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Post by Admin on Dec 7, 2023 4:23:37 GMT
Rein tells of Corwin being pierced by two arrows, so he had to put aside his lute, draw his sword, and rally the forces of Amber. As he slurs his way through the telling, his cadence matches the steps of a troop of city guards marching past the shop. Once they pass, he returns to speaking in a scattered, drifting way.
A soldier in Fiona's colors enters the shop and whispers to her. She follows him outside. He lays his cape on the ground for her to step on and then into her carriage. They ride into the rain towards the castle.
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Post by zra on Dec 8, 2023 14:49:54 GMT
She listened to the story like a single digit child, with unwavering attention and focused attention. She watches the display of swordsmenship making notes. Stories are the way to distract him. She will slide his glass back to him with a smile " thank you "
Buzz (( what was said? ))
She will nod to Fiona as she leaves " have a great day. " she will nod to the gaurd as he picks up the cloak. The nod is a nod of knowing that it's more than duty.
Buzz buzz (( follow up and listen ))
She will pull a sheet or parchment to her and a wax pencil. She will list a few things
Glass z by y sheets with x and y bkank
Channel metal. X by y by z again with the z y and z empty.
Screws boxes
Metal bar cutter
Unpowered grinder
Flat bar driver aka fence post driver but for flat bars
She will fold the sheet over twice and walk up to the Bartender Harry. As she rolls a flat ruler around her wrist " I'm going to run out to speak with someone. I just might have a way to get that wine without magic. " she hands him the cuttng board. " this should fix a few broken things " not like he doesn't know what is going on with it, but she can't help but be proud of her only accomplishment with magic today.
As she grabs her purple and lavender oiled canvas rain jacket she will look at the Horseshoes intended home. To herself but probably outloud " i will get you right. "
With this she will head up to the Vinyard and speak with the owner " how do you feel about a temporary fix until someone can get the weather fuxed" she will ask showing him the list and looking at the Vines rotting from too much water.
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Post by Admin on Dec 14, 2023 6:42:43 GMT
The guard told Princess Fiona that she was urgently required in the castle.
Lord Bayle looks down his nose at the child who has interrupted his work.
"You think you can do what no one else can? What no one in the castle can do?" he asks skeptically.
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Post by zra on Dec 14, 2023 13:12:55 GMT
"Lird Bayle this is not a matter of magic, this is a matter that may be fixed with out that. " she shows him her idea.
On the paper she has a simple post and frame drawing. The sides look open. A door is nowhere to be found.
" if you allow me to use three rows to test on, we just might be able to get something out of this year's grapes" she points at the drawing.
" I'll bring a pair of wirker in the morning, with your approval, and get the first row set up. By the time we have the third set up we should see the results in the first one and maybe the second. " she will explain folding the paper up and putting it in her raincoat.
" its a Mundane fix to a magical problem with a chance of working " she will make one last attempt to talk him into it. She knows that if he says no there are other smaller Vinyard that will say yes.
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Post by Admin on Dec 19, 2023 5:03:43 GMT
Bayle looks at the design skeptically.
"How much experience do you have in viticulture?" he asks her.
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Post by zra on Dec 19, 2023 5:48:05 GMT
(( player would respond with about a decade but the character... ))
The teen looks at him. " I'm a carpenter and bar owner, practical none. But u know that all this rain is killing more than just you grapes. This is why I'm here. I'm going to someone who knows this. What am I not thinking of, what am I overlooking, what am I over Engineering?" She shotguns the questions at him.
" i know this is a magical rain. But this doesn't have to be a magical solution." She will plead with him. " yes I have a spell that will dump a lifetime of experience into my head, it's meant for someone who's dieing to pass on a proper goodbye to there loved ones, but this is not going to help us any here, unless you know of a vine tender who is at deaths door" she realizes just how cold that sounds.
" ok that came out the wrong way. If this works for you, it'll work for the rest of the starving people of amber " her frustration visible in her stance. A teenagers raw spirit seen in her eyes.
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Post by Admin on Dec 21, 2023 9:11:08 GMT
"It's not just a simple matter of covering the vines. The soil is saturated in water killing the roots. The water flows and spreads through all of the fields. Even if that impossible problem was resolved there still wouldn't be enough light to make the vines grow and produce viable grapes. It's best if you return to the city and wait out these bad days until the Regent finds the cause and solution to the storms."
