Temporary Dungeoneering

[Earth]

we already have an herb dude. mgiht want somtin difrent, gel.

[archimage_a]

More than one person can have a skill....Its not like Dungeoneering has a single party that roams around...In fact more than one Herbologist seems pretty sensible.

[Ieyfura]

Well, I would choose White Magick, but the setting just doesn't call out to me to use any kind of magick or fighting yet lol.

[Earth]

true. just saying if we need to group up and we go into a dungeon devoid of plants, then two herblore spectialists who cant hold a sword the rigth way arent going to be usefull.

[Iconic]

Well, I would choose White Magick, but the setting just doesn't call out to me to use any kind of magick or fighting yet lol.

You spelt magic wrong.

 

I'm not being a grammar nazi, that would imply that it is being done accidently. Magic is always spelt Magic apart from in corny roleplays about teenage wizards.

[Earth]

dont be a grammer nazi dude! it could be a special way of spelling it...

[Ieyfura]

lol, herbalism brings in good coin in most RP universes. I'm sure my funds will prove useful for paying for combat training, and I could help the group with funds, etc...lol...Look at the bigger picture, I'll be carrying a small kit and pouches of pre-ground herbs after a while. So it won't be a problem if a place is devoid of herbs lol.

 

EDIT: Magick, is the proper fantasy spelling FYI.

[Jehosaphat]

Well, I would choose White Magick, but the setting just doesn't call out to me to use any kind of magick or fighting yet lol.

Well, look at it this way. It's a lot harder to be unable to use your ability if you choose magic, potion-making, or swordsmanship than if you choose acrobatics.

 

Seriously. I picked an acrobatic ability and then promptly broke my leg halfway into the second session. 'Tis rather angering.

[Earth]

you got one point in a skill thats as dangerous as making acid bombs to train. you expect it to be easy to use?

[Seraphi]

Actually Edel, Magick is just an alternate way of spelling it. Both are correct.

[Iconic]

Yeh... because thats his skill, its the thing he's good at.

 

Ross, your wrong magic was the origional spelling (Even though it sounds older because its a tinny word not like magic which is more woody). It was only ever called "Magick" by this guy who was writing a book about a sort of magic he was making up. I mean if you want to sound like a flagrant douchebag Magick does just that, it attempts to make a word ancient or exotic by adding a K on. Magic is nearly always spelt with a 'c' and the K is only ever added on rarely, commonly in roleplays about teenage girls who have magic powers.

"Magick" if ever used is usually used to denote trick magic (like Uri Geller who blatently uses trick spoons) that magicians on stage use.

Magic is the real stuff though that Harry Potter and Gandalf use however Magic will settle for both.

[Earth]

dude. stop worriying over it. it doesnt matter if that was how it was orriginally spelled or not. jsut let it go.

[Jehosaphat]

Yeh... because thats his skill, its the thing he's good at.

 

Ross, your wrong magic was the origional spelling (Even though it sounds older because its a tinny word not like magic which is more woody). It was only ever called "Magick" by this guy who was writing a book about a sort of magic he was making up. I mean if you want to sound like a flagrant douchebag Magick does just that, it attempts to make a word ancient or exotic by adding a K on. Magic is nearly always spelt with a 'c' and the K is only ever added on rarely, commonly in roleplays about teenage girls who have magic powers.

"Magick" if ever used is usually used to denote trick magic (like Uri Geller who blatently uses trick spoons) that magicians on stage use.

Magic is the real stuff though that Harry Potter and Gandalf use however Magic will settle for both.

Because you're bored enough to care about how magic is spelled. :mellow:

[Seraphi]

Yeh... because thats his skill, its the thing he's good at.

 

Ross, your wrong magic was the origional spelling (Even though it sounds older because its a tinny word not like magic which is more woody). It was only ever called "Magick" by this guy who was writing a book about a sort of magic he was making up. I mean if you want to sound like a flagrant douchebag Magick does just that, it attempts to make a word ancient or exotic by adding a K on. Magic is nearly always spelt with a 'c' and the K is only ever added on rarely, commonly in roleplays about teenage girls who have magic powers.

"Magick" if ever used is usually used to denote trick magic (like Uri Geller who blatently uses trick spoons) that magicians on stage use.

Magic is the real stuff though that Harry Potter and Gandalf use however Magic will settle for both.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magick

 

Magick was an alternate spelling created in the early 1900s.

 

It's an alternate spelling, it is not a wrong spelling.

