She had gathered an audience, and was not passing on knowledge, but technique. The knowledge was necessary to pass on the technique. The knowledge wasn't important, but it was still substantively true. Stultus should recognize that she's just passing on what she's heard about the Magi of Mons Electi, when they think word won't get back to them. Of course, no one realizes that this eventually makes it to a Tytalus, who are gossips, at heart.
Did you hear about so and so? Poor husband up and left her and moved in with a woman half her age. Bless her heart, she didn't know they'd been running around for over a year. Those familiar with the Southern US will recognize that Bless her/your heart is license to say the meanest things possible, because, well, they are true, and sometimes the truth hurts. The internet vernacular is Just sayin'.
Small aside. I'm fairly sure that cork was not being used to seal bottles of wine at this time. Now we could assume the the Order has advanced enough to do this but I think they are sealed with max or lead.
You are, as usual, correct, jebrick. However, making the bottle be sealed with wax or lead would ruin the wine-snob joke. I would prefer, in this case, to have historical accuracy take a back seat to character interaction, since I believe that joke is rather important in setting the mood for the scene.
If the troupe is OK with it, that is. If someone really has an issue with it, I'll edit.
I'm not sure who maintains the vis spreadsheet, or how up to date it is. Could someone please add the following, donated by Stultus in 1227.3: Intellego 4, Muto 1, Perdo 3, Rego 1, Animal 5, Aquam 1, Auram 2, Corpus 20 (no, that's not a typo), Herbam 1, Ignem 2, Imaginem 2, Mentem 3, Terram 3, Vim 3.
(Stultus prefers not to take his yearly vis disbursement, and just request vis as he needs it.)
In 1228.4, Stultus requests 2 pawns of Animal vis.
Korvin, I need to know what the Longevity Ritual bonus from 1228.2 is. Stultus has the Difficult Longevity Ritual flaw. His help adds 8 to Korvin's lab total. If Korvin's Leadership is high enough for Rahere to help as well, Rahere adds another 6.
JL, would Stultus get any adventure/roleplaying XP for the (finished) scenes he's been in so far? The tail end of 1227.2t "Line of Dimication", 1227.2t "Dinner and a Show", 1227.3 "What Happens Next". (Please don't jump on me for this, I don't know if JL awards XP like that, just figured I'd ask.)
It's on my to do list to go through those threads and figure out something for the threads you guys did while I was busy.
And also award XP/confidence for the tribunal threads and do the prize distribution.
What I heard was a line from Joel Rosenberg's "Not for Glory". Can't quote it word for word, but it was something like "Are you paying attention, Tetsuo?"
(The context was something like so: "Are you paying attention?" "Yes I am." WHAM! "No you're not.")
For Stultus I got a total of 88. i can take it to 98 if I experiment ( I already rolled the results but I'm not going to tell you unless you decided to do it).
For alexei I get an even 100. I can get to 110 if we experiment (same as above. i know the result. you decide).
For Alexei I can use Abagail to help. For Stultus, I can not.
The internet vernacular is Just sayin'. 
