By all means. I prefer the quest reward system for item acquisition anyway. And I forgot about the tower.

I go to the tower, no stops without really good reasons.

OOC) Why don't you go back and reread the whole thread, and I'll do the same? So we both know we're on the same page. Game will resume when we've both done that. Cool?

Okay, I've reread it all. I'll buy from my list whatever I could easily barter using items from my bag of assorted imperishable trade goods. Otherwise I head to the Tower.

You head to The Tower. (There will be plenty of time to look for gear later.)

The Tower is impossibly large. The base extends in a circle, but at the base, you cannot see around it. Looking up, you cannot see the top. According to legend, the first verser who arrived here fell asleep in the middle of a circle. When he awoke, a house had grown up around him. That house expands and gets larger and more complex with every verser who arrives. The current height and dimensions of The Tower are unknown. What is known is that it is in fact constantly expanding.

You go inside. The reception area is staffed with so many people that there is rarely ever a line. You get called up. A young woman in her thirties is across the counter. She smiles warmly and says:

"Hi, my name is Stephanie. How may I help you?"

Looking around, there's all manner of humans and aliens. Vulcans, Klingons, Medieval knights, cavemen, name it. There's a bank of computer terminals where you can look up different things. They're so simple to use, several cavemen, little more advanced than chimpanzees are using them.

Stephanie asks "Do you have any media? Books? Music? Videos? Holonovels? We will pay you to allow us to download those into our Database. The Database contains information from billions upon billions of worlds. We're always eager to upgrade it. To be fair to all versers of all tech levels, due to differences in storage devices, a 45 record containing only two songs is payable in equal value to a hard drive containing 200 songs. They use some kind of algorithm to determine a fair value."

She can't explain it any further, and neither can I.

Stephanie also tells you that you can check into a room in The Tower for free. Food, water, utilities and all of the basics are free. Amenities are charged on a case by case basis.

As far as what's available in The Tower:

To quote Sam Rockwell in the original TMNT movie:

"Anything you guys want, we got it. Anything you want to do, do it. You know what I'm saying? Anything"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZEWLnvqOsls

(Doing Therapy)

I let them download (except any unique schematics I have) the contents of my iPod, iPhone, T-800 body, laptop, 10 64GB micro USB sticks with various videos & photos of the worlds I've been to, and make copies of my journals,
NIV Bible, NRSV Bible, the Message, Paintball World Bible, Terminator world Bible, e-copy of bug world Bible.

I also download the contents of every Bible available onto a tablet I can take with me.

Next I'll look for a place to stay and a job if nothing else comes up first

What all is on the memory sticks? They're not interested in home movies. What they're after are professional works. Especially variations on popular media. There's over one hundred thirty thousand versions of The Terminator movie.

I'm counting 14 memory sticks and six bibles. Is that correct? I'll give you the benefit of the doubt and count that as 20.

She offers you 20 coins of your choice of metal.



Stephanie looks it up on the database and says "That'll be four hundred billion seventy-five million, three hundred twenty two thousand five hundred and two coins please."

That's not free. One coin each. And you're gonna need a lot more storage.



Plenty of apartments in The Tower. They're 12x24 feet. Small bathroom, kitchen, bedroom and living room are the same. It's like a small, cheap motel room. But there's a food replicator.

20 coins sounds fair.

"So all coins are worth the same regardless of what type of metal or how big they are, or who minted them?"
If so, I get each coin as a different type of metal I don't have yet. No specifics necessary, if you're ok with it I'll record it as 20 coins of different metals.

"Instead of every Bible available, since I can't afford that, what is generally considered by Yahwists to be the best version, and how much is it?"

I pick an apartment to call home for now, and look for someone selling magic potions or whatever to make plants grow to their full size in seconds, minutes or hours.

OOC) My bad!!!

Stephanie explains: "All coins are worth what you and the other party can agree that they're worth. The coins that we give out are about one standard ounce, round and completely blank. To purchase, you would need to give me that many ounces of metal."

Your coins are worth an ounce here. They're just gonna melt them down and resmelt them into what I just described.

OOC) Don't make this any more complicated than it has to be, okay? It's already a challenging world to run.



So 20 ounces. Gold, silver, platinum, lead, copper, brass, bronze, stainless steel, aluminum. Those are the primary. But any metal you can imagine is precious somewhere and to someone.



"Ah, you want The Compilation Bible."

And she goes into the back and comes out pushing a wheeled cart with a massive tome which easily must weigh 400 pounds on top of it.

"Some of our best scholars have spent centuries reviewing and studying the various texts and have created this. It's a compilation of what are believed to be the most significant and historically accurate accounts from all of the known copies, based on all available knowledge."

One coin to download it. Another coin to purchase the flash drive with sufficient memory to download it.



