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Each entry below corresponds to one SAGA session. We give the SAGA date at the beginning of the session, and the real-world date of the session itself. Kirk owns Quayam, Chris owns Thristen. Kevan the dramaturgist owns all other characters.

19th April 2483

  1. Attendance: Chris, Kirk, and Kevan in Plymouth, 04-JUN-10.
  2. To Consider: New historical details of Ursia-Endromis conflict here
  3. To Decide: What is the name of the Varayan pantheon? Who owns the temple plots? Zak wants to get pregnant, but it turns out that the Varayan pantheon will not reverse the sterilization of an orc at any price. She will have to have her sterilization reversed in Gutak. Rackhammer could arrange for the procedure.
  4. To Decide: When to transport Rackhammer's father to Aries' temple plot in Halili Village.
  5. To Decide: The Knonn of the desert. These are demons 2000 kg, 2000 hp, 20 dp, sa=10, sp=50 will serve Ursia in a war. How many are there? Will serve because Ursian wizards have figured out their command words, and are their masters. There are ten. They patrol the desert and approach tribes and travellers. By pouring a pint of water at the feet of the knonn, people accept the authority of the knonn to summon them with written messages and to instruct them in their movements. By failing to pour, they become enemies. By pouring and then refusing to comly, they become criminals. Each knonn has a hoard of 1000 kg of molten cold in an iron reservoir beneath a granite slab in a remote part of the desert. Furthermore, the hoard is protected by spells that recognise rattikit passwords. And other things too. The knonn's prescience comes from a one-second time-shifted eye bridge in their forehead. Ursia obtained these bridges through intermediaries from daemons.
  6. To Consider: Other Ursian allies. Storm, the dragon of the mountains near Karadan. The many adventurers. The formidable personages who live in the Fen Swamp. Some will come to Ursia's aid. Kapul Steelscale who lives in the Zaragoss Mountains. Dragons enjoy the benefit of homunculi made by wizards, who remain and guard their hoards, and also password traps. A child-like homunculi might go into town and buy something. Adventurers might form their own regiment.
  7. To Decide: Archery arrows weigh only 17 g. Recalculate arrow ranges and masses.
  8. Detail of equipment for flying.
  9. To Do: Photograph latest character sheets.
  10. Expenses: Were paid on 1st January 2483. From now on, 3 kgp per year (based on 10 gp per level per month) will include summoning of mounts and food. Big purchases like armor, weapons, and griffs are extra. Zak and Gashley's griffs were paid for in 2482.
  11. Spirit wood walls to protect Pakesh. 5 m high, 0.5 m wide is 10 cubic meters ever 4 m of wall. Reference spell is 1 liter in 1000 s lasting 100 hr, difficulty −3. For 1000 hr longevity and 1000 s to make it, we have a 6th level spell. Or 40 m of wall in same time is 8th level.

8th April 2483

  1. Attendance: Chris, Kirk, and Kevan at 62 Dalton, 24-APR-10.
  2. Award Experience: For free-climbing down the cliff, defeating the sorcerer Laruna (7th April) and the village of giants (8th April). To take out Laruna, estimate he'd kill 100 men, so need 1000 men at $10k each = $10M. QTG or equivalent would do it for $4M. This calculation permits estimates of job value. Thus award 40 kxp total for Laruna plus Giant village, on the assumption that the same 1000 men could handle the giants afterwards, there being 900 of them left and only 60 giant warriors.

7th April 2483

  1. Attendance: Chris, Kirk, and Kevan at 62 Dalton, 12-MAR-10.
  2. Moon: will be new on 9th April.
  3. During climb down cliff, rolled 2D20 for the length of the climb in meters and 2D20 for the difficulty also. The difficulty included a +5 increase for climbing down rather than up. The entire climb takes two hours and twenty minutes. Gristel loses 1 dp dodging a fall, Quayam loses 3 dp, and thristen loses 2 dp. Gristel is the best climber, by a small margin.
  4. Quayam's spirit rope, level 5, 0.5 m/s, 50 m total, 7 sq. cm cross-section, 100-hr longevity, 2 x 20 m sections plus mitts of rope material to grip the rope with. Spirit rope is otherwise slippery. Takes two minutes.

