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#1 | | Ancient Dragon Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: Northern CA Bay Area
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Are house portal deeds a IG item or a OOC way of getting a portal into your house? Meaning when you buy a house portal deed are you really contracting a mage to come set up a portal in your home or is the deed itself magic?
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#2 | | Ancient Dragon Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: Georgia, EST.
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| Re: House portal deed questions
Not official, but I would say that it would be one contracting a mage to come set up the portal. Thus how much it costs, the permanent nature, and the level requirement (i.e. Uh... Who are you, again? Are you sure you can handle having a tunnel through space and time just laying about your home? Riiight... Come back and see me when you're a little drier behind the ears).
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| Re: House portal deed questions
Or....all the deeds (portals and otherwise) are magical, thus the cost of a single chair being equivalent to the combined annual income of a small village. 
I'm not sure this has ever been a) asked or b) defined. I'm of the mind that it doesn't terribly matter, sort of like how all houses are much like the TARDIS. And it's not so much as establishing an actual portal as it is tapping into an existing network of portals with fixed effect. If a mage were to actually establish a fresh three-destination portal between Location A and Fort Wayfare, Prantz and Arnax, it would cost more than 4000 True in materials alone.
Anyway, deeds, regardless of end-result, are mechanical conveniences. If you consider they even truly exist in-game, then it can go either way. If deeds don't really exist and you're truly buying whatever it is the deed produces, then yes...you must make an assumption that a team of unionized, burly movers in coveralls come to deliver your new purchases.
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| Re: House portal deed questions
I like what dorg said. Anytime I have rped furniture's to be moved in, I have always rpied having a bunch of people, mostly dwarfs, move the furniture's in.
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| Re: House portal deed questions
Heh, I always viewed the "housing portal" as a small box with a string when purchased from the vendor. You'd go home, decide where to put it, then set the box down on that spot and pull the string. Ta-da! Portal.   Portalling
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*grins* I like the box Idea better! | | | | |
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Originally Posted by Link092  *grins* I like the box Idea better! | ** A burly dwarf stomps by ** Box!!! Bah I'll give them a box, thats it boys, General Strike... we'll see how they do now
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| Re: House portal deed questions
Well I guess it would matter when it comes to home types and locations. So if a PC were to call home a tent on a piece of land that was his own would he be able to set up a portal there? or What if his home was a boat could he set up a portal on a boat?
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Originally Posted by jrizz Well I guess it would matter when it comes to home types and locations. So if a PC were to call home a tent on a piece of land that was his own would he be able to set up a portal there? or What if his home was a boat could he set up a portal on a boat? | would you put in in a box?
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