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[Lillipad]

Since I apparently have no choice in the matter:

Spoiler: turn (click to show/hide)

2 hours: spell composition(difficulty: average)
2 hours: spell composition(difficulty: average)
2 hours: spell composition(difficulty: average)
2 hours: spell composition(difficulty: average)
2 hours: spell composition(difficulty: average)
2 hours: spell composition(difficulty: average)

Spoiler: stats (click to show/hide)

49 - knowledge
15 - intuition
46 - faith
46 - body
20 - luck
44 - connection

[Haika]

...

Why do you even bother to play if that's all you are going to do?

[Dwarmin]

Bad place to leave the thread at.

Really Lil, that's sort of lame...anyway! Let's start this thing.

The Trial of Carly Summers-Jury Selection

Kathryn Lynch is overseeing the Eight being Celestial/Infernal Jury being chosen for the case.

She needs the three things from the GM's.

1. The current makeup of the Jury-presumably, chosen by random. Also, what payment they've requested for their time.
2. Who, if anyone, Carly has hired to stand for her defense
3. If the Defense has any objections to our current Jurors.

[Lillipad]

You seem to be forgetting that I'm on a training trip in an attempt to grind out dozens of spells. Just be happy I'm not doing 12 one hour spell comps for every single day of the trip. And hey, you think I like posting turns like that? It was to my understanding that everything would follow a simple schedule I gave to Weird so that I wouldn't have to post these bland actions during my training thing. Complain to Weird for deciding otherwise.

Anyway, my stats are up. I forgot to do that before crashing last night.

[Grek]

Lillipad: "Grinding out spells" like is both boring and inefficent. You don't get any circumstance bonuses for having spellbooks and other equipment, you don't get a chance to select what spells you get and it strains the GM's creativity having to come up with a bunch of spells you'd be interested in without any prompts or suggestions from you. It's much, much better (both in terms of fun and mechanics) to come up with some spell ideas first and to come up with specific, detailed actions that will help you learn those spells. I know you're creative enough to do that, and if it's just a matter of wanting to get power fast without overwhelming the GM with long turn posts, I have good news in that the GMs have specifically and explictly given us a method to rapidly gain spells:

Go to the Magic Seed Shop in Barstow. Buy all the remaining Fruit of Knowledge. Gobble them down. Immediately gain up to nine spells. Work with Kestrel and Palorur to fix whatever unfortunate side effects insue. Hell, I'll even spot you the money, just to see what happens.

E: And if Lillipad doesn't buy them, I will. 34500$ and three moderately bad curses is a small price to pay for that kind of power.

[Lillipad]

Grek, you have the wrong idea. I was hoping to be training in isolation so I'd get a bonus for having zero distractions. Not on some annoying party yacht. And I already sent Weird a PM of specific spells I want to attempt to learn. And finally, to reiterate; I like making things harder on myself in games. I'm not going to take shortcuts until I'm reasonably strong enough to make the shortcuts worthwhile.

[Grek]

Lillipad's odd turns aside, when are we doing the were-rights meeting mini-session thing? And should we do some preliminary, "Here's the New Order's proposal" stuff?

[Criptfeind]

What can we offer them? None of us are rich enough to offer a massive support program. Which it seems they might need after being downtrodden for so long.

Speaking of wealth though. I wonder if setting up a mining operation in the Ballast vaults would be a good idea for me. Bring in some cash. All the other mages seem to have some way of being wealthy. We should find something as well.

[Lillipad]

You should probably keep most of anything you mine for advanced/permanent golem making. But there are probably more important things we should be worrying about than money at the moment. Such as becoming walking fortresses so we stop getting wrecked when a stray lucky enemy shows up.

[Grek]

My current "how to make money fast" schemes are A] selling large souls at Styx Crossing (that dragon got me 15000$ in ID; other souls are probably also pretty fancy) and B] my plant farm, which can be expected to bring in around 2000$ a day from necromancer's delight as long as there's demand for that, plus unknown amounts for the steelbloom steel, pitcher lava, devil bee honey and various breeds and crossbreeds of magical corn.

E: Lillipad raises a fair point, golems are probably much more useful than the cash you'd get from any mining operation within your ability to create. And I'm fine with bankrolling our projects if needed.
As for the werebeings: The big thing they want is housing that isn't in a shit-filled ghetto. If we can find a way to provide that, they should be happy as long as we don't offend them with some other provision. I'll have a draft of a housing bill up tonightish.

[Grek]

How's this look so far?

Spoiler: The Transformation Secrecy and Housing Act: Rough Draft (click to show/hide)

The following statute establishes the housing regulation and secrecy requirements for beings with multiple forms living within the County of Los Angeles

Section I: Classification
I.I: For the purposes of this statute, all beings with multiple alternate forms will have said form or forms classified according to the tables shown in sections I.II and I.III with all such beings being assigned a two character classification of their form or forms (eg. 3A, 0B or 4C). Those with multiple alternate forms will be assigned one classification per form, and are subject to all laws pertaining to one or more of their forms. Beings whose degree control or appearance of form changes will be reclassified according to their new status, without prejudice to their former classification.