16th March 2483

  1. Attendance: Chris, Kirk, and Kevan at 62 Dalton, 20-NOV-09.
  2. Experience Points: Award one level of experience points for crevasse adventure.
  3. New moon on 12 March 2483.
  4. Go to dwarf city and extract copper insert in Jacob's coin. Hire a cryptogropher. There was only a one in six chance of there being such an expert in the city, and we rolled it. Set off looking for orc platoon on Route B. Stop game when on verge of storming the giants' village.

28 January 2483

  1. Attendance: Chris, Kirk, and Kevan at Plymouth, 25-SEP-09.
  2. Diary: Include entry about Quayam's excitement at learning to do targeting solenoids.
  3. Applied the new rules for Quayam's sorcerey, and by the end of the crevass adventure, he was down to 4th level sorcerer.

15 January 2483

  1. Attendance: Chris, Kirk, and Kevan at Plymouth, 5-JUN-09.
  2. Experience Points: Award half a level's worth of experience points for troll adventure.
  3. Variant: add tracer light to targeting solenoid remote cluster to aid timing, +1 difficulty.
  4. Quayam Sorcery: Update Quayam's sorcery level, allowed Kirk to go through and arrange his disciplines again. He is now tenth level sorcerer. Sorcery works as follows. Quayam can cast any conjured or spirit matter wizard-like spell, one spell at a time, no preparation, casting time as wizard spell, singing and movement required to act at full potential, difficulty as if his sorcery level were his wizard level. No clearing time, with each spell he casts, his effective sorcerer level drops by one. An hour's rest restores it by one. Just recently, Quayam has learned how to make a targeting solenoid. Cannot cast spells like Annihilation or Flash. But he can do Choke. Fighting while casting adjusts his effective sorcerer level by &minu;5 so long as he continues to fight, runing is a penalty of −3, riding −2, walking −1. Thus he can cast consecutively, with no rest between, 2 fifth-level spell, 2 fourth-level, 2 third-level, 2 second-level, 2 first-level spells. After that he needs nine hours rest.
  5. What about spirit matter for plumbing?

13 January 2483

  1. Attendance: Chris, Kirk, and Kevan at 62 Dalton Rd, 14-FEB-09
  2. Quayam is wanted on charge of first-degree murder in Endromis, for the slaying of a wounded soldier. The Endan government has a bounty out on his head of $100k.
  3. A Grand Surrounding Sponge egg, with 50 m radius and 1-hr duration, would cost 800 gp. It has ×1000 volume, ×1000 rate, and ×10 longevity, so it's difficulty is 2 for Surrounding Sponge plus 7, making 9. Such eggs are able to bind the sails of a ship for an hour, and the Ursian Air Force uses them to break the blockade of Karadan.
  4. Standard egg: 5% chance per year old that it will fail. They are guaranteed to 5 years. For +1 level, it's 1% per year. If Ursia has the 1% per year variety, and buy 1k TE and 1k GSS egg per year. The Ursian Government sells eggs that are 20 years old to the public for 100 gp, thus making $20M per year. The government has 20k Thunder Eggs and 20k Sponge Eggs. Meanwhile, standing army is 10k, constripted 30k, UAF has 1000 griffs with riders, and 100 wyverns with riders.
  5. QTG buy two new bridges for Z and Gashley to join their local network, and to connect to the global network.
  6. Should standard spells carry with them a 1% chance of slot scrambling?
  7. Need a scan of Thristen's character sheet.
  8. Did not award xp, but rescue of Arg was concluded against adversity.

