Combinatorial Explosion (Worm/Original)

Esprit said:

Heads up: You haven't updated Eidetic Memory in Taylor's stat sheet

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Already fixed.

Now that Sage is established, I think it's time to try to sell some of our materials to the PRT and start buying some of the more exotic stuff. Also try to contact Lisa about help with Coil.

[X][Taylor] What sort of things will you do as Taylor?
-[X][Taylor] Contact Lisa to find information about other local parahumans. Maybe she can shed some light on how you have a memory of a bullet going through your leg without it ever happening...

[X][Sage] What will you do as Sage?
-[X][Sage] Go out healing with Panacea for the fourth straight week in a row.
-[X][Sage] Create a small rod of Pandore and ask Glory Girl if she can break it (aim away from anything important in case it does break). Maybe her strength will be enough to unlock its potential.

[X][Business] What will you do in the name of good business this week? (Multiple Options may be taken)
-[X][Business] Make contact with an entity publicly in a professional capacity. (Contact the PRT about selling unique materials and services for tinkers, e.g. gallium magic to shrink objects)
-[X][Business] Fund a venture.
--[X][Business] Purchase new materials and supplies (Buy a small vacuum chamber, estimated at ~200 dollars)

[X][Advanced] You have (Three) Advanced Tests Remaining. (Write-in)
-[X][Advanced] Test how the material a Rune is composed of effects the result. Previous runes were made of dust, so try with salt, silicon, graphite, water, blood, fire, copper, chromium and plant.

[X][Simple] Perform a simple experiment. (Write-In)
-[X][Simple] Test Runes (Note: easy to copy version in spoiler below)- (Regular) Polygons: Circle, Semi-Circle Hexagon, Heptagon, Octagon, Nonagon, Decagon, Dodecagon. Letters/Symbols: S, U, X, Y, θ, λ, ρ, Ω, +. 3D shapes (if they work): Sphere, Tetrahedron, Cube, Octahedron, Dodecahedron, Icosahedron. Elder Futhark Runes: ᛚ, ᛏ, ᛞ, ᛉ, ᛟ. Kanji: 日 (sun), 大 (big).
-[X][Simple] Alchemy chains (testing with wave/ray/liquid/etc. mana types)- See Spoiler Below Thaum > Copper > Gallium; Thaum > Nitrogen > Gallium; Thaum > Fluorine > Gallium; Thaum > Silicon > Gallium; Thaum > Copper > Cadmium; Thaum > Nitrogen > Cadmium; Thaum > Fluorine > Cadmium; Thaum > Silicon > Cadmium; Thaum > Gallium > Iodine; Thaum > Gallium > Salt; Thaum > Gallium > Graphite;

I want to make a protective circlet as a project (for anti-master gear), but I think something like that would work best with runes worked into them. Thus the pile of rune tests for this week.

Taylor has a serious point. Bonesaw, Nilbog, and equivalent horrors have to have a serious work ethic to successfully pull of the kind of shit that makes them nation-wide threats. Being an Evil Overlord is not fucking easy, and the same roughly applies to world-enders.

[x][Taylor] What sort of things will you do as Taylor?
-[x][Taylor] Something Else (Go to the library and check out multiple fantasy books. Even if you can't learn from them directly you can use them as inspiration.)

[x][Sage] What will you do as Sage?
-[x][Sage] Something Else (You should meet up with Lisa. Something weird happened to you and you could a Thinker to help figure it out.)

[x][Business] What will you do in the name of good business this week?
-[x][Business] Rent a building out for personal use.
--[x][Business] Rent a building near the rich part of town. (High Prices, High Safety, High Scrutiny. Bonus to selling Luxury goods)
-[x][Business] Fund a venture.
--[x][Business] Purchase new materials and supplies (Laptop, ISP, VPN, and work phone.)
-[x][Business] Establish a new way of making money using the means at your disposal
--[x][Business] Set up a Website to sell spices online.

