Oh! Then Stultus might recognize him. Might even go chat him up in his 'Jaufre of Barcelona' guise. Since he's an NPC that's mostly background information, but what the heck.
Very helpful indeed.
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Yikes. All the Corpus magi except for Alexei are booked solid until 1229 or so. Oh well. Sucks to be me, I guess. 
Bookings can change, if you're persuasive enough.... 
I'll take that under advisement. 
Okay, I give up. I have looked and looked, and I can't find anywhere a translation for "peyoso." What does it mean? (if anything?)
I'm assuming Mark mistyped -- Roberto originally called Stultus "payaso", which means "clown" in Spanish.
Yup. clown, as in the circus. Generally used despectively, as in someone only worthy to be mocked.
Not sure there's a language in which "clown" is actually a term of respect. In any case, to someone whose (self-chosen) Hermetic name is "The Greatest Fool", that's hardly an insult. More a statement of fact.
Didn't mistype. I mispelled 
Memorized the word, used it, and eventually the combination of letters transmorgified into the incorrect word.
Payaso, meaning literally "clown". Yes, the term can be used mockingly or insulting. But Roberto chose Payaso (clown) as opposed to Bufón (buffoon) or the like, for he sees the man as a professional in his art. Sorta. Maybe a little mockingly. But apparently the guy wants to be a clown, so granting him the title "el payaso magnifico" is indeed a compliament.
I may have sporadic access this weekend. Going to visit my dad in New York, and I'm not sure if he's got wireless, and my phone is an incredible pain to post from. So y'all may get a break from my wildly addicted posting habits. You may rejoice.
Depending on how close you get to the coast you may be there longer than the weekend
Brighton Beach, Brooklyn, NY. I can see the ocean from my dad's window. So, yeah, there's that possibility. 
As long as we're giving credit where credit is due...
Full credit goes to The Music Man. I love me some Robert Preston.
Ghoul? 
That or "ghost" was going to be Stultus' answer if anyone actually asked. HE knows about the covenant's issues with the Guernicus, but the other two prospects might not. "Ghoulies and ghosties and long-legged beasties..."
And here I was thinking it was from that episode of The Simpsons when that guy talks Springfield into building a monorail.
Just FYI, I'm not ignoring Alexei -- I'd just like Ulfengaard/Gerulf to respond to that one first. I'm trying not to monopolize the conversation. Might not be succeeding, but I am trying.
I demand instant recognition of every golden word that Alexei utters! 
It's key to his charm.
((I think you'll learn that Fiona will always go there 
))
Yeah, but she's kinda hawt, so she gets away with it
As it turns out, Stultus did make a small mistake with Rumpelstitskin, or rather his player did. There's an optional step that goes between beating and carding -- pre-dyeing. Essentially, this means that wool processed through the device has less of a range of colors it could be dyed afterwards. This might be a problem if the covenant processed all its wool through the device, but that's not going to be the case. The covenant produces at least 30,000 pounds of wool a year, and that's a very conservative guesstimate: the real number could be much higher. You just can't feed all of that through a 2x3 frame.
There's a mandatory step between those two as well -- greasing -- but that was to protect the wool from the roughness of the carding process. Rego magic would be much gentler than physical carding, so skipping that one is actually OK.
As an aside, reading about wool production gave me two or three neat ideas about how to improve the covenant's cash flow. Stultus will need to study Animal fairly thoroughly in order to pull it off, but he was planning to anyway.