Mages Guild: Healers on Strike Edition

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There's something to be said for that. Weeds out the least talented, or perhaps the least prepared. I'm all for it.

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>>54357573
What?

How in the nine hells does this happen?

>>54357604
That's hardly the point! Not everyone just happens to get healing magic at his or her beck and call! That's why we have people who train specifically for this job!

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>>54357573
I'm sorry, healers are allowed to do that?

Huh. I'm not sure if Effie would consider that good news or not.

>>54357629
And with proper care and avoiding those less careful, you won't need them. Just lie low until the culling is finished and then everything will be fine,

So does this mean we all just die off?
Seems unfair, you guys need us for funding.

>>54357648
Uh, you dropped your name tag.

>>54357663
It's not me I'm worried about, it's the principle of the matter. We need a way to fix this.

>>54357697
What? Oh, this darn thing, make a new coat and the nametag decides it doesn't enjoy being attached.

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>>54357663
>>54357722
>>54357679
>>54357697

These are the department's demands to end the strike. Until then I am going to stand here and watch the chaos.
>Hannah passes around a scroll.

>>54357762
Demands? What the hell?

>>54357762
I mean, I don't generally hurt myself enough to need healing, but I suppose it's still worth it to at least see...

>>54357697
Perhaps ask the medicasters.
>>54357762
>Inigo unrolls it.
Wait. You get paid?

>>54357762
>The Redrobe takes the scroll
Dang, really? Seems a little harsh.
I mean, I've only been hospitalized sixteen times in the last week, that can't be that unreasonable.
>>54357778
Well that kinda happens during strikes doesn't it?

>>54357778
>>54357794
>>54357801
>The list reads as follows:
>overtime pay for the past month due to the excessive number of incidents.
>a 10% year-over-year funding increase in the next two budgets.
>a written guarantee that healers earn the same percentage of treasure and loot as "combat" party members.
>a written promise to upgrade the department's facilities to current age standards.
>a moratorium of entrants to the necromancy department for a minimum of six months.
>And finally, a formal apology from Antruthius himself.

Woooooooo! Vacation!

>>54357877
...These seem extremely reasonable. Not going to lie.
Necromancy fucking sucks anyway, thats why the Archwizard abandoned it to Lazarus.

>>54357887
Nice! Wait shit, your vacation is my suffering.

>>54357808
I mean normally, but demands makes it sound...I don't know. Organized.

>>54357877
...you cannot be serious.

>>54357877
No seriously, you get paid? First, maybe, second, maybe, third, maybe, fourth, maybe, fifth, maybe, sixth, not a chance in any existence you can imagine.

>>54357877
Um... I have no actual input on any of those things.

>>54357900
Suuuuuck it bitch boy, I'm off the clock!

>>54357929
Yeah, that's a good point. I don't think anyone who can actually sign off on those is around right now.

>Diana sighs as she takes a seat and starts drawing.

>>54357907
Well the healers are probably the most organised people in the guild outside of the conspiromancers.
>>54357956
Hey asshole, does the strike mean you can't heal yourself?

>>54357989
Uhhhhhh
>she runs for the exit

>>54357989
Really? They seem like they're running around all the time! Doesn't exactly scream organization.

>>54358023
It's called triage, and it's crucial.
>>54358001
>he catches her by the scruff of her shirt.
No running. You might trip.

>>54358001
Pfft. HA! That's stupid. You're all stupid. That's like putting an embargo on your own school of magic.
>>54358023
Okay, then think of it like this, how come they haven't all broken down mentally?
It's probably the hardest job in the guild, all the running around is because the guild churns out accident victims faster than a barbarian training school.

>>54358068
I mean sure, but what the hell are WE supposed to do about it? At least when ritualists screw up, they either have nothing happen or are swallowed into the abyss between timelines.

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To the seven screaming hells of y'qarth with the healers! For too long we have been beholden to those poltice-peddleing ne'er-do-wells. I say it's time we elected our own, schooled in the arts of transmutation and simply did away with the outdated concept of healers completely.

There will always be a conflict of interest when outsiders are allowed to dictate terms. Need I remind my learned brothers of the druids and their quabbles?

>>54357573
Can you guys just go back to gaia online already

>>54358155
I don't think you are trustworthy for some reason.

