Warhammer Fantasy: Divided Loyalties - an Advisor's Quest
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chocolote12
A Penguin Flailing Against The Keyboard Of Life.
No, he was under the same folks we were, but he investigated them better, and got a big list of them. Right side seems to be who the blackmailed person is, and I'd bet that the left side is who in the super secret organization is personally pulling our strings.
Whatever else we choose we should definitely
[X] Read the Liber Mortis.
[X] Read the Liber Mortis.
DocMatoi
Theoretical Lover of Girls
- Location
- within 2 hours of the White House
- Pronouns
- They/Them
no, van hal figured out we were on a leash somehow and now hes giving us freedom. A fine parting gift.
King Arthur
The Once and Future King
We really need more money, now is the time to embezel like hell.
- Location
- Norway
Not a plan yet, let's take some time to think. The ones that stand out to me right now...
[ ] Abelhelm left you with a list of notarized names. Pass them on to your Master and let the fireworks fly. (does not take an action)
Yay, we can make something someone else's problem! Or perhaps someone else's barrel of monkeys and chaos. We have enough on our plate.
[ ] It may be a moot point, but you can still send off the entirety of information gathered on undead types in Sylvania to your string-pullers. (does not take an action)
This information shouldn't go to waste.
[ ] Concentrate the gathered information on undead types in Sylvania into a single dense tome and publish it. It's likely to be of some use and interest to Morrites and Amethyst Wizards. Not ground-breaking, but a nice feather in your academic cap nonetheless.
@BoneyM , will this still be available later turns if we've sent off information to string-pullers? Are there relevant publishing norms?
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[ ] Though the Haunted Hills have always technically belonged to the Elector Count, they've suddenly skyrocketed in value. If you could backdate some purchases from the Elector Count, you could make a killing reselling them, and still retain your own slice of prime grazelands.
This strikes me as the easiest big embezzlement to get away with, and the one fewest people will think to question. Obviously the second-in-command of the Purge would have gotten an opportunity on some of the land Purged, right? The others involve meddling with important other people's documents (including living people) or going at a Province Treasury.
[ ] Practice, Practice, Practice
No time like the present to do this for Martial.
[ ] Your experience with the so-called Fog of War has given you a lot of ideas for new applications of Ulgu. (NEW)
Magisterhood and prestigious original research beckons!
[ ] Stirland Watch: Work alongside Jack to administer the Watch. Choose another Organizational Action for the Watch.
Probably want to have to do this once or twice with everything the Watch can do now (faith, dwarves, expansion)
[ ] Financial Jargon: Everything with the EIC flew right over your head last time. Try again. Succeeding here will mean that you can take a more active hand in the company, adding it to the organizational actions; failing or not attempting means Mathilde will remain a silent partner.
And look into this, as the EIC is now the big thing in Stirland as the League was before it.
so many optioooooooons
I am in favour of overwork right now
[ ] Abelhelm left you with a list of notarized names. Pass them on to your Master and let the fireworks fly. (does not take an action)
Yay, we can make something someone else's problem! Or perhaps someone else's barrel of monkeys and chaos. We have enough on our plate.
[ ] It may be a moot point, but you can still send off the entirety of information gathered on undead types in Sylvania to your string-pullers. (does not take an action)
This information shouldn't go to waste.
[ ] Concentrate the gathered information on undead types in Sylvania into a single dense tome and publish it. It's likely to be of some use and interest to Morrites and Amethyst Wizards. Not ground-breaking, but a nice feather in your academic cap nonetheless.
@BoneyM , will this still be available later turns if we've sent off information to string-pullers? Are there relevant publishing norms?
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[ ] Though the Haunted Hills have always technically belonged to the Elector Count, they've suddenly skyrocketed in value. If you could backdate some purchases from the Elector Count, you could make a killing reselling them, and still retain your own slice of prime grazelands.
This strikes me as the easiest big embezzlement to get away with, and the one fewest people will think to question. Obviously the second-in-command of the Purge would have gotten an opportunity on some of the land Purged, right? The others involve meddling with important other people's documents (including living people) or going at a Province Treasury.
[ ] Practice, Practice, Practice
No time like the present to do this for Martial.
[ ] Your experience with the so-called Fog of War has given you a lot of ideas for new applications of Ulgu. (NEW)
Magisterhood and prestigious original research beckons!
[ ] Stirland Watch: Work alongside Jack to administer the Watch. Choose another Organizational Action for the Watch.
Probably want to have to do this once or twice with everything the Watch can do now (faith, dwarves, expansion)
[ ] Financial Jargon: Everything with the EIC flew right over your head last time. Try again. Succeeding here will mean that you can take a more active hand in the company, adding it to the organizational actions; failing or not attempting means Mathilde will remain a silent partner.
And look into this, as the EIC is now the big thing in Stirland as the League was before it.
so many optioooooooons
I am in favour of overwork right now
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It'll still be available but the longer passes the less attention it will garner. Not sure what you're after re: publishing norms.
- Location
- Germany
[X] Watch-Plan Playing it safe
-[X] Trade Delegation: Convince Wilhelmina to partner your network with the EIC based on the value of market information. Especially likely to work since Wilhelmina will soon be losing her position of power in Stirland's government. (NEW-ish)
-[X] Verena is the Goddess of Justice. Enshrine her as the patron goddess of the Stirland Watch.
