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Calendar Events / Shadonite and friends, Assemble! 5
« on: May 26, 2021, 05:03:34 pm »
To Center we meet
Quest of members we finish


//Let's see if we can do a few quests that members of the group haven't done yet.

Saturday may 29th at noon EDT

https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?msg=Shadonite+and+friends%2C+Assemble%21+5&iso=20210529T12&p1=165

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Calendar Events / Shadonite and friends, Assemble! 4
« on: May 20, 2021, 12:50:33 pm »
To Center we meet
Quest of members we finish


//Let's see if we can do a few quests that members of the group haven't done yet.

Saturday may 22nd at noon EDT

https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?msg=Shadonite+and+friends%2C+Assemble%21+4&iso=20210522T12&p1=%3A

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Calendar Events / Shadonite Assemble! 3
« on: May 14, 2021, 06:35:58 pm »
To Center we meet
Quest of members we finish


//Let's see if we can do a few quests that members of the group haven't done yet.

Saturday may 15th at noon EDT

https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?msg=Shadonite+Assemble%21+3&iso=20210515T12&p1=165

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Calendar Events / Shadonite Assemble! 2
« on: May 04, 2021, 11:46:04 pm »
To Center we meet
Quest of members we finish


//Let's see if we can do a few quests that members of the group haven't done yet.

Sunday may 9th at noon EDT

https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?msg=Shadonite+Assemble%21+2&iso=20210509T12&p1=189

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Calendar Events / Shadonite Assemble!
« on: April 30, 2021, 10:54:12 pm »
To Center we meet
Quest of members we finish


//Let's see if we can do a few quests that members of the group haven't done yet.

Sunday may 2nd at noon EDT

https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?msg=Shadonite+Assemble%21&iso=20210502T12&p1=165

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Name: Nate
Race: Human
Age: 20
Classes: Rogue
Alignment: Ne
Deity: None at the moment

Bio:
I was 5 when my father brought me to this dark alley, I remember it being dark and mostly empty if not for this tall man at the end of the alley. Both of them were talking in a low voice enough that I couldn't make out most of what they were talking about, but in the end at that age I couldn't understand their discussion. All I remember is the tall man offering my father a bag that looked filled and my father having this ugly grin as he looked at me walking past me. I turned to run after him but was stopped by the tall man. I was brought outside of the city to some kind of farm. There was other children there, but also adults. To me they seemed to be playing around, albeit very roughly. I didn't comprehend yet where I was or what my future would be.

Years had passed as I was trained to walk on floors that were made to creak easily. Sometimes instead of the wooden floor, they trained us on glass or spikes without any shoes. We were also taught to fight in various styles, to hide, the use of various weapons. And when the group of us were old enough, they started to train us on the use of some potions and poisons. At that time I understood that my life was not the life or a normal boy. I had been sold to become a thief, a spy, a killer.  I didn't know better because for me there was nothing else. We slept, woke, ate and trained and that was all there was to it. Of course they also trained us to read, write, count and gave us knowledge of the countries and governments. And as more time passed, the more grueling the training was becoming. There wasn't a week that would go by once we reached the age of 12 that one of the child disappeared, but no one would tell us beside saying that that child was not strong enough or something to the liking.

I had now turned 17, like most in my group. And our main master came in one day with a man that was already beaten. He told us that we were to get the information out of this man by any means although he had to remain alive until he did. The master walked in front of us examining each of us and stopped to look back at me. You, you will do it. I was brought in front where the man was sitting tied up to the chair, his ankles to the chair legs, his wrist to the arm rests. On the table next to him was a slew of tools I could use. I was looking at this man who through his gag was begging us to let him go. It was slightly loose so we could hear his words. As the screams echoed in the training hall at first I was holding back tears, as I had never imagined I was going to do that in my life, but as time passed and I had to try various techniques, my tears disappeared with the feeling of guilt. Instead, a feeling of understanding between the relation of pain and life settled in. It took a few more hours but in the end he talked and whispered to the master the information he wanted. His life ended shortly after by the master's hands. He turned to me with a certain pleased look on his face and we bowed to him as he left. This would happened a few more times during that year, but with other children of my group doing the deeds. We were also trained to pass as normal people, with various type of work and how to socialize in public so that who we were would not be known.