1 January 2483

  1. Attendance: Chris, Kirk, and Kevan at 62 Dalton Rd, 19 December 20-DEC-08
  2. When a medical patient passes through a summoning bridge to Olympia for surgery, they enter neutral space. This space is on Olympia, but it is considered to be both in Olympia and in Clarus. The patient moves into this space and out of it again without ever leaving Clarus, and is therefore not subject to the one percent rule. The same is true for the surgeons who enter the space from Olympia: they are considered to have never left Olympia. Anything that enters the neutral space from Olympia and leaves with the patient must obey the one-percent rule.
  3. Aries's main income now comes from his Ursian temple plots, where he provides health care. His gating is synchronized with whatever bridge suppressors Pakesh and other cities use.
  4. Can Ursia gate its soldiers between points on Clarus? They would need a daemon part. No: the dragons gave them a couple of molecular tuners in exchange for artifacts made by the wizards, including quantities of spirit metal.
  5. What do the dragons trade with the Illuminati? One thing is magical items and fine pieces of machinery that have value as art and interest to the Illuminati. Should recall other things.
  6. Endromis wants to build an empire. Ursian mithril contracts and the fact that they are wizards give them a bad reputation. Endans believe that they must do something about the threat presented by the orcs. If Richard Crockford knew about the Iron Road plans this would give the Endans all the more reason to classify Ursia as an enemy: the friend of my enemy is my enemy. Endromis claimed the City States on the west Ursian coast as theirs after the Reconcilliation. They built roads and established the states for freed slaves and sailors. In 2100 the populations want independence and Endromis grants in exchange for tribute. In 2300 Ursians start making deals with the city states to protect them from Endan ships with thunder-eggs so tribute will no longer be extracted. Endromis declares war at some date (must look up). Ursia defends itself. Endans are still sore about it.
  7. Endans now trying to take control of the seas again with ships equipped with spirit cloth sails and ropes.
  8. Aries says he can provide healing serums, surgery and longevity drugs to black orcs in Ursia. Rackhammer is short of money because he has to support his parents in exile. He would be hard-pressed to come up with the $100k necessary to fix up his dad.
  9. Proposal from Kevan: every month that goes by in game time, we can roll to see if Gristel is pregnant from Quayam. Her longevity drugs keep her fertile. The chance of her coneiving is 1% per month.
  10. Expenses paid. Charge each of QTG $1M each to cover past year of traveling around. Cash on hand: Gristel $5M, Quayam, $6M, Thristen $3M. Houses and businesses also have value: roughly $3M for QG's house, $2M for Thristen's house.

19 December 2482

  1. Attendance: Chris, Kirk, and Kevan at 62 Dalton Rd, 08-NOV-2008.
  2. Mithril costs $1000/g. Ursian government has long-term contracts with many mines about the continent. Having invested money in the beginning to open the mines, they make sure that local governments respect these contracts by intimidation if necessary, and often use same means to renew those contracts.

19 December 2482

  1. Attendance: Chris, Kirk, and Kevan at Plymouth, 15-AUG-2008.
  2. Chris plays Gowachin in his duel.
  3. Is Gristel pregnant? We thought that would be cool, but the die roll said no.
  4. Torch Spell: heat from annihilation of conjured matter generates short, narrow flame of 3000 °C. A mithril-coated iron tip produces conjured foam that rushes along a ceramic nozzel. The annihilation proceeds back wards towards the tip at 100 m/s, and so reaches the position in the nozzel where the foam is moving at 100 m/s.
  5. Consider a class of magical items that amplify the effect of a spell. We call them amplifiers. Suppose the item generates an effect equivalent to an M'th level spell when we cast a spell that is only N'th level, where N<M. We set the cost of such an item at 10 × (M − N) × PM, where PP is the cost of an M'th level spell cast by a wizard.
  6. A 1-5 Space Bridge Thruster Amplifier accepts a first-level spell and creates the fifth-level effect. It costs $240k.
  7. The road-building machine is a Thruster 1-5 plus Annihilator 1-4 plus Maker 1-9 and costs $10M, or $1M a year to lease. It makes 10 km/day of road and costs $10k/day to run.
  8. Price of iron is $160 in Pakesh and over $150 in Varay, the cost of transportation by bridge.

18 December 2482

  1. Attendance: Chris, Kirk, and Kevan at 62 Dalton Rd, 18-JUL-2008
  2. Do Black Orcs keep destriers to ride around on? No. Wyverns are far superior.

6 December 2482

  1. Attendance: Chris, Kirk, and Kevan at Goodnow cottage in Plymouth 04-JUN-08.
  2. New Moon on the 18th December.
  3. Change "ibuprofin" to "pain-relief" or just "pills"
  4. Question for the rules: does Thief include Jeweler?
  5. Decide to ask Urisian government for $130/kg put contracts on 1 million kilograms of iron.
  6. What is the name of the town near the Virage house? It has a griff landing field. Do we need a map? What is the name of the bank Thristen used to get gold for Zak?
  7. Award xp. at beginning of weekend, before the fight with the Brotherhood of Light. Now have 300 kxp each, making them 25th level.
  8. Go over attributes and disciplines in detail.
  9. In fight with BofL, QTG offer their opponents falling backwards as an alternative to being hit or losing dp's. That's why the knights were falling over without suffering any casualtiees until they were all reduced to 0 dp. We represented each combatant with a little piece of card. For a photograph of the little pieces at the end of the fight, see here.

