[Wind Reach] Touching The Sky

by **Drusilla** on February 7th, 2015, 1:56 am

Azira, Sira, Khara, and Zhol what threads do you want to do this spring?
Sira do you want to do the whole girl's day?
Khara, go rock climbing?

by **Khara** on February 8th, 2015, 2:53 pm

I don't think I need anything modded in Spring. Then again, I don't exactly have any plans yet either, really.

And Dru! Yes! We must go and face the Edge of the World together once the winter snows melt!

by **Zhol** on February 8th, 2015, 3:03 pm

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You'd better not fall off if you go climbing. Zhol will be very sad.

I might have something that I'd like modded for next season, V - but I'm still sorta waiting to hear back from Mirage regarding some of the technicalities of it. I'll shoot you a PM when I'm less groggy!
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by **Valdr** on February 10th, 2015, 4:24 pm

So uh... Hi every one!

First let me apologies to a few of you for leaving our threads unfinished.

Secondly, I feel the need to apologize to the rest of you for making an appearance now that WR has an a new AS to help guide it while you have stuck with the city even while it stood without an ST.

My original intention was to do the same, however life and a few other obstacles rose up and I inadvertently let Valdr fall by the wayside. However! Now that things have settled a bit, I would definitely like to make Valdr Active again (if ya'll would have me) and fire up his forge for the good of the city!

- I plan to be bringing him back at the beginning of spring, so to answer V's Question,

Valdr is an Avora Blacksmith, and the reason I chose this caste has to do with the profession. Smithing is something that I am interested in so I decided to make a character based on that. It just so happened that in WR the profession correlate's with the Avora Cast.

by **Zhol** on February 10th, 2015, 4:56 pm

Valdr wrote:Valdr is an Avora Blacksmith

I would be careful not to mention that too loudly around Khara.

Or Zhol.

Or Azira.

Or Drusilla.

Avora Blacksmiths have... an unfavourable reputation in that little social circle. :lol:

Awesome to see you about again though - welcome back!

by **Valdr** on February 10th, 2015, 5:35 pm

Zhol wrote:
Avora Blacksmiths have... an unfavourable reputation in that little social circle.

Really?

My interest and curiosity are peaked. Should make for some interesting threads!

by **Zhol** on February 11th, 2015, 2:45 am

Lets just say there are specific parts of said blacksmith's anatomy that Zhol has every intention of violently removing because of the manner in which they were used against poor Khara... and she has a lot of friends who are violently/murderously peeved about it. :paranoid:

by **Zhol** on February 17th, 2015, 2:58 pm

Bit of a lore question - sorry for the wall of text!

In the Player Guide (under monetary system), it describes Chiet as getting "two days off in every ten". For Avora, it describes "two days off after every seven", while Endals have "five on and take two off". Over in the location thread for The Market Place though, it states that "After a grueling eight day work week, the progress in Wind Reach shifts as days nine and ten are spent in eager anticipation and preparation of the Market."

The Player Guide makes it sound like Chiet have two days off "at some point" in that week (can vary from week to week, like a shift-worker), but that Avora and Endal definitely have a specific "weekend" - they two days off, and those two days are together. What seems odd about that is that the Avora, many of whom make wares to be sold at the market, don't match that same ten day "week" that the markets do.

Rather than explain with words, I've done a little chart thingy on GoogleDocs:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1jEJlzhpVBSXhp1D3HZU-axS2hCyRVt4w87y4IWdDw5w/pubhtml

The red/yellow represents the "ten day week" described in the Market Place (or alternatively, it represents a Chiet, if Chiet have a mandatory two-day weekend); the green represents the work days for an Avora (days off are lighter), and I've staggered them to show what would happen if an Avora's 90-day work cycle started on a different day of the season.

As you can see, the Avora only get a day off on a market day twice each season, and they happen on consecutive "weeks" - great if you're an artisan, and being at the market counts as "work"; not so great if you're a hunter and have to wait nearly an entire season to go shopping again. Also, unless your Avora work cycle starts within one day of someone else's (ie. day before, same day, day after), you can see that it's impossible to have the same day off. Also, if Chiet have mandatory weekends to match up with the Market Place (ie. Chiet "week" = Market "week")... the numbers written in are a tally of the four days each season that an Avora and Chiet would have off at the same time (which is ominous for Khara/Zhol and Drusilla/Brandon interactions).

To boil it down into actual answerable questions: is this correct / what was intended? Should we be doing "day off" threads rarely, and/or swapping shifts with NPCs to facilitate them? Or, is the system supposed to be more flexible, and it's the lore pages that are squiffy?

by **Sira** on February 18th, 2015, 1:54 am

Hmm.. a blacksmith? Get your skill up to expert or master and Sira will shower you with mizas for a well made sword.

by **Verilian** on February 18th, 2015, 2:15 am

I think the number differences were probably not intentional. Or if they were, I imagine they are probably more flexible. You are supposed to mention off days, but I don't think they are necessarily "weekends." I'll take a closer look at things but for now I'd say it's flexible and you can get 2 off says in any 10, or 7 or whatever. They don't have to be at the end, but can be wherever in the ten you want, which could in theory give you a 4 day weekend if you want. You couldn't always get that, because others with the same job would also want 4 day weekends every now and then, so it would all have to be arranged and stuff. Anyway, the point of it all is I think you can be a bit more flexible with your off days. They don't always have to be at the end.

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