 Later during that year we had an training excursion out in the wilderness that would test our skills. We were made into three groups and were tasked to return with the other two groups flagged while protecting our own. This was to be a no holds bar excursion, as if we were out there acting out a contract. It was a brutal few days, my team displayed ferocity that trampled the other two teams and at one point I was facing one of the few ones I could call a friend. He was the one in my way to his team flag and I had a choice to make while he had his to make. He dashed at me slashing wildly cutting me at the arm. I responded and we both fell to the ground heaving. He was seriously injured and asked me for help. I looked at him for a moment, I could have rendered him help, but at that moment I made the decision not to. I got up and took the enemies flag and walked away. Was I betraying my friend or did he just suffer the consequences of his failures? I pondered that question for some time. In the end, in my mind, the objective was greater than a friendship, and while having friends may be desirable, they are a point of weakness and betrayal, wither it is done on me, or me onto them. It also came to my understanding that I may have to complete a contract on a friend, and as the master said, there is only loyalty to the master, all others are simple tools to be used, so in that moment I should not have any compulsion in accomplishing the contract, even against a friend.

Finally I turned 18 and I was taken aside from the group. It was to be my initiation, my right of passage, and if all went well I would finally get a name of my own. It was a pitch black night, and we had traveled to a city nearby. In total we were five men and woman who had made the travel and the master was part of the group. A top of a roof top we looked down the street, and even though it was night, there were still people busying about with the dim lighting of the torches. After a few minutes of looking about the master pointed out to a man and a woman that had just came out of a house. The master gave his orders with his hands, not one word was said, but we understood the task at hand. Before it was to be done the master pointed at me and I bowed. He had given me the honor to accomplish this task. Silently I followed the man and the woman jumping from rooftop to rooftop, until they were in a street that was void of other people. I made my way down and followed them unseen until I was close enough that I was able to push the man to the ground and yet grab the woman and stop her from screaming. As instructed I voiced what my master had commanded me to. "This is for refusing to work with us" and in a swift motion my hand went from one shoulder of the woman to the other and she fell to her knees holding her throat. Yet after looking at her hands and seeing no blood, she crawled to her husband and at that time they noticed finally that my blade was facing outward, the cutting edge never touching her throat. A simple turn of the blade in my hand with a taking a step forward was all that was needed for him to beg for his life, he finally agreed that he was going to work for the master and as quickly as I appeared, I had moved to the shadows the man still begging for his life.

Back to the compound the master gave me my first blades, and a new uniform. And finally he had given me my name. Nate. I was sent to center awaiting for my next orders. I was a man for hire. And truth be told, I have no qualm with what I did. Survive or die. Become stronger or die. Kill or be killed. Such is life, and it ends for everyone one way or an other. In the process I might as well make a living of the skills I have acquired.

It has been some years now that I have made my way into this world without news from my Previous master. Years where I have grown in strength, abilities and resolve. I have taken contracts upon myself whether it be for the kingdom of Liwich, or for Cherry the Center's bounty hunters and for others. Taking a new name for myself, one that was not handed to me, and to which I was bound. In this circle of spies, assassins, fixers, a Dread Blade; I am now Creed, as strong as my resolve is, I believe in myself and my abilities to push further than anyone else can. Not so much only physically and endure the trauma, but mentally. Being able to do what others morals would prevent them to do. I have no such blockage. I shed myself of the emotional current that flows in my heart and mind, I become a void where its sole purpose is to accomplish the mission at hand. I view the target as a simple target that needs to be dealt with, one way or an other. No matter who it is, a friend, a lover, a former master, they all are a name that I have been given to either eliminate or to make sure they understand they need to disappear. Whether it's in a gentle passing in their sleep, or as bloody and painful way as necessary to get the information, it was no more on my mind and soul than stepping on an ant.

