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Duzzit said:
Well I know where I am going! I'll likely have to heavily critque their work on space-time and point out their mistakes. Their best essays on the subject are likely worse than what my first year students wrote no doubt, and those were bloody atrocious! I still have nightmares of those I tell you.
Of course, they might not even - horror of horrors! -
have spacetime manipulation! This is in fact fairly likely.
Queries for Hye: What (if any) is the state of education on the planet? Libraries are well and good, but are there any academies and the like?
Academies exist, they are dominated by Mage Schools, which strive to discover new spells and teach new mages how to actually use magic with varying results. This being military necessity, variants are essentially ubiquitous everywhere on Cere that Hye knows of... except for the Plains.
More conventional academies exist, largely in the city-states, though the major cities of the Federation and the Silver Empire also have university equivalents. The Mage-Priests supposedly have monasteries which teach the faithful, but again details are sketchy.
Hye has not personally attended any formal education, like most people she was taught through an apprenticeship, though she appears to have lucked out with her master. The majority of people are illiterate, especially in the countryside. Literacy rates increase
sharply in the cities though.
Discuss with her the general economics and what beyond these crystals would be good to transport and sell. (I need to expand on this I know >.> PM me on skype because I can't get my thoughts out properly here atm).
Hye is not an economist, and so she's not really that useful in describing the system. It
sounds like you're in the middle of a transition to non-magical industrialization fuelled by the crystals. Which is a problem since the supply of crystals is pretty fixed, and energy consumption is mostly going sharply upwards. Chances are good that someone will discover coal any day now, you suppose.
For more specific deals... well, Hye is thinking obviously of the luxury goods market, and the spice trade. Most value per volume. Since you can absolutely trivially determine the relative prices in two different places and then move up to several
tons instantly, Hye is so utterly blase about the particulars that it is almost startling. The fact of the matter though is that in combination, the Clear Skies, Hye and a mere two of you can basically accumulate wealth damn near
ex nihilo.
Even restraining yourselves to modest sums and spreading this across the planet, you can become
obscenely wealthy. Really, for Hye, the largest problem is finding a way to not make her crushingly total success and blatantly supernatural means
obvious. Because frankly, the level you're operating on is less "trading" and more "lolmagic".
ideas on what to do with the prisoner?
"Oh gods. You explained everything to him? I... I... urk."
ask hye what it would take for me to get into this awesome library?
Well, assuming you're not going to be cheating, you'd need to get permission from some fairly high-ranking Silver Empire officials, or some sort of powerful sponsorship. Granted, with your obscene magical power you could probably bull through anything they might care to screw you over with, but that'd attract attention. Unfortunately, attention is pretty much inevitable if you get access to the Imperial Library, so the question is more "what kind" than anything else.
The city-state libraries are easier. If you share some knowledge or otherwise impress them, you should get in easy enough. You certainly have the power.
not sure if this was asked, but are devices around?
Nothing even remotely in the same class as what is basically standard issue on Mid, the things that are around are basically some manner of primitive foci, possibly made out of magically reactive materials for lesser effects.
Figure out how many caster shells I have, and how many Cartridges I have.
An arbitrary amount that would see you through a couple of fights, no problem.
I know we discussed this before we even started the game, but we can teleport the ship out of the moon right?
Yes, but it's going to be a project. I sketched the basic solutions out somewhere.
Jemnite said:
Duty to the Sankt Church would require Agatha to ask about any possible lost branches first. Maybe pull out some holopicts of artifacts with Ancient Belkan on them, and ask if she's seen anything like them before.
There is a notable lack of any reaction whatsoever. As best you can tell, the place was cut off pre-Belka. Cere might actually have been isolated since the fall of Al-Hazard.
Hye
is however pretty interested in the religion of the magical space beings. She's not really much of a "believer", but she seems to find the beliefs of you lot a great deal more credible.
After that's done with, she'd probably ask about her personal interests, like magic combat systems, martial arts, and music. She would ask about food, because according all ship board food must be terrible or at least not the most apetizing, and so must the Clear Sky's, but because of microbes, she'd be unable to eat anything native anyway (at least fora while), and she'd rather not torture herself. Or at least she should be (without accounting for her amazing immune system), but she's rather not test it anyway.
Hye readily admits to being a terrible person to ask about magical systems, because the Republic has a different system for each city-state, so Hye knows Anjeong-style. She does know that the Silver Empire is big on constructs and telepathy, the Federation likes big beams in lieu of cannons on their ships, and the nomads are stealthy bastards with bombardment spells. The Republic is also working on a unified style, but Hye doesn't know much about it.
She knows jack and shit about martial arts, but is willing to look for someone who knows. And she knows a bunch of songs from Anjeong, as well as numerous traveller's songs from practically anywhere in the world, as it is customary to share such with fellow traders on the road.
She also describes a number of dishes based on some odd creatures and vegetables. [you may each make up creatures and vegetables and post here for approval if you like. The only current fixed element is no horses, as they've been replaced by riding birds]
