It's worth noting you could probably take out loans from nobles using your giant fuck off lump of gold as collateral. You are not messing the economy up as much because their money already exists they are essentially spending it on your behalf.

In reply to Brontion ex Guernicus (msg # 225):

If you are going to take out a loan with the lump of gold I suggest making it Sun duration. Said noble only need to see it and believe it is real to give you the loan. No need to actually keep the lump of gold in the basement if you're going to finance stuff with loans anyway.

Slaves can be purchased for 3-9 MP. Berber horses can be purchased for 10-30 slaves. So, good horses to trade go from 30-270 MP. Trade in gold vs. raising and training horses. Hermetic "enhancement" to speed of growth and training horses seems to be the better route.

Well horses can make a lot of money when you sell them you do need to buy the initial horses, set up said stable, gain a reputation for breeding and selling fine horses to command the mid to high end prices you listed, fight off horse thieves, etc. Obviously magic can help quite a bit with many of these but water and startup capital is going to be a concern and a bit of gold is a shorter-term fix. Not to mention none of our covenants are likely set up in the sort of lands where you raise lots of horses, except maybe up near Tunis.

You could certainly do that. But I would not risk being found out and tarnishing the reputation of the Order.

That is ruin on your sodales all day.

Also, and I'm sick of repeating, this was for the initial pfv at game start. Rather than buying solver with pfv.

You can ritual in platonically ideal horses. Just as easily as gold.

This brings up a good question, I have seen some folks talk about Cr ritual beings being infertile. I don't see that as being the canon case but would like to know whether that's the case here before we go off making our magical stables and whatnot.

That is explicitly not canon. It is canon that the sex of your summon is part of the spell and it takes separate spells to make a breeding pair. Hermetic Projects.

What is the rule on Companion age?

If the companion is old enough, roll for aging and deal with the consequences.

I got 2 dealers choice ageing points in 5 years.

What are the "consequences"? I want to make one of my grogs an old man. Like what level of crisis can it be assumed they survive?

In reply to Brontion ex Guernicus (msg # 235):

Depending on the rolls, they might not even suffer one.

If you decided to make a 100 year old scribe as a grog then they would probably have a few crisis. The point is you don't know until you are rolling.

Roll to see if they survive, assuming no modifiers from living conditions. So it will be risky to push it far, but it could be interesting.

Ah, death in character creation - little black books Traveller, how I miss you.

Oh Traveller!

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Brontion made a good point about the Poverty Hook. The baseline is that you have a solid source of income. If you have one established source, though it may not exist immediately, figure that's your baseline. As long as you get it set up over the first two years, you can figure you have the baseline over those two years. That should simplify some things. Anything you have on top of that you'll either set up yourselves as you go along or you'll pay for for somehow having in advance.

It's fine if magi, companions, and covenants are still being tweaked. As long as they're mostly established at this point we have the groundwork for Tribunal 0 and are good to do. We can finish those tweaks as well as finishing writing grogs while we're doing Tribunal 0.

Just to get the timeline set.

April 1218 - Meeting at Harco
2019 - Going to Africa?? (proper start of play)
2020 - magi of hopefully established covenants gather for first "tribunal"??

Based on the established years for Tribunals and simplicity for spring/summer/fall/winter order and so putting everything essentially on April 1:

1218 - meeting at Harco
1219 - meeting up at covenant sites in Africa
1221 - Tribunal
1227 - Tribunal
1228 - Grand Tribunal

I figured two years to get established was probably better than one. Some magi may be setting up labs and building devices to help them travel in addition to founding their covenants. So a single year seemed tight to me.

In reply to Alpha SG (msg # 245):

Is it ok to post our covenant on the wiki?  There's a complete list for us in the Menagerie thread. I guess I want to know if our library and Boons/Hooks has been approved.

Yes, that would be great. I've got one started. You can copy the Porta Amun one. Just change the covenant name in the links for library, boons and hooks, etc. so different pages are made instead of the same page. For characters, change the names and edit the links. Those likes can be found by clicking on the character in "the cast" and the copying the url.

In reply to Alpha SG (msg # 247):

I'll see about making and posting a print filter for covenants that will output to our wiki's formatting language later this week, for anyone interested.

I've started putting one together. It won't let me edit boons and hooks or library, said SG has to create the page first. The content is ready to go, as soon as the page is opened.
This message was last updated by the player at 21:52, Tue 16 Mar 2021.