Quote from: JesterRaiin;907178Unfortunately, the only connection between Mr. Anderson and me is along the lines of 6 degrees of Kevin Bacon.

Still... An Inn, a pub, a bar.

...I can't believe it. I forgot about the most important place in the universe. (facepalm).

Thanks for the reminder, I need to develop something like this. Hmmm... Why not fantasy-like inn decorated with paintings depicting scenes from apparently fantasy world? Hmmmmmmm... (thinking in progress)

May I suggest "A Midsummer Tempest", by Mr. Poul Anderson?

Quote from: JesterRaiin;907233Ok, I think I have it covered.

- Ba Kal Pub

Old water tower made of red brick. There's a pub in the lower part and above it - a library.

The pub seems like taken straight out of fantasy world - a fireplace, wooden walls, floor and furniture, animal skins lying here and there. Each wall is covered with bigger and smaller framed paintings depicting scenes from some unspecified but obviously fantasy reality. Above the bar, someone hung up a photo of a guy in glasses, smiling mysteriously and holding something that looks like an icosahedron made of bone. It's signed "ba Kal" and it is considered a tradition that the first drink should go in the name of "ba Kal", even though nobody has a clue who this "ba Kal" might be and why he has a pub named after him.

Next to the bar are stairs leading to a chamber full of book-cases filled with ancient tomes and common books alike. The majority are written in unknown languages and rather impossible to decipher. It's worth noting that the library is always surrounded with silence - even if someone would be "celebrating" loudly in the pub below, no sound would reach people staying above.

There's a trapdoor in the ceiling leading to an attic. It serves no specific purpose, but it's connected (via short bridge) to a small turret. Inside, in a very tight room (not enough for a grown man to stand up), featuring no windows or sources of light whatsoever one might hear a distant, but loud sound resembling a heartbeat. Urban legend says that if someone locks himself inside and spends a night there, he is gonna learn what to do to summon yet another building to the Street... Or he will know the true meaning of "madness".

There's no one working in the Pub, but somehow it's always clean, barrels are full of beer and there's no shortage of bottles with good alcohol of unspecified origin. Books are in a good condition too, there's no dust to be found, no insects, fungi or similar "plagues".

One little detail; as one goes up the staircase - it's a spiral one, in the little off-set tower - one will see stained-glass glass inserts in the lancet windows. Some are mysterious glyphs, some are images; one is of a castle floating on clouds.

Quote from: chirine ba kal;907350May I suggest "A Midsummer Tempest", by Mr. Poul Anderson?

Affirmative, sir! :cool:

QuoteOne little detail; as one goes up the staircase - it's a spiral one, in the little off-set tower - one will see stained-glass glass inserts in the lancet windows. Some are mysterious glyphs, some are images; one is of a castle floating on clouds.

Heck, why not? I'm 140% sure players are gonna attempt to find out what those glyphs mean, so there's a potential for an interesting side-story with open ending.

How about an engineering/plumbing department, a crypt, a vault, a prison / madhouse, some secret passages/escape routes, some steam vents, a coffee shop and/or bar, maybe a garden, possibly with a hedge maze that changes paths - which might be linked to the whole street magic thing - perhaps you get mysitc instructions on what path to take in the maze to get to where you need to go, and when you return, you find yourself heading from inside the maze towards the exit. Wandering the maze not following instructions can have unpredictable results.

I'd also think about what you don't want there. I might not want everything I listed. I almost put "hospital" but left it out. I would not include a shopping mall... ew! Whatever you can't put in the mobile base, the players need to use the actual adventure setting for, and you could end up hand-waving away many potentially interesting elements of play. I'd only make available the things I want to be easy and not a play challenge.

Quote from: Skarg;907407Whatever you can't put in the mobile base, the players need to use the actual adventure setting for, and you could end up hand-waving away many potentially interesting elements of play. I'd only make available the things I want to be easy and not a play challenge.

Thanks for the input!

Garden around the lake is a fine addition. So is a hidden vault accessible via means currently unknown.

Currently, Chirine looks like that:

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...and side note: we had our initial session yesterday. Since it was all about PCs involvement, setting the tone and such, Chirine didn't make his appearance. I suspect he is gonna arrive tomorrow, though.

So. Chirine made his way into our adventure.

So far players didn't have enough time to learn about his capabilities or even visit every building. They didn't think about the possibility to convince him to work as their mobile homebase either, but I'm sure they will offer him the job, so to speak, once they learn how much he has to offer and when they realize how useful ally he might become.

With that in mind, I think it's a good way to end this thread.

Thanks for help, guys.

Bah, you're not getting away that easy.  Where's it currently located?

Quote from: CRKrueger;907677Bah, you're not getting away that easy.  Where's it currently located?

In the end I've chosen the "connect to the city via trans-space" solution, so Chirine stays in his own dimension.

Players encountered the Street when they landed in the middle of a clash of titans - Chirine and his long time enemy Dr. Diesel.

It probably won't hurt to explain that Dr. Diesel is the result of failed experiment with teleportation (think "Philadelphia Experiment" 2.0). Rather brilliant scientist and Liebherr R9800 merged together and became [strike]a cartoonish villain[/strike] almost indestructible devastator machine with an ability to teleport and murderous tendencies.



Anyway, Chirine employed the help of players, and together they managed to lure Dr. Diesel into his own dimension, where his teleporting abilities couldn't help him much. Then, Chirine dumped him onto some godforsaken planet and retracted his street-tentacle, leaving the swearing devastator to his own fate.

There was enough time for PCs to speak with the Street afterwards, visit the Pub and catch a few z's in one of apartments before he is gonna return them to where they came.

I count on their wits, that they will ask them to at least help them in their upcoming adventures, however if not, Chirine will part ways with them and return in the future.

btw, nice haircut, Lemmy! :cool: