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[Yorth]

What price do you think is good I just lower it to 40

 

[Yorth]

btw, we all know that there are mountains northeast of Scribel, but did anyone talk about them in a quest report?

 

[Zoey]

btw, we all know that there are mountains northeast of Scribel, but did anyone talk about them in a quest report?

There might have but I think they were mostly just people looking at them but never climbing them or anything

 

[HURGMCGURG]

@Zoey Price change suggestions:
As is, the backpack costs more than an iron sword. That should be changed. I'd lower it to 40 gold, the same price as a wooden bow.
The bottle should probably be 6 or 5, as the potion sellers would probably need some sort of profit from buying bottles and then selling them with potions in them.
The oil should probably be 8, same price as a potion.
The bedroll price should probably be the same as an iron sword or less.
The ink bottle price I would lower to 30 or less. (That better be some damn high quality ink.)

Those are my suggestions for prices. Thoughts?

 

[ohko]

btw, we all know that there are mountains northeast of Scribel, but did anyone talk about them in a quest report?

From okarin's quest report

"I'm not a little girl though."

"Haha! You have a funny sense a humor, lassie."

"Which way is it to the pirate city?"

"Huh? Did you not hear anything that we said? If you follow the river — there is a fork up ahead. The northeastern branch runs downstream to the Spire Reef. The northwestern branch runs upstream to the mountains. A small hill marks the fork where the river splits. We like to call it Prisoner's Knoll."

"Thanks for your help. Can I go now?"

From @Feathers95 recent quest report

Quest Report (18)
Name: Felicia El Freliti
Level: 4 (2100 EXP)
Quest: Rank E Promotion Exam
Evaluation:

• Survived slightly longer than a month in the wilderness without equipment
• Traversed Gem's Ravine and climbed Bighorn Mountain
• Returned home with a black egg from a Giant Kukuu Nest

**********

Spoiler: Report

Welp, it seemed it was time. Finally, after this one last ordeal, I would become a ranked adventurer! Although excited, I knew the exam before me was going to be extremely tough, I mean, it even sounded like it was calling me out! Fancy sword? Precious tools and equipment? The quest description literally described me so perfectly! But, I'll never succeed if I don't try! After handing all my stuff over to one of the receptionists for safe-keeping, I set out.

Unfortunately, it seemed the first problem would be locating this Gem's Ravine. A kind fellow in the tavern directed me towards a certain quest report which may lead to the right mountain range, so I decided to check that out first. In the report, it mentioned that after passing through farmland, there would be mountains with herbs and mushrooms found on it. Just to make sure I wasn't going on a wild goose chase, I dug for information in the library also. There I found that the river's northwestern fork would lead to a mountain range, alongside that west of Scribel was farmland, matching up with the report perfectly.

Since the river would give me a better sense of direction, I decided to leisurely follow it north. When I came across wild creatures that attacked me, I minimized my energy usage as much as possible, usually trying to sneak past them without alerting them. Since I was still near the forests, camping and hunting wasn't too difficult, especially with my magic, hence after two days I arrived at my destination, Gem's Ravine. Like its name, the ravine was dotted with beautiful gemstone veins. A branch of the river I had followed ran through the center, which would be crucial for me to remain hydrated during this trip. Above a distant mountain, giant birds circled the air and occasionally dove towards the canyon's forests. Since that must be Bighorn mountain, I set off into the depths of the ravine cautiously.

At first, I didn't encounter too many monsters, mainly ordinary animals, hence after hunting them down with my magic, I dried and preserved what I could and kept them as rations. After my evening meal, I would douse my campfire(not lit by fire magic to save mana), and sleep on a tall tree branch surrounded by other shrubbery. Just as began sunlight seeping through the tree leaves less, and a few days had passed, the danger level suddenly increased.

Before long, I began feeling stares filled with killing intent surrounding me wherever I walked. Since I wanted to avoid as many fights as possible to prevent getting any injuries early on, I slowed my walking speed and tried to be as stealthy as possible. Fortunately, since I had practised stealth quite a bit in previous missions I managed to avoid some of the monsters, but I obviously was nowhere near good enough to avoid all of them.

One of the most difficult battles I had was against a lone dark blue wolf, which had a crescent moon pattern on its forehead. It was in the late evening, hence the faint moonlight caused the mark on its head to glow slightly. It didn't seem to be one of the random monsters hatched from a Kukuu egg, since it was a mammal, but it was still dangerous regardless. Just from the way it moved, I could tell it was a lot stronger than a normal dire wolf.

