 guilders, to buy a 5% share of her profits?"
DiegoValdez says, "I ... suppose."
Eolo hrms.
BastardJack exclaims, "We need a name!"
Eolo asks, "and how many shares will be sold?"
[7thsea] Era_Khar'Kov says, "Cadiz & I prob'ly oughta stay in separate groups.  one keyboard for two people doesn't work that well."
DiegoValdez thinks to himself, "Well, what harm could a few stick-figures do, anyway...."
BastardJack exclaims (at Diego), "And I know what ye'll suggest, so don't bother!"
Bjorg says, "A name, yes of course!  And here we are worrying about what it will look like"
[7thsea] BastardJack exclaims (at Era), "Welcome back!"
[7thsea] DiegoValdez says (to Era), "Arr! You're back ..."
[7thsea] Eolo says (to Era), "well, it might be people split up when they get to avalon, as I guess like 8 people are going"
[7thsea] BastardJack says, "We had you down for Eisen, since Cadiz seemed to want to go to Avalon."
[7thsea] Eolo says, "alternately one of you could come to politics in eisen"
DiegoValdez says (to Jack), "...heh...."
[7thsea] BastardJack says, "But if Cadiz went to Eisen instead, both the people with Friday problems would be in one group."
[7thsea] Eolo says, "oh, yes, tablesaw is also going eisen"
[7thsea] Maxwell asks, "he said that?"
DiegoValdez says (to Jack), "In any case, I'm sure the usual saints (Maria and Cristobal) have already been taken...."
[7thsea] Bjorg says, "it has been decreed by Eolo, upon threat of poisoning"
[7thsea] Eolo says, "I didn't hear him say it, no. But it seems more plausible than more ruins-investigation."
[7thsea] Giovanna says, "mmm poisoning"
[7thsea] CharlesAlgun says, "DOn't pick a nae without me -- AFK."
CharlesAlgun says, "Ah, a name, yes..."
[7thsea] Maxwell says, "I think a somewhat IF related name for the ship might be appropriate."
CharlesAlgun says, "My father's ship was known as El Halcon..."
[7thsea] DiegoValdez says (to Eolo), "Yeah. And now that there's a Castillian Security angle, Federico has a reason to go to Eisen."
[7thsea] BastardJack says (to Charles), "Hey, I'm the largesh invester, it's my say..."
[7thsea] CharlesAlgun asks, "I can still have say, can't I?"
[7thsea] BastardJack exclaims (at Maxwell), "Galatea!"
Bjorg says (to Charles), "His ship?  I thought you said he sailed on someone else's."
CharlesAlgun says (to Bjorg), "He did."
CharlesAlgun says, "I didn't mean his own; I meant the ship he'd pledged loyalty to."
[7thsea] Maxwell says (to Jack), "That could work."
Bjorg says, "Ah, I see."
CharlesAlgun says, "And I was thinking that 'El Hijo del Halcon' would be an honorable name..."
DiegoValdez asks (of Charles), "Um. Is it good luck to name a ship for another that went down?"
Bjorg asks, "My Castillian is still a bit rough, what does it mean?"
[7thsea] BastardJack says, "The Wendy.  And people who aren't in the know can assume a Peter Pan ref."
DiegoValdez tells Bjorg.
BastardJack exclaims (at Diego), "Tell the rest of us, as well!"
DiegoValdez tells the rest of you.
[7thsea] Bjorg says, "ha ha"
[7thsea] BastardJack says, "Grr."
[7thsea] DiegoValdez says, "Now someone who actually knows Spanish, please tell me."
[7thsea] Bjorg says, "i think Charles knows, but he's afk again"
[7thsea] CharlesAlgun realizes he never responded to Eolo's question, since he was called AFK...
[7thsea] Bjorg says, "and he told me once, but i forget"
[7thsea] Eolo says, ""son of the hawk""
[7thsea] Eolo says, "(babelfish)"
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[7thsea] BastardJack says, "I like it, actually."
[7thsea] Bjorg says (to jack), "you'd better, 'cause Charles already wrote a song for it. :)"
CharlesAlgun says, "My father served aboard The Hawk; my suggestion means 'The Son of the Hawk'."
[7thsea] BastardJack says, "Era should definitely take ship with us.  It's appropriate for the hawk symbol."
[7thsea] DiegoValdez asks, "Aren't ships supposed to be feminine?"
[7thsea] CharlesAlgun says (to Bjorg), "Well, we can write another song :)"
DiegoValdez asks, "Aren't ships supposed to be feminine?"
[7thsea] BastardJack says, "Yeah.  Should be Daughter of the Hawk."
[7thsea] CharlesAlgun smirks.
[7thsea] CharlesAlgun says, "Well."
[7thsea] DiegoValdez says, "Era could pose for the statue of Santa Maria."
[7thsea] Bjorg says, "but with the word for 'daughter', can you stretch out that last vowel in a song?  "El Hijooooo ...""
[7thsea] CharlesAlgun says, "'La Hija del Halcon' would work execpt it doesn't scan as well, IMO."
[7thsea] Era_Khar'Kov says, "Wherever the fighting goes, and wherever the Friday's are, there Era ought to be."
[7thsea] Bjorg says, "El Hijo just strikes me as a thousand times funnier"
[7thsea] Bjorg says, "esp in a song"
[7thsea] Eolo says, "I'm not expecting much fighting in eisen"
[7thsea] CharlesAlgun says, "Since H is silent, 'La Hija' is consonent-vowel-vowel-consonent."
[7thsea] Bjorg says, "so i'm for El Hijo"
[7thsea] Eolo says, "although maybe some sneaking and some dueling"
[7thsea] Bjorg says (to Eolo), "Bonus points for the irony of that one"
[7thsea] Cadiz says, "As an aside, I made up a surname suffix in Ussuran for 'daughter of' to parallel '-vitch' ('-doche')."
[7thsea] Maxwell says, "hm, Eisen means fighting."
[7thsea] BastardJack says, "I like La Hija."
[7thsea] BastardJack says, "Also, you can always stick in a glottal stop to make it scan."
[7thsea] Giovanna asks, "there will be fighting in Eisen or there won't?"
[7thsea] Bjorg says, "hmmm ... "La Hijaaaa...""
[7thsea] Maxwell says, "also, *still* no one has mentioned anything about whether there will be any fighting IC."
[7thsea] Bjorg says, "it could work, i suppose"
[7thsea] Giovanna asks, "where can I go for the poisonings, please?"
[7thsea] Eolo says, "I'm not expecting much fighting."
[7thsea] CharlesAlgun can live with La Hija, sure, although it'd ean a new song :)
[7thsea] DiegoValdez asks (of Cadiz), "Er. Isn't feminine something like -ova or -evna?"
[7thsea] Eolo says, "but I'm not really sure."
[7thsea] Eolo says (to Giovanna), "I might have to uphold the vodacce honor over thisaway if you're going to be checking out the talon"
[7thsea] DiegoValdez says, "Eisen looks like a diplomatic mission."
[7thsea] Cadiz says (to Diego), "I have no idea.  I made it up based on what I could figure out from the Russian word for 'daughter'."
[7thsea] Cadiz says, "But 'ova' sounds greek to me."
[7thsea] CharlesAlgun says, "Sure, wouldn't really have to change uch for the song, even."