//ooc

I as a player completely understand that any action taken in character by Nate could and sure will have consequences to him or others. I also understand fully the Rules of the server regarding what is appropriate or not in regards to RP and making sure that a player does not feel greifed by the rp or action taken while playing this character.

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Settle down under your blanket little one and let me tell you the stories of the most fabulous Priestess of Shadon that ever came to be.

It all started when she decided that she had more to offer the world than being tied down to a title and temple. She was offered to become a Hight tricksters, the highest position for a Shadonite Priest, but she refused it. She wanted to live free, unburdened by the responsibilities of taking care of  temple. She wanted to make her mark on the world, to be in the history books as one of the greatest pranksters in the glory of Shadon. And such at night she left the temple and made her way to the docks where she bargained a captain to take her on as cook and healer.  Maybe it was her exuberance, or maybe she was just ditzy, or maybe she was just intimidated by the strong presence of the captain, but she should have asked more questions. Instead of being on a passenger ship heading to some town, she found herself onto a pirate ship, yes my darling, a pirate ship, and yet it did not bother her that much. The alluring nature of being a pirate roaming the seas in search of treasures, the adventures that he boat mate recounted by the soothing light of the lantern, drinking a good paint of ale and listening to the music being played, all made it worth it. Of course she knew that as a pirate ship it also meant that innocent people would be getting hurt or even die by the hands of her boatmates, but she was not taking part in the attacks herself; she remined down below tending to the wounded and or cooking for the crew. Until they day that the captain though she should try doing more. They tried to teach her to use daggers and darts, but she was much more a danger to herself and her crewmates than to the training dummy that the captain had setup for her to be tested on. But when it came to using a bow, she showed that she had promise. she continued to train with the bow while doing her other business and never saw real combat, except when it was to defend the boat itself. At least until that fateful day.

It was a sunny day on the coast near Hurm. The boat had anchored near the coast line with many other boats that bore the same banner, the Banner of the Pirate Lord Corso. The lord himself had already sailed off with his main crew to his hideout and the other crews were still feasting and having a good time off the boat before they had to sail back out again. It was very joyous and almost felt like one of the festival back at Arnax. But then the darkness came just like a nightmare in plain day. Her friends, her comrades, fell one by one to the hands of a merciless group of assassins monsters that revel in the blood of their fallen preys. She had never seen such ferocity, such evilness in all her lives. Even if she knew they weren't demons, they sure looked like it. Their eyes glowed, their swords, staff and bows bright with evil fire. Even their armors and skin were covered in stone or bark and some of them even had magical globes surrounding them. If these were not demons than she didn't know what true evil was, as for sure they were evil incarnated bringing their bloodthirst down upon her friends. She knew that she had to do something to survive else she would fall prey to their hands, and only Shadon could phantom what they would do to this poor elf priestess. And so while they were busy torturing her friends, she covered herself with the essence of those who had already fallen prey and laid on the ground lifeless, praying in her mind that Shadon would cover her and trick them into thinking that she was slain. And guess what! Shadon provided. They did not find her as she waited for them to leave. Standing up still dirty, she prayed to her beloved Deity for his protection and she made her way into one of the tents that was still standing, managing to find clothing that fitted her figure, colorful and to the liking of Shadon, but most importantly did not scream Pirate and not soiled by blood. That day with the aid of Shadon she had managed her first ever mass prank, albeit that they never knew of the prank, which is even the best ones. She finally made her way into Hurm, passing the guards incognito, and bought passage off of this dreaded continent; setting off toward hew new home, a small town that have so few buildings that people even slept in tents. A town-let called Center. And from there she started her new life.. that, my sweetest, will have to be an other story.

Now go to sleep little one, and if your good tomorrow, I'll tell you more of that story.

