Post by deanthelis on Apr 20, 2017 5:18:17 GMT
The Metzofitz Foundation
Metzofitz the Magnificent, a Wizard of some renown in Ar'vahl, has seen fit to construct an extraplanar center for education, public service, and commerce, dubbed the Metzofitz Foundation. Staffed by magical copies of himself and facsimiles of numerous powerful and exotic entities, the Foundation offers a number of magical and mundane services, outlined and loosely categorized below. The Foundation may only be accessed via the Plane Shift spell (which will only ever deposit the traveler at the entrance), or via one of the portal locations listed below.
The Foundation offers a number of academic options for individuals of nearly any age. These services include, but are not limited to, the following.
- Children may be admitted to the Foundation for schooling at any age prior to that of what may be considered adulthood for their race; in the case of especially long-lived races, such as true dragons, exceptions may be made at the student and parent and/or guardian's behest to accelerate such schooling if it is deemed appropriate.
- Children may only be admitted to the Foundation for schooling with written consent by the child's parent(s) or legal guardian(s).
- Children who arrive at, or who are abandoned at, the Foundation without a parent or guardian will be registered appropriately with their state of origin and raised by Foundation staff until adulthood; at any time such a child may choose to leave the Foundation for an orphanage, monastery, or other reputable organization within their state of origin capable of raising wards of the state.
- The Foundation is equipped with education options for and freely available information on numerous career paths, be they mundane or, for the ambitious, adventuring careers.
- Most of the Foundation's higher education options are focused on the study and practical application of alchemy and magic, however.
- Foundation staff are available at all hours to answer simple questions that could be answered with the Knowledge skill and a brief conversation.
- Lastly, the Foundation's library includes a catalogue of every Wizard, Witch, and Magus spell and Alchemist formula (1) for individuals wishing to copy them to do so, including Words of Power Effect Words. A Timeless section of the Foundation exists for speeding up spell copying.
Public Services
The Foundation offers a number of services to improve and maintain the health and well-being of its visitors. Public services are provided free of charge.
Public services include:
- Room & Board. Visitors are entitled to a quiet place to sleep, and a meal of sufficient proportions will be provided three times per day, at no charge. The Foundation will not accommodate unusual dietary habits or restrictions (souls, rotten or decaying food, rare metals, or any substance that cannot be produced with the Heroes' Feast spell) for free.
- Hygiene. Areas exist within the Foundation for maintaining cleanliness of person via baths, and of possessions via Prestidigitation.
- Recovery Assistance. Visitors who are injured, or who are under the effects of diseases, poisons, or other maladies that are not an immediate and present danger to other visitors or Foundation staff, will be provided long-term care as per the Heal skill. Visitors undergoing Recovery Assistance will, for safety and cleanliness purposes, be quarantined for the duration of their recovery.
Commerce
While the Foundation offers education and other charitable services to its visitors, it is neither a school nor a charity; it is, first and foremost, a center of commerce and exchange. A number of paid services are offered by the Foundation, including, but not limited to, the following. All prices listed here are subject to change.
Advanced Healthcare
The Foundation offers a number of magical services related to recovery. These services only incur the appropriate price if they are successful; failed attempts will not penalize the recipient in any way. Bearers of an Ar'vahlian Adventurer's Mark may purchase these services on credit on their own behalf only (this benefit does not extend to family members, friends, or other relations, only the bearer themselves), so long as they agree to magical compulsion requiring them to pay the cost back at a rate of at least 25% of their income. For legal reasons, death recovery services on credit are not available without prior written consent to the aforementioned magical compulsion.
- Injury Treatment: Cure or Inflict spells will be applied (as appropriate) until all hit points have been recovered. Price: 75gp.
- Ability Damage Recovery: The Lesser Restoration spell will be applied until all Ability Damage has been removed. Price: 150gp.
- Ability Drain Recovery: The Restoration spell will be applied until all Ability Drain has been removed. Permanent negative levels will not be removed with this service. Price: 375gp.
- Disease Recovery: The Remove Disease spell will be applied. Price: 375gp.
- Basic Poison Recovery: The Neutralize Poison spell will be applied. Price: 375gp.
- Curse Recovery: The Remove Curse spell will be applied. For effects that are both diseases and curses (such as Mummy Rot), this also includes Disease Recovery at no additional cost. Price: 900gp.
- Curse Recovery, Advanced: The Break Enchantment spell will be applied. This is exclusively for effects that cannot be removed with Bestow Curse. Price: 1500gp.
- Advanced Poison Recovery: The Greater Neutralize Poison spell will be applied. Price: 1125gp.
