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 Another Cobbler.  Well, the hordes will be the best booted for leagues.

In reply to Tipton (msg # 2):

Crud, thought I was being original. That said, it was by far the most numerous guild in Paris, back in the day.

Welcome aboard!

 My thought as well. Great minds think alike. If the GM allows, I an changing to brewing.

No worries Tipton - - you can change or double up, whatever you prefer.

Welcome to our new players. We have five players now, which I shall deem enough to begin, so I've turned off RTJs for the time being.

If you have issues with character creation, please feel free to leave questions, but I will be out most of today and may not get back to a computer until this evening.

Hello there!

I've done my character creation (I think), and I'm reasonably average at most things.

Hopefully Tipton has some of his finest moonshine ready for us when we start out.

Hi all, I am average as well. I am an animal handler and hunter.

Any suggestions on how I should use my 5 aptitudes. Took ranged combat (10).

Wanting to be a good hunter, and good with animals.

Am thinking Survivor, footpad, intimidator, and either tradesman or athlete.

What do you guys think
This message was last edited by the player at 19:05, Sat 22 May 2021.

Announcement:

Two more Aptitudes are being added:

• Doctor - healing and herbalism
• Handler - animal handling and husbandry

Feel free to rearrange your Aptitudes to reflect these new skills, if desired.
This message was lightly edited by the GM at 19:26, Sat 22 May 2021.

Calinda is an artist, bookkeeper, and scribe...and very much a noncombatant (at least for now).

Vraithe is a healer and a herbalist and a sometime wit - but not much of a combatant, right now anyway.

Average is pretty average, seems to me, the character generation system is designed for that I think.

Welcome aboard all.

Curious to see how things develop.

Moccasin  i would like to have a connection with you, it would start like a day after you joined the followers.

You are a tradesman/ cobbler, I am a hunter with no trades of any skill to use my pelts etc. So it could be a good hook for you and any others which have need of leather and skins etc to buy or trade with me for them.

That makes sense, I imagine I will constantly be in need of new resources for boot repair. I imagine I would have some basic training in tanning and hardening hides, but I don't know if I would have the chemicals and time to do it as we march along.

FYI, I come from a culture when the family name takes precedence, he would prefer Oxsidi, but if you prefer his family name, he would be Journeyman Moccasin, though given the current situation he could probably pull off Master Moccasin, as there is no one here who outranks him.

I wasn't complaining :v

It's a nice system I think.

Look forward to seeing how our adventures happen.

Oxsidi, as a hunter I would have the ability to cure and tan the hides etc but just couldn't craft anything from them. So it can be a good collaboration for us, I only have one good attribute but I will get the most from it.

For us only having a 10 max in a combat skill, my guy will make an excellent soldier in training as I am quite gifted in the martial skills.

How do we determine what equipment and gear we start with. I am hoping to have like 2-3 dogs as it is my trade, a male and female for breeding and the third as my personal one. the system looks like it could be fun looking forward to it.
This message was last edited by the player at 00:08, Sun 23 May 2021.

I put a 10 in each of them at first, then found other skills that really deserved it more.

But that just means she has more to learn, right?

Maybe Valaric can teach us?

Given my soft middle class background, I have nothing in either combat skill.

Re: gear

You may start with a reasonable amount of mundane items that are easy to travel with. Some of you have backgrounds that would allow you to have your own carts and animals to pull them, but keep in mind that the army will not wait for you and some of the terrain you'll be crossing might be difficult. Try not to go crazy here - if you were wealthy enough to have a train of your own, you probably do not need to subject yourself to the life of a camp follower.

If you provide some kind of trade or craft or are a healer, then you are provided access to basic (well-worn, but functioning) tools and materials from the army's stores.

I'm not sure a cobbler needs that much in the way of tools, but I imagine I might have a small cart and a donkey to pull it? It would have my leathers, my tool kit, things like that. Plus I could sleep in or under it. Does that work for you?

That's fine.

I think I’m fine with what’s in my description, although I might put a few tools in one of those pouches.

She roams as she follows the camp, looking for fresh herbs to pick that she can use and replenish her limited stores.