We stared at each other cautiously for a long time, as I silently materialized an icy dagger behind my back. Just when my attention began to wane, it struck out like lightning, instantly giving me a bloody claw mark across my left upper leg despite my best efforts to dodge. Since it had come so close to me, I didn't hesitate to use the ice dagger in my hand to stab it straight into the blue wolf's skull. I also froze it to the floor so that it couldn't lash out at me as it died, using quite a bit of my mana in the process.

Although frustrated at getting injured, I counted myself as lucky. I couldn't imagine even trying to face a whole pack of those fiends, especially since it seemed that the one I just killed wasn't at full power due to the moonlight being so faint. Due to that incident, I had to set up camp early for the night, treat my wound with the healing herbs I had gathered earlier on, and try and recover my mana as much as possible. Afterall, it was one of my only weapons out here.

Although I had a few wounds scattered all over my body, I successfully made it to Bighorn Mountain with rations to spare for the climbing trip. Fortunately, there was a mountain trail to hike up, although it was quite steep and ruined from being unused over the years. There were far fewer creatures on the mountain due to it being Giant Kukuu Bird territory, hence I didn't have much of a difficult time avoiding combat. The main thing I had to worry about was avoiding the view of the Giant Kukuu Birds themselves, which proved to be a challenge. There was one time I was spotted by one of the birds and had to run as fast as possible into a nearby cave, where I wasted a lot of mana killing the bats that attacked me in there. Other than that, however, I managed to avoid their view by using the crevasses and overhangs to hide and rest in from time to time.

Before long, I managed to arrive at a Giant Kukuu Bird nest, one of the few slightly lower down the mountain. I was super fortunate, as just as I arrived, both parents had left, perhaps to get another egg, perhaps to hunt and replenish themselves, who knows. Either way, there were only two eggs in the nest. One was huge and dark-purple in colour, with little white speckles. The other was a bit smaller and was a pure glossy black in colour. Although I preferred the aesthetics of the purple one, I obviously wasn't going to risk anything, and decided to take the smaller egg, which was still big and difficult to carry. As I hid in a nearby hole on the side of the mountain, I assessed my situation.

I had exhausted all my dried meat, was itching for a proper bed to sleep in and wanted to rest and repair my injuries, but I was only half-way done with the exam! And this time, I had to make the whole journey back with a giant egg in my hands! Sighing to myself, I continued the journey, very cautiously carrying the egg in my hands. Since I had already made my way up this mountain before, I knew where all the best hiding spots were, which I was grateful for whilst carrying the huge egg in my hands. Slowly, I entered a bit of a rhythm whilst carrying the egg. Since I didn't want to kill the poor creature inside, I would often heat it up every now and then with my fire magic, which it seemed to enjoy as I swore it leaned closer towards me whilst I did that.

As I made my way down Bighorn Mountain, I finally arrived back at the most dangerous setting of this exam, Gem's Ravine. This time, however, since I had found out that the mountains were far safer to traverse, I mainly stuck to the edge of the ravine, even though it took me far longer to reach home. It was indeed difficult hunting whilst safeguarding my egg, but fortunately, the rest of the creatures I faced were nowhere near as difficult to deal with as that blue wolf. After reaching the edge of the ravine, I followed the river south and reached the nostalgic northern forests again.

Anyways, the rest of the journey was pretty uneventful definitely not running out of paper or anything, especially since it was familiar territory. There were a couple of times I almost lost the egg, especially back in the ravine, but I usually hid it well before heading to bed. There are a few slight scratches on the shell, but if you knock on the egg a couple times, it wobbles about quite excitedly, so the creature inside is definitely still alive!

TL;DR: Thanks to Ohkarin's and the library's help located where Gem's Ravine was, headed north to the ravine, hunted animals and preserved them as dried meat rations, was attacked by a powerful dark blue moon wolf, climbed Bighorn mountain using a ruined mountain trail, chose the smaller black egg from a Giant Kukuu Bird's nest and made way down the mountain, went around the edge of the ravine to stay safer, followed river home and arrived with the egg safely.

 

[Yorth]

There might have but I think they were mostly just people looking at them but never climbing them or anything

hmm, maybe someone should explore them later. There might dwarves, gnomes or who knows what kind of creatures in there. There might also be a city that I would add to the map!

