Lind Whisperer

"A crystalline water would be very nice, but I'm actually looking for information. Could you possibly tell me anything about the master thief Alfendi Lupine? Particular tactics and tendencies he seems to use in his robberies, any accounts of what he looks like - anything like that would be very helpful," he asked the she-orc.

Lind finally returned the Hall, pulled off his cloak(which by now protected him from the rain about as much as a damp sponge) and walked across to the bar, where a she-orc was tending. "Excuse me, but could you tell me as to where I might find Sheherazade?" he asked her.

"Thank you! It does help! I'll see if I can find Scheherazade back at the Hall. Thank you very much!" Lind quietly stepped back out into the now-teeming rain, and began to retrace his earlier steps.

Thoroughly doused, a young rogue stepped into the Library. "Excuse me - I know it's very late - but could you possibly tell me or direct me towards more information about the master thief Alfendi Lupine?"

The lone Rogue quietly stepped in front of Portia's Potion Shack, set five gold down onto the counter, and selected a Potion. "Could I purchase this, please?" "Certainly! Thank you! Come again! Wait, I did put the potions into the bottles with potion labels, didn't I? Oh, well, venoms and poisons all sort of do the same thing, right?" Lind looked at the bottle with slight distrust, then he tucked it away into the folds of his clothes. He walked down the cobbled road, the rain gently beginning to beat and splash on the stones. He stopped in front of Gnomeo's Toolshed, just as the gnome was beginning to close up the stall for the night. "Could I please purchase a bedroll?" "Bedroll? What do you t- Nyehehe! Right! Here's an old sack, will that do? Fine, fine - here's your bedroll. That'll be five gold." Now broke, but with a moderate beginning inventory, Lind began to walk through the rain towards the Library. He noticed that a bedroll was perhaps not the best thing to hold over his head to block the rain...

The Rogue silently slips out of the hall for a very short while, to make a few small purchases at the Marketplace, and to visit the Library, to see if the ancient Metasimian might be able to inform him a little bit about Alfendi Lupine.

Welcome to the forums! Love your Classic Castle and Pirates - really nice collection you have there!

Thanks! I'm excited to be playing. "Facepalm." I can't believe I forgot about the starting Potion... Hmm... I was originally intending for the character I developed into Lind to be more of a miser type, but the more I imagined the Munchkins, the more I dropped that idea. Munchkins do see the purpose and necessity of money, however they view it as more as a means to an end, rather than the end itself. The "End" in their view, doesn't really have a description, other than "Life". They don't tend to hoard their funds, instead preferring to use gold for covering the very basic essentials of life, and then using everything that's left to help others around them. With that in mind, I should probably I should go with a second Potion and a Bedroll, then.

I had thought of that also when I first starting thinking about this, I just thought that keeping myself alive/doing more damage would be more helpful to the group as a whole than the chance that I'd need to bribe someone/etc.

Maybe I should buy a Potion and a Bedroll instead, then?

Another question - what should I spend my first ten gold on? I was planning, after some thought, to buy two Venoms. If I'm not going to be receiving Free Hits, my health is not as much of a concern if I'm in the back row, so Potions might not be as optimal a purchase until I'm slightly more skilled. With Venoms, I can boost my effectiveness a bit, even if I don't get a good roll every time. A bedroll is also of course a good purchase, but I'm trying to max my effectiveness to the party as a whole, and if my whole health is only 7/7, I'm not sure that a bedroll would be the best first purchase...

I'm going throwing weapons, all the way. Thank you all for your posts - I've learned a lot.

Just a few of my own personal thoughts on this*. Red coloring where it's my own fiction as to what happened. I pictured the 1970s-1990s sets as being set in the future with Mars Mission happening in real time. Life on Mars, I personally view as quite possibly being non-canon**, and thus not a part of the time-line. Mars Mission happened roughly around 2007, when the sets actually came out. (Probably a private company enterprise***). It was then that Humans were first exposed to aliens. Clutch Powers**** and his crew would be seen wearing these outfits for some reason, during the events of TAoCP. After the breakout at Prison Planet X4, the Galactic Senate*****(or some organization, it doesn't have to be the Senate...) decided to build a prison on Earth, with the new Alien Detainment Unit****** being formed to contain and subdue any problems. In 2011, the Hypaxxun Invasion of Earth took place, and the ADU was re-dubbed as the Alien Defense Unit. Also, just one more idea as to what the Space Skulls might be along the lines of. Granted, it's a stretch...but can't you just hear him asking "Who turned out the lights?". *I'll probably edit this later to include a more through list of my own thoughts as to the timeline. Sorry it's a big block of text for the moment... **Or, in a more confusing, but explaining, idea, Life On Mars might have happened in the Zonia system introduced way back with Jim Spaceborn. ***Granted, this may seem a bit non-plausible, but Forest Blackwell did build his own moon-base, and he did it secretly at that. ****Ninjago can be placed around 2048-, if you assume(and I'll admit that it's a pretty big assumption) that minifigs(Misako in particular) have similar cycles to humans. *****Mentioned in SPIII advertising materials. ******Think Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., not Men In Black.

