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<blockquote data-quote="Demetrios1453" data-source="post: 9296618" data-attributes="member: 6801060"><p><strong><em>Pool of Radiance </em>(Part 27): Kovel Mansion (Part 3) - Kovel Mansion Completed!</strong></p><p></p><p>We continue exploring the southwestern and western areas of the mansion. As we enter another room:</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]353034[/ATTACH]</p><p>[ATTACH=full]353035[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>Thank you Buffy!</p><p></p><p>A few rooms onward...</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]353036[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>Of course we examine it!</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]353037[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>Buffy's been doing pretty well with the traps recently, especially after her level up...</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]353038[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>I spoke too soon. At least she's still good with lockpicking.</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]353039[/ATTACH]</p><p>[ATTACH=full]353041[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>That portends some nice stuff! What did we get?</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]353042[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p><em>Very </em>nice indeed.</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]353043[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>Well, the armor isn't anything exciting. But let's check those scrolls out!</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]353044[/ATTACH]</p><p>[ATTACH=full]353045[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p><em>Remove curse</em> is always good to have around, as well as an extra <em>hold person</em> (if I remember that I have it on a scroll while in combat that is!). <em>Prayer</em> is useful as well, especially if I have a use for it before next level when it will be a regularly memorized spell (and I will likely have occasion to do so, knowing what fights are coming up!). The rest are... not all that exciting in game terms.</p><p></p><p>But Brother Baltor has, or will have, access to all these spells. Let's see what those four magic-user scrolls have on them!</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]353046[/ATTACH]</p><p>[ATTACH=full]353047[/ATTACH]</p><p>[ATTACH=full]353048[/ATTACH]</p><p>[ATTACH=full]353049[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>Well, Brin just taking <em>mirror image </em>was a bit of a waste, as she could have just scribed it from the scroll. But other than that - wow, very nice. That first scroll is worth its weight in gold, especially. I now have two <em>haste</em> spells on scrolls (one for each magic-user to scribe), and <strong>three</strong> <em>fireballs</em> now (one for each magic-user to scribe, and an extra one that can be cast whenever, and I have a few fights coming up before I can scribe/cast <em>fireball </em>at 5th level that could very well constitute that "whenever"). My magic-users tuck away the scrolls, ready to start scribing what they can when next they rest.</p><p></p><p>We move along the western edge of the mansion, until we reach a small room with some interesting info in it:</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]353052[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]353053[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>Another section of the castle maze, it appears.</p><p></p><p>We head back south and enter one of the last rooms we've yet to explore:</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]353054[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>Man, thief-infested buildings sure can be irritating! But at least there's exciting stuff in here to make up for the annoyance of yet another trap!</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]353055[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>Of course it's "search a casket" time!</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]353056[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>And somehow does no damage, which is lucky.</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]353057[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>Just some random coinage in this one. On to the second casket!</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]353058[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>Buffy successfully disarms this one.</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]353059[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>That may not seem like much, but jewelry, while having a large range in gp value, usually come out in around the 2000s gp.</p><p></p><p>On to casket three!</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]353060[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>Buffy does <em>not </em>successfully disarm this one.</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]353061[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]353062[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>Eh, OK. Not sure if these really are worth all the traps going off left and right though...</p><p></p><p>Buffy fails to unlock the fourth casket, so it's time for more direct means:</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]353063[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>And just some more random coinage in this one.