How can you do that, though? We can't actually go back in time beyond what we are limited to with our aeonics skills. Unless you want to take the path that Aloysha took and we already know how that turned out.

Does the damage from ruby stones for Institutionalists (?) depend on your intelligence? This is relevant to my interests.

I dunno. It just seem silly. The fleshpots are all over a thousand, the max you'd get out of a mound if you NEVER used it was 100...

....the more flesh the mound has, the faster it grows new flesh. So, you harvest it down a little, so it's still got enough to recover quickly, and when it tops up, you harvest again. You keep doing this, gathering a large stockpile in your own inventory, whilst everyone else is doing the same with their mounds at different locations. You then trade amongst each other for flesh, allowing you to build an inventory without draining the reserves of the fleshpots as much.


Seriously, do you -ever- think before you post?

uh we had 15+ people in the guild today. If each one of them could have drawn that 'over 1000' would be gone almost instantly. 1000 petals is not much at all, and you are right, 100 is the max from a mound, but if Meir gives me 25 of his wads and I give him 25 of my wads, that's 50 wads that didn't get drawn from the petals when they are barely going to sustain the guild as it is right now.

I am terribly sorry that trying to lay some ground work for the guild to work with is a Bad Thing in your eyes. I am sure when the elections start and you win GM you can make any changes you want.

Edit: maybe instead of doing nothing, except telling people to vote for you as grand Cipher, you could have spent the last 6 months gathering entities so we wouldn't have this problem and hey! It would make it look like you actually deserved the job too.

It still says in there that it regenerates slowly. Untill we have seen the monthly regen rates, and how much of a difference it makes, I am operating under the assumption that faster then slow is still slow. Please, calm yourself. The fleshmound just seems more like something meant to augment your own reserves, rather then feed 6+ people to me. It's why I think it's a bit silly to use it like it's meant to feed the whole guild.

EDIT: And derp, ninjad by Gregori, I know that, and I'm not contesting the fact. I'm just making a simple statement. If you notice, I haven't actually placed my fleshmound at a spot that's already taken, I'm just poking around on Vortex and trying to figure out which one is used more, and has less petals.

Um, there are like ten different flesh pots. A flesh mound can make one kind of flesh. I don't know about you, but it seems obvious to me that your individual flesh mound is not going to be very useful if you're the only one using it.

I sure love me some Anarchy, it's working out great here in Toronto, must work great in the game as well.

So, you'd rather we don't attempt to reduce the impact at all, rather than accept that we might be able to reduce it only a little?

I'm not suggesting this is completely going to replace the need to use fleshpots completely. We're just trying to reduce the impact. It might work, it might not. If it works, great. If it doesn't...well, at least people -attempted- to improve things, instead of just being 100% useless for the last six months and complaining about any initiative that anyone else tried to take.

Unfortunately I have to rain on the time travel parade further:

With the release of the Guardian guilds, the Warrior guilds are temporarily thrown to the side, at least until they can 'recover' and find their 'niche'. Generally speaking, 'Guardian of (Guardian Guild Here)' doesn't cut it (see: Serenguard) for making the guild an engaging one.

The Sentinels have the 'mercenary' thing going for them, to an extent, but that's 'mercenaries in service of Hallifax'. Nobody can really effectively play up the 'time police' angle, either (this goes for Institute too):

1. You can't actually travel back and forth in time with Aeonics.
2. Aeonics in general is lackluster (seems to be the case for a lot of Hallifax vs. Gaudiguch)
3. The only time you get to play 'Time Police' is when you fail at your job in the first place, which is what happens when temporal anomalies occur, rifts open and dominators flood the Basin. Basically, the only RP you're going to have is being blamed for failing at your job that you can't really execute mechanically from the start.

If you really want you can play up the whole KGB (or whatever it was) thing, but even then that will get cliched really quickly.

I don't know about the Templars - Gaudiguch seems culturally rich enough that the Templars can probably flourish, but that's totally up to them.

The difference in opinion here is that the collective "you" is looking at them as substitutes, where as I'm looking at them as suppliments.

Yeah, I don't see us being impacted too badly. At first we said, we'll guard the Vortex while we wait for the Illuminati to come back, handing back the keys to the castle and all, and take up our proper duty as the city's guards. We have enough for us to be happy, we're our own secret organization!

Nobody ever said they were substitutes. Of course they are supplements. Any monkey with his brains being eaten by a spork can figure that one out. That would be why we have also been saying don't take more from the pots than you absolutely need to test and try some things, that if you want more go get entities.

Where doin' this man, where makin' this happen.

Just have to keep it subtle and slowly work it in.

....I already stated nobody is claiming they're going to replace fleshpots as a source of flesh. Do you lack reading comprehension?

Like Noola, I have faith that the Illuminati and Institution guild leaders won't be asinine about it.

Luckily, this ISN'T Achaea.

Why can't Crow peck on a head-balance?

???

Because God hates you.

I'm really happy that you were thinking of me when the mention of wad exchange came up.