AINANDIL:
I move we establish the price of a Resurrection at ten platinum of the coin of the province.

All in favor say, 'Aye.'

A MAN IN THE CROWD:
What the hell happened to him?

(Vorpar helps out, a little.)

VORPAR:
Some Moon Mage just tried to sell him a k-gweth for a plat a charge. HIM. Ainandil, of all people, and a Dwarf, too!

(Ainandil flips his beard over his shoulder and lights a Misty with a Hello Kitty-themed Zippo.)

AINANDIL:
As if.

VOLENTRI:
Some kids never learn.

(Ainandil shrugs.)

Love,

Father Ainandil, Cleric of Saemaus

Yes, I stole this from Dulci.

>"We do not care if you or your character is gay, straight, asexual, gelatious, nougat filled, or covered in a hard candy shell." --Solomon

>>Feel free to correct me if I'm wrong (since I've been away for a while), but I thought that was the standard going rate for kyanite gwethdesuans, unless you were close with the seller? At least, that's what I remember.

Please don't feed the trolls


Strangeguard Prayermaster

>D) No one pays clerics, for anything

That should be "A".


>I've always found it irritatingly interesting that so many (of every single race) claim to be orphans in Elanthia. ~ Bambina

As a serial dragger my 'Tog will usually tip the cleric and empaths as much as he has on hand and a decent meal or drink for ressurecting people he doesn't even know. The deaders however tip anywhere from nada to gem pouches for getting their lives back with most of their memories. I think he ambushed one cleric with a ten platinum tip once, but that was long ago when he had some money.

mfberg

I can make a LOT more hunting than raising. You figure about 5 minutes to get to town, a minute for the raise, and about 5 back to the hunting area vs 11 minutes hunting time with shalade in the swamps, tips are a joke. When I ask myself which is more fun,,,, well folks that know me know it is hunting hands down.... If we run across a dead or a friend in the hunting area that is different. If it is a friend or fellow cleric I like/and or respect I don't care if i go from the moors to maspari, to get them. If I don't like the person, I ain't helping them till Phelim's nightingale comes down and craps out "HELP HIM CADDERRLY" on his forhead.

Not the most consistant policy, just the way i am. I have also never accepted a TIP. I did go down and try to help with the chargin thing a while back but people would not even pay 1 gold up front for a raise....


Cadderrly

>I ain't helping them till Phelim's nightingale comes down and craps out "HELP HIM CADDERRLY" on his forhead.

I want to see this.

Now!

Gms?

To make it short and sweet I make enough coin hunting to not need or depend on tips. Though I don't expect a tip for raising I do for blesses which oddly most people DON'T offer a tip for.

~Entyy

I was just in a bad mood, I think (we're also low on brandy here in heaven).

I've since figured out that deaders in Qi'Reshalia aren't ipso facto Ainandil's problem (The Crossing Deader Syndrome, which operates under the same principle as P.T. Barnum's maxim). It took Me a while to figure that one out. Guess I'm the moron for the next ten minutes, gang.

Ainandil, as a general rule, has seldom if ever taken tips because he considers all of Elanthia to be his flock. However, he expects to be treated like clergy. The principle is not unlike that of citizenship in ancient Greek. The modern concepts of rights and responsibilities simply did not exist; rather, citizenship (that is to say, membership in the ruling class: Athens was not a democracy, it was an oligarchy: you can look it up when you get home) consisted of duties and privileges. Ainandil's duty is to Raise the fallen. His privilege is that all, and I do mean all, of his material needs are taken care of upon request, if not upon demand. Since he is a Dwarf (and his player as well), he acts as a Dwarf would be expected to ask when voicing such requests.

If none of this makes sense you had better go back to drinking.

Love,

Father Ainandil, Cleric of Saemaus

Yes, I stole this from Dulci.

>"We do not care if you or your character is gay, straight, asexual, gelatious, nougat filled, or covered in a hard candy shell." --Solomon

"My advice, make the raise about you the cleric and not the dead body. Get a schtick that makes sense to your character and involves interraction and stuff."

Great advise- really great advise.

>>His privilege is that all, and I do mean all, of his material needs are taken care of upon request, if not upon demand....
Ainandil


Yes, this is why I do in fact take tips. Gotta keep the Dwarf happy. Yes you are welcome, Father.

Teel


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A little late, but real life has prevented much of anything but work and sleep.