</p><p></p><p>So... there doesn't look to be much more to explore. We head back to the entrance.</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]353064[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>We haven't had any random thief attacks in a good long while, so it's likely we've cleared the block. I guess we'll find out when we speak to the City Clerk!</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]353065[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>We board the boat and head back to the civilized area. We arrive just before 00:00 hours, so we march around town a bit in "Search" mode to advance time to where we can enter the city hall to speak to the clerk.</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]353066[/ATTACH]</p><p>[ATTACH=full]353067[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>Cool, we did get all the thieves!</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]353068[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>Eh, that seems a bit light after all the traps and backstabbings we just went through. We'll still take it though.</p><p></p><p>The clerk then goes through available commissions, mentioning the nomads and kobolds again. But there's a new one available now that we've completed the Kovel Mansion commission:</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]353069[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>Hmm, not much info there. But at least that should be easy to find just by following the river upstream. And that, as well as the other two commissions, are for the future anyway, since we are going to do the mission from the bishop to clear the Temple of Bane next anyway.</p><p></p><p>(If you missed the mention of the polluted river, go back a couple of dozen posts ago, to just before the party entered the Slums. They were walking near the river and there was text stating how polluted it was. I said then we'd be getting to it eventually!)</p><p></p><p>Anyway, off to the store! We have a lot of nice, but extraneous, magical loot to sell!</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]353070[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>Oh well, it was worth a shot.</p><p></p><p>As I went through everyone's inventory, I realized I had made a minor mistake:</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]353071[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>I had given that to Brother Baltor back when he didn't have magical armor, but now that he does (and he's had some for awhile now), that ring is fairly useless to him (some <em>rings of protection</em> in the game give bonuses to both AC and saves, but this one doesn't). However, it could be very useful for someone else.</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]353072[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>Instead of wearing the leather, if she goes back the bracers and uses the ring, Buffy's AC will go down by 1.</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]353073[/ATTACH]</p><p>[ATTACH=full]353074[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>Time to start selling! I move some of the armor and shields around my front three to optimize AC and movement, so there's even a bit more to sell than what I picked up in the mansion. That's not to say that the stuff from the mansion doesn't sell for a pretty penny (pretty platinum?)</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]353075[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>Brother Baltor's old scale mail goes for a small fortune.</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]353076[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>While Buffy's old leather goes for even more!</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]353077[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>Sadly, the random items from the mansion tend not to be very valuable:</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]353078[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>(This is exactly what I would have gotten if I had dragged those stupid tapestries back). The best item from the mansion was this:</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]353079[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>After everything is sold, arrows are bought, and coin is consolidated, here are our current funds:</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]353080[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>Welp, close to the 5000 pp needed for a fine longbow! Let's head to the silver shop, sell some gems, and pick another one up!</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]353081[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>We had Buffy the gems:</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]353082[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>Bleh.</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]353083[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>And that is what we needed. Only needed to appraise two!</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]353085[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>And another fine longbow is ours! Since Buffy now has 18 (00) STR from the <em>gauntlets of ogre power</em> and can make full use of the bow, this one is hers.</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]353086[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>Buffy trades the <em>shortbow +1 </em>to Baroness Bella (and Bragir trades his to Bant, since I forgot to do that earlier and it's been sitting in his inventory ever since we got the first fine longbow).