[x][Project] You'll begin a project of some kind.
-[x][Project] Your metalworking leaves much to be desired. You will pursue information on things like heat treating, quenching, forging, alloying, and other mundane metallurgical techniques.

[x][Advanced] You have (Three) Advanced Tests Remaining.
-[x][Advanced] Perform an Alchemical Experiment. (Dump your new sword into Reroll mana.)

[x][Simple] Perform a simple experiment.
-[x][Simple] Test a substance's Mana Attunement (Wrought Iron (You might need your dad's help acquiring this.), Crucible Steel (smelt Wrought Iron and Cast Iron together in a crucible).)
-[x][Simple] Test a specific Rune's effect (Circle, Pentagon, Hexagon, A Dot.)
-[x][Simple] Study a target for Runes (Fire, Constellations, Varies Alchemical Symbols, Zodiac Signs, Snow Flakes, 3-d Shapes?)
-[x][Simple] Something Else (Smelt down the ores you currently have into ingots.)

[X][Simple] Perform a simple experiment. (Write-In)
-[X][Simple] Test a specific Rune's effect
--[X] Golden Spiral
--[X] try words/sentences as Runes: i.e. write something like "no one shall pass this boundary" into a doorstep
[X][Business] What will you do in the name of good business this week? (Multiple Options may be taken)
-[X][Business] Make contact with an entity publicly in a professional capacity. (Contact the PRT about selling unique materials and services for tinkers, e.g. gallium magic to shrink objects)

Taylor, I'm not sure if "do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the law" is really good advice for the young and impressionable biokinetic.

Oh well. I mean, they're kids. What's the worst that could happen?

FeepingCreature said:

Taylor, I'm not sure if "do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the law" is really good advice for the young and impressionable biokinetic.

Oh well. I mean, they're kids. What's the worst that could happen?

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There it is, my new favorite comment of this thread.

[X][Taylor] What sort of things will you do as Taylor?
-[X][Taylor] Hang out with Greg, instead of merely tolerating his presence.

[X][Sage] What will you do as Sage?
-[X][Sage] Go out healing with Panacea for the fourth straight week in a row.

-[X][Business] Establish a new way of making money using the means at your disposal
--[X][Business] Sell spices door to door.
--[X][Business] Try healing for profit. (Following what we suggested for Panacea. $1 healing.)

[X][Project] You'll begin a project of some kind.
-[X][Project] Your metalworking leaves much to be desired. You will pursue information on things like heat treating, quenching, forging, alloying, and other mundane metallurgical techniques.

[X][Advanced] You have (Three) Advanced Tests Remaining. (Write-in)
-[X][Advanced] Something Else (Make a Ring Of Protection rune out of copper. Instead of igniting with Thaum, ignite with Cast Iron("Construct") Mana.)
-[X][Advanced] Something Else (Make a Ring Of Protection rune out of copper. Instead of igniting with Thaum, ignite with Wrought Iron("Structure") Mana.)

[X][Simple] Perform a simple experiment. (Write-In)
-[X][Simple] Attempt to string together an Attunement Chain (Thaum > Brain > Water. Thaum > Water > Brain. Thaum > Brain > Air. Thaum > Air > Brain. Thaum > Blood > Selenium. Thaum > Stone > Selenium. Arcane > Selenium. Thaum > Sand > Selenium. Thaum > Graphite > Selenium. (Supermass + Float + Airbreak) > Sand > Selenium. Thaum > Ice > Selenium. Thaum > Selenium > Ice. "Emerald Cultivation" + Defined Iron Transmutation. "Emerald Cultivation" + Defined Gold Transmutation. "Emerald Cultivation" + Defined Silver Transmutation.)

Edit: Realized I suggested runes already tried, removed them.

