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« on: January 30, 2006, 02:50:50 am »
in a stiff but clear script, a note is posted reading:
Miss Jilseponie, I have a bunch of shafts, heads and feathers ready. It was nice of you to offer to help us with the preparations, when you are next in Hlint look for me and I'd be grateful to have your help with the arrows.
signed
Sen Stranzini
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« on: January 06, 2006, 05:31:00 am »
Today I set out with a shovel to get clay - I got four pieces and my shovel broke.
Then I went with two axes to get some hickory - I got four branches and the first axe broke, I equipped the second and it broke immediately. Result - two axes, four branches.
This performance in my experience is totally average, not at all unusual. I seem to break a shovel every time I go for clay or sand or worms these days, and an axe is probably good on average for four pieces of wood.
All my other tools break from time to time as well - but nowhere near as frequently as these two. I'm not a miner, I don't know what the story is with picks.
Is whatever constant is used in the calculation of breaking for these two tools perhaps a little too harsh? I'm not finding my experience with shovels and axes very realistic and with all the competent crafters around here, I'd expect better quality goods in the market.
Does the calculation vary with some attribute of the character or are the chances the same for everyone? (Sen's not strong and has a very high dexterity, he doesnt think of himself as the kind of guy who could break an axe very easily by being too enthusiastic...)
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« on: January 06, 2006, 05:22:00 am »
The "table of contents" for potions on the alchemy table now needs rearranging...Cure is not on the first page of potions anymore.
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« on: January 06, 2006, 05:08:00 am »
Transcript from my righthand window:
"Sen Stranzini uses Cooked Meat
Instead of cooking the meat over a fire you eat it raw."
(I failed my check and got sick)
Object lost: Cooked Meat
Obviously - I ate a piece of cooked meat and it was treated as if it was raw.
I had just shot two deer and cooked up all their meat over a campfire. Nice and fresh too. I cannot guarantee if the particular piece of cooked meat I pulled out of my inventory to lunch on was one of those, or a piece that I had cooked previously but it was definitely cooked, and cooked over a campfire.
Bug with the new food handling?
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« on: January 06, 2006, 05:03:00 am »
Making sandpaper becomes a rather routine, drudge cleanup activity for anyone who is crafting a lot of wood stuff.
It would be nice to be able to make 3 or 5 blank scrolls and 3 or 5 sandpapers at a time.
Multiple raw scrolls would be nice too but that would currently require multiple buckets - and I find that not so real lifish, so I can understand the raw scrolls being one at a time unless we could get bigger buckets...judging by its weight, the quantity of water in a bucket might be enough water for a couple scrolls in fact...that is a lot of water in that bucket.
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« on: December 20, 2005, 06:52:00 pm »
Wouldn't it be logical that when I use up a raw branch of wood at the carpenter bench or the instrument crafting station, I end up with a bag of sawdust and a little bundle of tinder left over? Theres gonna be some bark and little twigs and stuff on that branch.
I don't know why but I get bored with making trips to the general store to buy 1 gp bundles of tinder, when I'm spending all my time chopping trees down and sawing them up in the craft house and...well a real log from the forest would make some tinder.
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« on: December 09, 2005, 07:23:00 pm »
I am posting here and not in grievance although this bug has just cost me
the contents of my ox pack. I reckon I will be able to reacquire what was in
the pack with work and time.
But, the bug is annoying for the loss it creates. It would be nice if it
didn't happen again...
I left the craft house in Hlint and put my ox on lead with a 10 foot rope.
We went through Hlint (one transition inside Hlint) and out the north gate
(gate transition from Hlint to the north). I started down the road toward
Moraken's tower. The ox just headed straight north as soon as we went
through the transition out of Hlint and just kept on going
all the way to the orc camp. It did not in any way follow me, just headed
straight out on its own and never stopped.
Until the orcs spawned and swarmed us, killing me and presumably the ox
who was off to the north where I could no longer seeh him. When I returned with help to get my grave, the ox was gone.
The bug is oxen on 10 foot lead who just run away, perhaps after going
through a transition?
This occurred about 2 Am GMT on 10 dec.
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« on: November 27, 2005, 12:08:00 pm »
Well, my first days here in Hlint have been amazing.
You see things in this town I never heard of. There is a lady who turns herself into a bird, a bear and all kinds of other things. She said she can turn herself into nine different kinds of animal.
Luckily, I can fish here, just like I used to do with papa. There is a pond and I always manage to catch some fish in it that I can cook over a campfire. In the kitchen at the inn, I met a really cute elf girl, Nyyala. She is kind of shy, but I asked her if she liked fish and she said she had never tried any, can you imagine that? I guess she didn't grow up in a town like Krandor
I made her some fish, and she really liked it.
You know who else likes fish which is kind of funny? I met a dwarf called Axe Stonecutter - funny name, huh? He loves fish! So I gave him some right away and I think I made myself a friend that way. He's very brave and very strong and he helped me do some things. First we went in the sewers to kill the rats and get back a tax book that somebody called the rat man had stolen.
Mostly Axe killed all the rats and I tried to stay out of the way. But I still got bitten pretty badly when I took the wrong turn and got away from Axe for a minute. Then Axe helped me get some goblins' ears for the quartermaster of the army - I don't really know why he would ask a lute-maker to go get goblins' ears, but he did and luckily Axe was there to help me out. It was pretty much the same thing, I stayed out of the way while Axe killed them - but I had these nice little darts that a guy named Rylok gave me and I managed to do a pretty good job on a few of those goblins with my darts. I'm a pretty good shot anyway, and these darts were really well made and when I threw one at a goblin - bing!
