Expendable

Simple guild adventure fun.

Well, anyone can take an application. They just got to know where to drop it off at.

Umbra Rose Condos

@Expendable How old is Qaymu? He and Vel could bond over how much the world's changed since they overslept way too long, that'd be kinda fun.

@Lemons

Not exactly sure, Dragons are not big on calendars. He slept from the Renaissance to pre-WW2, but it was a long flight. But they can have talks, certainly.

Umbra Rose Condos

Qaymu

Name: Qaymu, the Mysterious

Image/Appearance:

Qaymu

Dragon: The first thing people usually say is they expected something bigger. He has deep-set amber eyes that seem to glow with their own inner light. Small triangular fins runs down from the top of his head down his back. He is of average height and has a wiry build. His scales shimmer like bronze. There is a nasty scar in gold scales on his upper left chest. His wings and tail are hidden. He's got a dark Fu Manchu mustache (really it's whiskers and moderately painful if pulled).

When wandering around the condo, he's usually wearing a red smoking jacket with one of his many pipes in his pocket, white shirt with a yellow silk cravat, black pants, and black slippers. He has an orange tabby cat named Tiger.

Human: This guy makes you think of a clever stage magician. He has deep-set amber eyes that seem to glow with their own inner light. His gray hair is brushed back with a taper on his neck. He is of average height and has a slender build. His skin is lightly tanned. There is a nasty scar on his upper left chest. He's got a widows peak, a white Fu Manchu mustache, and a few wrinkles.

When outside the building, he's usually seen wearing a white shirt, red bow tie, navy vest, black pants with belt, dark gray socks and polished black shoes. He often wears a trench coat, and carries a battered dark leather briefcase that he carries everything in, almost as if it was larger on the inside.

Occasionally moonlights as a magician, does children's parties. So far, nobody's realized some of his illusions are actual magic.

Race: Dragon (draconus paulo)

Racial Traits: Small size, very long life, breaths fire, scales, claws, wings, tail, enhanced senses, enhanced strength, magic, intelligence, sudden growth.

Requirements: Reinforced floors, fire barrier insulation, firebrick walls, double-wide fire doors. (Assuming sprinkler is already installed.) Large bathroom with Jacuzzi tub. Fireplace.

Personality: Admittedly and unashamedly territorial with an obsession with gold, he may appear gruff, preferring his own company and shopping in second-hand and thrift stores, he does have a weakness for orphans, books, and teaching.

Background: When an invading army conquered the kingdom, the king sent his queen and infant daughter in a carriage to escape, but they were intercepted by the invaders. Qaymu, having set up a new nest and checking out the area, noticed the commotion and few in to the rescue, but was too late to save the queen. Before the invaders could respond, he grabbed the princess and flew off with her.

Seventeen years later, a drunken mob lead by the one surviving guard of the Queen's carriage invaded Qaymu's lair, only to find to their surprise the princess was still alive and staring at them oddly, having never seen another human before. She decided to go with the men back to their city, despite Qaymu's misgivings. When he heard her call out hours later, her life in danger, he expanded and flew to her, rescuing from the tyrant's men and placing her on the throne.

However, dragon hunters were constantly invading his home afterward. When one tried attacking him with a harpoon, wounding him, he decided he had had enough. Using a spell taught to him by a wandering wizard, he packed up his things into a few cases and flew across the ocean before finally stopping in a small cave for the night for a much needed rest.

Years later, he was abruptly woken up by nearby construction work for a new subway system. Venturing forth, he realized he'd overslept, but these men didn't know what he was - or the penalty for stealing a dragon's gold, even if it was only a few coins. Disguising himself, he decided to venture in the city, wandering about, then hibernating for long periods

Building, Floor, and room: Building 2, 5th floor, Room 506.

Room description: The door mat reads, "Abandon all hope, ye who enter here." Another sign over the doorbell reads, "Tours Tuesdays and Thursdays from 11 AM to 1 PM, by Appointment Only. Closed Christmas and New Years."

The interior is open plan, looking to be wider and longer than the room should be. There are two balconies with spiral stairs. chandeliers are overhead and a few lamps are scattered about.

There are a lot of vintage and antique furniture, most of it in the campaign style. Old folding army desks, lighthouse library boxes, bookcase and tansu chests, a apothecary chest and so many cased sets. It gives the impression that one can quickly pack up the room.

