More or less what I meant - the mechanisms by which we control and direct it. I forsee this being much easier when the thing being directed is something between fog and shadow, which we have traits and two arcane marks for.
How come Aksel isn't here?
There was some controversy over whether to put Zlata, Niedzwenka or Aksel in the Foundation because it should be about how to contain the Winds, and these three don't touch them per se, they do different and weirder types of magic presumably based on Earthbound magic/spirit-bargaining/divine-channeling. So it's debatable how much they could contribute.
From the negaquest where Eike is the Lord Magister and Mathilde is the apprentice.
For what it's worth, I feel like we have been giving Eike real work with things that actually matter.
As far as Niedzwenka's perspective go, it feels like its worth noting that there is a spirit doing it. Said spirit may be the souls of Caledor Dragontamer and co but depending on how the interface with the leyline and the foundation base works, that could be important?
The Redshirt plan you picked is Seviroscope. The Running Shoes one you've got is the Cloak of Flashy Escapes version. You'd need to specifically pick the Seviroscope version ([ ] Plan Bring Running Shoes with Seviroscope)
You want running shoes with seviroscope. The one you're voting for is the cloak plan.
This is an excellent observation I had not made myself. You're totally right; in trade, we showed her how we did it and then asked her to do it, and in academia we brought her in on some paper-writing actions and now are asking her to contribute to the research and not just the writeup.
There is absolutely no indication that this is true. Eike Study is a study action, not an arbitrary "go do a thing" action, and I think it likely that Boney would veto Eike Study: [go do a job for us.]
If it were something like "as well as what she will be directed to do on her own," that would be one thing, but there's no reason to believe that "study" can be twisted into "extra AP for low-priority actions."
We don't have Eonir book access for magical subjects, and we don't really have Druuchi books access yet.
I think we should be putting everyone on the initial Foundations action, so we can see what their paradigm has to say about it. Then, when we've got that basic idea, we can winnow them down heavily.
I actually care more strongly about which apparition we capture than I do about which Windherding project we do. I am not interested in creating an apparition spell for assassination, and I have tried and failed to come up with other uses for apparitions like the Black Essence. A Rider in Red fits a niche and theme I am much more interested in. For Windherding I explicitly came up with the idea for the Cloak because I wanted something that would be an item that is not too hard to make and that we would at have at least some use for (giving to Eike). While it hurts a little to hear it called "a random gaudy cloak", compared to Seviroscope I can see how the scope is more exciting. I have even been approval voting Plan Bring Running Shoes with Seviroscope for a while now, and if I had known we could Windherd the scope I might have suggested it in my base plan (though I do still have a fondness for the Cloak). I do want to point out that making a Seviroscope is probably going to take more than 1 AP, so that would be another project that we would be starting on, though one with less time pressure once started than apparition binding.
