Legate of Mineta Posted June 19, 2017 Report Share Posted June 19, 2017 Rhi; These are either in the [redacted] category, or the [you'll have to find out] category. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Legate of Mineta Posted June 20, 2017 Report Share Posted June 20, 2017 Darkness; Hahahaha! This. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Schwarzbart Posted June 20, 2017 Report Share Posted June 20, 2017 Wasn't it told by the Legate years ago that the clockmaker's daughter will direct enter into year 3 when the player enter year 2 and so skipping year 1 and 2 complete? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Legate of Mineta Posted June 20, 2017 Report Share Posted June 20, 2017 Schwarzbart; Did I spill that? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rhialto Posted June 20, 2017 Report Share Posted June 20, 2017 @Schwarzbart: Do you have a link to this claim? Legate: How are regents of colleges made? are they appointed by the Legate of Academagia? is there a process according to which professors teaching core subjects of colleges provide advice/vetoes? Are any current regents (such as Giovanni di Lucca Alazzo) rumoured to have secured their positions through bribery? Did any past regents secure their positions through bribery? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Legate of Mineta Posted June 20, 2017 Report Share Posted June 20, 2017 Rhi; Regents are selected by the Regents of the Academagia, with the Legate of the Academagia providing tie breaking votes. The Regents of the Academagia aren't, confusingly, the same as the Collegiate Regents, but are made up instead of former alumni, influential leaders and others invited to provide governance. There are always rumors. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Metis Posted June 20, 2017 Report Share Posted June 20, 2017 To quote Tower of the Cold Forge 07: Quote "Anyway," [Lambert] continues, "I figured you'd be going in sometime, so I kinda cast some spying spells on you. Little ones. Y'know, just to be sure you'd be okay. So I know about Time Slice, and... yeah, here's the thing. Our man Giovanni di Lucca Alazzo doesn't know it, not one pheme. You can ask him yourself if you like, and if you're willing to put up with hemming and hawing and dodging the subject for hours on end. The thing is, he's not a Grandmaster Enchanter. He got the Vernin job because he could fundraise the pants off a dragon with a trouser fetish and he's been learning the ropes as he goes, but he's not Old Vernin material. The stuff the people who made this tower knew? He's as much in the dark about it as anyone else. Even the Legate's been beating his head against Time Slice since he got here." So di Lucca Alazzo isn't rumored to have bought his position, he's all but confirmed to have done so. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rhialto Posted June 20, 2017 Report Share Posted June 20, 2017 @MetisI interpreted that part of the adventure in a different way; it did not explicitly say that di Lucca Alazzo had bought the position; rather, it linked his elevation to his fundraising ability. I interpreted this as meaning that he was appointed, as far as Lambert knows, because of his skill at fundraising, which could be applied to Vernin. This does not mean that di Lucca Alazzo did not buy his position (I suspect that he did), but I would not hold that quotation to be the confirmation that you hold it to be. How plausible is it that Academagia could honestly have no knowledge that there is a passage to the Schohanwicht School near their school? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
freespace2dotcom Posted June 20, 2017 Report Share Posted June 20, 2017 No, he didn't buy the position. Not directly anyway. I doubt just anyone could do the job. He got it because Vernin is hurting financially and they decided that putting up with a non-enchanter for a few years is tolerable if he can help bring balance back into the ledger. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Metis Posted June 20, 2017 Report Share Posted June 20, 2017 I interpret it as di Lucca Alazzo not being qualified for a position he really only got because of how much weight his bank account put on the table. Which I guess might not directly be buying the position, but close enough. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
