[pnpgm] Game Update #12 - File #44 - Unali's IBT

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   HT Aliaver/Player          Character Name    Type    Status/Notes  Sex
   -- -----------------------------------------------------------------
   R1.John Haight...........Arawn.............Druid  .Normal/Alfar  Ma
   --.Tobie Bonahoom........Fremea............Sidh....Normal/Faerry Fe
   --.Floyd Mesler..........Jordan Malic......Warrior.Normal/Human  Ma
   R2.Mark Murtha...........Kell..............Trader..Normal/Human..Ma
   R1.David Sanders.........Kiet.Sunan........Acrobat Normal/Human  Ma
   R4.J H Hooten............Raban.Usherwood...Bard....Normal/Human..Ma
   W4.Wout Broere...........Unali.............Ninja...Normal/Human  Fe
   R1 John.Stowman..........Will..............Hunter..Normal/Human..Ma
   R4.Alex Koponen..........Z'leyra...........Healer..Normal/Human  Fe
      Animals: Corona [Eagle] Z'leyra, Squirt (Ferret) Kell

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      Game Update #12 in sequence (file #44)
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      [Recap]

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      [New Stuff]

          [Augado 11th - Sepes 24th, 1634TH]
          [Location: Marentia (Maren)]

          [Aug 12 - Dark Lands]

            Unali explores the market next to the Citadel.  She enters
          a weapons shop to inspect it for good weapons.  The merchant
          eyes her as she moves about the small store.  "You one that
          came back with Zhou dead?"  Unali inspects a sling and ignores
          him.  "You expect to avoid justice?  I think you all should
          be on trial.  It is very convenient the High Elder is away."

            Unali shakes her head at the lack of decent weapons.  She
          takes one final look and leaves the store without looking back.

          [Aug 14 - Dark Lands]

            Unali is heading to meet someone and is on the road going
          north from the citadel.  The day is wet and cloudy.  The
          road is thick with forest to each side but big enough for
          two wagons side by side.  As she walks a young boy around
          18 jumps out of the bushes and waves a dagger in Unali's
          face.  "Money! Now!"

            The boy lunges for Unali and grabs a hold of her tunic
          which covers her ruby necklace.  "This too!"

            Unali is rich so can afford to lose some coin.  But to take
          a nice item like her necklace is not tolerated.  The kid
          spits at her and calls her a not so nice person who should
          be more for the streets at night.  Unali flicks her wrist and
          one of her new magical daggers falls to her right hand.  But
          before she does this she spins and does a side kick to drop
          the boy to his butt.  Lunging forward she flips the dagger
          in her wrist to have hilt forward.  She slaps the boy on
          the side of the head and knocks him out.  She sighs and
          decides to continue on leaving the boy to sleep it off. She
          considers calling for the guard but if the kid can't even
          take a girl down then who can he hurt?

          [Aug 15 - Dark Lands]

            Back in the village it is night and Unali is in a nice
          tavern with decent food from the rumors.  She is enjoying
          a nice beef stew and warm bread when she notices a tavern
          serving girl being harassed by a guy.  Seems the guy wanted
          a certain extra service with his wine but she is not of that
          type.  The drunk guy and pal tries to pull her down to their
          table and get physical with her.

            Unali wipes her chin with her napkin - can't ignore those
          civilized manners - and stands up.  She looks around for the
          owner or the bouncer.  But seems both are missing or not
          one to be hired her.  She walks to the table and the guy's
          friend stands.  "You here to to...hav sum fun?"  He slurs
          his words as tries to stand. Unali doesn't even look to
          the side and simple grabs the man's shoulder and twists
          around pushing the man against the wall into the picture
          of a bear.  The man's head bounces and he reacts tries to
          turn around and throw a punch but she simply ducks to avoid
          it and grabs a wine bottle from another table and smashes
          it against the man's skull taking him out.

