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Message: <blockquote data-quote="ellinor" data-source="post: 3404139" data-attributes="member: 14561">Yes, people are okay, although Fajitas is recuperating from the flu.  Mostly, everyone is just really busy now.To speculate about the motivations of the archmages' reasoning for wanting the Chancellor job, that was my initial thought as well.  But my take is that Fajitas set them up with motivations.  The Miyen Kai loves power (and what better power than to be in a position to mold such impressionable minds?); Manaal and Petros would probably love to have a platform for their philosophies to be heard; Barnabus would love to have the framework and resources to do his experiments (now that he's out of the resource-providing clutches of the Count, and doesn't really have anywhere to live, come to think of it), and Chi'i . . . well, who really understands anything about Chi'i.  But she is a bit of an academic type already, so she might find communing with other arcanists to be rewarding.  That's my take.  None of them have really displayed the will to stay out of controversy or danger, except maybe Chi'i.  Maybe there is a certain amount of self-preservation there, too . . .safety in numbers; students and teachers with power who can help you defend yourself and your kind; the desire to be part of making the world safer for your kind, rather than allowing it to become more and more dangerous . . . but of course, only Fajitas really knows how they think!</blockquote>