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Re: The Floating City [OOC] [TWO]

Posted: 02 Jun 2017, 09:44
by Benedict
thirtythr33 wrote:Yeah, perhaps the picture I chose for Giovanni wasn't the best one. Here are some where he looks more in his 30s:
What vile sorcery is this? :o

These portraits are of Giovanni Pico, not Giovanni-Francesco! :twisted:

Just kiddin'. :mrgreen:

(Not so) Out of Topic:
Interesting useless (?) fact of the day. In H.P. Lovecraft's "The Mysterious Case of Charles Dexter Ward" the alchemical process for reanimating the dead by using the essential salts from their remains used by Joseph Curwen is hinted to be created by Giovanni Pico. Coincidence?

Re: The Floating City [OOC] [TWO]

Posted: 02 Jun 2017, 13:44
by thirtythr33
Benedict wrote:Coincidence?
It hasn't even been 1 day and he's already forgotten what Giovanni tried to teach him.

Re: The Floating City [OOC] [TWO]

Posted: 02 Jun 2017, 15:00
by Benedict
I'm not forgetting anything. Hence the question mark in the end. :lol:

Re: The Floating City [OOC] [TWO]

Posted: 03 Jun 2017, 08:48
by thirtythr33
What's going on in Flamberge thread?
He accepts the hand: "Gregor. I may be wrong, but have we met in Pavia? I vaguely remember some Italian guys at a campfire the night before the battle..."

Re: The Floating City [OOC] [TWO]

Posted: 03 Jun 2017, 09:51
by Agamemnon
EinBein wrote:
Benedict wrote:Also, if everyone else wants to, a meeting between the four underdogs (Giorgio, Ferran, Georg, and Gasparo) would be interesting.
I'm in!
Sounds fun!

Re: The Floating City [OOC] [TWO]

Posted: 03 Jun 2017, 09:52
by Benedict
As soon as "Flamberge" is concluded we can start it. :)

Re: The Floating City [OOC] [TWO]

Posted: 04 Jun 2017, 08:43
by thirtythr33
Not too sure if Ferran will be up for going to the hall for a meal or if someone will get him a bowl and bring it back to his room, but I'm going what EinBien suggested for the next scene.

Re: The Floating City [OOC] [TWO]

Posted: 04 Jun 2017, 09:06
by Benedict
Wouldn't be nice to have Ferran go in there, "appearing" a lot more fit than he's supposed to? :twisted:

Otherwise, yes, someone could bring him food. Not all four tho. :lol:

Re: The Floating City [OOC] [TWO]

Posted: 04 Jun 2017, 09:10
by thirtythr33
The doctor might complain but it's up to you. I imagine Ferran might feel like he's starving, having not eaten for a few days.

Re: The Floating City [OOC] [TWO]

Posted: 04 Jun 2017, 09:19
by Benedict
Heh. He is starving and he wants to get out of the solitude of the room. Guess I'll wait till the others start posting in there.

Re: The Floating City [OOC] [TWO]

Posted: 06 Jun 2017, 10:25
by thirtythr33
This is some information that was going to be revealed when Ferran, Marco and Giorgio arrived in Mirandola (by seeing the peasants and military going about their duties) but in the interest of integrating the party as fast as possible it was skipped over.

Mirandola is currently in the process of being converted from a relatively small castle into a fully enclosed walled city.

To understand the process, this first picture is what Mirandola will eventually look like upon completion. It will eventually become a Bastion Fort that fully surrounds the city by moat and stone walls. The Pico castle and keep is in the South East corner with it's own secondary moat and towers. Outside the city walls is farmland, with most commerce and industry of the dutchy taking place inside the walls.
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This next picture is what Mirandola looked like partially completed in 1550. Notice how the fortifications were completed in incremental stages, with walls and moat being added in chucks instead of trying to wall off the entire city in a single project. There are five smaller forts surrounding the city that will eventually be connected to become points in the Bastion Fort. At this stage, the walls only fully enclose Pico castle, the city Plaza and other important buildings, with the moat still being connected to a river.
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We also know that Mirandola was sieged in 1510, so at that time at least the Pico castle and Plaza were walled. (Sieged by Venice, funnily enough. Mirandola fell when the moat froze over and Giovanni Francesco Pico later paid 20,000 ducat to Pope Julius II to have the Lordship returned to the Pico family. It's ridiculous how fickle these alliances are.) Anyway, the game is in 1527 and these kinds of earthworks take decades of on-and-off construction so in game there is currently a large amount of work being done to close off the next section of the walls and moat in case of imminent siege.

Re: The Floating City [OOC] [TWO]

Posted: 14 Jun 2017, 11:50
by thirtythr33
My post rates are probably going to be sparse until the 24th, just so you guys know.

Re: The Floating City [OOC] [TWO]

Posted: 19 Jun 2017, 14:41
by Benedict
Gasparo wrote:The hand hung in the air for a long moment unshaken.
...
Ferran wrote:He looks Giovani's men, then extends a hand. "We haven't been properly introduced yet. My name is Ferran Costa." -- he chuckles --"But I think you already know that."
"And you gentlemen are?"
Gregor wrote:The German nods to the Catalan, but doesn't dare to take his hand. Instead, he instinctevely touches the iron of his dagger hilt. "I'm Gregor."
While I hate bumping threads, now I will.

Bump. :lol:

So, we continue / conclude this scene? Or we wait?

Re: The Floating City [OOC] [TWO]

Posted: 19 Jun 2017, 15:36
by Agamemnon
I've been waiting to give Danyboy a chance to respond to me.

Re: The Floating City [OOC] [TWO]

Posted: 19 Jun 2017, 15:58
by Benedict
'tis cool. I've been waiting for that too. Since Danny didn't reply for 3 days I had Ferran crash the scene to get things going. ;)