General Q and A

Stabs wrote:

'kay, let's see what can ol' Stabby do to help with the numbers. I took an economy class last quatrimester...

-First, any regulated profession has a minimum wage or contract value. It's what keeps them from undercutting each other. Prices, in general, should suffice to replace all work equipment every 5 years at least- less if specially prone to breaking, more if we're working with buildings. Buildings are amortized to 50 years. Other things may not be amortized at all, and might be included in the costs.
60 months... make it 25 skevols per month, you're paying no interests.

-Consider work expenses, too. If it costs twelve... thousand skevols... to fire this gun... for five seconds... we have a problem. Consider the number of seconds you're expecting to fire that thing per day, however, and you might not. Consider you're using up 25 skevols a month worth of bullets, we'll make do.

-Over that value, you should probably consider what sort of livelihood are they being offered, or what sort of material that would afford. For lack of a better alternative, we'll consider the material on the wiki- let's say 9 skevols a day. That's 270 skevols a month worth of rent and food.

-Consider on top of that other expenses. Clothes. I replace my clothes roughly every year- add in the values of the number of sets of clothes the character owns. Let's say this gal (I assume it's a gal) owns 3 suits, about as good as a traveler's outfit. That means 30 skevols a year- 3 skevols a month.

-From there, are they saving money, or are they struggling to keep up?


Combining those values, we'll assume 325 skevols a month are fine for a basic job that allows you to live pretty well- if you're a single person.

Add another 275 skevols if it's supposed to support you and another person, make it 300 if it's supposed to be enough to take care of a kid, double that if the kid's a cripple... but if you've got a crippled kid you wouldn't risk the wild.

Make it 800 skevols a month for dangerous work inside the city, I guess- the extra money beyond 400 skevols should cover the risk surcharge. Does that sound about right? Multiply those values according to what number of months they want you to believe you won't have to work, and then again by the extra risk surcharge. x3 outside the city where you won't be protected by the law, x5 outside the eye, x10 if you might die before you get there... that sound right?

P.S: Does anyone else find it odd that you can buy a whole traveler's outfit, boots and stuff, with the price of two days' worth of high grade meals? Either someone flooded the marked with cheap stout clothes or food's awfully expensive. We really ought to work on those prices...

Goodlordthisresponse Thank you so much. That's incredibly helpful. I honestly don't know too much about that sort of thing ^^;
And I think that sounds about right. I think it'd depend on the employer too.

Solomon wrote:

say is it possible for a person to learn how to make salt from earth using magic

Yes, but it would be hard as it's complex transmutation.

A far easier method of obtaining salt would be to use magic to extract the salt that is already present in dirt.

making salt from earth? Seems kind of unneeded since there is an ocean biome in Felarya which I'm quite sure is full of salt itself. And considering how salt is such a good preservitive, it's bound to be used as a trading commodity and salt not being in short supply

Quick question regarding Fairly Glass.

Just like how it prevents shrunken prey from naturally regrowing once the fairy's magic has worn off, will it also prevent a small fairy from willingly attempting to grow her way out of the glass container?

Mhh no. As I see it, the two are different ^^

Stabs wrote:

'kay, let's see what can ol' Stabby do to help with the numbers. I took an economy class last quatrimester...

P.S: Does anyone else find it odd that you can buy a whole traveler's outfit, boots and stuff, with the price of two days' worth of high grade meals? Either someone flooded the marked with cheap stout clothes or food's awfully expensive. We really ought to work on those prices...

Wow great calculation here !
Well one thing that must be clear by now is I don't like numbers ^^; they don't speak at all to me and I get lost in them pretty easily.
So indeed there can be some discrepancy and errors in the way I put the prices, so please don't hesitate to propose your own version of it

5 star post Stabs. I came in to ask a possible question, and that already answered it ahead of time.

You are the superior man with numbers.

Pendragon wrote:

5 star post Stabs. I came in to ask a possible question, and that already answered it ahead of time.

