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Gamma3000: Add instructions for arcane messages when other things are in the inventory

The Empire runs on three main strands: magic, religion, and politics. This chapter of the manual deals with GOD’s interactions with magic.

If you go to the “Magic” tab of the crew interface, you will land on the “New Ritual” page, which is discussed in detail in ''New Ritual'' below.

'''TODO:''' Notes on how / when players can change rituals

===Spells===
Spells are “small” magics. Every character with the Magician skill is able to cast some spells, and some magicians spend XP to be able to cast additional spells. Unlike rituals, we don’t record every spell that gets cast. Players cast a lot of spells over the course of an event, and it’s just not worth the effort. However, not needing to record the casting of a spell doesn’t mean we don’t need to do anything with them at all.

In general, casting a spell will cost “personal mana”. Every mage gets a supply of personal mana for free, and we don’t track usage of personal mana in the system. Occasionally characters will run out of personal mana and need to use crystallised mana (i.e. mana cards); you only need to worry about this if you have a mage who seems to be casting at least four spells in quick succession.

====Detect magic====
Detect magic is nominally a single spell, but from our perspective it’s really six different spells in one. Each time someone casts any of these variants, it will cost them one mana (personal or crystallised), so someone casting the full set of spells that can target a magic item (Identify Magical Item, Divination and Discern Enchantment) will be spending three mana.

It’s easy for a character to run out of personal mana if they’re doing this sort of thing, so you should check how someone is paying the mana if they’re casting more than four spells at once.

=====Identify magic item=====
If someone says they want to cast “Detect Magic” without any further qualification, they almost always actually mean “Identify Magical Item”. This is normally the first step for any character who has found a ribboned item, since the ribbon itself is likely to say nothing more informative than “Weapon”.

Players will sometimes ask to “identify this ribbon” or similar. There’s a subtle but important distinction here: their character is casting the spell to identify the item, and in character, the ribbon does not exist. The ribbon is there to allow us to track that the physrep it is attached to is not, for example, a common-or-garden sword but a magical sword with special abilities. Their character is instead identifying the magical item that, out of character, the ribbon is attached to.
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1. Get the player to confirm they’re a mage. You can take their word for this. If they’re not a mage, they can’t cast the spell.

2. Get the player to give you the ribbon ID for the item they want to identify. Unless they have a very good reason, they should be able to show you the ribbon itself. Occasionally someone will try to cast this on an item that doesn’t have a ribbon, in which case the result is simple: “this is not a magical item”.

3. Confirm the ribbon is attached to a reasonable physrep, unless they have a good excuse such as the physrep being heavy armour they don’t want to carry across the field. There’s a fair degree of latitude here, but we do expect players to make at least a passable effort to have an appropriate physrep for the item. If it’s a sword they’ve looted on the battlefield, the best they might be able to do is a dagger or a mace or a hessian sack (preferably with “swag” written on the side…), all of which would be fine, but a teddybear or no physrep at all wouldn’t be good enough.

4. From the crew page, click the “Ribbon” tab, and enter the ribbon ID in the box. Press Tab or Enter, and the ribbon should load.

5. Review the “Ref Notes” section, just in case there’s something odd about this item that means this needs special handling. In particular, if there are any notes about a “Mark of Ownership”, you should tell the player that the item is subject to a mark of ownership, and tell them the recorded character name.

6. Provide the player with the details in the “Name” and “Bonded Power” sections, and nothing else.
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=====Divination=====
Divination is the mechanism by which characters can work out what other things they could do to find out something interesting about an item. For most items, there is nothing to report here, but generally players will be performing this on some item where they have reason to believe there is something interesting.

If a player has a ribbon and wants to know how they can find out more about it, telling them they can cast this spell (or find a mage who can cast this spell) is often sensible.
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1. Get the player to confirm they’re a mage. You can take their word for this. If they’re not a mage, they can’t cast the spell.

2. Get the player to give you the ribbon ID for the item they want to identify. Unless they have a very good reason, they should be able to show you the ribbon itself. Occasionally someone will try to cast this on an item that doesn’t have a ribbon, in which case the result is simple: “divination tells you nothing interesting about this item”.

3. Confirm the ribbon is attached to a reasonable physrep, unless they have a good excuse such as the physrep being heavy armour they don’t want to carry across the field. There’s a fair degree of latitude here, but we do expect players to make at least a passable effort to have an appropriate physrep for the item. If it’s a sword they’ve looted on the battlefield, the best they might be able to do is a dagger or a mace or a hessian sack (preferably with “swag” written on the side…), all of which would be fine, but a teddybear
or no physrep at all wouldn’t be good enough.

4. From the crew page, click the “Ribbon” tab, and enter the ribbon ID in the box. Press Tab or Enter, and the ribbon should load.

5. Review the “Ref Notes” section, just in case there’s something odd about this item that means this needs special handling. In particular, if there are any notes about a “Mark of Ownership”, you should tell the player that the item is subject to a mark of ownership, and tell them the recorded character name.

6. If there are any boxes with red outlines on the page, provide the player with the names of the rituals or ceremonies stated in those boxes. Don’t tell them anything else, and in particular don’t give them any of the text to the left of those red boxes.
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=====Discern enchantment=====
Discern Enchantment is the way for characters to find out some basic information about other rituals that an item might be subject to. Honestly, this is sufficiently rare that I can’t remember how to handle it. If one of these comes up, get a ref or one of the heads of department to help, and we’ll work it out on the fly. ''(Then remind us to update this manual!)''

'''Identify ritual performance''
In the ''incredibly unlikely'' event that someone comes to GOD to attempt to cast this spell, you’ll need to hand them over to a ref.

=====Discern Arcane Mark=====
“Arcane Marks” are magical records that a character has joined one of the Empire’s magical Orders. The vast majority of the time, this will be handled in the field with a ref, but ''in theory'' it could come to GOD.
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1. Get the player who cast the spell to give you their PID.

2. From the crew page, click “Character”, then enter their PID (with or without the additional CID part) in CID box, then press Tab or Enter to load their character page.

3. Check the character is a mage: they should have “Magician” in a list of skills at the bottom of the page. If they’re not a mage, they can’t cast the spell.

4. Check if the character is a member of one of the Empire’s orders: if they are, it’ll be listed as “Order” in the main part of the character page, in the same place as “Banner”, “Coven” and “Sect”. The entry simply doesn’t appear for characters who aren’t members of an order. If this character is a member of the order, note the name of the order.

Confirm the result here is what the player is expecting: it’s occasionally the case that the database gets this wrong. You may need to be subtle about this, as membership of orders can be an in-character secret.

It’s fine for the character to not be a member of an order, you just need to know because it affects the later results.

5. Get the details of the target of the spell:
* If the target player is present, just get them to give you their PID.
* If the target player is not present:

(a) Confirm that the spell was cast within touching distance of the target, and with the target’s knowledge that this spell was being cast. If the player can’t confirm that, hand this over to a ref.

(b) Get the player to identify the target of the spell. Hopefully they can give you a PID that you can enter into the CID box; if not you’ll need to use the “Search” button or the “Search Characters” interface to find them.

6. On the target’s character page, confirm whether they are a member of an order, just as for the casting character. As with the caster, if the target player is present, double check the result here is what they’re expecting. You may need to be subtle about this, as membership of orders can be an in-character secret.

