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Learned Versa uses them, notably to turn Healing Spores into Restoration Spores, which is pretty great. I don't believe the bushes ever replenish.

I can only repeat: Infestation didn't add that. It was present in the original. The endings have not changed other than a few minor text changes.

Infestation didn't add that. It was present in the original. A few more people comment on it, but it was already described by a couple of them, and it already had a different ending.

I thought QW3 wasn't happening?

"factionless shaper" removes all potential for confusion, doesn't it? "disloyal" is really subjective.

It would be interesting if news about Sharon finds its way into the G3 remake somehow.

Most of the practicums I'm familiar with are part of graduate programs -- it happens in undergrad but it's a lot less common. I suspect this conversation may be the result of differences between countries where undergrad is professionally focused on one subject, versus countries where a lot of undergrad is general or elective, and most professional programs are in grad school.

I don't care if it's "neutral shaper" or "ex-shaper" or "disloyal shaper" or whatever but you guys each object to a different one. We need something that can be used to communicate effectively in this world. But yes, we should use terminology that is based on what something actually is (stated as flatly as possible) rather than what one or more parties subjectively want to classify it as. The Shaper Council would call Sharon disloyal, maybe, but that's their definition of loyalty, and not even a universal cultural judgment among Shapers, let alone anyone else. And whether or not they were okay with the term "neutral," the Shaper Council would not object to drawing a distinction between an actual rebel shaper fighting against them, and an old shaper who basically retires to the countryside as a hermit. I agree that "ex-shaper" is confusing for various reasons. "Factionless Shaper" is maybe more precise than "neutral Shaper." If it's a factual and direct label, then for our purposes, it doesn't really matter what anybody in-world thinks about it.

It doesn't matter if the Takers or the Shapers agree with the terminology. We need that terminology to have this discussion. Just because the Takers and/or the Shapers don't recognize a distinction doesn't mean it doesn't exist.

In G2 you're definitely a graduate. You're just still dealing with a practicum before you can get full licensure 😛 The G1 and G3 PCs are at earlier points in their training.

That's not just Tuldaric; every sect head trainer operates that way. Tyallea, Tuldaric, Burham, Salgurdar. They just need you to be modified.

Except that the ideology really did come first, just not the ideology you're talking about. "Take our free" - in the context of the Obeyer-style thinking everyone was doing at the time - was absolutely an ideological movement. That's the whole Taker identity.

Guys, this is just a terminology issue. I don't want to spend hours going through a thesaurus to find a phrase everyone will accept. We all know what we're talking about: Shapers who don't support the Shaper Council's attacks, or potential attacks, on free creations, but who also have not joined the Takers/Rebels.

Oooh, I was wondering what those levers did. Good catch!

Apparently the Servant Mind in Benerii-Uss Power can unlock those doors.