Actually it is, but I don't have it to hand. However, my advice is this:
- You can very probably buy a new skill at 1- that's been made very easy
- Increasing skills, however, is based on your total pool in that skill with its default stat. That, therefore, can become very expensive. Combat skills aere more expensive still.
- Buying schticks/powers is still something to save for. Force powers are still based on a divison of how many you currently have, all other schticks cost x + y, where x is the numer of schticks you have and y is a fixed number depending on the schtick. I THINK Blade ones are x + 8 for example.
The bonus for the the new players' prequel is 5, so a rough average is... ten xp for a story, depending on how it went. I haven't fixed what you are getting until I check the spending numbers though. You'll get the set amount for the story- I give bonuses for exemplary work but I think this was more a skin-of-the-teeth job. No penalties though.
Rand will receive a bonus for hitting his Manifest Destiny condition.
Very possibly not actually, melkor.
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Rianna- the book you are looking for is called A History of the Nations of the Sith. As an academic piece of work it is... nearly useless. This is for two reasons. The first reason is that it is incredibly outdated- the book is over ten thousand years old. The second reason is that it's simply not very well written from a historical perspective. It's not a serious scholarly work by any stretch of the imagination.
You were nver much of a scholar, Rianna, but they did make you do some reading at the Temple, and this book, despite the disdain shown in historical circles, gripped you more than many. See, the writer wasn't really a historian and he certainly was not a scholar. He was not investigating old things or talking about long dead people (at the time) or comparing sources etc. No, what he did is that he went out and he lived amongst the Sith- inside their Empire- for years. Everything he wrote was first hand. It was actually exciting.
And he also related a story he heard there about a concept known as the Syphar N Kalar.
Rianna's lack of patience with anything she thinks to be boring (well, also her lack of patience in general) is why she is not more of a scholar, I say...
Though, of course, I'm sitting here giggling because that is exactly the sort of thing that would get her attention.
What is this story about the Syphar N Kalar?
So, Rianna is working on Syphar N Kalar, as is Gallador...
Rand is going to work on turning up information on Lady Adelmo and her followers, working with the Mecrossa Order to seek out what he needs to know.
Galder and Con are going Kuylen-hunting.
Things needing to be done still: Contacting Flotsam I, Darth Malphas info, Creature in Crystal info, keeping up with the Bureau
The Mecrossa Order has no info on Adelmo, Rand, but as was previously communicated to you, they can give you an auto-pass on the tattoo girl. Taking that?
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Well, to understand that, Rianna, you have to undestand the context of the book.
The author- whose name escapes me right now, so I am saying it escapes you also (I will print it as soon as I am reminded of it) was more of a journalist than a historian. He did undercover investigtions, lifting the lid on criminal enterprises and the like. But he was a tabloid journalist; very sensationalist. You got the idea that people read his work for the lurid descrptions of the sights he saw rather than for the journalistic work involved
The very name of the book is a cllue as to its age and, in many ways, ignorance. It dates back from the very very first meetings between an organised Republic, with a nascent Jedi Order, and the forces belonging to what we would today call the Sith.
These days, being a Sith is seen more in terms of being part of a cult, and the empires they carved out at various times of history being simply a direct result of conquests that could ultimately be ascribed to the actions of a very small number of people leading a great deal more.
But back then the Sith were mostly mystery and guesswork. The Jedi Order had a shrewd idea about what they were- and they certainly knew what they represented. (Of course,various SW sources give conflciting accounts as to Sith origins, which this plotline takes advantage of). But to most of the galaxy, the Sith were seen as some sort of foreign culture that existed in parallel with the Republic. The idea of various Sith 'Nations' was quite widespread, each with their own political and cultural history.
These days, we know that much of it really was just no more than a loose confederation of Sith Lords forming various power blocks and fighting like mad with each other over it; every so often one Lord would achieve dominance enough to unifiy the Sith in an attack on the Republic.
But anyway, this author- though he must have worked a lot of this out- wasn't going to let the truth get in the way of researching what was to be his ultimate book. And he did, very genuinely, go out into the worlds of the Sith for several years. He observed their activities at first hand... and he even looked into, because he was investigating them as a separate culture, their own belief systems, history, stories... and legends.
Which means the book is full of stories about Sith massacres, duels and internecine wars. That's basically what the whole thing is; he goes from place to place, observes the Sith at work and gets as much info as he can about their exploits before he turned up. For the reader looking for serious historical/anthropological study- actual hard, useful information on the ancient Sith-, you are out of luck. It's travelogue nature is interesting reading and that part of it is first hand, but its history is all hearsay and conjecture; he printed what was interesting, not what he could check.
But for someone who wants to hear lots of stories about the 'who killed the most rat-people with a lightsabre' contest, it's the best book of its kind you will ever read. And so it was he came to speak of a war in the Sith 'nations'- a long and terrible war- which was finally ended by the use of the ultimate recourse. The Syphar N Kalar. It is the single historical (if you can call it that) reference ever made to such a thing.
Originally posted by Lord Melkor
Cannot Rand use his high Jedi Lore and Savoir-Faire to research the ancient cultures Lady could come from?I assume Gallador has access to more serious books than Rianna?
No one cares about your serious books, this one is more interesting 😛
And yes, I can definitely see that being something that would be very good at grabbing Rianna's attention span. And so what is this reference to the Syphar N Kalar that it contains?
Well you don't quite remember, Rianna, that's why you have to go get a hold of it.
And Gallador, yes, but not a single one of them cpontains a reference. As noted, A History of the Nations of the Sith is the only book that does..
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Ok, Rand, you have answers.
The tattoo girl's name is Kara Katai. She has turned up on the scene inside the last few years. The reason the Mecrossans know of her... is simply because she is a rival. She is a deadly assassin who has been doing a lot of work. The Mecrossans have vaguely heard of this 'Adelmo; she works for but know nothing of her.
All they know is that Katai has appeared in a number of loications in the last few years, both in and outside the Republic. Sometimes she fofers particular services to interested parties- sneior members of rival pirate clans, politicians, activists and the like- to solve some of their problems the old fashioned way, with the demolition of their opponents, which she does in return for large payments. Her 100% success rate is undermining tjhe Mecrossans in that respect.
Other times she just turns up and later leaves, sometimes having visibly killed someone or destroyed something and sometimes not apparently having done anything.
What they do know is this. Her arrival on any significant world has always been accompanied by some kind of major social upheaval- riots, changes in Government. Even civil wars.
Can we learn more about the Lady by looking into obscure force-using cultures, as it was implied?
And I like the perspective of book-hunting.
And Ush, you say that I will not be able to buy a force power with the XP I got for entire Episode? Considering that I mainly want to get back powers I had in previous rules version, I feel disappointed.