07:58	Sabitsuki	Seriously, though...
07:58	Sabitsuki	I was thinking one of the countries could be a GOC Remnants militarized zone.
07:59	Sabitsuki	Hell, not even a country. State or providence.
07:59	Nusquam	Man, /fuck/ going there.
08:00	Nusquam	Convoy with a buncha Foundation deserters and a GOC operative and a ton of paras cruising through a GOC zone?
08:00	Nusquam	That'd be a blood bath.
08:00	Nusquam	The GOC isn't like the Foundation. They do /not/ fuck around.
08:01	Sabitsuki	Just, like...let's say one day, they're driving a long, and they see a fenced in compound.
08:01	Sabitsuki	Pretty far off in the distance.
08:01	Nusquam	... oh God, idea.
08:01	Sabitsuki	Go on.
08:01	Nusquam	What if they find the Merchant has set up shop outside the front gate of the compound.
08:01	Nusquam	There's no signs of activity from within, and his cart is blocking entry.
08:02	Nusquam	After the players finish dealing with him, he loads up and heads off.
08:02	Nusquam	They enter the compound, /everything/ is dead.
08:02	Sabitsuki	Dead men in armored NBC suits.
08:02	Sabitsuki	GOC insignia.
08:03	Nusquam	I'm not sure they have an insignia, but yeah, pretty much.
08:03	Sabitsuki	All of their guns are broken down and jammed, and they all have stab wounds.
08:03	Sabitsuki	Flies are picking at their corpses.
08:03	Nusquam	No, no.
08:03	Nusquam	Bullet casings /everywhere/.
08:03	Nusquam	The ground is a veritable sea of brass.
08:04	Nusquam	Some bodies are intact, with no obvious wounds.
08:04	Nusquam	Others are missing things.
08:04	Nusquam	Limbs, skin, organs, etc.
08:04	Nusquam	If a player loses a limb, the Serpent can offer them a replacement.
08:04	Nusquam	But it'll cost 'em.
08:05	Sabitsuki	Of course.
08:05	Sabitsuki	Everything has a price.
08:06	Nusquam	Some of the bodies look like they've been cut in half diagonally, and the cut's perfectly clean.
08:06	Nusquam	Others have bite marks on them.
08:06	Sabitsuki	I like the idea of The Merchant being gruff, serious, and quiet, while Mal just won't shut the fuck up.
08:06	Sabitsuki	Foils.
08:07	Nusquam	Bloody handprints on the ceilings.
08:07	Nusquam	Yeah, I like that dynamic as well.
08:07	Nusquam	Merchant encounters are probably gonna be lol.
08:08	Nusquam	Well, wavering between lol and ohgodwhat, with the occasional heaping helping of mood whiplash.
08:08	Sabitsuki	Should be cool, I think.
08:08	Sabitsuki	I'm pretty pumped about this.
08:08	Nusquam	So am I.
08:09	Sabitsuki	Once we get the introduction up, I'm going to ask Echo to bring in a few more people.
08:09		Nusquam nods.
08:10	Nusquam	Also, another thing I considered is that as time goes on, the Merchant's appearance "updates", as it were.
08:10	Nusquam	Eventually, they come across him wearing a black leather trenchcoat with red silk inner liner, black hat. The bloody linen bandages are still wound around his face, though.
08:11	Nusquam	He's driving a ridiculously souped up red Ford Mustang.
08:11	Nusquam	By souped up, I mean the body panels are armor plates, the windows are thick sheets of laminated ballistics glass, that sort of thing.
08:11	Sabitsuki	Maybe...
08:12	Nusquam	Oh, and he has an AK-47 slung across his back.
08:12	Sabitsuki	I'm a bit in love with the Old West theme, so I'm a bit biased here.
08:12		Nusquam warhasaredswordlololol
08:12	Sabitsuki	derp
08:13	Nusquam	Yeah, I know. It would be amusing to see if anyone caught it, though.
08:13	Sabitsuki	I don't know. If they don't start WMG'ing it up after their first talk, I'll be disappoint.
08:13	Nusquam	The serpent becomes a Nixon bobblehead.
