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  Maya's words by the fire
  20 years ago • Robyn 20 years ago

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  _A golden armored bard with orange hair, easily recognised as ex-gali Nate, is seen sitting near and speaking with Maya at the fires. He comments calmly to a few gathered, though with a frown; "Sounds to me like the gnolls are sacrificing themselves to fuel the energies for some sort of ritual involving the possible summoning of an unknown evil creature." He takes a breath."Whatever the heck this thing is, the word SHOOSUVA is greatly associated with it, possible even it's name. Any rituals involving sacrifice of living creatures are always, always motivated by mal-intent. I have witnessed two similar happenings in my time north, both involving human sacrifice – One was attempted by a cult of now dead necromancers. The other by a mutant lizard-woman, who leads a band of miscrients and plagues the city. Both, however, we're stopped with the aid of the Cerulean Knights." Clearing his throat, he continues… "My name is Nate, I've lived with you all long ago, for five winters. 'Once a gali, always a gali,' is what I was once told by two very dear friends of mine, both ex-elders. I stand before you not as a Peltarchian nor a Cerulean knight, but as an ex-gali. I will gladly lend my knowledge of lore and the arcane as a bard, not only to aid in keeping safety within the camp, but to repay the safety you all once provided me with in my youth." He then settles down next to Maya. He is seen playing his pipes casually and vaguely, although with a perpetual and thoughtfull frown._
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  *Letter with the ROyal Troff Legion symbol*
  20 years ago • sd_luv 20 years ago

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  Desperately Seeking Valmont
  20 years ago • Salsadoom 20 years ago

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  Myth hunts the Dread Beast
  20 years ago • attlen 20 years ago

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  Olivia puts down her sword and takes a few moments to catch her breath from her training as she spots the maniac hin running around …. she leans on her greatsword, wipes some sweat coming down her forehead and chuckles before saying That is one crazy little man... shakes her head with a smile as he searches for his prey some more around the cooking pots ... i wonder what he's upto this time? olivia gathers her things and takes off after Myth to see what he's upto
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  The Kossuthan speaks in public...
  20 years ago • Darkpowder 20 years ago

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  Ah my friend… a thinker.. good :: He turns a compassionate gaze upon the man and with a smile and an even gaze he speaks to the man :: "Those of those infernal realms do only try to steal the power of our lord Kossuth, fire and our lord the true and only Lord of Fire, was present long before evil and god came to use it for their own puposes. We of the faith like a forgemaster use the fire for our own purposes, Kossuth does not judge its wielders. The preceptory from where i came, of the Disciples of the Phoenix does not tolerate the destructive or insidious nature of the outsiders you refer to, that is our secular teaching. As i mentioned, look within the fire and see that which is your own nature reflected back at you, remember tales told, and your children warmed by the fire." Worry not friend, i shall do all i can to ensure no demon or devil comes here when i pass through your camp... :he smiles at the man and thanks him for his thoughts ::
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  OOC- The Sky is Falling
  20 years ago • Teah 20 years ago

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  Yay! Mirkali then looks around carefully for what is going to kill him next
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  Ethrun the ranger lost!
  20 years ago • Pyrus 20 years ago

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  A WARMACHINE IN THE SILVER VALLEY
  20 years ago • acake 20 years ago

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  EASTLANDER CAMPS
  20 years ago • DevoKnight 20 years ago

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  A Fallen Empire - A campfire chat
  20 years ago • Teah 20 years ago

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  Leaning up against a tree and idly shuffling his omnipresent deck of cards, Ty furrows his brow and chews on his bottom lips when Tala asks her question. Glancing up, the fires reflecting and dancing in his eyes, he considers his words for a few minutes before opening his mouth. "There was an empire . . . Indeed." He cuts the cards and riffles them a few times, looking down and concentrating on the actions. "That's obvious, honestly—all you have to do is look 'round at all the ancient ruins. I've heard of a city buried deep in the Rawlins that hails back to that period." Tyche frowns, wearing a nuetral expression; he shuffles his cards very slowly. "What I know is that it was a vast empire that covered most of the northeast, and it fell . . . Over a thousand years ago." Ty smirks his gambler's smirk and pops his neck, twisting it to the side. "Old, fallen empires on Toril? Never. Anyway . . . " He shifts his sitting position, pulling one leg under the other. "The Nars Empire worshipped demons—dealt with them, made pacts with them, and their clerics drew power from them. Nasty practice, really—Never deal with demons." Ty laughs darkly in the back of his throat, curling his lips back and smiling toothedly, the light of the fire catching the edges of his incisors. "As all evil things go, it ate itself out from the inside and crumbled. Demons . . . Aren't to be trusted for power: too chaotic." Ty tilts his head to the side and closes his eyes halfway, riffling through the deck of cards and thumbing the Jack of Hearts out. He holds it up and turns it over, examining it. "There's always been reported high demon activity in Narfell, and that's why: the old Empire. Couldn't tell you anything more specific, but I know people who can." _He flicks his wrist and vanishes the Jack, then bridges his cards and shuffles them before sliding them into an inside, shirt pocket. Rummaging around for a moment in his pack by his side, Ty removes a bottle of half-finished Romani wine and uncorks it, listening distantly._
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  A letter sent to the council Leaders
  20 years ago • EodenValmer 20 years ago

