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I mean, this seems similar.
There will not be a large amount of words dedicated to interacting with the pistol, nor will the pistol take away time from hanging out with Wolf and other people, nor will it make Wolf have to share his status as Mathilde's companion. You're doing nothing but drawing false equivalence.
 
Stop saying this. It's not true, it's been explained to you why it's not true, you should know why it's not true. It is bad of you to keep repeating falsehood like this.

I went back and did a search for 'piloting'. Your solution was to get someone else to fly it for us.

1) this means the only difference between just borrowing a K8P gyro and owning one would be the enchantment work we did on it. As I said.

2) Riding behind someone on a pegasus is a thing, which would make a 'get someone else to for it for us' move just as easy for it as the gyro. Two small bodies without armor? Easy as one big guy with.

Don't call me a liar.
 
At what point did we want to invest in a relationship with the Cult of Verena to help build up our library? I'm sure they'd be salivating to get their hands on stuff like our 'Cathay 101' section and in turn might help us establish ourselves as a Person Of Interest to them helping to preserve the torch of knowledge.

Also apparently one of the biggest and most comprehensive libraries in the Empire was in Marienburg, so helping to amass a dragon's hoard of collected writings and the like seems like another way to be better than Marienburg, which is generally a worthwhile proposition on its own merits.
 
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Would Rooms of Calamity would be capable of handling battlemagic?
Would Wizards would be able to use them to practice battlemagic on Campus?

Sorry if it's been asked before but I couldn't find anything explicitly confirming the assumptions. Although the implication seems to strongly indicate yes.
 
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What full research turn?
Sorry if someone else has answered, but basically something I realized earlier was that unless Belegar jumps is with some new random project or one of the few ideas that have been presented but not really gained traction succeeded, such as getting a Pegasus that we would have to learn to ride or something, chances are every one of our AP could be spent on some form of magical learning, whether it be taking lessons or active research.
Of course, the calculus might have changed since apparently the thread went so mad while I slept that Boney had to step in, but that was after I said it.
 
At what point did we want to invest in a relationship with the Cult of Verena to help build up our library? I'm sure they'd be salivating to get their hands on stuff like our 'Cathay 101' section and in turn might help us establish ourselves as a Person Of Interest to them helping to preserve the torch of knowledge.

Also apparently one of the biggest and most comprehensive libraries in the Empire was in Marienburg, so helping to amass a dragon's hoard of collected writings and the like seems like another way to be better than Marienburg, which is generally a worthwhile proposition on its own merits.
I'm always enthusiastic about expanding our library.
 
Of course, the calculus might have changed since apparently the thread went so mad while I slept that Boney had to step in, but that was after I said it.

The problem is that there seems to be two large plan voting blocs right now:

The first is the bloc that wants more research, of which the AV faction has been the loudest voices.

The second is the bloc that really wants to go on Elfcation as soon as possible - if no self-improvement actions are being taken, then either Elification cannot result in enough thread consensus to pass over other projects, or if it somehow passes, the fear is that Mathilde would enter the Elification severely underprepared, to various consequences ranging from not being able to receive more opportunities to visit Ulthuan later on, to actually dying because we underestimate the Druchi.

Self-improvement actually synchronizes with the first and second bloc, so it's no surprise that the thread prioritizes it. Also, I suspect the aftermath of Karagril changed alot of the thread's general calculus on the value of self-improvement.
 
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People keep talking about doing different tower defenses for the West Gate and, well, while I like doing new things as well, I have a minor problem with that.

Burning Shadows is not a difficult spell by any means, and it has something of a reputation in the Grey College for those who learn it becoming very excited at the possibilities before they start to grasp its limitations. It is not especially damaging, especially compared to what the more rambunctious Winds can achieve, and where most spells require a competent Wizard or a sturdy shield to be defended against, Burning Shadows can be foiled by a sunny day or a well-lit room. But none of that matters. At this time and in this place, it is a delivery mechanism, and with the work of the greatest minds of the Grey College and the greatest Runelord of the Karaz Ankor gone into it, it can deliver in any cardinal direction and what it delivers is devastating.

Burning Shadows is absolutely fantastic as a delivery mechanism.

With the right conditions, it can affect miles of enemies at the same time.