BastardJack asks, "Aye.  Make it 'The Daughter of the Hawk'.  Er... El Hija del Halcon, I think?"
CharlesAlgun nods, "Fair, fair, for a ship..."
DiegoValdez asks (of Era&Cadiz), "Incidentally, I don't suppose either of you speaks Eisen?"
CharlesAlgun writes, across the top of the sketch, 'La Hija del Halcon'...
[7thsea] BastardJack asks, "You didn't call me an my mangling of the language?"
[7thsea] Era_Khar'Kov says, "If Eisen is diplomacy, then I better pitch in for the boat."
[7thsea] Cadiz says, "I speak Eisen."
[7thsea] Cadiz says, "But frankly, if Federico's going to Eisen, I'm going the opposite direction."
[7thsea] BastardJack says (to Era), "Also, we have a big hawk on the sails of the boat.  I thought it'd be appropriate for you..."
[7thsea] CharlesAlgun says, "Nope, just ignored it :)"
[7thsea] Eolo says (to Cadiz), "hee"
DiegoValdez says (to Era&Cadiz), "Not speaking the language myself, I will need a translator."
CharlesAlgun says, "La Hija del Halcon..."
[7thsea] Maxwell says, "alright, OOC, I'm expecting some poison/sekrit like stuff, and then probably some fighting."
[7thsea] Maxwell says, "although it could go either way"
[7thsea] CharlesAlgun says, "Hmm. If we get Era on the ship, then we can try to shove Cadiz to Eisen, and put them both on Saturday."
[7thsea] DiegoValdez asks (of Cadiz), "Avoiding Federico?"
BastardJack asks (of Maxwell), "How are you getting to Eisen?  Will you be going overland, or taking ship with us?"
[7thsea] CharlesAlgun says, "Er, 'both' == 'Cadiz and Fed', sorry."
[7thsea] DiegoValdez asks (of Cadiz), "Why avoiding Federico?"
[7thsea] Cadiz says (to Diego), "For one, our skills overlap, and two, he thinks I'm a heretic."
Eolo says, "I would think it would be faster to cross the mountains"
[7thsea] DiegoValdez exclaims (at Cadiz), "It's for Castille!"
Maxwell says, "I believe we'll just trek overland."
[7thsea] CharlesAlgun says, "Hrm."
[7thsea] BastardJack asks (of Cadiz), "Are you ok with Friday then?"
Eolo says, "if we are going to the heart of eisen"
[7thsea] Cadiz says, "I could make some Fridays."
[7thsea] Eolo asks, "where are we going? freiburg?"
[7thsea] Cadiz says, "But I don't know which ones."
[7thsea] DiegoValdez says (to Cadiz), "Also, the Marquis can handle all the surgery needs of the Avalon-bound."
[7thsea] Cadiz says, "Also, I could always come late (12:00 my time)"
[7thsea] CharlesAlgun says, "Also, shipbuilding takes a while, so Ghogg suggested that we all go to Eisen to start with."
[7thsea] BastardJack says, "Oh.  Uh, ok then."
[7thsea] CharlesAlgun says, "Then the Avaloners just pop back over the mountains and head out."
[7thsea] BastardJack says, "I thought the point of this was to split up into < 11 people..."
[7thsea] CharlesAlgun says (to Jack), "Right -- it'd just be the first session hat's 11."
[7thsea] Maxwell says, "but who knows what short-term plans the GM has."
[7thsea] Era_Khar'Kov says (to BJ), "I thought so, too.  11 is TOO many."
[7thsea] CharlesAlgun says, "Just to get us started. Unless I misunderstood his plans."
[7thsea] Cadiz says, "If the Avalon group is too large, perhaps there'd be yet another split once we're there."
[7thsea] CharlesAlgun says, "(Kinda like how we had 11 when we first met wih Umberto?)"
[7thsea] BastardJack exclaims, "Well, in that case - woo!  I get to see Eisen before I die!"
[7thsea] Eolo says, "I would love it if we could somehow split into 4/4/3, but that'd probably mean too little playtime"
[7thsea] Era_Khar'Kov exclaims, "3 groups to DM?  Ghogg will have no life!"
[7thsea] CharlesAlgun asks (of Cadiz, Era), "Are you two going into the same group, BTW?"
[7thsea] CharlesAlgun says (to Eolo), "It'd mean someone would have to have a convincing third direction that he/she could convince people to go in, and a third night to meet on."
[7thsea] Cadiz says (to Charles), "We have only one keyboard for the two of us, so it's usually better if we're two groups."
[7thsea] Cadiz says, "Or if we get another computer and some ethernet cards."
[7thsea] BastardJack says, "Also, I really need to finish writing my prologue before we get to Avalon."
[7thsea] Era_Khar'Kov says, "However, with a little one on the way, I'm guessing the pc & cards are going to be a while in coming."
[7thsea] BastardJack says, "Staying by the manor and continuing to investigate these ruins / Lady Marion would be convincing."
[7thsea] Cadiz says (to Jack), "That's very true."
[7thsea] Cadiz says, "Lady Marion did have a group exploring the ruins."
[7thsea] CharlesAlgun asks, "So you'll probably have to fight between you to choose who gets Avalon and who gets Eisen, no?"
[7thsea] DiegoValdez says, "I'd like to go back to speak with Ferenc before we move on...."
[7thsea] BastardJack says (to Era), "Get an old 486 or something.  Cheap, and good enough for mudding."
GameMaster has entered from behind the curtain.
GameMaster says, "Ook."
Pyotr exclaims (at GM), "reArr!"
[7thsea] DiegoValdez exclaims, "Arr, GM! Yay!"
CharlesAlgun says (to Marquis), "No more wine for you, my friend..."
GameMaster asks, "What have y'all decided?"
[7thsea] Giovanna asks (of GameMaster), "okay, question: is Eisen or Avalon likely to have more fighting?"
[7thsea] Era_Khar'Kov says, "BJ We have a 386, but no cards or monitor.  Hrrmmm...."
Pyotr says, "We thought you'd passed out somewhere"
[7thsea] Maxwell says (to GM), "looks like you'd better prepare to be questioned."
[7thsea] Pyotr says (to Gio), "bloodthirsty wench"
[7thsea] Cadiz says, "Also, it'd be tough to get Win95 on it, though maybe Linux would work."
[7thsea] GameMaster says (to Giovanna), "that depends on y'all"
[7thsea] Giovanna says (to Pyotr), "no, I want to go where the fun stuff will be"
[7thsea] Maxwell says, "If it's just for mudding, linux is great."
[7thsea] Pyotr says (to cadiz), "linux is good for mudding.  I like a tf"
[7thsea] Giovanna says, "the sneaking and hiding and such"
[7thsea] Giovanna says, "and not the slashing and bashing, 'cause I'm no good at that"
[7thsea] Pyotr says, "mmhmm"
[7thsea] BastardJack says, "Linux is also good for IP maquerading your net connection."
CharlesAlgun says (to GM), "The Marquis agreed to put 1000G toward the Avalon trip, since it was his claw that caused the rouble."
[7thsea] Cadiz says, "The main thing is getting our two computers talking to one another and talking to our modem, all at once."
