General Table Talk

Try to have him up by Monday :smiley:
But you can still role play the character I suppose.

Well, Dimir Taar, of course! :wink: :laughing:

That is, if he isn't at antonio's right (and face to pietro).

Sorry, I don't understand this

I would probably slip in at the opposite end of the table. Not to seem aloof or less interested but you know, Dragan has these nature calls at inopportune times and might have to slip back out. :wink:

Inigo will sit either next to or across from Dimir Taar so they can tell stories. How true they'll be, who knows?

It’s Pig Latin for “nix on the tree-hugger”, or “try not to say insulting things about nature loving magi when we have this Merinita who lives in a tree :wink:”. One of the more bizarre little gems of English.

Thanks!

I've managed to decipher it thanks to your link :smiley:

Covenant Responsibilities

The old original Charter of Andorra has some strange language. The modern covenant operates according to a system of by-laws, many times more expansive and comprehensive than the original charter and old laws. However, the by-laws and new codes get their force and authority from that old original charter.

All I am really getting at is that there are old goofy archaic titles that no body uses anymore. The Pontifex is the senior magus of the covenant. Bishops are appointed to oversee certain specific interests and concerns. The By-Laws replaced these titles with more direct and clear labels, Librarian, Quartermaster, and so forth. So, I want to know who wants to take on which responsibility? In other words, you would assist me in the book keeping in various aspects of he covenant. It could e your character who directly oversees this responsibility, or they hire and direct a specialist to do it.

A rough brainstorm of different “Bishoprics” is as follows…

Quartermaster – Divim Taar is the natural selection for this one, but Fixer has to accept it willingly (and someone else might want it). It is the Quartermaster’s responsibility to catalogue and maintain storage of all the miscellaneous magical items in the covenants possession. There is a lot of stupid small stuff already, like magic lanterns, animated ropes, +1 longswords ( :laughing: , I had to say it), and crap like that. There was a flying carpet somewhere, but no one knows who used it last. Anyway, I want everyone to put in a list of suggested magic items that we have on hand. Some may have been made by Divim Taar, many more were made by magi before him and a number are trophies or treasures from ages past and recent days. Your unique items are still your unique items. I am talking about stuff that other magi made. And for some, the instructions of use were long ago lost and they need to be investigated :wink:. I said before, Hidden Resources can be a Story Hook as well as a Boon.

Head Librarian – I obviously need better titles. I just wanted to reflect a subtle switch from using Latin as they did in the old days to using vernacular in the current day. In our case, vernacular is Catalan, but I don’t know Catalan so I use English :smiley:
Anyway, the Head Librarian would be only just now taking over from Florenzo, and working closely with him as well. As a player, you would help me figure out a way to best display the full library. I am thinking of taking greater advantage of the Wiki that Fixer made for us. But I am stupid when it comes to computers. So I need someone to send my materials to that can also take some of the burden of our wiki off of Fixer. Please? You get to insert books of special interest to your character as a special reward for your efforts :smiley:

Energy Minister Who wants to invent better titles for me? Anyways, I need to set up our vis stocks and resources. I am not worried about accounting money. That I will handwave and say we have enough to live nicely. Vis needs accounting though. I am not so much worried about the Art or substance of the vis, though we can certainly get into that of course. What I want to do is calculate what our actual annual vis expenditures would realistically be, considering rituals that need renewal, grants and dividends, budgeting for special use, set aside for reserves, etceteras. I will then set our annual income somewhere around there, and ask the troupe what they think a reasonable stockpile is (1 years income? 3 years? 7 years?)

Other Bishoprics Public Relations? Human Resources Manager? God, my vocabulary fails me. Um, We need a chief militant officer with some fancy title. Andorra was not founded by Flambeau magi, nor have the Flambeau ever been a majority except for a brief period known as the Rekindling (when Andorra was revitalized). But they have always been a major presence, in the old era and in the new. Anyway, Antonio would decline this position as he claims his duties as Senior would conflict with the responsibilities of the (Castilian? Marshall? Centurion?)

If there is need for an advocate type role, Octavian is probably the natural choice although for mudane affairs he would use a proxy or just hire an advocate.

Oh yeah, I looooove this. I'm already cataloging everything for the wiki, anyway (including this post :wink:)
And it's DIMIR taar :wink:

I'll create some fun items for this whenever I have the time and inspiration, anyway :smiley:

Anyway, "We need a chief militant officer with some fancy title." => i like centurion.

It seems to me such a role is clearly needed, and must exist.
Take it! You could be the Mouth of Andorra :wink:

lol, Divim Taar is the name of Elric's cousin. :smiley:

Is the dinner Gifted only or does the redcap attend? What time does it start (winter: sunset)? If it is after dark, where does the light come from?

As for posts, Marie is a Tytalus, which speaks for a post that encourages competition.

Hermetic law makes no distinction between Gifted and Ungifted. You are a magus, this is a fancy affair for member and guest magi, so you are totally allowed to attend.

As for a post with competition, I say choose your desire and make it a competition :laughing:

I think Marie might do something with training grogs (the game she introduced seems to hint at that kind of activity). I don't think anyone expects her to pick up a sword in person. And she has this spell aboout weapons attacking their owners, which is nice for some training too. But mostly her job is gloryfying especially brave grogs and granting symbolic privileges to compete for).

As for Lejla, she's got her redcap duties, but could coordinate the scribes and be responsible for writing supplies.

As I told to boxer, Dimir Taar is a verdiflambitonalus :laughing:

Good ideas there!

We need a Knowledge Overseer :wink:

Marie, I will set you up with our elite training staff. You still direct them, and maybe you might consider a team sport that custos of other covenants can compete in? I will fiddle and tinker somethings for you.

As for Lejla, she is under the direction of Max. You are a part of the Mercere Quarter of our covenant. Maybe you are a Master Redcap? I made up the title. You direct junior Redcaps in Iberia and Provencal. Eh?

OK, I know we're setting things in the northern part of Catalonia, but here are some interesting Basque sports the grogs might play - particularly if there is any competition against grogs from covenants in the western Pyrenees:

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basque_rural_sports

If you look at a map of the area occupied by Basque culture in the middle ages, the tribal groups extended quite far west into "High Aragon" and perhaps a bit beyond - the purported site of Val-Negra is somewhere in this region, so a tradition of playing Basque sports may be something that the magi of House Flambeau that migrated from the western Pyrenees and settled Andorra might have brought with them.

(Marko I'll send you something on all this in time...)

Regards,

Lachie

These look cool! Very rugged indeed :smiley:

I need to know who is still in the game. I think Ken and Muttonbone have dropped out. If so, would anyone mind if I gave their slots over to other people? I have had inquiries. If they are still in the game, I need them to contact me :smiley:

I'm still in but still beg your indulgence as I am still a ways from character completion. I can't apologise enough for the delay. :frowning:

Delay is okay, so long as I know you are here :smiley:

I'm still around.