freespace2dotcom Posted June 20, 2017 Report Share Posted June 20, 2017 9 minutes ago, Darkness said: By fundraiser, i understand that he is sharp enough to get people to donate to Vernin, not taking the money from his bank account per si. Exactly. Think of him as a high class salesman. He's capable of projecting the image of Vernin that parents and alumni want to see, which translates to pims for the college. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rhialto Posted June 20, 2017 Report Share Posted June 20, 2017 @DarknessThat is my interpretation, also. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Metis Posted June 20, 2017 Report Share Posted June 20, 2017 Good points, but I don't really see that as a meaningful distinction. At the end of the day he got his position because he put money on the table, be it his money or someone else's money, not because he was qualified for his position. Not that "mercantile acumen and resourcefulness" isn't literally part of Vernin College's description, or that di Lucca Alazzo doesn't qualify in that respect, but his Enchant skills are...lacking. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rhialto Posted June 20, 2017 Report Share Posted June 20, 2017 Interesting analysis, Darkness. Is there then a scarcity of great Enchanters at Academagia? or is enchanting such a busy field of study that those who are great enchanters are not able/willing to assume the responsibilities of being a Regent? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Schwarzbart Posted June 20, 2017 Report Share Posted June 20, 2017 Given that when the rich want to have magic at their hand they either have to study many years or pay a Enchanter to make them a item I would say its a good paid job, at last if you made your self a name. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Metis Posted June 20, 2017 Report Share Posted June 20, 2017 Di Lucca Alazzo's description claims that he "campaigned hard to become the head for the College of Vernin", so I assume there were plenty of other candidates. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rhialto Posted June 20, 2017 Report Share Posted June 20, 2017 Fair point. I guess that Di Lucca Alazzo may have been able to outmaneuver the genuinely great enchanters. But that must leave him with enemies among the truly skilled enchanters, right, Legate? Also, can Mastery grant animals greater levels of intelligence? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
isadorbg Posted June 20, 2017 Report Share Posted June 20, 2017 Such baseless and outrageous rumours spreading on this thread about our most esteemed Regent ! Sad ! How sad and jealous people become when faced by the achievement of their betters! Truly an evil world we live in! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rhialto Posted June 21, 2017 Report Share Posted June 21, 2017 Here are some questions: 1. If one were to ask Tabin, Magsa, and Sima where they were from, what would they answer? The only one I can guess at is Sima, who might claim (with an aura of casual innocence) to be Renaglian, in keeping with her name. 2. Would their answers be honest? 3. can Mastery grant animals greater levels of intelligence? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Legate of Mineta Posted June 21, 2017 Report Share Posted June 21, 2017 Rhi; 1) You'd have to ask them in game, of course. 2) Who could say? 3) Not in of itself, no. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
freespace2dotcom Posted June 21, 2017 Report Share Posted June 21, 2017 Legate; 1. While Temporary revisions can be made to make one thinner or fatter, what kind of magic exists to help lose or gain weight permanently as needed? 2. If a person was petrified, smashed into several pieces, revised back into a whole, and then de-stoned, would the person survive? 3. Since there are examples of Mastery magic lingering in people long after it had been cast, I'm curious if Mastery has any permanence? Or is it merely that damage done by the magic can't be healed easily? Were there cases of students accidentally putting themselves into comas back when it was legal to use it? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Legate of Mineta Posted June 21, 2017 Report Share Posted June 21, 2017 Free; 1) Hmmm, I'll ask. 2) Almost certainly. If the Revision was good. 3) The latter- it isn't always healed easily. It did happen that you could injure yourself in various ways with Mastery, however. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rhialto Posted June 21, 2017 Report Share Posted June 21, 2017 Does the increase in answers about how we should do things in game that we cannot yet do in game (such as ask the triplets where they are from) mean that Y2 is getting closer to completion? Is boxing recognized as a sport separate from wrestling? what about the pankration? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
isadorbg Posted June 21, 2017 Report Share Posted June 21, 2017 Well suposedly the game itself is finished, Art excepted. So yes to that question I guess altough the you will get to do it in year 2 part is not something fresh. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Legate of Mineta Posted June 22, 2017 Report Share Posted June 22, 2017 Rhi; Boxing is separate. Pankration hasn't survived...fortunately? isadorbg; I wouldn't say that the *game* is finished, as tweaks go on, and there is some still some editing, too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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