So you're lead to an elevator. You state your apartment number. The world tastes purple, you cease to exist and when the doors open, you're on a different floor. A lighted pathway leads you to your door.

Inside, the apartment is a bed that folds up into the wall, a flat screen monitor of some kind across from that. A chair, a place for clothes and whatnot. A kitchen, bathroom, food replicator.

The monitor can access all information. Do you want to watch all those versions of The Terminator? You can do that. Completely free. You can also look up other versers. You can also examine all of the copies of the bible. Watching it is free. Getting a copy to take with you is what's charged.

You look up potions. You are directed to Karin. She's built a house outside of The Tower. She's middle aged, still attractive.

She asks "What do ya want?"

OOC) You said to grow plants. Don't forget, mentioning a certain plant on this forum is forbidden. I will report it to Oak if you mention it.
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I purchase the compilation Bible and Flash drive if my own Flash drives are too small to hold it.

I ask Karin, "Could I purchase a potion to make plants grow really fast? Preferably so fast that they could tangle up someone chasing or block the path, but even just a really good fertilizer wouldn't be bad."

It's several (dozen? hundred?) terabytes. Yeah, you need a new flash drive.

The accounts are familiar. The Creation account is, you'd estimate, roughly the length of your entire bible. Instead of a general "On this day God created this" it's more like "At this minute, God created this." It's much more minutia and detailed. Likewise, with the story of Noah. The account takes up roughly the length of an entire bible. It reads more like a diary of what was done when and where. It even explains why the kangaroos weren't found between Mt. Ararat and Australia.

Then of course there's accounts that aren't anywhere in your bible. It should take a few decades to read if you stick your nose to it.



She says "Buddy, I'm a practitioner of Elemental magic. Earth, Wind, Fire and Water. Combining these elements in the right proportions is what you want. For that one, you want earth and water."

And she picks up a handful of dirt, prays over it in a foreign language then pours it into a glass jar. Then she takes a pot of water, prays over it, and pours it into the jar. Shakes it up into mud.

"That oughta do whatcha want. One gold please!"

Very respectfully, I say, "Thank you very much!” I have her 1 gold coin.

"Would it be possible for you to teach me how to make my own for when this jar is empty?"

She takes it and tosses it into a jar with a bunch of other coins, and thanks you.



She snoffs. "When it's empty? Buddy, that's a single use. You asked for something what would make plants grow up to tangle somebody what was chasing you. You deploy this puppy like a hand grenade. Ya throw it, shatter it, boom, the plants in the affected area grow. Tangle up a tank it will. As far as can I teach ya to make it. Depends. You affiliated with the Elementals?"

And you're not.
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"Not that I know if, is that something that can be taught it properly obtained?"

"What gods are you affiliated with?"

"Yahweh"

After this, I'll go home and look into getting a job, and also look up Chaos Crystal shops, to see if I could start my own Chaos Crystal item store.

Karin tells you that you can be affiliated with more than one god or set of gods. So long as the gods themselves don't object. She just happens to know that Yahweh and and the Elementals don't object to each other.

So do you still want to learn to make it?



GE 24

There is a very popular Chaos Crystal shoppe in The Tower. It's like the McDonald's of the Chaos Crystal shoppes. You're not going to compete with them. Although you might be able to join them.

It's run by a young woman named Carly Rae Jepsen. She's a very powerful Crystal Chaos Mage.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fWNaR-rxAic

(Doing Therapy)

I'll stick with Karin and learn to make it

OOC) First off I want to say that I am not nearly as familiar with Elemental magic as I am with Order/Chaos magic. There was a player some years ago named Avahur. I ran him here and on our other forum. If you want to know more about the magic, check out our threads.

IC) Karin says "Earth? Wind? Fire? Water?"

Not really feeling like it's the time to ask a lot of questions. Just go with your gut.

(Doing Therapy)

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"Frankly,  just want to make plants grow. So, probably Water first and later I'll try to learn Earth."

She makes a finger gun and points it at you, saying "Watereth Sprayeth."

A jet of water similar to the jet of a Super Soaker sprays you in the face.

"Now you try it. Focus your mind on exactly what you want to do."

(Doing Therapy)

I focus my mind on a water gun spray of water shooting from the tip of my finger like she just did, making the finger-gun & pointing it at the ground (in case I mess up).

OOC) You didn't say you were saying the words.

It doesn't work.

She scoffs you upside the head and says "You gotta say the words!!!!"

Again, "Watereth Sprayeth."

And she does it again.

Mimicing her motions by instinct, I channel my will and emotions through my voice into the sounds, "Watereth Sprayeth."

In reply to Scord (msg # 40):

Scord, I'm afraid I have very bad news.

Our friend, John, has passed.  More information is in the OOC thread, which is information I got from Oak, so if you desire to ask more, ask him.  I'm sure John would be pleased that you wanted to play his game again as he loved to GM.

Sadly,
Eric.