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Post by zra on Dec 21, 2023 19:46:43 GMT
" that is why we are raising the beds that the grapes are in by the 6 inches. More than that the roots are not going to be happy. (( real life know how for this one )) the glass is concave to work like a magnifying plate lens. " she will make one last attempt to argue. " it's not a lot more but it's more than just what they have now (( standard green house glass is this. Higher quality glass raises and or changes the biome of the area. But amber physics can be wacky ))but if you say stop, I'll stop bugging you about this "
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Post by Admin on Dec 31, 2023 1:50:47 GMT
Bayle looks at the design, then at R'Za. Back to the design, then to R'Za again. He starts to speak, stops, starts to talk again, then stops again.
"It was Prince Bleys, wasn't it? He bade you come here with this, yes? Always the joker, Bleys is. No, on second thought, he wouldn't joke about abusing people's minds like that.
I can't say that I'm interested in this contraption of yours tearing up my vineyard."
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Post by zra on Dec 31, 2023 21:26:06 GMT
" in the three years here i haven't spoken to a single royal person (that she knows of yet) I'm not even sure any survived that exploring castle " she will say taking the plans from him.
She will head up the road to try the next 2 Vineyards that are not his. ( we can do a fast track here if you want. If both say no then she will move on )
Aa she travels her lavender rain cloak will be tight to her to prevent the wind from grabbing it. She is actively watching the sides of the road and any traffic, but she isn't making it openly visible that she is.
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Post by Admin on Jan 2, 2024 3:39:45 GMT
There is little traffic on the road. The weather makes travel difficult and there is little to trade or deal in. The second vineyard is willing to try her plan.
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Post by zra on Jan 2, 2024 21:04:06 GMT
With them agreeing she will head for the edge of ardent forest. That spot between the trees that is warm and dry. She will smack off her little wagon of some of the water.
As she does she is not getting too much off. She is really looking for someone who might be following her. More than looking, listening. She will check to see if the hair thing vine is broken across it's doorway. She will let the lil bird tell her if anyone has been around. Then she will head in.
This is not her only spot, but it is a spot she has set up like a quiet place to read. And she will set there for an hour reading for real. This will be recorded by a spell. A very lifelike recording spell that she will hang overhead.
Once she is sure nobody is watching her she will find the thin spot, not visible from the doorway and step through. From one ti another to another place she will step. Her target is a hardware store that has what she needs to get the Vinyard dry enough to make grapes for wine. Along the way she will pick up a purse with more than enough money for what she needs.
Once she has everything, it's time for the worker. He has to know grapes, vines, and the construction she needs done. This guy is meant to become permanent staff for this guy. A little rubbing alcohol mixed with bleach. Nap time friend. You can't see how you got here. Then she will rip that memory from him, leaving him agreeing to do the work and relocating, but the night celebration was too much.
And now we return. Door by door. Back homeward. Normally she would bring a wagon full of food, drink and things needed. This time it's steel bars with channels, magnifying glass sheets, a driver for the sheets, a manual unpowered cutter, and screws, lots of them. Dropped across the top under a tarp to himself is the worker, this has to be a 3 wagon train. The Green kids wagons loaded to the gills with gear.
Any extra money is handed over to a passing beggar. She uses a zone of quiet and less Detection spells, that she keeps recasting every shadow she jumps into. Once they get into amber properly she will remove the cloth from the workers face. Now she has been checking in on him, he is precious cargo after all. She will have a bottle of water and the equity of Tylenol for him when he wakes up.
Be dawn she should be back at the Vinyard with the worker and gear. Apon getting into amber she will check in with the lil bird to make sure nobody is watching and drop the reading illusion.
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Post by Admin on Jan 7, 2024 4:44:44 GMT
Nope. No travel out of Amber except by ship, walking all the way through Arden, or Trump.
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Post by zra on Jan 7, 2024 6:19:27 GMT
Well I now feel useless
My magic can't work
My travel abilities doesn't work.
Well. What now...
Only thing I can do. Leave amber by boat.
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Post by Cody D'Avalon on Jan 7, 2024 6:38:37 GMT
<OOC> With the rotten weather disrupting everyone's livelihood in and around Amber, there is no shortage of laborers that would be willing to work for food. You don't need to kidnap the Home Depot guy.
Talk to Calvera and the Navy. They probably have lots of rotting canvas sails that you can use for tarps.
The real challenge is finding the fresnal lenses to magnify the limited sunlight.
Plus, there's tons of lumber available from where they are clear cutting Arden, so you don't need the steel.</OOC>
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