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[ATHATH]

Well, I guess he would probably fall into a role similar to Q-branch: making cool gadgets for the combat members of the team to use. I just don't really know what else to add (I can't really write his attitude towards the rest of the team if I don't know who the rest of the team is).

[Draignean]

Well, I guess he would probably fall into a role similar to Q-branch: making cool gadgets for the combat members of the team to use. I just don't really know what else to add (I can't really write his attitude towards the rest of the team if I don't know who the rest of the team is).

The answers are coming. Tir should have the team roster soonish, and then you can begin frightening and alienating your companions.

@Tiruin: I believe he just means the prologue when he says mission.

[Tiruin]

The answers are coming. Tir should have the team roster soonish, and then you can begin frightening and alienating your companions.

I have PM'd you the whole list and appended notes instead of posting it here
...Because it was -really hard- picking people ._.
Emphasis on difficulty.

Sorry for the wait though, everyone. Personal difficulties resurfaced.

[Draignean]

The answers are coming. Tir should have the team roster soonish, and then you can begin frightening and alienating your companions.

I have PM'd you the whole list and appended notes instead of posting it here
...Because it was -really hard- picking people ._.
Emphasis on difficulty.

Sorry for the wait though, everyone. Personal difficulties resurfaced.

NP, Tir, personal difficulties are understandable.

For the White Company, Joan has selected the following members...
(Assuming my brain didn't fail and I'm interpreting this list properly)

Lora Kal Gara
Mudren Gude
Rollun Kol Nodelaga
Averrco
Svurrl

Writing shall commence immediately, and I'll post here when the IC thread launches.

To those who were not selected: I have plans for some of you. I shall communicate these plans via PM and we can rub our hands together with evil glee hash out the details later.

[Powder Miner]

* Powder Miner snaps his fingers

Alas.

[Tiruin]

* Powder Miner snaps his fingers

Alas.

Do note, however!

To those who were not selected: I have plans for some of you. I shall communicate these plans via PM and we can rub our hands together with evil glee hash out the details later.

I have made it in detail (as concise as I guess it may be) in my PM regarding my ideas on everyone here. Which...helps forward your plans for later. :3
So commence evil scheming!

[Draignean]

To those who were not selected: I have plans for some of you. I shall communicate these plans via PM and we can rub our hands together with evil glee hash out the details later.

I have made it in detail (as concise as I guess it may be) in my PM regarding my ideas on everyone here. Which...helps forward your plans for later. :3
So commence evil scheming!

Verily.

Finishing up the crib notes now. Found one thing I need to smooth over.
@The Ensorceler: You can't take a cadet rank in staves. Staves/rods/wands all work off the user's LSM score. Staves that have been modified to run off of charge crystals or wells count as rifle type weapons, and wands and rods both count as pistols. Until you say otherwise, I'm just switching that specialization to rifle.

[ATHATH]

Dang.

Are the people who didn't make it in going to be villains?

[Draignean]

Not necessarily, it depends on the character in question and whatever we end up discussing. Straight up villainy would be a poor fit for most of the waitlist.

Besides, I think they'd enjoy the chance to join the party at some point. Killing people isn't a good way to start relations with a mercenary company.

[The Ensorceler]

Er, yes, thanks for catching that. Fixed my sheet and so forth. Two questions though.

One, how does crystal programming work? Is it mechanically building little transistor style light valves, or something less related to growing a crystal? And two, does it take up space in a crystal the same way as light or by some other mechanic? Memory crystals are small and decent quality, golem hearts are larger and nearly perfect quality, so as far as I can tell, it could be either volume*quality, as with light, or volume could correspond to possible size of program while quality affects efficiency, possibly some other configurations with more than two factors.

[heydude6]

ah well, I wasn't expecting Hans to make it into something like the white company anyway. It's good to hear that he still will have some purpose in the story. Excited to learn what it is.

[Draignean]

Crystal programming, mechanically, involves manipulating the interior structure of the crystal in order to create a region of high absorption or an area of low absorption. This is analogous to high/low doping of circuits, and you can do all the bit* level logic stuff you can expect to do there. Programmed areas are structurally different from the surrounding crystal, and the lack homogeneous structure means that the programmed section of a crystal is a very poor light storage medium. (Hence the reason you need additional nearly 'blank' crystals to act as bulk capacitors.) You're not exactly growing the crystal, you're just altering its internal structure. So, the size of a crystal indicates the theoretical maximum program size you can encode to a crystal.

The quality of a crystal indicates the practical maximum that they can store. Again you can think of this as a doped chip. If your logic gates are significantly larger than the impurities within the chip, then you don't have any problems. If you're trying to make your gates smaller and smaller, then you'll eventually hit a point where the impurities and your doping have roughly the same profile, and then everything starts to go to hell. Programming on the edge of a crystal's size limit gives you unpredictable effects similar to a race condition, except with more potential for explosions.

*Bit is misleading. You are not limited to a purely binary programming set. On/off is an archaic system used only in primitive and exceptionally impure crystals where the best that could be done was to tell if a particular well was being tapped or not. Modern avernomantic programming makes use of colored light to significantly extend the practical base of the logic system.

[The Ensorceler]

I am actually tearing up right now. Thank you so much for this setting.

[flabort]

Pretty sure mine's a villain, though. >8<:{D

[ATHATH]

Do we get control over the waitlisted characters when they appear? I'd like Nimvedih to be an eccentric shopkeeper, if possible.

By the way, rearrange the letters in Nimvedih's full name.