PL: The EPIC OOC - closed thread

[Holy Lykos]

>crystal caves

Muh nostalgia

I thought of dark souls myself.

[Monfrox]

>crystal caves

Muh nostalgia

I thought of dark souls myself.

I feel old now...

[Holy Lykos]

I thought of dark souls myself.

I feel old now...

to be fair, We're the same age or close to it

[Atreidya]

Do I wait for the rest of the people who greet Deacon to post before I do?

[Mincaldenteans]

Do I wait for the rest of the people who greet Deacon to post before I do?

You can go ahead and post for Deacon we'll ease ya in, no worries

[Fvaarniimar]

hashtag: #IWANT
Business Name: Bollina China Shoppe
Business Type: China shop
Name of the person that owns it (or is it city run): Miss Dolores Bollina
What services does it supply: Offers a wide selection of clay-based dishes (wheel-thrown, handmade, and molded/machined; some comparable to Wal-Mart's fare, some unique and lovely but still utilitarian.)  Most are new, but gently used pieces purchased from any interested sellers are mixed in. Offers a narrow selection of other household pottery, ie china animal figurines, drawer pulls, ashtrays; these are more likely to be secondhand, although new pieces exist.  Offers a small selection (roughly three each of sixteen types on any given day, six types switch out seasonally) of glazable figurines and a moderate one of dishes, as a "paint your own pottery" sideline; employees are willing to watch kids whose parents have paid to glaze while parents shop, subject to employee availability, but no classes are offered currently. Mixed glazes and additives may be separately bought in small (single-session) quantities, as may kiln space.  Bollina also offers a small selection of silverware at a substantial markup, and a few large clay cooking utensils, cutting boards, etc. 

Purchases: stoneware and terra cotta clay, related minerals/additives ie kaolin, mineral pigments, handmade/quality finished ceramics from artists, secondhand dishes/china (offers are low, and don't expect collectibles to hold much value unless technique impresses her.)
Where is it located Pick ONE
Downtown District (where the Village center was)
If permissible, in the northern downtown district nearly bordering the market district.
If you want, describe it:  Two story converted brick house with basement and attic, rather narrow.  A ceramic plaque bracketed to the exterior wall right of the door depicts the logo: an oval shaded to look like a plate, on which a stylized bull holds a teacup, above "BOLLINA".  A fire escape goes up to the back of the second floor.   The interior is unrepentantly feminine, but not to an extent which alienates tomboys and macho men - light terracotta walls are stenciled with a glossy terracotta-and-white floral, and tables, furnishings, china cabinets, etc are rather ornate and either dark varnished wood or painted dusty pink. Linens and most upholstery are celadon, as is the ceiling. The thick carpet is a bluer, deeper green. A matching green chair rail runs the length of those walls without tall china cabinets: any items below its level are reasonably kid-friendly, ie will not break if knocked down. (Other doors, molding, etc are cream.)  Items are often arranged roughly by color, with the cheap wares towards the back.

Miss Bollina herself has olive skin and warm bleach blonde hair perpetually streaked with terra cotta, but is not always available despite living in the attic; she works the retail side 2-6 pm seven days a week, spending much of her remaining time in a spacious second-floor studio/de facto office. Wren, a fairy, shows around customers, while a good-humored minotaur named Dave handles purchases. (Having hired Dave might well be why her shop was evacuated, assuming that it in fact was in Bielefeld; Wren is a Burrows hire.)

Specialties: mixed red and white clay wares with clear glaze, screw-on-lidded containers (need grease/wax to be watertight but will hold higher-viscosity stuff without an issue; small ones provided with glaze/additive purchases), slip work, delicate pieces.

For small purchases of the lowest cost items in the store (ie plain mold-formed plates), Miss Bollina accepts durable non-Gallimaufry currency at 60% of what she is told it is worth.  This is due partially to sympathy for fellow Gatejumpers, partially to a belief that she could be yanked out of a world again, and partially to an interest in incorporating unusual currency into pieces.  (Expect her to ask about composition so she'll know what not to do; she's one to tell it straight if you bring gold coins in.)