My post is a venture into the unknown, so it should, IMO, be considered a draft.

Am open to any back connections others might want to make with Valaric.

He is a skilled Hunter and animal handler who specializes in war and hunting dogs.

Vraithe definitely travels light (although the cart and group of folk he travels with are amazing and have a good ‘feel’ to them), but she’s open to ties of cautious friendship and anything similar we can work out. Maybe she keeps an eye out for something you (any ‘you’ reading this) asked her to, and she either brings it in or takes you out to where she found it?

She’s just a bit wildshy and not in a place that she’s prepared to put herself entirely dependent on anyone else.

Could an NPC tanner be around?

Given we have a cobbler and a Hunter, I’m sure there’s one in the band :)

The supply officer, who likes high morale, has expressed an interest in additions to the food that would add variety and flavor (and nose-approved scents).

There might be one among the camp followers, but the camp doesn't stay still long enough for that, at least at the moment. Also, no one wants that smell lingering.

Alas for the hides unless the...see Wikipedia rawhide entry especially shoes and "splints". A cobbler would know. Great minds think alike, but Moccasin Oxsidi thought alike first.
This message was last edited by the player at 00:05, Mon 24 May 2021.

In reply to Calinda (msg # 30):

All I saw was this.

Traditional gaucho's "boots" are made with horse feet rawhide. Gauchos skin the animal and put the freshly skinned hides on their feet like socks, where they are left to dry, taking the user's feet shape. Like moccasins they are soft-soled. Like ancient Roman cothurnus, the rudimentary boots have no toe box and do not cover the toes completely.

I wonder if tree bark would make a decent sole? Need to do some research.

I wonder if we have a cavalry element, wooden heels were a thing. If the stirrup has been invented already.

Also this... The first sandals emerged in ancient Egypt. They were made from palm leaves, papyrus fiber and raw leather.
This message was last edited by the player at 00:15, Mon 24 May 2021.

This regiment has no cavalry.

Feel free to get creative in finding solutions until you have access to proper tools and places to craft things. That is a large part of the point of this first scene.

It does well enough, look up "bast" and birch bark soles.



You would need to use the bark fibres, rather than straight bark if you want it to last more than a few days, but soft bark could be used to patch holes (briefly).

Vraithe could absolutely bring half an armful of long strips of soft bark peeled from birch-analogues she finds during her wanderings back.

Stop by to visit her in the IC thread and she can hand it over ^^

Actually you've just posted - if you're interested let me know and I'll have her visit you instead.

So there's a connection among the (so- far) four of us. I suggest there be a flexible, old-timer supply sergeant whom Calinda works with. The three of you interact with us.

https://www.nytimes.com/1991/0...ounger-s-heaven.html

My hunter can tan hides in small quantities right now, like the native Indians did. It will take about a week per hide and with my equipment can do about 2-3 at the same time.

It would be good enough for boots and clothes etc. Also easy to make waterskin as well, use the bladder of a creature to act as the bag and use a tanned hide for the external protection for the bladder. Or if you want to get creative a bladder filled with oil makes an easy type of Molotov cocktail or alternative way to carry fuel in small, light containers

 https://www.wikihow.com/Tan-a-Hide

Meet Lukas, supply sergeant. Reports directly to the Warlock, and so is often sour much of the time. Really wants to go home, never talks about that in front of superiors.

Just keep in mind that we're on the march. You can probably rig those frames up on your cart (if there's room), but stay downwind from everyone else if you do!

Hi Lukas ^^

I don't know how often Vraithe will deal with Lukas directly, but I'm sure they see each other regularly in passing.

In reply to Vraithe Mooraven (msg # 36):

Sure, easy enough to assume I've been begging for supplies to keep myself useful. That Warlock doesn't much seem to like our type, and I am sure she would like any excuse to cut us loose, or leave us hanging.

Not very savvy though, the unit would struggle without us.

Actually the primitive way of tanning wasn't that bad smelling. Scrape the hides of fats etc, wash it with clean water, dry it on racks, use urine to tan it.

Now if you did mass quantities and had a fixed location all the time would start to get bad but in small numbers and moving not to much smell. Even place them near our little camps latrine when in camp.