Alright, we aren't QUITE ready to set up a shop or anything yet, need a bit more options for that. But here we go. Im REALLY interested in Pandor, so ill make a focus of that in relation to our metallurgy. We will get a name for ourselves and some extra profit first, by talking to stores, and going door to door with spices. We can check on Panacea again, and help out with healing.

We won't heal for profit for now but if Panacea decides to do the 1 dollar per person thing, we will do that as well. We don't care about getting money from healing since we have a diffrent profit source, but we don't want to steal her thunder.

Greg might actually be a good source of information and ideas, so we can hang out with them a bit during school.

Once we are getting a decent flow of profit and things seem consistent enough, it will be time to start thinking about buying our own place. But before that we should consider producing more exotic foodstuffs, or mana engine powered items that could be useful. Lets test sapblood to see if it could be a possible power source or food ingredient.

[X][Taylor] What sort of things will you do as Taylor?
-[X][Taylor] Hang out with Greg, instead of merely tolerating his presence.

[X][Sage] What will you do as Sage?
-[X][Sage] Go out healing with Panacea for the fourth straight week in a row.

[X][Business] What will you do in the name of good business this week? (Multiple Options may be taken)

-[X][Business] Make contact with an entity publicly in a professional capacity. (Make contact with several stores, both large chains, and small shops, and try to see if selling our spices to other stores would be profitable)

-[X][Business] Fund a venture.
--[X][Business] Purchase new materials and supplies (More metals for metallurgy experiments, Copper, Gold, Silver, Tin, Aluminum and so on.)

-[X][Business] Establish a new way of making money using the means at your disposal
--[X][Business] Sell spices door to door.


[X][Project] You'll begin a project of some kind.

-[X][Project] Your metalworking leaves much to be desired. You will pursue information on things like heat treating, quenching, forging, alloying, and other mundane metallurgical techniques.


[X][Advanced] You have (Three) Advanced Tests Remaining. (Attempt to enter an elemental plane using Aluminum's set bonus)
-[X][Advanced] Discover additional Cantrips of a particular Set Bonus. (Sage Armor)
-[X][Advanced] Attempt to Alloy Pandor Powder with various other metals



[X][Simple] Perform a simple experiment. (Attack a Pandor Plate with increasingly powerful attacks and energy beams)
-[X][Simple] Test a substance's Mana Attunement (Thuam > Pandor)
-[X][Simple] Test a piece of equipment's True Attunement (Pandor)
-[X][Simple] Test a Transmutation (Pandor Creation, Applied to copper, gold, iron, and aluminum and maybe some other metals. Also try Transmuting wood)
-[X][Simple] Something Else (See if Sapblood can be used to feed vampiric plants, and other plants, if it seems safe, taste some.)

Well, ranting at Pan-Pan ended kinda better than I expected, tbh.

[X][Taylor] What sort of things will you do as Taylor?
-[X][Taylor] Contact Lisa to find information about other local parahumans. Maybe she can shed some light on how you have a memory of a bullet going through your leg without it ever happening...

[X][Sage] What will you do as Sage?
-[X][Sage] Go out healing with Panacea for the fourth straight week in a row.

[X][Business] What will you do in the name of good business this week? (Multiple Options may be taken)
-[X][Business] Make contact with an entity publicly in a professional capacity. (Contact the PRT about selling unique materials and services for tinkers, e.g. gallium magic to shrink objects)
-[X][Business] Fund a venture.
--[X][Business] Purchase new materials and supplies (Buy a small vacuum chamber, estimated at ~200 dollars)

[X][Project] You'll begin a project of some kind.
-[X][Project] Now you're certain that there is someone on the other end of the connection through your Corona Pollentia/ Eldritch Relay, try to establish contact with that entity.
--[X][Project] Create a Taylor-shaped avatar and try delegating control of it to the entity for communication.