7. Give the casting player one of the following answers, as appropriate:
* “The target character does not have an arcane mark”
* “The target character has an arcane mark, but as your character does not have an arcane mark themselves, you cannot tell anything else”
* “The target character has an arcane mark, and it is the mark of the same order as your character”
* “The target character has an arcane mark, and it is the mark of a different order to your character’s order”
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=====Discover Conjunction=====
“Discover Conjunction” or “Detect Conjunction” is the mechanism by which ''(a)'' players find out the details of a skirmish they could go on, and ''(b)'' Plot find out that players know the details of a skirmish they could go on. As such, it’s important to use this process if players are finding out about some plot, and equally important to not use this process for purely out-of-character enquiries about things like accessibility information, or enquiries on behalf of crew. As such, “Discover Conjunction” must get recorded whenever it is cast.

If you want to look up information about some plot / encounter / conjunction without using the Detect Conjunction interface, for now either work it out yourself from the Plot pages, or see a head of department; at some point we might get around to documenting the process…
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To record someone casting Discover Conjunction, and to get the information you need to provide:
1. From the crew page, click “Magic”, then “Detect Conjunction”.

2. Enter the PID of the player in the CID box (optionally with the CID part), then press Tab or Enter, or use the Search box to find the character if the player doesn’t know their PID.

3. Get the player to give you the location information they have. Hopefully the player will be able to give you a nation or territory or region, as that’ll give you something to select in the drop-downs on screen and therefore narrow down the search. Once you’ve selected those details, click through to the “Conjunction” view.

4. Getting the region right isn’t enough, in the same way that meeting someone for dinner when the only address you have is “Preston” isn’t likely to work. The player should be able to give you more specific location information, that matches the “Location” column on the screen.

If there’s clearly no match, detecting the conjunction fails. If there’s a good match, carry on. If you’re unsure, get help, either by contacting the plot team yourself, or by escalating to a head of department.

5. Once you’ve found the correct conjunction, click the “Select” button. That ''(a)'' records that the conjunction has been seen by players, so the plot writers know to expect people to actually turn up, and ''(b)'' will get you the data you need to give to the players.

6. Provide the players with the time and day of the conjunction, the expected duration, and the size (which means the number of people who are allowed to go).

7. Ask the player if they need any accessibility information; we don’t provide this automatically, because it’s not in-character information, but if the player wants the accessibility information, we will provide it. Depending on what information will make the plot more accessible, you can provide any or all of the information on the “Access” tab.

If you’re unsure what’s appropriate, tell the player the categories of information that are there, and ask them what information would be relevant to them; trust the player’s assessment of their own abilities – in terms of both what they can and cannot do – and err towards giving as much information as they’d like. It’s much better to give someone a small IC advantage from having access information than it is for someone to be denied access to a plot unnecessarily because of their out-of-character disabilities.

In some cases, the access information may include offers of accommodations, e.g. the plot writer might be planning on using a smoke generator, but it’s not a critical part of the plot so they’d be able to run the plot without it if it’d help with accessibility. If a player wants to take advantage of those accommodations, you’ll probably need to let the plot writer know; either do that yourself or pass it over to a head of department.
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====Night Pouch====

A “night pouch” is a bag up to 18” deep and 6” wide that can only be opened by the person who cast the “night pouch” spell. The pouch is very similar to the pouch created by the ritual “Secrets for the Shadow Courier”; if you have a player asking about a night pouch, make sure they really mean a night pouch, not a Shadow Courier bag. See ''Secrets for the Shadow Courier (Night)'' below if you need to.

If the player is actually casting the night pouch spell, we don’t record that, but we may need to give the player a night pouch ribbon. If the player has an old night pouch ribbon for their character, they can keep using that indefinitely; if they need a new one, we can just give them a replacement. In either case, this is covered in [[Printing]].

''Very occasionally'', a player might come in to hand over something that was left in a night pouch overnight, as that would mean whatever was in the pouch got sent to the Night realm. If that happens, it will need to be passed over to the Plot team; either sort that out yourself if you know what you’re doing, or pass it up to a head of department.

====Other spells====
There are several other spells in the game. GOD should never need to do anything about someone casting any of these.
* Operate portal
* Heal
* Mend
* Purify
* Restore limb
* Voice for the dead

===New ritual===
Rituals are “big” magics. They always require crystalized mana (or something that can substitute for crystalized mana), they’re always affiliated with a specific magical realm (Day, Night, Spring, Summer, Autumn or Winter), and they often involve multiple magicians working together as a coven.

The “New Ritual” page is the page you’ll probably use most frequently in GOD. You’ll land here by default when you click on the “Magic” tab. For most rituals, you can just follow the steps in this section. For complications, see the following subsections.
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1. In the “Caster” section of the page:

''(a)'' In the box labelled “CID”, enter the lead caster’s PID.

''(b)'' Press Tab or Enter.

''(c)'' Confirm the name of the caster’s character.

2. In the “Ritual” section of the page:

(a) From the “Realm” drop-down menu, select the appropriate realm.

(b) From the “Ritual” drop-down menu, choose the name of the ritual.

(c) You can almost always ignore the “Ribbon ID” and “Projection” boxes; if these are relevant, the player will tell you they’re using an arcane projection or a ritual text, and you should choose your own adventure at Arcane Projections or Ritual texts below.

(d) Ask if a regio was used. The answer will usually be no, but if it isn’t, tick the relevant box.

3. Ignore the “Date” section of the page, or escalate to a head of department or referee if there’s some reason you think you shouldn’t.

4. Ask the player if they cast the ritual alone.
* If yes, advance to the Targets tab.
* If no, advance to the Participants tab, add additional casters either by entering their PIDs into the CID box and pressing Tab or Enter, or by clicking the appropriate checkboxes under the Participants heading. You can reorder the list of Participants by clicking the column headings. When you have selected all participants, advance to the Targets tab.

Occasionally the system will give you an error saying the character “has no way to contribute to this coven”. If that happens, ask the player how that person is contributing to the ritual, verify that’s an appropriate solution (get help if you need to), and record details of the explanation in the later “Notes” field.

5. The “Targets” section of the page will vary depending on the type of ritual:
* For rituals that take a prepared letter as a target, select the letter ID from the drop-down list, and confirm the name in the drop-down is the person the player is trying to send a letter to. See Call Winged Messenger below for how this process works in more detail.
* For rituals that target a location on the in-character field, you’ll see a free-text box. Enter enough information from the players that – if needed – a ref would be able to find that location; normally this means the nation camp on the in-character field, plus a description of the tent or area in question.
* For rituals that target some sort of specific location in the wider game world, confirm that the target is a valid target for the ritual (some of these rituals are more specific than the drop-down implies) and select the relevant target from the drop-down.
* For rituals that target an eternal, there are too many special cases to list here; go see Contacting eternals below.
* For rituals that target a ribboned item:

(a) In the box labelled “Ribbon Id”, enter the ribbon ID of the target item. Unless they have a very good reason, the player should be able to show you the ribbon itself.

(b) Confirm the ribbon is attached to a reasonable physrep, unless they have a good excuse such as the physrep being heavy armour they don’t want to carry across the field. There’s a fair degree of latitude here, but we do expect players to make at least a passable effort to have an appropriate physrep for the item. If it’s a sword they’ve looted on the battlefield, the best they might
be able to do is a dagger or a mace or a hessian sack (preferably with “swag” written on the side…), all of which would be fine, but a teddybear or no physrep at all wouldn’t be good enough.

