Post by Braddoc on May 19, 2008 10:49:14 GMT -5
Meg outlines her thoughts while some of the crew are relaxing..
It would be useful to hear your opinions on a number of topics folks, that have been playing on my mind..
spell learning - takes up a lot of time that we dont really have - but if you need to you can duck out for a month and come back in after soaking up some spelltraining..
I'm thinking about the bigger real spells rather than smaller legal cantrips which you can probably learn over a long weekend. I am all in favour of learning, but deeper understanding I know takes time an effort.
We have had a slight change in plan and will be heading North instead of South - the elves may have got wind of the group coming in through the Orc Cascades and someone has thrown a spanner in the works.. so the Tulip Valley it is.. I have a littl eintel on the area and have met the NAN running the hydro-elec plant supplying clean electric to the hand-tended fields
The amount of leaf the students will need to gather is high, so we need big green fields an some sun-hats
We got some reasonable results on the ores an stones - the crystal deposits are excellent - any of you mages who may want to build your own focii could collect a bag of astrally good-looking crystal that may come in handy one day.. Course you would have to spend a while on that task..
transporting ores is a priority - last time word got out that we wre carrying a mill in bullion - secrecy, magic, a team of you guys riding shotgun all added up to a big fat roumour an people got badly injured. The ores I am looking at transporting wouldnt sell for more than 10,000 yen and that would be a lot of ore - copper silver and the like
I wanted to gather youe opinions on transporting it - I am in favour of cheap an easy transport - if someone wants half a ton of unrefined copper ore then they want their head reading.. problem is the shipments may gather interest solely because so much went on with the last one. We could do it in small 20 kilo single crates and have a regular shipment was one idea.. minimal security - if someone wants it they can have it.. but I dont want to attract trouble..
Last thing is site security - youve all been to the warehouse where the students will be working for a good few months - we have bought in passive and active security - made it tough to break in as you have seen, and there are inteligent autoturrets being set up.
This should stop most things , giving anyone inside time to prepare and lockdown until help arrives. I just got a message to say one set of gangers have tried the security head on and are currently recovering. Problem is how to deal with this sort of intrusion
Fixed security can always be got around - you guys would quickly find a way to get inside - so I need a mobile deterrant who could impress upon gangs that the place is off limits.
I am worried about someone potentially holding the students to ransome and people getting injured because some boss thinks he wants a slice of the place
It has crossed my mind to invite protection in from one of the bigger Seattle organisations - but I dont have much of an idea about who could be interested and for what slice.
I could hire in a private security agency who would be much the same Knight Errant or the Star could easily post hi-vis security people but would cost the earth, and I dont want to have a target created that just invites someone to knock it down
The big boys shouldnt interfere as there is already a lot of political clout invested by the Brit University and erm some other major corps too.
My thoughts are that there would be attempts to infiltrate and steal, or to attempt to impose 'protection' rather than the easy option of just blowing the place up- everyone loses if that happens.
So youve seen the place - I can get you specifics but will stop short at schematics.. what are some of the options available.. if anyone knows security, you guys should!
It would be useful to hear your opinions on a number of topics folks, that have been playing on my mind..
spell learning - takes up a lot of time that we dont really have - but if you need to you can duck out for a month and come back in after soaking up some spelltraining..
I'm thinking about the bigger real spells rather than smaller legal cantrips which you can probably learn over a long weekend. I am all in favour of learning, but deeper understanding I know takes time an effort.
We have had a slight change in plan and will be heading North instead of South - the elves may have got wind of the group coming in through the Orc Cascades and someone has thrown a spanner in the works.. so the Tulip Valley it is.. I have a littl eintel on the area and have met the NAN running the hydro-elec plant supplying clean electric to the hand-tended fields
The amount of leaf the students will need to gather is high, so we need big green fields an some sun-hats
We got some reasonable results on the ores an stones - the crystal deposits are excellent - any of you mages who may want to build your own focii could collect a bag of astrally good-looking crystal that may come in handy one day.. Course you would have to spend a while on that task..
transporting ores is a priority - last time word got out that we wre carrying a mill in bullion - secrecy, magic, a team of you guys riding shotgun all added up to a big fat roumour an people got badly injured. The ores I am looking at transporting wouldnt sell for more than 10,000 yen and that would be a lot of ore - copper silver and the like
I wanted to gather youe opinions on transporting it - I am in favour of cheap an easy transport - if someone wants half a ton of unrefined copper ore then they want their head reading.. problem is the shipments may gather interest solely because so much went on with the last one. We could do it in small 20 kilo single crates and have a regular shipment was one idea.. minimal security - if someone wants it they can have it.. but I dont want to attract trouble..
Last thing is site security - youve all been to the warehouse where the students will be working for a good few months - we have bought in passive and active security - made it tough to break in as you have seen, and there are inteligent autoturrets being set up.
This should stop most things , giving anyone inside time to prepare and lockdown until help arrives. I just got a message to say one set of gangers have tried the security head on and are currently recovering. Problem is how to deal with this sort of intrusion
Fixed security can always be got around - you guys would quickly find a way to get inside - so I need a mobile deterrant who could impress upon gangs that the place is off limits.
I am worried about someone potentially holding the students to ransome and people getting injured because some boss thinks he wants a slice of the place
It has crossed my mind to invite protection in from one of the bigger Seattle organisations - but I dont have much of an idea about who could be interested and for what slice.
I could hire in a private security agency who would be much the same Knight Errant or the Star could easily post hi-vis security people but would cost the earth, and I dont want to have a target created that just invites someone to knock it down
The big boys shouldnt interfere as there is already a lot of political clout invested by the Brit University and erm some other major corps too.
My thoughts are that there would be attempts to infiltrate and steal, or to attempt to impose 'protection' rather than the easy option of just blowing the place up- everyone loses if that happens.
So youve seen the place - I can get you specifics but will stop short at schematics.. what are some of the options available.. if anyone knows security, you guys should!