You are the superior man with numbers.

Careful, guys, the sugar goes straight to my ego... and that wasn't such a good answer either.

Yeah, I'd gladly offer help on the economic aspect, but the problem's that economy IS, in fact, THE hardest thing ever. Governments fail at it all the time despite having the welfare of the whole brainpower of the population to call upon. And it involves playing with people's priorities all the time, too, not to mention power groups and all those crazy things too.

Things ought to be simpler since Negav doesn't have a stock market (I hope...) or important banks, but still, you know, it's still going to be purty darn hard.

But guess I'll go take a look at what I can do, just for the hell of it. I mean, if I end up with anything worse than what we started with, we don't lose much, do we?

a quick question can a giant (like Scala) use fire magic to kill a slug-girl?

What does the Thaniathan even look like? The wiki doesn't even describe it in the slightest. If anyone tried to write a story about it, no one will have a clue what it resembles.

I've heard of bad stories as well as well written ones... but is there such a thing as an inappropriate story? If so, where would the line be?

Beefnautz wrote:

I've heard of bad stories as well as well written ones... but is there such a thing as an inappropriate story? If so, where would the line be?

There are really two schools of thought on that.

OFFICIAL ANSWER: There really isn't an "inappropriate" Felarya story, since Karbo tends to believe that everyone is entitled to their own view of Felarya. The only thing he tends to try and dissuade people from doing is bringing The Guardians into things, since they are not really meant to be "characters" so much as lore and/or unstoppable forces of nature when they act.

COMMUNITY ANSWER: While the community tends to be fairly open-minded, there are a few things that tend to rub people the wrong way, as far as a story goes.

- Bringing The Guardians into things (since that typically requires an OP character/group)
- The eating of children, on-screen in extreme detail (since vore is a sexual fetish, involving a child in it leans a bit too close to child-pornography than most of us are comfortable with)
- Stories featuring certain stereotypes such as "All dridders are evil", "Predator sense is radar", "All predators have predator sense", "Predators ONLY eat humans", "Predators are indestructible and laugh at rockets".
- Referrencing the "Crisis and Scarecrow" novel (It...isn't very highly regarded by a lot of community members)

**NOTE** The community answer is strictly unofficial, and if you really want to include the things mentioned within, there's nothing really stopping you. Those things just tend to rub a decent chunk of the community the wrong way sometimes.

You know... I keep hearing of the Crisis and Scarecrow novel, but never got to read it. Something tells me I better live in my ignorance...

Aside from that minor detail, I agree with the rest of the points in the unofficial, community view on what shouldn't be done when trying to write a decent story. The Guardian part is something that everyone who's been for a good while in the community will insist the most. That and avoiding Mary Sues and Gary Stus. That something that I also find kind of inappropiate.

That is something that i personally don't like: someone who's so much into felarya that he cant stop writing a story about crisis and or vivian and or anna and or melany and or whoever else.

I mean...it's okay to make 2 or 3 stories about those canon characters, but my view is, and I hope it's also the rest of the community's view, is to create your own originial characters.

Quote :

You know... I keep hearing of the Crisis and Scarecrow novel, but never got to read it. Something tells me I better live in my ignorance...

Heh, yeah. Its been brought up too much on the forum over the years. If you really want the scoop on it, ask someone on vent or MSN. No real reason to bring it up publically again.

Quote :

That is something that i personally don't like: someone who's so much into felarya that he cant stop writing a story about crisis and or vivian and or anna and or melany and or whoever else.

I mean...it's okay to make 2 or 3 stories about those canon characters, but my view is, and I hope it's also the rest of the community's view, is to create your own originial characters

Yeah, I have to agree with you on that. It can be fun to use canon characters sometimes, in cameos or even just little nods within the story. I just find canon characters to be a lot more restrictive to work with (well, if you truly want to do them justice). You have to factor in backstories, set personalities, locations, abilities, etc. Its just a lot more pressure to do it right, especially for someone like me, who can be a bit of a perfectionist at times.

