[[!toc ]] PCs are new junior members and/or companions of the Schola Pythagoris; an Autumn covenant shading into Winter. I'm using the 4th Ed Stonehenge book as background and mangling (in)appropriately. Senior members are: ------------------- - SoAndSoExJerbeton - the founder; probably an archmage. Old. - ThingyExJerbeton - SoAndSo?'s first apprentice; Also old. - SomeoneExMercere - Ungifted Redcap and librarian. Other members of as yet undetermined seniority: ----------------------------------------------- - The priest at St Peter's† - The senior rabbi of the Jewry (Cambridge doesn't rate a "Jewish Quarter" but has one of the larger groupings of Jews outside London)† - A natural magician † These two would be available for player characters. Yes, your covenant structure starts to look odd when you have a Jerbeton founder with a dream of harmony. Non-member major covenfolk we're going to need: ----------------------------------------------- - Stewards for the Inn, the Schola, and the Esk holdings - Assistant librarian - Bookbinder - Illuminator - Scribe(s) - Stablemaster - Turb captain - note that some of the turb is going to be deployed in Esk and some as bouncers at the inn. Oh and we're going to want a guard on the portal room of some kind. Oh apparently House Mercere will provide those. We probably want our own though. Probably 4 grog units. Lets call them α, δ, ש, א . - A riverboat captain / convoy-leader - … Sites ----- The Schola itself (and a small amount of land around it). This consists of the public areas of the covenant, the library, a couple of labs and a portal room. It lies to the north of the river and would flood in some winters if it weren't for magical interference. The covenent controls the Benefice of St Peter's a couple of hundred yards to the northeast of the Schola. An inn on Akeman Street near the village of Landbeach. The inn extends into a faerie regio and labs are available here. A holding in the Esk Valley (in the North of England). This has livestock farming and iron mines. The mines produce a certain amount of Jet as a side effect. Covenent rules require a member to be based here every season. Formerly an elementalist resided here and there is an air lab and an earth lab on site. Presumably the senior magi must live somewhere & their houses must effectively be part of the covenent. The juniors must live somewhere too, but we'll handle that in uptime. Oh my god. How many Aegises are we going to need...? How long does it take to travel from the Schola to: --------------------------------------------------- - St Mary the Great: 20 minutes by foot - The Inn: 3 hours by foot; 1-2 hours by horse - Ely: 8 hours by foot; about 3 by horse - London: ? - Esk: ?? Getting to and from Esk is going to be a pain; our portal might help, but not by much if it does. It looks as if our best bet to get to the Esk Valley is going to be riverboat: - Two days from Cambridge to Wisbech on the Cam and Great Ouse - One day around the Wash (and potentially delays if the weather is bad) - One or two days to Lincoln along the Witham - Two or three days from there to Pickering - One or two days over the moor in wagons. We probably try and get a good night's sleep in Pickering then set out very early to make the trip in a day. If we aim to hit Pickering at the Solstice/Equinox? we can meet the outgoing maga and only have to have the wagons travel once. If we have spare time then a side trip to visit Voluntes could be done here. So that just about fits in for the 10-days in a season. Allowing for weather and delays we maybe want to be looking at 2-season shifts at the Esk Valley.