Iberian Feudal Quest

[fitzgerald]

Aaaand its time to drop this arguement please [user] inverted_helix , Adyen[/user].


All of the 3 point choices were meant to be Defining choices about Lucs background and plothooks

Ally 3 would have seen Roya Darius work with you to be his Court Sorcerer and soon a trusted Liuetenant

Libbary 3 would have been loaded with quest hooks and adventure leads

MB 3 has a built in Epic Quest: Find your Grandmothers Garden.


Beaides most Quests show the Shiny or Waifu choices screw players up all on their own XD


Update is 1/2 way done and will be finished once I get done work

 

[inverted_helix]

Libbary 3 would have been loaded with quest hooks and adventure leads

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Didn't expect this one at all. Library 3 did seem suspiciously weak.

MB 3 has a built in Epic Quest: Find your Grandmothers Garden.

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Hesperides protected the garden where the golden apples grew, which could grant Immortality. So I figured something like this from the update.

 

[fitzgerald]

Some options were more blatant than others I'll admit.

Now mundane 3 magical background 3 would have made your uncle (maternal) a Dux in Darthaca who bordered Brajar.

Luc would have been welcomein his court and quickly become a trusted go between your Uncle and the Provincar.

A combo epic quest dealimg with monsters on the boarder was my thougjt for that possibility

 

[fitzgerald]

As the dawn's light filtered slowly through the heavy grey clouds over head Luc dy Tamega, newly minted a Castillar from the heroics of his now dead parents the March Fera and Louise dy Targus, waited somewhat impatiently as the baggage train slowly formed up. Daylight was scarce and travel from the Targus March to Tamega was bound to drag on with the possible additional stops.

"No point in sprinting at the start and ending up tired Luc," the March Jose dy Targus called out as he sauntered up to his much younger half brother. "Ulyssippo isn't going anywhere and the main highway is still fast even in the worst rains. "

Well over twice Luc's own age Jose was a heavy set fellow on the shorter side, none of it loose flesh instead being well set muscle. A powerful boar of a man who had lacked much of their mutual father's charm and warmth, but who had a great deal of cunning both on and off the battlefield. The sheer ease that Jose had displayed in taking over the March had in fact been built upon years of work being their father lieutenant during his many trips to Court.

"No March dy Targus I suppose Ulyssippo isn't going anywhere," Luc remarked with an easy grin pleased to see his brother warm to him slightly. "Although I've always found that an initial turn of speed often convinces pursuers that it isn't worth the effort."

"Ho!' Jose laughed as an almost smug grin rose across his face "rushing off to avoid the wailing of your upset lovers then."

The widow Isabell Diaz had certainly been wailing the previous evening Luc recalled fondly although most definitely not from any sort of distress with her ardent cries for more. Nor had the Learned Betriz or her veritable Oxen of blacksmith husband Diego been that upset the night before last as all three spent one last evening together, well not that the Learned Betriz had been able to speak at all during that encounter. Sweet young Martim had departed last September recalled to his fathers service to go raid the Roknari which had been an enthusiastic farewell from a beautiful young man who had borne more than Luc's cups of wine.

"While there was much wailing it certainly wasn't from any upset," Luc fired back slyly before glancing back up at the still hidden sun. "More that I have desire to arrive in Tamega in December finding the place a shambles and ill prepared for winter. I've much better investments to make with my purse than things that can remedied with a bit of planning and effort."

Gleaming with pride Jose thumped Luc on the back hard enough to rock the much more slender and wiry young man on his heels. "Well said, why its almost as if you paid a fraction of attention to my lessons instead of finding another maidens skirts to part."

"Speaking of," Luc cast his glance to the steely haired woman overseeing the placement of his sister's baggage "Is Sera Iselle going to be enough to mind Caroline?"

"She's clever enough to not get caught by too many of Caroline's schemes" Jose acknowledged. "Once she's begun to blossom however we'll both need to visit to beat the scoundrels off."

"Don't forget the ambitious or greedy," Luc grimly replied. Caroline had a startling breadth in the magic available to her, and with the Divine dy Orozco seeing to her education Luc would not be surprised in the slightest if the cunning old fox was planning on training her up to be Brajar's own Court Wizard.

"Father of Winter save us from all three combined together in a silver tongued poet," Jose swore as he touched his right to his fore head, lips, navel, groin and then over his heart in the Five-fold sacred gesture.

"Father of Winters save us indeed," Luc echoed as he too sealed the oath with the Five-fold gesture.

As the chaos of the baggage train slowly turned from an utter mess into whirling hive of directed activity Jose inquired "So what are your plans Luc?"