</p><p></p><p>Our party funds now, after the purchase:</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]353087[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>There's probably enough in the gems and jewelry to get another bow, but, then again, it may not be if I'm unlucky in the appraisals, so I'll just wait until we're near the 5000 pp again to get the next one.</p><p></p><p>So, off to the inn to scribe and memorize spells! But I've hit the maximum upload limit again, so that will be for the next post, where we will also start to clear the Wealthy Area next to the Temple of Bane, and then the Temple itself!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Demetrios1453, post: 9296618, member: 6801060"] [B][I]Pool of Radiance [/I](Part 27): Kovel Mansion (Part 3) - Kovel Mansion Completed![/B] We continue exploring the southwestern and western areas of the mansion. As we enter another room: [ATTACH type="full" alt="Screenshot 2024-03-20 171533.png"]353034[/ATTACH] [ATTACH type="full" alt="Screenshot 2024-03-20 171543.png"]353035[/ATTACH] Thank you Buffy! A few rooms onward... [ATTACH type="full" alt="Screenshot 2024-03-20 171557.png"]353036[/ATTACH] Of course we examine it! [ATTACH type="full" alt="Screenshot 2024-03-20 171606.png"]353037[/ATTACH] Buffy's been doing pretty well with the traps recently, especially after her level up... [ATTACH type="full" alt="Screenshot 2024-03-20 171618.png"]353038[/ATTACH] I spoke too soon. At least she's still good with lockpicking. [ATTACH type="full" alt="Screenshot 2024-03-20 171627.png"]353039[/ATTACH] [ATTACH type="full" alt="Screenshot 2024-03-20 171639.png"]353041[/ATTACH] That portends some nice stuff! What did we get? [ATTACH type="full" alt="Screenshot 2024-03-20 171653.png"]353042[/ATTACH] [I]Very [/I]nice indeed. [ATTACH type="full" alt="Screenshot 2024-03-20 171719.png"]353043[/ATTACH] Well, the armor isn't anything exciting. But let's check those scrolls out! [ATTACH type="full" alt="Screenshot 2024-03-20 171748.png"]353044[/ATTACH] [ATTACH type="full" alt="Screenshot 2024-03-20 171756.png"]353045[/ATTACH] [I]Remove curse[/I] is always good to have around, as well as an extra [I]hold person[/I] (if I remember that I have it on a scroll while in combat that is!). [I]Prayer[/I] is useful as well, especially if I have a use for it before next level when it will be a regularly memorized spell (and I will likely have occasion to do so, knowing what fights are coming up!). The rest are... not all that exciting in game terms. But Brother Baltor has, or will have, access to all these spells. Let's see what those four magic-user scrolls have on them! [ATTACH type="full" alt="Screenshot 2024-03-20 171820.png"]353046[/ATTACH] [ATTACH type="full" alt="Screenshot 2024-03-20 171829.png"]353047[/ATTACH] [ATTACH type="full" alt="Screenshot 2024-03-20 171837.png"]353048[/ATTACH] [ATTACH type="full" alt="Screenshot 2024-03-20 171846.png"]353049[/ATTACH] Well, Brin just taking [I]mirror image [/I]was a bit of a waste, as she could have just scribed it from the scroll. But other than that - wow, very nice. That first scroll is worth its weight in gold, especially. I now have two [I]haste[/I] spells on scrolls (one for each magic-user to scribe), and [B]three[/B] [I]fireballs[/I] now (one for each magic-user to scribe, and an extra one that can be cast whenever, and I have a few fights coming up before I can scribe/cast [I]fireball [/I]at 5th level that could very well constitute that "whenever"). My magic-users tuck away the scrolls, ready to start scribing what they can when next they rest. We move along the western edge of the mansion, until we reach a small room with some interesting info in it: [ATTACH type="full" alt="Screenshot 2024-03-20 172100.png"]353052[/ATTACH] [ATTACH type="full" alt="Screenshot 2024-03-20 172120.png"]353053[/ATTACH] Another section of the castle maze, it appears. We head back south and enter one of the last rooms we've yet to explore: [ATTACH type="full" alt="Screenshot 2024-03-20 172211.png"]353054[/ATTACH] Man, thief-infested buildings sure can be irritating! But at least there's exciting stuff in here to make up for the annoyance of yet another trap! [ATTACH type="full" alt="Screenshot 2024-03-20 172231.png"]353055[/ATTACH] Of course it's "search a casket" time! [ATTACH type="full" alt="Screenshot 2024-03-20 172246.png"]353056[/ATTACH] And somehow does no damage, which is lucky. [ATTACH type="full" alt="Screenshot 2024-03-20 172257.png"]353057[/ATTACH] Just some random coinage in this one. On to the second casket! [ATTACH type="full" alt="Screenshot 2024-03-20 172328.png"]353058[/ATTACH] Buffy successfully disarms this one. [ATTACH type="full" alt="Screenshot 2024-03-20 172354.png"]353059[/ATTACH] That may not seem like much, but jewelry, while having a large range in gp value, usually come out in around the 2000s gp. On to casket three! [ATTACH type="full" alt="Screenshot 2024-03-20 172417.png"]353060[/ATTACH] Buffy does [I]not [/I]successfully disarm this one. [ATTACH type="full" alt="Screenshot 2024-03-20 172428.png"]353061[/ATTACH] [ATTACH type="full" alt="Screenshot 2024-03-20 172444.png"]353062[/ATTACH] Eh, OK. Not sure if these really are worth all the traps going off left and right though... Buffy fails to unlock the fourth casket, so it's time for more direct means: [ATTACH type="full" alt="Screenshot 2024-03-20 