>>54358127
...You stupid or something?
>>54358155
Transmutation? Isn't that fifty times more complex than healing?
Though you have a point, druids suck and they never agree on anything.

>>54358155
I mean the druids are jerks, but that's not an apt comparison is it?

>>54358187
...I just had a strange idea.

>>54358211
How strange of an idea?

>>54358155
Enjoy when you're reduced to a fleshy lump of tissue. Transmuters don't know the difference between a heart and a hand.

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I had *ALMOST* nothing to do with it.

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Bah! We don't need 'em, lads! Just fire up those alchemy sets and start mass brewing Potions of Healing. I've been working on an automated injection system to administer such Potions when the system detects severe wounds, saves us the time of having to stop casting and rummaging through our stuff for a drink. Plus, we don't even need to be conscious for the thing to work! We could be in the middle of a coma and *woosh*, 25 CCs of delicious healy goo straight into our veins.

Now if I could just work out that nasty bug where the recipient ODs on good health....

>>54358321
What's the difference between sewing fabric and sewing flesh?

>>54358608
Do... Potions really work like that?

>>54358669
They will when I'm done with them.

>>54358655
Okay, first, ew.

>>54358690
But... Why?

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I'm just going to mention that geomancers rarely need the medicasters, because we can learn magic that lets us heal ourselves.

Applications are on the table.

>>54358754
The heck are you making those things with if the people drinking them can OD?
>>54358754
That's stupid, and I don't believe you.
Unless you secretly have rocks for flesh.

>>54358754
BEGONE, THOT!

This wizard's power is tied directly to the only way other then being the seventh son of a seventh son! I DO NOT NEED THIS TEMPTATION!

>>54358931
Really? Oh? Then why didn't this boys club kick me out when I joined?

>>54358359
It is not without some risk I agree. However we are magi and should not shy from the complexities of the Art. Let the chaos of life bend and conform to our will! A hundred years from now a man should have a choice- does he pay some backwater "healer" to chant and smear their substances. Or pay well in coin and esteem for one of YOUR hand-crafted hearts

We could improve the human condition, elevate and enhance it. Surely this is a noble goal for the esteemed guild of mages

>>54358820
Whatever. You'll make your choices. I can't stop you.

>>54358931
...Thot?

>>54358981
Carmina, everything okay?

>>54359083
No seriously, how in the hell's does that even work at all? Explain.

>>54359083
Why would you ask a silly question like that?

>>54358997
I think that just because it's old doesn't mean it's bad. It's worked well in the past, and it'll work well in the future, and if you want to transmute yourself into a couple of tentacles and some teeth, feel free, but most people would prefer to be whole and healthy again. Which is a healer's business.

>>54359229
and if your kind where willing to cease this absurd strike I might not be pushing for the advancement of modern transfigurative magics

>>54359298
So that's where the rhetoric is coming from. You in charge of the budget? Keep us on the salves and basic remedies, then blame us for not advancing, then give our jobs to your buddies in transfiguration. That's what I'm thinking.

>>54359117
A fire may burn down a forest. The forest grows back. Similar principle.

>>54359152
Small talk?

>>54359355
I... Suppose so?

I am doing alright, at the moment.

>>54359355
That's some of the vaguest and ostentatious shit I've heard all week. You've explained a grand total of absolutely nothing.

>>54359379
Fair enough.

>>54359443
I am a mage, not a doctor. It just works for us. We can heal, but only ourselves.

>>54359458
>Nods
>>54359443
She's the one who's in charge of a department, just roll with it.

>>54359325
So now it's our fault you're next to worthless without magic or divine intervention? There's no Big Alchemy keeping you down with cut-rate potions, just timeworn tradition and a fear of change

>>54359458
Ahaha. "It just works"
What a hack. I don't think Geomancy can heal, you've just learned some actual healing magic and put a mask over it.
>>54359522
That kind of attitude is what's leaving shitty department heads in their place because people believe them above questioning.
Citation, Lazarus.

>>54359533
And the guild budget department. You forgot about that. You want to make your...whatever it is you do, with bargain bin wands?

>>54359564
Does it matter what we call it?

