Boat Trolls planning thread! (full of spoilers, non-players enter at your own risk)

"But Aspera seems quite clean for a northerner, so you hope he'll appreciate the work you've done modernizing the bathroom." btw wouldn't it be a hubwards-er?

 

the treatment of vampires really varied from book to book and even by individual— maladict ate, i think, plus coffee, while otto just sucked on rare steak and hot cocoa. i'm toying with the idea of erskin having to hork up an owl pellet of sucked-dry bug exoskeletons when he reforms from bats. it would be a little gross, but less gross than his bats raining bug shit all over the shop.

 

i'm still working out where erskin's at, like, black ribbon wise. after obediently feeding his castle's staff to cloris i think he's not at all eager to keep fucking people over, and i know sunslammer erskin tends to be an exasperating martyr. but his self-denial is always really goal oriented, to get more important things accomplished, not necessarily because he's punishing himself or feels he doesn't deserve better.

anyway, i don't know if he'd have sworn off blood entirely and is getting by on insects, or is trying to buy runoff blood from the butchers, or if he'd be paying the stockyard guards to be let into the animal pens for live blood. it might be an issue of he's so broke he's doing the former, and is hoping to get enough pay to work his way up to the latter.

i bet the stockyard workers have a number of discreet arrangements with vampires... it's hard to imagine even a starving vampire drinking enough blood to kill a bull, even if they took a gallon, and if the animal's too messed up the next morning, the workers can just move it to the head of the slaughter line. workers would also be able to price-gouge the vampires like crazy, because any vampire that hurt a living person could be reported to a local black ribbon chapter, who would chase them straight out of town, or simply tear them to bits. city vampires have a lot riding on their reputation as fairly-harmless eager-to-please humble citizens who definitely won't eat your face.

that could be a future plot point, actually. i don't think vimes would be happy to find out the situation— the vampires getting gouged (har har) for access to nonhuman live blood, but they're mostly too scared about getting killed off or kicked out by angry mobs to actually complain, and any of them that break under the strain are dealt with quietly and permanently by their own people, rather than the legal system.

 

that would be a really cute bit! erskin mentions the price of the local butcher's blood to jethro and jethro is like 'ok hold up' and goes and has a very friendly chat with the guy.

 

MORE MAPS.

discworld countries, simple: http://vignette3.wikia.nocookie.net...dThande.png/revision/latest?cb=20140303003231

discworld countries, complex: https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/originals/81/4c/02/814c029a879f727f82b4e0a8a2101724.jpg

discworld MUD maps, not very useful: http://dw.daftjunk.com/

i wasn't actually sure that uberwald has a coastline when i started this, but it does! in far uberwald (first map) near kytha (second map). erskin took off literally cross-continent when he bailed, the poor bastard, he should probably have just gone to quirm. anyway the aspera barony would stretch from the start of the blade mountains*, rimwards to the ocean, with castle meeresentenkrieg perched on a sea cliff.

*since erskine means on the knife i'm extremely pleased about this.

 

erskin is absurd pitybait in every universe. oh, hi there guy i just met, i'm going to sit on your counter like a kid and look extremely fucking vulnerable, don't mind me!

 

ah, erskin (and i) thought jethro was asking five dollars per night. which makes it practically a motel. but yeah five per week, that'd make it 20$AM/200$USD per month. great rate for a decent room in a not horrible part of town, at least, by chicago standards.

 

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