[7thsea] Pyotr says (to Jack), "very true"
[7thsea] CharlesAlgun says (to GM), "The Marquis agreed to put 1000G toward the Avalon trip, since it was his claw that caused the rouble."
CharlesAlgun says, "Ilac."
[7thsea] GameMaster says (to Giovanna), "if you want me to pick for you, I'd say go to Eisen"
[7thsea] Giovanna nods.
[7thsea] DiegoValdez says, "I just want the opportunity to continue pulling my Oblivious-to-all-but-the-obvious schtick."
[7thsea] Pyotr says (to DV), "heh"
[7thsea] GameMaster says, "but honestly, things can go wildly divergent so I can't predicyt"
[7thsea] Giovanna says, "ITYM "all including the totally impossible to miss""
GameMaster says (to Charles), "also, sounds fine"
[7thsea] Cadiz says, "The Predicytosaur is my favorite dinosaur."
[7thsea] BastardJack says, "For reference, we're going to Queen Elaine's court on Avalon, if that has anf effect."
[7thsea] CharlesAlgun asks, "Does he care about a share of profits from the ship's cargo et al.?"
[7thsea] Bjorg says, "damn that was too easy, we should've said the Marquis had to chip in 2000g"
[7thsea] CharlesAlgun says (to Bjorg), "Hee."
[7thsea] BastardJack rolls Mooch.
[7thsea] GameMaster says, "hee"
[7thsea] BastardJack rolls 5k3: 1 4 7 9 6 | 22
[7thsea] Pyotr says (to jack), "yay"
[7thsea] GameMaster rolls 4k4: 4 7 3 8 | 22
[7thsea] DiegoValdez says, "Hey. It was totally obvious that Cadiz was an unfortunate victim of Roll's treacherous transformation sorcery. Cadiz is Castillian, and Castillians can't shapechange."
[7thsea] Pyotr says, "aww"
[7thsea] GameMaster says (to Diego), "that'll require some fancy rollin'"
[7thsea] GameMaster asks, "anyway, who is going where?"
[7thsea] GameMaster says, "I need to know about now"
[7thsea] Bjorg says, "Avalon for me"
[7thsea] Pyotr says, "avalon"
[7thsea] BastardJack says, "Avalon"
[7thsea] CharlesAlgun says, "Avalon."
[7thsea] Eolo says, "eisen"
[7thsea] DiegoValdez says, "Eisen. Must convince Lowenherz to sell arms to Castille and not to Montaigne."
[7thsea] Giovanna says, "eisen it is, then"
[7thsea] Eolo says, "must see if there's some way to make a profit."
[7thsea] GameMaster says, "hee"
[7thsea] CharlesAlgun says, "Heck, Eolo's making a profit off of the Avalon trip without even going."
[7thsea] Pyotr says (to eolo), "obviously, there's profit to be made by selling arms to montaigne, and getting Diego to promise you more money to sell them to castille. :)"
[7thsea] BastardJack says (to Charles), "Assuming we don't lose big."
[7thsea] Cadiz says, "I think I'd prefer Avalon."
[7thsea] Eolo says, "make your money work for you, that's my motto."
[7thsea] Eolo asks, "do we know that federico wants to go to eisen?"
[7thsea] GameMaster says (to Cadiz), "try to make a choice IC if you have difficulty"
[7thsea] Pyotr says, "no,nothing definite"
[7thsea] BastardJack says, "We're assuming Frederico as Eisen, since Avalon is all evil magic stuff."
[7thsea] BastardJack says, "But he hasn't actually said it."
[7thsea] CharlesAlgun says (to GM), "Oh, we also decided to make a cargo run on our Avalon trip, bringing Montaigne finery to sell in Avalon."
[7thsea] Cadiz says, "IC I'd prefer Avalon, I'm almost sure."
[7thsea] Pyotr asks (of eolo), "but, weird heathen Sidhe vs diplomacy?"
[7thsea] GameMaster says, "go Avalon then"
[7thsea] GameMaster says, "actually, don't go too much by what sort of game you are expecting, 'cause it ain't gonna come out that way ;-)"
[7thsea] GameMaster says, "muahahaha"
[7thsea] BastardJack says (to Cadiz), "We convinced you to be our purser, so 'go with the ship' is an easy IC choice."
[7thsea] Pyotr says, "heh"
[7thsea] Cadiz says, "Right."
[7thsea] Bjorg says (to GM), "exactly what i tried to tell them, but would they listen? nooo"
[7thsea] Pyotr says (to Jack), "that's how I'm rationalizing avalon"
[7thsea] Bjorg says, ""Eisen won't have any fighting!", they all said"
[7thsea] GameMaster says, "in case you didn't tell from the transcripts, the splitting choice I made for you last time was almost entirely IC"
[7thsea] DiegoValdez says, "Hee."
[7thsea] Maxwell says (to Bjorg), "Which just sounds funny."
[7thsea] DiegoValdez says, "Eisen ... no fighting ... yeah right."
[7thsea] Bjorg says (to maxwell), "yes it does"
CharlesAlgun says (to GM), "OK, I have a few questions:"
[7thsea] Eolo says, "wait, but the split wasn't based on our character's choices which way they wanted"
[7thsea] CharlesAlgun says (to GM), "OK, I have a few questions:"
[7thsea] Era_Khar'Kov says, "IC they both sound interesting. OOC, too."
[7thsea] GameMaster says, "shoot"
[7thsea] CharlesAlgun asks, "One, is the staff the abovers saw in the artifact room like our knobbly stick?"
[7thsea] GameMaster says (to Eolo), "well, that conviently happened to have the sneaky characters get the more complicated plot"
[7thsea] CharlesAlgun asks, "Two, can we borrow the book with star charts and rituals for further study?"
[7thsea] BastardJack asks (of GM), "Diego???"
[7thsea] Eolo says, "uh-huh"
[7thsea] GameMaster says, "staff nothing like knobbly stick"
[7thsea] GameMaster says, "you can borrow the book"
[7thsea] CharlesAlgun asks, "Three, how do Ian's spheres related to our own, and how does the sphere in the artifact room relate to either?"
[7thsea] GameMaster says, "hee"
[7thsea] Maxwell says, "I think that one goes to the Marquis."
[7thsea] Cadiz asks, "Ian has spheres?"
[7thsea] CharlesAlgun asks, "Four, can his Explorer's contacts get us in touch with anyone who can give us more info about our artifacts?"
[7thsea] Bjorg asks, "or a question that's more likely to get an answer, do the spheres in the artifact room resemble the ones we found?"
[7thsea] GameMaster says, "it didn't work along perfect lines. :-) also, I did do some OOC split -- I made sure Cadiz and Era were different"
[7thsea] BastardJack says (to Cadiz), "He told Giovanna about them."
[7thsea] GameMaster says (to Charles), "yes, you'll find about that next week"
[7thsea] Maxwell says (to Cadiz), "He said something in passing."
[7thsea] Eolo says, "well, cadiz certainly worked out fine aboveground"
[7thsea] GameMaster says, "same with Ian"
[7thsea] BastardJack says, "Search for 'bowling balls' in the Day 4 transcript."
[7thsea] Eolo asks, "and I suppose my reputation thing has to wait until next week also?"
