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hey remember those OC question lists

Literally, a couple questions answered for @erlenwald re: Tim 2. Do they have any titles? How did they get them? Answering this would be a lot easier if we'd ever established what kind of rankings/roles might exist within the Taster's Guild. (I'm not going to get into the kitchen stations she's trained or not trained for, though by this point she could be a roundsman. Maybe? Even if she doesn't have the upper body strength to be a butcher chef.) Less seriously, “cheese wizard” or “wee magic hag,” due to being a cheese-hoarding mage, and a petite female mage who's had some truck with bangaa. 21. Do they have a temper? Are they patient? What are they like when they do lose their temper? Oh, yes, Tim has a temper. Some of her personality has been blamed on her time in Balfonheim, but the temper is largely nature (that's just how she be) even if it's been enhanced a bit by ten years in Balfonheim; though Tim rather enjoys living there, she'll be the first to admit it's a place where you'd better be ready to push back when pushed. She's inclined to lash out when she loses her temper, and if it's acceptable enough, she'll follow that inclination, as we've seen in a few fights. (Stabbing the judge who had just attacked her cousin, kicking a corpse in the face til the nose broke because, in life, that enemy had almost killed Celeste... the would-be skeleton war...) If lashing out isn't acceptable enough, she will seize on delayed gratification and commit to a grudge until she's had the chance to take a shot and whoever's irked her so. It may be resolved in a relatively short time (as with the mages' duels she entered during her academy days) or may be banked for ages, but “now ...or later” is just how it's going to be unless a friend manages to deflate Tim's ire. Most of the times we've seen her get angry, she's been in a fight; get her angry enough in a conversation and she will either leave to seethe and side-step doing something which'll cause complications later, because she IS pragmatic enough to acknowledge that... or say what she's thinking, if she's all out of fucks. She's very unlikely to slap someone, no matter how riled up she gets, but that can be attributed to 'Don't make a scene,' lingering from childhood, knowing she can't hit hard enough to make it effective, and, on some semi-subconscious level, going “How about you give me an excuse, instead?” Timandra Remonce is not the heart of the harpy. She is a fairly patient person, though. She doesn't really mind delays or detours so long as she still gets to sleep in a bed as opposed to a bedroll at the end of the day; if the weather is bad or the terrain is goopy, that's unfortunate, but there's no help for it; she doesn't get cranky if she's made to wait, provided it's not an unreasonable amount of time, and if it is an unreasonable amount of time but for one of her friends, that's alright enough: she'll have questions, but not too many complaints.

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Another perfect piece by the lovely and talented @artisfaction​, meant to surprise @zeldabard​ (who plays Celeste Kaits) and to encourage @erlenwald​ (our GM, who plays Ser Eldan).

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For that character meme, the same questions you sent me? Pretty please? That's 1, 3, 9, 10, 12, 13, 14, 21

1. What is their favorite thing about your character?  Tim’s favourite thing about Celeste is her joie de vivre/sense of fun! It makes adventuring with Celeste much more pleasant through the day-to-day, and entertaining, too, because even when Celeste is not being especially theatrical, she’s clearly enjoying herself. It’s something she appreciates about Celeste’s company even when they’re just spending time together outside of actual adventuring, as with the intermissions at the Caits ranch and her own home last session. Sometimes Celeste can get a little carried away, she thinks, but she’d choose that occasional excess over any alternative. 3. Do they have any fears involving or regarding your character?  A part of Timandra worries that Celeste might resent delving into Lea Monde on her account after their encounters with the undead there, and Celeste’s reaction to said undead. She’s reluctant to say anything about it for fear of planting the seed of such a feeling, though. She’s also concerned that when Celeste learns how she’s distanced herself from the rest of the Remonces, rather than offer her family what financial support she may be able, it’ll cast a pall on their so-far promising friendship. 9. Do they trust your character? How much? What would it take to break that trust?  Yes, and wholeheartedly. (She might make some crack about trusting Celeste’s judgement a little less, in the wake of the whole chase-an-assassin episode, but that crack wouldn’t have a very harsh delivery. She still trusts Celeste’s intentions the same!) She’s signed on this ride-or-die, after all, especially since Celeste and Olivia alike have demonstrated their willingness to do the same! To break that trust, Celeste would have to fail to -attempt- to offer an important assist to the cousins in a fight (no response if one of them is in a bad way and shouting for a potion or an aether, when she’s been so good up to now about delivering to a friend in need—or drawing fire to buy time) or cut out mid-venture. That last is maybe a small and undramatic thing, but it would prompt a moment of “…I guess you’re not exactly as I’d believed you to be. I’m going to have to re-assess what I thought I knew of you and our standing.” It’s one thing if they’re on the way somewhere and she receives word of trouble at the ranch; that’s totally different.10. What is their first impression vs. current impression of your character?  A (decidedly mercenary!) incorrigible flirt. Now, Celeste is known to be a shameless and incorrigible flirt, but she’s also reliable, well-meaning, principled (in a very Celeste way), understanding as a friend and selfless as a provider for her family.12. What is their favorite thing to do with your character?   Prey on Fredrick’s insecurities BUT NO REALLY: though they’ve done relatively little tooling around shopping, tooling around shopping gets an honourable mention. Tim’s still pleased Celeste was able to work something out with her favourite cobblers, intends to show her some of Mim’s handiwork when she has the opportunity, and would like to take her to market at Balfonheim to pick out whatever foodstuff catches her eye for her to put something together from, just for the sport of it. Perhaps this is something the harpy did before they parted ways?13. In a horror movie, which role do they think your character would play?  She suspects Celeste would be a final girl, except for being pretty sure Celeste would slip off from the group of other survivors to pull some wounded gazelle gambit to get the jump (QUITE LITERALLY) on who- or whatever was menacing people. It would probably be revealed then that there were two identical who- or whatevers, and Celeste would be believed to be dead, only to rejoin the group with the menace she’d eliminated while the others were taking down the other in a team effort.14. What animal does your character remind them of?  A pine marten the size of a fisher, provided it was the leggiest pine marten you’ve ever seen.21. What do they associate with your character?  The countryside, the smell of gysahl greens, that look shopkeepers get when they’re deciding if they’re amused or exasperated, somewhat vampy attire (in an ‘oh, Celeste would eye that so seriously, if only she were here to see it’ sort of way,) and banter in that Certain Tone.