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>>54357877
Overtime pay my ass. We overcharge each other for literally every fucking service we provide in this guild. All of them. Are you kidding? I can't comment on the funding hike, I haven't seen the budget in several years. And the written agreement should be written into the guild's bylaws, sure, but if you ever worked with someone without first getting that agreed upon you are a stupid, spineless worm and I will deride you to your fucking face. If I'd EVER tried to take more loot than the designated healer I would've shortly ended up dead, and probably not because somebody outside the party wounded me. You need to define "current age standards", I'm pretty sure a stretcher is still a stretcher. As to the necromancy demand: Go fuck yourself with a rusty dagger.

Incidentally, I'm offering a 20% discount on goods to guild members already registered as necromancers. If you don't like competition, healers, leave.

>>54359564
Well, I don't run any departments, so however it works is none of my concern.

>>54359663
I still can't believe most of you people get an actual salary and I have to sell my work myself.

>>54359651
Yes! What kind of backpedaling is that? You just claimed Geomancy could heal, now you're acting like it doesn't matter.
>>54359663
Necromancers can go fuck themselves with rusty broadswords. There's a reason the Archwizard abandoned them and left them to stab and murder each other in peace.

Hah! Who needs healers when you can cast illusions of comfort?
>That's a sizeable blood trail he's leaving behind him

>>54359683
You wanna specify what your gripe is with what I've said? Incidentally, I didn't buy my equipment. I made everything currently on me besides a couple wands and rings.

>>54359694
Yeah I'm not fond of the undead problem but what's your issue other than that? They kill effectively. Which is useful.

>>54359564
"It just works" is pretty much what all divine magic works on. Same with sorcerers. I don't think you've made any point.

>>54359773
It's a temporary fix Pierre! Better for stomach aches than stab wounds! At least get a bandage on it!

....................................

>>54359773
You apparently. You're bringing along a rather interesting trail of crimson with you.
>>54359792
They're assholes. Potentially the edgiest department in the guild even going past those dark magic twats.

>>54359773
>Eeps
>Tugs herself away
Don't bleed on my, this coat is brand new!
>>54359792
No, I don't really want to comment all terribly much.

>>54359801
>>54359806
Absolutely not, my injuries are everyone's problem. They fix me or I get blood on their nice things.

>>54359694
I am a geomancer. I can heal myself with my magic. Others in the department can learn this, and no other elementalism department lats claim to anything similar - and if they can they've said nothing about it.

I'm not going to break my arm to prove a point I'd break yours, but since you're not a geomancer that wouldn't help either.

>>54359773
Not everyone is that good at illusions.

I never trusted those healers, and you shouldn't either. You never know for certain what's in those potions, BigHeals is tryin' to control everything nowadays. Back in 920 I remember them tryin' to steal my lab notes on the reproductive habits of lawn gnomes.

>>54359825
And also on your projects. Look at where you trailed from?

>>54359683
Whoops, just realized what you meant. And yet my point still stands because we sell our goods at a 100% markup to non-guild members and a 50% markup to guild members.And magical items are the fastest goods anyone could possibly produce in terms of value per work hour, the only limitation on profit is demand. You must be a helplessly compulsive spender to spew that garbage.

>>54359806
Okay, I guess.

>>54359825
My clothes are already red. It kinda happens, anything I wear eventually turns red.
>>54359834
I mean the fact you aren't even willing to make up some pseudo explanation is pretty damning. It's not Geomancy, it's regular healing and you've clearly lied to your students.
>>54359887
What, you mean the ingredients listed on the bottle might actually be lies?
>>54359904
I guess? Tell me it isn't true, just look at all the skulls they leave decorated around their department entrance.

>>54359922
of course they are boy, Demons are immune to poison. So why does this recipe call for "Demon Liver"? WAKE UP SHEEPEASENTS

>>54359956
OH SHIT, HE'S RIGHT!
What other wisdom can you impart on us?

>>54359893
Really, I think the look adds to Pierrebot's charm.
>>54359834
Not everyone can be as big of a headache for the healers either. Your point?
>>54359922
That's because you're lower class scum and are only here to round out the numbers, redrobe.
>>54359811
Can't promise anything.

>>54359904
They're only fast if you disregard quality.
>>54359973
Then maybe I should get out of here before you ruin it.