[7thsea] CharlesAlgun says, "The fifth Marquis question is detail about how/where he found the talon, but we can cover that IC during a real session."
[7thsea] GameMaster says (to Eolo), "I don't think the consequences for that will hit immediately"
[7thsea] BastardJack asks (of Eolo), "Yeah, why did you lose a pt of rep?"
[7thsea] DiegoValdez asks, "Hm. Eolo's in negative-rep land?"
[7thsea] Pyotr exclaims, "yay negative rep!"
[7thsea] Eolo says, "I have -1 when everyone else has 2/3/4"
[7thsea] CharlesAlgun asks, "Did Eolo admit to being Umberto's student?"
[7thsea] Eolo says, "except for jack, who has, er, -7"
[7thsea] Pyotr says (to eolo), "some of us have -7"
[7thsea] BastardJack asks (of GM), "speaking of which, I'm -7 instead of -10 now.  Do I get 1 Glamour Die, or 0?"
[7thsea] Pyotr says, "er,  -8, too"
[7thsea] Eolo says (to Charles), "yeah, that was established at the beginning"
[7thsea] Maxwell asks (of GM), "Federico showed me the inscribed dagger, can I look at that now?"
[7thsea] DiegoValdez watches Ghogg get swamped by questions.
[7thsea] GameMaster says (to BastardJack), "0, yes."
[7thsea] BastardJack says, "Damn."
[7thsea] Pyotr says (to jack), "damn"
[7thsea] Pyotr says (to jack), "we'll have to be extra dastardly in avalon"
[7thsea] Bjorg says (to jack), "quick, rob the bartender"
[7thsea] CharlesAlgun asks, "BTW, was the 'next week' answer about the spheres or about having the Explorer's check out our stuff?"
[7thsea] GameMaster says (to Maxwell), "one moment on that"
[7thsea] GameMaster asks, "ok, any questions I lost in the backscroll?"
[7thsea] Pyotr says (to bjorg), "I tried to break the furniture, before you paid for it"
[7thsea] GameMaster says (to BastardJack), "remember it's not what you *do*, but how people perceive of you"
[7thsea] BastardJack says (to pyotr), "Wait, you have Scoundrel too?  Damn, we *are* kindred spirits..."
[7thsea] Pyotr says, "yup. :)"
[7thsea] GameMaster says, "there was one action you did during the game which would've stabilized your reputation had everyone somehow known about it"
[7thsea] Eolo says, "but I was always good and noble and stuff"
[7thsea] Eolo says, "except for lady marion, and that was all her fault."
[7thsea] DiegoValdez composes a song about Pyotr's and Jack's noble qualities.
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[7thsea] Era_Khar'Kov says, "Just put Cadiz & I on different evenings.  Both adventures sound interesting to me."
[7thsea] Maxwell says (to Eolo), "Marion's a gossip."
[7thsea] Pyotr says, "I mean, you kill a nobleman's son and get chased out of the country.  people don't look kindly at you"
[7thsea] Pyotr says (to Diego), "no"
[7thsea] GameMaster says, "that's the way real reputation works, folks :-)"
[7thsea] Era_Khar'Kov exclaims, "I'm heading for bed - turning in early tonite.  L8R, ya'll!!"
[7thsea] Pyotr exclaims (at era), "night!"
[7thsea] BastardJack tries to remember what action that would be...
[7thsea] CharlesAlgun says (to GM), "So... were the spheres the next-week thing, the Explorers' analysis, or both? I'm just not sure if you might've missed one of the questions or not :)"
[7thsea] CharlesAlgun waves to Era.
[7thsea] Bjorg says (to era), "seeya"
[7thsea] Pyotr says (to era), "enjoy that extra hour of sleep"
BastardJack waves.
[7thsea] GameMaster says, "oh, I guess I can announce titles now"
[7thsea] CharlesAlgun asks, "Titles?"
[7thsea] GameMaster asks, "everyone's picked where they want to go, right?"
[7thsea] Era_Khar'Kov grins at Pyotr, and waves at BJ as she heads out.
[7thsea] Pyotr says, "except fed, yes"
Era_Khar'Kov goes home.
[7thsea] Maxwell says, "Except Federico"
[7thsea] BastardJack asks, "Era's definitely Eisen then?"
[7thsea] GameMaster asks, "wait, where is Era going?"
[7thsea] CharlesAlgun says, "I think we have."
[7thsea] Pyotr says (to jack), "looks like"
[7thsea] Bjorg says, "Cadiz is Avalon, so Era's Eisen"
[7thsea] Eolo says, "the titles being "Avalon, land of treasure" and "Eisen -- the black hand of death""
[7thsea] GameMaster says, "Era will be fine in Eisen"
[7thsea] Bjorg says, "i think"
[7thsea] GameMaster says, "hee"
[7thsea] BastardJack says (to GM), "she has to go opposite Cadiz, since they share a keyboard."
[7thsea] DiegoValdez says, "Oog."
[7thsea] CharlesAlgun says (to Eolo), "Oh, oh."
[7thsea] GameMaster says, "actually, it's a little more mysterious than that"
[7thsea] Pyotr exclaims (at eolo), "yay!"
[7thsea] Maxwell says (to eolo), "ha."
[7thsea] CharlesAlgun says, "Thought maybe I was about to be Earl Algun."
[7thsea] Eolo says, "but hey, 5% of treasure is fine by me."
[7thsea] Pyotr says (to charles), "well, I certainly won't vote for you."
[7thsea] NewsBoy hollers, "Extra! Extra! GameMaster has posted message 60 to the bulletin board! If you don't like what I'm saying, it's not my fault!"
[7thsea] Pyotr says (to eolo), "5% of the profits from the ship"
[7thsea] (from BastardJack) Eolo says, "If it means I can get 5% of death"
[7thsea] CharlesAlgun says (to Pyotr), "Hey, you don't vote for Earl, you get there by GM fiat..."
[7thsea] Eolo says, "ok, those are interesting titles."
[7thsea] Bjorg says, "woo woo"
[7thsea] Pyotr says (to eolo), "anything we do on the side doesn't count"
[7thsea] Cadiz says (to Pyotr), "You don't vote for captains!  The lady of the lake, arm clad in shimmering..."
[7thsea] Eolo asks (of Py), "hey, did you or did you not take the ship to get to avalon?"
[7thsea] GameMaster says, "these are going to be less obvious story-wise to start out :-)"
[7thsea] Pyotr says, "cool"
[7thsea] Pyotr asks (of eolo), "huhwhat?"
[7thsea] Giovanna says, "Clearly have to go to Eisen, since of the title."
[7thsea] CharlesAlgun says (to Eolo), "You can hire a lawyer when we get back."
[7thsea] Giovanna says, "er, s/since/because"
[7thsea] Cadiz says, "Another idea was to have some people stay and keep exploring the ruins/Marion."
[7thsea] Pyotr says (to cadiz), "eolo would love to explore marion, I bet"
[7thsea] CharlesAlgun realizes everyone else has been looking at the BB.
[7thsea] Eolo laughs.
[7thsea] CharlesAlgun says, "No wonder all of you acted like you knew them already."
[7thsea] Bjorg says, "are any of the scholarly characters going to try and research the books and things we've collected now, and figure out what that Syrne ritual was? it's bugging me :)"
[7thsea] CharlesAlgun says (to Bjorg), "I nominate Cadiz."
