[Graeme Dice]

Actually, the first sign of this was when I attained sufficient astral income to do acashic scanning.

Are you seriously expecting us to believe that you've had enough random water and astral gems to forge 30-40 clams and using only your pretender and one or two dusk elders since the start of the game?

D3W with a bracelet. Not hard to do.

Actually, it's quite hard to do, since it represents another 160 death gems spent for each one, and you either brought them along with you in that battle, or you happen to have even _more_ summons in your capital.

Con-6 was my first research target. I hit that milestone a long while ago, and with the on-stock I had from being socked with randoms, immediately set to work with it.

Once again, you will not have gotten more than 20 or 30 death gems from random events, so there is no way that you could research to construction 6 before turn 15 at the earliest as Soul Gate with no gem income other than your capital.

Depends on how you define "a lot". Is a figure somewhere between 30 and 40 a lot?

Yes, that represents another 200-400 gems that you have to have received from somewhere, and haven't yet accounted for.

Several. At least 2 or 3 of those, perhaps more, with a fistful of lesser takes.

So you've performed the equivalent of winning a lottery three times? That's almost beyond being lucky.

Incorrect: I said alchemy did not constitute the bulk of my gold production, and when needed, it was primarily fetish-based.

Which only your pretender could have forged, along with most of your clams. You can't have had too many fetishes by this point.

I am not going to beancount castles for you, sorry. I rejected this when you proposed this method of castle-limitation before, and I'm not going to try and count them now.

Beancount? That's a 15 second count to find out how many you have built.

Yes, but of those, my supply is primarily limited by the Death supply. As you saw in the accounting above, the gems of other types are of low usage and can easily be accounted for.

You say that you have two or three hammers. That's at least 20 earth gems, since you claimed that you found two, so you've spent between 30-60 earth gems on those. You've spent somewhere around 200-400 gems on clams and fetishes. You've also spent an unknown, but large amount on researchers. In short, you've not been able to account for all the gems you've spent, and we are wonodering where they came from.