Miss Bollina is currently expressing interest in a trade of sorts; she'll offer another store's related (nonmessy, no maintenance) branded product (with a long shelf life), ie tea or coffee, if they'll do likewise with some of her signature pieces related to their wares.

[Holy Lykos]

hashtag: #IWANT
Business Name: Crazydeal Squib Robotraption Barter Priceplace
Business Type: Custom Robotics Lab (with delivery!) slash place for Maghrl to dump the various kinds of scrap he collects to actually make use of them.
Name of the person that owns it (or is it city run): Maghrl’laundersando’tamil’reumaur
What services does it supply: custom made robotics work, of anything from Star Wars droids to robotic prosthetics and little toys. Anything someone could order and a squib(and his staff) could build! Provides Meditation and Philosophy lessons on the roof.
Where is it located Pick ONE

Industrial District (near the beach)

If you want, describe it:

A bit of a callback to his home planet, Mag had the building designed to be a bit of a hodgepodge. The first level sleek and futuristic, with store windows in the front filled practically bursting with examples of the Squib's craft of all shapes and sizes and types. They're even for sale! Hell, practically anything inside the store Mag would be willing to sell if the customer put up a good barter. Mag made the prices with this in mind, most of them having very strange pricing the motivates someone to ask, along with labels that say "All Prices are Negotiable, Up or Down". The upper floors of the building are the shop and 'lab' as Mag puts it, the places where the robotic and mechanical pieces and parts are made. The exteriors are styled after the local sort of style, made to fit in with the aesthetic of the town. To this it looks like a strange futuristic medivalist style, with new materials to look like an old structure. For some reason Mag even had crenelations installed. On the property's boundaries and the roof.

The interior of the first floor is welcoming, set up like a store you'd expect, except with a hyperactive purple ratdog running around trying to barter with practically anyone who shows a willingness to. Rows of premade robotics on display, trinkets, toys, and a few basic robots. Prices vary, but generally the more complex and larger the piece the more the base price will be, but Mag cares less about the money, and accepts trade and barter instead of currency. A sign at the front introduces customers to a uniquely squib concept of kRR Value. This concept he glosses most of it over, but the main point is that "The rarer and more unique the object, or the greater quantity of something, the more a squib will value the trade. Quantity and quality are both appreciated in equal measure, and anything unique that catches the eye of a squib will be more valuable than anything else in a barter trade."

The building has a back yard area with many sheds, storing parts and partial robots and unfinished projects. The rest of the yard is kept clean, with nice grass. The sheds are built in a semicircle perimeter of the yard, with stone paths leading to each. Pretty simple but it deals with the storage needs for the business. A driveway to bring their carts up for delivery pickups. They ship their products to those who prefer things delivered, with some assembly required*. The rest are in store pickup, especially those who buy premade products instead of custom jobs.

Mag also offers lessons in Jedi philosophy and meditation out of the building, with a rooftop garden being the location for such as service. This can also be paid for by barter, or offering to help around the store. Probably not the best place to hold meditation lessons and meditate, but Maghrl firmly believes that if you can focus in a cacophonous environment then you have no issue being in tune with the Force and yourself while its quiet. The rooftop garden is actually modeled after a garden Maghrl heard about being part of the old Jedi temple on Coruscant, the Meditation Gardens. As a result he designed a tiered garden area on the roof with a greenhouse top, creating almost a spire on top of the building made of glass and filled with greenery from anywhere he could get to agree to send plants. It even has a water system in it, and a small pool with fish, along with a few birds that live among it for ambiance.

In all, the building is a crazy hodgepodge of things that Maghrl loves and enjoys doing, very much fitting the strange little owner of the place.

*(A lot of assembly required, but instructions are there!)

