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>hand mirror
One of them has a steel comb with a few square inches of smooth polished handle. Why? The scratch was already healed by magic, there's no mark left.
>tents
Pole, 6’ (TL0). For pitching tents, fishing, or prodding items. $5, 3 lbs.
Pole, 10’ (TL0). For things you wouldn’t touch with a 6’ pole. $8, 5 lbs.
Tent, 1-Man (TL0). Includes ropes; no poles needed. $50, 5 lbs.
Tent, 2-Man (TL0). Includes ropes; requires one 6-foot pole. $80, 12 lbs.
Tent, 4-Man (TL0). Includes ropes; requires 2 poles. $150, 30 lbs.
Tent, 20-Man (TL1). Includes ropes; requires 16 poles. $300, 100 lbs.
Legionary Tent (TL2). Made from treated leather panels, this tent is more water- and windresistant than a cloth one. It covers a 10’¥10’ area (sleeps six to eight comfortably) and, at 6’ in height, is tall enough for standing in the center. A legionary-style tent gives +1 to any Survival specialty. DR 1, HP 14. $225, 45 lbs.
Yurt (TL1). This is a round, collapsible woodenlattice framework, including a domed top, covered by a heavy felt shell. Yurts are more durable than other tents (offering cover DR 1) and cannot be knocked down by a single blow to a support.
Yurts insulated with tapestries and rugs, or additional layers of felt, grant +1 to Survival (Plains) – or to any Survival specialty, in a cold climate – but have double cost and 1.5 times weight.
A 10’-diameter yurt (DR 1, HP 20): $480, 200 lbs.
A 15’-diameter yurt (DR 1, HP 28): $1,200, 500 lbs.
Blanket: A warm bedroll. $20, 4 lbs.
Sleeping Fur: A winter bedroll, suitable for ice caves, arctic adventures, etc. $50, 8 lbs.
Enchanted versions which are self-heating, always stay dry, repel vermin, and have other useful functions are known, but not available off-the-shelf at the general store.
Door (TL0). A framed door that can be placed in an opening in a tent or a temporary building. As focal points for visitors, portable doors are often elaborately decorated. Provides cover DR 1. DR 1, HP 23. $210, 70 lbs.
Partition (TL0). A long cloth or straw panel hung from ceiling beams or tent poles, turning a large space into individual rooms. Has no DR or cover DR, and can take 12 HP before being slashed to ribbons. A 6’¥10’ partition: $80, 33 lbs.
Beaded Curtain (TL1). A series of cords on which objects such as beads, bamboo segments, or shells are strung. Provides no cover DR, but visually divides an area into subareas, and offers light concealment (-2 to hit; see p. B408). Passing through it makes noise (see Alarms, p. 123). Also acts as a deterrent to flying insects. DR 0, HP 5. $30, 2 lbs.
Carpet (TL1). Carpets, produced by tightly tying knots together on a loom in a thick, durable weave, can be used as portable floors. A typical rug: $45, 1 lb. per square foot.
Folding Screen (TL1). A set of hinged panels, made from wood or a frame filled with paper or wicker, providing a freestanding barrier. Provides no cover DR, and any attack knocks it over. A 6’¥6’ partition (DR 0, HP 14): $400, 55 lbs.
X-Frame Chair (TL1). One of the earliest forms of portable furniture was the X-frame chair: a folding wooden frame with a cloth or leather seat, essentially identical to a modern folding director’s chair. $70, 30 lbs.
X-Frame Table (TL1). Similar to an X-frame chair, but larger, and with neither arms nor back. A 3’¥3’ table, seating at least four: $200, 75 lbs.
>Nerys
The rest of the bandits have arrived, and noted that he's missing, but not found the body. Jalkaren's divinations establish that Nerys isn't currently alive, and furthermore that his soul still exists, but has somehow constructed and/or located a satisfactory afterlife with abnormal rapidity, or possibly been ensnared by an entity of great power, so resurrection would be infeasible even with the physical remains.
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>extra tools and rations
Group Basics (TL0). Basic equipment for Cooking and Survival skill for a group. Cook pot, rope, hatchet, etc., for 3-8 campers. $50, 20 lbs.
Q-rations cost $5 per meal, six meals (two man-days) weigh a pound.
Pemmican costs $4.50 per meal, and four meals weigh a pound. Not magically perfect nutrition, but it's pretty good, and less likely to rub druids or Green elves the wrong way.
Trail rations built around dried peas and hardtack, with some cheese or nuts or candied fruit for variety, averages $2 and half a pound per meal.
Fresh stuff can be cheaper - as little as $0.50 per meal if you're buying straight from a farmer at harvest time, or no cost but time, random encounters, and maybe ammo when you do your own hunting and foraging - but tends to weigh a pound or more per meal, and has a very limited shelf life.
Dwarven-style hardtack is $6, one pound per meal, tastes even nastier than regular hardtack to most non-dwarves (and makes Azure homesick), but anyone who's eaten at least two meals a day for the past month gets +3 to resist poison.
>Azure's finger?
Nothing left of it but char beyond the second knuckle, so -1 to dex-based rolls with that hand until she gets it regrown, either by angelic intervention or her own innate ability to respawn when killed.
"Mostly patched" means there's a laundry list of similarly minor problems which could be sorted out with a day of rest and resupply in friendly circumstances - a rather literal laundry list, considering how many of the action items involve hygiene or clothing repair. Those bandits have been sleeping in their armor, trying to do first aid with grimy rags, moss, and the occasional splash of laudanum or liquor, for months. Anyone standing downwind might be forgiven for thinking it'd been even longer than that.
>take some time shoveling downwards
Digging a vertical shaft down from the top is the least efficient way to do mining (short of elaborately self-defeating stunts or use of inadequate tools), because any material you remove, you then need to haul straight back up the shaft, working directly against the pull of gravity. The deeper the hole, the harder that gets. A horizontal tunnel or shallow ramp is better, and digging up from below is best of all, when it can be arranged. Regardless, there's at least fifty feet of solid material in the way, maybe hundreds depending on your angle of approach, some of which is likely to be solid stone rather than rubble or soil, so you'd need picks as well as shovels... long story short, you could have Pog work on that, all day, every day, for two months or more and not be done.
Regardless, Lieutenant-Commander Jalkaren Blessed-Is-The-Light doesn't want the ruined hospital heavily modified, just cleared out and restored. Ripping holes in the structure without due consideration of subtle geomantic effects could potentially make the situation much worse.
>Just stab some [...] trees
Tall Jack Rat visibly flinches on hearing this, and points out that Drusilla's attack probably had something to do with some sort of ecological disruption, so he'd rather not take any needless risks like that. http://wondermark.com/c1362/ Less convenient sleeping arrangements is a small price to pay to avoid being drawn and quartered by animate rosebushes and dire wolves. Or at least, Mikhail seemed to think so, while that was happening to him. If what Tall Jack Rat (and the other survivors) overheard while fleeing is anything to go by, being tortured to death put their former captain in an uncharacteristically apologetic and solicitous mood, though they're not really sure whether the xenophobic druid bothered to answer any of his questions.
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