I.II	: Appearance of Alternate Form	Example
0	The alternate form of the being does not appear non-human in any way.	A different human.
1	The alternate form of the being is a mundane animal native to Los Angeles County.	A dog.
2	The alternate form of the being is a mundane animal foreign to Los Angeles County.	An elephant.
3	The alternate form is an magical creature or hybrid which can be disguised as human.	A human with cat ears.
4	The alternate form is an obviously magical creature or hybrid which cannot be disguised as human.	A dragon.

I.III	: Degree of Control Over Transformation
A	The being has had no involuntary transformations for the past sixty (60) days.
B	The being has had one or more involuntary transformations in the past sixty (60) days but has been able to predict their transformations for the past three hundred and sixty six days.
C	The being has had one or more involuntary transformations in the past sixty (60) days without being able to predict their transformations.

II: Housing Restrictions

II.I: Those with ONLY class A forms may live anywhere in the county without restriction based on their status, so long as they
   A] remain out of view of mundanes for 15 minutes both before and after any transformation in the case of class 0A, 1A and 3A forms, and,
   B] remain out of view of mundanes for the duration of their transformation in the case of class 4A and 2A forms.
II.II: Beings with class 0B or 1B forms may live anywhere in the county so long as they
   A] live and work within one (1) hour's travel of an accredited safe-transformation spot, and
   B] remain within an accredited safe-transformation spot for 15 minutes both before and after any transformation.
II.III: Beings with class 3B forms may live anywhere in the county so long as
   A] live and work within one (1) hour's travel of an accredited safe-transformation spot,
   B] remain within an accredited safe-transformation spot for 15 minutes both before and after any transformation, and
   C] refrain from leaving the transformation spot while transformed without first having their disguise verified by an accredited attendant.
II.IV: Beings with class 2B or 4b forms may live anywhere in the county so long as they
   A] live and work within one (1) hour's travel of an accredited safe-transformation spot,
   B] remain within an accredited safe-transformation spot for 15 minutes both before and after any transformation, and
   C] refrain from leaving the transformation spot while transformed.
II.V: Beings with ANY class C forms are required to
   A] refrain from spending more than one (1) hour per day outside of magically hidden areas, except in case of emergency.

III: Establishment of Werebeing Settlements

The Council of Archmages shall meet with the leaders of the werebeing community to discuss the construction and funding of a permenent settlement for werebeings with class C forms within one year of the passage of this statute into law.

IV: Accreditation Processes

IV.I: The following locations are declared to be accredited safe-transformation spots:
   1] The Werebeing inhabited sections of the Los Angeles sewer system.
   2] The Offices of the Committee for Fantastic Beings
   3] [Insert Wherever The Hell Ruffian Lives Here]
   4] [Insert Any Other Werebeing Settlements I Don't Know About Here]
   5] [Seriously, if Robyn Wants to Suggest A Place, Let Her]
IV.II: Additional safe-transformation spots may be accredited so long as the site:
   A] is owned by a person already aware of the existance of magic,
   B] is deemed to be suitably hidden from mundane observation by an inspector from the Committee for Fantastic Beings,
   C] contains at least one room of 3 meter by 3 meter or greater floor area,
   D] is staffed at all times by a minimum of one volunteer attendant approved by the Committee for Fantastic Beings, and
   E] remains available for use as a safe-transformation spot at all times save for those posted at least one (1) week in advance.
IV.III: Expediated accreditation is available for sites which are:
   A] magically hidden from mundane detection, and
   B] is being used as housing by a being with multiple forms and no previous criminal record as of the passage of this statute into law.
Expediated accreditation requires neither inspection by the Committee for Fantastic Beings nor the presence of an attendant.
IV.IV: Exemptions to all or parts of sections II and IV of this statute may be granted on a case by case basis if approved by:
   A] the Chairman of the Committee for Fantastic Beings, and
   B] a minimum of one (1) Archmage who is not the Chairman.
IV.V: Resons for granting such an exemption include, but are not limited to:
   A] the defense of the safety or secrecy of the Realm of Magicial California,
   B] allowing a being with a class C form to move between distant magically hidden areas,
   C] allowing a being with a class 2 form to transform in a location appropriate to their form's appearance, ie. in a zoo, or
   D] [Insert Other Good Reasons Here]
IV.VI: An automatic exemption to section II is given to any being who applies or has applied a spell, potion or other magical effect to prevent mundanes from noticing their transformations for the duration of the relevent effect.

[Grek]

Beyond the housing bill, we also need someone to draft some "Regulations Concerning the Control of Communicable Curses" which covers the various punishments for people that run around spreading Z-plague, vampirism, lycanthropy, etc. to people that don't want it and anything else we want to put down as law concerning that sort of thing.

[Lillipad]

The only one of us who's really avoided catching, advancing, or spreading some form of plague/curse is Henry. So I vote we have Cript do that.

[Criptfeind]

Zing.

[Grek]

Any comments on the housing bill? Is it too glaringly bad to deserve mention? So good that nobody could think of anything to say? So boring, nobody has finished reading it?