AoD lore

[jeansberg]

2. Why should I do it?
Why not? Do you have a better scheme at the moment? No. Then go in, pretend to be the loremaster he sent for - since he was stupid enough to announce it so loudly, and take whatever artefact he's got. I'm sure it's worth at least a few hundred coins. Not bad for ten minutes of work, no?

Should be artifact, no?

 

[denizsi]

Both are valid.

 

[Elwro]

Inventorium Magnum / Arcanum?

 

[Lord Chambers]

Adding the post-fix "ium" to modern English creates Roman. This is how Latin was developed. In a Latinium Languagetorium.

 

[Elwro]

What modern English? "Invent"? Are you so stupid?

(in-vĕnĭo , vēni, ventum - to find out, to invent, to discover)

I'm not saying it sounds particularly well, since many people would associate this with "inventory". Just an idea.

 

[don_tomaso]

Hey, this was actually interesting to read.. I liked it.

 

[Elhoim]

Arcane Laboratory would be ok for me.

 

[jeansberg]

Don't you mean Laboratorium Arcanium?

 

[PrzeSzkoda]

Supramagnificetium Arcanarium Magorium Obscuratium Arcana!

 

[Elwro]

Or even Arcanissimum.

 

[callehe]

how about Arcanum?

 

[caliban]

With steamworks?

 

[Elwro]

And Magick ...

 

[Elhoim]

...Obscura

 

[denizsi]

What about letting VD have an important, past, long-dead or long-lost but remembered character, well known among scholars of the gameworld, who contributed greatly to the foundation of this research center, to the collection of old items and knowledge and understanding them? Name the research center after this character?. Some suggestions for the name of this character:

Leothy Boyain
Tionard Cairsk
Or some other combination of the former duo.

So, something like Leothy Boyain Labs might work perhaps?

Speaking of which, have you made any homage to such people in the game, VD?

 

[Azael]

Give it an English sounding description rather than faux Latin. You already have a name for the place, so the description should be in the language used in the game.

Something along the lines of arcane workshop/works/foundry would work, since I imagine there's little difference between the arcane and science, especially in the days the game take place. Arcane testing grounds might work as well.

 

[Vault Dweller]

Posted some stuff in the "narrative gameplay" thread if someone cares:
http://www.rpgcodex.com/phpBB/viewtopic ... 8&start=25

 

[Jora]

[ :shock: personal magnetism] RELEASE the game NOW!

Seriously I can't wait anymore. It hurts too much.

 

[One Wolf]

Posted some stuff in the "narrative gameplay" thread if someone cares:
http://www.rpgcodex.com/phpBB/viewtopic ... 8&start=25

oh my god

 

[Vault Dweller]

I loved O'Henry when I was a kid. You just can't beat his awesomeness:
http://www.literaturecollection.com/a/o_henry/50/
...

Jeff Peters as a Personal Magnet

Jeff Peters has been engaged in as many schemes for making money as
there are recipes for cooking rice in Charleston, S.C.

Best of all I like to hear him tell of his earlier days when he sold
liniments and cough cures on street corners, living hand to mouth,
heart to heart with the people, throwing heads or tails with fortune
for his last coin.

"I struck Fisher Hill, Arkansaw," said he, "in a buckskin suit,
moccasins, long hair and a thirty-carat diamond ring that I got from
an actor in Texarkana. I don't know what he ever did with the pocket
knife I swapped him for it.

"I was Dr. Waugh-hoo, the celebrated Indian medicine man. I carried
only one best bet just then, and that was Resurrection Bitters. It was
made of life-giving plants and herbs accidentally discovered by Ta-
qua-la, the beautiful wife of the chief of the Choctaw Nation, while
gathering truck to garnish a platter of boiled dog for the annual corn
dance.

"Business hadn't been good in the last town, so I only had five
dollars. I went to the Fisher Hill druggist and he credited me for
half a gross of eight-ounce bottles and corks. I had the labels and
ingredients in my valise, left over from the last town. Life began to
look rosy again after I got in my hotel room with the water running
from the tap, and the Resurrection Bitters lining up on the table by
the dozen.

"Fake? No, sir. There was two dollars' worth of fluid extract of
cinchona and a dime's worth of aniline in that half-gross of bitters.
I've gone through towns years afterwards and had folks ask for 'em
again.

"I hired a wagon that night and commenced selling the bitters on Main
Street. Fisher Hill was a low, malarial town; and a compound
hypothetical pneumocardiac anti-scorbutic tonic was just what I
diagnosed the crowd as needing. The bitters started off like
sweetbreads-on-toast at a vegetarian dinner. I had sold two dozen at
fifty cents apiece when I felt somebody pull my coat tail. I knew what
that meant; so I climbed down and sneaked a five dollar bill into the
hand of a man with a German silver star on his lapel.

"'Constable,' says I, 'it's a fine night.'

"'Have you got a city license,' he asks, 'to sell this illegitimate
essence of spooju that you flatter by the name of medicine?'

"'I have not,' says I. 'I didn't know you had a city. If I can find it
to-morrow I'll take one out if it's necessary.'
...

Needless to say, the grifter "class" is dedicated to Jeff Peters and Andy Tucker.

 

[MacBone]

Hah! O. Henry is pure awesomeness. When I asked a lit professor in college if we were covering O. Henry, she said we only studied serious writers.