[7thsea] Bjorg says, "now that we have the books and dagger and etc"
[7thsea] Cadiz asks, "You still have the book?"
[7thsea] CharlesAlgun says, "We got the Marquis' book, if that's what you mean."
[7thsea] Cadiz says, "I would love to do some IC research."
[7thsea] Bjorg says (to cadiz), "the nice mister GM said we could borrow it"
[7thsea] Cadiz says, "Oh, that book."
[7thsea] Maxwell asks, "Oh, we can do the book now too?"
[7thsea] Cadiz says, "I thought you meant the book/paper you found underground."
[7thsea] CharlesAlgun says, "Oh, also, Bjorg wanted to IC research magic a little."
[7thsea] Bjorg says, "also Fed probably took notes underground, but oh well"
[7thsea] GameMaster says, "as far as dagger/book research stuff goes, I need to prepare a few things"
[7thsea] BastardJack asks, "Do we want a charter for the ship?"
[7thsea] GameMaster says, "so just holdoff on the questions now :-)"
[7thsea] BastardJack asks, "And/or the trade delegation?"
[7thsea] CharlesAlgun asks (of Jack), "'To boldly go...'?"
[7thsea] Bjorg asks, "oh yeah, thanks for the reminder.  Is it ok if I say that Bjorg does some IC looking-into various types of magic, just so he can be aware of them?"
[7thsea] Cadiz says (to GM), "I'm also book-researching the 'Cup of the Others'."
[7thsea] CharlesAlgun says, "And if Bjorg can research magic, I'm going with him :)"
[7thsea] CharlesAlgun says, "Just to get some of the OOC knowledge from the PG into IC knowledge."
[7thsea] CharlesAlgun says, "Nothing you'd need to RP with us."
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[7thsea] BastardJack says, "IC, I'm hanging around merchants and sailors at the docks (and picking Maxwell's brain) to try and find out about the best cargo."
[7thsea] GameMaster says, "right. anything I missed"
[7thsea] GameMaster asks, "?"
[7thsea] CharlesAlgun asks (of Pyotr), "Oh, and did you want to ask him about learning Cymru from me, and teaching me Ussuran?"
[7thsea] BastardJack says, "(Hence Haggle and Evaluate)"
[7thsea] Pyotr says (to charles), "right"
[7thsea] Cadiz asks, "Cymru?"
[7thsea] Pyotr says (to GM), "we're teaching languages"
[7thsea] CharlesAlgun says, "Avalon's language."
[7thsea] CharlesAlgun says, "Thean version of English."
[7thsea] Maxwell asks (of Jack), "huh?"
[7thsea] Pyotr says, "enough for Pyotr to get by in avalon"
[7thsea] GameMaster says, "language teaching you can do, although at the point the next thing starts you'll have only basic level"
[7thsea] DiegoValdez is going to have to learn Eisen in a hurry.
[7thsea] GameMaster asks, "Where is the bathroom?"
[7thsea] Alex says (to GameMaster), "Awwwk! Word on the street is that the bathroom is north twice, then east."
[7thsea] Pyotr says, "right"
[7thsea] Bjorg says, "yay"
[7thsea] GameMaster says, "Iraq has nine airports."
[7thsea] GameMaster says, "etc."
[7thsea] CharlesAlgun says (to GM), "Down the hall to the left."
[7thsea] Pyotr says, "gotcha"
[7thsea] Pyotr says, "My shoes are very shiny."
[7thsea] BastardJack says (to GM), "North twice, then east."
[7thsea] CharlesAlgun asks, "So something like a 2 on a scale of 1 to 10?"
[7thsea] CharlesAlgun says (to Jack), "Yay."
[7thsea] GameMaster says, "something like that, yeah"
[7thsea] BastardJack says (to Maxwell), "You said you were doing trade deals and stuff.  I wanna find out what you know about mercentile trading."
[7thsea] Eolo says, ""my hovercraft is full of eels""
[7thsea] DiegoValdez says, "Hee. I'm looking forward to saying "Ich bin ein Freiburger"."
[7thsea] Maxwell winces.
[7thsea] CharlesAlgun asks (of Diego), "What, pretending to be from whatever country you visit?"
[7thsea] Cadiz asks, "How much time is there going to be between the end of the last campaign and the beginning of the next?"
[7thsea] CharlesAlgun says (to Cadiz), "Time to build a 15-point boat, basically."
[7thsea] Cadiz asks, "From scratch?  You're not buying one?"
[7thsea] DiegoValdez says (to Charles), "I'll bet that "ein Freiburger" turns out to be some sort of jelly doughnut."
[7thsea] CharlesAlgun asks, "Unless Ghogg will let us find one that matches what we're looking for...?"
[7thsea] Cadiz says, "Also, that's gotta take about a year."
[7thsea] Bjorg says, "maybe we should buy a ship, and just make a few 'special modifications'"
[7thsea] BastardJack reads the list of ship's crew.
[7thsea] CharlesAlgun says (to Diego), "Nope. It's a hard candy :)"
[7thsea] GameMaster says, "you can modify a ship, yeah"
[7thsea] BastardJack asks (of Pyotr), "Wanna be the bosun?"
[7thsea] Cadiz asks, "Oh, that was another question:  Does the cost of the ship include a year's wages for the crew?"
[7thsea] GameMaster says, "oh, just for reference..."
[7thsea] GameMaster asks, "what are you doing with the talon?"
[7thsea] Bjorg says, "bringing it to Avalon"
[7thsea] GameMaster says, "during the non-roleplay time"
[7thsea] DiegoValdez says, "uh oh"
[7thsea] Bjorg says, "oh"
[7thsea] GameMaster says, "I mean, where are you storing it, etc"
[7thsea] Eolo says, "marquis should probably keep it locked up in his magic box or something"
[7thsea] Cadiz asks, "Letting the Marquis hold on to it?"
[7thsea] DiegoValdez says, "<alert!> DANGER QUESTION <alert!>"
[7thsea] GameMaster says, "that's fine, I just need to know :-)"
[7thsea] Cadiz says, "But the Unseelie know he has it, of course."
[7thsea] CharlesAlgun says (to GM), "Bringing it to Avalon."
[7thsea] CharlesAlgun asks, "Oh, non?"
[7thsea] CharlesAlgun says, "Sorry."
[7thsea] Cadiz says, "So maybe one of us should keep it with them."
[7thsea] CharlesAlgun asks, "Does Giovanna willingly give it up?"
[7thsea] CharlesAlgun says, "Probably not."
[7thsea] Bjorg asks, "yeah didn't Giovanna have it just now?"
[7thsea] Cadiz says, "Yeah, Giovanna has it."
[7thsea] CharlesAlgun says, "I'd guess that she hangs onto it."
[7thsea] Giovanna says, "Giovanna still has it around."
[7thsea] GameMaster says, "well, Giovanna isn't going to Avalon, so she has to give it to someone at some point :-)"
[7thsea] BastardJack will take it.
[7thsea] CharlesAlgun says, "OK, which of the Avalon folks do you trust with it? :)"
[7thsea] Cadiz asks, "Also, are we so sure that the Cup of the Others is in Avalon?"
[7thsea] BastardJack says (to Cadiz), "No."