(c) Press Tab or Enter.

(d) Confirm the name on the item shown matches the name printed on the ribbon.

(e) Repeat for any other targets.
* For rituals that target something associated with a character (either the character directly, armies via their general, character resources via the owning character):

(a) In the box labelled “CID”, enter the target character’s PID.

(b) Press Tab or Enter.

(c) Confirm the name of the target’s character.

(d) Repeat for any other targets.
* For all other rituals, you shouldn’t need to specify a target.

6. In the final Ranks section, the system will attempt – with varying degrees of competence – to check whether the players have actually achieved sufficient ranks to cast the ritual. Most of the time everything will be fine, there will be no warning pop-up. In that case, you should just tell the players how much the ritual will cost from the “Mana Crystal Cost” line, then take that many crystalized mana cards off them.

If there is a warning pop-up, or the players disagree with the mana cost, that could be because the players have made an error, because the players are doing something the system can’t (yet) handle to increase their ranks or decrease the cost, or because the system calculation is just plain wrong for some reason. That should be rare, but see Ritual calculations down below for how to handle the scenario.

7. In the notes field, enter anything unusual about the casting. In particular, note why you skipped past any warning messages, e.g. “CID 2458.1 was able to contribute to the casting by using a Volahov’s Robe, ribbon ID 23456”, or “Players achieved an extra three ranks of lore by consuming a Radiant Transcendence potion”.

8. Click “Process”.

9. Check the top of the page for any instructions and follow them as appropriate.
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====Ritual calculations====
Calculating whether a ritual can be cast, and if so how much it costs, is unfortunately complicated. There should be ritual calculation sheets available to help, with brief instructions on the bottom.
If you don’t have that form to hand, use the process below plus a piece of paper.

''(Once you’ve got the hang of things, you don’t need the paper, or to follow this process in full, but I’m assuming if you’re reading this you want the step-by-step guide!)''
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1. First work out the magnitude of the ritual being cast.
* All rituals have a base magnitude. For example, “The Sound of Drums” is a magnitude 11 ritual.
* Some rituals can have multiple targets which increases the magnitude. For example, “Rampant Growth” is a magnitude 10 ritual with a single target, but additional targets can be added, increasing the magnitude by 8 each time, so casting the ritual with three targets would make it a magnitude 26 ritual. Generally, the ritual casting interface will account for these changes correctly.
* Some rituals have mechanisms to reduce the magnitude. For example, “From the Mouths of Babes” is normally a magnitude 8 ritual, but is only a magnitude 2 ritual if an apprentice takes part in the casting. The ritual interface cannot currently account for these sorts of changes; you will need to account for them manually and record the details in the “Notes” section.
* Sometimes players may have some other special mechanism that increases or decreases the magnitude of a ritual, for example a magical artefact that makes it easier to cast a particular ritual.

The ritual interface cannot currently account for these sorts of changes; you will need to account for them manually and record the details in the “Notes” section. Write down this number as the target magnitude for the ritual.

2. If you’re doing this without the form, write out the name or PID of each of the casters across the top of a piece of paper, and label rows with “Lore”, “Regio”, “Other”, “Mana” and “Ranks”.

3. In the “Lore” row, for each caster, record the number of ranks of skill they have in the realm that the ritual is in. This will almost certainly be given correctly by the “Skill” column on the ritual casting page.

4. In the “Regio” row, write “1” for each character if a regio is being used, or “0” otherwise.

5. In the “Other” row, write down the additional ranks for each character that are granted because they’re using a potion or magical artefact or similar that increases their ranks.

6. In the “Mana” row, write down either the sum of the “Lore”, “Regio” and “Other” rows, or three times the number in the “Lore” row, whichever is smaller.

7. In the “Ranks” row, for each character who has the ritual mastered, write down double the number in the “Mana” row, and for each character who does not have the ritual mastered, write down the same number as in the “Mana” row.

8. The total of all the numbers in the “Ranks” row needs to be at least the magnitude of the ritual, or the ritual fails.

9. The numbers in the “Mana” row are the maximum amount of mana each ritual caster can contribute. If the total of the “Ranks” row is higher than the required magnitude, the players will probably not want to spend mana unnecessarily.

(a) Go through the list of characters who do not have the ritual mastered, and reduce the numbers in the “Mana” and “Ranks” rows either to zero or to the lowest number that still means the ritual can be cast.

(b) If there is still spare ranks, go through the list of characters who do have the ritual mastered, and reduce the amount of mana they’re contributing too, until you have reduced the numbers as far as they will go.

10. Add up the new total of the “Mana” row, and take this many crystalized mana cards off the players (or equivalents, e.g. Vis cards count for three crystalized mana in the relevant realm).
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====Special rituals====

=====Contacting eternals=====
Eternals are magical beings. Players – in particular mages – often want to contact them. There are a selection of standard rituals for doing this, plus a couple of other options. They’re all processed as if they were a ritual, however.
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1. Start by logging in and going to the “Magic” tab, which should load the “New Ritual” page.

2. Ask the player how they’re sending the message.
* If they’re using a named ritual, then:

(a) In the box labelled “CID”, enter the PID of the person sending the message.

(b) Press Tab or Enter.

(c) Confirm the name of the caster’s character.

(d) Fill in the realm and ritual name as appropriate, or, in the vanishingly rare case of an arcane projection or ritual text, see ''Arcane Projections'' or ''Ritual texts'' as appropriate.
* If they’re an archmage using the “Plenipotentiary” power:

(a) In the box labelled “CID”, enter “0.1”.

(b) Press Tab or Enter.

(c) Confirm the name that appears is “Ref Dummy Character”.

(d) Select the realm as “Autumn” and the ritual as “Plenipotentiary”.
* If they’re doing something else, check the details. If what they’re doing makes sense and there are no instructions to the contrary (e.g. in the ref notes on the page for the relevant ribboned item):

(a) In the box labelled “CID”, enter “0.1”.

(b) Press Tab or Enter.

(c) Confirm the name that appears is “Ref Dummy Character”.

(d) Select the realm as “Autumn” and the ritual as “Another Missive”.

3. Complete the participants list as normal for normal rituals, and ignore it for anything cast by Ref Dummy Character.

4. The path now diverges according to the contents of the “Targets” page:
* If the “Targets” page has “Set Target Eternal” at the top:

(a) Select the appropriate eternal from the drop-down, or – if they’re not listed – enter the eternal’s name in the “Name” box

(b) Click through to ranks.

– If the players are casting a regular ritual, they will need to meet the rank requirements as normal. The system will attempt – with varying degrees of competence – to check whether the players have actually achieved sufficient ranks to cast the ritual. Most of the time everything will be fine, there will be no warning pop-up. In that case, you should just tell the players how much the ritual will cost from the “Mana Crystal Cost” line, then take that many crystalized mana cards off them.

If there is a warning pop-up, or the players disagree with the mana cost, that could be because the players have made an error, because the players are doing something the system can’t (yet) handle to increase their ranks or decrease the cost, or because the system calculation is just plain wrong for some reason. That should be rare, but see Ritual calculations above for how to handle the scenario.

– If the players are doing something that involved Ref Dummy Character, you can ignore any warning messages about ranks achieved.

