A schedule for presenting a project to rope in more support? I know that one, although the academic economy of the Sixth is a little different.
[Mostly consisting of impressing people who award credits and so on, or at least, it was like that before he won the highest honor and got more or less total freedom to muck around as desired. Still: sure, yes, that might work. There are probably people here who will jump at the chance to donate their blood for whatever reasons they might have.
Maybe the aesthetic will help. Palamedes doesn't want to mire in the issue of keeping it ethical before they've even looked at a single stone, especially not right this second when the ideas are fresh and invigorating, so - the bureaucracy can come later.]
Knowing the variations of the paleblood experience will be a help, we should chart some of that. Maybe do a survey? And rummage around in the Archives for any firsthand accounts of bloodstones used for non-decorative purposes — I should be writing this down.
[To that end he tugs his cloak out of the way to get at his satchel, which he roots in for a pocket notebook and a faintly ridiculous pen, to begin scribbling. Let him just catch up the past ten minutes of ideas here, it will take considerably less time to jot down useful shorthand... okay.
He glances up in the middle of writing down darkblood facts, for shared benefit. Circling back here, ahem,] Do you think I have mystique?
[Hahaha. Ha. He's playing in the space, it's part of the scientific method.]
no subject
[Mostly consisting of impressing people who award credits and so on, or at least, it was like that before he won the highest honor and got more or less total freedom to muck around as desired. Still: sure, yes, that might work. There are probably people here who will jump at the chance to donate their blood for whatever reasons they might have.
Maybe the aesthetic will help. Palamedes doesn't want to mire in the issue of keeping it ethical before they've even looked at a single stone, especially not right this second when the ideas are fresh and invigorating, so - the bureaucracy can come later.]
Knowing the variations of the paleblood experience will be a help, we should chart some of that. Maybe do a survey? And rummage around in the Archives for any firsthand accounts of bloodstones used for non-decorative purposes — I should be writing this down.
[To that end he tugs his cloak out of the way to get at his satchel, which he roots in for a pocket notebook and a faintly ridiculous pen, to begin scribbling. Let him just catch up the past ten minutes of ideas here, it will take considerably less time to jot down useful shorthand... okay.
He glances up in the middle of writing down darkblood facts, for shared benefit. Circling back here, ahem,] Do you think I have mystique?
[Hahaha. Ha. He's playing in the space, it's part of the scientific method.]