>>54359973
Lower class? How vary dare you, I'll have you know i'm a member of the underclass with little to no redeeming qualities other than existing in this meeting to complain about everything I can see or hear. In fact by the end of this meeting, I will probably be murdered horribly and never be seen again.

>>54359922
It's not like you'd believe any explanation I give.

I swear, it's worse than talking to a brick wall.

>>54359973
Just saying that it seems less than ideal.

>>54359999
...Or if you join a department and stop being a redrobe your life might possibly be spared. Just saying.

>>54359971
Listen up boy, you are a boy ain't ya? No matter, all these wizards want you to believe that healers and white mages are the best way to heal your injuries. Nothing could be further from the truth, the guild has been infiltrated by the shadow government. They're probably gonna kill me for saying this but the leeches they use are actually hosts for psychic parasites that control your brain and make you sterile. They're trying dwindle the amount of magic users over time so they can invade our dimension and sell us their disgusting food!

>>54359922
Banning an occupational group from entering the guild because they tend to be obnoxious is not an adult response. You aren't going to get rid of necromancers without somehow purging magic itself from this plane of existence. Which means that if you don't want to deal with obnoxious necromancers you need to socialize them so they aren't obnoxious anymore. Nobody else is going to accept them, except the sort of groups who are going to change them from obnoxious to mass murdering. I would rather actually solve the problem.

>>54359978
Nnnnnope. If I need to do a rush job I can buy a high quality piece of jewelry, sword, etc. from any of the shops, merchants, or guilds I've been working with for the past eleven months. The profit comes from the enchantment itself, even if I'm buying the most expensive thing they have, which I've done three times now, it only cuts my margin by 7.5 - 15%, depending on whether I'm selling it to a guild member or outsider. Otherwise I just fob the work off on my homunculus and it gets it done pretty quick that way too. So, I guess you aren't a compulsive spender, but rather, you have no idea how to do business.

I got dragged into this.
Has the dust blown over?

>>54360131
Look at this sorry excuse for a mage, selling his craft for coin, COIN of all things. Back in my day we didn't use such things, why for a black market murder I wouldn't go lower than 2 goats and a stuffed alligator. You shame us all with you "economics" if I didn't know better I'd say you were part of the conspiracy to sterilize the human race! Wait, do I know better? Hmmmmmmmmmmm..

>>54360187
Not even remotely, Sir. They're not negotiating.

>>54360187
Nope, it's still dusty over here. It's why I took to riding the rails in the first place. Speaking of, you need your knives sharpened?

>>54360037
I'm the brick wall here? You're the one refusing to explain yourself, hell's teeth it's like talking to a rock.
>>54360124
That's a little difficult to swallow, I mean, surely if they wanted to sell us food they could just introduce a subliminal marketing campaign to wither us down slowly until we accept that it exists.
>>54360131
The head of Necromancy, Lazarus, and his chump of a slave Veilhex have been trying that for quite a few years, safe to say Necromancers are far too stubborn to change. Young, impressionable teenagers hit their angst phase and go for the magic that matches their awful attitude, the fastest way to change them would probably to beat it out of them.
>>54360187
Not even close buster, this could go on for weeks.

>>54360131
...So are you always an asshole to people you just met?

>>54360209
Hello hannah. Nice to see you again.
>He scratches his head
What are our demands?

>>54360211
Knives?
I don't carry any knives on me.

>>54360187
>>54360209
I'm on board with writing the 'equal loot share' clause into the guild laws, but I haven't even seen the budget and you STILL have yet to explain what "current age standards" mean.

>>54360232
What do you even want me to explain!? I cast spell, wounds seal up, bones start to knit, pain starts to go away. I don't need to know the molecular intricacies of it, and neither do my students as long as they can replicate it.

>>54360232
You;d like to think that wouldn't you? No, I know what I've seen. Dang aliens are after my sperm. THEY AIN'T GONNA GET IT
>>54360260
What kinda medic don't carry knives?

>>54360232
Weeks?
>Groan
But I just wanted to get back to work!

>>54360262
current age standards?
>he scratches his head
I'm unsure myself.

>>54360292
What sort of medic needs a knife?

>>54360292
>>54360306
That was a silly answer. I guess most medics should have some sort of knife on them.

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Gentlemen of the Guild, this humble wizard must speak!

Once more the Scientist Guild sends us yet more disparaging remarks and insultations!