08:13	Sabitsuki	:(
08:14	Nusquam	:P
08:14	Nusquam	They will.
Prices are as stated. No haggling.
Topic set by Sabitsuki on Sun Jul 03 2011 08:15:11 GMT-0400 (Eastern Daylight Time)
08:15	Nusquam	Haggling is the entire idea, though.
08:15	Nusquam
Prices are as stated.
Topic set by Sabitsuki on Sun Jul 03 2011 08:15:40 GMT-0400 (Eastern Daylight Time)
08:15	Sabitsuki	:|
08:16	Nusquam	A quart of wheat for a day's wages, and three quarts of barley for a day's wages, and do not damage the oil and the wine!
A quart of wheat for a day's wages, and three quarts of barley for a day's wages, and do not damage the oil and the wine!
Topic set by Sabitsuki on Sun Jul 03 2011 08:17:07 GMT-0400 (Eastern Daylight Time)
08:17	Sabitsuki	Oh man.
08:17	Sabitsuki	One of The Serpent or The Merchant's prices should be 'a week's wages'.
08:17	Sabitsuki	As in 'come work for us for awhile.'
08:18	Sabitsuki	I have no idea where to go with that.
08:18	Sabitsuki	But it sounds cool.
08:18	Nusquam	I do.
08:18	Nusquam	Stated price: a week's wages.
08:18	Nusquam	IC, that is.
08:18	Nusquam	What that means OOC: you lose any XP, aspects, and items you've gained over the past week.
08:19	Sabitsuki	...oh shit.
08:19	Sabitsuki	Man.
08:19	Sabitsuki	You think we should throw these dudes up on the NPC listing?
08:19	Sabitsuki	It's a bit barren right now.
08:19	Nusquam	Not yet.
08:19	Sabitsuki	:(
08:19	Nusquam	Let the players meet them first.
08:20	Nusquam	There will be more what that way.
08:20	Nusquam	Echo runs on blood, Heiden runs on tears, you will run on screams, and I will be powered by whats.
08:20	Nusquam	I think the merchant is good for a few kilowhats at least.
08:20	Sabitsuki	Yay
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08:23	Nusquam	Just a heads up, the channel mode defaults if the channel is ever empty.
08:23	Nusquam	So, if there's ever no one in here, +i gets wiped.
08:23	Sabitsuki	I'll idle
08:23	Sabitsuki	If I ever d/c it's by accident anyway
08:23	Nusquam	Gotcha.
08:24	Sabitsuki	Mal's Sneak skill: Yes
08:24	Nusquam	Put that down as the number.
08:24	Nusquam	On his character sheet when you post it.
08:24	Nusquam	Sneak: Yes
08:26	Sabitsuki	Athletics: Absolutely
08:26	Nusquam	XD
08:27	Sabitsuki	All of the Merchant's Melee Weapons should be infinity signs.
08:27	Nusquam	Just make sure you've got his actual stats somewhere for your own reference.
08:27	Sabitsuki	*melee weapons skill
08:27	Nusquam	Hm...
08:27	Nusquam	Ok, that makes much more sense.
08:28	Nusquam	I was trying to imagine a pilum twisted in the shape of an infinity sign.
08:28	Nusquam	While easily imagined, I cannot guess how that would work.
08:29	Sabitsuki	Heheh
08:29	Sabitsuki	Melee Weapons: Good Question
08:29	Sabitsuki	Ranged Weapons: Better Not to Ask
08:29	Sabitsuki	Thrown Weapons: Yep
08:29	Nusquam	Physical Defense: See for yerself, stranga.
08:31	Sabitsuki	or, if you just want to straight up impress dudes
08:31	Sabitsuki	8 in every relevant skill
08:31	Nusquam	Mal needs a Grating stat.
08:31	Nusquam	This is what he rolls when he's interrupting the Merchant.
08:32	Nusquam	The Merchant has a Patience stat.
08:32	Nusquam	This is what opposes Mal's Grating stat.
08:32	Sabitsuki	haha
08:32	Nusquam	The Merchant also has a Temper stat.
08:33	Nusquam	When Mal's Grating roll beats the Merchant's Patience roll, he loses 1 temper.
08:33	Nusquam	When it reaches zero, he wrecks Mal's shit.
