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we can do all but the guest rooms this turn and the guest room next turn.
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Make sense, so going to modify a couple of things:ShaperV said:An important point for everyone who is proposing turn orders: for the next two turns it simply isn't feasible for normal people to travel or get anything done outdoors. If you send out regular troops on patrols you're going to take casualties due to frostbite and exposure, and they probably won't accomplish anything. But the various outdoor menaces will also tend to be hunkered down for the winter, so they aren't going to be doing any more damage until spring anyway.
Dominic can still go out adventuring because 1) he has better gear than your regular troops and 2) he can crate magical fire at will.
This is why i wanted to have 'capture' the poachers as a possibility, but we can't afford to be lax with the law from the start.Malcolmo said:Uh guys I get the distinct feeling that if we go after the poachers we have a high chance of ending up arresting our own archers. Besides which I'd rather make a deal with them and get decent quality archers right off the bat rather then wipe them out and end up losing a useful source of men as well as some of our current men.
Damn, i was hoping that ignoring those votes meant that Dominic would just ignore them, not get shaped by a couple of people voting this.ShaperV said:I'm surprised this option only got two votes on QQ. So apparently Dominic is enough of a pervert to consider the idea, but he puts solving practical problems first.
Arkeus said:This is why i wanted to have 'capture' the poachers as a possibility, but we can't afford to be lax with the law from the start.
Arkeus said:Damn, i was hoping that ignoring those votes meant that Dominic would just ignore them, not get shaped by a couple of people voting this.
I am really thinking the whole "get pretty girls as servants" not only is almost guarenteeing that our aunt won't take us seriously, but might also make it much harder to not get trapped later on by enemy spies/etc.
'Turning Dominic's focus to more pleasant pursuits' is a bad idea though. It makes sure that Dominic will not get taken seriously as a Lord, dimnish his potential within his family (and how much he will inherit), make sure his aunt will try to force a marriage down his throat, AND make it easy as hell for other people to get spies in.fitzgerald said:Dominic's 18 and male.
In large part I suspect it was the fact that keep and manor were in crap condition. If the manor and keep were in good shape we could have turned Dominic's focus to more pleasant pursuits.
Kind of tough to do when the winds howling around your ears and the rooms are a mess.
Here i strongly disagree- Dominic cannot afford to let poachers be his men without cracking down on them and making sure they understand they can't do that anymore. And a slap on the wrist is not enough for this.fitzgerald said:There's being lax with the law, and then there's making it clear Poaching won't be stood anymore but hey join the Corzu Rangers to hunt for the local ruler.
My plan for next month was to use a minor action to spread word that A) We were going to crack down on poaching B) Hiring for the Rangers to police the woods is happening.
Basically going here's the stick, and here's the carrot. Dominic won't put up with poaching anymore but there's a viable alternative to go legit.
Plus poaching is really the low hanging fruit of the law. I'd rather have poachers remain a problem versus the Pirates and Bandits. The latter really damage the fief, the former are likely at the sustenance level.
I got the impression that those adventures might be very dangerous if we try them alone.Arkeus said:[X] Look at the adventure leads (The Dark Moon Well, Three Bells Tower, The Black Beast of the Wood, The Foreign Sorceress) and decide to do one of them. The goal for the choice should be one you think we are able to do ourself, so possibly either The Dark Moon Well as It seems like something that a budding fire sorcerors would have an advantage in, or Three Bells Tower.
kinglugia said:On the flesh magic part:
We could get the MC to make the bones tougher, more sturdy and denser so that bone fractures are no longer a thing to him. And the muscles to be stronger and more efficient without increasing their mass. I don't like it when people just increase the muscle mass for more power. Very inefficient and a waste of resources.
And then, if we improve it high enough, we could improve our soldiers (elite ones, though), to become more powerful.
Arkeus said:[X] Look at the adventure leads (The Dark Moon Well, Three Bells Tower, The Black Beast of the Wood, The Foreign Sorceress) and decide to do one of them. The goal for the choice should be one you think we are able to do ourself, so possibly either The Dark Moon Well as It seems like something that a budding fire sorcerors would have an advantage in, or Three Bells Tower.
Arkeus said:This is why i wanted to have 'capture' the poachers as a possibility, but we can't afford to be lax with the law from the start.
Arkeus said:Damn, i was hoping that ignoring those votes meant that Dominic would just ignore them, not get shaped by a couple of people voting this. I am really thinking the whole "get pretty girls as servants" not only is almost guarenteeing that our aunt won't take us seriously, but might also make it much harder to not get trapped later on by enemy spies/etc.
