Small RP story
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Zrigil the gnomish wizard and a respected gem-magician knew that this will not be his day. Not only his breakfast at the Nomad Inn was cold but he even found a dead rat under his bed when putting on his oil-stained boots. He grumbly fought his way through the crowds of Cordor on his usual way towards the Iron mines when he felt a small tuck at his belt. Looking down at his belt he already knew what happened... his gem purse was gone, snatched by an already running thief. Knowing he had no chance of catching the pickpocketer he did only what he could do, he spat down onto the dusty Cordor street and said to himself under his nose:
- fracking thiefs, everywhere the same!
And making a rude gesture into the direction the thief run to, yelled loudly:
- Choke on it!
*late afternoon in Cordor sewers*
Two excited thiefs are comparing their "findings" of the day while drinking a fine watered-down Cordorian Ale.
- Now, I've seen better but 100 coins a day ain't nothing You could sneeze at right?
Alex said that throwing 35 coins onto the table for the second thief to grab.
- What did yer find partner?
Somewhat silent up till now Roger produced a small gem pouch with a wide smile and placed its contents onto the table showing a set of perfectly cut Alexandrites worth at least 10000 coins. Alexs eyes widened with a surprise. He picked up one of the Alexandrite and weighed it carefully in his fingers, amazed by its perfect finish and cut.
- Where in the Abyss did You find that? This will make us rich in no-time! Uhh..
He placed the gem quickly onto the table.
- It’s warm and there is some strange light inside of it. Damn the mages gonna kill themselves over these gems. We will be rich in no time!
- We? I believe it is the right time to renegotiate our... cooperation my partner
Added Roger with an impish smile on his face while pulling out two knifes from his sleeves.
- You dare?
Yelled Alex and flipped the table towards Roger.
The gems flew into the air and started to buzz strangely while flying straight to the floor. Both of the thiefs had only a second to realize that there is something very wrong going on, and both of them failed that while being busy at trying to stab themselves dead.
The first gem hit the floor…
*BOOOM*
A terrifying explosion shaked the walls and windows of buildings in Cordor merchant district and just a moments later an enormous fireball rose from the sewers entrance. Woman screamed, children run around in frenzy and a regiment of guards with blank confused faces run quickly towards the sewers adding additionally to gigantic chaos and commotion which started on the streets just in front of Nomad Inn.
In all of that chaos only one figure did not move..
A small gnome sitting just in front of Nomad and sipping on a Cordor watered-down Ale. He lifted his eyes from a set of new alexandrites sitting in a strange runic circle on the Ale-stained table.
- Took them a while
Smirked Zrigil under his nose and returned back to imbuing Fireballs into the Alexandrites.Mechanic wise:
Spells casted onto a specific and prepared gem (through art crafting) would produce a one-time use gem with the spell imbued into it. The produced gems this way would accept any spells level 1-9 (would follow the same allowed spells as scrolls) with a 25% increased price on imbuing the gem when compared with scroll making.
The gems would be available to use for anyone, not limited by classes.
The base-gems (for spell imbuing) would be produced through art crafting from lower level gems (Amethyst, Phenalope, Alexandrite, etc..) and would be spell-school specific.
Meaning You would need a proper gem for a particular spell school to be able to imbue it (example.. Evocations = Alexandrite). A base gem from Alexandrite would only accept evocation spells cast on it.
Reasoning:
- Would lower the need of UMD in character builds
- Would introduce a consumable-demand market for art crafting
- Would introduce a demand for lower-grade gems
- Would promote RP (AKA: ..Because I have a Thermal detonator/Fireball gem in my hand)