(c) Click “Process”

(d) You should now get a page with the details of the casting. Check the top of the page for any instructions and follow them as appropriate.

(e) Click the “Message” tab at the top of the page.

(f ) Click “Set Response”

(g) Type out the message in the “Message” section; don’t touch anything in the lower “Plot Response” section.

(h) Click “Save”.
* If the “Targets” page has anything else, such as a space for a target ribbon or a target character:

(a) Complete the targets as normal; the player should be expecting to provide these.

(b) Click through to ranks. The system will attempt – with varying degrees of competence – to check whether the players have actually achieved sufficient ranks to cast the ritual. Most of the time everything will be fine, there will be no warning pop-up. In that case, you should just tell the players how much the ritual will cost from the “Mana Crystal Cost” line, then take that many
crystalized mana cards off them.

If there is a warning pop-up, or the players disagree with the mana cost, that could be because the players have made an error, because the players are doing something the system can’t (yet) handle to increase their ranks or decrease the cost, or because the system calculation is just plain wrong for some reason. That should be rare, but see Ritual calculations above for how to handle the scenario.

(c) Click “Process”

(d) You should now get a page with the details of the casting. Check the top of the page for any instructions and follow them as appropriate.

(e) Click the “Notes” tab at the top of the page.

(f ) Click “New”

(g) Set the title of the new note to something like “Message text”.

(h) Type out the player’s message in the “Note” box.

(i) Click “Save”.
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=====Secrets for the Shadow Courier (Night)=====
Secrets for the Shadow Courier essentially replicates the effect of the “night pouch” spell (see Night pouch above), but longer lasting and with the ability to create a pouch that can only be opened by any given character, rather than only by the person who cast the spell. As a result, players will sometimes incorrectly refer to this ritual as “night pouch”.

This ritual is recorded as normal, and doing so should generate a ribbon on the ribbon print queue. Fetch the ribbon, give it to the player.

=====Call Winged Messenger=====
This ritual allows players to send messages to regular, mortal NPCs. Technically it can also be used to send messages to regular, mortal player characters, but it’s very rarely used for that purpose, as it’s slow (we just put the message in the relevant player’s pack at the next event, so there’s at least a one-event delay) and expensive (it costs three Iridescent Gloaming and one or two crystal mana, compared to a few rings for an IC courier). It’s also a ritual that has multiple steps and often causes confusion, both for crew and players.

For players, there’s a pamphlet available, the GOD Guide to Call Winged Messenger. Feel free to give copies out to anyone who wants one; if we run out it’s easy to print more. It’s also useful for GOD crew to read, so we know what the process looks like from a player perspective. For GOD crew, there are multiple steps, each of which is individually straightforward, but – particularly if you’re dealing with a confused player – it can be helpful to understand how they all fit together!
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# So the player can write the letter in the first place, they need to have 3 Iridescent Gloaming in their character inventory. They’ll need to hand this in at GOD, and we need to record it; see ''New Entry'' under ''Inventory'' in [[Character processess]].
# Once the player has the Gloaming in their account, send them to write their letter. They can do this on the player PCs, or on a device of their own that they can connect to the PD Wi-Fi. Now the Gloaming is in their account, there should be a button to write the letter on their character page.
# Once the player has written their letter, they should come back to us to get us to print the letter phys-rep.
# Load the character inventory, and note what's currently there. ''Hopefully'' it's only this letter, and possibly some synod votes.
# Click the “Book Out” button. This will add the letter to the print queue; see [[Printing]].
# '''Important''': if there were other items that were in the inventory, and were booked out when you clicked the "Book Out" button, they need to be accounted for. There's three ways you can do this; pick whichever is easiest for you and the player at the time.
#* If the player is happy to just have the items handed to them because you booked them out, you can just hand them over.
#* Provided the items are all ones that are available when you click the "New Entry" button, you can create a new entry to book these items back in to the character inventory.
#* If you click on the "Show Entries" button, there should be a "Handed out at God" entry for everything you just booked out. For everything ''other than the arcane message you booked out'', click "Details" then "Delete".
# Give the player their printed letter physrep.
# The player will need to go away and perform the Call Winged Messenger ritual, or find someone who can perform it for them. When someone comes back to record that the ritual has been cast, we record it as normal per ''New Ritual'' above. It doesn’t have to be the same character writing the letter as sends the ritual; anyone can write a letter, but only a mage can cast the ritual to send it.

When you’re recording the ritual, the “target” will be the specific letter that’s being sent. If the player got us to print the letter for them, check the letter number and who it’s being sent to on the letter cover sheet; if they didn’t pick up the printed letter, get them to confirm the ID number and the name of the person they’ve selected.

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=====A side note on inventories=====
The fact that letters get put into inventories when they get written, but not everyone asks us to print them, means that some letters get sent while they’re still in a character’s inventory. This doesn’t make sense, but it’s a side-effect of how the PD database works.

Adam has the job of manually clearing letters from inventories that were never booked out but were sent. If this doesn't happen for some reason, it'll result in those sent letters appearing in the author's character pack at their next event.

=====Swim leviathan's depth=====
'''TODO'''

=====Arcane projections=====
An arcane projection is a text that players can create in downtime (or occasionally obtain by other means). It’s essentially a custom ritual generated as a one-off, rather than one of the standard rituals. This section only covers how to record when someone casts an arcane projection; for a more general overview of what arcane projections are and how they work, see Arcane projections below.

Arcane projections are distinct from ritual texts: an arcane projection can only be used once and provides 10 mana towards the casting, whereas a ritual text can be used repeatedly but the caters must pay the entire cost in crystal mana (or alternatives such as vis). For casting from ritual texts, see Ritual texts above.
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From the “Magic” section of the crew pages:

1. Get the players to give you the arcane projection they’re casting. This should be a piece of paper with a number at the top similar to “E26”, and a ritual name.

2. In the “Caster” section of the page:

(a) In the box labelled “CID”, enter the lead caster’s PID.

(b) Press Tab or Enter.

(c) Confirm the name of the caster’s character.

3. In the “Ritual” section of the page:

(a) From the “Realm” drop-down menu, select the appropriate realm; this should be listed on the arcane projection.

(b) Ignore the “Ritual” drop down.

(c) In the first “Projection” box, select the “E” number from the top of the paperwork.

(d) In the second “Projection” box, which should have been populated when you selected the “E” number, select the name of the ritual being cast.

(e) Ignore the “Ribbon Id” box.

(f ) Ask if a regio was used. The answer will usually be no, but if it isn’t, tick the relevant box.

4. Ignore the “Date” section of the page, or escalate to a head of department or referee if there’s some reason you think you shouldn’t.

5. Ask the player if they cast the ritual alone.
* If yes, advance to the Targets tab.
* If no, advance to the Participants tab, add additional casters either by entering their PIDs into the CID box and pressing Tab or Enter, or by clicking the appropriate checkboxes under the Participants heading. You can reorder the list of Participants by clicking the column headings. When you have selected all participants, advance to the Targets tab.

Occasionally the system will give you an error saying the character “has no way to contribute to this coven”. If that happens, ask the player how that person is contributing to the ritual, verify that’s an appropriate solution (get help if you need to), and record details of the explanation in the later “Notes” field.