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When  a server restart and the PC is sent to the path of the storm, would it be possible to have the Horse and the Bull ported there at the same time?

I'm not sure if it's a bug, but when ever I use the Bring me to the last location I logged in, it always brings me back to the path of the storm, I'm thinking that at least for the horse it would be beneficial if it was ported to the player, this way he doesn't have to wonder where he left it ?

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NWN Ideas, Suggestions, Requests / Vale Reconstruction Donation point
« on: February 19, 2021, 03:13:15 pm »
Would it be possible to have an option added to the donation center, where people could hand out their donation in materials/trues to, like Jenara had when she was rebuilding corsain?

I'm asking mostly to have it centralized and save time for Milty to handle :)
But also for transparency so that there’s no confusion about where and who are using the trues/cnr

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NWN Ideas, Suggestions, Requests / make trivial items craft in one go
« on: January 29, 2021, 10:44:14 pm »
Would it be possible to have all the trivial items craft in one go, and stack inside the crafting tool?

Example, presently crafting iron spike stud are only done 1 by 1 even if you load up the tinkering.

would be nice if trivial items could be made in one go and just stay on the tool used to make them so they don't drop on the floor.

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NWN Ideas, Suggestions, Requests / Nature or Hebalist donation center
« on: January 13, 2021, 05:03:16 pm »
Would it be possible to add the same option of donating to either the nature supplier in Hempstead or the herbalist in Center, so that the toons that don't want to deal with deities or temples can actually get the discounts on healing supplies?

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NWN Ideas, Suggestions, Requests / stashable books
« on: November 24, 2020, 06:15:17 pm »
Would it be possible to give the ability to stash in a bag to all books?

I don't know how many of them out there can't but for example the charles dawson: the origins of species cannot be placed in containers

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Calendar Events / The pack is called to action!
« on: October 08, 2020, 05:33:42 pm »
Calling the pack and those friendly to the pack.

Are you foolhardy?
Are you brave enough to face the unknown?
Are you strong enough to face the most vicious foes on the planet?

or are you just up to some trekking in a part of an Island that has not been visited in decades?

If so, meet up at the fire camp of Center this coming Saturday, 10 AM est.

Have bandages, potions, food, ale and guts a plenty!

//we're invading Milara's Lands!!!! Mwhahahaha

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I'm not sure if this is hard coded in the game, but would it be possible to remove that penality.

I personally would have two toons that would pretty much always have their furry friends out on a trip, but I mostly keep them away so I don't impact the other players.

Would be great if we could have them without impacting the group.

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I have an idea that might help with the current state of lw gm quest run at the moment.

It's actually 3 ideas that stems from one.

This is based on the cnr quest that we have now.

1rst. Realm Factions
I think I red in the past that there was some ideas about having factions by realm that would give certain perks to players.
never saw that happened, might have been somewhere else too but anyways

Realm Quest factions that works the same way as crn. Randomly generated, but by realms. Like Alindor, Dregar.. etc
these quests would not be so much as cnr brought, but more like bounty hunters quests.
-Soloable or able to be made in groups
-They would provide the ability to either bring the target dead or alive
-would have to be a point in combat where the npc after a roll decides if he wants to surrender or not, and that the pc decides to let the npc live to bring him alive.
-the targets would be in the specific realm, but from time to time could be prime targets in an other realm, offering more challenge and more reward.
-these quest could be done by any toon, no matter what their class or alignment are.
-The more points in a faction you have, the more it affects the other factions also, so there would have to be some player thoughts on who they would rather align themselves with.
-Rewards would be monetary based and xp based, but also offer temporary discounts in said realm and the opposite is true, the more aligned against a realm you are, the higher the prices can become temporarily.
-after a certain amount of notoriety, it could lead to some valuable items being handed. (for higher level toons).
-These quests could be handed by the courts/castle lords and/or temples.

