Review Requests 2.2.6

[Darius Baer]

Rewards Requested

Thread Name: Ambush At Otter Cove
City/Area: Faldrass coastline, at a spot that will later become known by locals as Otter Cove (due to the events of this thread).
Notes/Warnings: This is the fourth and final thread relating to pirates from the Dread Otter. (Thread 1: I Walk The Line. Thread 2: 'Ottery Shards. Thread 3: An-ot'er Dread Otter Thread.) This thread includes violence, but nothing graphic. Darius' "Local Boy Done Good" capstone features here - particularly in the final post - and is mentioned in an OOC note there. (The archers are referenced in Darius' renown ledger, and summarised here.)
Skills Used: Athletics (Expert), Combat: Blades (Competent), Detection (Expert), Discipline (Expert), Etiquette (Master), Leadership (Grandmaster), Stealth (Competent), Tactics (Expert).

Requested Rewards:
Knowledge:
Athletics: Running along a narrow path.
Discipline: Don't panic when things don't go to plan.
Etiquette: Honouring the fallen - even those that take up arms against you.
Leadership: Giving the signal to attack.
Tactics: Even the best laid plans can become FUBAR.
Tactics: The element of surprise only lasts for a moment.

Loot: A pirate sloop, (the Dread Otter), and whatever is on board (if anything at all).
Injuries/Overstepping: N/A
Renown: If applicable.
Wealth Points: N/A
Collaboration: No
Magic Experience: No

[Devin]

Rewards Requested

Thread Name: Singular and Dual Wielding
City/Area: Faldrass/Scalvoris
Notes/Warnings: Calendar event. Aidan is a Personal NPC and has Expert Animal Husbandry and Linguistics. Devin is currently proficient with one-handed blades; this thread is meant to give him the first three knowledges that are necessary to be able to use two-handed blades.
Skills Used: GM Socialization (250x/141k), GM Medicine (250x/129k), Master Detection (151x/70k), Master Investigation (151x/58k), Expert Blades (80x/36k), Competent Animal Husbandry (26x/27k), Competent Strength (27x/32k), Novice Linguistics (5x/17k)

Requested Rewards:
Knowledge:
Blades (Two-Handed) x3
Linguistics: Some languages have a dual
Investigation: Examining an animal that's behaving strangely
Investigation: If there is no other explanation, it might be Vhalaritis!

Loot: -
Injuries/Overstepping: -
Renown: Reviewer's discretion.
Wealth Points: -
Collaboration: no
Magic Experience?: no

[Elisabeth Black]

Rewards Requested

Thread Name: Days Off? What Are Those?
City/Area: Scalvoris Town
Notes/Warnings: This thread is a part one. Both pairings (Balth/Oram & Elisa/Kis) are splitting off into separate collabs to finish their spars.

Balthazar

Skills Used:
Unarmed Combat (GM)
Tactics (Expert)
Endurance (Expert)
Strength (Expert)
Athletics (Expert)
Psychology (Expert)
Axes and Bludgeons (Novice)

Requested Rewards:
Knowledge:
Axes and Bludgeons - A basic parry with a hammer
Polearm (Spear) - Attack with the pointy end
Polearm (Spear) - Keep it in motion to distract lesser opponents

Oram

Skills Used:
Detection (Master)
Discipline (Master)
Athletics (Expert)
Combat: Polearms & Staves (Expert)
Tactics (Competent)
Intelligence (Competent)
Socialization (Competent)

Requested Rewards:
Knowledge:
[Athletics] Backpedaling out of an attack.
[Athletics] Warm-ups are important!
[Combat: Axes & Cudgels] Blunt weapons tend to be short and top-heavy, which affects their tactics.
[Combat: Axes & Cudgels] Defense techniques with a warhammer.
[Combat: Polearms & Staves] Spinning a pole arm requires keeping one’s hands near the center of the shaft.
[Combat: Polearms & Staves] Downward chop with a spear.
[Discipline] Ignoring a distracting florish.
[Intelligence] The precautions people take can signal the threats they anticipate.
[Tactics] Voiding an attack rather than parrying it works, but makes it harder to riposte.