            By now the other man has gotten up throwing the girl to
          the ground.  The man grabs a knife for cutting meat and
          thrusts.  But Unali reaches forward and yanks his arm a
          trick learned from the other martial artist in the group.
          She slams the guy over another table through dishes.  The
          man quickly gets to his feet and charges.  Unali simply
          side steps and he slams into another table.  Tired of this
          and wanting to get back to her warm feet she waits for the
          man to charge again in a crouch. The man charges and she
          does a roundhouse kick and kicks him in the side of the head
          knocking him out.

            Unali returns to her food and smiles at the nice warm bread.
          Some guards rush in and haul the men away for being drunk and
          disorderly.

          [Aug 19 - Marentia]

            Unali has decided to settle down and buy a home.  She
          decides the best places are Sivas and Maren.  She has
          been using Duke Aren's estate for most of the time near
          Sivas.  But it is time to leave to be on her own.

            She spends the next few weeks to find a home.  She
          finds a nice manor deep in the city in a Station 8 style
          neighborhood.  It has a well fenced property with a 4
          stall stable and nice home.  It has 2 guest rooms, place
          for a live in housekeeper, basement and workshop so she
          can repair her weapons and such.  She buys the manor
          and hires a housekeeper for the next 2 months.  She
          will hire others like a cook, groundskeeper, stable boy
          and guard as she needs it for like parties.  She spends
          a few days buying furniture for the empty place

            Unali uses the language necklace to learn Cerulean from
          Malic so she can speak fluent in it.

          [Aug 20 - Marentia]

            Unali uses the language necklace again today to learn
          Ba'ru from someone at Cholan's tavern who knows it.

          [Aug 21 - Aug 28 - Marentia]

            Over the next week Unali completes her shopping spree
          in the various markets and shops.  She gets clothing
          repaired and buys new clothing like dresses and black
          combat clothing.

            She finds a rare item in a weapons shop where the
          merchant is selling a Kameri dagger for only 3 SC! While
          that is worth 3x the normal cost of a dagger she expects
          it to be 10x that much.  The merchant clearly does not
          know what he has inherited.

            She replenishes her flasks with wine and water as well
          as her rations and food for the manor.

          [Aug 28 - Marentia]

            Unali is visiting a tavern for dinner with Marta Valnon near
          her place in Maren City.  Both are having dinner and Unali
          goes over some of the gossip she has heard recently and Marta
          does the same.

            Both watch a Gambler getting boisterous playing cards with
          what looks like two nobles from the northside of the city.
          You can tell where they are from by the looks of their clothing
          and shoes.  These tend to be diplomats and visitors who have
          plans at the Palace.  Unali is no gambler and she has only seen
          Kell teach her only a few things.  But from Damon she points
          out various things about the gambler to Marta.  The fact that
          the man has long sleeves and keeps scratching his ankle.  It
          is clear the man is trying to cheat.  but the diplomat who seems
          to have a Ba'ru accent is giving him a run for his money.  Finally
          the gambler gets to his feet to urge a fight.  But the tavern's
          bouncer comes to escort the man out of the place.

          [Aug 31 - Marentia]

            Unali is visiting the contact she has at the palace thanks
          to Duke Aren.  She tries to go over the details of the Vong
          threat to the other man who is in the room of the palace.
          The man is the minister of trade who oversees the merchant
          fleet and hopes to spread the word that way.

            Leaving the meeting Unali notices a group of three boys
          trying to steal a nice horse in front of a shop.  The thugs
          who look to be gang related try to run with the horse but
          Unali pursues them.  She corners them and after giving one
          a nice cut on his chest with her magical dagger all three
          run off dropping the saddle bags they stole off the horse.

            Unali walks the horse back to the bewildered merchant who
          is now standing looking for his horse.  He offers a reward
          but she refuses.  She does say he can give the reward to
          a charity that Marta is eager to help in on helping homeless
          kids.