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hashtag: #IWANT
Business Name: Suomi Away from Home: Robo-Finn Woodworking and Craft Shop
Business Type: A shop that produces custom order wooden items and a general stock of crafts of local wooden (and fungal from a partnership with the Mill) materials.
Name of the person that owns it (or is it city run): Sakarias Viitanen.
What services does it supply: custom order wooden items, instruments, toys, craft kits, furniture, and anything someone might order. No delivery except for larger pieces that one person can't carry alone.
Where is it located Pick ONE

Market District (by the Building )

If you want, describe it:

A humble thing, much the opposite of Maghrl's quite over the top store, made in a Finnish style of wood mixed with brick and mortar. Accents of wood decorate the place, giving it a rustic, old world charm and looking like something from a bygone age. It even has a thatched roof, sloped upward to a point. Its very much a building that would make someone think of the cold north of Europe, if they have that point of reference, or something old style and rustic. The windows are lit by light almost always, and an open/closed sign hangs next to the front door. The door itself is a work of excellent carpentry with scenes from Finnish mythology carved onto the recessed portions. Some people end up just staring at the door without even coming in! A sign hangs above the door, a larger font giving the proper name, Suomi Away from Home, with the description of what it is in smaller, less fancy font underneath.

The interior keeps up the humble rural finish theme, with practically everything visible made of local wood. Everything is made to look medieval or pre-modern while still having the same functions, the area just below the ceiling being carved in a similar style to the door, and the walls adorned with various woodworking projects as decorations and things available for sale. The decorations not for sale include the lighting and medieval style tapestries, which are simply there to complete the aesthetic of the building.

Trinkets sit behind glass cases but the owner is more than happy to take the toys out for children to play with. The building even has an area specifically made for kids to have fun and play around while their parents look at more serious and potentially fragile pieces, an area full of toys made by the establishment and free snacks. There's also free water and snacks for adults too, if they get a bit hungry or thirsty while browsing. The whole place is made to both be convenient and welcoming, and the staff are more than willing to help people pick out pieces or take orders.

Most of the pieces are made in-house, except for a few things here and there that are personal products of Sakarias. Larger pieces are displayed out front and brought to the storage in the back overnight. The rest is beautifully made from local wood and mushroom-tree material( a new medium to Sakarias, so most of those are lower priced or made by another employee). The upstairs is where the workshop is, and deliveries of materials come in through the back so not to leave any debris in the store itself. Sakarias tries to be there as much as possible, given it'd make sense for the 'Robo-Finn' who owns the store to be working up front. Plus he enjoys entertaining kids with stories and being friendly with locals.

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Okay... I think I'm done making businesses now

[Atreidya]

Do I wait for the rest of the people who greet Deacon to post before I do?

You can go ahead and post for Deacon we'll ease ya in, no worries

Wonderful thanks.

I wasn't sure what to do so I painted him scared and confused which I would assume is how most people react when first brought into the world.

[Fvaarniimar]

Indeed. I find myself wondering if letting some characters think/pretend/conclude that they are dreaming for a brief period could be beneficial...

[Holy Lykos]

Indeed. I find myself wondering if letting some characters think/pretend/conclude that they are dreaming for a brief period could be beneficial...

Venla figured out pretty quickly it was reality, lol, as did most other characters. Mostly because its a bit hard to dream up things you've never seen before

[Mincaldenteans]

You can go ahead and post for Deacon we'll ease ya in, no worries

Wonderful thanks.

I wasn't sure what to do so I painted him scared and confused which I would assume is how most people react when first brought into the world.

Perfectly fine -nodnods-

[Swith Witherward]

It's been a day of food, and I'm exhausted. I won't post IC tonight but I might roam by the IRC a bit later.

Cer asked me to let you know that he thinks the new stuff is awesome, but he won't be able to add it to the archive until tomorrow. I was just over in the Mentor subforum bragging about all your good work.

[Tiltjuice]

It's been a day of food, and I'm exhausted. I won't post IC tonight but I might roam by the IRC a bit later.

Cer asked me to let you know that he thinks the new stuff is awesome, but he won't be able to add it to the archive until tomorrow. I was just over in the Mentor subforum bragging about all your good work.