6. The “Targets” section of the page will vary depending on the type of ritual:
* For rituals that take a prepared letter as a target, select the letter ID from the drop-down list, and confirm the name in the drop-down is the person the player is trying to send a letter to. See ''Call Winged Messenger'' above for how this process works in more detail.
* For rituals that target a location on the in-character field, you’ll see a free-text box. Enter enough information from the players that – if needed – a ref would be able to find that location; normally this means the nation camp on the in-character field, plus a description of the tent or area in question.
* For rituals that target some sort of specific location in the wider game world, confirm that the target is a valid target for the ritual (some of these rituals are more specific than the drop-down implies) and select the relevant target from the drop-down.
* For rituals that target an eternal, there are too many special cases to list here; go see Contacting eternals above.
* For rituals that target a ribboned item:

(a) In the box labelled “Ribbon Id”, enter the ribbon ID of the target item. Unless they have a very good reason, the player should be able to show you the ribbon itself.

(b) Confirm the ribbon is attached to a reasonable physrep, unless they have a good excuse such as the physrep being heavy armour they don’t want to carry across the field.

There’s a fair degree of latitude here, but we do expect players to make at least a passable effort to have an appropriate physrep for the item. If it’s a sword they’ve looted on the battlefield, the best they might be able to do is a dagger or a mace or a hessian sack (preferably with “swag” written on the side…), all of which would be fine, but a teddybear or no physrep at all wouldn’t be good enough.

(c) Press Tab or Enter.

(d) Confirm the name on the item shown matches the name printed on the ribbon.

(e) Repeat for any other targets.
* For rituals that target something associated with a character (either the character directly, armies via their general, character resources via the owning character):

(a) In the box labelled “CID”, enter the target character’s PID.

(b) Press Tab or Enter.

(c) Confirm the name of the target’s character.

(d) Repeat for any other targets.

* For all other rituals, you shouldn’t need to specify a target.

7. In the final Ranks section, the system will attempt – with varying degrees of competence – to check whether the players have actually achieved sufficient ranks to cast the ritual. Most of the time everything will be fine, there will be no warning pop-up. In that case, you should just tell the players how much the ritual will cost from the “Mana Crystal Cost” line, then take that many crystalized mana cards off them. The arcane projection text counts as 10 crystal mana, so you need 10 fewer mana than the form states.

If there is a warning pop-up, or the players disagree with the mana cost, that could be because the players have made an error, because the players are doing something the system can’t (yet) handle to increase their ranks or decrease the cost, or because the system calculation is just plain wrong for some reason. That should be rare, but see Ritual calculations above for how to handle the scenario.

8. In the notes field, enter anything unusual about the casting. In particular, note why you skipped past any warning messages, e.g. “CID 2458.1 was able to contribute to the casting by using a Volahov’s Robe, ribbon ID 23456”, or “Players achieved an extra three ranks of lore by consuming a Radiant Transcendence potion”.

9. Click “Process”.

10. Check the top of the page for any instructions and follow them as appropriate.

11. Take the arcane projection text off the players, and destroy it.
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=====Ritual texts=====
Ritual texts are pieces of paper that give details of a ritual, and allow anyone holding them to cast or learn the ritual on them. Players cannot typically create ritual texts.

For learning ritual texts, see ''Learning new rituals or recipes for items in'' [[Character processess]]. For casting from ritual texts, read on.
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From the “Magic” section of the crew pages:

1. Get the players to give you the ritual text they’re using. This should be a piece of paper with a ribbon ID number printed in the corner.

2. In the “Caster” section of the page:

(a) In the box labelled “CID”, enter the lead caster’s PID.

(b) Press Tab or Enter.

(c) Confirm the name of the caster’s character.

3. In the “Ritual” section of the page:

(a) From the “Realm” drop-down menu, select the appropriate realm; this should be listed on the arcane projection.

(b) Ignore the “Ritual” and “Projection” boxes.

(c) In the first “Projection” box, select the “E” number from the top of the paperwork.

(d) In the “Ribbon Id” box, enter the ribbon number printed on the document.

(e) Ask if a regio was used. The answer will usually be no, but if it isn’t, tick the relevant box.

4. Ignore the “Date” section of the page, or escalate to a head of department or referee if there’s some reason you think you shouldn’t.

5. Ask the player if they cast the ritual alone.
* If yes, advance to the Targets tab.
* If no, advance to the Participants tab, add additional casters either by entering their PIDs into the CID box and pressing Tab or Enter, or by clicking the appropriate checkboxes under the Participants heading. You can reorder the list of Participants by clicking the column headings. When you have selected all participants, advance to the Targets tab.

Occasionally the system will give you an error saying the character “has no way to contribute to this coven”. If that happens, ask the player how that person is contributing to the ritual, verify that’s an appropriate solution (get help if you need to), and record details of the explanation in the later “Notes” field.

6. The “Targets” section of the page will vary depending on the type of ritual:
* For rituals that take a prepared letter as a target, select the letter ID from the drop-down list, and confirm the name in the drop-down is the person the player is trying to send a letter to. See ''Call Winged Messenger'' above for how this process works in more detail.
* For rituals that target a location on the in-character field, you’ll see a free-text box. Enter enough information from the players that – if needed – a ref would be able to find that location; normally this means the nation camp on the in-character field, plus a description of the tent or area in question.
* For rituals that target some sort of specific location in the wider game world, confirm that the target is a valid target for the ritual (some of these rituals are more specific than the drop-down implies) and select the relevant target from the drop-down.
* For rituals that target an eternal, there are too many special cases to list here; go see ''Contacting eternals'' above.
* For rituals that target a ribboned item:

(a) In the box labelled “Ribbon Id”, enter the ribbon ID of the target item. Unless they have a very good reason, the player should be able to show you the ribbon itself.

(b) Confirm the ribbon is attached to a reasonable physrep, unless they have a good excuse such as the physrep being heavy armour they don’t want to carry across the field. There’s a fair degree of latitude here, but we do expect players to make at least a passable effort to have an appropriate physrep for the item. If it’s a sword they’ve looted on the battlefield, the best they might
be able to do is a dagger or a mace or a hessian sack (preferably with “swag” written on the side…), all of which would be fine, but a teddybear or no physrep at all wouldn’t be good enough.

(c) Press Tab or Enter.

(d) Confirm the name on the item shown matches the name printed on the ribbon.

(e) Repeat for any other targets.
* For rituals that target something associated with a character (either the character directly, armies via their general, character resources via the owning character):

(a) In the box labelled “CID”, enter the target character’s PID.

(b) Press Tab or Enter.

(c) Confirm the name of the target’s character.

(d) Repeat for any other targets.

* For all other rituals, you shouldn’t need to specify a target.

7. In the final Ranks section, the system will attempt – with varying degrees of competence – to check whether the players have actually achieved sufficient ranks to cast the ritual. Most of the time everything will be fine, there will be no warning pop-up. In that case, you should just tell the players how much the ritual will cost from the “Mana Crystal Cost” line, then take that many crystalized mana cards off them. The arcane projection text counts as 10 crystal mana, so you need 10 fewer mana than the form states.

If there is a warning pop-up, or the players disagree with the mana cost, that could be because the players have made an error, because the players are doing something the system can’t (yet) handle to increase their ranks or decrease the cost, or because the system calculation is just plain wrong for some reason. That should be rare, but see Ritual calculations above for how to handle the scenario.

