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Obsessing over this paper strikes me as having several potentially bad ends. Some of these have been pointed out before, but together paint a pretty bleak picture.
- A bad roll leading to a trait opposed to Pragmatic. Say Tunnel Vision, boosting Learning and penalising everything else. Remember the other possible split loyalties? Obsessive focus on a single piece of work sounds a lot like that... meaning Boney has given the downsides some thought.
- It'd be very hard to justify the time spent to Van Hal already, so if something does go wrong with what is her actual job (like a revolt amongst the Watch or Julia embezzling hardcore, or something we've already missed) it could jepordise his trust in us. He said use your judgement, and our judgement is to spend more than half a year on a magic paper, then continuing past the point it's solid? That's... poor judgement.
- We are a Spymaster, not an ivory tower academic. Many Wizards effectively have no other job.
- Could put us on a path to risking Slaaneshi Chaos corruption through obsessive perfectionism
- Narratively, Mathilde is fed up with writing the paper. Pushing herself past that might have negative health results. Why do you want to punish her any more? Let her let go!
The paper is perfectly serviceable for our ends (Magister bid) as is. The thing is, it's probably not our greatest contribution to Magical knowledge. The insights we can gain into the nature of the Warp, the Winds, and Magic from studying whatever the Qhaysh Juice actually is might be both more inspirational to us, and our actual masterpiece (in the sense of our greatest work).
[X] Yes. Don't be unrealistic. The paper communicates the concept and construction of Mathilde's Mystical Matrix without inducing unconsciousness or migraines. That's a win. Take the win.
You know it makes sense. And Mathilde is sensible.
- A bad roll leading to a trait opposed to Pragmatic. Say Tunnel Vision, boosting Learning and penalising everything else. Remember the other possible split loyalties? Obsessive focus on a single piece of work sounds a lot like that... meaning Boney has given the downsides some thought.
- It'd be very hard to justify the time spent to Van Hal already, so if something does go wrong with what is her actual job (like a revolt amongst the Watch or Julia embezzling hardcore, or something we've already missed) it could jepordise his trust in us. He said use your judgement, and our judgement is to spend more than half a year on a magic paper, then continuing past the point it's solid? That's... poor judgement.
- We are a Spymaster, not an ivory tower academic. Many Wizards effectively have no other job.
- Could put us on a path to risking Slaaneshi Chaos corruption through obsessive perfectionism
- Narratively, Mathilde is fed up with writing the paper. Pushing herself past that might have negative health results. Why do you want to punish her any more? Let her let go!
The paper is perfectly serviceable for our ends (Magister bid) as is. The thing is, it's probably not our greatest contribution to Magical knowledge. The insights we can gain into the nature of the Warp, the Winds, and Magic from studying whatever the Qhaysh Juice actually is might be both more inspirational to us, and our actual masterpiece (in the sense of our greatest work).
[X] Yes. Don't be unrealistic. The paper communicates the concept and construction of Mathilde's Mystical Matrix without inducing unconsciousness or migraines. That's a win. Take the win.
You know it makes sense. And Mathilde is sensible.
