Excellent Items of Quality & Amethysts

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@virgileso

Related question to Items of Quality. The rules say it takes a season to invest the pawn of vis and "succeeds regardless of what his Lab Total might be." Using the core books Multiple Lab Activities rule (p102) and Covenants's non-standard laboratory routines (p108) as precedence, is it possible to make 10 Items of Quality in a season (-90% Lab Total for each); and take twenty days off while we're at it (-30 Lab Total)?

No. In response to essentially the same question a while ago:

@David Chart

The essential point is that it should be impossible to do any other seasonal activities at the same time, or to do more than one of these activities in a single season.

Here is the full post:

Multiple non-(lab total) lab activities?

Why not the second option or the third option on the poll? Because one day is not a season, and there is, in many cases, nothing for the second one to penalise. Yes. They might be simple, but they take time. The same applies to all simple tasks, of course. The magus can do it in a season at a -20 penalty, so it goes from all to nothing at 20 to 21 days. Well, the third with the correction is not the version on the poll. The third option on the poll is definitely wrong. Season - 20 or se…