Day of food calls for night of drinks!

*brings the alco*

[Altito Asmoro]

I am return. Will post into IC.

Also, I can into business form?

hashtag: #IWANT
Business Name: Seliana's Exotic Store and Cafe
Business Type: Food Services
Name of the person that owns it (or is it city run): Jennifer Seliana
What services does it supply: Food, exotic ones. You know, fried snakes, fried bats, insects, half-boiled duck eggs with the duck inside (Gross, but real-life food in Thailand).
Where is it located
Market District (by the Building )

If you want, describe it: The store is a two-floor stores. The Seliana's Exotic Store and Cafe provides the following necessities, including food to make in your house, living places. And a quick one, too. Just fry and it will be ready for certain. Frozen snakes to be fried, insects, blood drinks, maybe even a sushi from bats!?

The first floor is the store, where you can buy things for your places. Also goods, food stuffs, practically foods that is edible but too strange for your liking.

The second floor is the cafe, which thankfully has normal coffee and teas beside the exotic ones. The interior is colored white mostly with few blacks here and there.

Also, currently Ms. Seliana is open for hunting offers to anyone. As in, Ms. Seliana always like exotic foods, and more to collect isn't a bad thing, right? For a decent sum, she will pay you with cash in exchange for an exotic animal(s).

[Fvaarniimar]

So let me know if the Gorgon is ok, or other edits are needed.

Ronald's

Note: as a business invented and started after the evacuation/expansion, it's silly to expect that Ronald's will open before October.  I plan on "opening" it a few days before the zombie apocalypse, if ok.  Meanwhile, the building has a sign saying, "We're Hiring!  Contact us at [Address] or inside."
Note B: I'm not always going to be available for running Ronald's.  Please feel free to use the description to have your own adventures/meals here, whether or not I am online; that said, this is absolutely not meant to detract from other restaurants.  Each restaurant has its specialties, and this one's is to be fast comfort food.
Note C: as Ronald's nevertheless hopefully will spend awhile in the present tense, I will describe it in such.
Business Name: Ronald's
Business Type: Restaurant
Name of the person that owns it (or is it city run): Vladimir Smith, Peregrine Spiros
What services does it supply: Food.
Where is it located Pick ONE
Agricultural District (pasture and fields where those sheep are)
Industrial District (near the beach)
Market District (by the Building )
Downtown District (where the Village center was)
I would like to place it in the residential area north of downtown.  Justification: It's being run out of what was Vladimir's perfectly ordinary home at the time of evacuation.

If you want, describe it:

Many things are missing after one leaves Earth - but what of the comfort food?  Vladimir, a chef laid off due to being a vampire, was always rather partial to the simpler, greasier items.  When he and his longtime girlfriend Peregrine found themselves suddenly in a new, safe town with one more house than they'd frequently use, they decided to convert the extra to a fast food-style place.

Exterior: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timber_ ... l_BW_1.JPG, (similar to the narrow central building, but without its first story.)

Interior: A pattern of yellow and orange diamonds with white borders adorns the walls, with two wide horizontal white stripes cutting the pattern at one and two thirds up the wall respectively; the flat ceiling is also white.  The floor is various sealed hardwood.  Old couches with new "wool" slipcovers take the place of booths at four recycled-wood tables, although five mushroom wood bar stools do sit at a counter against one side.  A small but efficiently gleaming modern kitchen with cutting-edge appliances stacked to the ceiling sits at the far end, along with a counter for ordering.  A wide banner advertises:

[We sell fast food made to order.  Request your items, and we'll see if we can make them!

The one pound menu (Items we absolutely can fix you)
Burgers (plain), fried chicken: pieces (2), plain sandwich (1), nuggets (6), tenders (3), fries/chips (large), salads (medium), soda pop (12 oz) and donuts (3 when available) Unlimited fries with two other items, soda refills 3 silvers each.]

The food is quite good.  House specialties are fries/chips and carbonated beverages; the latter are pricey as the carbon dioxide must be shipped from Ascalon.   