Sorry for the delay, folks, work did me in tonight. I will try to get a post up tomorrow.

Good call Calinda, I was going to suggest Cali find and wake Vraithe up but Valaric would probably be good at it as well.

This is bad if he disappears. Replacement?

I am not in a huge rush OOC, but I will move the scene if he doesn't show in a couple days. I definitely understand RL getting in the way.

Seems pretty unusual to lose someone this early on, makes me suspect it is a real life issue. Hope they make it back!

Hope so! The no recent login is reassuring in a way, suggests it’s an unavoidable absence rather than a lack of interest.

I hope they’re ok.

Are we dead already? Hope not.

Hopefully not, but we do seem to have lost a few.

Not dead. I was trying to give Valaric a chance to come back, so I held the scene - it appears that this isn't happening right now, and so I will be posting again soon.

I apologize for the delay.

Replacement player? The hunter/scout role seems important to me.

Vraithe is more of a loner than Valaric ever was, but they share some of the wanderer-skill set.

I'd probably prefer to find a replacement, but I can tweak her to be less of a healer and more of a hunter if we need to.

Or both.

I mean, sure if our GM wants to throw me some extra skill points ^^

About those extra skill points:

I'm adding another skill (testing this system in other games also) and so I will be awarding everyone an extra 10 to place somewhere.

Also, I am going to hold the scene for new players, but I did reactivate and bump the RTJ today.

To be more specific:

The skill Priest has been added, and everyone gets an additional 10 to place in an Aptitude of their choice (does not need to be Priest)

Oh!

I was joking mostly, but I will have another look at my sheet and apply those somewhere useful.

To clarify:

One additional Aptitude at 10, so three total at 10.

I took 10 ranged, so she can act as a hunter if she needs to.

A little confused, I don't know where the aptitudes are, somehow. I mean, I see the list on my character sheet, but you didn't add priest there so I am assuming there is a list somewhere else?

Everyone's sheet has been updated to include the new aptitudes if they lacked them before.

The aptitudes are after the primary stats (in the section named Aptitudes)
This message was last edited by the GM at 14:01, Sat 05 June 2021.

You gave Calinda a 10 in Trademan?

I may have by accident. If you want it somewhere else, you can move it.

Good placing; makes sense.

I think I am going to call this. No new requests since I reactivated the RTJ. so I'm going to table this concept for now.

Thanks to those who were willing to stick it out.

In reply to Narrator (msg # 67):

Sad to see it go, but I haven't seen it bumped in the looking for players thread, maybe we should wait until it pops up there at least once?

The concept is too good to die, IMO. Strange if no RTJs.

Very strange :( I'm happy to wait a little longer if you wanted to bump it, but up to you.

It's a good and unusual concept.

I'm touched by your desire to keep going.

If you're all patient (as you all have been), I'll wait another bump cycle before calling it.

Let’s do that then!

Thanks! Much appreciated.

Any luck?

Absolutely none.

Would the game work with three players, even if we have to amend our characters a bit?

In reply to Vraithe Mooraven (msg # 76):

It certainly wouldn't be the only game I am in right now with only three players. Heck, anything seems better than the games with ten or more, that move at a snails pace.

The biggest risk with a three-player game seems to be that someone drops out and a 33% loss of players hurts worse than a 10% loss.

Except we seem to be a fairly reliable group now.

Too bad none seem interested. So...GM is telling a story which we players help shape. Calinda goes along as cook and general help, as does Moccasin (mender etc.). Moccasin has an added power: He feels danger approaching.

That's my idea.

I'm willing to go on with three, we might get a fourth in the future, but it really depends on  the GM.

Are we dead? If so, please remove me from the game. Sad.

Looks like it :(

Please remove me if so.

In reply to Vraithe Mooraven (msg # 82):

I asked the mods about this, and got this reply, though I should share, as the GM hasn't logged in for almost two weeks.

In reply to Moccasin Oxsidi (msg # 83):

So it needs to be a PM or does our thread post count?

In reply to Vraithe Mooraven (msg # 84):

I think you need to send them a PM.

I'm hanging on for a while.