          [Sepes 5 - Marentia]

            Back in the capital, Unali is on an errand to find some
          papers for Duke Aren.  The day is going normal as could be.
          She notices a horse walking down an alley with full saddle.
          Such a sight isn't rare in a city but most citizens know
          to tie up a horse to something.

            She turns into the alley and calms the horse down.  She
          finds him to be a fine specimen and the bags seem to have
          few items but she notices one item nice blue dress for
          a young girl.  She walks the horse down to the street and
          tries to find the owner.

            It takes her almost 45 minutes and with help from other
          people on the street she finds a girl of about 15 down
          one street.  The girl rushes and takes the horse.  She
          give a big hug to Unali and feels grateful.  The girl
          explains the horse chews on the rope and breaks free.
          Unali smiles and gives a way to make knots to prevent
          that.  A trick from Chion the sailor and Ben'dar the
          rancher on keeping horses in their spot with rope knots.

            The girl explains she is here while her dad, a Ba'ru
          diplomat, is in town doing business with the palace.

          [Sepes 12 - Marentia]

            Unali is passing a old cemetery and notices a bunch of
          patrolmen near one area.  At least a dozen maybe 14 of them
          all around.  They seem to be talking and moving about.
          Curious she watches and realizes the men are celebrating the
          dead person in the grave.  Maybe another patrolmen or guard.
          She finds it fascinating that the men are almost as happy
          as they might be in some tavern party.

          [Sepes 13 - Marentia]

            It is late around 1am when Unali finishes likely her
          last visit to Marta's place.  She had a fun party with
          some Bhamotin nobles who are trying a new program to
          spread the wealth through more fair cooperatives in
          local villages like markets.  Normally it would bore
          her to tears.  But when Farseeker is mentioned she
          perks up.  Seems the man has been busy as Commander
          of the fort on the Bhamotin border.  In just a few
          weeks he has rid the road of bandits.  He also helped
          take down a warlord just inside the border after the
          noble who owned the land requested it from the Baron
          who owns the land around the fort.  They talk about how
          odd it is to see man use two great sword at once and think
          him to be a magic user in disguise.

            Unali is riding to her tavern to sleep but her horse
          suddenly bucks.  She checks the hoof and finds there
          have been large tacks placed on the road.  Before she
          can look she is grabbed by two large men.

            The men pin her arms behind her back and 3 others join
          them to face her in the darkness.  Unali remains calm
          as nervous women tend to get killed.  The leader gets up
          close and runs his hands over her body.  She is wearing
          a semi formal green dress and she feels it ripped in half.
          This is when she gets mad.  It is one thing for the guy
          to grab her chest but to rip a nice dress!

            The man is surprised to find a hip dagger sheath on
          a hidden belt.  When she feels the men in back release
          her arms to remove the shred of the dress she acts.  She
          bucks backward to knock the man in his chin throwing him
          back.  She kicks the leader and shoves him into another
          of the guys.

            She quickly draws her newly repaired magical dagger
          from her hip sheath and reaches down to her ankle sheath
          and draws another dagger.

            By now all 5 draw their own daggers and charge.  Figuring
          some girl who would give them some fun time rather than
          a hard time.  One drops his lantern to the ground and draws
          two daggers.

            Some 22 seconds later Unali stands up and the men are all
          on the ground.  Four are dead and the last one is crawling
          away.  Unali did take a light wound but nothing serious.  A simple
          challenge but she walks over to the last min and pins him down
          with her boot.  He pleads for mercy and she rolls him over.
          She places her magical dagger to his neck and watches his
          eyes in the flicker of the lantern which casts odd shadows
          on his face.  She decides this man can live so maybe he
          can teach his friends the right way of life.