A "walk-through" labeled as such and built out of/off of the former back porch by the current kitchen continues the theme, with a long polished fungal bench along which patrons who'd rather sit may scoot. It's typically not used during bad weather, particularly as the interior, with its yellow-toned lighting, looks so much cozier.  In more pleasant weather, patrons and polite neighbors are  welcome to picnic on the neat lawn, which is rather large due to the building's small size.

The logo is an American-cheese-orange smiley face with two pointed green fangs and eight undulating/serpentine thick purple tendrils.  Even to the proprietors, it resembles a Halloweeny spider.  The fact that none of the symmetrical tendrils are below mouth level further reinforces this - but hey, the alternative is a fanged sun.

In the interest of accommodating both proprietors' taste in clothing as well as the fact that uniform anything is tough to come by, the uniform consists of a recognizably yellow-orange top, a wooden nametag, and a 4-inch felt logo pin.  Any top variety, including dresses, is fine.

Anything that even begins to look like discrimination earns a rather harsh scolding; the "ab" couple is thoroughly fed up with it.  Having posed as Muslim to explain her face covering, Peregrine is now particularly sympathetic towards those who often experience religious discrimination - to the extent that Cthulu followers are more than welcome unless they start misbehaving. 

As far as misbehaving goes, do enough of it and one will be kicked out.  Threaten anyone with lethal harm and Peregrine's mask comes off, meaning that (if the threat isn't part divine, undead, etc) she can turn it to stone with a quick veil lift.
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Peregrine is among the most recent scions of a family of gorgons who trace their lineage to Euryale - supposedly another world's Euryale, but the details are glossed over.  Proud of her heritage yet very aware of the responsibility which accompanies it, she wears pastel Ancient-Greek-style clothing when such is an option, with a light, opaque fitted mask under a colorful veil.  Her snaky hair tends to hiss loudly when she's annoyed.  As her ancestors include quite a few humans, her blood can cure or cause mild illness as opposed to resurrecting or poisoning fatally; however, she'll petrify involuntarily if a mortal sees both her bare face and meets her eyes directly. (One or the other will stun.)

Vladimir, born human, was turned because he introduced himself to a vampire, who - assuming that Vladimir was one as well - invited him to an all-vampire meeting with the best of intentions.  The results, however, were terrifying at first for the American culinary student - and then just surprising.  He's now rather laid-back if a little jumpy, and tends to wear casual clothing.

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Alice's Anthill

hashtag: #IWANT
Name It: Alice's Anthill
What is it: Miniature petting zoo? See below
Is it city run: Yes
What services does it supply: Entertainment, cares for small arthropods with housepet-level intelligence
Where is it located Pick ONE
Market District
If you want, describe it:
Admission: 1 ounce of safe food, 1 thimbleful of dust.
For awhile, Alice's Anthill was one of Bielefeld's sillier urban legends: a spot where one could eat a mushroom and explore a buggy metropolis.  Yet, particularly in magical cities, such legends often have grains of truth...

Years ago in Dabfia's World, a few spells knocked over several potions with irreproducible timing, altering low-crawling cellar denizens and a few plants.  One succulent changed color regularly (and continues to), a potted mint exploded into a large shrub - and some parsley gained the ability to shrink people for just over 38 minutes at a time, by a factor of 98697388.  That is, just under 1000 times length/height wise, with typical humans finding themselves a little under 2 millimeters tall.

The bugs (arthropods) were somewhat more drastically altered: in addition to unusual coloration and (power level 4) magic resistance, their minds became similar to those of domestic animals and they gained various feline, serpentine, and batlike features.  They also gained petlike lifespans: 9-25 years.  (Fortunately for Lydia, the witch responsible, she was seated on a tall stool at the time.)

For some time, the aging witch tended her unexpected pets and their progeny, but eventually she grew too frail to handle interacting with them. She passed the duty to a reluctant friend, whose hopes of getting Bielefeld to take over the little zoo were dashed by increasing anti-ab sentiment. When she, the house, and the bugs were rescued, she renewed her plans - and hence Alice's Anthill and the house finally passed into government hands.

