Anna will support spending for a longevity ritual. Longevity!
Oliverius approves of this combination.
1132 financial report:
Starting inventory: 33 4/7 tonnes silver
Income: 4 3/7 tonnes silver
Expenses: 1 1/4 tonnes of silver (last year on rents)
Final balance: 36 3/4 tonnes silver
Oliverius has some inquiries for the future, regarding the use of laboratories.
"I am hoping to have my apprentice, Arduino, do some work in the future in a laboratory, concurrently with some of my own work. We do not seem to have any spare or guest laboratories I can have him using; The teaching laboratory is a waste to use for other tasks. Does the covenant have plans to keep a basic-stocked guest laboratory for visitors, or would we be interested in setting one up?" There is a long pause, Oliverius murmuring numbers to himeself thoughtfully before adding, "If not... if our former member Taurus has relinquished sanctity of his lab, would it be possible to use it for a number of seasons? As an addendum, myself and Magus Andros are both currently training apprentices, who should they stay, will need laboratories in the future. I have confidence Arduino will pass his gauntlet before the year 1137."
superior tools may now be added to labs at no increase in upkeep.
As a 'free' level virtue, it doesn't take a full season to install, correct?
correct, at least in this case.
Andros and Gloriana will add this free Virtue to their labs.
Oliverius partakes of the advanced creations of the covenant crafters.
Re: the Communication Ritual:
Danaë pays Gloriana 9 Mentem vis pawns, for creating the spell and casting it twice. In turn, she collects 4 Mentem from Andros (2 Rituals, 2 persons), Sandor's 3 Animal, 4 Creo from Anna (for Blossom + Bravery x2 Rituals),
What combination of vis was Oliverius/Arduino going for, raccoonmask? Either Cr or Me is needed.
Also, now poor silveroak has to increase the Warping and Com. score of a lot of coven folk.
To repeat: the Ritual takes place at the end of the Spring season of 1133.
On Evandrus's death: what is customary, does Gloriana, as Evandrus's apprentice, inherit his possessions?
Gloriana wants to commission the artistic coven folk for more beautiful ceremonial props, specifically some sort of tribute to Evandrus, for the 4 elements, if at all possible.
She will pester Lucio to pester Patrice to compose an elegiac song.
In fact, she proposes a contest among the artists/craftsmen: whoever comes up with the most moving and appropriate piece of art concerning Evandrus and his legacy as decided by the Council will be crafted a Longevity Ritual by Gloriana at her expense. She is greatly distraught at her paren's passing and the loss of all his incredible wisdom, and will start commemorating the anniversary of his death.
She hopes to be able to take on some of his responsibilities, such as the casting the Aegis, although it will take her several years to be anywhere near as proficient as her old master.
silveroak, Evandrus had a very high spell mastery for the Aegis (he had many masteries, actually). Is this a Neo mercurian thing? Can Gloriana access books on Spell mastery from them?
I figure 2 seasons of Rego, 3 more seasons of Vim, 1 season to learn the spell, 1 season or an adventure to master it, she can cast it at ReVi 30 + 5 Sta + 6 Aura + 10 AL + x Penetration + 1 Mastery = 52 + roll + Pen, + Confidence, pretty close to what we have now with Author, but with less vis expenditure.
which covenfolk will be included in the rituals for raising com (or on what basis should Lucio choose them?)
Since Gloriana can shrink people so that up to 162 persons can fit inside the circle, it's more a matter of figuring out how many people fit into the largest room in the Covenant that does not require size increases to affect everybody inside. She can certainly shrink more, but that implies more rolls to see if she botches, she only rolled once for the shrinking spont. As for the coven folk, one imagines priority should go to teachers, leaders, writers and perhaps artists? Warping may also be an issue, although if a Flaw is accrued due to this Ritual's Warping, it may turn out to be more desirable than the horsey tail/hooves (though I could be wrong!). If there's a desire to include most of the 162 persons the Com circle could potentially accommodate, Gloriana could cast more Spont shrinking, she has n problems with that.
It was It was 2 Cr + 2 Me.
base room is (by RAW) is large enough for 100 standard individuals, and adding 5 would multiply the area (and number of people) by 10, with the caveat of a "rough guess by the storyguide" for questionable sizes. I would figure anything under about 300 should still fir within the standard definition, possibly with an extra botch die if things go wrong...
She already rolled, I had posted it in the Character Development thread, will not add 5, as this would then become another source of Warping. Around 100 people should be most/all of the Covenant, correct?:
To reduce the targets of the spell in size is MuCo 25, she casts this ceremonially, but needs to spend fatigue: (MuCo 38 + Sta 5+ 6 Aura + 9 AL + 5 props + _: 1D10 = [5] = 5)/2 = 34, success
She casts the ritual:
1st time: The Rogue's Tongue [CrMe 60, +67] Ritual, _: 1D10 = [6] = 6 = success,
2nd time: _: 1D10 = [2] = 2 = success
So everybody that participated (except Fully-aligned beings, Gloriana, and Danaë) accrues 1 Warping point/ritual and increases her Com by up to +1/ritual, up to +5 limit. I believe the covenant paid for the 6 pawn cost of each ritual, Danaë will collect her pawns from the rest of the Magi and Companions, to pay Gloriana a total of 9 pawns of Me/Creo.
Blossom and Bravey will take two rituals each. Anna will pay four Creo Vis.
There are about 275 people in the covenant, but 52 of those are teamsters, and 74 servants, including the 10 servants who are significant grogs growing up. There are 59 craftsmen, 34 grogs, and 27 specialists. I need to double check some of these numbers, but that gives you an idea what you are dealing with...
There is also a small number of people who already have Com 5 (Aurthor, Anna, Mentor, Mercurio) who are not participating, others with 4 Com who would need participate but once (think one of the knights, at least) as well as the Sneaky Arts Teacher/Social Teacher/Fishermen who do not really exist as characters, still... A maximum of 162 people if reduced in size, Gloriana will not reduce herself (nor her Familiar), so let's say around 150 people will be in the Communication Ritual + Gloriana and Mother Rabbit. Casting a Circle Ritual with so many people is utter madness (just one person horsing around will cause a botch), but ok (hehe, should paralyze them all with ReCo spont, once inside the Circle). So she will Spont another MuCo 25 to reduce another 50 people in size. _: 1D10 = [3] = 3, success
Would it be safe to assume anyone who acts as a frequent teacher would be given the spell to aid their teaching?
Gloriana will let Lucio (silveroak) make those decisions, although she expects that