[archimage_a]

Indeed:

Alternative spellings:

magick

(fantasy) used as a deliberate archaism

(occult) used for supernatural magic, as distinguished from stage magic

 

So edel is half right, it is typically(at least in the circles most of us usually travel in(I guess, though I have come across it used in the other sense thanks to being friends with people, and visiting the Witchcraft Museam in Cornwall)) we would only come across magick when refering something like a Harry Potter book.

 

However, for other people it could be an attempt to distinguish one's abilities from that of the stage magician...by attempting to force them to use the traditional spelling you are thus degrading their personal beliefs, unintentionally no doubt, but degrading them none the less.

 

 

 

In summery, be careful when making assumptions about people's use of language.

[Retech]

-Nex

 

"So it is the magical healers you say? Yes, that fits the picture. We will move with eight of our guards into the old quarter and arrest all of the healers! I have always expected the wizards to do something like this. You have our permission to search the house."

 

Meanwhile, eight guards with pikes are marching into the old quarter.

 

-Edel

 

Edel blunders repeatedly with the complicated attacks, but still manages to maim the guard anyways. As he starts putting on the helmet, a cleric and a wizard enter the room. The cleric begins moving towards Edel, but his arms are stuck trying to put on the chainmail. With one swift club with a mace on the back of the head, Edel falls unconcious. Then the cleric heals the wounds of the guard and Edel, before waving his arms over Edel's head, marking him as a murderer and an outlaw.

 

The wizard and the cleric drag him outside. With a swift movement, the wizard launches Edel over the town wall with a gust of powerful wind. Edel wakes up in the forest with his ankles and his arms broken. He still has the chainmail, but the other three items (helm, sword, knife) are gone.

 

+0.2 Knives and Daggers

 

-Ross and Pieis

 

After watching the incident with the ugly nobleman, the cleric and Kemios return to the house. "Well that was rather rude of him!"

 

 

The house is in a complete mess. The door is open, hanging on only one hinge. The first floor was rather cramped, only around twenty feet by twenty feet. The larder was broken into various pieces, and crumbs of food were scattered around the floor. Several large piles (if you put the tips of your fingers together with their counterparts, and spread as far as they can go) of animal droppings were scattered as well, with pieces of flesh. His falconer supplies were smashed open, and several pieces of falcon rested nearby. The staircase leading upstars was incredibly steep, with steps almost as tall as a human's knee. It was also wide enough for only one person, with the cleric walking sideways to get through, due to his weight.

 

The second floor of the house was cleaner. There were no food crumbs or animal droppings either, except for a large blood splatter in the center of the room. All of the furniture was on the back of the room, on the opposite side of the open window. In the pile was a writing desk, a bed, small tables, several chairs, and a piece of weathered wood.

 

-Rocco

 

"We have just received word that the town guard is sending members to arrest the healers in the old quarter. Though the healers are formidable fighters, I'm not sure how well they could do against swordsmen. Could you and the shopkeeper warn them to prepare themselves?"

 

-Archi

 

Archi presents his two gold coins, and receives fifty loafs of bread and five pieces of meat. Archi also purchases a bedroll and gets nine silver pieces in change. (100 CP = 10 SP = 1 GP) The apothecary tells him that he always needs whistling mushrooms and brine kelp. He will pay 1 SP for a whistling mushroom, and 1 SP for each foot of brine kelp. However, two gold pieces and nine silver pieces isn't close to buying poison, of any decent quality.

 

-Iey

 

Basic Summary:

 

Party walks down dirt road towards Avernum, which is the biggest town in the area.

Party encounters fork. Ross, Icu, Edel, and some other people go down the left fork, while Rocco, Earth, and Kemios go down the right fork.

After encountering bandits at the right fork, they continue until they reach an abandoned mine

They are overpowered by bandits and robbed

Meanwhile on the left fork, Ross and Icu try to get past the bear. Ross and Icu manage to get past, by sneaking through the brush.

Nex gets his middle finger bitten off by the bear, and Edel gets attacked as well.

Rocco "manages" to kill the bear, until it turns out it was already bleeding heavily from a battleaxe in its underbelly. The bear has a wounded cub, which Rocco takes with.

Everyone reaches Avernum.

Ross becomes the apprentice of an old adventuring wizard

Rocco becomes the apprentice of a shopkeeper, who also happens to be skilled with the sword

Nex and Rocco get healed by a cleric

Rocco returns to get bear, which was leashed outside, but finds it missing. When asked, the guards tell him a druid took it into the forest

Icu helps break up a bar fight

Theros (Pieis) jumps into a peasant's house through a window and takes some food from a bewildered family eating dinner

Theros is arrested for jumping on people's houses

Edel is brought into the guard house, because he has decent clothes and could be mugged at night.