Kisaik

Skills Used:
Tactics: Novice
Strength: Novice
Endurance: Competent
Combat: Blades: Expert
Acrobatics: Expert
Etiquette: Expert

Requested Rewards:
Knowledge:
Tactics: x 3
Combat: Blades: x3
Acrobatics: x2

Elisabeth

Skills Used:
Socialization - Grandmaster
Detection - Master
Discipline - Master
Endurance - Master
Strength - Expert
Athletics - Expert
Tactics - Expert
Intelligence - Competent

Requested Rewards:
Knowledge:
Combat: Blades x 2
Intelligence x 1
Investigation x 1
Socialization x 2
Athletics - Side-stepping out of the way of a horizontal strike
Detection - Identifying a strained smile
Tactics - Underestimating an opponent is never a good idea

Loot: N/A
Injuries/Overstepping: Reviewer's Discretion
Renown: Reviewer's Discretion

Collaboration: Yes

[Vega]

Rewards Requested

Thread Name: ~~~~ Etch-A-Catch~~~~~~~
City/Area: Scalvoris
Notes/Warnings: None

Oram

Skills Used: Hunting (GM); Detection, Discipline, Endurance, Field Craft (Master); Athletics, Stealth (Expert); Caregiving, Navigation, Socialization (Competent)

Knowledge:
[Athletics] Reloading a crossbow quickly.
[Caregiving] Ensuring that a late-term pregnant woman is comfortable.
[Combat: Ranged] Controlling your breathing to keep your aim steady.
[Combat: Ranged] Squeeze, don’t jerk the trigger.
[Combat: Ranged] Reloading a crossbow typically calls for taking one’s eyes off the target.
[Detection] Seeing an etchwing.
[Hunting] Etchwings become visible after they’re killed.
[Hunting] Etchwings like to hunt voles.
[Hunting] Kazan fowl sleep in trees.
[Navigation] Finding one’s way through the Ashwood.
[Science - Zoology] Islands have fragile ecosystems.
[Stealth] x 1


Loot: 1WP for selling the animals (but he's keeping some feathers for keepsakes)

Vega

Skills Used:

• Hunting (GM)
• Navigation (Competent)
• Fieldcraft (GM)
• Teaching (Competent)

Requested Rewards:
Knowledge:
Navigation x 3
Hunting x 3
Fieldcraft x 3
Teaching x 3

Loot: None.

Renown: If applicable, yes please we'd like that!

Collaboration: Yes
Magic Experience?: No

[Doran]

Rewards Requested

Thread Name: Out of Time, Part 2
City/Area: Scalvoris
Notes/Warnings: Calendar event. Part 2 of ?. Arjori is an Order of the Adunih NPC. Her writeup can be found here.
Skills Used: GM Investigation (250x/75k), GM Detection (250x/117k), GM Discipline (250x/89k), Master Medicine (151x/106k), Expert Leadership (76x/43k), Expert Socialization (76x/99k), Competent Caregiving (26x/26k), Competent Psychology (26x/62k)

Requested Rewards:
Knowledge:
Caregiving: Providing people with food, drinks and a warm place to stay
Discipline: Not showing your emotions openly
Investigation: Start by considering the likeliest possibilities
Investigation: Checking if someone’s confusion might be due to a fever
Leadership: Briefing someone
Leadership: Taking charge when nobody else does

Loot: -
Injuries/Overstepping: -
Renown: Reviewer's discretion.
Wealth Points: -
Collaboration: no
Magic Experience?: no

[Elisabeth Black]

Rewards Requested

Thread Name: Blessings & Curses
City/Area: Hopetoun-ish / Faldrass
Notes/Warnings: Vega is cursed by Faldrun. In this thread, Elisabeth was awarded a favor from Chamadarst which includes curse removal. At the end, Elisabeth reads from the book rewarded in this review, which is now just a book with no special abilities.

Vega

Skills Used:
Needlecraft (Competent)
Caregiving (Competent)
Socialisation (Competent)
Teaching (Competent)
Linguistics (Expert)

Requested Rewards:
Knowledge:
Needlecraft x3
Caregiving x 3
Teaching x 3
Linguistics x 2

Elisabeth

Skills Used:
Caregiving (Competent)
Socialization (Grandmaster)
Linguistics (Competent)
Logistics (Expert)
Detection (Master)

Requested Rewards:
Knowledge:
Caregiving x 3
Linguistics x 2
Socialization x 3
Logistics x 2
Detection x 2

Injuries/Overstepping: Reviewer's Discretion
Renown: If you see something worth rewarding!