20 November 2482

  1. Attendance: Chris, Kirk, and Kevan at Goodnow cottage in Plymouth 26-OCT-07.
  2. Sid has been staying at the Virage house. They left him there when they flew to the Loud Lady Lodge. He was there when they returned on summoned hippogriffs to protect Coldiron. We did not mention Sid in the diary entries for that period. Gashley and Dominican think of him as a pet. They like him and spoil him. But he stays hidden. For the latest word on demons, see here.

18 November 2482

  1. Attendance: Chris, Kirk, and Kevan at Goodnow cottage in Plymouth 03-AUG-07.
  2. Left behind Thristen and Gristel's character sheets. Have not record here of financial assets.
  3. 1 cleric bridge per 1000 people, which is 1 per population block, 50 million people on Clarus, so 50,000 bridges to Olympia on Clarus, a total of 200,000 bridges to Olympia for the entire sector, maybe more. One bridge attendant on Olympia can watch 100 bridges, so that's 2,000 bridge attendants. Each tuning lasts one year, so need one tuning a minute on Olympia, use daemons or daemon parts. AAA guarantees a response to voice or light in 20 seconds.
  4. Olympia forbids hellspawn breeding on Olympia. Abandon old notion that only male sapiens are allowed on Olympia.
  5. Languages on Clarus are borrowed from our languages as follows. Latin is Latin, a long-standing language that evolves somewhat in the many countries where it is spoken, but many Gods try and succeed in keeping it close enough to the original to be understood. Greek is ancient Greek, and goes the same way as Latin. Endan is Italian, which is Latin after two thousand years of natural evolution. The Endan Pantheon could not stop the evolution of Endan. Weilandic is English. Varayan is Old English, left over from Weiland's invasion. Ursian is Farsi.

15 November 2482

  1. Attendance: Chris, Kirk, and Kevan at Kirk's apartment in NYC, 09-JUN-2007. First QTG game for three years. Stayed up until 4:15 am on Sunday night playing out the fight with the Paladins of the Brotherhood of Light.
  2. Chris, Kirk, and Kevan agree to play the QTG game according to the recent SAGA constitution, whereby the Dramaturgist does not have control over the game.
  3. Chris, Kirk, and Kevan agree that the politics, economy, and history of the Galactic Ecumen, Celesti Sector Ecumen, and the Claran Ecumen will no longer be secret from the contenders. All three will debate the present, the future, and the past, and so arrive at the truth together. QTG will not have the truth as outlined in these debates, but all three of us are permitted to give our characters beliefs that happen, by chance, to be true. But the the characters will find that they cannot convince other people in SAGA's world of their opinions, because they do not have evidence to back up their true beliefs.
  4. Long discussions about the Illuminati, the Dragons, the Distantae, the Gods, and Ursia. Several lengthy readings from old notebooks of Kevan's. Believe we all have a picture of what is going on.
  5. Oblasticon has 10 bridges with 10 spies, of whom Zak is one. Zak reported to Garaz all she learned about the Iron Road on 23rd October through her bridge to Garaz.
  6. 3 October was half-moon, so moon rises at 3 am on 19th November.

13 October 2482

  1. Award 11 kxp for battle with Orcs.
  2. Dramaturgist should re-scan the Mokul Castle image.

22 September 2482

  1. It was a one-in-sixteen chance that the Herringbones would be there, we rolled it, and they were.

20 September 2482

  1. Award 20 kxp for griff fight over the Old Hills.

18 September 2482

  1. Contenders can back-date obvious questions to this conversation, which we cut short in game-time to keep things moving along.
  2. Contenders have two outstanding communications. One is the class three information offered on the Veritas exchange. The second is QuayamÕs effort to talk to his father.

20 August 2482

  1. When Gag fires a bolt at Thristen's griff, and Thristen knocks it aside, it costs him ten dodging points to do so.

21 August 2482

  1. Award 50 kxp for saving the Satian Road.

4 July 2482

  1. Award 10 kxp for looking after Green Horn Tavern.

24 July 2482

  1. What's the name of the king of the Giants in the Long Hills?

23 January 2482

  1. Award 30 kxp for various encounters, including the Gnolls.

3 January 2482

  1. Award 10 kxp for flights over the outlands.

3 December 2481

  1. Award experience points for individual services to Ursian government.