........

Are there other spells with that kind of sheer "I hit literally everyone, I attack millions of people at once" potential?

If not .... Then we need to do another Burning Shadows Tower, at least once more, to cover the West gate.

There's a part of me that'd prefer we do something original, partially for style points, and partially so if an enemy figures out a way to out trick Burning Shadows their method might not work on the other tower, but I'd rather reuse old work that does the job well then try something new knowing from the start it can't be half as good.

"Shame. A neighbouring tower on this 'Kvinn-Wyr' would give year-round coverage of the Eastern Gate and its approaches."

"A possibility for the future, along with a similar set-up on Karags Yar and Zilfin.

Plus, Kragg actively suggested we replicate the work on Karag Yars, and everyone knows that Kragg is not a fan of repeats so he must really mean that.
 
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The problem is that there seems to be two large plan voting blocs right now:
Fair enough. It just hasn't seemed to me like most of the self-improvement options being favored right now are non-magical. Like, there's the enchantment class, possibly Powerstones, either of our super special magic style options could count, AV enchanting could help... and so on and so forth. I haven't seen any major discussion on other self-improvement options, this round at least.
 
Fair enough. It just hasn't seemed to me like most of the self-improvement options being favored right now are non-magical. Like, there's the enchantment class, possibly Powerstones, either of our super special magic style options could count, AV enchanting could help... and so on and so forth. I haven't seen any major discussion on other self-improvement options, this round at least.
I'd be down for Arcane Mark control, but it's been consistently unpopular because it has minimal mechanical gain.
 
I'd be down for Arcane Mark control, but it's been consistently unpopular because it has minimal mechanical gain.
Not sure about everyone else, but for me it's also because what it actually does is something related to things I don't mind. I don't really mind that much if smoke comes closer to us, and I actively like how our shadow has a will of its own; I don't just not care about leashing it, I want it to stay unleashed.

If it weren't for the fact that cutting off our shadow would turn us into a vampire I'd actually be down for giving it more freedom.
 
--[*] Spend 10 College Favor to entice Algard to help build the tower.

Out of curiosity, would we need to spend College Favor on getting help to recreate Death Mountain, or did we learn what they were doing as they did it and so we can replicate it on our own without pouring CF into it?

The second is the bloc that really wants to go on Elfcation as soon as possible - if no self-improvement actions are being taken, then either Elification cannot result in enough thread consensus to pass over other projects, or if it somehow passes, the fear is that Mathilde would enter the Elification severely underprepared, to various consequences ranging from not being able to receive more opportunities to visit Ulthuan later on, to actually dying because we underestimate the Druchi.

Honestly, I don't want to train first because I'm scared, I want to train first hoping we impress them magically enough that we get an invite to their College or even just to talk to a wizard.

We definitley aren't the greatest human wizard around right now, for instance, not that it's strictly necessary, but we don't know any Battle Magic outside of that one spell.

However ... take a moment to imagine us having created Ulgu Tongs next turn? Having created Ulgu Tongs and Theurgy next turn?

A human wizard who invented two new methods for humans to safely do magic at the same time as the College's style? Isn't that the kind of person someone might argue deserves to at least be in the rankings of "greatest human wizard of the era?" If any magical accomplishment is going to get us an invite to the College or to talk to some big magical muckity muck, it's those two, and I want to at least start down those paths before we go.

......

Also, perhaps more importantly .... I think it'd be absolutely hilarious to drop two new papers inventing two completely new styles of magic that are completely safe for humans to use alongside the College style, completley upturning everything they thought they knew about magic .... and then just as their brains try to handle this we bounce and go on vacation for 99 days.
 
We got his attention when it was a first of its kind feat in his area of interest. But would take much more novelty and much less of the Empire being slow burning disaster fuses he's pissing on
 
@BoneyM could we use College Favors or Great Deed credits to get them to fund expeditions to places of interest? For example I'd like to see if a team of sufficiently skilled magisters and explorers can re-establish contact with Kraka Drak.
 
Did you have a spell in mind for achieving this?
Not really :(, just running on the general idea of being able to apply mental confusion to the universe itself (like the sky forgetting where the sun was supposed to be), I figure something like that has to be possible even if we lack the knowledge on how to do it.
 
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