 

-Next day-

 

Town falconer has gone missing. House ransacked, and stuff in his house (explained in posts above).

Lots of people go to help, but Edel tries to kill a guard. He is then knocked unconcious and marked as an outcast by a cleric, before being blown over the village walls into the forest by a wizard.

 

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Red square = Horseheads inn

Red dot = Falconer's house

Brown square = Guard's post

Yellow Dot = Retech's Adventurer's equipment emporium

Green dot = Kemios' house

Olive Green Dot = Cleric's house

Light brown north of square = Town hall

Light brown east of square = Guard's Headquarters

 

 

This is just a rough sketch, and the dots don't have to be perfect. If anyone wants to make a new map that is nicer, then that would be welcome. Remember that the inn has to be on a road near the peasant's quarter, Falconer's house is on a road near the peasant's quarter, but not near the inn. Guard's post has to be around where it is. Adventuring equipment emporium has to be on the merchant square. Green dot has to be off the main roads, somewhere near the old quarter. Cleric's house has to be on the main road in the Old quarter. Town hall has to be where it is, and guard's headquarter has to be where it is.

[Earth]

meh. i wake up, and look to see if i can find a job.

[Iconic]

Regnald wakes up, his shirt covered in blood.

He let out a scream but stifled it, he didn't want anyone to hear him, he was going to be stealthy for a bit.

"Well, those latin classes should really have played off" he thought.

 

"HEALUS MEUS"

(thats how you speak latin you just put 'us' on the end of every world goodus morningus peopleus ofus theus tavernus)

 

"Ur.... Vigoratus meus vulnus!"

Nothing happned, he had established that latin wasn't magic.

 

Reginald tried something else, he crossed his arms and with both of his hands he touched his elbows, it caused him a lot of pain to cross his arms but this was the only way out. He focused on the wounds and imagined the pain going away and his wounds closing up. Wizards could do it at a whim but he was awful, his body was shaking from the pain but all he could think about is something that he didn't know would work.

 

--

 

Retech, Reginald is looking out for a metalworkers so if he see's an metalworkers shop or see's a metalworker please make that clear.

 

'The spelling magick for magic is taken from Early Modern English. It was chosen by Crowley to differentiate his concept from other practices, such as stage magic. John Symonds and Kenneth Grant attach a deeper occult significance to this preference.' - Thats what wikipedia says, basically its like a branch of magic like magic from discword or magic from harry potter, its not a general term for magic and should only be used if your reffering to his type of magic with his constraints otherwise your signifying a diffrent magic, its like saying "I use white harry potter magic!!"

[Earth]

DOES IT MATTER?... and i dont know latin, but i dont think its as simple as adding an us to the end of a word..

[Nexaduro]

I quickly scribble on the paper and hand it to the guards:

 

That would be dangerous, it might cause rioting and anger the wizards. And if it was a necromancer, he would cause havoc and even you might not be able to stop him. Rather, you should send escorts saying that the healers need protection, since they have no combat magic. That way you can watch them without danger.

[Nexaduro]

(Even though it sounds older because its a tinny word not like magic which is more woody).

[Jehosaphat]

Hmm. Theros checks the upstairs room for signs of a magical assault. (Why else would everything have been blown away from the window?)

[Retech]

-Edel

 

Edel tries his best to access the worlds of magic, but his lack of training and the mark by the cleric prevents him from using arcane powers or aid from the divine.

 

-Earth

 

There are two offers of employment that you hear about. Carting fish from brinefir back to Avernum, the payment being one gold piece. The other peasants tell Earth that the apothecary is always in need of brine kelp, which only grows in the salty coves in Brinefir.

 

-Rocco

 

The shopkeeper leads Rocco through the middle of the town. After warning the old quarter, several old wizards emerge from their houses to hear the news, before going to retrieve their magical weapons. It seems that they haven't seen light in years, but their lack of physical strength is augmented by magical power. They thank you, and ask if Rocco would like to stay and fight.

 

-Nex

 

"The guards have already left. If you want to catch them before they enter the old quarter, I'd suggest that you leave immediately."

 

-Pieis

 

The only signs that Theros can see are strange indents on the back wall and on the furniture.

[Nexaduro]

I sprint towards the old quarter. I don't let anything stop me from getting to the guards in time.

[Earth]

i head out to BrineFir to get the seeweed.