For a year I charged for a resurrection. The price varied from 1 plat to 50 plat, depending on Hero's relationship with the character, and more importantly his relationship with the person requesting the raise (I have the ghostly voice crap squelched on another window that typically resides behind the main window). If he was in a community he felt was his home-flavor of the week, he would typically raise permanent residents without asking for upfront compensation for the time, with the understanding (for him) that they would return the favor if he was in need of anything (similar to Ain's philosophy, but on a more localized basis).

The conclusion: outside of Xing most folk are willing to pay to have their friend raised if another cleric doesn't answer the gweth that they are willing to raise. Hero made decent coin from it, but not as much as he potentially could have made had he hunted for the same amount of time (including downtime between raises). Hero's stance on charging was never about making money though, but about his principles. He also died a total of five times for refusing to back down from those principles.

On the ghostly voices: Yes, I believe they are in character, and I'm not refusing to "hear" them based on the belief that they are otherwise. With the exception of Heroiklim, all my characters hear and respond to the soul's whisperings... Hero simply ignores them, as he finds it easier to hear the message of the Three without the interference of those struggling to keep their bodies from decomposing.


Thrall of Dergati,
Heroiklim Zortal

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You sense the Vigil spell bolstering your spirit, which should last for about zero roisaen.

>>D) No one pays clerics, for anything

I need to remember to quit trying to tip clerics for raising me in that case.
Occasionally they accept, but not too many. I figure it the least I can do for them taking time out of their training or whatever they were doing before.

10 plat, is not happening, since I'll just depart, but I'm more than willing to pay a fair amount if asked.

Brabs

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Non Rangers practice a unique methode of locating people and places in cities......We ask directions - Mendasity

I wait for the Cleric to rez me, then I kill him for his trouble and spit on his grave after he departs.

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-Fuquois-

"I've been too rich in my words and too cheap in my wine."
-Wildebeeste

>I've always tipped clerics and where I live (Leth, Shard) pretty much everyone tips them.

No, they don't. In fact, Shard was when and where I decided not to play the necrofeliac anymore. You are every bit as likely to run into bad players and mules in Shard as Crossings these days.

There was the time I was raising and someone hid to kill me and I said, "At least wait until I'm done," so they did. I died afterwards. Does that count as a tip?

The problem with Crossing isn't with tippers. It's the sheer amount of favorless people who may or may not be newbies and the sheer amount of morons. I think that most clerics wouldn't mind receiving no tip if they were treated well; the reason we demand tips (or, more accurately, payment) is to compensate for their attitude.

<shrugs>

That said, one of my friends once came up from Leth expressly to tip two clerics who had to deal with a pair of morons after I told him how bad it was. They both turned it down.

-- Holy Scholar Diarik Erasto, Arcane Researcher, in search of spiritweaving.

"A good war is very instructive." -- Me.

>> No, they don't. In fact, Shard was when and where I decided not to play the necrofeliac anymore. You are every bit as likely to run into bad players and mules in Shard as Crossings these days.

Every person I've run into in Shard (being a resident of the area) tips me in one way or another for performing Resurrections, even the people that I don't Resurrect. Some people do it in the form of gems (and when they do, I often have to tell them to STOP giving them to me, because I feel like it's too much) or coins (also often too much in my mind), but many others do it in the form of performing services for free that they normally charge others for (like making Constellation Jewelry or recharging invisibility rings) or going out of their way to help me even if they are busy.

Honestly, I look at it like this: everything balances itself out in the end. The community in Shard (at least in my experiences over the last few years) always has a way of forcing out people who aren't willing to participate in the sense of "shared community" through their own greed and/or selfishness. Even when I do visit the Crossing, and I do Resurrect someone and don't even get so much as a thank you, I just remember it next time I hear that "So-and-so needz a rezz so kin uh Klerik come 2 their guild plz".

And my conscience suffers not for it. ;)

Father Illurio

I think it'd be funny to WARN COMBAT a corpse. Especially if you're doing the raise already. Throw in an "ooc deadguy Decline and decline the raise, too."

Idle musings,

-- Holy Scholar Diarik Erasto, Arcane Researcher, in search of spiritweaving.

"A good war is very instructive." -- Me.

Random aside..

Bromus is the MAN. He raised me about a week ago, and it happened so fast it took me a minute to register that I was alive again.

Thanks, Bromus.

M.