0006 Rumbles on Rangent

[terrymixon]

Karcsi stands, with a wide grin.

"I posted several senteries of what the locals call mead. I do not know much of it, but I was waiting for you to open a bottle. Open one and try it."

Karcsi hands a litre bottle of mead to everyone one and a clean empty glass.

"I hope the foods I bought is ample and acceptable."

Karcsi

"I'm sure it is," Flighty said, opening his bottle and waiting for the inevitable toast.

[helvorn]

Donovan laughed heartily as Zaki and Sigrun entered the bar. "What took you two? I've been dying of thirst."

[joertexas]

Donovan laughed heartily as Zaki and Sigrun entered the bar. "What took you two? I've been dying of thirst."

"It seems that you survived," Zaki says with a smile.

[ateno]

"Everyone open you bottles and Drink!"


Karcsi open his bottle of mead and pours it in his cup and drinks.

Karcsi

[Tiglath]

"Skål!" she looks Flighty in the eye and says with a smile "To a good hand on the steering oar".

She sips her mead appreciatively rather than downing it in one and also orders ale to go with the meal. However, toasts seem to be a Swordy thing so she also adds others during the feast making sure to personally acknowledge her comrades (Flighty got in early in the "Guest of Honour" slot):
Zaki "She is our hearth"
Karcsi "Spjótbróðir!"
Donovan "My brother from Gram!"
Doug and Bob "Powering us on!"
She adds "Safe to port, slaying snakes and seeing a Dragon!"
Then "Draugr" (remembering) The Dead
"Til ols" - For Luck
"Til Valhallar" - For those in Valhalla

[joertexas]

"Skål!" she looks Flighty in the eye and says with a smile "To a good hand on the steering oar".

She sips her mead appreciatively rather than downing it in one and also orders ale to go with the meal. However, toasts seem to be a Swordy thing so she also adds others during the feast making sure to personally acknowledge her comrades (Flighty got in early in the "Guest of Honour" slot):
Zaki "She is our hearth"
Karcsi "Spjótbróðir!"
Donovan "My brother from Gram!"
Doug and Bob "Powering us on!"
She adds "Safe to port, slaying snakes and seeing a Dragon!"
Then "Draugr" (remembering) The Dead
"Til ols" - For Luck
"Til Valhallar" - For those in Valhalla

"To new friends," Zaki says with a smile.

[terrymixon]

"Skål!" she looks Flighty in the eye and says with a smile "To a good hand on the steering oar".

She sips her mead appreciatively rather than downing it in one and also orders ale to go with the meal. However, toasts seem to be a Swordy thing so she also adds others during the feast making sure to personally acknowledge her comrades (Flighty got in early in the "Guest of Honour" slot):
Zaki "She is our hearth"
Karcsi "Spjótbróðir!"
Donovan "My brother from Gram!"
Doug and Bob "Powering us on!"
She adds "Safe to port, slaying snakes and seeing a Dragon!"
Then "Draugr" (remembering) The Dead
"Til ols" - For Luck
"Til Valhallar" - For those in Valhalla

"To new friends," Zaki says with a smile.

"Indeed!" Flighty will drink to that.

[helvorn]

"Skål!" she looks Flighty in the eye and says with a smile "To a good hand on the steering oar".

She sips her mead appreciatively rather than downing it in one and also orders ale to go with the meal. However, toasts seem to be a Swordy thing so she also adds others during the feast making sure to personally acknowledge her comrades (Flighty got in early in the "Guest of Honour" slot):
Zaki "She is our hearth"
Karcsi "Spjótbróðir!"
Donovan "My brother from Gram!"
Doug and Bob "Powering us on!"
She adds "Safe to port, slaying snakes and seeing a Dragon!"
Then "Draugr" (remembering) The Dead
"Til ols" - For Luck
"Til Valhallar" - For those in Valhalla

"To new friends," Zaki says with a smile.

"Indeed!" Flighty will drink to that.

Donovan will join in the toasting. "To fair winds and following seas."

[Eris]

You eat, drink, and make merry with each other and several locals. Surprisingly, you make it back to the boarding house without blowing anything up or getting tossed in the klink for disturbing the peace. The next day you each slowly recover from sore heads, it's been a while since any of you caroused nearly as much as you did last night and you're out of 'shape' for that. More than one of you considers that you might be getting a bit old for that as well, but that's only a passing thought.

The next few days pass as you inquire about cargo.... (One PC can attempt to find cargo through one of normal channels, black-market channels or a private supplier. Decide among yourselves who makes the attempts in each of the 3 channels and give me rolls.)
 

