On my first read, I didn't make the connection to meat balls, and at it took me a second to get my mind out of the gutter. Though I supposed it would fit right in among 'local specialties', aka 'stuff no one else is dumb enough to actually eat'.
I meant the more informal way. Like when we recognized that we didn't recognize the divine presence at the Karak Dum desert. Or how we would be able to pretty much smell anything Ranald, Gazul or Mork flavored.
Have you ever heard of Rocky Mountain Oysters?
I don't know, we don't know when those deals will happen, and what topics they will cover. It just seems wasteful to me to keep picking the option that gets us the least amount of books.
Both of you have Hekarti in your Library of Mournings vote and your Purchase vote. These make each other redundant.
I am not onboard with the thread just throwing away money so no. I know we have gotten lucky and gotten windfalls in the past but I would much rather not rely on that happening again in the future and save it for stuff we need. Part of the argument for the library was not having to spend our own money on books so it feels counterintuitive to then turn around and argue we need to spend our own money on books for the sake of the library.
It's not just for the sake of the library, it's for the sake of having more books. Again, we don't always know in advance what books we will need. Everything in the library is something that one upon a time the thread thought was useful to have. Having more of that will likewise be useful.
Approval votes are perfectly allowed. You are the second or third to switch instead of just adding a vote. And we are still relatively early in the voting cycle. You did happen to switch from a plan I like less to a plan I like more, but I still think that it's a shame if your preferred plan loses any chance of momentum just because another vote got ten more votes in half a day.
I mean, it wouldn't start with Elf gods, it started with the Eonir and Weaving Spider Silk.
My original plan got one other vote and they switch their vote too, it honestly didn't feel worth the extra effort to approval vote it given no-one else had voted for it in 12 hours. 🤷♀️
The library doesn't start with elf gods. It already started with Mathilde's significant collection. If one were to convert the +X book bonus into a measure for how many books we have on each topic then we are adding [10] books to our [171] in the public section alone. So they won't make up even
Okay. That's fine then. I'm still curious if, once we encounter Loec or Loerk, he will feel just similar or make Mathilde have a double take and think her dear friend is present. After all she decided not to pursue it, but she still has all the experience of the experiments she already did. And during the Coin AV experiment she got the smell of a full load of Ranald essence. So she might never know if they are the same person or even species, but she should be able to notice if they use the same "Wind", so to speak.
The library doesn't start with elf gods. It already started with Mathilde's significant collection. If one were to convert the +X book bonus into a measure for how many books we have on each topic then we are adding [10] books to our [171] in the public section alone. So they won't make up even 6% of the outside facing library.