Collaboration: Yes

[Sei'rue]

Rewards Requested

Thread Name: The Beauty of Wood
City/Area: Desnind
Notes/Warnings: The issues in the intervention have been dealt with. The hybrid NPC was fixed and approved here, and the issue with the shop was fixed here with the corrected shop info here.
Skills Used: Detection: Competent (26/250 exp, 11 knowledges), Logistics: Unskilled (0 exp, 0 knowledges), Research: Novice (15/250 exp, 8 knowledges), and possibly Woodworking: Unskilled (0 exp, 0 knowledges) since she is learning about it

Requested Rewards:
Knowledge:
Skill Knowledges

Research: learning about a subject from someone who does it for a living is a good way to learn about something
Woodworking: there are two main types of wood; hardwood and softwood
Woodworking: Hardwood comes from deciduous trees that have broad leaves and flowers, and produce nuts such such as oak, beech, birch,walnut, and mahogany.
Woodworking: Softwood is produced by coniferous trees with needle like leaves; these are evergreen trees that bear cones instead of nuts such as pine, juniper, spruce, fir, and cedar.
Woodworking: hardwoods can be soft and softwoods can be hard
Woodworking: hardwoods tend to be denser than softwoods and as such are more durable than the softwoods that are easier to cut
Loot: none
Injuries/Overstepping: none
Renown: none
Wealth Points: none
Collaboration: no
Magic Experience?: no

[Oram Mednix]

Rewards Requested

Thread Name: Scratch, scratch me back
City/Area: Darbyton
Notes/Warnings: Old man nipples. Oatmeal leprosy. Bad puns (are there any other kind?).
The insolated bag Oram uses is an item he created using the now-defunct Sojourn ability Souvenir. It is described and approvedhere
Skills Used: Animal Husbandry (Competent); Combat: Axes & Cudgels (Novice); Athletics, Investigation (Expert); Detection, Discipline, Fieldcraft (all Master).

Requested Rewards:

Knowledge:

[Animal Husbandry] Some animals enjoy playing in the snow.
[Athletics] Manhandling a burning log with tongs.
[Fieldcraft] Home remedies for poison ivy.
[Fieldcraft] You can get poison ivy in the wintertime, too, especially if you burn it in a confined space.
[Investigation] Isolating and identifying a novel irritant in the home.
[Resistance] Poison ivy.


Loot: None.
Injuries/Overstepping: A mild rash on hands and face and swollen eyes for a trial. The oatmeal helped.
Renown: None.
Wealth Points: No.
Collaboration: No.
Magic Experience?: No.

[Tristan Venora]

Rewards Requested

Thread Name: Roses of Remembrance
City/Area: Rharne
Notes/Warnings: The watering can is Tristan's signature item. Ebony is a Personal NPC.
Skills Used: GM Etiquette (250x/88k), Master Gardening (151x/35k), Master Socialization (151x/130k), Expert Detection (76x/35k), Competent Endurance (26x/16k), 0 Business Management

Requested Rewards:
Knowledge:
Business Management: Offering more products is good for business
Endurance: Gardening can be exhausting, too!
Gardening: Cold stratification
Gardening: Rose seeds typically don’t sprout unless they are kept in cold and wet conditions
Gardening: Sometimes seeds sprout if you just bury them in the ground
Gardening: Roses need sunlight

Loot: -
Injuries/Overstepping: -
Renown: Reviewer's discretion.
Wealth Points: -
Collaboration: no
Magic Experience?: no

[Devin]

Rewards Requested

Thread Name: [Temple of Delroth] Birds of a Feather
City/Area: Scalvoris
Notes/Warnings: Raine is a Personal NPC. This was also my Vhalar 721 wealth thread. Kalortah decided to retire his PC.
Skills Used: GM Cosmetology (250x/88k), GM Socialization (250x/141k), Master Detection (151x/70k), Master Lute (160x/62k), Expert Discipline (80x/58k), Expert Leadership (76x/30k), Competent Etiquette (26x/60k)

Requested Rewards:
Knowledge:

Devin:

Detection: A dragonling in front of the temple
Discipline: Resisting the urge to bounce
Discipline: Resisting the urge to swoon
Etiquette: Treating important visitors with respect
Leadership: Leading a mass
Musical Instrument (Lute): Playing an ode to Delroth
Socialization: Looking at people in your audience to make them feel included
Socialization: Holding a sermon about Delroth’s Domain of Wind

Kalortah:
Intimidation: x5
Socialization: x3

Loot: Kalortah’s mirror
Injuries/Overstepping: -
Renown: Yes, please! Devin is holding a mass, with an important guest (and a dragonling!), and he receives a magnificent donation.
Wealth Points: -
Collaboration: yes
Magic Experience?: -