As you know previous attempts at casting curses and sending monsters their way have failed, foiled by their precious quantum nuclear technology and 'psychokinetic aether nullifiers'. Truly what new ideas are there to get back at these metal clad insolents?

>>54360260
>She hands him the scroll >>54357877
>>54360262
>>54360306
Well for starters we would like our beds to have metal frames instead of wood, offices and filing systems for patient records, a place to eat that isn't with the comatose, and would it KILL you to make a break room? I don't even need a Scry-V, just some chairs! Is that so much to ask?

>>54360280
So you're not even going to invent some crap like "Geomancers are naturally closer to the earth and so much like molding the shapes of rocks and boulders, they can influence their bodies to heal at a faster rate"?
Or maybe "As Geomancers are the closest field of Elementalism to other living beings with their manipulation of plant life and foliage, this can to an extend be applied to fauna"?
I swear magic's going down the pan. I've been a redrobe for only a year and already people can't be bothered to sell the great methods and madness of their craft anymore.
>>54360292
How are you protecting yourself from the parasites? I mean any good shadow government would have them in the drinking water as well.
>>54360306
I mean, if you pull this off you get more pay. We'll all probably suffer horrifically at the healer's selfish actions putting their own wallets before the lives of others, but who am I to judge. I'm just a redrobe who adds to the hospital waiting lists.

>>54360236
No, you just happened to complain about my salary because you're too incompetent to make a decent profit from your business and I happened to take offense to that. Literally speaking, you would not have said what you said if you were better at what you do.

>>54360355
I say we get them interested in the great depths and darkness of space travel, and then they leave the realm and we never see the obnoxious idiots again.
That, or fill their ventilation shafts with lesser demons who are immune to the touch of metal. That'll keep them confused for a few weeks.

>>54360395
>Blinks
Fuck you.
>Pouts and stomps out

>>54360362
Oh, that last one is a decent sized request.

And it isnt all too much to ask, I agree with you Hannah.

>>54360367
>he shrugs
Like I said, I was dragged into here.

>>54360402
You insulted the wrong person before you left you two bit thrift store reject hack!
>>54360404
What section are you from them, general practitioner?

>>54360367
I don't drink water, I drink moonshine distilled from my own urine. It's the only way to be sure that end product is sterile.

>>54360367
...Are you sure you aren't some Advertimancer in disguise?

>>54360355
...I mean, usually we just use the Lighthouse for things like this.

>>54360433
Surgeon mainly.
But i'll do whatevers necessary.

>>54360362
...well that's really reasonable. Okay, yeah, updates to the medical facilities sound great.

>>54360434
Hold up my man. Surely that's an a slowly decreasing loop?
Where does the new water come from?
>>54360442
Don't say that. If I end up a real member of the guild in a genuine department i'll have to reveal my actual name and potentially not be murdered at the end of this meeting so I can return once more to convey more marketing bollocks that no-one in their right might should have any reason to believe.
Also we redrobes just call that the Shillmancy department.
>>54360501
Well right now you're doing a grand total of nothing except existing in this room so we can point fingers at you for the-
Wait, did you vote for or against this strike?

>>54360550
I got me a ring what makes water. Got it from some carpetbagger down south.

>>54360550
...Right then.

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Now, let’s be realistic here. Most of us don’t even use the healing services that much! It’s not to be inconvenient that they are making this strike. There goal must be to make those idiots of the fighters guild enter in strike too, or at least demand a bigger wage. Those morons!

Of course, in this situation I know that many of us will feel tempted to use necromancy as a substitute for your average fighter – it’s not like there’s much difference in intelligence anyway. And zombies usually at least complain less to follow orders. But I must ask you to resist temptation! Although this is a cheaper alternative, we would play just like they want if we do it. We all well know that many of the healers also study general white and holy magic, and that it has many specialized spells against necromancy. They are just waiting to play heroes and steal the lightspot!

No, I believe this is time to finally give the money to the transmutation department to the golem research. Golens are already much more advanced that those ineffective things of the past! It’s time to modernize! It will be more expensive for now, I admit, but I’m sure you all will see that it is the best choice for the future.

See in the pictogram, there are many suggestions of improvement.

