Dilandua will retrieve the locked books and the document case and once recovered spend time examining them without opening them, yet.


OOC:  Carefully checking for traps and feeling for magic.

02:27, Today: Dilandua rolled 11, 11, 13, 10, 5 using 3d6,3d6,3d6,3d6,3d6.  IQ+Magery 15 (10+5 Extra Time), feeling for magic:  Document Case then Locked Books.

02:29, Today: Dilandua rolled 12, 11, 9, 16, 6 using 3d6,3d6,3d6,3d6,3d6.  Traps (Search) 14 (9+5 Extra Time).  Document Case then Locked Books.

In reply to Dilandua (msg # 4):

the books and document case appear to be magically locked, the staves appear to be magical, and a great mant of the items are magically  marked in addition to being engraved.

Dne climbs up twenty yards and keeps a lookout for approaching enemies.

In reply to Dne Utrotare (msg # 6):

fromhis vantage point, the leaves seem to spell something....

In reply to Narrator (msg # 7):

Right. We get everything back to our campsite, and the battle site cleaned up?

"Okay, now that we've checked all of that, let's get the bodies into the ditch.  One layer deep, if we can, so they don't protect each other.  Once that's done, I'll create the fire and we'll come back in a couple hours and fill in the ditch.

"Danay, you work with air, you said?  Can you purify the smoke as it rises so we don't send up a signal to everyone for twenty miles?"

"It's best we remain, to ensure the fire does not spread.  If they burn faster than anticipated, magical fire and all, we are here to finish dealing with them.  Is there a way to remove the magical markings from this gear?"

"Magic being what it is, there probably is, but as a research apprentice I don't know with certainty what it is.  If I had to guess, I'd say Dispel Magic, applied with sufficient skill, might do the job."

Once the bodies are arranged, Virgilio picks up the staff he'd carried earlier when catching the loose horse, rehearses the gesture for the needed spell, then steps to the edge of the ditch.  He reaches out with the staff, makes the same gesture again while speaking the necessary Word, and the ditch fills with flames.  After a moment, greasy smoke starts to rise into the air.

"I'm sorry, I don't know the air magic that would control that.  Does your bird-mage?"

[Private to GM: 04:55, Today: Virgilio Hohlfeld rolled 12 using 3d6.  Create Fire (15 + 1 for extra time) (5 hex radius, trimmed to include only the ditch with bodies).]

What do the leaves seem to spell?

At any rate, Dne climbs down and explains two things to the newcomer. 1. The name is pronounced “nay,” not “danay,” and 2. No, he can’t purify the smoke, at least not for a long enough period to be of any use.
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"Sorry, 'Nay.  I must have heard it wrong.

"If it's a matter of energy, I can lend you as much as you need, up to about three draughts of paut equivalent every couple heartbeats.  I recover it instantly.  And what happened with Alice was a rarity, partly my fault -- I got in a hurry."

Now that things have calmed down a bit, you might notice that the tall, thin mage's voice is quite unpleasantly nasal and perhaps louder than it needs to be.

In reply to Virgilio Hohlfeld (msg # 13):

thaumatology for any that have it

In reply to Narrator (msg # 14):

6 sets of light leather gambesons and pants with DR3 corselets,  DR4 helmets and gauntlets, heavy leather boots,

6 good shortswords, Base Price: $400, Fine? +3 CF
6 ST12 crossbows and quivers, the bolts were strewn by Dne's storm, Base price $150
6 cheap large knives, Base price: $40, -0.6 CF
assorted personal basics, red surcoats with the Mageguild insignia.