[7thsea] CharlesAlgun says (to Cadiz), "We're not positive, but we know that the talon cae fro Avalon."
[7thsea] Cadiz asks, "Or are we going to Avalon for, like, research?"
[7thsea] Bjorg says (to cadiz), "we aren't, but that's not what we're looking for just yet"
[7thsea] DiegoValdez says (to Charles), "Clearly not Mr -7 rep."
[7thsea] CharlesAlgun says, "Unless the Marquis lied."
[7thsea] BastardJack says (to Cadiz), "Yes."
[7thsea] GameMaster says, "well, nobody said the campaigns will end where they started ;-)"
[7thsea] Bjorg says, "in fact we might not want anyone to find said Cup"
[7thsea] Giovanna says, "hmmm"
[7thsea] CharlesAlgun says (to Bjorg), "Right."
[7thsea] BastardJack says, "We're taking it to Queen Elaine's court, cause we figure they'll have people there who know that kind of thing."
[7thsea] Cadiz says, "Well, before we leave, I'm doing as much local research as I can."
[7thsea] DiegoValdez wants to check on Gruenwald and Ferenc.
[7thsea] Bjorg says (to GM), "by the way, as part of the general magic-research I'm doing, I definitely want to know if Porte magic ever makes a 'buzzing' sound"
[7thsea] CharlesAlgun says (to Jack), "Or at least a lower court, working our way up if necessary."
[7thsea] Cadiz says, "But book stuff, not asking random passers-by 'Hey, what do you know about the Cup of the Others?'"
[7thsea] CharlesAlgun says (to Bjorg), "It makes a schlup sound :)"
[7thsea] Cadiz asks, "Buzzing?"
[7thsea] Pyotr asks (of bjorg), "what's bosun do?"
[7thsea] Bjorg says (to cadiz), "ie. the sound we heard when umberto disappeared"
[7thsea] GameMaster says (to Bjorg), "I can tell you this one right away -- it wasn't normal Porte sound"
[7thsea] Bjorg says, "ok, good enough"
[7thsea] CharlesAlgun says, "Oh, about our specific course -- Avalon's a big place. I can think of four obvious places there to aim for..."
[7thsea] Cadiz asks, "Oh, here's another question:  Does the marquis' book have any relation to the ritual they found out about underground?"
[7thsea] GameMaster says (to Cadiz), "yes"
[7thsea] BastardJack says (to Pyotr), "p95 of the 1st printing"
[7thsea] Bjorg says, "other than that, i strongly encourage a scholar character to decipher the Syrne ritual, please :)"
[7thsea] Pyotr says, "mmm"
[7thsea] Cadiz asks, "Is the ceiling star map the same?"
[7thsea] CharlesAlgun says, "One, to barge right into Elaine's court uninvited. Not recommended, IMO. Two, to start by checking out the site where the Marquis found the claw..."
[7thsea] Pyotr has 2nd, ofc
[7thsea] Maxwell says (to Bjorg), "You make it sound rather easy."
[7thsea] BastardJack says (to Pyotr), "In charge of the cat-o-nine-tails"
[7thsea] Pyotr says, "oh, yeah"
[7thsea] CharlesAlgun says, "Two, the place where Charles court contact is from (she may or may not be there at the time; if not, people there might be less than helpful)..."
[7thsea] CharlesAlgun says, "Er, that was Three."
[7thsea] Pyotr says, "I'll make those oarsmen sweat"
[7thsea] Bjorg says (to cadiz), "the maps are related, since you both separately discovered that they're starmaps of 10,000 years ago"
[7thsea] CharlesAlgun says, "Four, Charles home town, where he's likely to be able to find out where his contact actually is."
[7thsea] Pyotr says (to bjorg), "ofc, I have no sailing skills"
[7thsea] Cadiz asks, "Oh, hey, someone sketched said map, right?  Can I take a look, and see if it means anything to me?"
[7thsea] Maxwell says, "I don't see what going for the ruin would get you."
[7thsea] BastardJack says, "Four sounds best, as a stepping stone to three, as a stepping stone to one."
[7thsea] Bjorg says, "sure, but you'll have to talk to Federico I think"
[7thsea] CharlesAlgun asks, "What seems like the best first step to agree to, or does someone have a different idea?"
[7thsea] Pyotr says (to charles), "I like 4"
[7thsea] CharlesAlgun says, "Og, and I have a sketch of the ceiling map from the underground building."
[7thsea] Bjorg says, "yeah, whatever is the most likely to get us a contact into Elaine's court"
[7thsea] NewsBoy hollers, "Extra! Extra! GameMaster has posted message 61 to the bulletin board! Newsflash: A monkey isn't actually funny!"
[7thsea] Eolo asks, "wait, wouldn't it help to go check out the ruin?"
[7thsea] Giovanna says, "nice"
[7thsea] Bjorg exclaims, "yay!"
[7thsea] CharlesAlgun says (to Eolo), "Probably, although possibly dangerous."
[7thsea] Bjorg says, "i'd rather not bring the talon back to a ruin"
[7thsea] CharlesAlgun nods.
[7thsea] CharlesAlgun says, "Reasonable."
[7thsea] Bjorg says, "not unless we KNOW that's the right thing to do"
[7thsea] BastardJack says (to Eolo), "Yeah, but we should do research *first*, which involves tho court contacts."
[7thsea] Eolo says, "mm, I guess"
[7thsea] Cadiz says, "Doesn't mean we can't go ourselves, though."
[7thsea] CharlesAlgun asks, "And if our contacts tell us that we need to do two, then we will?"
[7thsea] Eolo says, "also, can we speculate on them? I got five bucks on charles"
[7thsea] GameMaster says, "while everyone is still here: we still need to decide on days"
[7thsea] CharlesAlgun says (to GM), "I think Fed and Cadiz are the only ones who care Fri/Sat."
[7thsea] BastardJack says, "Era cares."
[7thsea] BastardJack asks, "Didn't she say she wanted Fridays?"
[7thsea] GameMaster says, "Era can do Friday and Cadiz can do Saturday"
[7thsea] GameMaster says, "so...I'll go by them.."
[7thsea] CharlesAlgun says, "OK."
[7thsea] Maxwell is still waiting for the research stuff to be ready.
[7thsea] GameMaster says, "since Federico will be on Saturday now, which I think he likes better"
[7thsea] GameMaster says, "er, wait"
[7thsea] GameMaster says, "d'oh"
[7thsea] Cadiz says, "Right.  Though if necessary we can sometimes switch."
[7thsea] CharlesAlgun says, "Wait."
[7thsea] GameMaster says, "he'll still be friday"
[7thsea] BastardJack says, "Yes."
[7thsea] CharlesAlgun says, "Right."
[7thsea] BastardJack says, "Cadiz main IC point was: I want to stay away from Federico."
[7thsea] GameMaster says, "well, if he wants to switch to saturdays real badly, he can come up with a reason to go to Avalon :-)"
[7thsea] BastardJack says, "So Era and Federico are on the sme day."
[7thsea] Cadiz says (to Jack), "Heh."
[7thsea] Pyotr says (to jack), "they can't do that easily, tho"
[7thsea] BastardJack asks (of Pyotr), "What do you mean?"