The current colony consists mostly of ants, tiny beetles, and especially mites - those critters which had large enough basement floor populations for a colony to be sustained.  (Outcrossing is possible, but the offspring are feral and leave.) Each of these are cosmetically divided further, into catlike, batlike, snakelike, and various degrees of mixing.  All of them are dependent on humans, and psychologically need positive, snuggly interaction. 

To protect the rather-unequal capability pet bugs from each other they are in three separate enclosures, each surrounded by a concrete ring several inches deep, a foot in diameter, and protruding six inches above ground. Each such ring has a platform just wide enough to stand on, and a chemical spray that alerts any bugs or shrunk humans that they need to vacate it, which they usually will do within two minutes. Each bug wears a tiny spider's-silk nametag/collar; these comprise names from every culture known to Lydia's internet and then some. It's possible to "adopt" one and receive frequent updates on them.

The ants, cheetah-sized relative to shrunk humans, live in a fairly typical anthill constructed in situ.  It's at two-forty-five from the back door threshold's right edge, starting 8.5 feet away. The primary attraction is the maze of ant tunnels; additionally, all ants can carry shrunk human riders and (purely) bat-type ones can do so while flying.  Ants' mandibles, however, are large enough to amputate an arm and effective. Much like well-trained pets, they will only bite if provoked. Don't provoke them.

The small beetles, large-dog sized relative to shrunk humans, live in a pile of leaf litter (starting 8.5 feet from the center of the threshold.) Leashes for walking them are readily available.

Clover and dust mites, kitten to small cat and mouse-sized respectively relative to shrunk humans, are definitely the least threatening. The cat-type ones are frankly adorable, as are many bat-types. The dust mites do still look quite weird, even monstrous, and may scratch. These critters live in an enclosure (starting 8.5 feet from the left of the threshold) consisting of wood planks surrounded by grass, with dust poured between the planks and small ladders provided for humans along with bridges for both humans and clover mites.

The parsley is pale green with veins of blue - the blue being a heavily altered cheese fungus imbued with a teleportation spell which deposits on a small magitech moving sidewalk in the former living room 37 minutes after consumption.  The destination is absolutely fixed; barring moving the house and several feet of its soil in one unbroken, unchanged piece without shifting it it cannot move from its spot.  It does, however, have a very limited range: it will only function within ten feet of the back door's threshold. Provided that enough to taste is consumed (less has little to no effect), quantity does not affect the effect. Eat it next to the enclosure you'd like to visit to prevent a long, grassy hike. Tight fitting/next-to-skin clothing will shrink, although often a little less (ending up baggy.)

[Tiltjuice]

Poker den incoming

[Mincaldenteans]

Poker den incoming

Yay!

[Swith Witherward]

I'm working on a reply for the Marlowe mission, but need to pause for dinner. I should have it out a bit later tonight. It's tied in with NVE's character return.

[Northwest Slobovia]

RAIDERS of the LOST BOOK

RotLB

Raiders players, please hold off on posting, please.
Go ahead, but check Agy's edit to his last IC plost.

[Fvaarniimar]

Do I need to redact, Slobo?

[Northwest Slobovia]

Do I need to redact, Slobo?

Your post should be fine. Please stand by. We are experiencing narrative difficulties. Do not adjust your browser.

Thank you for your patience. Please take a look at Agy's edit to see if you want to change your post.

[Great Feng]

Hello!
I planned to join sometime back and had plans ready for my character but got super busy.
This time though I wanna jump right in.
So I'll make a character immediately.

[Tiltjuice]

viewtopic.php?f=16&t=388208

People should be in the IRC.

[Great Feng]

Ugh I can't write all that stuff in the app today. Too much energy.
Wrote a good bit though.

[Giovenith]

http://forum.nationstates.net/viewtopic.php?f=16&t=388208

People should be in the IRC.

Which one?