Chapter 8. Winter 1013 and Spring 1014 at Ungulus

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Source Qualities Spring 1014

(EDITED after Chapter 11)

  • Without Chapter 11
    • Cath'rinne: Vis source + Verassius 7
    • Recruiting servants in Carlisle. 7
    • Only seeing Verassius 5
  • Cath'rinne: Vis source + Verassius + Chapter 11/11bis: 12
  • Thadeus/Nauvi/Thom: Verassius + Chapter 11/11bis: 10
  • Finn/Hamish: Chapter 9bis/11/11bis: 10
  • Pomeranians: only Chapter 11/11bis: 8
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Confidence points Spring 1014

  • Confidence points were awarded in Chapter 9/9bis; see those threads.
  • One confidence point for active participation each of the following encounters
    • the Tremere in Chapter 10.
    • the braying donkey in Chapter 11
    • the alleged brigends in Chaper 11bis
    • the hunters with a magic helmet in Chapter 11
  • Feel free to nominate RP/entertianment awards in #moments-of-fame on discord.

Active participation is obviously not an exact measure. I would normally expect at least two posts, and certainly more than one three-liner.

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Summer 1014

I can see two concrete adventure missions in the table.

  1. Nauvi neesd to collect his dowry
  2. Thom and Sionagh visit the Midsummer Copse.

Three questions

  1. Do you want to combine the two adventures in one journey? Or do you travel separately?
  2. Are there other separate adventures? Some characters had unspecified adventure, but I do not know if they want to join an existing one or have other ideas.
  3. Thadeus completed the Galloway and Carlisle so close to the turn of the season, that Summer is for all practical purposeses completely free for other things. What does he want to do?
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Finish setting up his lab. In his free time, he will begin sorting out the papers from Wicker Hill and from the cottages of the Council of the Eight.

Depending on who's travelling where, Leofric may spend some time on the road with them, visiting villages along the way.

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Nauvi definitely needs to collect his dowry, who wants to travel to Lincoln?

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Leofric is available. Or I can play a grog if Nauvi doesn't want a monk along.

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Lincoln is about 170 miles from Ungulus, so it would take 1-2 weeks each way. The route would take you through Yorkshire Dales with the copses and other druid sites only a minor detour away. Hence, the two stories could be combined, unless you need an extraordinary lot of time on one of the locations.

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Finn would like to attend the trip to Lincoln

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I think much of it depends on what happens at the Midsummer Copse which is a potential covenant branch location.

Thom would have no problem helping retrieve the dowry as long as it isn't impeding things there.

Hamish is feeling the need to train the Turb unless the covenant leadership needs him elsewhere.

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Sure. The question is really if the party splits, and we run two parallel stories, or if you all go together, first to the copses and then to Lincoln, and possibly back via the copses too.

For the sake of progress, it is best to split the group and run the encounters in parallel, but it is not necessarily the best option IC.

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Janus can support the trip to the copse but only if another magus is willing to stay and defend Ungulus.

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I think Thadeus is committed to staying at home, but I do not know how confident Janus would be about his martial abilities.

Otherwise it looks as if Nauvi, Leofric, and Finn head to Lincoln.
Sionagh, Thom, Betula, and Cath'rinne go for the copses.
Obviously, I am speculating, since some of the statements I build on may have been tentative and now outdated.

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Betula is not all that interested in heading to Lincoln and was maybe hoping for a one-way trip to the copses though I'm aware that may not be possible.

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Looking to update Leofric for Spring 1014. What would be his SQ for just Chapter 9bis? His short discussion with the visitors in Chapter 10 probably isn't enough to boost that.

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That's recruiting servants in Carlisle: 7

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Attention grogs and specialists should have two seasons of their own time every year. I do not believe in scribes copying books every season.

Does anyone take responsibility for the specialists listed in the plans at the top of the thread, including updating the inventory in the Settings thread?

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If no one else offers I can do the updates on these two.

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Thanks @John_Graham_52

I am not sure exactly what happened to copying the lore tractatus.
You have promised four volumes to Blackthorn in exchange for the roots.

  • Area Lore: Scottish Lowlands (Q7) The March in Loch Leglean by Vera the Redcap, dated Ungulus 1012
  • Area Lore: Northumbria (Q7) Battles in Northumbria by Vera the Redcap, dated Ungulus 1012T
  • Area Lore: Mercia (Q8): The Cleansing of Mercia by Tacitus of Tremere, dated Ungulus 1012
  • Magic Lore Q9 Tales of the Giants Kitchen by Chronos the Redcap Winter 1013.
    In addition to that, Chronos took the original manuscript for Tales from the Giant's Kitchen with him when he left, and will expect to get the original for his second book the next time he visits. Chronos left after Spring 1014, and expects to be back within a year.

Do you have it under control so that the copied are made and subtracted correctly?

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If we don't have 2 scribes. Elric will volunteer to help

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There are two scribes, at least, but there was also a lot they wanted to copy.