Re: Message to the Geleia Gms.

[Joel Gunderson <belgarat@expert.cc.purdue.edu>]

Hey, could you please make some average travel times by horse/wagon/foot
when you get the time and maybe post them to the list?  This could help
implicate some of the size differentials and bring them a bit more into
scope.

Foo


On Tue, 29 Sep 1998, Wright Frazier wrote:

> 
> first, NOTE this is to 'geleia@cioe.com' _NOT_ gmlist@cioe.com.
> 
> Okay, a few things about actors in and around Geleia.  The powerful people
> are not going to be helpful to adventurers who walk in off the street.
> No miracles, divine interceedings, no handing out nifty spells at low
> cost, etc...  _IF_ they know the person somewhat they _MIGHT_ help, and
> that is a _BIG_ might.  If they know them very well, they MIGHT help, but
> no guaranttees.  If they owe them, they will help if its convient.
> 
> They won't teleport folks around the island unless there is something
> big in it for them.  They won't freely ID items.  They won't chuck 
> miracles.  They won't throw rank 12+spells, etc..
> 
> For your own actors in geleia, do what ya want, just remember adventurers
> are fairly big unknowns and distrusted in Geleia.  ESSPECIALLY in
> cities such as Liston, Southham, Kieron's Watch, Devon, etc...  The folks
> that live in these cities have their own concerns and aren't going to
> take the time to help out some guy off the street without some seirous
> profit coming out of the deal.
> 
> This goes triple for the people in Liston, the Barrits.  They control
> every temple, guild, and military officer in the city, and the majority
> of other people.  They certainly do not help adventurers, esspecially
> with stuff that is hazardous to them unless they owe them _BIG_.
> 
> Example: I ran 2 adventures awhile back that the only payment was a
> "Favor from Aaron Barrit".  And folks considered this a _HUGE_ Payment
> because they risked their asses for it in a big way.  This favor _MIGHT_
> be transferable to one of the other Barrits, but probably isn't as that
> would mean that Aaron was now in debt to someone else who he didn't
> intend to be.  They'd know Aaron probably wouldn't look favorably or
> even honor such a debt, so they'd just refuse to 'allow themselves to
> pay off the marker.'  
> 
> Same goes for someone like one of the Merchant lords, the King, the nobles,
> the guild heads, etc...
> 
> This isn't Karefelon/Rougtero where you walk in off the street, flash a
> smille, some money, and get what you want.'
> 
> The reason for this is this past weekend and on a few other occasions
> I've had my toes stepped on, and seen folks casually hand out big 
> spell effects that the players just asked for with no real reason for it.
> May be they were being paid to do this by someone else, dunno, didn't
> ask cause I didn't feel it was my place at the time to correct someone
> in the middle of a game.  Regardless..._PLEASE_ keep this stuff in
> mind from now on.
> 
> I promise I will be finishing the actor writeups, at least for the big
> people in the not too distant future, so folks will have more of
> a detailed guideline to go by.  But until then, please, do keep what I've
> said in mind, and noone take this personally, just remember it and please
> don't repeat it.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Wright
> 
>