[GROUP] Guilds & Traders Journal

[Raikana]

Each Journal would be hand copied

Jayose has a "copy" spell for books! Raikana uses something similar!

[novacadian]

Jayose has a "copy" spell for books! Raikana uses something similar!

Oh really? Which Way is that under?

- Nova

[Ruya]

Jayose has a "copy" spell for books! Raikana uses something similar!

Oh really? Which Way is that under?

- Nova

It's not specified in the quest that mentions it, IIRC, although I would guess it's either Blue (since ink is liquid) or Azure (since books are a visual medium, and manipulating appearances is one of Azure's specialties).   Yliakum also enjoys a technological level where a printing press would be completely within their technological reach, judging from things like the Winch, although I doubt anyone would bother to invent one when magic can do the job just fine.

Personally I think it's reasonable for Raikana to charge 1 circle for the paper.  Yeah, it's not totally in line with the settings' guideline about pricing, but the player economy is always going to be a little inflated because there aren't that many producers, and there aren't that many efficient ways for PC merchants to compete directly with each other, so...

[novacadian]

When my character makes a new copy of a chronicle the mechanics say Write to book not Magically copy a new book. Then within the Write to book window there is an option to Load from a file what you want written to the book. No mention of magic on my screen. No printing press about while my character is doing it.

- Nova

[Ruya]

I guess I would consider the quest more authoritative than the mechanics wording, as the settings department is involved in the former but not necessarily the latter.   Actually, now that I think about it, there are multiple quests where copies of extensive documents are produced very quickly, which is completely implausible if they aren't using magic to do it - copying a book out by hand takes a long freaking time.  Besides, I can't think of any solid evidence suggesting literacy is rare on Yliakum - at least half the NPCs have quests that clearly establish they can read and write, and I can't think of any NPCs who've been established as actually illiterate - which strongly implies books are commonplace and relatively cheap.   

So, yeah.  The Journal is the price it is because Raikana wants to charge a circle and her customers are willing to pay it.   Sounds reasonable to me 

[Raikana]

Jayose has a "copy" spell for books! Raikana uses something similar!

Oh really? Which Way is that under?

- Nova

Is this....irony? I say this beacause a Game Master told me! I'm not inventing anything!

[Candy]

I've done that quest like, five times. There is a spell Jayose uses to copy books.

[Raikana]

The 9° issue will be on sale tomorrow!


Thanks to all the people that supports the paper with monetary and moral help!
We also need help to fill up the journal, to sell it etc... if someone wanna help, in any way, building the next issue, we will be glad! Thanks!

[Chessire]

well, i have an advertisement! i haven't found you online so i'm sending you a pm here

[Raikana]

The 10° issue will be on sale Sunday!


If someone wanna help, in any way, building the next issue, we will be glad! Thanks!

[LigH]

Oh really? Which Way is that under?

This has already been discussed elsewhere: Cartography skill ... my guess was Brown way (due to the materialization, possibly based on the Summon glyph).

[Raikana]

What happened to this thread? Where can i find the discussion that was going on here?  

PS: There was a discussion here that was moved...

PS PS: i found it

[ohforf]

What happened to this thread? Where can i find the discussion that was going on here?  

PS: There was a discussion here that was moved...

PS PS: i found it

Discussion was moved here.

[LigH]

Yes - cut off and moved towards the "Complaints departnemt", I believe...

In-game paper issues

[Lorepius]

Is it true Raikana left? Will there be more issues?