Hello gang. I have not disappeared but for the moment and for some time now work takes a huge toll on my life so I can’t write like I use too. Miniature painting the kind of therapy I use now to keep my sanity. Ok, I am a bit overly dramatic but I want you to know so I do not become someone who just vanishes into thin (Internet) air. I have not decided if I should close down my own games or just take a break. I will take some more time to ponder this matter and then I get back to you some time in the near future. Also Onesiphorus character sheet blew up last time I looked at them.
Seems like doomsday here!!! 
Blew up?
I'm at work recovering from my extended manual labor. Kitchen demo, except for the cabinets will be completed by this weekend, as well as plumbing rough-in in the new spot for the fridge. In other news I'm very tired, and posting will almost certainly be limited to work hours, when I get a moment here and there. Previously I had been able to post quite frequently from work, as I could extend other tasks to off-hours to be completed in the evenings at home. That won't be the case for some time, probably the next 1 to 2 months, although I'll be able to post sporadic bursts here and there, and I'll keep up on what's going on. If I haven't responded to something within a day or two, please feel free to send me a PM to address something, and I'll do my best to get a response out within 24 hours.
I don't see an immediate effect on this saga, as the council thread may wind for a while before I can start 1220, accepting the new members, figuring out the order of duties, etc is all something that can (and should be!) handled by everyone but me. However, I am quite serious that you guys do need to develop and map out a 5 year plan marshalling resources you'll need to the task of securing and managing the Tribunal. This includes projections and reserving stockpiles of vis, and instituting any trades necessary so that you have sufficient resources. My role in this is more of an auditor, rather than a planner. How well the troupe plans is going to dictate stories and/or labwork for some period of time. Just because I can't participate fully doesn't mean you guys shouldn't be planning...
Can you give us an idea of how much vis and prizes we need to get? Do we also have to prepare some ground for the tournament
You don't have to provide prizes, those are provided by the Tribunal.
You do have to have prepared housing of some sort, and you do have to have a place to hold the Tournament, in addition to a place to host a Hermetic fair to run concurrent with the Tribunal (think trade show with keynotes, breakout sessions and a vendor area).
Is there a rough estimate of how many people we will house? How large of a grounds do we need? I would would need to ask how civilized is the area around Autun?
We will need a big ward against mundane interference.
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A little busy right now, I'll post up tomorrow.
Only reason I have those (and one on what appears to be bootleg pdf) is that a guy from one of my failed sagas here gave me a gynormous Amazon giftcard and a handful of Ars pdfs. Not a big fan of pdf books in general, because I like the feel and smell of an honest-to-God "dead-tree" tome in my hands. Pdf are okay for short works or single pages (like character sheets or fanzines or whatnot), but for a real book, I like to hold it in my hands. Not showing my age, am I? 
I'm in the PDF camp. PDFs on my Dropbox account, so I can get them anywhere. I have dual monitor setups, where I can view the PDF on one screen while viewing the website on another (monitors ared 24" 1920x1080 res, rotated to portrait mode, so I can see a whole page of PDF at one time). I also have the PDFs on my iPad, and that's not too shabby for reading. There have been times that I have had PDF on one screen, PDF on the iPad and the website open on the other screen. Or sometimes it's MetaCreator + Website on the computer and PDF on the iPad.
Just recently purchased the MRB PDF. And then the sewer exploded and the fridge leaked and now I have flooring and cabinets to buy as well as a remodel to execute.
I relented on the PDF book thing only in the instance of gaming books on my laptop, due to the amount of time that I spend traveling. Though, since joining the forums, I have to say that being able to copy/paste out of the rule books is a nice bonus.
Preaching to the choir! I am the only person I know who doesn't own a Kindle or a Nook. I keep PDF copies of stuff for the ease of searching things, but otherwise I like real, paper books.
Oh, Alexei. Subtle as a steam train 
Sub-tull? 
Is this a new Latin word or something?
Oh ya. It means "beneath the" .... something 
No you're not. I don't own any kind of e-reader (unless my laptop counts, which I don't think it does). And I doubt that I will until I have to or until I can get one that has my entire library already installed on it. It's only 866 books, I don't see what the big deal is.
On the plus side, I put together a new bookcase this week (one of those twenty-nine dollar five-shelf pos from WalMart) and loaded it up, so I only have fourteen boxes of books to unpack yet.
Fourteen boxes? Maybe you pack in smaller boxes than I do. I only move about two dozen boxes of books, and I had just under 3000 books at last count. Of course a lot of them are MMPBs, too.
My sixty dollar not-quite-POSes from Ikea have served me very well over the years. I now have the books organized pretty well:
- Two bookcases for MMPBs, alphabetized by author, but not separated by genre since all my MMPBs are horror, science fiction, and fantasy anyhow.
- Two bookcases for hardcovers and TPBs, alpha by author.
- One shelf on the entertainment center for all my old college textbooks, another shelf for all my cookbooks, and another shelf for non-fiction stuff that I'd like people to believe that I read.
- One bookcase for childrens and YA fiction. It's segregated from everything else so I can keep that bookcase in a closet, where no one who visits me ever sees it. I hardly ever read this stuff when it was age appropriate, but now that I'm in my raging 30's, I can't get enough. I blame Harry Potter.
- My RPG books no longer go on a bookcase. Most of them stay in banker boxes in the closet, except for the d6 Star Wars book which lives in my laptop bag, and my stack of Ars Magica books that sits in the living room.
I skimmed through your library just now-- how is Azure Bonds? My friend wrote that with her husband, and she just gave me a copy of it a few weeks ago, but I'm afraid to read it, because if I don't like it, I don't know what to do when she invariably asks what I thought of it
I bought a Kindle just to prevent from littering my house with paperbacks. It is way too easy to buy books on the Kindle so you have to be careful. If I find a book i like or one that I know i want to keep I buy it in hardback.
IIRC, Azure Bonds is not a bad read. Better than many. I think it was one of the first books from the Forgotten Realms series. But I did read it about 20 years ago.
Could be...most of my boxes are the boxes that printer paper comes in at the office (back when I had, like, an office job), a couple of bankers boxes, and a couple of other boxes around that size.
Several of my books are "kid-lit" or ya. I've also found that I enjoy them more than I did when I was much much much younger. Babysitters club, Harry Potter, Hardy Boys/Nancy Drew. If they ever start novelizing MLP, I'd be all like "Take my money! Now! All of it!" 
It's been several years since I've read it, but I remember liking it. I've almost finished V is for Vengeance, I'll pick up Azure Bonds next and give you a better opinion when I'm done.