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Post by Admin on Nov 21, 2023 5:18:36 GMT
#s://i~ibb~co/sbWWQDT/Fiona~jpg The skies above Amber are dreary, heavy grey clouds fill the sky from horizon to horizon. Just like every day in Amber the last year. A harsh, cold rain splatters against he window of the Whisky shop, just like most days. Z'Ra can see a few people rush by, hunched over with copies of the Dockside Dangler held over their heads as makeshift umbrellas. Inside are the regulars Lord Rein and his wife. Drunk as always. Arguing as always. At least they haven't been throwing bottles at each other. But it is still early in the afternoon, there's plenty of time for tossing glassware before night falls. Fiona is inside too. She wears a heavy green raincape and looks over the offered spirits with distain. It's tough trying to keep a business going these days. The constant storms have stopped all trade, leaving Bayle's as the only source of alcohol and his vines are rotting in the fields and his remaining wines are poor quality. Food is becoming scarce too. But not in the castle, the rumours say. Up there they still have cellars and pantries full of everything the royal family desires. Outside of the people's stomachs there is all the other troubles besetting the city: Random and Vialle's death, Gerard falling in a distant shadow they're calling Kasaba, a great battle in the streets of the city involving the newly arrived Lord Xu Liang Han and some still unidentified magical assailants. The fight destroyed most of the block yet her stores were undamaged. Not even a broken window. Bad times, which makes royal patronage more important then ever.
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Post by zra on Nov 21, 2023 19:47:12 GMT
Z'ra will greet the 2 regulars, as she normally does. A warm welcoming smile and a bright personality. Every drink that they order is delivered with a minimum of delay.
Every glass thrown quietly adds to the end bill and eveey bottle broken in anger also adds to the end. Of course a but padded so when they pay it can be argued down, they feel they are getting a deal and she is making profit.
Z'ra is at a table working on 3 projects at once. The fur she has an old cutting board that is so used that it's dished, not going to be used for cooking but after Enchanting, that glassware is going to be profit. The second is a Horseshoe that she salvaged from a furrier after he was finished replacing the horses shoes. One side will be just pretty and decorated up. The side on the wall is going to be enchanted to make a sheet of drying so that the weather that the patterns has on them stays outside. The final project is the most difficult of them all, I need those fields to grow and be harvest able. She is working on a respected version of the dry vail spell. Some water needs to get through, but too much is killing my chances of profit.
She can and is almost completely by herself supplying both the "whiskey stop" and "Tallon by dawn" with midnight supply runs with a hand truck infront of her and a collapsible wagon behind her. The lack of sleep is hardly visible thanks to makeup and well timed power naps
Seeing the people who are using the newspaper as makeshift umbrellas she will add a box of golfing umbrellas to the next supply run.
( what are the amberlaws for this 16 year old girl and selling booze? )
(( what is the district like that she is in ? ))
((( what is the law for doing enchants like this? )))
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Post by Admin on Nov 23, 2023 5:23:31 GMT
OOC: She absolutely can not be running a gin joint at such a young age. Change your character details.
OOC: Sorcery is limited in Amber due to the proximity of the Pattern. Anything she casts won't last longer than a day, at best. She doesn't have any effect on the weather or the farms.
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Post by zra on Nov 23, 2023 9:16:50 GMT
Ok so she just owns the shop, a hired hand runs it. Easy enough to explain. If you still want me to change her age after this no trouble.
So any enchantment that she will do will last just one day, ok I can work with that. Just how far away can I be to enchant an item for the day? Do I have to ride by and touch the nails in the wine fields every day, or csn i sit on my bed apon waking up and Weaver it into the linchpin for the spells?
3 dailies so far. Mend Broken glass, leave environment outside the door, and dome to regulate the rain fall.
Personal spells she has locked in are, Teleport to x spot, linchpin added at casting. Hive mind, because hive mind. And casting before she even leaves her room in the morning, a protective spell like mage armor but jacked up Sorcery not basic Conjuration. This should leave room for more she can add later as things grow.