172540.png"]353063[/ATTACH] And just some more random coinage in this one. So... there doesn't look to be much more to explore. We head back to the entrance. [ATTACH type="full" alt="Screenshot 2024-03-20 172711.png"]353064[/ATTACH] We haven't had any random thief attacks in a good long while, so it's likely we've cleared the block. I guess we'll find out when we speak to the City Clerk! [ATTACH type="full" alt="Screenshot 2024-03-20 172741.png"]353065[/ATTACH] We board the boat and head back to the civilized area. We arrive just before 00:00 hours, so we march around town a bit in "Search" mode to advance time to where we can enter the city hall to speak to the clerk. [ATTACH type="full" alt="Screenshot 2024-03-20 172810.png"]353066[/ATTACH] [ATTACH type="full" alt="Screenshot 2024-03-20 172832.png"]353067[/ATTACH] Cool, we did get all the thieves! [ATTACH type="full" alt="Screenshot 2024-03-20 172842.png"]353068[/ATTACH] Eh, that seems a bit light after all the traps and backstabbings we just went through. We'll still take it though. The clerk then goes through available commissions, mentioning the nomads and kobolds again. But there's a new one available now that we've completed the Kovel Mansion commission: [ATTACH type="full" alt="Screenshot 2024-03-20 172907.png"]353069[/ATTACH] Hmm, not much info there. But at least that should be easy to find just by following the river upstream. And that, as well as the other two commissions, are for the future anyway, since we are going to do the mission from the bishop to clear the Temple of Bane next anyway. (If you missed the mention of the polluted river, go back a couple of dozen posts ago, to just before the party entered the Slums. They were walking near the river and there was text stating how polluted it was. I said then we'd be getting to it eventually!) Anyway, off to the store! We have a lot of nice, but extraneous, magical loot to sell! [ATTACH type="full" alt="Screenshot 2024-03-20 172945.png"]353070[/ATTACH] Oh well, it was worth a shot. As I went through everyone's inventory, I realized I had made a minor mistake: [ATTACH type="full" alt="Screenshot 2024-03-20 173230.png"]353071[/ATTACH] I had given that to Brother Baltor back when he didn't have magical armor, but now that he does (and he's had some for awhile now), that ring is fairly useless to him (some [I]rings of protection[/I] in the game give bonuses to both AC and saves, but this one doesn't). However, it could be very useful for someone else. [ATTACH type="full" alt="Screenshot 2024-03-20 173255.png"]353072[/ATTACH] Instead of wearing the leather, if she goes back the bracers and uses the ring, Buffy's AC will go down by 1. [ATTACH type="full" alt="Screenshot 2024-03-20 173307.png"]353073[/ATTACH] [ATTACH type="full" alt="Screenshot 2024-03-20 173312.png"]353074[/ATTACH] Time to start selling! I move some of the armor and shields around my front three to optimize AC and movement, so there's even a bit more to sell than what I picked up in the mansion. That's not to say that the stuff from the mansion doesn't sell for a pretty penny (pretty platinum?) [ATTACH type="full" alt="Screenshot 2024-03-20 173356.png"]353075[/ATTACH] Brother Baltor's old scale mail goes for a small fortune. [ATTACH type="full" alt="Screenshot 2024-03-20 173550.png"]353076[/ATTACH] While Buffy's old leather goes for even more! [ATTACH type="full" alt="Screenshot 2024-03-20 173605.png"]353077[/ATTACH] Sadly, the random items from the mansion tend not to be very valuable: [ATTACH type="full" alt="Screenshot 2024-03-20 173614.png"]353078[/ATTACH] (This is exactly what I would have gotten if I had dragged those stupid tapestries back). The best item from the mansion was this: [ATTACH type="full" alt="Screenshot 2024-03-20 173620.png"]353079[/ATTACH] After everything is sold, arrows are bought, and coin is consolidated, here are our current funds: [ATTACH type="full" alt="Screenshot 2024-03-20 173807.png"]353080[/ATTACH] Welp, close to the 5000 pp needed for a fine longbow! Let's head to the silver shop, sell some gems, and pick another one up! [ATTACH type="full" alt="Screenshot 2024-03-20 173829.png"]353081[/ATTACH] We had Buffy the gems: [ATTACH type="full" alt="Screenshot 2024-03-20 173907.png"]353082[/ATTACH] Bleh. [ATTACH type="full" alt="Screenshot 2024-03-20 173913.png"]353083[/ATTACH] And that is what we needed. Only needed to appraise two! [ATTACH type="full" alt="Screenshot 2024-03-20 173925.png"]353085[/ATTACH] And another fine longbow is ours! Since Buffy now has 18 (00) STR from the [I]gauntlets of ogre power[/I] and can make full use of the bow, this one is hers. [ATTACH type="full" alt="Screenshot 2024-03-20 173954.png"]353086[/ATTACH] Buffy trades the [I]shortbow +1 [/I]to Baroness Bella (and Bragir trades his to Bant, since I forgot to do that earlier and it's been sitting in his inventory ever since we got the first fine longbow). Our party funds now, after the purchase: [ATTACH type="full" alt="Screenshot 2024-03-20 174047.png"]353087[/ATTACH] There's probably enough in the gems and jewelry to get another bow, but, then again, it may not be if I'm unlucky in the appraisals, so I'll just wait until we're near the 5000 pp again to get the next one. So, off to the inn to scribe and memorize spells! But I've hit the maximum upload limit again, so that will be for the next post, where we will also start to clear the Wealthy Area next to the Temple of Bane, and then the Temple itself! [/QUOTE]
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