To find a normal supplier: 2d6+Trader/Broker/Liaison roll 6+ for success
To find a black-market supplier: 2d6+Streetwise roll 6+ for success
To find a private supplier: 2d6+Carousing roll 8+ for success

 
...and you're also going to have to come to an agreement about where you are heading to next. That's important for a number of reasons, including what freight might be going that direction.

[terrymixon]

You eat, drink, and make merry with each other and several locals. Surprisingly, you make it back to the boarding house without blowing anything up or getting tossed in the klink for disturbing the peace. The next day you each slowly recover from sore heads, it's been a while since any of you caroused nearly as much as you did last night and you're out of 'shape' for that. More than one of you considers that you might be getting a bit old for that as well, but that's only a passing thought.

The next few days pass as you inquire about cargo.... (One PC can attempt to find cargo through one of normal channels, black-market channels or a private supplier. Decide among yourselves who makes the attempts in each of the 3 channels and give me rolls.)
 

To find a normal supplier: 2d6+Trader/Broker/Liaison roll 6+ for success
To find a black-market supplier: 2d6+Streetwise roll 6+ for success
To find a private supplier: 2d6+Carousing roll 8+ for success

 
...and you're also going to have to come to an agreement about where you are heading to next. That's important for a number of reasons, including what freight might be going that direction.

Flighty doesn't have broker, though he might want to change that at some point. He does have one level in carousing and streetwise, though. If the "captain" thinks he would be a good fit in looking for cargo, he'd be happy to assist. He probably isn't but hey, the offer is on the table.

We might want to see what over IDs we have before picking a new destination. That might matter.

[helvorn]

The next few days pass as you inquire about cargo.... (One PC can attempt to find cargo through one of normal channels, black-market channels or a private supplier. Decide among yourselves who makes the attempts in each of the 3 channels and give me rolls.)
 

To find a normal supplier: 2d6+Trader/Broker/Liaison roll 6+ for success
To find a black-market supplier: 2d6+Streetwise roll 6+ for success
To find a private supplier: 2d6+Carousing roll 8+ for success

 
...and you're also going to have to come to an agreement about where you are heading to next. That's important for a number of reasons, including what freight might be going that direction.

Flighty doesn't have broker, though he might want to change that at some point. He does have one level in carousing and streetwise, though. If the "captain" thinks he would be a good fit in looking for cargo, he'd be happy to assist. He probably isn't but hey, the offer is on the table.

We might want to see what over IDs we have before picking a new destination. That might matter.

I have broker-3 as well as streetwise and carousing both at 1. Can we combine effects to improve our results?

I assume we are headed roughly Rimward.

[Tiglath]

The next few days pass as you inquire about cargo.... (One PC can attempt to find cargo through one of normal channels, black-market channels or a private supplier. Decide among yourselves who makes the attempts in each of the 3 channels and give me rolls.)
 

To find a normal supplier: 2d6+Trader/Broker/Liaison roll 6+ for success
To find a black-market supplier: 2d6+Streetwise roll 6+ for success
To find a private supplier: 2d6+Carousing roll 8+ for success

 
...and you're also going to have to come to an agreement about where you are heading to next. That's important for a number of reasons, including what freight might be going that direction.

Flighty doesn't have broker, though he might want to change that at some point. He does have one level in carousing and streetwise, though. If the "captain" thinks he would be a good fit in looking for cargo, he'd be happy to assist. He probably isn't but hey, the offer is on the table.

We might want to see what over IDs we have before picking a new destination. That might matter.

I have broker-3 as well as streetwise and carousing both at 1. Can we combine effects to improve our results?

I assume we are headed roughly Rimward.

Sigrún's more than happy for Flighty to seek "normal supplier" cargo or "black-market supplier" cargo assisted by herself or Donovan (or any of our rogue's gallery of "Streetwise" crew members) - just as soon as this "not at all alcohol related mild allergy" goes away...

The "Cargo Teams" are likely:
"normal supplier" Donovan Broker 3 aided by Zaki with Admin(?)
"black-market supplier" Flighty & Sigrún @ Streetwise 1 (plus Donovan as a "Swordy")
"private" Donovan & Flighty @ Carousing 1 (plus Sigrún for colour / "Swordy" flavour).
general provisioning Zaki with Admin(?)

