(IC) Lost in Dreams (Julian)

[TGLS]

Originally Posted by ericthered

Brog: "I haven't seen them. why are you looking for them? Who are they?"

Well, I'll give most of the truth. They probably wouldn't believe, "I saw it in a dream", so I'll just say, "I saw them talking about a plan to attack Bumundo."

[21] 22-06-30 19:51:24 CEST
Fast-Talk
3d6 <= 12
5 + 2 + 1 = 8 ... success

Originally Posted by ericthered

Ump, Rails, and Yip haven't seen the two either.

Oh well. Beardo probably isn't even in Bumundo.

Originally Posted by ericthered

The Kapatas looks at the paper. "What? Why? Who? No, can't say I've seen them."

"Can't or won't?"

I'll probably have to ask a lot of people before I get anywhere.

Originally Posted by ericthered

Sacks... The only gurps sack I can find is a $30 dollar sack from DF1. You can find a good sized basket for 1L though.

Well, let's grab a basket then. (1L 15s)

Originally Posted by ericthered

Asking around, the pole-sellers are usually here, but haven't been the last week. Probably part of the increased security. They'll be back "when the alert is over" with an extra-large supply.

Probably won't want to buy poles after they do come back either. On the other hand, I could probably make a killing being the only seller of poles in the area. On the other, other hand, that would probably run afoul of the guards, whoever's willing to pay a crazy sum for a pole is probably not going to do anything good with them, and it would be so conspicuous that only an idiot wouldn't be able to link "the only kid selling poles" with "missing spears".

Maybe I should just dump the poles over the edge and be done with it.

Originally Posted by ericthered

There are 12 stones lighting the room with the big stone. And 12 platforms the same shape and size as the large stone.

That's five or seven over. So it can't be that...

Maybe I'm thinking about this the wrong way, maybe they aren't talking about stones around Bumundo, but stones around the top? Each community would need to have it's own stone to get here, right? So maybe 'twenty stones' is a way to refer to the communities around The Top that were founded by people from The Bottom?

Or maybe it refers to twenty soldiers. Surely they wouldn't be waiting very long once they got their whole arsenal together.

To Do List
- Work at the mines [Done for today]
- Get a sack to move the knives more efficiently (?)
- Check again to see if there are any pole sellers
- Untie/cut off the knives from the poles
- Sell the knives to the knife merchant, hopefully without getting the guards involved.
- Work on identifying the people in my dream
- Count the number of Vasic stones used in the teleporter complex (there are multiple stones used to push off enemies, right?)
- Ask around to see if "twenty stones" means anything to anyone.
- Decide what to do with all these poles

Right, with my new basket in hand, I'll head back to that spot in the tunnel and dig out all those spears. Then I'll dismantle them and toss the knives into the basket. After I take off all the knives, I'll return the poles to the spot I hid them in.

[Not sure if another camouflage roll is called for here, doing it anyway.]

[22] 22-06-30 20:21:44 CEST
Camouflage by Default
3d6 <= 9
5 + 5 + 4 = 14 ... failure

Then it's back up to the market to sell off all these knives. I imagine the knife merchant wasn't expecting sixteen knives, so I probably won't get 64L, but I'll still try to negotiate around that figure.

[23] 22-06-30 20:26:30 CEST
Gesture
3d6 <= 13
1 + 3 + 2 = 6 ... success
[24] 22-06-30 20:26:38 CEST
Linguistics
3d6 <= 12
1 + 4 + 1 = 6 ... success
[25] 22-06-30 20:26:56 CEST
Merchant
3d6 <= 10
3 + 6 + 2 = 11 ... failure

Guess I'm not getting that much, but this is a good chunk of change.