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Academia Nut said:
It was easier, cheaper, and to some extent faster to only run NCOs through the devices rather than run everyone through the machines. Also, usually they lost about 25-40% of those shoved into them, so they would get the most conscripts to the battlefield if they only applied them to a few who could pass along language lessons and orders.
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Hmm, hold on.
Academia Nut said:
Soon enough the approximately two hundred and fifty of them were being shuffled further into the sect compound.
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Ten of the disciples died outright, but they had all been from the first batches who were scooped up after being disoriented from the portal to this new realm.
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The Sect NCO recruits had a four percent mortality rate.

Probably not nearly as good for the conscripts who won't have equivalent levels of cultivation, but this is a batch that is still going to have many more survivors than standard... and the warband might not be quite prepared to deal with that.

Anyway.

[x] Yon was swamped with medical duties
 
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ngl I'd be happy with either medical duties or pandemonium, as far as plot advancement goes.

Yon can learn more about the world, curry favor, etc- all of these things happen with either option. I'm also very confident that Yon will not die or suffer truly malicious permanent consequences- this isn't that kind of hardcore quest-story. We don't need to be terrified of a possible bad choice.

We should be cognizant of what creates an interesting narrative.
 
Academia Nut said:
No, the trickiest bit would definitely be the Umbral Crescents, since he had no idea how to get a substitute. With contact with the sect he might be able to find a supply or obtain some spores to cultivate locally, but he wanted to figure out what could be obtained locally first before trying to import anything lest he end up in a bad spot.
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Looking over what we need to continue the Synthetic Elixir quest, and whoops. There will be no importing of the Umbral Crescents anytime soon, since we've just left port and are no longer near the sect.

So. What does the Umbral Crescent do for the elixir, that we need to find a substitute for?
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Once the mash reached proper maturation, the next step was to properly tune the hallucinogen, which was where the Umbral Crescents came in. Grown upon hidden knowledge, the mushrooms were utterly desiccated to remove their own vitality such that when the essence of the drinker intermingled with them during ingestion the only shape the hallucinations could take would be of the future self.
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... Definitely tricky. There's the obvious Knowing Flame / Tzeentch connection, and otherwise the purpose is filtration - which there are certainly a great many mortal techniques for, the question is where Yon might find out about some and get access to them.

Being we're on board a ship that needs to provide oxygen to its entire population and recycle its water... Yon might have actually missed an opportunity to find one simply because he didn't get latrine duty, how about that.
 
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