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- I think what the Portativ is doing is shifting music from major key into minor in the presence of Dhar, but I don't know enough about music to be sure if that makes any sense.

A minor harmony is still musical harmony - a pleasing arrangement of frequencies that resonate nicely in the human ear. A harmonic minor scale, typical in western musical tradition, has a bit more interesting, clashing zazz to it than a major scale, but not by much - it literally changes one note out of eight to be a semitone out compared to the melodic minor (which is basically a major scale starting on a different note).

Given the consistent portrayal of Dhar in this quest, it might make more sense for the Portentiv to introduce clashing tones or disrupt the normal harmony of music in the presence of Dhar through atonality, as a sort of sliding scale of spooky. There's any number of ways that you can do this in music, from chromaticism (notes a semitone or less apart), notes shifting out of tune (or can't maintain a consistent pitch), or normal harmonies becoming diminished:

Short video on diminished chords

Beyond introducing more atonality, there's also the possibility of changing the sound of the instrument itself - perhaps the timbre changes to be more menacing, or the overtones/harmonics (resonant frequencies when playing a note or chord, which are changed by the form of the instrument itself) change to introduce a more haunting or ethereal quality to the sound.
 
Forget Elfcation, its time for a 6AP training montage to get our apprentice up to 'Smiting a Dragon-Wizard' standards in time for the Chuunin Exams Patriarch Challenges.
 
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The Nutritional Value of common Orb of Sorcery.
By L.M Weber.
... now i realy realy want to read a description of people seeing that title if we added that in the college thesis/book/paper system.

on the same subject,mathilde wide variety of publication isn't normal that i get,but beyond that is the quantity realy above normal ?,(once included the fact we are often working with other on those)
 
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It's not the amount of things Mathilde publishes.
There are probably magisters wit more than quadruple of her publishing rate.
It's the sheer breadth of her topics.
There is no telling what the next paper is about.
 
It's not the amount of things Mathilde publishes.
There are probably magisters wit more than quadruple of her publishing rate.
It's the sheer breadth of her topics.
There is no telling what the next paper is about.
More than just the variety, it is how many are revolutionary or groundbreaking. Mathilde doesn't just hop from one subject to the next as a matter of whim, she continually finds new things that are outside current knowledge and reports back on them.
 
okay wow this quest gains pages fast.

So um. I don't know if anyone else has brought this up yet, but regarding the Orb option...
I'm pretty sure we haven't finished writing the paper on them yet? Like that was a 1 out of 2 thing and the orb option is assuming a 2 out of 2. Did I miss something somewhere? Will Mathilde finish writing the paper as a bonus action?
 
okay wow this quest gains pages fast.

So um. I don't know if anyone else has brought this up yet, but regarding the Orb option...
I'm pretty sure we haven't finished writing the paper on them yet? Like that was a 1 out of 2 thing and the orb option is assuming a 2 out of 2. Did I miss something somewhere? Will Mathilde finish writing the paper as a bonus action?

This was the second turn of writing the book, it's done.
 
More than just the variety, it is how many are revolutionary or groundbreaking. Mathilde doesn't just hop from one subject to the next as a matter of whim, she continually finds new things that are outside current knowledge and reports back on them.
The groundbreaking helps, obviously.
But making lot of groundbreaking papers on a Subject, makes you the Subject Guy/Gal.
Mathilde makes groundbreaking papers on almost random subjects.
There is no telling what she writes next, only that it is probably worth reading, just in case.
 
Ahhh okay. I guess I just saw that "Pending" at the end of the paper segment (and also the way the scene is written, at least in my opinion, doesn't really make it clear that the paper is finished and not in progress) and my brain just went "ah yes, we haven't finished writing it yet." good to know it's actually finished.
The Orbs option does state that the books are finished:
[ ] Orb Reveal (NEW-ish)
The Orbs are made, the books are written, the time is right. You'll show them. You'll show them all.

Also, "Pending" in this context is what is displayed instead of telling us how much College Favor we get, at least for important enough papers/books. We got the same thing when we finished up Queekish. We'll only know what we get for them once we've turned everything in.
 
Ahhh okay. I guess I just saw that "Pending" at the end of the paper segment (and also the way the scene is written, at least in my opinion, doesn't really make it clear that the paper is finished and not in progress) and my brain just went "ah yes, we haven't finished writing it yet." good to know it's actually finished.

The "pending" is for the College Favour we're going to get from it. We'll either find out during the social action, or at the start of next turn if we skip the social (which is unlikely, we've been waiting for this moment for a while).
 
But making lot of groundbreaking papers on a Subject, makes you the Subject Guy/Gal.
Mathilde makes groundbreaking papers on almost random subjects.
We probably pissed of a few of those subject guy/gal," I worked in that field of research for decades and she just swing in,drop a new paper and get all the atention !?!,rargh".
Should do nehekaran coins next. I don't think it's even in the list of bets college people are making.
That's a realy fun idea,also if i remember right we straight up created new subjects,that probaly made everyone taking part in that colege bets list going "that's not fair !"

What do you think would our aetheric vitae/orb paper would be in that bets pool ?,advenced theory of magic or maybe another "not in the list" ?
 
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