[X][Advanced] You have (Three) Advanced Tests Remaining. (Write-in)
-[X][Advanced] Test how the material a Rune is composed of effects the result. Previous runes were made of dust, so try with salt, silicon, graphite, water, blood, fire, copper, chromium and plant.
--[X][Advanced] Look if some materials perform better in tasks expected from them by myths, folklore or superstitions, e.g. protective charms made with salt.
--[X][Advanced] What about runes made of air, test symbols carved into solid chunks of material instead of drawn on them (wood, concrete, silicon).

Maybe we should just fund some extra advanced tests this round. It seems like we have a lot of good advanced test ideas

[x][Taylor] What sort of things will you do as Taylor?
-[x][Taylor] Something Else (Go to the library and check out multiple fantasy books. Even if you can't learn from them directly you can use them as inspiration.)
-[X][Taylor] Hang out with Greg, instead of merely tolerating his presence.
--[x][Taylor] Ask Greg for more suggestions of fantasy media

Wizard in Rhyme series by Stasheff would be perfect for Taylor, as she uses rhyming incantations. Would have liked the Slayers anime to be added to, as it has some good incantations as well.

[x][Sage] What will you do as Sage?
-[x][Sage] Something Else (You should meet up with Lisa. Something weird happened to you and you could a Thinker to help figure it out.)
-[X][Sage] You'll spend your time investigating.
--[X][Sage] Investigate the gang attack on the Barnes family last year. You now know everything that happened. Now it's time to start tracking down Shadow Stalker and find out the truth. Why did they do this to you?

[X][Project] You'll begin a project of some kind.
-[X][Project] Now you're certain that there is someone on the other end of the connection through your Corona Pollentia/ Eldritch Relay, try to establish contact with that entity.

[x][Project] You'll begin a project of some kind.
-[x][Project] Your metalworking leaves much to be desired. You will pursue information on things like heat treating, quenching, forging, alloying, and other mundane metallurgical techniques.

[X][Business] What will you do in the name of good business this week? (Multiple Options may be taken)
-[X][Business] Make contact with an entity publicly in a professional capacity. (Contact the PRT about selling unique materials and services for tinkers, e.g. gallium magic to shrink objects)

[x][Business] What will you do in the name of good business this week?
-[x][Business] Rent a building out for personal use.
--[x][Business] Rent a building near the rich part of town. (High Prices, High Safety, High Scrutiny. Bonus to selling Luxury goods)
-[x][Business] Fund a venture.
--[x][Business] Purchase new materials and supplies (Laptop, ISP, VPN, and work phone.)
-[x][Business] Establish a new way of making money using the means at your disposal
--[x][Business] Set up a Website to sell spices online.

[x][Simple] Perform a simple experiment.
-[x][Simple] Test a substance's Mana Attunement (Wrought Iron (You might need your dad's help acquiring this.), Crucible Steel (smelt Wrought Iron and Cast Iron together in a crucible).)
-[x][Simple] Test a specific Rune's effect (Circle, Pentagon, Hexagon, A Dot.)
-[x][Simple] Study a target for Runes (Fire, Constellations, Varies Alchemical Symbols, Zodiac Signs, Snow Flakes, 3-d Shapes?)
-[x][Simple] Something Else (Smelt down the ores you currently have into ingots.)

[X][Advanced] You have (Three) Advanced Tests Remaining. (Write-in)
-[X][Advanced] Something Else (Make a Ring Of Protection rune out of copper. Instead of igniting with Thaum, ignite with Cast Iron("Construct") Mana.)
-[X][Advanced] Something Else (Make a Ring Of Protection rune out of copper. Instead of igniting with Thaum, ignite with Wrought Iron("Structure") Mana.)