Coursewise we stand atop the Lanth sector Abyss so we:
either ply the Spinward Main: a double jump to Phlume (TL 8 Rich Agric) or call in at Tionale on the way (TL 8 amber zone backwater but has "fly by" fuel to harvest)
or serially double jump via naval bases Denotam then Mirriam down the border through Vilis towards the Sword Worlds.

As a viable trade route for our trader the Spinward Main might offer us more markets if we're confident we can hide in plain sight with our new ship IDs.

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[Tiglath]

Edited in above but I'll post this again here:

The "Cargo Teams" are likely:
"normal supplier" Donovan Broker 3 aided by Zaki with Admin(?)
"black-market supplier" Flighty & Sigrún @ Streetwise 1 (plus Donovan as a "Swordy")
"private" Donovan & Flighty @ Carousing 1 (plus Sigrún for colour / "Swordy" flavour).
general provisioning Zaki with Admin(?) Karcsi as her "minder"

The general idea is to "front" any team above with the appearance of being a Sword World crew as per our intent to "shield" orginal crew members from excessive exposure.

[terrymixon]

Edited in above but I'll post this again here:

The "Cargo Teams" are likely:
"normal supplier" Donovan Broker 3 aided by Zaki with Admin(?)
"black-market supplier" Flighty & Sigrún @ Streetwise 1 (plus Donovan as a "Swordy")
"private" Donovan & Flighty @ Carousing 1 (plus Sigrún for colour / "Swordy" flavour).
general provisioning Zaki with Admin(?) Karcsi as her "minder"

The general idea is to "front" any team above with the appearance of being a Sword World crew as per our intent to "shield" orginal crew members from excessive exposure.

That works.

[ateno]

Karcsi is happy to help out anywhere.

He does have streetwise also.

Karcsi does have interrogation, so he can question suppliers about truthfulness or anything else.

Karcsi

[terrymixon]

Karcsi is happy to help out anywhere.

He does have streetwise also.

Karcsi does have interrogation, so he can question suppliers about truthfulness or anything else.

Karcsi

He can pull fingernails at need.

[ateno]

He can pull fingernails at need.

That's not interrogation, but it is brute force and partially effective.



I like to think of if more that Interrogation techniques, such as building rapport, careful observation, and strategic questioning, can be adapted to everyday conversations to uncover deeper truths and insights. These skills help in discerning the truth by analyzing responses and non-verbal cues.

But its not my game.

[Eris]

He can pull fingernails at need.

That's not interrogation, but it is brute force and partially effective.



I like to think of if more that Interrogation techniques, such as building rapport, careful observation, and strategic questioning, can be adapted to everyday conversations to uncover deeper truths and insights. These skills help in discerning the truth by analyzing responses and non-verbal cues.

But its not my game.

Interrogation by torture isn't nearly as effective as some stories make out. Torture gets you the answers the tortured thinks you want to hear. Going the more soft route of rapport, observation and strategic questioning typically gets you answers that are closer to the truth. Just an observation from the Peanut Gallery.

To find a normal supplier: 2d6+Trader/Broker/Liaison roll 6+ for success
To find a black-market supplier: 2d6+Streetwise roll 6+ for success
To find a private supplier: 2d6+Carousing roll 8+ for success

One roll per person per week, no doubling up, no helpers on the roll. Of course anyone can try anything if they want with a --DM (modified by JoAT), but if you go by the skills you have the following will have positive DM's:

• Donovan (Trader, Streetwise, Carouse) can look at any type supplier, but only one of them per week;
• Karcsi (Liaison, Streetwise) could look for either a normal or black-market supplier.
• Zaki (Streetwise) can try to get black-market cargo;
• Flighty (Carouse, Streetwise) could try for either a private or black-market deal.
• Sigrun, Doug and Bob have no relevant skills, but of course you're free to try. Doug and Bob are not, however.

Okay, so, who wants to try to find a supplier for cargo and which of the 3 types do you want to go for? Oh, and do you want me to make the rolls or are you going to do that?

[Tiglath]

• Sigrun, Doug and Bob have no relevant skills, but of course you're free to try. Doug and Bob are not, however.

Okay, so, who wants to try to find a supplier for cargo and which of the 3 types do you want to go for? Oh, and do you want me to make the rolls or are you going to do that?

Sigrun has Streetwise 1 (as does nearly everyone else! )

Eris it might just be more efficient if you make the rolls as you're a "one stop shop" rather than us all digitally falling over each other.

[terrymixon]

Flighty has JoaT-3, but I suspect that he’d be better off dealing with the skills he has.