Darius Wyrmley will be joining tavern in a little bit as soon as I have the sheet.

Devereaux might be converted to a PC and or we get someone else on the pilgrimage to autumn.

In reply to Narrator (msg # 14):

I also have this spare character if a guild member is needed anywhere.

Moving this here, I erroneously posted it in OCC 11, when I realized that some of our players in the Black Tower 3 had never been part of the original expedition.:

several years ago a group formed to find the mysterious black tower in the mountains between Valdassya and Aral.
They guarded a caravan through the mountain, spent a too brief time in Al-Menir, and unfortunately
lost half of the players involved along the way; Sorsha and Mischa, Gorgath, Burke, Shroud and Haveron all were lost in media res,
although Sorsha (and Mischa) waeredropped off in Al-Menir and Shroud changed hands three times, and Haveron twice.

The initial consultation with a sage led them to believe that the area was warded with magical tablets that cause peuople to avoid it, and even not look directly at it, and that there was either a trapped celestial bound with chains of silver or a powerful wizard known for collecting magical items.  In either case, it seemed that the defenses were failing.

When the group managed to get in, another player (Safwan the golem) joined in, and despite them telling everyone they had only a limited familiarity with portions of the tower, the group insisted on a tour led by the golem intro areas it did not know.  Treasure was repeated destroyed by fire,a nd searches abandoned due to attack and a desire to hunt fleeing foes.

That is the history of the Black Tower at this point.  No treasure rooms have been found, and a lot of loot ignored or allowed for the enemies to retreat with it.

I am not sure if we have Berry or Safwan at this point

Can Benito get a shipment of Gnomish Army Knives in?

Gnomish Army Knife          $100, neg weight, DF16, P17, replaces personal Basics

no discount; theyrolled 6 under.

In reply to Narrator (msg # 18):

What would it take to find the manufacturers? Gnomes, of course...

In reply to Narrator (msg # 16):

That's most enlightening, TY!

In reply to Benito Drake (msg # 17):

at list cost

by the way , I  was looking into Mystic Bolt, which several of you have- it has a minimum damage of 1 point, when the entry level of the power is 1d-3 damage

Yes, it always does at least one point of damage.

Alastrine, just to be sure you know, in this world (DFRPG, mostly) Earth to Stone only lasts 24 hours before reverting unless you spend a bunch of extra energy to actually make it permanent.  Shaping either one will last as long as the material can last (i.e. Earth, possibly only until the next hard rain, but shaped stone will stay for lifetimes, most likely), but transformed or created material is only good for 24 hours without significant extra effort.

I didn't know that so TY!

In reply to Alastrine (msg # 25):

So that will revert back to earth after 24 hrs. What effort, for example, would be needed to make that actually permanent?

Asking for a friend...
This message was last edited by the player at 05:34, Sun 21 Apr.

I don't have the DFRPG books, but I believe it's the same as GURPS:DF.  DF1 page 20 (right column, about halfway down the page) has Create spells only lasting a day, but doesn't give any information about spending extra energy to make them last longer.  The latter may have been a house rule or something added in DFRPG (or might be in Power Ups, which I don't have), but I'm sure I recall it from when Chou-Zhen was going to make gravestones by Shaping Earth then transforming Earth to Stone (after the battle with Pequenaud's troops) -- but wound up spending the energy to Shape Earth on natural stones at the higher energy cost because that effect would be permanent.

In reply to Chou-Zhen Mou (msg # 27):

Can Shape Earth on natural stones later be dispeled?

In reply to Alastrine (msg # 28):

Kromm had an article wherein it was stated that create spells need 10x energy to be permanent; this was to put a damper on the action economy of essential earth-earth to stone (metal) to create orichalcum - as those spells both take a 10x energy cost, the minimum cost for an unshaped urichalcum ingot is 100 FP and shaping it is even more, thus the +29 cf.

Shaping worked stone is more expensive than natural stone (2x cost), so shape stone would be otherwise permanant if the shape is natural- a column or wall will collapse after 1 minute; a large and lumpy slab would hold, but the cost of moving the cut stones of an iter would be double

Cool, will try to remember that!

maybe 3 new onboarding  a cleric for Autumn, a mage for double damned and msybe a junior clergyman for tavern.

We could certainly use a little healing or some undead repellent...

A healer would be welcome among us, too.

In reply to Shawn Nyseth (msg # 33):

So Devereaux is leaving for a custom mage? Nice...

In reply to Aoife (msg # 34):

yes Devereaux is an npc.

Well it makes sense. We do need a stronger magic user, especially since we need to find out who is ultimately behind the tiles.

In reply to Mancini (msg # 36):

be back on in a day or so

Hello fellow kids.  I hope to be joining you soon.  I don't want to give anything extra away, but I hope to add to your cohort as a member of the followers of the Dark Mother.