8. In the notes field, enter anything unusual about the casting. In particular, note why you skipped past any warning messages, e.g. “CID 2458.1 was able to contribute to the casting by using a Volahov’s Robe, ribbon ID 23456”, or “Players achieved an extra three ranks of lore by consuming a Radiant Transcendence potion”.

9. Click “Process”.

10. Check the top of the page for any instructions and follow them as appropriate.

11. Give the players back the ritual text.
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===New campaign effect===
'''Never use this'''

===Search effects===

The “Search Effects” interface allows you to search for a ritual that was cast at some point in the past. It is mostly useful if you are trying to unpick something that has gone wrong, which probably means you want to be talking to a head of department if you’re interested in it.

===Arcane projections===

'''TODO:''' general process, also checking why APs were rejected &c‥

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== Full GOD crew roles ==

=== Core GOD crew ===

Most GOD crew volunteer throughout the event, and we expect our crew to spend a
significant majority of time during the event in the department. While some
GOD crew do play characters, you're not likely to have much time for being in
character during the event; they're characters that allow you to take an R&R
break and see some of the in-character field, not get heavily involved in the
game.

During the event, our GOD team will be moving between roles depending on the
game's needs and our crews' abilities. This will involve handling player
queries and processing player requests at our computer desks, laminating
potions and exchanging resources at our resource desk, tracking and processing
lost property, and dealing with the myriad administrative jobs that come up
when running an event with almost 3000 people attending.

=== Packing weekends and pre/post time-in ===

One of the biggest tasks before we can run an event is preparing the event
packs for all the characters on the field. This normally happens in Preston,
on the weekend before the main event, and involves a mix of the PD management
team and GOD volunteers. A character pack is printed and prepared for every
player booked for the event, containing their in-character money, resources and
item ribbons.

This is a big (and growing!) job, and while it doesn't happen at the event, it
is a full weekend of hard work. As such, if you're able to help at the packing
weekend, and help in GOD with the work we need to do before and after time-in
(getting set up before we open to players, handing out player packs, and taking
everything down again at the end of the event), we have a small number of crew
spaces for folk who can spend most of the event itself in character.
Obviously, if you also want to spend most of the event crewing in GOD, too,
that's very welcome!

== Rules for all GOD crew ==

The [[crew protocol]] and [[Time off|time off guidelines]] apply to all GOD crew.

GOD crew who are in the first category above – volunteering for most of the
event – are classed as game crew, and subject to the additional rules that
entails.

GOD crew who are in the second category above – helping with packing weekend
and setup/take-down – are classed as event crew. However, as well as the rules for event crew, they are also subject to the "Don't get rich" rule.
Both crew roles give volunteers access to considerable in-game resources, so we
need to avoid any perception that their characters might be unfairly benefiting
from that access.

== Occasional volunteers ==

If you want to help out in GOD, but don't want the time commitment of
the full crew roles, we're still interested in having you help! The busiest
period for GOD by far is from when we open for pack hand-out until time-in,
where almost every person on the field comes through GOD to pick up their
character pack. We also need to partially take down GOD after time-out every
night, and reassemble it every morning. At the end of the event, we then need
to pack everything down and away.

Help at these times is very valuable, but
shouldn't get in the way of playing the game during time-in.
However, as this also potentially gives you access to significant in-game resources, and at least the possibility of the occasional in-character secret, we need even occasional volunteers to agree to the "[[Time off#No Spoilers|No Spoilers]]" and "[[Time off#Don't Get Rich|Don't Get Rich]]" rules for crew.

If you're able to help with these jobs without the commitment of one of the
full crew roles above, we can't give you a free crew ticket, but depending on
how long you're able to help us, we can offer some tickets for a free drink,
free food, and – of course – our gratitude.

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== About this manual ==

<blockquote>
"In the beginning, there was nothing. Which exploded."
<small>Terry Pratchett, ''"Lords and Ladies"''</small>
</blockquote>

'''The ''GOD manual'' tells GOD crew how to do things.''' It's the repository of knowledge that describes the majority of processes that are followed at (and occasionally between) events.

{{Caution|'''This wiki is publicly accessible.''' The vast majority of things that GOD do are fine to publish here, but be careful not to reference details of plot that aren't generally available. You can talk about the existence of (say) [https://www.profounddecisions.co.uk/empire-wiki/Children_in_bloom#Chaos_Fruit chaos fruit], since that's available on the player wiki, and you can talk about how we organise them and print them, but don't give any details about how they work from a plot or game mechanic perspective. Equally, if you want to provide screenshots or similar, make sure you don't use a real player account; use Crew Room (PID 0) or Ref Dummy Character (CID 0.1).}}

== Introduction ==

* [[Welcome to GOD]]

== Background ==

* Relevant information from the crew wiki:
** [[Crew organisation]]
** [[Radio protocol]]
* Empire resources
** [[Currency]]
** [[Materials]]
** [[Cards & Lammies]]
** [[Bourse Resources]]

== Event specials ==

* Future

** [[GOD 2024 E4 specials]]
* Past
** [[GOD 2024 E3 specials]]
** [[GOD 2024 E2 specials]]
** [[GOD 2024 E1 specials]]
** [[GOD 2023 E4 specials]]
** [[GOD 2023 E3 specials]]

== Physical processes ==

* [[GOD physical organisation]]
* [[Lamination station]]
* [[Task Tracking]]
* [[Player Packs- GOD]]
* [[Lost property]]
* [[Potions desk]]
* [[Dreams and visions]]
* [[GOD checklists]]

== Online processes ==

* [[Printing]]
* [[Visions]]

* Bookings and payments
** [[Bookings]]
** [[Taking payments]]
** [[Confirming concessions]]

* [[Player accounts]]
** [[Character processes]]

* [[Magic | Magic (including Rituals)]]
* [[Religion | Religion (including Ceremonies)]]
* [[Ribbons]]

* [[Glossary]]

== Editing this manual ==

* '''Give pages clear, unambiguous, non-conflicting names'''. This may require some careful wordsmithing as we're operating in the same namespace as the rest of the crew wiki. The convention for this wiki is for titles to have the first word capitalised only.

* '''Try to avoid duplicating existing pages'''. If there's already relevant information in this crew wiki, refer to that rather than duplicating it in another page. Including relevant references to the main player wiki can also be really helpful if someone needs to understand the wider context.

* '''Cross-linking is good.''' Try to avoid repeating yourself – having the same information in multiple places is a good way to have multiple bits of information fall out of sync with each other – and instead write something once and link to it anywhere else it's useful.

* '''Make things easy to link to''' by breaking things up into discrete bite-sized chunks, whether by putting things in different pages or by having good header structure within one that allows for direct linking to a particular section. Done well, we should be able to link directly to relevant details from various parts of the crew website interface, so that the wiki provides effective context-sensitive help for all tasks.

* '''Put all the manual pages in the <code>GOD manual</code> category''' to make sure all pages can be found easily. This is done by putting the code <code><nowiki>[[Category:GOD manual]]</nowiki></code> at the bottom of each page.

* '''Document the 'why' as well as the 'what''''. There are competing goals to everything we're writing here: we want things that are quick and easy and straightforward to follow, and we ''also'' want to document why we do things the way we do them, so if we want to change things in future we have half a chance of understanding why things are the way they are now. Consider having separate sections in any process documentation for (a) a process overview for folk who know what they're doing but want a reminder of some specifics, (b) a detailed step-by-step guide for folk who aren't familiar with the process, and (c) a final section explaining the reasoning behind anything that isn't obvious.

