"Civilization has an awful lot of ideas and best practices about starting up efforts like this one, all of them attuned to a very different world.  If I took their conventional wisdom straight, the part of this project that masters the way of Law should be trying to obtain an even younger INT 19, and 18s with high Wisdom - to be clear, I won't try to date anyone a year younger than myself, for other best-practice reasons."

"The applied side of the project would conventionally be the part where you bring in metallurgists while you work on metallurgy, or more senior wizards if you work on magic, or have extremely well-read people on staff who act as a kind of living library - that's probably even more important, when you can't search inside the texts of the books you actually have.  It is a proverb however that no quantity of weird people can compensate for a corporate culture that doesn't know to use weirdness effectively."

"Carissa, Ione, Asmodia, Meritxell, I probably want to talk with all of you about that later today, if you can go onward a bit further without getting quite as much rest as everybody else."

"Civilization has an awful lot of ideas and best practices about starting up efforts like this one, all of them attuned to a very different world.  If I took their conventional wisdom straight, the part of this project that masters the way of Law should be trying to obtain an even younger INT 19, and 18s with high Wisdom - to be clear, I won't try to date anyone a year younger than myself, for other best-practice reasons.  On conventional wisdom, you might have an old knowledgeable ex-mathematician sit in, but they'd have to be careful about who they talked to besides me, and you'd be pleasantly surprised if they started wielding Law themselves."

"The applied side of the project would conventionally be the part where you bring in metallurgists while you work on metallurgy, or more senior wizards if you work on magic, or have extremely well-read people on staff who act as a kind of living library - that's probably even more important, when you can't search inside the texts of the books you actually have."

"In both cases, it is a proverb that no quantity of weird people can compensate for a corporate culture that doesn't know to use weirdness effectively."

"Carissa, Ione, Asmodia, Meritxell, I probably want to talk with all of you about that later today, if you can go onward a bit further without getting quite as much rest as everybody else."