Anulus Connectens: Bausas

Games Discussion Ars Magica
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Bausas, aged Gauntlet +60 years.

3 years spent on Arts - including a full year spent on Auram, which I envision as Bausas being fascinated with the process of breathing.
10 years spent on abilities.
1 season spent on spells.
1 season spent on empowering the bond with Callidus.
2 seasons spent on self-initiating Spiritual Nourishment (Criamon mystery)
1 year spent on his apprentice Saiua (1 season on finding her, 3 seasons teaching her)
2 Twilight episodes, each controlled sucesfully (I had my gf roll)

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Callidus, as of year +60

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Saiua, apprenticed to Bausas, year +60 (end of her 3rd year as apprentice).

Please note that her virtues and flaws may well change fully (twice, at ages 14 and 21), and that she has not yet learned Enigmatic Wisdom, but with Bausas as her teacher, I have no doubt that any necessary initiations will be arranged.

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Don't characteristic raising spells need to specify which stat they raise? All the example spells in the core book and HoH:TL either affect one stat only or specify 4 variants exist?

Also did you mean "A Gift of Understanding Onto the Multitudes" or "A Gift of Understanding Unto the Multitudes"?

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they do, you're absolutely correct. All spells have (I belive) been clearly outlined and defined earlier in the thread. That does not mean I should correct them above tohugh. Thank you.

Unto. Apologies.

Corrected above. I hope - feel free to check. :slight_smile:

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As I was reminded (here), effects have to be invested into the familiar bond seperately for the magus and the familiar. So now it'll be invested correctly:

invested twice, for respectively the Naked Ape and the Clever Monkey. This is done in a single season.

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Per earlier request, in year +61, Bausas creates

This takes 2 seasons to create.

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1 season.

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Nice. I think maybe Babuas would be highly appreciated if he could be available for Longevity should anyone fail it this next period. I haven't done the math, but it may happen sooner than we expect.

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Sure. I'll leave a season open for everyone, for now.

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If you do so would you consider spending 5 points on leadership 1 (in the laboratory) to allow both the magus in question and your familiar (or possibly two magi) to aid. I figure that after 60+ years the magi trust one another enough to work together on pushing back old age.

Certainly Andreva would be happy to assist in an updated ritual for Bausas, heck if Janus or one of the rest want to join in Andeva could clear a third season to help (i.e Andreva and Janus/Hector/Saoirsé both act as lab assistants for the creation of rituals for all three of the involved magi).

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ArM5, page 103, central column, the rules say you can always have 1 assistant (plus Familar) helping in the lab. So you'd need Leadership 2 and another magus or apprentice willing to spend time assisting to get any benefit.

But I like the idea of boosting lab totals for Longevity with multiple magi helping. How would it work with the familiars of assisting magi? I think it's only for the magus they are bound to that they don't count against the number of assistants. It seems to easy otherwise. So Basuas would need Leadership 4 to have both Andreva and Janus along with both of their Familiars helping him.

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I'd misremembered that.

Or leadership 1 with an appropriate specialty, like I wrote in my post.

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Oh yeah. I missed that, good point. Because otherwise Leadership 1 would be a waste of time for a magus, for lab purposes. I could easily see a magus interested in fighting alongside grogs to have different specialities, for group combat.
And my current Trianoma maga in our Rhine saga is specialised in debate. I was on the fence about choosing 'magi' as this is among the listed examples in MetaCreator - because then it would help both in debate (with magi, but that's what counts for a political maga, unless also Gentle Gifted) as well as in the lab...
However would this speciality help if the assistants counted both magi and familiars? I think not, there has to be some drawback to this kind of cheesy speciality taken in lieu of 'labwork' because this is what you really want. I consider apprentices to be included in the 'magi' speciality btw.

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That's ... so mandatory on most of my characters, I'd forgotten Bausa didn't have it already. :blush:
Thank you!

... I'll just spend a year on Leadership, why don't I?

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Janus has Leadership 2 (debate), why on earth??? I think he learned it during some of the politically themes years.

Also, he has Teaching 4 (hermetic apprentices) - pity we're not really playing a saga, because he's an ok teacher...oh wait Com +0 - I usually have better Com than this :frowning:

But do people agree or disagree with my opinion that a magus assisted by other magi along with their familiars counts all these individuals among the number of assistants he can use?

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Each familiar (beyond your own) would be a seperate assistant, no?
That's a lot of leadership I'll suddently need! :wink:

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i just reread this thread to see possible spots of interaction and help think about years 61-75.

Is Bausas likely to cast his quickness boosting circle in the near future? if Andreva is aware of it she'd probably want to be in that circle (neither clumsy magic nor loose magic increase Bausas' botch dice)

He has magical memory? You know we're comfortable with some level of optimization here, you shouldn't feel compelled to overcompensate for your unearned lab bonuses. :smiley:

He does healing, path of the body, and his personality traits are lilly white. You might plan to couple information gained from our connection with the Redcap network with the station of the spherical mirror to abolish outbreaks of disease in distant cities. Would there be some tricky issues to work through using magical sense spells to hear or smell disease in distant locations?

I suppose that an especially good longevity ritual for Bausas is somewhat redundant if he aims to achieve the last station on the path of the body.

I'm trying to think of a clever way to take advantage of his potent magic with healing but little comes to mind, he can develop potent healing spells for others to use? Ritual creo mentem to heal damaged minds? I see that his mentem is a very impressive 19. Develop some healing mentem rituals and put them in a waiting spell then give it to your monkey in case of an emergency to Bauses' mind? Nothing especially cool comes to mind.
Between subtle magic, potent magic and his burly arts I suppose that he could pull off drive by healing rituals with no one noticing.

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Bausas would (obviously!) announce such a casting well in advance!
It is much more for the use of others (eg grogs and familiars) than for himself!
If you are interested, by all means take part, share in the power.
Perhaps I should also invent these circles for Stamina?

I'll be honest, Bausas is far from being as optimised as he could be. I have been working as hard on trying to be Apt as on thinking up new tricks and effects. Not quite the purpose, but Criamon magi have been giving me trouble in their current incarnation, and Bausas is probably as close as I will get to playing one in this edition.

Those are really good ideas. I should look into this. Maybe also get some R: Arcane, T: Boundary effects to cure cities while never getting close to them?
Less important though, with the Gentle Gift.

Oh, Bausas has initiated the The Avenue of Drinking the Winds of Inspiration And the Station of Spiritual Nourishment (HoH: MC, p. 62), which include this litle nugget:

So the Longevity Rituals he's interested in, are for other people!
I might need to increase my magic theory though, to handle the Vis needed for the ritual.

Potent versions of Rituals he already has? Could be useful.

Not a bad idea - so far the Mentem studies have been purely for Characteristic Raising purposes.

Don't forget the Gentle Gift either! :wink:

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Drive by healing Rituals?

So along the lines of The Chirurgeon's Healing Touch or Gentle Touch of the Purified Body meets Treading the Ashen Path walked in a Labyrinth Meditation along the streets of a city? :laughing: