Winter 1221, Chapter 4: Epilogue

[Arya]

@chicoazian

After Maribus's wake, Aequi calls Sinmore and regretfully informs her that she is banned from the Covenant Library for a period of 9 seasons, which could be shortened for every season of Covenant Service performed above and beyond the required five seasons in a seven year period.

Five seasons in seven years is the covenant service requirement for full members; provisional members owe three seasons' service during the two year period of their provisional status.

Liliana does insist that Sinmore's destruction of Maribus' memoirs actively counteracted any good she may have done by reading it, and insists that the season spent reading his journal does not apply towards Sinmore's covenant service. Thus she still owes three seasons service which have to be completed within the next five seasons.

[Arya]

@chicoazian

There should be at least ten pawns of Vim vis in Covenant Stores - Aequi pulled vis in both Summer and Fall. He'll offer one pawn of vis from personal stores if it can help push them over the total; but when he goes to look for it he apologizes and says it has gone missing (Chauncey ate it). 14 pawns needed - 8 for the Mercare Debt, 6 for the casting. Otherwise, we need to choose whether we pay off the debt, and borrow again under new rates, or if cast the Aegis, and make a partial payment and ask for an extension from the Mercare, at a higher interest rate, I'm sure.

Wait... is Sophronia already back? Did our vis stores just get a huge influx? (I learned Aegis from Lamentus last year, so Aequi can cast it).

OK, will add 12 vis to the stocks. 10 from what Aequi pulled, and two because I'd charged us 8 pawns for a lv 40 Aegis cast by a Mercere.

Sophronia did already arrive in winter 1221 (which is the first season of 1221) and she brought a huge stock of vis with her, with which she paid off the covenant's debt to House Mercere. She also brought an enormous amount of silver that she used to pay the covenant's levies to the Baron de Montalt, which he'd upped to 350 pounds this year.

You may want to speak to the Baron and try to get your taxes renegotiated.

@chicoazian

He will also, with much reluctance and sadness, appropriate Lamentus's lab. I'll update in the Correspondence thread an appropriate letter to the only Bonisagus in the Tribunal about coming out to Gauntlet Schmuel, too (umm... sometime tomorrow/this week).

It does not take any time to get adjusted to a lab you served your apprenticeship in. Lamentus' lab is Size +2, and is outfitted with Flawless Equipment and Superior Tools. He had a Greater Feature that specialized the lab to Mentem, but apparently Cedric didn't write down what the feature was, so you get to pick

His lab is in the second basement of the tower, deep underground and thus with no windows. He had fitted it with ventilation pipes so you don't have to worry about asphyxiation. Will PM you more information about what's in his lab.

Aulus of Bonisagus replies that he regretfully does not think Shmuel would adjust to a life as a Trianoman. Maximianus does not reply to Aequi's letter at all.

Also, while a Bonisagus is the only magus who can take an apprentice from someone else, there's no prohibition against who can appropriate an apprentice after a parens' death or passage into Final Twilight.

[qcipher]

SIGH

Sinmore accepts the judgment stoically and asks only that she be allowed to finish the spell meant to heal someone of her size before she begins service.

Suggestions on Covenant service? Sinmore's pretty good at blowing stuff up.

[Arya]

The charter only allows for extensions on covenant service in the event of Twilight episodes, regio detention, or other unavoidable distractions.

As for suggestions-- she could try making items for covenant defense.