Spirit of an Age (Exalted)

Resplendant Air, RY 579

Start up Newspaper
Invest your profits and salary into starting that newspaper. Starting a newspaper from scratch will be much harder than the Printing Business.
Difficulty 4, Goal Number: 20, Capital Required: 4, Interval: One Month

It is done. Your newspaper is ready to open for business, you have gathered a crew of prospective journalists, rented a location, gathered initially interested buyers, and put the money together to do all of it. There are only two things left, one of which is a trifling, the second of which will have massive impact. First, you need to finalize the name of your newspaper. Second, you need to decide how you are going to editorialize. Objectivity, that holy grail of reporting, is impossible. There are too many facts in any situation to be easily digestible for a human, interpretation must be imposed for humans to be able to comprehend a situation. You have two options to guide your editorial decision making: Ideology and Profit.

Ideological newspapers have brought low kings, shattered empires, and reshaped societies. The Bolsheviks centered themselves on the newspaper Pravda for a reason, and that is the massive cultural impact the newspapers of the American, French, and 1848 revolutions had before them.

Then there is profit. The empires of Pulitzer and Hearst were massive, and were achieved by editorializing in whichever direction would attract the most eyes.


[][Name] Write In.

[][Editorial] Ideological Liberalism. Be the change you want to see in the world.
[][Editorial] Profit. Hubba hubba hubba, money money money, who do ya trust?


Grow Competence
Train your apprentices in the black art of printing.
Difficulty 4, Goal Number 7, Capital Required: 4, Interval: One Month

Three months later, your apprentices have achieved a new level of proficiency in the black art of printing. Honestly, if they were to be turned out to make their own way as journeyman printers they would perform more than admirably. They can continue to improve, but honestly not by much more.


[x] Investigate Calibration.

The most obvious difference during calibration is that the moon is not there. It isn't a new moon, where you can't see it. The physical moon, is gone. Either turned invisible or poofed out of existence for 5 days, you don't know which. You performed a battery of basic physics experiments during calibration as well. They returned results that were... different than on earth. Also, inconsistent with each other. It is as though physics were... calibrating itself. The real shock came when you repeated the experiments after calibration. Everything is just slightly... off from earth. You've taken your watches apart and put them back together twice, and you've found differences in their workings as well, differences that you just instinctively put in as you made them.

This bears further investigation.