Immaculate
unerring
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i out-sourced a custom drawing/sketch for one of the upcoming events in this nes... 

Regarding the ritual, why don't you just ask a representative of each nation to check that money has been received for each nation? So a Grigori, a Hippus, a Kuriotate, a Kappa, an elf, an Amurite, a Bannor would check that Grigori sent that much gold and it was received, another set of 7 "umpires" would check that Hippus sent that much gold etc. This way, you don't have to trust just one nation, but have several other nations to ask for each nation who should have contributed something. This way, everyone would be pretty sure that everybody paid their due. And it's surely easier to appoint one umpire/diplomat per nation than to get all the gold collected for sending, so it shouldn't slow down the process?
Just so you know, the ritual doesn't have to be a cash only affair... you can commit your scholars to performing the ritual (instead of researching) and that would contribute towards the ritual as well. the value of 120g is something that kol came up with after e-mailing and asking about the how much it would cost.
i basically told him: to get life mana to heal disease over such a large area (in the same way as was done previously) will cost upwards of 110+ gold. there is no guarentee of success... and he said, "No way man- that sucks- it could all be wasted... i'm gonna go drink more beer" and i said, "no kol- it will do something for sure- that much money is definately gonna do something but ultimately the dice decide how effective it will be, but 110+ gold ritual with life mana access should be able to do what its supposed to... not wine spritzers tonight kol?" and he said, "yeah, wine spritzers- i was trying to hide my dark secret"
now- that may not be EXACTLY what was said (or even very close) but the important part (the wine spritzers) is true (wait, no it isn't)...
Not enough time, and expected Kol's NES to start sooner. What with the first NES being dormant, I have now. I might be able to do two NESes at the same time, but that's probably stretching it a little. I tend to commit myself when I do something, so I try to avoid spreading too much.Why didn't you join us originally when we started playing LDi?