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Agreed!

Funny, as the Legate has already said that Emilia Strollin's father bought both title and estate. Then again, rules don't matter much to those associated with College Aranaz. ❤️

Surely they can. It all depends on whether the owner is willing to sell...

That *would* be a nice function to use in conjunction with a certain gradebook...

Any news?

Rarely has there ever been a statute of limitations on crimes carrying the death penalty. :)

Given that Y3 is an untold length of time away, I'd like to ask some questions about Y2's game mechanics. without going into too much detail. 1. You've said that mixing magic will start to be seen in Y2, even though I'm sure we won't even touch the really advanced stuff yet. Will we get to see a little bit of what happens when Gates and Mastery magic is mixed together? (Assuming we put in the effort to do so, of course) 2. Even if we don't cast illegal spells in adventures, will a sufficiently high skill set cause us to have detectable auras? (I know this borders on redacted, but I figured, it would be nice to know how high one can get without seriously using the magic) 3. Will we have a more flexible system of punishments for those who skip classes? Like if you're habitual about missing class, you start getting demerits? I really feel that even if that's too harsh for every class, perhaps there would be one professor that would be notorious for doing so, and some professors don't care so long as you get good grades. Will something like that be implemented? 4. Regarding the mentor system. If we do become mentors, will we all get the same one student to mentor, (like Oan is always ours) or will there be a few that will be randomly chosen? 5. What can you tell us about what's left to do regarding the programming for Y2 to finally get it into our hands? (ignoring things like the save converter) ---------------------- Now, more lore questions. 6. Who was the youngest child to ever be accepted at the Academagia? I assume it's pretty standardized now, but given how long ago the school was founded, I supposed extraordinary circumstances caused some children under 10 to be considered at some point, even though due to the difficulty of learning magic, it wouldn't be wise to accept many of them too young. 7. Do professors generally frown on a student applying magical knowledge learned from other classes in their own, even if it is sufficiently applicable to the lesson that they're trying to teach? 8. Even after all this time, I still don't have a very good feel for Professor Ringraeyer, compared to almost all the other professors, whom stand out to me in at least one way.. (I think it's that she isn't in many adventures, especially compared to, say, Briardi, or Von Rupprecht. Plus the one major one I think of with her has her Mastered, so it is not a good bar to set for her personality normally.) Can you give me some insight as to what she would think of my desire to be an omni-disciplinarian? 9. Speaking of omni-disciplinarians, the description of the Corner Sight spell says that none of it's phemes are particularly hard to draw, so it's very probable that it would be a much more common spell if not for having phemes which belong to several different pillars. As just about all spells cast as a first year are pretty much given to us, with only a little room given for experimenting within a single pillar, I'd like to ask what *could* happen if I started stringing other simple phemes from multiple pillars together, especially with no experience in how they might interact? I suppose that the large amount of unknowns is a big part of the reason why Briardi would be so against a student being an omni in the first place. Are there any good stories about deceptively simple spells that can punch and backfire above their weight class due to belonging to different pillars?

It's all but confirmed that a few new ones will show up if certain conditions are met. A few minor characters may become proper npcs, and it's likely that the team would consider player written characters, as in Y1. I in fact have an idea for one myself but I'm keeping that one close to my chest.

Thanks, Legate! Thanks, Team! Sorry for being a pest, but you know what they say about the squeaky wheel! And thanks, Schwarzbart! It had been so long since the questions were asked, it's easy to forget which one was which! PS. Happy holidays!

*Er-hem*

What about if a solution is (miraculously) found for the vista save corruption bug?

I'm fairly sure that all of the colleges have more mundane specialties that go beyond their magical training. Such as Vernin being known as the college of towers, Aranaz being one of intrigue, and so on. Many of the not-so-obvious skills are probably tied to those semi-mundane job paths that a wizard can be engaged in when not casting spells. Honestly, while being the resident spellcaster seems a lot more fun, we still don't know how much extended spellcasting can take out of a wizard's stamina. I can imagine that a particularly powerful spell might require multiple hours of rest afterwards, so having a profession where you don't have to cast magic always might be a more reasonable and respectable goal for the average graduate.

Well, the integers are larger, right? If I'm going to be defending the book of deep shadows from hordes of Mastered undead(?) creatures, I'm gonna need a decent healing spell to spam on me and the undead.

Any news on the question block? Also, can we please get an update on y2 on the 25th? pretty please?

Fun fact: When a dam is holding a lot of water, if it lets water over its top, it will surely erode and spill everything. Substitute secrets for water and willpower for the dam, and you have a good understanding of why there is so little word. To be fair, little snippets have been leaked to us, but these have been minor and totally of the Team's choosing.

Oh I imagine I'm about halfway down the path already. It was a semi lucid dream, which is probably why I remember it decently. I also remember being in places where I couldn't tell if I was indoors or outdoors due to the lighting. It was probably somewhere in Icanix hall, if I had to guess at it now. That actually raises an excellent question about how to deal with forbidden knowledge that comes to you in dreams.

You know, I had this crazy dream earlier today that I was at the Academagia, trying to register for the 2nd year, but it was terribly incomplete. It felt like a 3d game map that had not been fully modeled yet, only in real life. In my brain, all of the missing details were supposed to be stuff from Years 2-5 that I didn't know about so I couldn't dream of them. I came across a statue of a cat on a pedestal. Apparently it was a real cat once, and would be again at some point in the future, but the how's, when's, and why's escaped me. It was good luck to rub it, though. I passed through a passageway that was totally empty but had so many hidden corners in it that it surely would have been a great place for bullies to ambush their prey. There was a librarian who wouldn't let me into a small library, There were a lot of glass windows giving an excellent view inside, though. I didn't see any professors, but I think they were watching me. I seriously have been waiting for Y2 for too long. haha.

'Tis what I get for spending too much time here. I probably know more about the setting at this point than anyone but BCS and am likely only tied with Schwartzbart and Metis. I can't even think up many more questions, which no doubt is saving you, because If I could, I'd load another block of questions on the team while waiting for the current one. *hint* *hint*

1. Probably: All of the above. 2. [redacted] On a side note, I did a quest in Fallout Shelter that involved [redacted]. If I ever get around to editing and posting it I'll give a link.i couldn't help but think of this forum, lol.

https://www.cyoa.com/collections/enchiladas/products/rare-butterfly A complete collection of The Whole Enchilada, The Little Enchilada, The Golden Path, Choose Your Own Nightmare, The Lost Archives, AND the original classic series, titles 1-184 All for the low, low price of $2,895.00 lol

Ah, I miss the old CYOA books. I really need to get a hard copy of my favorites.. Only problem is there's really too many of them and only the first 40 or so are considered the 'classics' on CYOA.com and reprinted. I don't really remember the titles too well but I know the books went safely over 100

Mmm... I kind of doubt that the team would be too open about displaying all info like you're thinking. If nothing else, it would be because of a desire to minimize spoilers. I could be wrong, though. Any opinion or fact on this subject worth sharing, Legate?

...Yeah, I kind of imagine that when Y2 finally arrives, it will drum up interest in the gradebook. Especially when I release The Y2 version of it.

Since nobody has downloaded my gradebook over more than the last 100 days, it was deleted from the server. Compounding matters, is the fact that one of my hard drives kicked the bucket. My copy of 1.74 was on it. :( Luckily I am a hoarder and had a copy of 1.72, which I re-updated to 1.74 using the info on this forum, and re-uploaded it. The new link is thus: http://s000.tinyupload.com/?file_id=55774609988905557852 (if I hadn't said anything, I'm sure nobody would have noticed. :( )

Last thing the Legate said was that they were answered, but were needing editing. I think they could release the answers, but something is keeping them from doing so. Either something [redacted] or something upcoming, maybe....