At the back, there's a large kitchen and dining area, with doors leading to a pantry and a bathroom, and stairs leading up to the first balcony. Under the stairs is a litter robot and a low pen holding a large cat bed and various cat toys.

On the first balcony there's a large four-poster bed that can be seen at the railing. However, instead of a mattress, there's a large box filled with gold coins. If you pick one up, you can feel the coin vibrate with an unusual rhythm. There's also a fire place on the back wall, with a good suply of wood. To one side is a walk-in closet, while to the other side, past the stairs, is the bathroom with a jacuzzi tub.

The upper balcony appears to be for storage. There is a winch on the ceiling that allows items to be raised or lowered.

Simple guild adventure fun.

We could have like a tavern, a tap room with a jobs board, a few rooms upstairs - it'll make for a good start.

Umbra Rose Condos

Tempted to do some sort of trickster.

So basically a discount-Loki.

In a hotel.

Full of monsters.

@Foster

I remember this one trickster who basically put a trans-dimensional pocket in his cheek, so he could clear out an entire pantry in one settings. But if they were nice enough, he'd give them a year's worth of rations.

Umbra Rose Condos

It's my understanding that you buy your condo, but there are fees.

Umbra Rose Condos

<Snipped quote by Expendable>
Goddamned 1% dragons and your high-roller lifestyles, with your penthouses and private pool parties and treasure hoards. >:(

@Xaltwind

You should see my treasure hoard after the IRS got done with it. In the olde days, back when old was followed by an e, people feared and respected dragons. Now a simple stretch of the wings could get you shot down and labeled as a UFO, then hours of interrogation by the FBI about terrorist intentions and being a living, breathing WMD. Do you know what it's like facing down two idiots in suits knowing with one sneeze, you'd have something crunchy and good with ketchup?

That pool is my bathtub!

Likely the penthouse is the owner's apartment, so I'll have to make do with one of the dimensionally transcendent rooms on a lower floor - or even a sub-basement.

Umbra Rose Condos

I am interested! Do monsters have to be real, or can we kinda make our own?

Also, you said there were some amenities, but like, if someone were to play a vampire or werewolf, I imagine they have to handle themselves when it comes to feeding and the full moon? Or are you thinking their rooms would be equipped to deal with those sorts of things?

@Morgannis

Count Dracula: Only in America! Plastic disposable bodies! It's like a supermarket!
-Love at First Bite

Blood banks and hospitals have to get rid of old blood, so there may be a "disposal service" that supplies the condo. Or they have live-in companions? Really, the only complication is if the vampire has been feeding off of drunks and have themselves become alcoholics. I don't want to imagine the AA meetings....

Perhaps for the werewolves, there's a bank vault or two downstairs. Livestock is brought in, put in the vault with the werewolves, and in the morning wash out the vault with a firehouse (good drains) and burn the remains in the furnace. I'd hate to be the one trying to break into the vault on a full moon only to find werewolves....

I've got an idea for a dragon, living in the penthouse on the top floor, overlooking the pool (which means there's an interstitial space the floor below for a mechanical room and the pool itself). Or maybe an indoor pool on the first floor to avoid helicopters and drones? The dragon wouldn't mind putting up some plants for a green space. Or are you going to be playing the dragon?

Simple guild adventure fun.

@Expendablemissed the guild part.

You will be responsible for everything from taxes to advertising. Upkeep, expansion, hiring and reputation.

@Dark Light

So we're the seed of a guild. Usually whoever's leading the guild will not be the one out there - someone's got to manage the place, take in applications. hmmm.

Simple guild adventure fun.

When you say we need to build up our guild, do you mean we're founding an adventurer's guild, or are we trying to increase the reputation of our party so the guild improves its standing by having us?

Are the secondary skills are like specializations or focuses? Are we starting out as masters in our craft?

Do you want to touch on personality?

In your OP, you mentioned the races are a little divided. So does this city they're in have like a dwarven quarter, a human quarter, etc? Or is there a dwarven underground kingdom and an elvish kingdom in the forest next to the city?

Are you just accepting the standard races of Human, Elf, Dwarf, and halfling? Are there half-elves in this world?