Yes to anyone reading, I just publicly posted her spells. Something are hidden, some are visual and not easy to hide. A field of pure force about a quarter of a inch almost constantly active, is going to be seen.
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Post by Hammett on Nov 23, 2023 15:12:14 GMT
[[OCC: How many hours each morning does it take you to memorize and then cast all those spells? 4-5 hours? ]]
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Post by zra on Nov 23, 2023 20:10:06 GMT
By the way the books read, and coubterdict each other. One says an hour per spell. Another says says 15 minutes each. But by her way of doing Sorcery it's about 5 seconds each. This is why you buy Artifacts people.
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Post by Admin on Nov 24, 2023 2:30:42 GMT
Only a construct could allow spellcasting that quick. And it would cost a hell of a lot of points. I can look it up for you. No spell she has could have any effect on the fields. And a spell would have a day at most of an effect. Only at most, probably less since she is under powered.
And, of course, you'd be better served learning the rules yourself before mocking others.
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Post by zra on Nov 24, 2023 6:28:03 GMT
Well I thought i bought an Artifact that was able to do 2 things good for me.guess I was wrong
Apparently being happy you thought you made an Artifact is mocking people.
Well this was a good idea.
Just a fail on my part
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Post by Maeve on Nov 24, 2023 7:31:30 GMT
OCC: The weather in Amber is one of the plots/part of the background story of the game.
The last character who tried to solve this by using sorcery blew the castle up and killed King Random and Queen Vialle.
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Post by zra on Nov 24, 2023 17:41:36 GMT
Oh she's not trying to solve the weather. Just make patches that are dryer. But this is enough to make me stop altogether.
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Post by Admin on Nov 30, 2023 17:13:52 GMT
I will admit that you were quite close to correct in the construct creation. Surprisingly cheap! Which is not a good sign...
Although having those spells cast all the time, every day, is going to attract the attention of people who can sense such workings.
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Post by Admin on Nov 30, 2023 17:14:29 GMT
Z'ra works on her projects. The Reins bicker. Fiona is looking around.
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Post by zra on Dec 1, 2023 22:12:08 GMT
She will set the iron nails down on the cloth. She sigh heavily. " cracked one and three more crop up to get around it." She frustratedly utters folding thr cloth, nails and all up.
She will turn to the Horseshoe and give the fine etching on the flatest side She walks to the door and hanges the shoe over the door. She walks out, stands in the rain for a moment allowing herself to get slightly damp, and steps back in. A jet of warm air shoots down pushing her down to the ground. " damn it" she will curse slamming her fist on the ground. I wave of her hand and she didpells her spell.
Standing up and dusting herself off " and back three steps " she grumbles pulling the Horseshoe down from over the door.
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Post by Admin on Dec 5, 2023 0:21:18 GMT
#s://i~ibb~co/c1cnrbB/simone~png Fiona raises one perfectly formed, amused eyebrow at Z'Ra's antics. Lord Rein looks at her, then his bottle, wondering what it's laced with. "I saw something like that during the battle of Jones Falls. Did I ever tell you ab-" he begins to say to his wife. "Many times. Always Jones Falls," she interrupts him with a nasty and drunken growl.
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Post by zra on Dec 5, 2023 3:57:21 GMT
"What happened like that in the battle?" Z'ra will ask setting the Horseshoe down on the table she is working at. She places a cutting board to the side, seemingly happy with it. ( just a simple Mending spell. Cantrip in meny games, but she made it a full blown Sorcery inlay in the cutting board. ))
Before the lord can start his story " I want to ask for help, but that would not be right." she will explain seeing the raised eyebrow " if a girl can't make a simple dryer spell work, how can she get anywhere in this place. If you ask for help with the simple stuff, nobody is going to look at you for the tougher things "
She sets back and listens to the lords story intently. Her interest in the story is an honest one to even a casual watcher.she visual makes notes to and with what he says. She will use the lady's responses to predict what will come. She will never cut in but she is clearly enjoying it.
As the story is being told she is going to soun her ring. Just a simple blue metal band, but she turns it over and over again.
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