Graig said:I got the impression that those adventures might be very dangerous if we try them alone.
Graig said:If we are doing an adventure we should probably try recruiting that sorceress. She does not appear to be very violent and she could probably be of great help with our Haunt problems.
Arkeus said:'Turning Dominic's focus to more pleasant pursuits' is a bad idea though. It makes sure that Dominic will not get taken seriously as a Lord, dimnish his potential within his family (and how much he will inherit), make sure his aunt will try to force a marriage down his throat, AND make it easy as hell for other people to get spies in.
Arkeus said:This is because poaching is a direct 'taking over the lord's own rights' offense (E.G, direct assault), compared to things like bandits/etc, which are more of a 'general fief problem'. This means that when it comes to politics/etc, you become a joke if you have poachers or if you aren't handling them with the needed harsh hand.
ShaperV said:There's an element of truth to this, but do remember that Dominic doesn't live in modern-day America. Borjeria is a bit prudish in many ways, but the idea that male sexuality is inherently contemptible and perverse isn't part of their culture. Also, the Church isn't as down on sex as the root of all evil as the Catholics were (they have magic and real monsters to focus their intolerance on instead).
The main limit on what you can do and still be socially respectable is discretion. Sex is supposed to be kept behind closed doors, and kinky hobbies should be kept quiet enough that the neighbors don't notice them. So the main obstacle to things like the sexy maid idea is the fact that your castle isn't big enough for a personal harem to be kept out of the public eye, and any noble who visits you would have trouble pretending they don't know exactly what's going on. Which in turn means that sooner or later your mother would hear about it...
How would our Soul level affect what we can do with Flesh Sorcery?ShaperV said:Level 1: Momentary burst of physical enhancement
Level 2: Temporary physical enhancements lasting minutes to hours
Level 3: Permanent physical changes that mimic natural ones (i.e. bigger muscles, cosmetic changes)
Level 4: Permanent unnatural physical changes (i.e. stronger bones, stronger muscles without making them bigger)
Do you intend for Dominic to do this by himself? Travelling our fief alone could be dangerous and it would probably not give a good impression. Someone like Dominic is not expected to travel alone.Malcolmo said:[X] Begin making a fresh survey of all your households so that they know you and that you know how much your uncle's accountant had been stealing.
Actually he should be fine since most things will stay inside due to the winter while Dominic can travel since he has good equipment and summon fire. As for the impression it depends on how we do it. While moving on our own isn't as impressive as doing so with guards visibly showing no concern about the weather is bound to make up for everything, not to mention the effect doing all this personally would have on the villagers could make quite an impression.Graig said:Do you intend for Dominic to do this by himself? Travelling our fief alone could be dangerous and it would probably not give a good impression. Someone like Dominic is not expected to travel alone.
Dude if there were something prowling around in winter that attacked people at random we'd have heard about it already. That sort of thing doesn't go unnoticed. There's useful paranoia and then there's absolutely ridiculous paranoia, this is the latter.dash931 said:...And if, on the off chance there actually is something or somebody prowling around, Dominic would have nobody backing him up at all.
It sounds a foolish idea. We can wait until the season is warmer and we can travel with our men-at-arms.
Arkeus said:My point wasn't about the "Evil" of sex or whatever, but about the simple fact that we are the grandson of one of the top three most powerful people in the kingdom, and the son of his apparent heir.
Dominic is going to be observed by his family to see if he has the potential to be either a heir or at least a dependable advisor and not a almost-shame like our uncle. This is, actually, the reason we are being given this fief.
Arkeus said:As such, it seems obvious that risking to father bastards (you did say there was no real birth control) and acting like a horny teenager instead of a capable young man is the way to dimnish our value to our family.
Arkeus said:Given that we were flat out told that our aunt is going to come and see us and maybe present us to some marriageable young women, it also felt obvious that having Dominic already being lovers with women of lesser ranks and possibly making bastards would mean an instant "marry this low class noble" from her.
Malcolmo said:Actually he should be fine since most things will stay inside due to the winter while Dominic can travel since he has good equipment and summon fire. As for the impression it depends on how we do it. While moving on our own isn't as impressive as doing so with guards visibly showing no concern about the weather is bound to make up for everything, not to mention the effect doing all this personally would have on the villagers could make quite an impression.
Graig said:How would our Soul level affect what we can do with Flesh Sorcery?
fitzgerald said:In short if we snag a bedwarmer for both practical and pleasurable reasons no ones really going to bat an eye then