Pulse: Summer 1221

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==Declared Actions==
Declared actions for Summer	Declared actions for Summer
Ambrosius 	
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Barring any more pressing needs else where, Ambrosius will spend the summer season finishing his lab setup, eliminating the -3 penalty. For the last 10 days of the season, he will be working with the approriate people to construct a dwelling for Gruffydd and his brood.
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Warren 	
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Warren will do two things for this season:
# Visit the area communities and continue the work that he and Marcus had been doing: looking for students, talking up the school, etc. Specifically, he is going to search for disadvantaged students that could greatly benefit from the school. He will pay close attention to any potential student that might have weird rumors about them, or feel hinky to him in the way that the magi do.
## At the end of the season, Warren will seek out the old poacher and talk with him of the mynd, the business, the people around town, etc. He just wants to develop a working relationship that he might be able to call on sometime in the future. Assume that this action is repeated once a month until something significant changes.
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Llewys 	
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Llewys will study under Alicia for the season of teaching.
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Bedo 	
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Although it is not certain to be considered covenant service, Bedo intends to spend the summer season in his laboratory, copying out further laboratory notes into neat form for the covenant library. With Latin 5, he expects to copy up to 100 levels:-
* The Chirurgeon's Healing Touch (CrCo 20)
* Bind Wound (CrCo 10)
* Disguise of the New Visage (MuCo 15)
* Eyes of the Cat (MuCo(An) 5)
* Eyes of the Treacherous Terrain (InTe 15) 
* Revealed Flaws of Mortal Flesh (InCo 10)
* Sight of the Transparent Motive (InMe 10)
The 85 levels listed above complete the copies of spells he knows. He will spend the rest of the time getting used to his laboratory, and studying the night sky.
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Longinus 	
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Read Vim Summa, Source = Q16. 
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Geoffrey 	
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Continue overseeing the Training programme for the shield grogs to fight together as a unit, while continuing local exploration.
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Marcus 	
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I believe Marcus will spend this season getting his lab more or less into shape. (Does this get him to the -3 level or up to speed? Based on last season's results, I'm not sure.)
*Alicia decides that it is time to begin formal classes. Any students we have, Llewys if he likes, and any free covenfolk are welcome to attend her Introductory Latin class. Her quality is: Comm(2)+Teach(2)+3+GoodTeacher(5)=12. If she teaches only 1 person, it's 18, 2 people is 15. Maximum class size is 10 (or 15 children, whicih would also raise the Quality to 13, since that's her speciality)
::Llewys will be attending the class, or he'll face the switch! --Tim 21:22, 26 February 2007 (UTC)
*Blathmac is spending his time herding, naturally enough, although he's still working on befriending the goats. Are they brighter than normal goats?
*Diarmait is practicing with the grogs. Really, though, he's practicing Teaching. Is he getting immediate feedback on how well he's teaching? Source is 4 or 5, depending.
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Phaedrus 	
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Writes a tractatus, probably Rego since he has had most direct experience in that. "On the movement of stone, with contrast of earth and hides." At quality 12. While writing this he also collects notes for a future tractatus on Magic theory, tentatively named "Take it easy, a study of nonfatiguing spontaneous magic.", to be written (as a service, hopefully) some other year.
And since there is building afot he will be about cuting and moving stone for a few days with Ambrosius. 
During the season he is often seen running out from his writing and moving things around, both magically and otherwise. Since we are in the regio even smoke from the chimneys can start moving in unexpected directions, with Phaedrus standing beside on the roof. He tries not to upset the covenfolk too much, but asking someone that is polishing a sword nearby "Can I borrow that piece of metal fo a minute?" should be ok, right? (He'll spend a few sponts polishing and sharpening it afterwards if it is within his abilities, should be.)
As usual he makes a point of looking at the scribe a few hours each day while working, and does some experiments himself also, to find ways to magically make writing and copying easier. (If it seems to be disturbing Bartleby he will share his parma for those hours.)
Phaedrus asks Marcus to prioritize his teleport spells when he gets around to translating spells.
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Mnemosyne 	
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Mnemosyne will read the Creo text - Quality 16+3.
Gruffydd and his Merry Munchkins take advantage of the good summer weather to do some more provisioning.
Much as she likes the idea of another pupil in the school, Mnemosyne has promised Nenya that she can have Wirt back in the kitchens. Both get down to the everyday task of feeding the Covenant - though Nenya does talk vaguely of training the boy to help with the brewing, come Autumn. Gertrude sets about making and repairing standard clothes for the covenfolk. Fergus farms.
Geraldous volunteers to help help Geoffrey out more, acting as his second with the training of the grogs. He approached Diarmait to enlist his veteran skills - but may have some difficulty communicating. Geraldous sets about practicing his Great Weapon skills with all and sundry. Practice Quality 4 (or 5 if this can be considered his craft or trade). 
:As long as they keep strictly to military matters, Diarmait and Geraldous can probably make do ... especially since they can physically emphasize the important bits:-) I would note that since the native langauge of most of the grogs seems to be Welsh, Geraldous probably should pick up some Welsh, err, "Cymraeg" at some point.
:Good point. He can practice two things at once, so probably Practice Quality 4 here, with xp to be split between Welsh and martial abilities. --Perikles 16:41, 27 February 2007 (UTC)
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==Results==
Results for Summer	Results for Summer
Ambrosius spends the season in his laboratory shuffling things around into increasingly precise and fastidious arrangements until eventually he reaches the point where there is simply nothing that can be moved to a better place. He spends ten days working on the stone shell of the residence for Gruffyd and his family. By the end of the ten days a structure is in place which require only the talents of the covenant's craftsmen and women to finish without undue difficulty.
Warren searches out the interesting students while surveying the bedrooms of a few local ladies, availing himself of food in exchange for the odd tall tale, and generally being a much better scallywag than the area has enjoyed for quite some time.
He locates the young lad who was subjugated by something unknown during the Potter's Field ritual. The locals are extremely wary of him, and he finds himself making ends meet with difficulty as most trades are closed to him and food comes by way of odd jobs reluctantly given and alms from the church. As this is an annual occurrance, Warren tries to track down previous victims, but finds a trail of unlikely accidents and a great deal of guilty regret instead.
: If I read this correctly, the boy has no one to care for him or provide for him, so Warren will take him in tow back to the covenant. Once there, he'll see if he can find someone there to take care of the lad until the school is ready - perhaps set him up to start taking lessons from Alicia. Maybe live with Gruffydd, if the small man is willing. Once he is taken care of, he will go back out and continue scallywagging. --Tim 19:56, 3 March 2007 (UTC)
:: We might as well consider him one of the covenfolk from hereon in, then. :D There are plenty of positions that need filling.--James 16:39, 8 March 2007 (UTC)
:::Works for me - turn him over to Issac for assignment, with special note to his history - heck it is *possible* that he really is cursed. --Tim 19:48, 16 March 2007 (UTC)
Longinus reads the Vim summa, and to his surprise, rather enjoys the text more than he thought he would. The season seems to fly by, and three moons come and go with nary a pause.
Marcus spends a further season tinkering with his lab. After many hours of moving things around, he finally creates a space he feels comfortable working in and knows well.
Alicia teaches a class. Her lessons go well, and the students are well behaved due to her easy manner, and all the attention they are recieving where before the adults had mostly been too busy to look twice at them.
Llewys attends Alicia's class (decide who else is present before assigning him XP)
Diarmait practices teaching without feedback. 
Phaedrus reads a summa.
Mnemosyne reads the Creo summa.
Phaedrus has, possibly, the best Summer he can recall since before his apprenticeship began. For the first time, he is free to indulge in his favourite art, creating a discourse on an aspect of the art that interests him from day to day, rather than reading the words of others, and attempting to grasp their significance day after day.
In a covenant full of workers, craftsmen, servants, etcetera, he has no trouble finding examples of Rego in the real world to stimulate his thoughts and set his pen in motion. By the onset of Autumn, Phaedrus has penned a most excellent Rego tractatus.
Gruffyd and his band reappear with a couple of round field tents, a modest quantity of broadhead and target arrows, a few hunting bows, a sturdy woven straw target, assorted consumables and perishable foodstuffs, some portable bedstands, and half a dozen piglets which squeal with every bounce of the wagon. "We 'ad some chickens," explains Gruffyd, "but we ate 'em." The smell of chicken dinners being prepared waft forth from the windows of certain craftsmens houses later that night, but that is another matter entirely.
Nenya and Wirt work to feed the covenant.
Gertrude begins to produce clothing for the covenant.
Fergus farms.
Diarmait and Geraldous manage to spend the summer practicing together without incident. 
They continue to train the grogs with Geoffrey. The practice goes well, with the turb slowly coming together as an effective fighting unit. Their ability to work together increases little by little while their ability to wield weapons advances noticeably.
Toward the end of Summer, Marco - a redcap reputed far and wide for his delightfully sordid poetry, arrives at the covenant. He returns with a few letters of interest; a couple come from concerned parens, one is from Harco addressed to Ambrosius and is bound together with a second scroll bearing the Mercere seal, while another is declaration of Wizards War which Marco snatches back with great embarrassment as it is addressed to someone in quite another place entirely.
Marco produces from his pounch a codex on Auram, and a codex on Aquam. He explains that there is not so much interest in books on the less aggressive elemental forms, and hands them over for inspection. He is willing to loan or sell these books to the covenant if desired. The Aquam book has a section on elementals at the back, which counts as a tractatus in Magic Lore : Elementals of Quality 9. As Summae, the codexes are not of particular interest, being only level 5 and with a pitiful quality rating.
During his stay, Marco regales the magi with many tales, and Ambrosius learns from him the rough location of the other covenants via a map he is permitted to copy. The map shows the British Isles with a small miniature rendition of the covenants of the Stonehenge Tribunal marked upon it, and little else save for a ruined covenant on Holy Island. Mons Obscurus is not marked on the map. He also tells Ambrosius that in its heyday, the covenant of Ungulus had quite a Verditius line in residence.
:Mnemosyne will give Marco a letter to be delivered to her parens, of no particular import but filling him some of the events of the past year. Basicly a social letter. --Perikles 13:36, 4 March 2007 (UTC)
Bartleby the Scribe spends the season patiently finishing the Rego Summa.