We need decent admins before trying to make fat money, so I'm delaying the Salpeter-action to get them first.
Damn, we need the god-action first, only one free watch-option.
And Verena is the safest bet here. The Stirlandians will hate every change-option, but it's propably the least offensive to them.
[X] Personal Plan Self-Focus
-[X] As above, but insist on being a part of whatever happens.
--[X] Ranalds Blessing
-[X] Concentrate the gathered information on undead types in Sylvania into a single dense tome and publish it. It's likely to be of some use and interest to Morrites and Amethyst Wizards. Not ground-breaking, but a nice feather in your academic cap nonetheless.
-[X] Though the Haunted Hills have always technically belonged to the Elector Count, they've suddenly skyrocketed in value. If you could backdate some purchases from the Elector Count, you could make a killing reselling them, and still retain your own slice of prime grazelands.
-[X] Practice, Practice, Practice: Having been thrown into the deep end of imperial politics, it would probably be a good idea to brush up on your skills and internalize the lessons you've learned (choose which trait; can be taken multiple times; will be more effective if you've used the trait a lot lately).
-[X] Martial
-[X] Your experience with the so-called Fog of War has given you a lot of ideas for new applications of Ulgu. (NEW)
-[X] Free Time: Now well-established in Wurtbad, you can spend some time in your scant off hours getting to know someone better. Pick one character. (does not take an action)
--[X] Kasmir
I'm not willing to invest much effort in Stirland now, so this is mostly about Weber herself.
Breaking our invisible chains, learning from the campaign and making some sweet money.
The Liber Mortis will still be there next year, no need to be hasty.
-[X] Trade Delegation: Convince Wilhelmina to partner your network with the EIC based on the value of market information. Especially likely to work since Wilhelmina will soon be losing her position of power in Stirland's government. (NEW-ish)
-[X] Verena is the Goddess of Justice. Enshrine her as the patron goddess of the Stirland Watch.
Damn, we need the god-action first, only one free watch-option.
And Verena is the safest bet here. The Stirlandians will hate every change-option, but it's propably the least offensive to them.
[X] Personal Plan Self-Focus
-[X] As above, but insist on being a part of whatever happens.
--[X] Ranalds Blessing
-[X] Concentrate the gathered information on undead types in Sylvania into a single dense tome and publish it. It's likely to be of some use and interest to Morrites and Amethyst Wizards. Not ground-breaking, but a nice feather in your academic cap nonetheless.
-[X] Though the Haunted Hills have always technically belonged to the Elector Count, they've suddenly skyrocketed in value. If you could backdate some purchases from the Elector Count, you could make a killing reselling them, and still retain your own slice of prime grazelands.
-[X] Practice, Practice, Practice: Having been thrown into the deep end of imperial politics, it would probably be a good idea to brush up on your skills and internalize the lessons you've learned (choose which trait; can be taken multiple times; will be more effective if you've used the trait a lot lately).
-[X] Martial
-[X] Your experience with the so-called Fog of War has given you a lot of ideas for new applications of Ulgu. (NEW)
-[X] Free Time: Now well-established in Wurtbad, you can spend some time in your scant off hours getting to know someone better. Pick one character. (does not take an action)
--[X] Kasmir
I'm not willing to invest much effort in Stirland now, so this is mostly about Weber herself.
Breaking our invisible chains, learning from the campaign and making some sweet money.
The Liber Mortis will still be there next year, no need to be hasty.
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DarkLight140
Credit to Team
- Location
- Lost in my thoughts
Since we're now anti-Sigmarite enough that it's having serious effects, this is something we should probably think on carefully and move on sooner rather than later- particularly if we want to push the Watch as our powerbase moving forward. Some significant considerations here:
- Verena is a well-respected goddess and is patron of both justice and learning- sounds great, right? She's even one of the most popular goddesses among more religious wizards. But she's also anti-Ranald; not violently opposed but certainly not in favor in a much more active way than the rest of the pantheon. I don't think it would be wise to hand the Watch over to a rival of our patron.
- Shallya is about mercy and healing, which are nice but lacks appeal to martial types, so I suspect that if we push this we'll just fail.
- Ranald has a Protector aspect, yes- and that's the one that is most violently suppressed because it organizes revolts against the government when people are unhappy. While it would be a stunning coup to pull this off it's also likely to trigger immediate negative reactions from anyone in power who hears about it- because it means that the Watch will be a ready-made revolutionary army for the next demagogue to roll around.
- Seppel is completely unknown to me and I have no comment on that except that vengeance is not really like justice at all and a Watch which worships a vengeance god is likely to be disturbingly brutal.
- Grungni is a little weird as a choice but he apparently actually is worshiped by humans in Stirland already, should be unobjectionable to even the cult of Sigmar because he's a closely allied god, and also has a lot to do with mining and underground work- how appropriate for a Watch that we have working the underground and possibly fighting skaven later. He's also a directly martial god which will appeal to former-soldier Watchmen.
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- Location
- Aotearoa
Am I missing a reference? Should Mathilde/I know who(?) H-BM is?
GW M. Regimand Speiseschrank, H-BM
GW D. Mathilde Weber, H-BM
C. Gabriella v. