From 4f51bc6a5eb4dcabef48f2e9e0b9c07dee0d83da Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Ian Jackson Date: Mon, 3 Aug 2026 01:38:35 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] much planning --- ghost-horn-draft.md | 98 ++++++++++++--------------------------------- kennocht-history.md | 62 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 2 files changed, 88 insertions(+), 72 deletions(-) diff --git a/ghost-horn-draft.md b/ghost-horn-draft.md index b23dcfb..3ded58b 100644 --- a/ghost-horn-draft.md +++ b/ghost-horn-draft.md @@ -54,94 +54,48 @@ Total level required 31. ### Instilling -XXXX Plan is for Kennocht to have a label total of 47. +Draft plan (see `kennocht-history.md`) +is for Kennocht to have a base InIm lab total of 40. -There are the following bonuses: +There are the following item-specific bonuses: * shape: horn, +5 (by analogy with earring) * material: lemon wood: +5 (hearing) * similar to already known spell: +4 (L20 is magnitude 4) But shape/material bonuses limited to 4 (boo!) +Therefore overall LT is 48. -This means Kennocht's general InIm LT must be 38. +This will therefore take two seasons. -Kennocht's current InIm LT (end of Summer 1224) is: -11 (base) +15 In +7 Im = 33. +### An alternative - one ghost -Need to gain 5. +If we want to hear only one ghost, and would need to wait for the next +day if there were more than one ghost, we could use precisely +Kennocht's _Converse_ spell. +That would be an effect of InIm 21 rather than 31. +It would save us a pawn of vis and a season. +## Second effect +After three seasons' work on the item, as above, +Kennocht passes it to Anrhim. -starting: InIm 20 (Converse With). -Trigger (not "environmental"): -Twice per day +1 level +The effect is to make the voices of the ghosts audible +(in Hermetic Latin). -L21 +CrAu guideline: base 1, create sound. +Sun duration: +2. +Linked trigger to link it to the first effect: +3 levels. +Twice per day +1 level. -Lab totals: +CrAu 7. -LT In 15 plus +7 Im = 22 +This takes 1 pawn of Cr or Au vis. +Shape bonus (horn) surely gives us bonus of +3 or +4 +(depending on Arnim's MT). -So overall LT 36 - -Assuming Lesser Orb, +37, assuming another level of In from XP, -+38 - - - -## Kennocht plan - -End Summer '24: In 10(4), MT 4 (2). - -Autumn '24: Orb Greater Focus -Winter '25: Orb Greater Focus - +3 In - -2 GQ - +4 In - +2 Aesth -Can add 5 to LT which is enough. - -Spring '25: multicoloured animals, 9 In, with affinity is 14, -now In 10(18) = 11(7), so +1 - -Or bone up on MT? - -Summer '25: cave in the peak, 6 XP -5 In, with affinity is 8, so now In = 11(15) = 12(3). so +1 -1 spare - -Or bone up on MT? giving MT 5, ie +1 - - - - -?? Autumn '24: read pim, MT 4(15) - - - -#### Spell B - -Anrhim. - -Make the words audible, Hermetic Latin. - -CrAu: L1 create sound? - -Linked trigger: +3 - -Twice per day +1 Level - -L5 - -#### ITEM OPENING - -Small, wooden: 4 pawns vis. - -### Notes - -Considered "while horn is held up" but any comes-and-goes effect -involves at the very least lots of activations. -(Effect Frequency Table, Core p98) +Plan is for this to take 1 season, +so we need Arnhim's general CrAu LT to be 10 or 11. diff --git a/kennocht-history.md b/kennocht-history.md index 699113f..2d4b3b9 100644 --- a/kennocht-history.md +++ b/kennocht-history.md @@ -109,6 +109,68 @@ Take +2 exposure XP: Skiing expedition. 5 XP: athletics (skiing). +## DRAFT Winter 1225 + +Read PiM for +13 MT, MT now 4 (16). + +## DRAFT Spring 1225 + +Lab: Install Great Orb (Greater Feature/Focus), season 1. + +Multicoloured animals expedition. 9 XP. ++6 In with x1.5 from affinity is 14. +In was 10(4) now 10(18) = 11(7). + +## DRAFT Summer 1225 + +Lab: Install Great Orb (Greater Feature/Focus), season 2. +Greater Feature gives +2 Aesthetics +3 on In/Im/Me/Vi. +Greater Focus gives -2 GQ, +4 on relevant specialisations. +Take all +7 in In. + +Cave in the Peak expedition. 6 XP. ++5 In with x1.5 from affinity is 8. +In was 11(7) now 11(15) = 12(3). + +## DRAFT Autumn 1225 + +Open Horn of the Haunting Spirits (4 pawns vis) + +## DRAFT Winter 1226 + +Instil Converse effect in Horn. + +At this point, InIm Horn LT is 48: + + * 14 In (technique): 11 +3 (Puissant) + * 7 Im (form) + * +3 Int + * +5 MT (4 MT but (In)) + * +3 Aura + * +7 In bonus from Orb (+3 GrFeat +4 GrFoc) + * +1 In bonus from Windows + * +4 known spell + * +4 shape/material (limited by MT) + +Or to calculate it another way: + + * Current usual InIm LT is 11 + 15 = 26. + * net +5 from Greater Orb Focus (-2 GQ +7 In) + * +2 extra In gained from XP + * +7 Im + * +4 shape/material + * +4 existing spell + +Instillation: 17/31. + +Takes 3 pawns vis: In, or Im. + +## DRAFT Winter 1226 + +Instil Converse effect in Horn. + +Instillation: 34/31, finished. + ## Possible future lab work Install Lesser Feature, Orb. +1 In -- 2.30.2