[7thsea] Pyotr says, "thay have one computer"
[7thsea] Bjorg says, "*bzzt*"
[7thsea] Pyotr says, "two people + one keyboadrd + playing simultaneously == sucks"
[7thsea] BastardJack asks, "Does Era want Friday, or not care?"
[7thsea] Cadiz says, "Era's sharing a computer with Federico?  I gotta have a chat with that woman."
[7thsea] Maxwell says, "eeeagh, Bjorg has disappeared in a cloud of sparklies."
[7thsea] Bjorg says, "it's 1am, and you're mixing up names.  that or i am"
[7thsea] Eolo says, "they don't actually have one computer, just one slowish net conenction, I thought."
[7thsea] Eolo says (to Cadiz), "hee hee"
[7thsea] CharlesAlgun exclaims (at ax), "Hee!"
[7thsea] Pyotr says, "er, wait, I totally misread that"
[7thsea] Pyotr says, "I'm going back to sleep"
Pyotr passes out.
[7thsea] Cadiz says, "We have one old computer in storage which we could resurrect."
[7thsea] GameMaster asks, "also, daylight savings time is nix next week, right?"
[7thsea] Eolo says, "switchover is tonight, yeah"
Bjorg says, "And I thought he said he could hold his ale ..."
[7thsea] CharlesAlgun says, "Um. I think so, right."
[7thsea] Cadiz says, "Daylight savings kicks in tonight."
[7thsea] BastardJack says, "It is?  Eagh."
[7thsea] DiegoValdez says (to Bjorg), "Actually, what with daylight savings, only midnight"
[7thsea] Cadiz says, "Or out, whichever."
[7thsea] Eolo asks, "so are we switching to 7pm PST?"
[7thsea] Pyotr says (to gm), "is in 1 hour"
[7thsea] GameMaster says, "7 pm pst"
[7thsea] Maxwell says, "tonight. In one hour, in this time zone."
[7thsea] BastardJack says, "Damn.  I have an appointment at 2:00 tomorrow, but I dunno if they were taking Daylight Savings into account..."
[7thsea] Bjorg says (to jack), "assume they were, 'cause if they weren't they're wrong"
[7thsea] DiegoValdez says (to Jack), "show up early. Doesn't hurt."
[7thsea] Cadiz says (to Jack), "Unless it's 2:00 AM, I'd assume they'll be with the rest of the world."
[7thsea] NewsBoy hollers, "Extra! Extra! GameMaster has posted message 62 to the bulletin board! Why won't they pay me minimum wage?"
[7thsea] Maxwell says, "oo, yay."
[7thsea] GameMaster says, "by the way, we may have guest heros/semi-villians/villians this time"
[7thsea] Pyotr asks, "oh?"
[7thsea] BastardJack says (to Cadiz), "They're students.  I don't even know if they remembered.  I didn't till now."
[7thsea] DiegoValdez asks (of GM), "?"
[7thsea] Eolo asks, "guest? like, other players?"
[7thsea] Alex says (to Eolo), "Awwwk! Word on the street is that Guest is a gestalt entity. Out of many, one. Well, sometimes we have two."
[7thsea] GameMaster says, "I know of two people who want to play a part, yeah"
[7thsea] GameMaster says, "one of them is Whizzard"
[7thsea] Bjorg exclaims, "cool!"
[7thsea] DiegoValdez exclaims (at GM), "YAY!"
[7thsea] Pyotr exclaims, "woot!"
[7thsea] Maxwell says, "wow."
[7thsea] CharlesAlgun says, "FYI, Four is a town called Lamstead, and Three is called Marisent."
[7thsea] GameMaster says, "LoneCleric's the other one"
[7thsea] Cadiz exclaims, "That's so cool!"
[7thsea] Eolo says, "I know sargent was also interested."
[7thsea] Pyotr says, "excellent"
[7thsea] BastardJack says, "I like that Eisen part..."
[7thsea] (from Cadiz) GameMaster says, "And LucFrench is the third."
[7thsea] GameMaster says (to Eolo), "well, he hasn't said anything to *me*..."
[7thsea] BastardJack asks, "Bah.  What did I just type that for?"
[7thsea] GameMaster says, "I'll ask"
[7thsea] BastardJack says, "I like that Alex quote..."
[7thsea] Eolo says (to Cadiz), "he can play the big snake that just tries to eat people all the time."
[7thsea] CharlesAlgun catches up after a moment AFK.
[7thsea] CharlesAlgun exclaims, "WHizzard? Yay!"
[7thsea] Cadiz says, "I bet Whiz is gonna play a villain."
[7thsea] Bjorg says, "Whizzard will play the part of a large pack of ravenous Black Wolves"
[7thsea] CharlesAlgun exclaims, "LC and Sarge are cool, of course, but Yay Whizzard!"
[7thsea] CharlesAlgun exclaims (at Bjorg), "Woohoo!"
[7thsea] Bjorg says, "which will eat me alive when i run out of drama dic"
BastardJack asks, "Can anyone here cook?"
[7thsea] Bjorg says, "e"
[7thsea] GameMaster says, "I almost let LoneCleric play Ferenc for the insulting part, but I decided things were so complicated I didn't want to deal with an extra party in that section :-)"
[7thsea] Cadiz says (to Bjorg), "Who attack people's ankle tendons."
CharlesAlgun shrugs, "I can make stew and sammiches."
Eolo says, "well, I have survival."
DiegoValdez says (to Jack), "Don't look at me, senor ... I led a pampered, sheltered childhood."
Bjorg asks (of Charles), "Sammiches?"
Pyotr says, "mmm, I tend to just burn meat iover a campfire."
Eolo says (to Bjorg), "some kind of dessert, apparently."
BastardJack grumbles.  "Hmm, we'll have to hire one for the ship, I suppose..."
Cadiz says, "I have 'menial tasks', which probably includes basic food prep."
Eolo says (to Cadiz), "oh, good point."
[7thsea] BastardJack says (to Cadiz), "Was that IC? :-)"
CharlesAlgun says (to Bjorg), "An Avalon food -- you take a loaf of bread and cut off two slices..."
[7thsea] Cadiz says, "I guess not ;-)"
GameMaster says, "Marquis is bringing Pierre, btw, if you wanted him to come to Avalon"
CharlesAlgun says (to Bjorg), "Then you slice meat, cheese, and any other foods that ight go way to about the sae size as the bread..."
BastardJack says (to Cadiz), "Good.  You can be cook as well as purser.  (That's an extra share, isn't it?)"
GameMaster says, "Pierre can cook"
CharlesAlgun says (to Bjorg), "Then you stack them -- everything in between the bread -- and eat it with your hands."
[7thsea] Bjorg isn't sure about trusting hired help from the manor.
GameMaster says, "also has some other handy skills you don't even know about yet"
CharlesAlgun says, "Most convenient."
Cadiz says, "I'll let Pierre cook."
(From Eolo) GameMaster says "Explosives, lock-picking, that kind of thing."
Bjorg says, "That does sound handy."
[7thsea] DiegoValdez says, "Pierre is Oddjob."
[7thsea] Cadiz says, "I'll use my 'unobtrusive' knack instead ;-)"
[7thsea] CharlesAlgun asks, "How many staterooms can we get on a 15-point ship -- enough for everyone to have their own?"