We did it boyz, depressed amy is almost no more

[x][Project] Your metalworking leaves much to be desired. You will pursue information on things like heat treating, quenching, forging, alloying, and other mundane metallurgical techniques.
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[x][Project] try to start on a secure zone for alchemy using the void metal and glass to block at least part of the mana and possibly concept

-[X][Advanced] Test how the material a Rune is composed of effects the result. Previous runes were made of dust, so try with salt, silicon, graphite, water, blood, fire, copper, chromium and plant.
--[X][Advanced] Look if some materials perform better in tasks expected from them by myths, folklore or superstitions, e.g. protective charms made with salt.
--[X][Advanced] What about runes made of air, test symbols carved into solid chunks of material instead of drawn on them (wood, concrete, silicon).
[X][Project] You'll begin a project of some kind.
-[X][Project] Now you're certain that there is someone on the other end of the connection through your Corona Pollentia/ Eldritch Relay, try to establish contact with that entity.
--[X][Project] Create a Taylor-shaped avatar and try delegating control of it to the entity for communication.

maybe the avatar could be a golem to test if it cost less mana

[X][Taylor] What sort of things will you do as Taylor?
-[X][Taylor] Contact Lisa to find information about other local parahumans. Maybe she can shed some light on how you have a memory of a bullet going through your leg without it ever happening...

[X][Business] What will you do in the name of good business this week? (Multiple Options may be taken)
-[X][Business] Make contact with an entity publicly in a professional capacity. (Contact the PRT about selling unique materials and services for tinkers, e.g. gallium magic to shrink objects)

[X][Advanced] You have (Three) Advanced Tests Remaining. (Write-in)
-[X][Advanced] Something Else (Make a Ring Of Protection rune out of copper. Instead of igniting with Thaum, ignite with Cast Iron("Construct") Mana.)
-[X][Advanced] Something Else (Make a Ring Of Protection rune out of copper. Instead of igniting with Thaum, ignite with Wrought Iron("Structure") Mana.)

[x][Project] You'll begin a project of some kind.
-[x][Project] Your metalworking leaves much to be desired. You will pursue information on things like heat treating, quenching, forging, alloying, and other mundane metallurgical techniques.

I'm not sure what to shoot for with mana tests at this point; we have a lot of different abilities and I'm not sure what gaps are left in our arsenal.

We could aim for more transmutation tests, and/or test where we actualy APPLY some of our mutagenic types to something.
Did we ever actualy figure out how attunement chains WORK exactly?

[x][Project] maybe try to integrate modified living plant into the armor like creating a biological tazer or flashbang with the divers mutation of the graphite tree on mana


[x][Advanced] You have (Three) Advanced Tests Remaining.
-[x][Advanced] Perform an Alchemical Experiment. (Dump your new sword into Reroll mana.)

[x][Simple] Something Else (Smelt down the ores you currently have into ingots.)

[x][Taylor] What sort of things will you do as Taylor?
-[x][Taylor] Something Else (Go to the library and check out multiple fantasy books. Even if you can't learn from them directly you can use them as inspiration.)

[x][Sage] What will you do as Sage?
-[x][Sage] Something Else (You should meet up with Lisa. Something weird happened to you and you could a Thinker to help figure it out.)

[x][Business] What will you do in the name of good business this week?
-[x][Business] Rent a building out for personal use.
--[x][Business] Rent a building near the rich part of town. (High Prices, High Safety, High Scrutiny. Bonus to selling Luxury goods)
-[x][Business] Fund a venture.
--[x][Business] Purchase new materials and supplies (Laptop, ISP, VPN, and work phone.)
-[x][Business] Establish a new way of making money using the means at your disposal
--[x][Business] Set up a Website to sell spices online.

[x][Project] You'll begin a project of some kind.
-[x][Project] Your metalworking leaves much to be desired. You will pursue information on things like heat treating, quenching, forging, alloying, and other mundane metallurgical techniques.

[x][Advanced] You have (Three) Advanced Tests Remaining.
-[x][Advanced] Perform an Alchemical Experiment. (Dump your new sword into Reroll mana.)

