Apologies,
@VoidZero, but you have the leading plan and I've got
grave concerns. The Broken Heart plan seems... not to synergise with itself, and carries several risks.
We're
embezzling, so lets not invite budgetary oversight. Do we really want to risk destroying our relationship with van Hal? We can cover costs in the short-medium term (hundreds of discretionary gold stashed already), and Special Branch is a
much better option long term... it means we
don't have to keep asking for budget increases every couple of years. Maybe put Ranald here, we aren't good at Stewardship, and this will probably be a sliding-success roll, where the better we roll, the more of our informant base is covered.
Covering Wurtbad slums is... laudable, but it
doesn't help us fulfill our orders. We should put better training in place before hiring more Watchmen.
See this:
[ ] Expand the administration of the Watch so that they can expand into other counties
without your personal oversight
Expanding into Woden- in another county- as per Orders... will probably lose us an
additional action next turn
unless we do this. @BoneyM is this a likely outcome?
And yes... I know you like the name, and so do I, but- naming a half-dozen separate sets of
secret informants makes no sense. Let's just uniform the Stirland Watch in Grey Coats and/or Grey Cloaks, and the nickname will take care of itself, for the
public organisation.
Digging out our palace takes an action as we supervise... but we've got nothing to do with all those rooms. Can't even set up an enchanters workshop yet.
Lunching with Julia... we just did that. There are blanks and question marks on Gustav and Schultz- we don't know what they think of us. That's a vulnerability. Our job practically demands that we get to know them, now we have a cost free option.
I hope you can take some of these thoughts on board. Thanks for considering them, at least.