BFRPG--Grand Theft Kingdom!  Game Thread
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				Title: <strong>BFRPG--Grand Theft Kingdom!  Game Thread</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>MadPanda</strong> on <strong>25-09-2008, 19:19:28</strong>
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				"It used to be, once upon a time, that adventuring was a proud and distinguished career.&nbsp; It used to be people looked up to the professionals, lauding them as popular heroes.&nbsp; Why, they were influential enough to get their own Guild, complete with Royal Charter!<br><br>Ahhh, <em>those</em> were the days.<br><br>At least until there was a glut on the market.&nbsp; It was so popular that farmers ran away to go adventuring, or ordered cheap scrolls promising to make them 'a mighty wizzard in onlie ten simple lessons'.&nbsp; The harvests suffered.&nbsp; All those little cottage industries?&nbsp; They suffered, too.&nbsp; Except for the ones making cheap swords and flimsy armor for the wanna-bes.&nbsp; Worse, that was when the monsters had all been driven out, evil temporarily vanquished, and there was nothing for a kingdom full of poorly trained would-be epic heros to do but...well...beat up on each other, really.&nbsp; And then it got out of hand.<br><br>Let's just say there was a nasty civil war that resulted.&nbsp; When it ended, mostly because someone with more sense than bravado invaded, adventuring got a bit less attractive as a career.&nbsp; His kids are still on the throne, and they're a level headed bunch.&nbsp; Maybe too level-headed.&nbsp; Boring, even.&nbsp; They'd rather go over a budget resolution with the Chancellor of the Exchequer than watch a proper tournament with jousting and wrestling and feasting afterwards.&nbsp; I guess that makes them good kings, but sometimes an old hand like me gets a bit nostalgic, you know?<br><br>Oh, the Guild is still here.&nbsp; Guess who trains adventurers?&nbsp; And licenses them, of course--you have to have the license, and delver's insurance.&nbsp; A delver without a license is legally a bandit and a tomb robber.&nbsp; That means that anybody, but especially a licensed adventurer, gets to beat you up and take your stuff.&nbsp; If they can, of course.&nbsp; In and of itself, that isn't a bad thing, but sometimes the parchment pushers are said to make mistakes and delvers can lose their license for no reason...<br><br>On the bright side, monsters are creeping back in.&nbsp; Outlying villages are submitting requests in triplicate for delver support.&nbsp; Parties are being sent out on actual missions, rather than rescuing lost sheep and so on.&nbsp; It may be that things are changing.<br><br>But enough of my blather.&nbsp; What do you want to drink?&nbsp; First round's always on the house for new graduates."<br><br>--Hobart Ironbelly<br>Guild Champion (ret.)
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				Title: <strong>Re: BFRPG--Grand Theft Kingdom!  Game Thread</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>MadPanda</strong> on <strong>25-09-2008, 21:45:52</strong>
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				So it comes to pass that some of the newest crop of Guild Academy graduates are gathered in the Quad* the morning after graduation, their packs full of gear, their belt pouches mostly empty except for their new licenses with proof of insurance, and a burning need for a drink, that first job, or both.<br><br>Fortunately, every Guild House in the kingdom contains a tavern as well as a chapel, a library, a training ground, and dorms for visiting adventurers.&nbsp; All part of the 'lifestyle maintenance fee' they collect every month.&nbsp; On the bright side, this means that nobody has to pay for a drink unless they want to get away from the miniature morale boosting tapestries, the broadsides of import, and tons of shop talk.<br><br>The less bright side is that the Guild Tavern has the miniature morale boosting tapestries, the broadsides of import, tons of shop talk, and weak beer.<br><br><br>(* Every higher center of education seems to have one, regardless of whether or not the space so named is in fact a quadrangle of any sort.)
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				Title: <strong>Re: BFRPG--Grand Theft Kingdom!  Game Thread</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>Jefepato</strong> on <strong>09-10-2008, 03:16:06</strong>
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				The ill-tempered Beedle isn't all that great a wizard.&nbsp; But at least he's a better wizard than he is, well, anything else...<br><br>"I say we hit the tavern and fast," he pronounces.&nbsp; "We need a job, or we're all out on our asses next fee collection."
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				Title: <strong>Re: BFRPG--Grand Theft Kingdom!  Game Thread</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>shadowheart</strong> on <strong>09-10-2008, 03:32:43</strong>
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				Lilly glanced sidelong at Beedle's knees, then up at the wizard's face.<br><br>"Hey, I like that idea.&nbsp; Tavern it is.&nbsp; Yes, indeed."<br><br>Her mind was not occupied with thoughts of beer or of jobs (though both would be welcome) but with the loose change and unguarded purses that a tavern necessarily held.&nbsp; Yes, a right treasure-trove of money carelessly entrusted to those less wise than her own self.&nbsp; An oversight to be rectified, for certain, and quickly.
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				Title: <strong>Re: BFRPG--Grand Theft Kingdom!  Game Thread</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>MadPanda</strong> on <strong>14-10-2008, 15:14:54</strong>
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				The usual off-campus hangout for student delvers is either The Prancing Troll (for the more pretentious and cerebral types) or The Hammered Goat (for those who are serious about wanting to get and stay very drunk).<br><br>There are others: The Farting Cat, The Saucy Wench, and Bloody Fred's, just to name three, but they cater to more than just students.&nbsp; This might make them ideal, under the circumstances...
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				Title: <strong>Re: BFRPG--Grand Theft Kingdom!  Game Thread</strong><br>
				Post by: <strong>Jefepato</strong> on <strong>24-10-2008, 03:27:05</strong>
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				"Let's try Bloody Fred's.&nbsp; More chance someone'll have work that the other grads didn't get to."&nbsp; The gnome trundles off irritably in that direction, without really waiting for the others.<br><br>(OOC: I thought we had a lot more people in this game?)
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