Vote Time

Locked In:

[X] Travel to Augustia via Ulyssippo (Fixed)

Chose One:

[ ] Travel to Augustia
[ ] Recruit a Retainer - Recruit a skilled Retainer either Targus or Ulyssippo (please indicate preference)
[ ] Recruit Military - Recruit additional military forces
[ ] Pilgrimage - Stop at shrines and holy sites along the way


Minor Actions: Feel free to suggest minor actions that can be easily accomplished while traveling

 

[inverted_helix]

Nor had the Learned Betriz or her veritable Oxen of blacksmith husband Diego been that upset the night before last as all three spent one last evening together

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This amused me a bit.

Chose One

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I'm guessing this is besides the locked one to travel? Otherwise seems odd to have a vote saying to choose one.

[X] Recruit a Retainer - Recruit a skilled Retainer from Ulyssippo
-[X] An administrator or accountant

Minor:
[X] Shop for books to staff the library with. Look out especially for anything to train people in important skills with and lexica for local herbs, animals and legends.
[X] Spend some time with your sister and her chaperone

We didn't get one during background selection and we have no accounting or administration skill ourselves. This is the biggest weakness we have right now and we absolutely need to fill it in.

Minor Actions: Feel free to suggest minor actions that can be easily accomplished while traveling

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Can we buy books along the way? Also do we already have horses? And will we have trouble acquiring weapons for troops we raise on site? If so we might want to put in some orders for weapons to be delivered at the closest city/town big enough when we get close to our fief.

 

[fitzgerald]

You can buy books along the way.

All forces are currently mounted, and Luc in particular has a wide selection of mounts.

As for acquiring weapons and armor in his fief Luc knows the capital of the province of Augustia, the city of Vizela is down river, and will have a solid number of craftsmen year round.

With a bit of planning, aka if there's war on expect the craftsmen to be swamped, arming and equipping troops shouldn't be a problem.

 

[Walkir]

[X] Recruit a Retainer - Recruit a skilled Retainer from Targus
-[X] An administrator or accountant

Minor:
[X] Shop for books to staff the library with. Look out especially for anything to train people in important skills with and lexica for local herbs, animals and legends.
[X] Spend some time with your sister and her chaperone


Edit: [ ] Spend some time with your sister and her chaperone added as multiple minors are okay

Edit2: Recruit at Targus only

 

[Erandil]

[X] Travel to Augustia

Minor:
[X] Spend some time with your sister and her chaperone

 

[hunter09]

[X] Recruit a Retainer - Recruit a skilled Retainer from Ulyssippo
-[X] An administrator or accountant

Minor:
[X] Spend some time with your sister and her chaperone
[X]Find time to chat with Ser Diaz and Martio.

 

[fitzgerald]

Two notes

For retainer please note Where you wish to recruit from

Multiple minor actions are prefectly fine, just order from most to least important

 

[fitzgerald]

Vote will close in twenty hours so feel ftee to swap change or add on to your vote.



On Minor Actions: I treat it as your To Do list. If Luc runs out of time the remaining bits simply get pushed to the top of the next months minor actions.

 

[inverted_helix]

For retainer please note Where you wish to recruit from

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Could you tell us more about the cities for us to make an informed choice on this?

 

[fitzgerald]

Could you tell us more about the cities for us to make an informed choice on this?

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Not a problem at all.


Recruiting from Targus means Luc will be getting a family retainer to come along: Smaller selection but with in built loyalty (and familiarity)

Recruiting from Ulyssippo, the Captial, gives a much wider range of choices but will be entirely new to Luc

 

[Walkir]

Edited my vote, recruit at Targus it is.

 

[inverted_helix]

Recruiting from Targus means Luc will be getting a family retainer to come along: Smaller selection but with in built loyalty (and familiarity)

Recruiting from Ulyssippo, the Captial, gives a much wider range of choices but will be entirely new to Luc

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Hmm doesn't seem like it should take that much time to go through the family retainers, any chance we can manage both?

Also by wider range of choices do you mean we'll be given another select or just that whichever we end up getting will have better stats?

 

[fitzgerald]

Hmm doesn't seem like it should take that much time to go through the family retainers, any chance we can manage both?

Also by wider range of choices do you mean we'll be given another select or just that whichever we end up getting will have better stats?

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I'll be doing a initial post of the travel and arrival at Ulyssippo followed by a secondary vote (quick turn around as well) on what type of retainer they want to recruit.


Also I'm thinking of re labeling the skill Swordmanship to Melee. Any objections?

 

[inverted_helix]

I think I'll go with Ulyssippo then. We have Charm 4 so we should be able to keep retainers reasonably loyal without family ties I think and if we're being given a selection of possible hires in that way I should think we can hire more than one, and with our generalist build we could really use some specialists. Though it's quite unfortunate we missed out on truly bullshit tier retainers possible from our previous vote.

 

[Marthis]

[X] Recruit a Retainer - Recruit a skilled Retainer from Ulyssippo
-[X] An administrator or accountant
Minor:
[X] Spend some time with your sister and her chaperone
[X]Find time to chat with Ser Diaz and Martio.