And for the second you have the more unsavory types, that would be geared more for Rogues, assassin and cn/ln/ne aligned characters. There are already a tone of houses that are not purchasable in the major cities, and some new maps could be done specifically for these quests.
-soloable or in groups
-heavy penalty in alignment if made with a non aligned character
-could have all of the characteristics of the bounty hunter quests series, but instead of miscreants it would be geared toward good aligned ncp's for some, or as revenge on parties of an other faction.
-could have three different lawless factions that one would be steered towards, and if high in that factions, could see randomly generated attacks upon the characters from spawned npc's when walking the land of an opposite faction.
-would entail kidnapping or assassinations jobs. Hence the drop in alignment if anything in the lawful neutral/good, TN and good alignment.
-could also be quests about stealing certain objects for the faction.
-possibility of quests becoming a temporary loan shark fixers, either through intimidation or simply by disposing of the target and then taking what was due (or less that was due, but again like racketeering it's more about letting others know not to fall behind on payments)
-and the likes.
-those jobs would be handed by black market operative, in certain well hidden areas that would need to be discovered, or made available once a toon reaches a certain level/skill level that would enable the first quest, to find the intended factions hold out.

the third is the opposite of the second one.
-soloable or in groups.
-automatically generated quests that does not require killing.
-based on providing support to towns or person
-providing healing supplies or crafted food.
-providing healing actions from classes that could do them.
-providing healing through alchemy for npc's being poisoned or sick (through some specific recipes already ingame).
-could have some generated escort quest.
-these would give again, hard penalties for any evilly aligned toons.


The base system is already implemented with the CNR quest. It would be something to expand upon it to give more different and flavorful options based on the type of characters you have.

Ideas? Takers? add to it if you feel it has merits.

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Development Journals and Discussion / Nate's Journal
« on: May 15, 2020, 03:39:17 pm »
Well, I have arrived to this little place called Center. People here seems content to be where they are, no real aspiration to move forward and do better for themselves, such a waste of the elements, they shouldn't deserve to live. I've been propose to do a few jobs here and there, I need the true and especially new gears as my limited exploration has showed me that compared to the inner cities, the wild is a lot more dangerous. That's fine, I'll adapt. I'll survive, that's why I was trained for.  Might have to pull the friendship chords a little bit, get closer to some so that I can have a better chance out there, it would be to my advantage to do so and to keep what I do secret, at least for now. Don't want to be targeted as soon as I arrived to the neighborhood. Although if a mark does present itself, I won't hesitate.

For the moment the plan is to do the jobs I can while waiting for my master's words.

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Who dares join the pack for a trip to kick the big red up his tail?
Who dares be brave enough to face the minions of fire?
Maybe you?
Maybe you? *looks at an other*

If you have the courage, then join us at the fire of the Crossroad, this Sunday.

https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?msg=A+trip+down+the+firesteps+to+kick+the+big+red+up+it%27s+tail&iso=20200508T14&p1=165

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Could it be possible to have all the 5 pieces of small cured hides separate in one go instead of the 5 times that it takes to separate them, like it's possible with the food and other things please?

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Cailomel's Goods and wares is putting a contract out for the following items.

Box of Corn grain (36 unit) 1,080
Box of Barley grain 1,080
Box of Rye grain 1,080
Box of Wheat grain 1,080
Sand Bags 40/unit
Clay lumps 25/unit
Feldspar raw 40/unit
Fire Opals raw 240/unit
Amethyst raw 100/unit
Ginseng Roots 150/unit
Aloe 30/unit
Galic clove 50/unit
Comfrey Roots
Ginger Roots 50/unit
Greenstone 21/unit
Sapphire 240/unit
Purple Mushroom 50/unit
Gold nugget: 50/nugget
Silver nugget: 100/nugget
Platinum nugget: 100/nugget


All items will be paid in credit.

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Some workbench like gems let you do five at a time, others like the tinkering furnace only allows you to do 3 glass ingots at a time.

I propose that when a recipe is trivial, that there's no limit to what can be crafted at once. If the player wants to make 100 of the same item, he should make sure he has enough space to receive them all.

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