Legate of Mineta

Within the realm of possibility.

Ooooh. Also, Jagged Alliance 3 is out.

S; Generally, it's done with Astrology, although Negation and Glamour can also do it.

Rhi & S; "Yes to the kidnappings by the Fae - the Legate reportedly keeps a "red book" of students thought to have been taken over the centuries, just in case any return in a daze after decades. It's not common, though. As for students who just go missing without explanation... maybe one to five a decade, rarely attributable to the Fae."

M & S; "By tradition, the food service accoutrements are created by the previous year's Vernin graduating class - humble work for them, in theory, but there's pretty fierce competition to be the student who presents the winning design. These have enchantments that make it difficult to take them out of the dining hall during their time of service. At the end of the year, they're generally auctioned off for charity or donated to a local tavern or inn. For use outside the dining hall, the Student would be expected to carry their own set, or rely on the establishment they are patronizing to provide them."

Hahaha!

Rhi; The response: "We'll say that that's not how she would describe herself, but it's exactly how Tabin would describe her. :)"

In Mineta, it is a very significant economic factor. Outside of that, apart from the pilgrimage sites, it's much less so.

M; "The dominant theory is that it's impossible for theological-cosmological reasons: the will of the Gods and the nature of the universe is expressed through Astrological magic and Astrological magic can't undo things that have already been done, therefore time as mortals experience it runs unapologetically and unrelentingly forward. It is theorized that's it's possible to use Gates to translate yourself into another plane of existence that's an absolute recreation of the past, but the effects of one's actions there wouldn't be reflected in the experience of the real world. But this is Gates at its absolute most illegal, and as far as anyone knows it's never been tested. (All that said, there are magical ways to skip ahead in time. You just can't go back.)"

Rhi & S; "Not really. They've all talked to Beatrix - or at least two of them have - at some length, and if anything they perceive her as a potential resource." "Sumptuary laws and laws of attire appear all over the old Empire of Man; they're less restrictive in Mineta than in many other places, though. Violations aren't criminal; unless you really tick somebody in power off, you just face petty fines. Enforcement is very uneven, and depends more on the voices that might be influencing the Guard (or, as above, whom you've ticked off). It's a good source of fines & income for the City."

Rhi; The list isn't final, but over 10 it looks like.

Yes...

Rhi; "Sort of. It might've been mentioned in passing in an article about the theatrical offerings of a season in one of the more established newspapers/newsbooks, but it wouldn't have gotten an entire piece of its own. That said, the big theaters themselves released weekly "stage rags" as publicity. (The "rag" was a reflection of the poor quality of the paper.) They're odd things - they're sort of like sheet music for popular songs, but the original lyrics have been swapped out with cheeky synopses of the plays currently in rotation, along with allusions to the lives of the more famous actors and writers. They would be handed out on streetcorners for free, and people would go home and sing the damn songs for laughs, and would become involved with the doings of the theater at an almost participatory level. It's niche, but it's actually fun. So Isabeau's birth was most prominently publicized by a song called "The Golden Fox and Kit," written in about two hours and set to the music of a perenially popular ballad called "The Ever Roaming Lad." It had a lot of gleeful speculation about who the father was, but since Isabeau's mom had a hand in the writing all the suggestions were misdirections."

Attributes are much less effective in Y2 Skills, as we begin the transition from natural talent and into training. But they still have their impact.

Definitely endorse!

Rhi & M; "1. Not really. Trade with the southerners is frowned upon, but it can be lucrative. An interest in Gates wouldn't be most people's first assumption. 2. Yes, Schohaniwicht does actively seek out the latest Bassan-language Gates research, but it's famously strange stuff. Saisyne and the lands beyond have been presumed to be subject to repeated interventions by extra-planar beings not widely known in the old Empire (thanks, no doubt, to the benevolence of the Gods), and their movements - and perhaps their ongoing interest - makes Gates magic even less predictable down there than it is in and around Mineta. Of course, some scholars pre-Ban argued instead that modern practitioners just don't have the same skills the old masters did. 3. Mineta still has enchanted streetlights that turn red in the presence of the undead, and it’s understood that that was a response to a genuinely mortal threat in its day; it’s not just an affectation. People are generally afraid of vampires, reflexively. That said, most people in the city are probably a lot more complacent than their ancestors were, and this is the kind of threat that has a romantic allure for some. There are also secluded places in the world that say the Dragons hated ancient proto-vampires more than anything - hard to detect, resisted Mastery, could even turn human slaves against their proper masters. It’s probably not true, given that modern vampire “bloodlines” don’t seem to go back anywhere near that far, but it’s vaguely credible and it lends a kind of mythological dignity."

Rhi; No, no need. But it would have to take place of a significant amount of time. We're talking about games that were played... 30 years ago, at this point.

Rhi; That was... a *very* long time ago. Talk about going back into the archives.

Rhi; No, not intentionally. All the characters came either from a role-playing session or were written into stories.

MMMMM.

S; O ho. I can't comment on that, alas.

Hai!

S; "1) Indeed. Cryptography goes all the way back to the time Dragons ruled - and you can still occasionally stumble upon cyphers used by Ecarla Agnetti in her time as Legate tucked into books in the Restricted Section of the Venalicium. 2) There has occasionally been a "Silver Principality Club" over the last twenty or thirty years that was into clockworks, but Professor Alazzo has it officially on the books as of year one. It might be due for revival if enough students are interested, though."

Rhi; Negation could be used on the mind, yes, although this would be classified as Mastery.

Rhi; 1) No, not yet. The rest, I'll forward! Edit: "2. It mostly applies to the study of magical effects, particularly in Incantation. You can observe a magically created fireball, describe it, and hypothesize about the actual nature of what you're seeing - A single super-heated particle at the center of the effect? A sphere of raw magical chaos with physical presentation akin to fire at certain temperatures? A glamour with explosive properties triggered by the breach of a magical horizon? - but it can require really fine Negation work to determine whether what you think you see is what's actually going on. 3. It's the Liber Nuntii Draconis - which probably isn't real, though some of the more flamboyant dragon cults like to say that it is. There've obviously been a great many books that speak authoritatively about subjects that are illegal in the present day: standouts are the Books of the Gemstone Gates, The Principles of Direction, and The Little Book of Cradle Songs (which is much, much worse than you'd think)."