Behind the Crown [OoC], Out-of-Character information for Behind the Crown Options

[pbangarth]

Yup, I'll allow that fix. Update your sheet accordingly.

Thanks. Done.

[pbangarth]

Koekepan, Blue has a number of spell formulae for fabricating one-off spell items. Are those formulae suitable for use to learn a spell for regular use? Karma and time requirements would apply, of course.

As well, you say formulae for summoning are not useful because they would be spirit specific. What if Blue wanted to create an item to summon Sweez, who is a hearth spirit in his domicile, at Force 6? Being able to summon without risking Drain in a critical situation, such as for example defending ones home against intruders, could be useful.

[Koekepan]

The formulae are useful for learning the spell; as long as the spell is adequately understood by the magician in question, it can be learned given the commitment of karma.

I'm not extending formulae to summoning because it's a qualitatively different procedure - aside from anything else, time and place movements make each summoning unique. The one summoning that you can almost always pull off with minimal drama is a watcher - but of course that has its own limitations. Think of it as the difference between "shoot this gun aimed at that target" and "negotiate a contract". Every pull of a trigger is effectively the same once you've loaded the gun. The same contractual terms might be acceptable one day, unacceptable the next, and conditionally acceptable yet the following.

No summoning formulae. Want to summon? Run the risk.

[pbangarth]

Got it. Thanks.

[Bastard]

I will try to catch up on the IC tomorrow. Been a busy week or two.

[pbangarth]

Just keeping this thread off the bottom of the list.

[Koekepan]

Yup, just waiting for Bastard to remanifest.

[Bastard]

Sorry, I have been away. Nothing but working and sleeping the last few.

[pbangarth]

Just for a second or so I had forgotten that Blue was once Connor, and wondered about that billboard. Heh. How soon, sometimes, we forget the unpleasant past.

[pbangarth]

Looking back through the IC posts, I don't see any reference to another talismonger besides Mary Margaret. Is she the one Karmakaze is talking about, Bastard? I don't think she will want to get anywhere near these things. She thinks there is a dragon behind them.

[Bastard]

Jaxx had sent me info on one.


EDIT: So not a Talismonger, but a Metabiologist.

<<<Talismongers? Kind of a specialised field there, Karmapillar. I know a few, and I could give you some names of shops, but if the critters are alive and kicking then there's a droog on the edge of the valley, running a shop he calls the Metabiologist. I can give you his coordinates, if you wanna try it. Not my scene. He's probably sleeping now, but the biz never does, does it? Would that grease your turbines?>>>

The link with Jaxx drops, and about three minutes later Karmakaze's 'link blips with the notification of an incoming message, with directions to Metabiologist.

Metabiologist's shop is in fact on the edge of the Puyallup valley, somewhere to the northeast of where Karmakaze and Blue are right now. It's one of the older areas that somehow escaped the volcanic flows from Mount Rainier, due to being high enough up the edge of the valley not to be inundated, but that subsequently lost infrastructure and was quietly forgotten and left to its own wreckage. Barrens? Kind of. But more the dilapidated kind, than the overbuilt slum kind.

This post has been edited by Bastard: Sep 21 2022, 12:32 AM

[pbangarth]

Got it. Thanks.

[pbangarth]

We've entered the wee hours of day 6 of the contract by Mitsuhama on Connor, correct?

[Koekepan]

I think that your count is right.

[Bastard]

Sorry for the long delays. I haven't been feeling well, and haven't been sleeping, on top of putting in a lot of time at work the last 3-4 weeks. It has been hard for me to focus while trying to read and catch up on the IC.

[pbangarth]

I knew she was going to ask. I should have asked this right away. Koekepan, what was the amount quoted for emergency service?

[Koekepan]

A thousand nuyen up front for the emergency call - there's no mention of any other price boost but maybe there are overtime rates.

Apparently the value of interrupted sleep is NY1K.

[Bastard]

5000 each, or even 2500 each is better. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/wink.gif)

[pbangarth]

5000 each, or even 2500 each is better. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/wink.gif)

I agree. Problem is, the buyer already knows we are in a hurry from the timing of the call. They are going to go cheap no matter what, so Blue just acknowledged that. " Hey, we're all pros here, so lets just get this done" kind of thing. Maybe we could negotiate hard for a bit more cash, but we actually are in a hurry to get out from under a hanging sword.

[pbangarth]

I think Blue is talking too much. Next negotiation, unless it's about magic, how about Karmakaze take over?

[Bastard]

This IS about paranormal animals. That is magic to me!

[pbangarth]

Eventually we will get into situations that don't involve magic. Though, I do see that the current situation is tending us in that direction.

It's weird, this is the first post on the whole board in about two or three days. Everybody seems to be on hiatus.

[pbangarth]

Hey, it's worth a shot to try to develop a new contact.

[pbangarth]

So, can I add this fellow as a contact for Blue? If so, Level 1 I presume?

[Koekepan]

Yup, you get him as a contact. Level 1, of course - just biz.