2 yellow cloaks,
2 yellow surcoats (both badly damaged) two suits of graven brigandine, one reduced to cheap value from being dragged, 2, Base price $5,400, 60 lbs
2 embellished staves, Base Price $10, but embellished??
2 silvered meteoric daggers, Base price $20, +21 CF. Also fine?
2 good broadswords, Base price $600, fine? +3 CF

horses: 4 slightly injured light riding horses, with Mageguild brands, and Mageguild saddles and harness and saddlebags. Assume Saddle Horse, Base price $1200, Bit and Bridle, Saddle and tack, Saddlebags (Hold 40 lbs): $285, 21 lbs, Basic Lift: 88 lbs

items: group basics, 4 locked books, 2 branded writing kits, the sealed document case,

Pouches with a total of $716 in copper and $860+$660 in silver, $480  as six gold coins
2 gold rings,

So -0.1 CF to remove insignia, correct? (-10%).

Reanna will collect the coins and rings in a single pouch, and collect the meteoric Daggers and one staff if no-one else takes it.

Having cooked the evidence and returned everything to the camp...Price for each item standard?

We may want to consider keeping a uniform or two if we want to frame the mage guild for things in future...
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"I'd very much like to keep this staff, if we can manage to remove the Guild emblem."  He holds up the staff he originally picked up.  "Or cover it up, perhaps?

"I've heard you can get almost anything done, for a price, at the Adventurers' Guild in Northport.  The Guild mages were headed there -- well, to Northport, not to that other Guild."  He frowns for a moment.

"Did she say they found some daggers of the same sky iron they used for those manacles?  I wouldn't have thought one of the mages would carry those; where they on one of the guards, perhaps?"

OOC:  Sorry, I forgot to post this didn't I?


* Damaged (-0.6CF); Cheap (-0.6CF); Silvered (+2CF); Fine:  Knife (+2CF), Tools (+2CF); Meteoric (+19CF)

The Locked Books are currently listed at "0$" because I have no idea what the quality level is or the contents.  I strongly suspect they are spellbooks... but whether they are Primers, Textbooks, or Thesis, I dunno and that drastically affects pricing.

The Staffs are being treated as Unenchanted at this moment (just the Staff enchantment) which they may have more on them.

This also doesn't include the final payout of 80 gold coins ($6,400).

I'm also not accounting for anything we gift to Virgilio.
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After having determined the books and scroll case was not openable, at least not openable here or safely, Dilandua stowed them in their backpack.

"Reanna, we should split the coins now, before going further.  And decide how much we are gifting to this ex-slave, to Virgilio.  I'm fine with passing on some of the mundane equipment, we won't be getting much for anything there except the armors and weapons, and even then, a suit of armor and a sword or crossbow will not make much difference to our take."
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In reply to Dilandua (msg # 17):

I notice that does not include the value of the embellishment of the staves, and I am not sure if the silvered meteroric daggers are fine or not.

Reanna would not be in favour of giving anything other than excess to the prisoner, and excess would be items we cannot carry, or do not want to. For that, we should also note the weights, but I suspect the surcoats and the group basics would be dumped. Happy for him to take some personal basics as well. Fine personal basics...are they the same as expensive? Ie ,double or triple the price, 2/3 the weight?

I would ask how many bolts there are, but unless they are silver, I don't care that much. Perhaps grab a few just in case.

Ah, I was reading "embellishment" as "engraved".  Without knowing how well Embellished, they cannot be priced properly, embellishment comes in ever increasing amounts (basically it's just a way to increase the sale value of the item, so while it technically has cost factors and levels, it's also literally "add an amount of $$ to the item to get it to the value you desire").


Weren't listed as such, so I didn't add that.

I figure Gwythaint will skim the list and if anything looks wrong, he'll investigate and correct our errors.


We have 4 more horses, there is literally nothing that cannot be carried away from this battle.

Dilandau doesn't actually care at the end of the day unless it's of significant value.  Like a seriously enchanted Staff is right out, but if Virgil wants a suit of Light Leather or even a Broadsword, Dilandua will not care... Brigandine will require some serious ass-kissing though.


Agreed.  A pouch or two, personal basics, a writing kit, whateves there...


I'm costing them as a Fine Toolkit, so +2 to Survival rolls when you're taking care of yourself.  But if they were supposed to be Expensive (+1CF, wt 2/3) that will change their value.