>>54360578
A man who bags carpets has no business pawning off rings.
Though that is a pretty good solution.
>>54360653
It has to happen you know, all redrobes end the same way.
But we do have the most unique experience in the guild in that no-one truly knows what the hell we are doing, and neither do we.
>>54360673
...That's pretty good. Although budget is already the main issue with keeping the healers happy.
Could the project be made more cost efficient? Perhaps more human sized golems, this diagram indicates an model potentially too beefy for the tasks one would usually give to a skeleton or zombie.

>>54357573
>upon hearing this is eyes appear to turn into dollar signs for a moment although you're not sure
I remind all of you that Mortimer's Marvelous Mixtures has a wide array of healing potions capable of meeting all any any of your healing needs. *in a much quieter and quicker voice* potions are made on site and must be paid for, price depends greatly upon the potion required supplies are limited

>>54360673
...

Kulik, are you shitting me right now? THIS is the reason you petitioned me for the golem materal and the grant money?

No. This is not happening. You're done.

>>54360780
He asked you for resources as well? He must be desperate. I agree with your sentiment regardless.

>>54360764
That's the best part! We this new innovations, we don't need to keep those damn healers happy! Let's teach them a lesson! They think they are so important that they are going to sabotage us by going strike? We should teach them their place so this things don't happen again. It's even more reason to approve the project.

That said, about the size, it's not really my field. I usually oversee the emergent runic behavior, but I'm sure they should have smaller models. Actually, I'm sure there's at least one line of research about a size-adaptable golem. It's true however that there isn't in price a good substitute for a single fighter - but, maybe we could use goblins for that? However, for groups, a golem is an excellent substitute for a bunch of fighters.

>>54360780
It's just a project.... look, I'm not saying this should be the final model, okay? All I'm saying is that we neglected the golem search for too long, and with the healers striking, it's the perfect time to correct that mistake.
We don't want even more budget going to those ungrateful sluts. Worst than succubus I tell you.

Also, it would only be natural that the Geomancy Department also gained a bonus in such circumstances....

>>54360872
Hear my words Mortimer! By the end of the decade, most potions Will be made by golens. Or are you just saying this because with the healer strikes, you expect a boost from the sales of the alchemy guild?

>>54360872
...WHAT?!?

>>54360968
It's a project that's drained resources on MY department for Terra knows how long! Golem creation is an art, sure. I get that. But to think that this solves this problem?

You've lost it. And you had better find it before I cut off the rest of your funding.

>>54360968
I mean, not all things can be cured by potions, the healers do serve some niche for all their complaints.

>>54360968
Golems and other artificial sentient lifeforms are unable to do the precise and variable tasks needed to craft a quality potions, not to mention do it without catastrophic mishaps. This will always be the case and even if it weren't it just isn't profitable to use golems in production they are far too expensive to be easily replaced.
>>54361035
Why is it so surprising?
>>54361056
Give an example, one besides long term death.

>>54361111
Short term death.

>>54361154
Resurrection potions, I have a lot of them in storage in case of Guild emergencies.

>>54361035
It solves!
This is what you don't understand Samantha! I NEVER said that golem creation was an art! You think that just because I said it was important, that was the future. But perhaps you from the Geomancy Department just associate it with ceramics and clay vases. The point is that it's NOT an art! It can be mass produced! It will be much cheaper with the right investment.

>>54361056
Oh, of course not. But it will improve the potion sales still, and I assure you, this is THE ONLY REASON why Mortimer is ignoring this wonderful solution to the strike problem.

We all know the state that the alchemy department is in. We all know, that even if it is a clandestine practice, it's common to even fighters brew simple potions for them. That's because they didn't want to see the future before, as they don't want to see now, and instead they seek to profit from this strike situation. How long do you think it will take to the option of keeping providing potions to all fighters show itself to be the more expensive one? One year? Two? I wouldn't even be surprised if they plot these with the healers.
>>54361111

Sure, but how many potions made fall in this category? Most of the revenue come from potions so simple that even my zombie maid could perform!

>>54361111
With the amount of dosh he was filching from our coffers...

>>54361284
Golem creation has its uses. It fills ranks. It provides means for rote labor. And yes, they can be assembled to perform crude tasks.

But this? The body is hard, and not the rocky kind of hard. A golem cannot just fix all of that.