            She goes to search the leader to see where he put her
          money pouch.  But the man still alive gets to his feet
          and leaps on her horse.  Unali does not feel like crossing
          town at this hour and half naked.  She reaches behind her
          to pull her magical sling and loads it from her pouch.  If
          she learned from Aren always be prepared even at a formal
          party.  Especially after a party almost saw her killed by
          a Climan set of assassins at Cholan's tavern.  She takes
          careful aim and fires.  The projectile hits the man in the
          back of the head and forces him to stumble off the horse.
          She quietly heads over and kicks him for a lesson and watches
          as he dies from his new wounds.  Back at her own Inn she
          alerts a patrol of the bodies.  They can find her in the
          morning if need to answer questions

          [Sepes 16 - Marentia]

            Unali now fully healed for her recent wound takes a stroll
          in the city mid afternoon in the cool air.  She is considering
          her own plans.  Having now paid for a manor of her own she
          has roots her now like Z'leyra, Caladan or Ben'dar.  Does
          that mean she should ever return home to Katai?   She doesn't
          owe Duke Aren or even King Maros anything more.  She has
          given her heart and soul to save the region from the flying
          Cloud Ships from Clima.  She has done so again with the Vong
          and saving the world.

            She stops to watch a group of 14 peasants picking a grove
          of apple trees.  They seem to be in good shape and spirits.
          They are doing well as a team.  She notices a middle man
          who is probably a noble watching and scowling.  She shakes
          her head at the disconnect to human society of class and
          station.  Even strange creatures like the Vong use such
          stupid ways of life.  She wonders what else she will see
          in the future on the legacy of others.

          Actions?  Comments?

          Next Update....Monday...

          GM: For Unali there is much more behind the scenes.  With PCs
              each has their own private stuff.  So the above is only a
              public version of her IBT.  But now she is also a home
              owner.  For the Ba'ru language I was going to use Kell for
              the necklace but not sure if Kell will be around.  Since
              Ba'ru is next door it should be easy to find another person
              to teach her so I left that a big vague. I have Kell's IBT
              in hand but when I wrote the above didn't so wasn't sure
              if he was in town or not.

          GM: Still waiting for Will to get back on his characteristic
              points to finish that group of cleanup.

              For now 9 have finished IBT.  Six have not so over half
              are done. I'm done working on Kiet's as this update is done.
              Then will work on Kell's and if Malic gets back to me on
              his email on his.  So may be another week before done
              with those 3.  At this rate I estimate 3-4 more weeks
              max and we can start adventure.  Depends on Z'leyra and
              Arawn's IBT which are probably going to be huge with spells
              and details.  They alone could take a week or two each
              depending.  At the least might be 2 weeks if get all things
              so 2-4 hopefully.  Huge IBTs are fine and I'll take them.
              I just like the simple the better the facts. When one goes
              into a 100 line paragraph that can be summed upin 2 ilnes that
              is where I go through and make notes to make it simple.  :)

          GM: IBT Time -
              Augado             11-31 - IBT time period [21 days]
              Sepes [September]  1-24  - IBT time period [24 days]

              Reminder: Learning skill is 1 point per day, learning
              with trainer is 2 and with a book and teacher is 3.

          GM: CP/IBT Report

                Player       CP Action    IBT Action    Notes
              Ben'dar        Completed      Completed
              Caladan        Completed      Completed
              Chion          Completed      Completed
              Farseeker      Completed      Completed
              Fremea         Completed      Completed
              Strie'bog      Completed      Completed
              Unali          Completed      Completed
              Raban          Completed      Completed
              Kiet           Completed      Completed
              Kell           Completed      Queued
              Malic              ---        Queued
              Arawn          Completed      No Info
              Will           Need Info      No Info
              Z'leyra        Completed      No Info

              Completed - Finished
              Queued    - Has info/Work in progress in order of when got it
              No Info   - No info / Need data

          GM: My immediate schedule: [in order of tasks]

              1. Malic's IBT   [Waiting for action clarification]
              2. Kell's IBT    [Got info need to queue it]
              3. Any others that come in order.








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