[x][Simple] Perform a simple experiment.
-[x][Simple] Test a substance's Mana Attunement (Wrought Iron (You might need your dad's help acquiring this.), Crucible Steel (smelt Wrought Iron and Cast Iron together in a crucible).)
-[x][Simple] Test a specific Rune's effect (Circle, Pentagon, Hexagon, A Dot.)
-[x][Simple] Study a target for Runes (Fire, Constellations, Varies Alchemical Symbols, Zodiac Signs, Snow Flakes, 3-d Shapes?)
-[x][Simple] Something Else (Smelt down the ores you currently have into ingots.)

When Taylor next goes out healing with Panacea, I suggest we make a small rod of Pandore and ask Glory Girl to try and break it. I believe her force field lets her bend metal, so she might be able to get it to transform. I suspect the "grows in strength when competing against something powerful" will work better against a person directed force than in a hydraulic press, though I want to test that too at some point.

Also, ShadeStyle, I recommend switching the voting format to remove the default subvotes. The [][Vote Type] already breaks apart the voting categories, and adding up what people are most interested in a single catagory works better without the initial subvotes. People (including me) are already doing approval voting by voting for multiple options in a single category, but the automatic vote tally doesn't handle those separately. Basically, instead of the current system:
[][Taylor] What sort of things will you do as Taylor?
-[][Taylor] Something Else
I think this would work better to streamline voting for future votes:
What sort of things will you do as Taylor?
[][Taylor] You'll spend your time investigating.
-[][Taylor] Investigate the...
[][Taylor] Something Else

Rockeye said:

Can we try to think about security/secrecy? Too little too late wrt coil but, doesn't hurt to start now.

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This is exactly the thing that my [Focus] suggestion would make possible, so endorsing it making it clear to shade more people want it would help!

[x][Simple] Perform a simple experiment.
-[x][Simple] Acquire an external hard drive, the kind that's basically a very large USB stick for making backups but with a separate power cable, and power it with Brain > 'Zap' + Eldritch Relay > 'Zap' + Lightning Vision > 'Zap', then while doing that continuously plug it into a computer and download an offline copy of the entirety of wikipedia onto it so all of it passes through the mana. Lets make that thinker power ERN it's S rank.
--[x][Simple] After wikipedia, also download any books and video tutorials on metalworking and basic metallurgy you can find, to cross-test with the Project to improve our metalworking.
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[x][Project] You'll begin a project of some kind.
-[x][Project] Your metalworking leaves much to be desired. You will pursue information on things like heat treating, quenching, forging, alloying, and other mundane metallurgical techniques.
--[x][Project] Do this AFTER you do the harddrive-wikipedia-downloading test, and use this project as a way to test how you can access that information.

[X][Project] You'll begin a project of some kind.
-[X][Project] Now you're certain that there is someone on the other end of the connection through your Corona Pollentia/ Eldritch Relay, try to establish contact with that entity.
--[X][Project] Create a Taylor-shaped avatar and try delegating control of it to the entity for communication.
---[X][Project] Use a similar method of using Zirconium chains you used to make the cellphone-looking bug for the prison break, and use a copied version of your Sage Armor as a sort of 'mold' and physical anchor it wears. Additionally, try including a pinch of "Giggling Shade" mana.

[x][Project] try to start on a secure zone for alchemy using the void metal and glass to block at least part of the mana and possibly concept
[x][Project] maybe try to integrate modified living plant into the armor like creating a biological tazer or flashbang with the divers mutation of the graphite tree on mana

[X][Taylor] What sort of things will you do as Taylor?
-[X][Taylor] Contact Lisa to find information about other local parahumans. Maybe she can shed some light on how you have a memory of a bullet going through your leg without it ever happening...

[x][Taylor] What sort of things will you do as Taylor?
-[x][Taylor] Something Else (Go to the library and check out multiple fantasy books. Even if you can't learn from them directly you can use them as inspiration.)

[x][Sage] What will you do as Sage?
-[x][Sage] Something Else (You should meet up with Lisa. Something weird happened to you and you could a Thinker to help figure it out.)

