Looking forward: So, finances will be updated next turn and we can see how the information brokerage is working out. There's various mundane options like covering from personal funds, returning embezzled money, reducing our interest payments to the Grey College, expanding the Gong Farmers over the patrolmen, ending or cutting the Attache program after the Purge, etc. Something to keep in mind so we're not scrambling for plans then.
And then there's this option:
- Welcome to the Purge. Feedback and oversight will be at best utterly minimal and more likely nonexistent; if there ever was a time for boldness, or to try to get away with something, it is now.
[ ] Fixer: Work with the Wurtbad Thieves Guild, supplying them information in exchange for a portion of profits.
"Spring is here, the army and the Count are away" seems like a time when it would be almost expected for a few more people to get burgled in Wurtbad - Mathilde isn't the only one bereft of oversight. And if we can direct the thieves towards appropriate targets we don't like, so much the better. We could also deny involvement and use it as reason to focus on expanding the Watch next.
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Looking at this turn:
The former
Blasphemy of Blood looks like a great example of
not our problem. It stood there for who knows how long, being someone else's problem, now it's smashed and appears to be nobody's problem at all. Not just soldiery "we smashed it" but both priests and Mathilde looked at the water and it was normal. Researching that now would be a wild goose chase, when there's lots of other stuff to do (as usual). So I must oppose Plan Research. We've got a lot more concrete stuff like enchantments, snakeblood and Magisterhood to pursue on top of the war. Leaning towards Heretek's
[X] Plan Publish and Learn
-[X] Publish Or Perish, Part 1: Though it's currently of limited utility to you personally, sharing your discovery might bring it to the attention of hundreds of wizards who could put it to great effect. Though before you do that, you'll need to learn the vocabulary to communicate exactly what it is you're doing, since you can't exactly submit the poor chicken as part of your paper. (NEW)
--[X] Ranald's Blessing
-[X] Enchantment: You've finally got the equipment, now you've just got to unpack it all and set up your laboratory.
We might want to resolve those in reverse order, but whatever. This sets up the enchantment laboratory we've been delaying for
ages, starts getting something interesting done with our enchantment skill that the College would probably like, and is a nice peaceful thing to bunker down and do during the winter. But for tactical reasons I may wind up switching to the other leading
Plan Magic Time just to avoid the Fountain of Distraction.
). But, that said, 