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So because I play a member of the Taster’s Guild in a D20 campaign with @erlenwald and @zeldabard, I’ve been compiling a little list of expensive foods. Here it is: TRUFFLES (per pound) Winter black - $1043 (French) $869 (Italian) Smooth black - $391 Scorzone black - $347 (French) and  $330 (Italian) Summer black - $261 per pound Muscat black - $260 Autumn black - $243 (French) $217 (Italian) Musky black - $217 Winter white - $3,475 (up to $86,885 if auctioned) Oregon autumn white - $312 Biachetto white - $304 Marzuolo white - $304 Oregon spring white - $141 Cercuse white - $60 Marocaine white - $43 Cinnamon, downy white, speckled white, and shiny: no market price (low value) Pecan - $130 CHEESES A few notable cheeses are around $30 per pound, with one honourable mention (Lord of the Hundreds, a sheep's milk cheese from East Sussex) coming in at $15-20 per pound. Most mentioned are in the $40-50 range, but: - Pule (a donkey milk cheese) is about $700 per pound (it takes around 11L of milk to make one pound, and the donkeys must be milked manually) - Moose cheese is $455-500 per pound (there are only three moose, and they're milked May through September) - Bitto usually ripens for ten years and goes for $55 per pound (extra-old Bitto sells for $170 per pound) - Caciocavallo podolico has been listed as low as $50 per pound, and as high as $650 per pound - Wykes Farm Cheddar with gold and white truffle is $150-$200 per pound - There's a 'white gold Stilton' going for $450 a pound FLESH BLUEFIN TUNA - AUCTIONED OFF AT $3,600 PER POUND (MORE THAN ONCE) Coffin Bay oysters -  $45 a pound at best! ($100 each, 18 cm long & weighing up  2.2 pounds/1 kilo) Baby eels - $2,000 per pound Fourchu lobster - $20 per pound and available only 10 weeks (May through July) Scottish lobster - 18 per pound King crab is $7 per pound FRUIT & VEG Densuke watermelon - $359 per pound (17 pounds went for 6,100) Sekai-ichi apples - $63 per pound, est.  Yubari King melons, common - $17-$33 per pound ($50-$100 each) Yubari King melons, average - $ 75 per pound ($225 each) Yubari King melons, prime and auctioned - $3916 per pound (one auctioned pair cost $23,500) Pineapple from Cornwall's Lost Gardens of Heligan, common - $267 per pound ($1,600 each) Pineapple from Cornwall's Lost Gardens of Heligan, prime and auctioned - $2500 per pound ($15,000 each) Ruby Roman grapes, auctioned -  $6,400 per pound-and-change Mandarin/orange hybrid - $35 per pound ($79 for 6) Egg of the Sun mangoes-  $1,500 each Matsutake mushrooms - $1000 per pound Senbikiya strawberries $85 for 12 Consider: Silver = 350 per pound  at least when I first started the file

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I’m just saying here to avoid startling anyone with a late-night text where they think it’s something gone wrong: as per suggestion of a friend, the museum (that my character gets in the Weird West game) is ALSO getting a flea circus (according to our initial googling one was advertised in London in 1820) and “a stuffed liger,” both being prrrobably fair game, since this is what you should’ve expected, letting me fill a museum of oddities. That and so many skulls.