[X][Business] What will you do in the name of good business this week? (Multiple Options may be taken)
-[X][Business] Make contact with an entity publicly in a professional capacity. (Contact the PRT about selling unique materials and services for tinkers, e.g. gallium magic to shrink objects)
-[X][Business] Fund a venture.
--[X][Business] Purchase new materials and supplies (Buy a small vacuum chamber, estimated at ~200 dollars)
--[x][Business] Purchase new materials and supplies (Laptop, ISP, VPN, and work phone.)
-[X][Business] Establish a new way of making money using the means at your disposal
--[X][Business] Sell spices door to door.
-[X][Business] Make contact with an entity publicly in a professional capacity. (Make contact with several stores, both large chains, and small shops, and try to see if selling our spices to other stores would be profitable)
-[X][Business] Fund a venture.
--[X][Business] Purchase new materials and supplies (More metals for metallurgy experiments, Copper, Gold, Silver, Tin, Aluminum and so on.)
--[X][Business] Fund experiments. (-100$, three additional [Advanced] Tests are added)

[X][Advanced] You have (Three) Advanced Tests Remaining. (Write-in)
-[X][Advanced] Test how the material a Rune is composed of effects the result. Previous runes were made of dust, so try with salt, silicon, graphite, water, blood, fire, copper, chromium and plant.

[x][Advanced] You have (Three) Advanced Tests Remaining.
-[x][Advanced] Perform an Alchemical Experiment. (Dump your new sword into Reroll mana.)

[X][Advanced] You have (Three) Advanced Tests Remaining. (Attempt to enter an elemental plane using Aluminum's set bonus)
-[X][Advanced] Discover additional Cantrips of a particular Set Bonus. (Sage Armor)

[x][Simple] Perform a simple experiment.
-[X][Simple] Attempt to string together an Attunement Chain:


[x][Simple] Perform a simple experiment.
-[x][Simple] look up online if there are any forests reasonably near Brockton Bay, and what a small plot of land there that's to swampy and/or far from roads and/or to roguth and rocky terrain for it to be of value to anyone else, to give this as a new option for "[Business] Rent a building out for personal use."

[x][Simple] Perform a simple experiment.
-[x][Simple] Make a cactus with Seeds of Life, then test the following spell on it: use 'Thaum > Plant > Water' arcane mana with the intonation:
--[x][Simple] If we do socialize with Pan-pan, give it to her.

The []Focus idea seems kind of strange and unnecessary to me, to be honest? Maybe it's just me.

Mordiggian said:

Also, ShadeStyle, I recommend switching the voting format to remove the default subvotes. The [][Vote Type] already breaks apart the voting categories, and adding up what people are most interested in a single catagory works better without the initial subvotes. People (including me) are already doing approval voting by voting for multiple options in a single category, but the automatic vote tally doesn't handle those separately. Basically, instead of the current system:
[][Taylor] What sort of things will you do as Taylor?
-[][Taylor] Something Else
I think this would work better to streamline voting for future votes:
What sort of things will you do as Taylor?
[][Taylor] You'll spend your time investigating.
-[][Taylor] Investigate the...
[][Taylor] Something Else

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I'll try to fix it next update, yeah. That's my bad.

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Voting is now closed! Beginning update!

It's a precommitment mechanism for us voters. Perhaps you may feel that is not needed but some of us do, especially given how this quest will balloon in exploration space.

You know, at this stage, we might actually consider just... hiring Lisa. We're an official legal rouge with official legal funds and can legally hire employees if we want to. She already knows our identity, we'd rather she be on our side than someone else's, she's a strong Thinker who could cover some of our weaknesses... why not hire her on?

Besides, we can use more friends and/or minions.

oooooh, I *really* like that hiring Lisa idea. Although we probably want a solidly established income before we get any employees.

(as for the reason we need []Focus, yea cryptoam is right. It's not even a particularly strong or dangerous one, just the right amount of push we need. )