I listed them as "1" just in case someone really wanted to go searching and pinch every penny.  Dilandua is a little too ... "snobbish" for that.  Like if someone starts doing it, and it looks like it'll speed up leaving, Dilandua will help gather up lost bolts.  Otherwise, Dilandua also does not care.

Regardless it's a Scrounging roll to recover half of them (round down).

And since we're down to four PCs, Reanna, Dilandua, Dne, and Virgilio... it's on Virgil or Dne if they care enough to scrounge for pennies that way (though I wouldn't blame Virgil, a Hip QUiver full of bolts and a crossbow, even if he can't use them, is "money' in his pocket.  I just gotta play Dilandua as Dilandua is built).
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Which, in turn, is mostly a way to increase the capacity of a Power Item.  Otherwise, gewgaws are mainly attractants to one flavor or another of thieves.



Not interested in a lot of weight, especially since I'm a walker, not a rider, not immediately concerned with money, just need some basic stuff to stay alive until I can improve myself.  Leather is probably the best compromise among what's here, but finding a fit is a bigger problem (well above average height, and skeletally thin).



Not sure a writing kit is worth whatever it'll take to remove or obscure the Guild tag(s), but I'd like to check; I'm sure I'll want one, but not sure I want one of these specifically.  Already grabbed a pouch and personal basics (the pouch obvious on my belt).



Not a crossbow user, either, though I'd welcome a sling and second pouch for stones or bullets.  And as noted, not much interested in carrying a lot of weight to slow me down.

"Then we're agreed, Virgilio can take what he can use, in the way of leathers, a few weapons, and such.  We'll have the staves examined by Speilgud, and if they aren't further enchanted or of exceptional value, he may have one of them as well?"

Dilandua rises having sufficiently rested and helps with loading things on the horses, "It might be of value to have him dressed as an Imperial Mage when we pass through Saint Remy, with us as guards, to give the impression that the mages passed through and then disappeared after Saint Remy.  Of course, if we are recognized wearing their colours, someone may better remember us to the next posse of mages that come through."



OOC:

I was mentioning it as a crossbow, hip quiver, and load of bolts is $360 resale.  Of course if you mooch it and then sell as soon as we're in Northport that will colour how some characters look at you (side note, Dilandua wouldn't be angered, and would be amused if someone else was angered by it, leading a more positive opinion of Virgil from Dilandua, but a more negative one from someone else...).

Dne seems strangely indifferent to the finer details of treasures accounting, and also to the plan of disguise.  The good thing about this, of course, is that he doesn’t argue about any of this.  Perhaps something in his own avian little world is distracting him at the moment…

Dne is very hard to disguise, and the guild being accepted and respected in St.Rem might mean that there are members... and that there are hand gestures and passwords they might expect. .

"Must we pass through every little town along the way?  We can blend into the hubbub in a great city like Northport, but every stranger stands out in a small town.  How many call St. Remy home?  A hundred?  A few more?

"I think it would be best, if practical, to bypass the smaller towns along the way.  The lot of you might not be fugitives, yet, but I don't know if missives might have preceded the party I was in.  If someone in good with the Guild recognizes me," he gestures to his scarecrow physique, "I could wind up right back in those sky-irons."

"And I really don't have the skill to cast with neither gestures nor words, even if I can override the sky-metal."

In reply to Narrator (msg # 24):

Like the concept of misdirection,but not a fan of the details. Better to sell the items in Northport, though. Perhaps the underground.

I was actually thinking of saving a set for more nefarious operations to blame them for...

Dne is willing to pose as a prisoner, and can pretend to be manacled, so long as he doesn’t have to wear the cuffs for real.

"I see.  We can see if the guide knows a way to bypass Saint Remy, though crossing fields and other properties might be fraught with it's own perils.  We could always just continue through Saint Remy without staying, draw as little attention as possible."