[7thsea] CharlesAlgun says, "Does Pierre have to sleep with the crewmen? :)"
[7thsea] GameMaster says, "heh"
[7thsea] GameMaster says, "I haven't gotten the final detail on the ship"
[7thsea] BastardJack asks, "How big is the crew?"
[7thsea] GameMaster says, "but you were still deciding whether or not to buy it"
[7thsea] Bjorg says, "oh, we decided"
[7thsea] Pyotr says (to jack), "well, there's 6 of us, plus a Squad."
[7thsea] Bjorg says, "and worked out the costs and everything"
[7thsea] GameMaster says, "if you could mail me a summary I'd appreciate it"
[7thsea] DiegoValdez says, "Hee. Right down to the figurehead."
[7thsea] Eolo asks, "a squad or a squid?"
[7thsea] Pyotr says, "A squid.  Onna stick!~"
[7thsea] Bjorg says, "yay sluggy"
[7thsea] Pyotr :)
[7thsea] Cadiz asks (of GM), "Hey, I have a question.  Can I keep my leftover drama dice as drama dice instead of XP?  Or maybe keep one of them?"
[7thsea] GameMaster says, "it's xp now"
[7thsea] CharlesAlgun says, "Sure."
[7thsea] GameMaster says, "fresh new dice, sorry"
[7thsea] Cadiz says, "OK.  Can I buy a drama dice with an XP? ;-)"
[7thsea] GameMaster says, "sure, raise your stats :-)"
[7thsea] DiegoValdez says (to Cadiz), "You'll have to open the game with something dramatic."
[7thsea] Cadiz says, "Heh."
[7thsea] Bjorg says, "heh"
[7thsea] BastardJack asks, "Should I put Cadiz down as Surgeon, or the Marquis?"
[7thsea] CharlesAlgun asks, "OK, so two figureheads (one on bow, one on mast), hawk on the sail, painted black, lots of runes... who's going to ask for the colorful banners?"
[7thsea] Pyotr says, "I trust cadiz more"
[7thsea] GameMaster says, "Marquis trusts Cadiz more"
[7thsea] Bjorg asks (of GM), "by the way, did my email about my background-hunting-for-item details make any sense?"
[7thsea] Pyotr says (to Charles), "Fur.  It needs fur."
[7thsea] CharlesAlgun says, "Oooh."
[7thsea] Cadiz thinks the marquis is probably as good if not better than him.
[7thsea] CharlesAlgun asks (of GM), "Is colorful furs as good as colorful banners?"
[7thsea] Pyotr says, "yay"
[7thsea] DiegoValdez says, "Oh dear ... this is getting Beyond Gaudy."
[7thsea] Cadiz says, "Actually, I'm sure he was better than me before I went to 3 in Wits, and now we're probably tied."
[7thsea] CharlesAlgun says (to Diego), "Hee."
[7thsea] Bjorg says, "i don't want lots of runes - just one BIG rune :)"
[7thsea] Pyotr says (to DV), "Gaudy (2): This Time it's Really Bad"
[7thsea] CharlesAlgun asks (of Bjorg), "On each side, for symetry?"
[7thsea] Bjorg says (to charles), "i was thinking one big one on the front of the cabin wall, facing forward"
[7thsea] Bjorg says, "not that my sense of ship structure is very good, so that might make no sense"
[7thsea] BastardJack says (to Bjorg), "Do you have enough sailing experience for me to put you down as Ship's Master? (See p95)"
[7thsea] Bjorg says, "hmm"
[7thsea] Eolo says, "I thought that was the plan, yeah"
[7thsea] Cadiz says (to GM), "Hey, another thought:  I was thinking of combining my drawing skill and my 'Examiner' knack and coming up with a new knack like 'mug shot'--something that would enable me to draw things (like faces) from descriptions only."
[7thsea] Bjorg says (to jack), "yeah, i've got quite a bit of sailing in my history"
[7thsea] BastardJack says, "Cool."
[7thsea] GameMaster says (to cadiz), "that's sort of in drawing already"
[7thsea] GameMaster says, "just requires a raise or two depending on description"
[7thsea] GameMaster says, "and helpfulness of describer"
[7thsea] Pyotr says (to bjorg), "you never answered my question"
[7thsea] Bjorg says, "maybe not enough to be ship's master on any old stranger's ship, but hey, its not what you know but who you know"
[7thsea] Cadiz says, "OK.'"
[7thsea] Bjorg says (to pyotr), "then i missed it :)"
[7thsea] BastardJack says, "Also, who am I missing: Charles, Bjorg, Jack, Cadiz, Pyotr..."
[7thsea] Cadiz says, "But you can help that, if you know the right questions to ask."
[7thsea] GameMaster says, "the modern concept of 'mug shot' hasn't been invented you, so no, you can't be a police artist :-)"
[7thsea] BastardJack asks, "Don't we have one more?"
[7thsea] Pyotr asks (of bjorg), "will my having no sailor skills pose a problem with being bosun?"
[7thsea] GameMaster says, "invented yet"
[7thsea] Cadiz says, "Well, naturally."
[7thsea] Bjorg says (to pyotr), "ah, we'll just learn ya some sailor skills really quickly ;)"
[7thsea] DiegoValdez says (to GM), "Cadiz wants to invent it...."
[7thsea] BastardJack says (to Pyotr), "You can be Master-at-Arms (in charge of the weapons locker)"
[7thsea] Pyotr says, "heh"
[7thsea] Bjorg says, "and yeah, Master-at-Arms sounds good"
[7thsea] Pyotr says (to Jack), "saw that, but you really don't want pyotr playing with guns"
[7thsea] GameMaster says, "well, you just use the $70 Syrneth time machine and you can find out all about it :-)"
[7thsea] Pyotr says, "he's not that modern.:)"
[7thsea] DiegoValdez says, "hee"
[7thsea] Bjorg says (to GM), "yay"
[7thsea] Cadiz says, "I don't want to find out about it, I want to invent it myself ;-)"
[7thsea] BastardJack says, "Hmm."
[7thsea] Pyotr says, "er, new skill costs 10?  ouch"
[7thsea] Cadiz says, "Yup."
[7thsea] Pyotr says, "if it was 5, I'd re-jigger"
[7thsea] CharlesAlgun asks (of Jack), "What position are you marking youself down for?"
[7thsea] Maxwell says, "hm, it's not that bad"
[7thsea] Pyotr says (to jack), "master-of-arms it is"
[7thsea] BastardJack asks (of Pyotr), "Got any carpentry skills?"
[7thsea] Pyotr says, "ha"
[7thsea] BastardJack says (to Charlses), "Sailmaker"
[7thsea] CharlesAlgun nods.
[7thsea] Pyotr says, "my only non-martial skills are hunting"
[7thsea] CharlesAlgun asks, "Can you fish?"
[7thsea] Pyotr says, "maybe I should just start scrubbing the deck"
[7thsea] Cadiz says, "I do find it somewhat odd that everything costs dramatically different when character-creating than when spending XP."
[7thsea] Pyotr says (to Charles), "nope"
[7thsea] BastardJack says, "All right then.  Master-at-Arms it is.  Or Ordinary Seaman."
[7thsea] Pyotr says (to Charles), "yes,