Voted best in category in the Users' Choice awards.
Also… once we've had fun with Algard I sorta want to give the others away in ironically prankish ways. Show up at gold college disguised as a snake oil salesman and reveal suddenly Orb of Sorcery to sell. Hide one at the bottom of Dragomas strangely large soup bowl for lunch. Buried in the Jades' rose garden. Drop the Celestials' out of the sky. Leave the Whites on their front desk with a note 'you lost this'.
The Orbs are giant balls of condensed Winds, that's not exactly discreet even if you're a Grey. And trying to infiltrate the most heavily warded places in the Empire looks like a bad idea, especially the Light College. An intrusion would likely be seen as hostile, and the defending magisters would likely shoot first.
 
I've had an extremely weird and difficult last six hours or so which have delayed me getting through the discussion and such, but I really liked the update, I am hype about our new use for AV that seems as awesome for the Empire as donating it to Runesmiths to recharge Anvils is for the Karaz Ankor, and this vote's gonna be a fucking knife fight, so I'm just gonna throw out a preliminary vote without looking at what's been said and what's winning, read the discussion when I can, and update it later.

[X] Cult of Verena
"ensure the goodwill of the wider Cult" seems amazing to me. The We are super tempting but I don't like the long ramp-up time required.
It will be a long and difficult process to teach them all that they'd need to know
 
2e Realms of Sorcery talks about magic in terms of strands a lot, including power stones being a single strand folded back on itself over and over until it solidifies.
Consider yourself lucky, kid. You got me to take out my Powerstone. I was hoping it didn't have to come to this. Even I thought I wouldn't have to do this. Witness me as pull out my Powerstone, a beautiful piece of glorious Aethyric wind, folded over ten thousand times, crafted by the greatest wizards the Empire of Man has to offer. I have trained with this Powerstone in several Colleges, but my power exceeded the strength of even their greatest masters. My techniques have been perfected through infinite training, my instincts honed by years of meditation in the far off city of Altdorf. Your depravity has doomed you to a death devoid of honor, be grateful that I at least grant you death by the Powerstone.
smokes and mirrors behind you
Nothin' personnel kid.
 
[X] Locals
[X] Cult of Verena

The We would take a long time to be trained and will scared the people coming to the library.
Cython would be even worse on the intimidation factor and could one day leave taking the library with him/it.
 
We've got sensible co-workers.

Also, imagine if we (thread) still had our Egrimm paranoia when it turns out that the very cornerstone of Waystone operation is Dhar fueled.

Pitchforks. Pitchforks and torches, that's what.


If the thread were at all paranoid about Egrimm he wouldn't have been invited to the project in the first place.

(Also, really, the paranoia lasted like an update before the majority of the thread ran in the exact opposite direction in an effort to avoid metagaming, ironically resulting in Egrimm getting much less suspicion than, say, Johann did.)

[X] The We
[X] Cult of Verena
[X] Collegiate
 
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On the Orb of Sorcery topic... We (apparently) have 18 gallons of AV. It takes 8 to make a set of Orbs.
Clearly the only option is to get enough power crystals to make 2 sets without advertising anything, and then dump all 16 Orbs on the Colleges all at once.

This is... mostly? a joke.
Nono this is of utmost importance Mathilde has to fullfill here SMUG(tm) quota after all.

[X] Cython

I assume Mathilde would come to an satisfying agreement on both sides.
 
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Come on people if we choose Cython their is a good possibility they will combine both their hoard of books with Mathilde's hoard of books. How many libraries can say they have dragon books.
 
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Master Thief: "So I just got to steal some book from a library? Easy."
*Arrives only to find that the Library is staffed by giant spiders*
Master Thief: "I may have errored."
Literally Ranald: " Stop trying to steal from my favourite cat!"

Also, I have been convinced to give wackier options a chance

[x] Cult of Verena
[x] Locals
[x] Orphans
[x] Cython
 
I might be misremembering, but wasn't there something about Mathilde being able to go into negative College Favor, it would just result in basically any other Wizard being able to cash in their favor and call her for whatever they wanted? Normally that would be a problem, yeah, but if we immediately repaid it with Orbs of Sorcery…
 
I might be misremembering, but wasn't there something about Mathilde being able to go into negative College Favor, it would just result in basically any other Wizard being able to cash in their favor and call her for whatever they wanted? Normally that would be a problem, yeah, but if we immediately repaid it with Orbs of Sorcery…

She used to, but once we got a steady income Boney said we could not anymore, which is I think fair. Standards should not be the same for a new Magister and a LM
 
So people seem to have missed the unimaginably terrible problem that came up in this update.

You walk down to your library, stare in befuddlement at the bare shelves, then sigh as you recall that most of your books are now housed within Kvinn-Wyr.

and then you sigh and return all the way back to the library - would it be wasteful to have Adela on hand to fly you back and forth from your home to the library? -

Mathilde's library is too far from her lab!

This must be solved immediately.

[ ] [TOWER] Smoke and Mirrors
Build a tower to enable longer-range teleportation. Will require an action to set up, exact implementation will be determined by rolls and choices with that action.

:V
 
So people seem to have missed the unimaginably terrible problem that came up in this update.





Mathilde's library is too far from her lab!

This must be solved immediately.



:V
Actually with a orb of sorcery we be able to power a teleportation tower. We have to figure out a safe way of teleporting, so maybe gates. I know it was a joke but it might be possible.
 
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