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  Delirious man about the outer fires...
  20 years ago • gahlord 20 years ago

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  Klaz offers a boiled egg wrapped in newspaper.
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  A funeral pyre set-up for a victim of the bandits in the nar
  20 years ago • Darkpowder 20 years ago

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  Sighs Poor Tarrick, he was a good soul. ((That was said by several of my characters))
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  OOC: Gypsy Camp Meeting
  20 years ago • Koros_Ty 20 years ago

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  If we wait for EVERYONE to be able to make it, it'll never happen. I just want to make sure it will be logged
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  *Playing cards scattered on the tables of the Communal Tree*
  20 years ago • Koros_Ty 20 years ago

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  Star seems to have collected several of the cards up and has been seen playing with them as if they were dolls since they have a picture of a person on them. Whenever anyone asks what she has there she gives them one of tha cards with a giggle.
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  New Dm's for the Camp?
  20 years ago • Teah 20 years ago

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  I nominate me! then everyone will have pluffy green hair. hehe. But then again Im no DM. But I think someone who will continue and build upon the existing camp will be great.
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  Threats to Folen Smelvo
  20 years ago • Darkpowder 20 years ago

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  Tyche chuckles and waves a hand in the air, nonchalantly dismissing Tala's concern. "Oye, s'alright, I only kid . . . Mi'lady." Ty grins.
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  OOC: Camp Lull?
  20 years ago • Koros_Ty 20 years ago

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  Not to ignore this thread, but there will be news after the staff meeting we are having tomorrow evening.
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  Cold caverns
  20 years ago • Teah 20 years ago

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  (( I am sure you can persuade some of us miner types…hey Mog...nickel....))
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  Gypsy Only Shops - Rules of Use
  20 years ago • Kerby 20 years ago

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  I think I'll give a "Gaji" perspective on this… from an OOC and IC view. Kerby, as much as I know you want to keep everything special to the camp, and have complete unrestricted control over everything done with "Camp Boons" that you created, I find ICly there's a bit of plot holes, and marketing holes also... When Gaji buy the items, no one is losing profit except fellow Gali who might have sold it for extravegent prices, but if other Gali saw this, they would sell it for a lower price and undercut fellow gali, and it would continue to go lower to a point that the rate charges is barely noticible anyway. The way I'm personally interpreting your words... Discount is not "at cost". And knowing a basic idea of Gali principle, they wouldn't sell "at cost" in the first place, unless they got back the money somehow. Now, if there was a "community pot" (suggested above), which would give Gali a "moral incentive" (as a lot of them I know are lazy when it comes to merchanting), possibly even required to upkeep the high discounts, that covers the incentive for the merchants to give the discount in the first place, and allows you to logically demonize anyone buying the items for thier gaji friends, because then they -are- actually taking away frmo the community. Mirkali, ICly, has never been approached by Gali with a sales offer. He went in once with a host, buying some Elvish rope for himself and one bundle for his Gali host for the hospitality. Of course, he prolly wouldn't buy it for more than 90 gold anyway, he bought it only for that price because of his... eh... "hobbies" Coughs So, personally, I think, ya, you -could- pretend that it goes to the camp, but that would still be bogus. The camp gives so many great things, that it -should- charge a tax. It's sort of a semi-guild, afterall, and a lot of guilds ((That aren't employed by cities)) have thier members have required mandated taxes or fees from time to time. From having such a tax, this would essentially make Gali more compelled to follow the rules you laid out, and would -make sense- for most of the things (at least for me). Apart from that, it gives a standing of what Gali are loyal in the ways of donating coin to the camp -above- thier required level. And having this requirement could lead to some very interesting quests and RP. But again, this is from the perspective of a Gaji, a bard of all things, what do they know, afterall? heh.