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[Atomic Chicken]

For a design should we consider making black powder? We have experience in chemistry from our fire shells and with our admintine making our own cannons should be viable.

Whilst I agree that we definitely need to increase and diversify* our offensive potential, attempting to get started with cannons now is too impractical to be feasible, simply because our friends in Arstotzka have already spent ages perfecting their own cannons. We'd never be able to compete!

That said, making an explosive variant of our firestorm shells would certainly be useful.

*Lightning's fantastic, but what happens if they start constructing lightning rods to protect their encampments?

[NUKE9.13]

(5) Academy of Magic (aka Share Thoughts): AC, SMMI, Madman198237,Khang36, NUKE9.13

(0) Eye In the Sky

(0) Mind Trail

(0) Enhanced Teletalk

[Happerry]

(5) Academy of Magic (aka Share Thoughts): AC, SMMI, Madman198237, Khang36, NUKE9.13, Happerry

(0) Eye In the Sky

(0) Mind Trail

(0) Enhanced Teletalk

For a design should we consider making black powder? We have experience in chemistry from our fire shells and with our admintine making our own cannons should be viable.

Whilst I agree that we definitely need to increase and diversify* our offensive potential, attempting to get started with cannons now is too impractical to be feasible, simply because our friends in Arstotzka have already spent ages perfecting their own cannons. We'd never be able to compete!

Personal opinion is that if we're going to move onto a new type of siege gun, we should utilize our lightning magic and go for the railguns. We already have the wands of lightning to serve as the power source...

[somemildmanneredidiot]

Things I want over the next some turns:

Improved Airships: They're basically our only military unit making advances.

Malleable Adamantium Properties: There's quite a bit of potential for advancements most everywhere.

Point Defense Lightning (which means advancements in Arty Divination Detection): Direct arty counter which is needed.

Eye In The Sky: Provides Intel as well as strike capabilities.

Improved Divine Desert Wind: Seriously, we need to kill their cold advantage.

If we get the revision credit, I'm thinking we Design EITS, Revise DDW, and Revise Airships. Without the credit, I'm thinking we drop the Airship improvements for another turn. Turn after that one, I'm thinking Design MAP and Revise Passive Arty Detection.

[Khang36]

(5) Academy of Magic (aka Share Thoughts): AC, SMMI, Madman198237, Khang36, NUKE9.13, Happerry

(0) Eye In the Sky

(0) Mind Trail

(0) Enhanced Teletalk

For a design should we consider making black powder? We have experience in chemistry from our fire shells and with our admintine making our own cannons should be viable.

Whilst I agree that we definitely need to increase and diversify* our offensive potential, attempting to get started with cannons now is too impractical to be feasible, simply because our friends in Arstotzka have already spent ages perfecting their own cannons. We'd never be able to compete!

Personal opinion is that if we're going to move onto a new type of siege gun, we should utilize our lightning magic and go for the railguns. We already have the wands of lightning to serve as the power source...

My main concern with going for magic rail gun is that it will require mages to operate them and Astroska with their anti magic shells they will be able to suppress them as long as they can shell the general area. So i figured we could go for a non magic solution to not deal with that issue.

[Madman198237]

Alright, SMMI, here we go:

Improved Airships: Sure. Worthy of a design, I'd say. If we could bring expense down by not using the carpets and instead enchanting the hulls, we'd be in a good place.
Adamantine: NOT MALLEABLE! We want adjustable properties. Malleability refers to how easy a metal is to hammer into shape. But yes, definitely worth a design and revision. What can't you do with adamantine that is both cheaper, harder, stronger, and hotter/colder?
PDL: Heck no. How is this supposed to stop a cannonball? You're just going to superheat the dumb things and make them even deadlier. Not that they need any HELP doing that...
Eye: How about we start with the modified telepathy spells? Heck, we could revamp our Teletalk to make use of visual communications over long ranges too.
IDDW: Bad idea. I think that that spell has limited further use, and was poorly designed in the first place. I think that we ought to make a form of tower like theirs, capable of calling down continuous lightning around it (INDESTRUCTIBLE MOUNTAIN FORTS YEAH) and warming the air through the constant barrage of plasma. Even if unrealistic, it'd work, because MAGIC, SUCKERS!