[[Category:GOD]]
[[Category:GOD manual]]

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This page lists things that are likely to affect GOD crew, because they're special for this event and change how we normally do things.

This ''doesn't'' try to cover everything in the Winds of Fortune: sometimes player ask for information about conjunctions, or about how certain titles or opportunities work. They're things we might be able to help with, but they're not covered here because they don't fundamentally change how GOD processes work.

== General event information ==
This is the Summer Equinox 386YE. This event, dusk is 20:30–21:30. Bows and crossbows cannot be used in Anvil after 21:30, and cannot be used on quests that start after 21:30.

If you have plot wiki access, see also [https://www.profounddecisions.co.uk/empireplotwiki/RefInfoSummer386 Ref Info Summer 386], which covers a similar but different set of topics.

== Character packs ==

=== Potions and similar ===
* [[EmpireWiki:Shining like fire#Shimmering Echoes|Shining like fire: Shimmering Echoes]]: Any mine that was enchanted with Revelation of the Jewel's Sparkling Heart during 2023 E4 will provide a single deepstone each event throughout 2024 in addition to other benefits. Green iron = warstones, weltsilver = bloodstones, tempest jade = spellstones, orichalcum = heartstones. If someone thinks they should have one, try to find out if they had that ritual cast on them at 2023 E4; if investigating that doesn't explain what's going on, escalate.

=== Resource production and character income ===
* [[EmpireWiki:Broken Sword#Serpent's Curse|Broken Sword: Serpent's Curse]]: Urizeni congregations will be getting one fewer liao this event.
* [[EmpireWiki:Say her name#Cold Winters|Say her name: Cold Winters]]: Anyone with a resource in Sermersuaq will get an extra 22 rings of income this season.
* [[EmpireWiki:Below_the_thunders#Game_Information_:_The_Storms|Below the thunders: Game information: The Storms]]:
** Fleets based in Madruga are subject to a penalty of two ranks.
** Farms and businesses in Madruga have their income reduced by 72 rings.
* [[EmpireWiki:386YE_Summer_Solstice_interlude#Bishops_and_Navigators|386YE Summer Solstice interlude: Bishops and Navigators]]: congregations based in Tassato, Sarvos, Necropolis, Redoubt and Karsk receive an extra 18 rings income.
* [[EmpireWiki:386YE_Summer_Solstice_interlude#Cold_Winters|386YE Summer Solstice interlude: Cold Winters]]: congregations based in Tassato, Sarvos, Necropolis, Redoubt and Karsk receive an extra 18 rings income.
* [[EmpireWiki:Pitter patter|Pitter patter]]:
** Farms in Temeschwar receive an extra 18 rings of income.
** Military units in Temeshwar receive an extra 18 rings of income ''if they take the "paid work" action''.
* [[EmpireWiki:386YE_Summer_Solstice_interlude#Unblinking_Eyes|386YE Summer Solstice interlude: Unblinking Eyes]]: characters with congregations who preach Vigilance receive an extra dose of liao.
* [[EmpireWiki:Broken Sword#Serpent's Curse|Broken Sword: Serpent's Curse]]: Urizeni congregations will be getting one fewer dose of liao.
* [[EmpireWiki:386YE_Summer_Solstice_interlude#Dho'uala's_Tithe|386YE Summer Solstice interlude: Dho'uala's Tithe]]: Fleets from Dawn, Varushka and Holberg suffer a one rank penalty to their production.
* [[EmpireWiki:386YE_Summer_Solstice_interlude#Feast_and_Frost|386YE Summer Solstice interlude: Feast and Frost]]:
** Mana sites in the Brass Coast produce one fewer mana crystal.
** Herb gardens in the Brass Coast receive three fewer drams of True Vervain.
* [[EmpireWiki:Quartermaster General of the Imperial Armies#Apportioning the Guerdon|Imperial Guerdon]] (money shared between fleet and military unit personal resources who support specified Imperial fleets and armies):
** The guerdon has dropped from 350 thrones to 150 thrones this event; there is significantly less money to go around, so players may receive less than they would normally expect.
** [[EmpireWiki:386YE Summer Solstice interlude#Imperial Guerdon|386YE Summer Solstice interlude: Imperial Guerdon]]: The guerdon is split between characters supporting [[EmpireWiki:Valiant Pegasus|Valiant Pegasus]] and the [[EmpireWiki:Wolves of War|Wolves of War]].

=== Synod votes ===
(Noted here because they're printed ''on'' character packs even if they're not things that go ''in'' character packs)
* [[EmpireWiki:Broken Sword#Serpent's Curse|Broken Sword: Serpent's Curse]]: Urizeni congregations will be getting two fewer votes this event.
* [[EmpireWiki:Part of this together#Look to the Way|Part of this together: Look to the Way]]: Priests with congregations who preach to the Way will get two extra Synod votes this event.
* * [[EmpireWiki:386YE_Summer_Solstice_interlude#Unblinking_Eyes|386YE Summer Solstice interlude: Unblinking Eyes]]: characters with congregations who preach Vigilance receive two extra Synod votes.

=== Wounds ===
* [[EmpireWiki:Last_rays_of_the_sun#Participation:_Miaren_and_Hahnmark|Last rays of the sun: Participation: Miaren and Hahnmark]]: Some players could email and request traumatic wounds from Plot. If someone wants a wound and thinks they should be eligible, we'll need to check with Plot if this is something we can provide.
* [[EmpireWiki:Ashes#Participation:_Therunin_and_the_Mallum|Ashes: Participation: Therunin and the Mallum]]: Some players could email and request traumatic wounds from Plot. If someone wants a wound and thinks they should be eligible, we'll need to check with Plot if this is something we can provide.

== Magical changes ==

=== [[EmpireWiki:Combing the Beach|Combing the Beach]] ===
* [[EmpireWiki:Tales_of_mystery#Beaches_and_Nets|Tales of mystery: Beaches and Nets]]: This ritual has been removed and cannot be cast. Anyone who once knew how to cast it will have had it removed from their character sheet. They can learn a new ritual in its place as normal, which they can do by logging in on the player PCs.

=== [[EmpireWiki:Distillation of Diverse Parts|Distillation of Diverse Parts]] ===
* [[EmpireWiki:Tales_of_mystery#Beaches_and_Nets|Tales of mystery: Beaches and Nets]]: If this ritual is cast on a Roshanwe token, as previously used for the [[EmpireWiki:Combing the Beach]] ritual, take the token and give the players two measures of tempest jade.

=== [[EmpireWiki:Scrivener's Bloodmark|Scrivener's Bloodmark]] ===
* [[EmpireWiki:Famine_and_feast#The_Lictors|Famine and feast: The Lictors]]: If someone casts this ritual, invokes the Lictors, and spends one ring of ilium per target (which almost certainly means two rings of ilium), they get additional effects. If someone does this, simply record the fact in the ritual notes.