 

[Zoey]

@Zoey Price change suggestions:
As is, the backpack costs more than an iron sword. That should be changed. I'd lower it to 40 gold, the same price as a wooden bow.
The bottle should probably be 6 or 5, as the potion sellers would probably need some sort of profit from buying bottles and then selling them with potions in them.
The oil should probably be 8, same price as a potion.
The bedroll price should probably be the same as an iron sword or less.
The ink bottle price I would lower to 30 or less. (That better be some damn high quality ink.)

Those are my suggestions for prices. Thoughts?

Done and done thanks I never buy anything so I don't know what the market prices are.

 

[AliceShiki]

@Zoey Price change suggestions:
As is, the backpack costs more than an iron sword. That should be changed. I'd lower it to 40 gold, the same price as a wooden bow.
The bottle should probably be 6 or 5, as the potion sellers would probably need some sort of profit from buying bottles and then selling them with potions in them.
The oil should probably be 8, same price as a potion.
The bedroll price should probably be the same as an iron sword or less.
The ink bottle price I would lower to 30 or less. (That better be some damn high quality ink.)

Those are my suggestions for prices. Thoughts?

Tbh, I feel like the Iron Sword and the Potions are the ones that are too cheap... >.>

But that's just me wanting to drain everyone out of their money~ *whiiiiiiiiiistles*

 

[Yorth]

From okarin's quest report


From @Feathers95 recent quest report

This is actually pretty damn cool, I can have a large danger symbol there with text that says that this the location for the Rank E exam. Nice!

 

[Zoey]

As I'm currently nodding off I'm going to leave evaluations to ya'll while I take a snooze.

 

[GM]

I think I might strikethrough the river exploration quest. The content has been filled fairly clearly, IMO.

Follow the River
Sponsor: Scribel City Guild
Location: Near Scribel City
Required Level: 2
Objectives:

• Explore the river near Scribel City
• Update: Traveling downstream (south) seems to lead to a waterfall/marshland (source) (source)
• Update: Traveling downstream on a southwest river fork seems to lead to the ocean (source)
• Update: Traveling upstream (north) seems to lead to the port city of Spire Reef (source)
• Update: Traveling upstream (north) seems to lead to a badlands biome, followed by a fork in the river. The northwest branch leads to the mountains. The northeast branch leads to Spire Reef, a pirate city (source)
• Update: Slightly south of the city, there are several places suitable for building a bridge. Glowstone veins are here (source)
• Update: The northwest branch leads to Gem's Ravine and Bighorn Mountain, the site of the Rank E exam (source)

Description: Several adventurers spotted a river while on their quests (1) (2) (3). Where does it lead?
Rewards:

• EXP: 100
• Money: 30

Also considering striking out this one too.

Let's Go... South!
Sponsor: Scribel City Guild
Location: Near Scribel City
Required Level: 2
Objectives:

• Explore South of Scribel City
• Update: It seems to be large body of water? (source)
• Update: It seems to be a lake/swamp? (source) Is this the same as downstream of the river? (see above)
• Update: Another report in this region (source)
• Update: Potentially hostile lizard-people to the southeast (source)

Rewards:

• EXP: 100
• Money: 30

I'm also thinking of scrapping the general level 1 exploration quest, largely because nearby features are mostly getting found... and I don't really want level 1 adventurer's wandering hundreds of miles away.

Meanwhile, I'll always encourage people to make more quests to explore more features as they come up. @Yorth's idea about quests towards the mountains are a good one.

 

[AliceShiki]

I think I might strikethrough the river exploration quest. The content has been filled fairly clearly, IMO.



Also considering striking out this one too.



I'm also thinking of scrapping the general level 1 exploration quest, largely because nearby features are mostly getting found... and I don't really want level 1 adventurer's wandering hundreds of miles away.

Meanwhile, I'll always encourage people to make more quests to explore more features as they come up. @Yorth's idea about quests towards the mountains are a good one.

Both seem like good ideas to me! ^^)/

 

[Feathers95]

Tbh, I feel like the Iron Sword and the Potions are the ones that are too cheap... >.>

But that's just me wanting to drain everyone out of their money~ *whiiiiiiiiiistles*

Gah, confront me god damn it! I remember asking everyone a while back to throw their opinions about the prices at me but ohko was the only one that ever did!

