Ok, I think I should globally rethink how to spend these build points. I wasn't looking at it from the standpoint of double-paying for lab virtues (in terms of both bps and seasons), and given the low-fantasy virtues that fit my idea of her lab, I don't see anything that could reasonably be pre-installed for her. Also, she's going to want to spend at least one season of refinement once she gets there; also, really she only wanted the Opulent virtue for the health benefit (yeah, she's a little obsessed like that). And also, maybe I won't be considered a twink if I optimize these choices based on OOC knowledge of the covenant's near-term improvements (Durenmar plunder, Viscaria's project).
So here's what I'm thinking at the moment.
- 11 bp: keep these lab texts - Twist of the Tongue (PeCo 30), and Strings of the Unwilling Marionette (ReCo 25)
- 26 bp: still a summa, but changed to Creo, Level 15, Quality 11 (since we're getting Mentem from Durenmar)
- change the cabinets to sustain specimens enchantment design to one that actually creates corpses or pieces thereof, up to 24 times a day, Sun duration. It would be essentially the same level (20 instead of 19) and should still allow the Specimens lab virtue, but would be transportable and installable immediately like any good magic item. (This was made in a lab season in Tranquillina's character creation, so not 100% relevant to the current discussion.)
- 8 bp: still an enchanted item, but not magical heating any longer. I was trying to think of something level 20 that would improve health in the lab. A comfortable chair, even a massage chair? A mind CrCo effect to soothe aches and pains, or even a repeatable ReCo massage effect; alternatively, a MuHe effect to make the chair comfortable/ergonomic? Any good ideas anyone?
- no bps spend on lab virtues. I'll use a couple of future seasons instead.
- 30 bp (well, actually 35 bp counting the rebate from Pierre Legris): vis source for the covenant.
I do think it would be more in-character to have a new vis source discovered in the regio (say) than for Tranquillina to bring it with her. amul, do you want to discover/improv-invent a vis source in our current thread? I'm thinking something Perdo and Terram, or maybe Perdo and Imaginem, that we stumble across while looking at quarry sites....
Also, since I'm thinking of it - does Tranquillina share in this bounty? A backpack's worth of specialized ceremonial gear for each magi, which would provide a +2 bonus