Thanks - I was a little bit confused, but that really clears things up nicely. Thanks - I think I've figured it out now, but I will definitely ask if there's something that I don't understand.

I'll switch to the cards, then... Thanks for explaining that. I've read through several of the quests and I was almost certain that I'd seen ones where enemies could focus...Ah, well, the first step towards learning is knowing that you have more to learn...

That is a great idea, and I did originally intend to arm Lind with throwing weapons...but you have to spend a turn retrieving them. And, as a level 1 player, with only 7 health points, that could very easily be deadly* if an enemy focused on me...not to mention that it would detract from the group's ability as a whole. The health aspect wouldn't be a problem if I was attacking from the back row, but according to the rules, you can only retrieve weapons from the front row. *Especially if I'm in a quest with the median level being 24.165...

Thanks! I got the original idea for the deck from a combination of the concepts behind M:TG, and the way that Gambit is always shown with a handful of cards. I thought it might be interesting to have a whole race of people who carry them, as a sort of visual identification as to their personal leanings and natures*. *One of these days, I'll probably have a pic of Lind's personal deck to show, I'm still figuring out all the different cards at the moment...

Yes. In my (short) little personal back-story, the Munchkins are fully human. For the last few hundred years, they've lived secluded in a small corner of forest*, with the occasional Hero going off to seek his fortunes in Eubric. They tend to be either Rogues or Rangers, with a few Clerics and Knights. (There's no real reason why you couldn't be a Barbarian or Mage Munchkin if you wanted to, the Munchkins just as a whole tend to value** swiftness and strategy over brute strength and use of majicks as weapons). *I've not tried to give the forest an exact location, as I would hate to say "It's here", only to find out that I'd placed it carefully right in the middle of Old Mack Donauld's duck pond, or something else embarrassingly misplaced. **All Munchkins also carry an Ethereal Deck*** of five playing cards, which shows their personal strengths and attunements to the world. ***Perhaps 'short' was not the best adjective I could have chosen to describe my back-story...

I was calling myself that as a bit of a joke - I do like coming up with unique solutions to problems, but not ones that would be trying to cross the break the rules/annoying to the GM/the other players. The sort of solution like asking if a weapon that only works on enemies at night, would have any effect on bosses in a cave, since the inside of a cave is effectively always night.

I really liked the reference to classic literature. And I was excited to see what would happen when a Munchkin* Rogue and a Master Thief tangled... "Set a poacher to catch a poacher," as it were. *Not the annoying type of Munchkin, the type of Munchkin that's carefully read all of the rules and game mechanics, and uses them fairly, but cleverly to his(and the rest of the group's) advantage.

Well, thanks for answering my question... In the one in several hundred thousand chance that only four of the currently signed-up heroes respond, and there aren't any new signees of an higher rank, would I be part of the group then, or does "aimed" more mean "restricted"*? *Really sorry if that sounds rude, I tried to write it so it didn't sound that way, but this was the most diplomatic phrasing I could think of at the moment... Thanks again for answering my question.

Sorry to bother everyone, but was my sign-up to the Hall Board yesterday in time for Quest 103? The post said that it closed on the twelfth, without giving a time, and I was really looking forward to this particular quest as soon as I saw it...But if I was to late, I understand.

Well done! Very nice mixture of Classic Town sets with City - they're very hard to successfully meld together without the differences being easily noticed, but you managed to do it very well!

The lone Rogue gently slipped into the bar, after his long journey to the Hall of Heroica, from the forgotten forests of the Blue Pools. He slipped over to the board, his passage unnoticed by the patrons clustered around the bar. He swiftly read the short list of names, and seemed to puzzle over his choice for a moment. From some hidden pocket in his cloak, he pulled out a well-sharpened quill, and signed the name 'Lind Whisperer', to the bottom of the sheet for Quest#103. He strode over to the bar, and gently waited for service. "Aye, and what'll you be having?" "I'll have a very strong...crystal water, thank you." OOC: My apologies that I have not been able to make my signature work thus far, it won't let me post an image or a hyperlink to my character info.

I've always thought of them in terms of the commonly-published story-line(although I have noticed the obvious resemblance to Sputnik 1), but this is a very interesting question...I would tend to think perhaps that maybe Ice Planet was supposed to be the Russian space program in the future, perhaps? I remember reading that the designers considered the megaphones and antennas to be weapons...perhaps they were aiming for something along the same lines with this, albeit slightly more peaceful?