Rylok - that was another funny thing. He's a really big, kind of ugly guy. I think maybe he's part orc. There are people in this town - if that's what I should call them - that look like giants and ogres and all kinds of strange things. It makes me a little nervous. But anyway, Rylok is a really nice guy, even if he is a little hard to talk to. He and his friend Pendar
were the first people I met, and it turned out that Rylok likes fish too! Of course, I think he said that he liked eating the rats in the sewer too, so maybe he likes everything...Anyway, he makes things out of metal, and he gave me a dagger and these darts that he made. The darts are working out really well, today I killed a bandit halfing with one in one shot - bing! Got
him from behind, you know?
So anyway, Axe took me with him and his friends on another errand...a really dangerous one! The lady who turns into a bird was there. And Rylok came along too, and some other people. We went outside the town and into the hills and then into a forest and into a cave. There were spiders in the forest - it was really dangerous - but that's good to know because I'm going to need their
silk for my instruments. Its getting it that is going to be the problem for me. But anyway, we went into this cave and fought with some monsters in there too - I tried to stay out of the way and throw a dart - bing! - when I could, so sometimes I helped a little. In the end, we got back some necklace for a bard here in the town.
A bard! Of course, that's what I want to do is get to know the bards here, and make instruments for them. But I tried talking to this bard, in the inn, and she didn't really have much to say to me except "thanks for helping get my necklace back". Maybe when I have some great instruments made up, she'll want to talk to me then...when I have made my reputation as the greatest luthier in Hlint and beyond...
Anyway, I learned a lot on those trips with Axe and his friends. I feel stronger and little more able to defend myself...but sure not like Axe and that birdlady and Rylok and all of them. I need to stick close and make friends - that's the first thing Pendar, Rylok's friend, and Rylok told me - don't go alone, make friends, stay out of trouble, those were Pendar's words. Rylok would have said the same thing if he could I think.
Anyway, I learned a lot. I have been learning how to use two weapons at once, and I bought myself a rapier and have decided to work hard on learning how to fight with it. The dagger Rylok gave me is good, but it's dangerous around here and I thought I needed something a little more serious for the times when I didn't manage to follow plan a: stay out of trouble, stay out of the way and throw darts - bing!
I've also been working on my singing. I know I'll never be a real bard, but I do need to know a lot about music for my instrument making. So, I've been working a little on my basic solfege...I don't think I'll try it out on that elf Nyyala yet though...
Anyway, today I went to work on my real work for the first time. There is a craft hall here, so until I am well-enough off to have my own workshop, I can work there. I found the different tools I'll need - lucky that I picked up some money from those adventures with Axe and his friends. But I need wood, and other supplies. So I started trying to find out where I could get them. I snuck outside the town and looked around a little and bingo! - just to the north I found a stand of hickory where I can get some wood, and some cotton plants. The problem is there's just about always orcs around there. That's a big problem for me. I dont think I should be mixing with orcs just yet. Maybe if I keep practicing with my rapier and get myself some better armor, but not just yet. Anyway, I know where the stuff is that I need, I just need friends to
help me get it.
Then I tried looking outside town to the east, and that was almost the end of me! I was looking around a little stream to the northeast and this elf just started shooting arrows at me. I think they were poisoned too, they hurt me real bad. I ran as fast as I could back into the town, but he came after me into the town! I ran into one of the shops and waited a while and got myself patched up as best as I could, and when I came back out - he was still there! He chased me to the other end of town and I made it into the Wild Surge Inn (which is not really a very wild place by the way, I dont know about the surge part). So I stayed in there yelling "Help!" and lucky for me, an elf - which made me a little nervous right at that moment given what
had just happened to me - named Nereus came over and offered to help. First he healed me, and then he went back outside with me. We didn't find the elf - which made me start to feel a little silly except it wasn't funny at all the way he almost killed me - and so we went back outside the walls. And of course, we found the elf alright, and a bunch of his friends!
Nereus turned out to be one formidable elf - he summoned up some strange sort of whirlwindy thing that started attacking them, then some kind of flying creatures, and did some whacking himself I think - I was kind of busy running away when they came after me and turning around and doing a bing! when I got the chance. There were a couple of these bad elves, and a bunch of
halflings, that's when I got one of the halflings clean out with a really good bing! Anyway, the two of us and all the other things Nereus kept calling up took care of the whole lot of them. They had a little campsite set up there, we really couldn't figure out what they were doing there. One of the halflings - I think it was the one I binged - had a glass eye, I kept it...for a souvenir I guess.
Anyway, Nereus was a great help, and he after went with me to the north to help me get some wood. Funny thing, the orcs didn't show up. Maybe they know about Nereus and stayed away. Nereus is a sea elf - so you bet he likes fish. I gave him some and I promised him the first instrument that I managed to make. I cut some wood while he stood guard, but darn - I broke my axe.
Next time, I'll bring a spare, it's too dangerous to go out there not to bring back all the wood I can when I go. So I got some wood, and some cotton - and now I'm in business. I made my first instrument, a simple hickory chimes, just like old master Concordia taught me. I don't think Nereus can actually play, but its his as a present the first time I see him.
Oh...and I learned today that if I ever had somebody to take on a date, I should invite them to see the waterfall behind some castle.
(Hmm, I haven't seen this castle yet.) But just in case...
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