Legate of Mineta Posted April 28, 2016 Report Share Posted April 28, 2016 Schwarzbart; Given that you have the Secret Background...why, yes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Metis Posted April 28, 2016 Report Share Posted April 28, 2016 You mean someone with a suitable amazing Astrological something can be excused for being illiterate? How's progress on those PM questions, by the way? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Legate of Mineta Posted April 28, 2016 Report Share Posted April 28, 2016 Metis; I don't think they're ready to answer, but I'll ping'em again! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Schwarzbart Posted April 29, 2016 Report Share Posted April 29, 2016 Schwarzbart; Given that you have the Secret Background...why, yes. I asked because I placed the adventure in Mineta for be done during the summer break and with the Secret Background be home at a different location it might be problematic. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
freespace2dotcom Posted April 29, 2016 Report Share Posted April 29, 2016 Well, those with the secret background have.. erm.. ways..... of getting "around" if you catch my drift? Legate, any news on #4? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Legate of Mineta Posted April 29, 2016 Report Share Posted April 29, 2016 Free; None yet. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Schwarzbart Posted April 29, 2016 Report Share Posted April 29, 2016 Can repeat use of magic items also be the reason for a magic aura? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Legate of Mineta Posted April 29, 2016 Report Share Posted April 29, 2016 Schwarzbart; Yes, although it's more easily found out as the reason (because items rarely have variation in how they cast/emanate.) Free; Here you go! "It's the Mineta Times, but there's some context to note. The Times is politically affiliated with the Captain; it's well funded, distributed for free in many neighborhoods, and the central printing press usually has a sizable Minetan Guard presence to protect it from the city's occasional mob uprisings. The fact that the paper's journalistic practice is the best in town is almost coincidental. Of course, it doesn't help that the anti-Captain papers are split up among different factions themselves. The other thing to note is that Mineta is thought to have more printing presses, per capita, than any other city in the world - and it also has a ridiculous number of mages capable of incanting or revising short-lived broadsheets as well. There's a real culture of one-shots and underground (for want of a better word) publications that have huge impact on some issue of the day or some popular feeling, and then just drop off the face of Elumia. It's very dynamic and very hard to predict. Anyway, as for the Times and the Academagia, the school proper receives thirty copies a day, plus complementary issues whenever a professor has a published article (unless it's Orso, who occasionally uses a pseudonym). Individual students often have their own subscriptions as well. Incidentally, Rikildis occasionally rounds up as many copies as she can and burns them. She sneers, says the Times makes you stupid and lazy, and then tries to sell you a story about Carmine Sturzo's shopping habits; it's just her way." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Schwarzbart Posted April 29, 2016 Report Share Posted April 29, 2016 Interesting so unless a closer check someone known to have some allowed gate items can explain why (s)he have a gate magic aura? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Legate of Mineta Posted April 29, 2016 Report Share Posted April 29, 2016 Schwarzbart; Yes, although it is easy to tell if that Aura is related to those Items. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Schwarzbart Posted April 29, 2016 Report Share Posted April 29, 2016 Hmm then I have to work toward make Gate magic legal again before my chars get this Aura Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
freespace2dotcom Posted April 29, 2016 Report Share Posted April 29, 2016 Wow, so interesting! I suppose Orsi's pseudonym will have to remain unknown for a later day. Does Rikildis use force or underhanded tactics to acquire the copies of the Times? Or does she only bother with those which she can easily get her hands on? (If I made an effort to collect them for a news archive would I have to worry about her?) Also, where would one get a look at one of the school's copies? Do the professors hoard most of them? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Legate of Mineta Posted April 29, 2016 Report Share Posted April 29, 2016 Free; I imagine both. Professors get them (and enterprising Students hurry to bring them to them!) There is likely one or two in the Library as well. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Schwarzbart Posted April 30, 2016 Report Share Posted April 30, 2016 Will we see newspaper with actual different news depend on the date you buy them as shop item in year 2? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Legate of Mineta Posted April 30, 2016 Report Share Posted April 30, 2016 Schwarzbart; We really wanted that for Y2, but it looks like it is cut again. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
freespace2dotcom Posted April 30, 2016 Report Share Posted April 30, 2016 That's alright. There's enough added in Y2 I'm sure we'll be busy 'oooh'ing and 'ahhhh'ing to notice that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Legate of Mineta Posted April 30, 2016 Report Share Posted April 30, 2016 Free; Yes, but...*sigh* procedural newspapers... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Metis Posted April 30, 2016 Report Share Posted April 30, 2016 Would have been a great way to clue in newcomers as to the events of Y1, if nothing else. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Legate of Mineta Posted April 30, 2016 Report Share Posted April 30, 2016 *sigh* Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Schwarzbart Posted April 30, 2016 Report Share Posted April 30, 2016 Will we at last get a school letter or newspaper what important stuff happened during the last year with or without the player taking actions? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Legate of Mineta Posted April 30, 2016 Report Share Posted April 30, 2016 Schwarzbart; There's a kind of a summary, like the arrival at the Gates in Juvenalia, which discusses it, including the various paths you may or may not have taken... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Metis Posted April 30, 2016 Report Share Posted April 30, 2016 Does that summary include "just" main adventure line stuff or also other "high-profile" Y1 adventures (The Keystone in particular comes to mind...) with continuations/consequences/something in Y2? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Legate of Mineta Posted April 30, 2016 Report Share Posted April 30, 2016 Both, but not all, of course. Just things that affect the campus overtly. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Schwarzbart Posted May 1, 2016 Report Share Posted May 1, 2016 Is the production of the Kickstarter video for year 1 already started by now? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Legate of Mineta Posted May 1, 2016 Report Share Posted May 1, 2016 Schwarzbart; No, not yet- we're looking at potentially producing an extra video for Belles. Either way, soon, I think. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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