So...this stuff is a lot like gallium, only more magickal?

A not unfair comparison.

Oboy! Chilled Unobtainium! :D

"Stick 'em up!"

Pure EVIL on WW5's part.

I love it.

And, of course, he's robbing with a fountain pen...

Well, a quill, but you go with what you have.

Heh. Little Round Buck thinks he can take on the Emperor's Blunt Instrument? Might get one blow in by sheer surprise and momentum - boy's got to have a LOT of momentum if he moves at all - but it won't end well for him.

so now it's a race between WW5's collapsing of the economy of Licksburgh for the goal of Princess Anastasia's hoof,
or Lord Bark's bravos presented for the same. and if he should win, where will that leave Stella and WW6?

Why... in Greytor Village, of course.

I'm expecting a twist ending, with Dannel becoming a hero of sorts himself. But I'm not going to elaborate here.

Hmmmmm.....

A cool hundred thou.

Also, Maverick must be magickally compensating for encumbrance, since items in Elfintory are technically being carried. That's a lot of weight!

I suspect, as Westerslow has commented on the status of his own, that the magic of an elfentory keeps the over all stash effectively weightless. Save for dramatic effect.

I could already foresee the Elfintory concept being abused when I first introduced it. I used to GM a TOON game in college, and several of my players wanted to be able to carry refrigerators, cattle, railway cars, office buildings, you name it .. around with them in their Back Pocket. I said no.

Since Elfintory is based on video game character inventory, it only considers items' mass - not their volume (though an item really shouldn't be larger than the opening you have to stuff it into). BUT inventory carrying capacity is based on the character's strength .. so the rule SHOULD be: Anything you are able to lift, you can put in Elfintory where it won't take up space nor be visible on your person.

You're not affected by item weight until you reach the limit, at which point - even if you're just one pound over - you suddenly can't move.

If Maverick staggers under the weight of the chest when he brings it out, then he really ought to be staggering with it in his Elfintory.

Unless ..

Okay, clearly he's able to lift the chest, so based on what I just said, items in Elfintory do not weigh you down until you hit the limit. Assuming he doesn't have enough else in his Elfintory to exceed his carrying capacity, then he could be carrying the chest and not feel its weight until he brings it out. And it wouldn't require an extra Gramarye to do that.

One could also call upon the well-known rule that money has neither mass nor volume in inventory: No matter how much gold you're carrying, it never adds any weight (despite the fact that in reality the coinage would weigh a couple hundred pounds and have to be carried in a small wagon.) If this rule applies then only the weight of the box would be factored into Maverick's Elfintory. However, the way wyrmpelf is described, it doesn't sound like it is common exchange currency, therefore might not fall under the money rule.

That was a question I had. How liquid an asset is a chest full of wyrmpelf, even in solid coin form?

Wyrmpelf makes this story installment instantly findable in your local scrying device (use goggles). However, "pelf" hints at a very subtle and deep joke on our author's part. Any relation to leprechaun's gold?

thought it more a reference to the the song You Bash the Balrog and I'll climb a tree.

Mrrr...cold soft cash, anyone?

I do wonder just how much of a good old-fashioned punch-up we're going to get, though, given the combatants, and the company.

cold soft cash, anyone?

Trust Grand Duchess Benita to be the one to forego pleasantries and tell Banker Bark to pull his head in.

Gawain is playing with a straight bat in the situation... no hint that he knows what has been done by his Uncle's Blunt Instrument.

Westersloe has no qualms about exposing his machinations now that the cat is out of the bag... even willing to taunt the Banker into a rash response.

I suspect he is enjoying this a little too much...