If you have any suggestions let me know lol, they were meant to be temporary prices anyway.

 

[Racosharko]

World Anvil link in the library

I know it's more work... but would it be possible to have the info on the post number or memo or UTC Time the map is current to?

that way I will know if there are new locations not on the map yet, so to avoid double exploring a place.

if not, it's fine, if I am playing the cartographer meta I should be on top of what's where anyway.

 

[AliceShiki]

Gah, confront me god damn it! I remember asking everyone a while back to throw their opinions about the prices at me but ohko was the only one that ever did!

If you have any suggestions let me know lol, they were meant to be temporary prices anyway.

Ah, sorry, I don't like telling new people that I don't like their opinion or the way they're doing things in order to not dishearten them and the like... Old habits from GMing the game in NUF die hard... >.>

I usually only put my opinion forward if I think there is a big issue at hand... Because you'd be surprised by how many things make me want to say something to others, I'd probably be a really annoying player if I were to put my opinion on everything people did that I disagreed with... >.>

So uhn... In all honesty, I'd probably triple the price of all mundane battle gear and multiply by 10 the price of all magical gear (including potions)... I'm not even sure if that would be a good change game-wise, I just feel like it would be a more realistic price for those things.

 

[Racosharko]

hmm...
can some one explain difference between player shop and npc shop...

and who do I talk to for permit of player shop. the post simply said. Merchant's Guild, is that just the tavern?

 

[Feathers95]

Ah, sorry, I don't like telling new people that I don't like their opinion or the way they're doing things in order to not dishearten them and the like... Old habits from GMing the game in NUF die hard... >.>

I usually only put my opinion forward if I think there is a big issue at hand... Because you'd be surprised by how many things I make me want to say something to others, I'd probably be a really annoying player if I were to put my opinion on everything people did that I disagreed with... >.>

So uhn... In all honesty, I'd probably triple the price of all mundane battle gear and multiply by 10 the price of all magical gear (including potions)... I'm not even sure if that would be a good change game-wise, I just feel like it would be a more realistic price for those things.

To be honest, I'm a bit like that too as I'm sure many other people are. I mean, no one wants to start conflict over a minor reason that irks them, or appear unnecessarily nitpicky. So I can see where you're coming from, no worries.

Well, the main reason I don't really agree with your prices is that, as you said, they don't seem to be the best game-wise. Afterall, most of the starting quests only give 10-20G, what happens if they start without a weapon? Or break it? It'd take them forever to get a new one.

 

[AliceShiki]

To be honest, I'm a bit like that too as I'm sure many other people are. I mean, no one wants to start conflict over a minor reason that irks them, or appear unnecessarily nitpicky. So I can see where you're coming from, no worries.

Well, the main reason I don't really agree with your prices is that, as you said, they don't seem to be the best game-wise. Afterall, most of the starting quests only give 10-20G, what happens if they start without a weapon? Or break it? It'd take them forever to get a new one.

Aye aye, that's a fair reasoning, I just worry about money becoming pointless as people raise ranks and get more and more money, so the prices for things start becoming trivial, so we need more and more money sinks or really expensive stuff to buy.

And when the basic mundane stuff is already cheap, it becomes a bit hard to make some other cooler stuff too much above it, so I'd usually prefer to have expensive mundane stuff to better control the overall amount of money circulating.

... As in, I want everyone to be poor! xD

 

[GM]

To be honest, I'm a bit like that too as I'm sure many other people are. I mean, no one wants to start conflict over a minor reason that irks them, or appear unnecessarily nitpicky. So I can see where you're coming from, no worries.

Well, the main reason I don't really agree with your prices is that, as you said, they don't seem to be the best game-wise. Afterall, most of the starting quests only give 10-20G, what happens if they start without a weapon? Or break it? It'd take them forever to get a new one.

Maybe we can rename one of the shops to like a junkyard shop? Trash shop? Leftover items that nobody wants? Or perhaps a pawn shop?

You wouldn't be expected to find anything good, but you might find hand-me-downs like rusty swords for cheap.

 

[Bochi]

Tbh, I feel like the Iron Sword and the Potions are the ones that are too cheap... >.>

But that's just me wanting to drain everyone out of their money~ *whiiiiiiiiiistles*

That's not very cash money of you, Alice~

*Staaaaaaaaaare*