If you are so dead-set on this future, you will need another backer.

This place still a Moeblob dung pit?

>>54361284
You do know that I don't give anything out for free, right? The cost of the potions comes out of their pay.
I take pride in my potions being on a higher standard of quality than it is possible for your zombie maid to make, not only in effectiveness but also in taste which makes it so that my potions will always be superior.
>>54361372
Oh ... I forgot how much he was actually using. However, taking all of his requests into account it is clear that he is trying to do something he shouldn't, with that much he could make a small army of golems. I will suspend his payments immediately.

>>54361471
See, this is why you need someone from the accounting department to look over your books at least once a month. I'm half tempted to learn to do it myself.

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>>54361372
Do as you will, Samantha. I will talk with the metallurgy department. The projects we had with them were a little over the top but.. maybe it's for the best. I only pity you. I gave you a chance to bring back relevancy to the Geomancy Department, but now you will all be forgotten, except for the occasional farming job. You could have been the vanguard of a new era.

>>54361471

Nobody cares about your pride, as nobody cares if the potion that a bunch of hired fighters taste like piss. Nice try to change the subject of how much you will profit with the strike.

>>54361531
Heh. Good luck getting them to sign off on that.

We'll see which one of us is stuck in the past soon enough.

>>54361518
I was referring to your department's expenses, but I should probably focus a bit more on finances.
>>54361531
That's where you're wrong, the fighters themselves do it was a very common complaint a decade ago. It will be very profitable, but I don't see how that matters.

>>54357573
The clerics of "good" deities will be unable to continue striking for long. The drop-off of assistance from other clergies will funnel more people into such churches, and increase demand for clerics of those faiths.

This problem solves itself. Non-good cleric organizations that offer healing will be on the decline, and there will be even more effective healers.

>>54361600
I would like to point that over 60% of the potion sales revenue comes from:
>Basic Health Potions
>Common Cold Potions
>Sleep Potions
>Love Potions
>Slim Potions
>Erectile Dysfunction Potions
>Anti-Baldness Potions
>Stamina Potions

ALL easy to make, with the exception of the love potion, and the anti-baldness potions doesn't even have confirmed effects!

>>54361600
...don't you run your own business?

It's inexcusable for you to not have someone looking over your money. Even if it's just you.

>>54361644
A very astute observation. The problem is, we seem to have a mostly secular group of healers.

>>54361531
I already have one giant metal golem running around. I don't think I could handle two

>>54361672
Ok, now I know you're lying, because that is blatantly false to anyone who is familiar with alchemy or my business.
>>54361693
I do, It's just that there are a lot of financial records and I don't pay as much attention to them as I probably should.

Well, its a good thing indeed that I finally figured out how to make goodberry wine. Without that drunken excuse of a familiar stealing my supplies, I finally did it. 8 casks, in the cellars now. As helpful as elf wine, but less expensive, and you don't have to deal with the knife-eared sods. If only I could make goodberries without involving druids. I could make more, if I had some help.

In the meantime, it's 40 gold per bottle, far less than elf wine. Taking orders,starting now!

>>54361749
...

>>54361791
Only eight casks?

Just letting you know, by this time tomorrow you'll be sold out because of one of the ghosts. She's a total drunkard - and a Marcher, but I repeat myself.

>>54361693
All the more reason that this can be a boom for the churches.

Whether THAT is something that all of us are okay with is another question, since it will increase the number of magic users who are not at all invested in the arcane arts.

>>54361862
That, sir, will be something for another meeting, I'm sure.

>>54361672
While more general-purpose potions tend to be easier to create, the more specific or powerful the needed effect is, the more difficult it is to get just right.

There was an incident just last week where some senior undergraduates were attempting love potions and overheated their mixtures. The fumes left them all lying hot and bothered, but paralyzed on the floor until one of the graduate assistants came in on regular rounds to clean the lab.

Now is my time to shine!

What? With no healers working, this place gets dirtier and dirtier so much faster!

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>>54357573
Have you freezed their wages to stop then?

>>54359806
Pretty sure the blood mages are edgeyer than the necromancers
Most necromancers I've met in this guild are not brooding at all they just really like skeletons

>>54357573
Without any healers my work will only increase! Huzzah! Send any corpses my way, can't wait to get started folks.