08:33	Nusquam	Mal comes back, though.
08:33	Nusquam	Just like the Merchant.
08:33	Sabitsuki	I'm okay with this.jpg
08:34	Nusquam	Like, I'm envisioning Mal interrupting, The Merchant losing patience and calmly and gingerly unwinding Mal from around his neck, continuing his sales pitch as Mal keeps interjecting.
08:35	Nusquam	Then, grabbing Mal by the tip of his tail, The Merchant cracks him like a whip, breaking Mal's neck. Continuing the sales pitch the entire time.
08:35	Sabitsuki	Grabs his tail, stretches him out, steps on his head.
08:35	Nusquam	After that, he drops Mal on the ground and picks up his pilum, skewering his head.
08:35	Sabitsuki	*crunch*
08:35	Nusquam	Yeah
08:36	Nusquam	So the entire time they're haggling with the players, they're kind of fighting each other.
08:36	Sabitsuki	Mal gets XP if he isn't killed during an encounter.
08:37	Sabitsuki	4 times, he can level up grating.
08:37	Nusquam	YES
08:37	Nusquam	BRILLIANT
08:37	Sabitsuki	Fate Points: All of Them.
08:37	Nusquam	Merchant's Possessions: Three cases of whup ass.
08:38	Sabitsuki	haha
08:38	Nusquam	A box of badass 'staches.
08:38	Sabitsuki	I'm thinking we should just not post stats on the main wiki, and just keep their pages in the GM channel topic or something
08:39	Nusquam	Hm...
08:39	Nusquam	Can only have so much in the topic, and I don't think we've got a registered GM channel yet.
08:39	Sabitsuki	It ruins the aura of 'oh shit what' these guys have if we get *too* silly
08:39	Nusquam	Yeah, that's true.
08:39	Sabitsuki	I can register #AAGM later if we need too
08:39	Nusquam	I'd let Echo do that.
08:40	Sabitsuki	I don't want the players to be like 'oh hey it's our best pals Mal and the Merchant'. I want the player reaction to be somewhere between a moan and a 'fuck'.
08:40	Nusquam	I want it to be somewhat more mixed.
08:41	Nusquam	Like, depending on what's going on in the RP, I want someone to be glad they encounter them.
08:41	Nusquam	Basically, I want them to be regarded as necessary evils.
08:42	Nusquam	You may not like 'em, but where else are you gonna go? The next town? "I came from that way. <Town is awfully dead>."
08:42	Nusquam	Text in <> is Latin.
08:43	Nusquam	Be better if I actually knew Latin, but alas.
08:43	Sabitsuki	"They were like that when we got there." "Mm." "Seems to be a theme."
08:44	Nusquam	Nah, the Merchant won't acknowledge any questions like that. I'm kind of toying with the idea that the Merchant is incapable of lying.
08:44	Nusquam	He /is/ capable of omission, and giving cryptic answers, or simply not acknowledging a question.
08:44	Nusquam	But not lying.
08:45	Sabitsuki	Whereas Mal...
08:45	Nusquam	May or may not be implied to be the serpent that tempted Eve with the forbidden fruit.
08:46	Sabitsuki	"Oh man, food. You guys want food? We've got food, so much of the shit. Apples, specifically. Would any of you pretty ladies like an apple?"
08:48	Nusquam	"Hey bitch, you got a man? Get that dude an apple. Dude's love apples."
08:48	Sabitsuki	And then when someone actually deals with him for knowledge
08:48	Sabitsuki	He gets serious
08:48	Sabitsuki	And gives them...an apple
08:48	Nusquam	Yes.
08:49	Nusquam	Perfect.
08:49	Nusquam	Make sure you write this shit down.
08:49	Sabitsuki	WRITE THIS SHIT DOWN
08:49	Sabitsuki	Ought to log this entire conversation and send it to Echo and Dex
08:50	Nusquam	I'm cool with that.
08:50	Sabitsuki	mein backscroll does not go up all the way though
08:50	Nusquam	Mine either.
08:51	Sabitsuki	WHOOPS LOL
08:51	Nusquam	I think I killed a lot of our early convo with that dream story.