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bravenewstories2014-03-11 09:40 pm
outtahere) wrote in bravenewstories2014-03-11 09:40 pm
A wild boat appeared!
Banzu has discovered blueprints for a ship in the Old City. Once the ship's built he'll be making it available for hire, allowing characters to reach the tropical island without needing a rideable Pokémon, explore the nearby coastline, and search for any more islands out there. If and when this service becomes popular (which vacationing NPCs will likely ensure), he'll be looking for one or more people to train how to use the ship so he can have some time off. Those characters would split any revenue they made with Banzu, with Banzu taking the smaller half.
First though, once he's confident that he understands the ship enough to build it, he'll be making a post telling people about it and looking for help gathering materials and doing the construction. He'll also be suggesting the construction of a permanent port and associated settlement beyond just the docks that he'll need to build anyways. While he won't involve himself too much with most of the port construction, he'll certainly encourage it and try to get people hashing out ideas. The port suggestion is partly to provide more security to his docks, but he'll give reasons why it would benefit Union too: a safe place to fish would bring Union more food, a permanent research facility would let researchers find out more about Pokémon that live in the sea, extra protected space would let Union grow its population, and a settlement close to Union would be good practice for building settlements a lot farther away. Regardless of what characters decide about the port, he'll be building the ship and docks; anything else characters decide to do is gravy. Unlike Banzu though I'm not going to suggest an idea and just leave it for everyone else to do all the work, so I'll coordinate the port-building as needed.
So with all that in mind, this post is to make OOC arrangements and answer some questions.
1)Would players prefer that the blueprints Banzu finds be for a sailboat or a steamship? I can't decide which it should be, so I'm putting it up for a vote. Either way it's going to be a small ship. This is more for what tone and style people like best. Looks like it's going to be a steamship.
2) Banzu can't gather materials or build the ship on his own, so will anyone want to help him? At minimum, resources from the Verdant Forest, the Iron Mines, and the Tropical Island will be required. Banzu will be paying people for their work.
3) What should be at the port, if anything? The initial suggestions that Banzu will toss out if people show an interest are a watchtower (with barracks for guards and a space set aside to coordinate activities in the port if it gets busy), a research facility to study ocean life, a medical clinic, a place for visitors to sleep if they don't want to walk back to Union the same day, and a place where people without Warp Bands can contact Union (someone please have their character suggest combining those last three and calling it a Pokémon Center ;D ). He'll also raise the question of whether they need walls (since Team Evolution has mentioned that Gigas has no walls so maybe Unionites can skip them too) and suggest clearing a route from Union to the port so people who aren't trainers can travel there relatively safely. Note that Banzu won't actually be helping build any of those things aside from suggestions regarding the watchtower (and a workshop for himself); he'll be trying to enable everyone else to do that stuff. He'll have plenty on his plate with just the ship and the docks. It's possible that not everything that's come up with will be doable, but you don't know until you try.
4) What should the port be called? In the grand tradition of Union citizens not naming any location that isn't a forest, Banzu will just refer to the port as "the port". Someone needs to suggest naming it. Maybe give it an emblem or something.
5) Is there anything that I and/or Banzu haven't thought of?
tl;dr - A boat and port are on the way, come help, and come vote for whether it should be a sailboat or a steamboat.
First though, once he's confident that he understands the ship enough to build it, he'll be making a post telling people about it and looking for help gathering materials and doing the construction. He'll also be suggesting the construction of a permanent port and associated settlement beyond just the docks that he'll need to build anyways. While he won't involve himself too much with most of the port construction, he'll certainly encourage it and try to get people hashing out ideas. The port suggestion is partly to provide more security to his docks, but he'll give reasons why it would benefit Union too: a safe place to fish would bring Union more food, a permanent research facility would let researchers find out more about Pokémon that live in the sea, extra protected space would let Union grow its population, and a settlement close to Union would be good practice for building settlements a lot farther away. Regardless of what characters decide about the port, he'll be building the ship and docks; anything else characters decide to do is gravy. Unlike Banzu though I'm not going to suggest an idea and just leave it for everyone else to do all the work, so I'll coordinate the port-building as needed.
So with all that in mind, this post is to make OOC arrangements and answer some questions.
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2) Banzu can't gather materials or build the ship on his own, so will anyone want to help him? At minimum, resources from the Verdant Forest, the Iron Mines, and the Tropical Island will be required. Banzu will be paying people for their work.
3) What should be at the port, if anything? The initial suggestions that Banzu will toss out if people show an interest are a watchtower (with barracks for guards and a space set aside to coordinate activities in the port if it gets busy), a research facility to study ocean life, a medical clinic, a place for visitors to sleep if they don't want to walk back to Union the same day, and a place where people without Warp Bands can contact Union (someone please have their character suggest combining those last three and calling it a Pokémon Center ;D ). He'll also raise the question of whether they need walls (since Team Evolution has mentioned that Gigas has no walls so maybe Unionites can skip them too) and suggest clearing a route from Union to the port so people who aren't trainers can travel there relatively safely. Note that Banzu won't actually be helping build any of those things aside from suggestions regarding the watchtower (and a workshop for himself); he'll be trying to enable everyone else to do that stuff. He'll have plenty on his plate with just the ship and the docks. It's possible that not everything that's come up with will be doable, but you don't know until you try.
4) What should the port be called? In the grand tradition of Union citizens not naming any location that isn't a forest, Banzu will just refer to the port as "the port". Someone needs to suggest naming it. Maybe give it an emblem or something.
5) Is there anything that I and/or Banzu haven't thought of?
tl;dr - A boat and port are on the way, come help, and come vote for whether it should be a sailboat or a steamboat.
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