First objective: Lightning-repelling enchantments on our men. Applied to entire armies at once by all the mages and apprentices working together, must last at least two days and be 100% effective. Well, 95%, anyway. 1/20 isn't too bad for the GLORIOUS MOSKURGIAN LEGIONS OF MANY MEN.
The lightning-repelling allows our troops to attack directly through the middle of a Hammer strike. Pretty much amazing, terrifying, GLORIOUS, and makes it almost impossible to kill them (Can't shoot if you're fleeing the lightning bolts and crazy horse-riding lunatics of death who are riding through the lightning storm without getting touched). Also, shock value.

[evictedSaint]

Revision: Academy of Magic [1]

Well...it was an interesting idea, at least.

Sharing thoughts via our Mind Reading spell in order to expedite training was a clever application of our existing magic.  Unfortunately, it looks like it needs more work before we can use it. 

At the best of times, our apprentices just end up reading the surface thoughts of their teachers.  At the worst of times their brains are filled with a disjointed stream of consciousness that leaves their minds buzzing for a few days.

The mind reading clearly needs to be refined a bit more before we can use it in this way.  Part of the problem is that the spell is likely too complex for an apprentice to use easily in this manner.

[evictedSaint]

Please vote on how you want to train your heir.

[Madman198237]

Why was Induce Zen a part of that? It was ONLY supposed to be a direct revision of our Mind Reading spell. Induce Zen was not intended to be a part of it...at all.

And we didn't get a bonus to it, after decades of experience (Well, a few years, anyway, until they countered it) working with mind reading? Even in the purposefully-disadvantaged method that uses two mages working together (Well, one's an apprentice, I suppose) over a short range?

[evictedSaint]

Apprentices can't use Expensive spells, cancelling out the bonus.  And I tweaked it to reflect you didn't use Zen.

[NUKE9.13]

Hmm :/ That's a shame. Well, at least next time will be easier, right?

Anyway. Curriculum votes:

A varied education, overseen by al-Mutriqa: (1) NUKE9.13

Does anyone have any other suggestions?

[Atomic Chicken]

Well, there goes our potential education advantage. At least the design rolls were pretty great.

NUKE, may I suggest the following modifications to your curriculum?

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1) Seeing as how al-Mutriqa is taking the entire year off for this purpose, why don't we have him train her every day instead of just once a week?

2) Not quite certain, but I think we're expected to specify the spells we want our heiress to learn. What about starting her off with Detect Ambush concommitant with her study of the Divination spellbook? Seems like a priority spell for potential assassination targets. Not quite sure whether she should focus on learning a wizard-level spell after that (Detect Thoughts would be quite useful in diplomatic situations), or simply focus on mastering our other cheap spells instead.

[NUKE9.13]

1) Can do. I added more references to al-Mutriqa training her, although not all the time.
2) Hmm :/ Thing is, we only have three Cheap spells. I figure that fluffwise, apprentices must be learning very basic forms of the magic they will later master- stuff with no combat potential, obviously. If they don't start learning to move puffs of air around, how can they ever work up to a full Gust of Wind?

[Madman198237]

Ultimate Diplomat ploy? Ambush-detecting, mind-reading...anything else? I'm thinking that those won't actually cut it for a full magical education. I think she should be educated in the proper functionality of a teletalk wand (Contact guards if under attack), use of a War Pegasus (Not Aladdin at all, what are you talking about???), and Wands of Thunderbolts. This gives her a means of transport, means of communications, means of self-defense, a warning spell, and a massive advantage in the diplomacy she will possibly have to undertake when we beat the Arstotzkans.

(Something about heirs now. Do I smell a succession crisis in the near future?)

Thanks for the answers eS. Maybe be more biased next time?

I agree, Atomic. Definitely have a full year of one-on-one with al-Mutriqa.

[Kashyyk]

I think with al-Mutriqa and her clearly powerful magical ability, we should be able to fast track her into a few of our expensive spells.

Although this does make me wonder what on Forenia we have our apprentices doing the whole time.