Original characters definately give you a lot more free reign with your stories. Although, they have their own difficult aspects as well. Making a good, well-rounded character can be difficult, and takes quite a bit of trial and error to get them right. I know Fiona went through about three or four different phases before I settled on her final version.

When it comes to the use of canon characters, both Cliff and Kri have a good point that using canon characters can be very restricting to the author since you should work your best to make sure the character is used properly. But use them if you think they will help. Felarya is a community and teaming up with other member's OC's and make us one big happy (yet extremely dysfunctional) family.

And remember kids, always get permission for the use of other people's characters, and work hard with the owner to make sure that all details are fitting.

And I swear if anyone makes a "Son/daughter of: *insert established OC here* Ima give you such a smacking

Q: Why does it seem like all fairy hunter's believe that they can catch a fairy with a butterfly net? Is there some sort of misinformation circulating through out Felarya about fairies? Or do these poor hapless fool's actually believe that by capturing a fairy in these ridiculous nets they instantly remove all their magical powers? (five points if you can guess what TV show) It just seems a bit ridiculous that anyone would actually believe that they could catch a fairy using a useless piece of plastic and netting. Or is this some sort of conspiracy theory started by the fairies to guarantee that the human sized prey of Felarya never catch on that a fairies wings are the source of their power and that if they damage them enough they are as powerless as a any human (how helpless depending on if they were human size or neera size or giant size. But that would be a question for another time.) So can some one please shed some light on this? Why do fairy hunters assume they only need a butterfly net to catch a fairy?

walkingbyself wrote:

Q: Why does it seem like all fairy hunter's believe that they can catch a fairy with a butterfly net? Is there some sort of misinformation circulating through out Felarya about fairies? Or do these poor hapless fool's actually believe that by capturing a fairy in these ridiculous nets they instantly remove all their magical powers? (five points if you can guess what TV show) It just seems a bit ridiculous that anyone would actually believe that they could catch a fairy using a useless piece of plastic and netting. Or is this some sort of conspiracy theory started by the fairies to guarantee that the human sized prey of Felarya never catch on that a fairies wings are the source of their power and that if they damage them enough they are as powerless as a any human (how helpless depending on if they were human size or neera size or giant size. But that would be a question for another time.) So can some one please shed some light on this? Why do fairy hunters assume they only need a butterfly net to catch a fairy?

In general, we're assuming most of those hunters with nets aren't from Felarya, but from some other world, preferably one where they CAN catch harmless fairies with nets.

By seem you mean "humorous stories and pictures where the fairy hunter is devoured"? I think those are more intended for the comedy rather than for being accurate.

But I agree with Stabs that those with nets must be from other worlds where fairies are the usual pixie-size. Either that or ignorants. That one would work too. Though as far as I know, it's either that or "just for the laughs" pics and storeis.

I know which show, fairy odd parents.... dont ask how or why i know about that show.

I have two questions. Don't worry, they're completely unrelated! ^.^

1: Is "selachis" singular or plural? Or is it both like the word "bison"?

2: Does the concept of soul vore exist in Felarya?

1. I assumed that "Selachis" was a typo. If I recall correctly it was Selachi for singular and plural

2. What do you think Succubu and other demons eat?

I supposed that Succubi ate peoples bodies, at least while on Felarya's plane. What I mean is sucking the soul out of a person's body and swallowing it up.

No, I don't think succubi work like that. If they are in a terrenal plane, they just eat like other predator, but when in Hell, they consume a soul and that soul is gone forever. But I haven't heard of succubi sucking someone's soul while they're alive... Might be interesting, but that would made them a bit too powerful, being able to claim the livings' souls so easily...

I didn't mean for succubi, I'm asking for something else. Is that sort of soul vore possible?

There are creature who can do that, yes, but they are very rare ( thankfully )