- Energy Drain Recovery: The Greater Restoration spell will be applied. This service is included for free with any Death Recovery service. Price: 4500gp.
- Basic Death Recovery: The Reincarnate spell will be applied. Price: 1500gp.
- Advanced Death Recovery, Class A: The Raise Dead spell will be applied. Price: 4500gp.
- Advanced Death Recovery, Class B: The Cyclic Reincarnation spell will be applied. Price: 4500gp.
- Major Death Recovery: The Resurrection spell will be applied. Price: 9000gp.
- Premium Death Recovery: The True Resurrection spell will be applied. Price: 21000gp.
Life Insurance
The Foundation will provide, for a small fee, a minor contingency in the case of unrecoverable death. The customer may provide any amount of funds or items as either payment for one of the above Death Recovery options, or as inheritance, to be delivered to the intended recipient. Customers must provide an object that at one point belonged to the intended recipient of inheritance items. The Foundation guarantees that any inheritance items will be delivered to any intended recipient so long as they can be located by the Discern Location spell, and their location is not one that is immediately hazardous to Foundation staff. It is recommended that the customer provide multiple intended recipients in a list should the first recipient be unavailable or unwilling to accept, and any inheritance that is delivered is still subject to tax and regulation by the recipient's state of origin, if any. Similarly, if the Foundation is unable to pass along the inheritance items entirely, they will be handed over to the customer's state of origin should such a state have regulations concerning such a thing; if not, the inheritance items will be held in escrow until such a time as the customer is returned from the dead or an intended recipient can be contacted. Price: 1500gp.
Life Assurance
The Foundation maintains a sophisticated, secure storage area for customers who wish to purchase one or more clones, as the Clone spell. Customers may, similarly to the Life Insurance option, provide funds or items to be held in a secure location that may be retrieved if the customer is momentarily inconvenienced by death. Price: 5000gp + 2500gp per Clone after the first.
Asset Protection
The Foundation additionally offers extradimensional storage space. These spaces are magically secured, and may be used to hold any of the customer's possessions so long as those possessions are not inherently dangerous to store by their nature. The Foundation will neither return nor deny possession of stolen goods; it is the responsibility of the original owner to provide proof of such a claim of theft as well as proof of conviction or death of the individual whose storage space contains the stolen goods. The exact details of the nature of the means by which the spaces are secured is kept secret for security purposes.
Mundane Crafting
The Foundation can provide any object that can be created with the Craft skill via magical Fabrication, provided the item has a market value. Each individual item created may not have a raw material volume greater than 210 cubic feet (or 21 feet for items made of minerals); see the Fabricate spell for specific information. Price: 75% of market value.
Magic Item Crafting
Metzofitz the Magnificent may provide magic item creation services. For any magic item requested, the price is always 75% of market value. This service is not always available as it is subject to Downtime restrictions.
Other Spellcasting
Besides the listings above, the Foundation offers spellcasting services at a universal price formula. Visitors may have any Cleric, Druid, Bard, or Wizard spell not mentioned above cast on their behalf. The maximum caster level available for Cleric and Druid spells is 23; Wizard spells, 30; Psychic spells, 22; and Bard spells are available at a caster level of up to 19. Price: 10 x spell level x caster level + the cost of any additional material component, all multiplied by 0.75. Certain 9th-level spells may not be subject to this pricing formula.
Other Services
The Foundation offers a number of other services not listed here. For customers whose budget is 8,000gp or more, Metzofitz may be contacted directly for a listing of these services.
Portal Locations
Currently, the Metzofitz Foundation's only portal access point is in the city of Dweomerstar in Ar'vahl, the home city of Metzofitz the Magnificent. Additional access points are planned in the near future.
Legal
The Metzofitz Foundation denies any responsibility for actions taken by its visitors or customers outside of its boundaries. Within its boundaries, the Metzofitz Foundation reserves the right to defend itself, its staff and its visitors and customers with any degree of force it deems fit, proportional to the degree of the threat. Similarly, the Foundation reserves the right to deny service to any individual or entity for any reason, with or without providing that reason to the individual or entity in question. The Metzofitz Foundation owes no fealty or allegiance to any given deity, nation, or individual besides its founder, Metzofitz the Magnificent, who reserves the right to adjust this or any other policy of or service provided by the Metzofitz Foundation at any time. Making any purchase or utilizing any service provided by the Metzofitz Foundation implies that the visitor or customer understands and accepts these terms.
Notes
(1)Spells per Archives of Nethys as of 10AUG2017; spells added after this date are not included.
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