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+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:
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+
+- 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:
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+
+- 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:
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+- 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
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+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.
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+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:
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+- 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.