=== [[EmpireWiki:Golden Voyage|Golden Voyage]] ===
* [[EmpireWiki:Famine_and_feast#Rhianos|Famine and feast: Rhianos]]
** Someone using a [[EmpireWiki:Tonic of Sunlit Glass|Tonic of Sunlit Glass]] during casting this ritual will gain two extra ranks of Summer Lore for the casting. There's no need to record if someone does this.
** Someone who has the ritual mastered, and who invokes Rhianos while casting the ritual, can substitute weltsilver or orichalcum (or a mix thereof) for mana. Three ingots count as two mana. There's no need to record if someone does this.

=== [[EmpireWiki:Clear Counsel of the Everflowing River|Clear Counsel of the Everflowing River]] ===
* [[EmpireWiki:Famine_and_feast#Sung|Famine and feast: Sung]]: Someone who consumes a [[EmpireWiki:Goosewhisper Infusion|Goosewhisper Infusion]] for the casting will get (a) one extra rank of Night Lore and (b) is able to use up to three personal mana instead of crystal mana for the casting.

GOD 2024 E3 specials

2024-07-25T23:31:44Z

Gamma3000: /* Magical changes */

This page lists things that are likely to affect GOD crew, because they're special for this event and change how we normally do things.

This ''doesn't'' try to cover everything in the Winds of Fortune: sometimes player ask for information about conjunctions, or about how certain titles or opportunities work. They're things we might be able to help with, but they're not covered here because they don't fundamentally change how GOD processes work.

== General event information ==
This is the Summer Equinox 386YE. This event, dusk is 20:30–21:30. Bows and crossbows cannot be used in Anvil after 21:30, and cannot be used on quests that start after 21:30.

If you have plot wiki access, see also [https://www.profounddecisions.co.uk/empireplotwiki/RefInfoSummer386 Ref Info Summer 386], which covers a similar but different set of topics.

== Character packs ==

=== Potions and similar ===
* [[EmpireWiki:Shining like fire#Shimmering Echoes|Shining like fire: Shimmering Echoes]]: Any mine that was enchanted with Revelation of the Jewel's Sparkling Heart during 2023 E4 will provide a single deepstone each event throughout 2024 in addition to other benefits. Green iron = warstones, weltsilver = bloodstones, tempest jade = spellstones, orichalcum = heartstones. If someone thinks they should have one, try to find out if they had that ritual cast on them at 2023 E4; if investigating that doesn't explain what's going on, escalate.

=== Resource production and character income ===
* [[EmpireWiki:Broken Sword#Serpent's Curse|Broken Sword: Serpent's Curse]]: Urizeni congregations will be getting one fewer liao this event.
* [[EmpireWiki:Say her name#Cold Winters|Say her name: Cold Winters]]: Anyone with a resource in Sermersuaq will get an extra 22 rings of income this season.
* [[EmpireWiki:Below_the_thunders#Game_Information_:_The_Storms|Below the thunders: Game information: The Storms]]:
** Fleets based in Madruga are subject to a penalty of two ranks.
** Farms and businesses in Madruga have their income reduced by 72 rings.
* [[EmpireWiki:386YE_Summer_Solstice_interlude#Bishops_and_Navigators|386YE Summer Solstice interlude: Bishops and Navigators]]: congregations based in Tassato, Sarvos, Necropolis, Redoubt and Karsk receive an extra 18 rings income.
* [[EmpireWiki:386YE_Summer_Solstice_interlude#Cold_Winters|386YE Summer Solstice interlude: Cold Winters]]: congregations based in Tassato, Sarvos, Necropolis, Redoubt and Karsk receive an extra 18 rings income.
* [[EmpireWiki:Pitter patter|Pitter patter]]:
** Farms in Temeschwar receive an extra 18 rings of income.
** Military units in Temeshwar receive an extra 18 rings of income ''if they take the "paid work" action''.
* [[EmpireWiki:386YE_Summer_Solstice_interlude#Unblinking_Eyes|386YE Summer Solstice interlude: Unblinking Eyes]]: characters with congregations who preach Vigilance receive an extra dose of liao.
* [[EmpireWiki:Broken Sword#Serpent's Curse|Broken Sword: Serpent's Curse]]: Urizeni congregations will be getting one fewer dose of liao.
* [[EmpireWiki:386YE_Summer_Solstice_interlude#Dho'uala's_Tithe|386YE Summer Solstice interlude: Dho'uala's Tithe]]: Fleets from Dawn, Varushka and Holberg suffer a one rank penalty to their production.
* [[EmpireWiki:386YE_Summer_Solstice_interlude#Feast_and_Frost|386YE Summer Solstice interlude: Feast and Frost]]:
** Mana sites in the Brass Coast produce one fewer mana crystal.
** Herb gardens in the Brass Coast receive three fewer drams of True Vervain.
* [[EmpireWiki:Quartermaster General of the Imperial Armies#Apportioning the Guerdon|Imperial Guerdon]] (money shared between fleet and military unit personal resources who support specified Imperial fleets and armies):
** The guerdon has dropped from 350 thrones to 150 thrones this event; there is significantly less money to go around, so players may receive less than they would normally expect.
** [[EmpireWiki:386YE Summer Solstice interlude#Imperial Guerdon|386YE Summer Solstice interlude: Imperial Guerdon]]: The guerdon is split between characters supporting [[EmpireWiki:Valiant Pegasus|Valiant Pegasus]] and the [[EmpireWiki:Wolves of War|Wolves of War]].

=== Synod votes ===
(Noted here because they're printed ''on'' character packs even if they're not things that go ''in'' character packs)
* [[EmpireWiki:Broken Sword#Serpent's Curse|Broken Sword: Serpent's Curse]]: Urizeni congregations will be getting two fewer votes this event.
* [[EmpireWiki:Part of this together#Look to the Way|Part of this together: Look to the Way]]: Priests with congregations who preach to the Way will get two extra Synod votes this event.
* * [[EmpireWiki:386YE_Summer_Solstice_interlude#Unblinking_Eyes|386YE Summer Solstice interlude: Unblinking Eyes]]: characters with congregations who preach Vigilance receive two extra Synod votes.

=== Wounds ===
* [[EmpireWiki:Last_rays_of_the_sun#Participation:_Miaren_and_Hahnmark|Last rays of the sun: Participation: Miaren and Hahnmark]]: Some players could email and request traumatic wounds from Plot. If someone wants a wound and thinks they should be eligible, we'll need to check with Plot if this is something we can provide.
* [[EmpireWiki:Ashes#Participation:_Therunin_and_the_Mallum|Ashes: Participation: Therunin and the Mallum]]: Some players could email and request traumatic wounds from Plot. If someone wants a wound and thinks they should be eligible, we'll need to check with Plot if this is something we can provide.

== Magical changes ==

=== [[EmpireWiki:Combing the Beach|Combing the Beach]] ===
* [[EmpireWiki:Tales_of_mystery#Beaches_and_Nets|Tales of mystery: Beaches and Nets]]: This ritual has been removed and cannot be cast. Anyone who once knew how to cast it will have had it removed from their character sheet. They can learn a new ritual in its place as normal, which they can do by logging in on the player PCs.

=== [[EmpireWiki:Distillation of Diverse Parts|Distillation of Diverse Parts]] ===
* [[EmpireWiki:Tales_of_mystery#Beaches_and_Nets|Tales of mystery: Beaches and Nets]]: If this ritual is cast on a Roshanwe token, as previously used for the [[EmpireWiki:Combing the Beach]] ritual, take the token and give the players two measures of tempest jade.