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terryclothFriday night we had a session of Lazar's latest Shadake game. No fighting or anything this time, just trying to sell people food processors.
Wayne, Perrel, Jardin, and Balthazaar were mobbed as the mantas landed, by kids (mostly human and juruki -- six armed, scaly things like Perrel) eager to pet and feed the mantas and centaur. 'Pony!' one girl said, clinging to Jardin's leg... Wayne tried to distract them, but was wrestled to the ground. Eventually, they had the kids gather bugs, which they made into bug candy using the food processor. It didn't come out very tasty, since none of them knew how to use it well (only the cook, Rudy, who'd stayed on the ship had really practiced), but the kids ate it since it was sweet.
Eventually, the town's elders showed up -- four of them -- to talk to the party, and tried to lead them away individually. And succeeded, although Wayne insisted on taking the mantas and food processors with him instead of leaving them out where 'they could cause trouble' (or be stolen). Once they were apart, they were each individually interrogated about where they'd come from (their reaction on finding out was 'Jirae survived?') and what they did ('we're craftsmen. Well, students.') and how many weapons they could make.
But they did pay 150 of their coins (made out of coral, more valuable than the levicus Jirae's coins were made out of) for one of the food processors for a trial run, since their diet was a bit monotonous, although they were getting enough fish out of the bitter sea so that no one was starving. They also let them land their airship, which they did after working out how to make a quick escape in case this turned out to be a trap -- normal plant-based airships just couldn't do it, but Balthazaar's propulsion ring might make it possible.
Balthazaar told his students that since this town had a valuable cache of pre-disaster books that they were, unfortuantely, only willing to sell at a very high price, his students would be allowed to 'bend the rules' and make weapons for these people, since they were obviously currently at war *and* willing to trade, as long as they weren't weapons that would later be used against Jirae. So, preferably, single-use things, which would be easier to make quickly anyway. He gave them a 'special lecture' taking most of the rest of the day that taught them how to build things faster, and they had some time to go shopping with their share of the local currency for any essentials they'd neglected to purchase back home (eg, armor and weapons).
Most of them then went to dine with the leaders of the town, but Wayne instead decided to hang out with the Cytherians of the town, who were (a) mostly female and (b) very lonely, being the only family of Cytherians. The mother and one of the daughters were both flirting with him all night, but since he had a girlfriend back home and had only been away for a week he didn't think a fling would be in his best interests, especially considering that word might conceivably get back to her... but he tried to keep his options open and convince them to come along with them on the ship, since they obviously could use more people for mundane tasks like fighting, even if it turned out they didn't have any talent for magitech.
The mother was unwilling to leave her children or her husband, but the daughter seemed like she might agree...
The others got to eat better (or at least, more expensive) food in a nicer setting, and hear about the history of the town -- they'd been the crew of a pair of warships that had (barely) survived the destruction of the bay that was now the great salt desert and the bitter sea. All they really knew how to do was fight and sail and, to a small extent, build boats, although in the intervening generations they'd figured out how to fish, a little bit of 'smelting', if you can call reforging scrap metal that, and... well, their farming experiments were mostly a failure.
They wouldn't mention who they were at war with, but they seemed very intent on getting some things built for them within the week, so it was obviously very soon.
last week | next week
I think that's where we ended.
Wayne, Perrel, Jardin, and Balthazaar were mobbed as the mantas landed, by kids (mostly human and juruki -- six armed, scaly things like Perrel) eager to pet and feed the mantas and centaur. 'Pony!' one girl said, clinging to Jardin's leg... Wayne tried to distract them, but was wrestled to the ground. Eventually, they had the kids gather bugs, which they made into bug candy using the food processor. It didn't come out very tasty, since none of them knew how to use it well (only the cook, Rudy, who'd stayed on the ship had really practiced), but the kids ate it since it was sweet.
Eventually, the town's elders showed up -- four of them -- to talk to the party, and tried to lead them away individually. And succeeded, although Wayne insisted on taking the mantas and food processors with him instead of leaving them out where 'they could cause trouble' (or be stolen). Once they were apart, they were each individually interrogated about where they'd come from (their reaction on finding out was 'Jirae survived?') and what they did ('we're craftsmen. Well, students.') and how many weapons they could make.
But they did pay 150 of their coins (made out of coral, more valuable than the levicus Jirae's coins were made out of) for one of the food processors for a trial run, since their diet was a bit monotonous, although they were getting enough fish out of the bitter sea so that no one was starving. They also let them land their airship, which they did after working out how to make a quick escape in case this turned out to be a trap -- normal plant-based airships just couldn't do it, but Balthazaar's propulsion ring might make it possible.
Balthazaar told his students that since this town had a valuable cache of pre-disaster books that they were, unfortuantely, only willing to sell at a very high price, his students would be allowed to 'bend the rules' and make weapons for these people, since they were obviously currently at war *and* willing to trade, as long as they weren't weapons that would later be used against Jirae. So, preferably, single-use things, which would be easier to make quickly anyway. He gave them a 'special lecture' taking most of the rest of the day that taught them how to build things faster, and they had some time to go shopping with their share of the local currency for any essentials they'd neglected to purchase back home (eg, armor and weapons).
Most of them then went to dine with the leaders of the town, but Wayne instead decided to hang out with the Cytherians of the town, who were (a) mostly female and (b) very lonely, being the only family of Cytherians. The mother and one of the daughters were both flirting with him all night, but since he had a girlfriend back home and had only been away for a week he didn't think a fling would be in his best interests, especially considering that word might conceivably get back to her... but he tried to keep his options open and convince them to come along with them on the ship, since they obviously could use more people for mundane tasks like fighting, even if it turned out they didn't have any talent for magitech.
The mother was unwilling to leave her children or her husband, but the daughter seemed like she might agree...
The others got to eat better (or at least, more expensive) food in a nicer setting, and hear about the history of the town -- they'd been the crew of a pair of warships that had (barely) survived the destruction of the bay that was now the great salt desert and the bitter sea. All they really knew how to do was fight and sail and, to a small extent, build boats, although in the intervening generations they'd figured out how to fish, a little bit of 'smelting', if you can call reforging scrap metal that, and... well, their farming experiments were mostly a failure.
They wouldn't mention who they were at war with, but they seemed very intent on getting some things built for them within the week, so it was obviously very soon.
last week | next week
I think that's where we ended.
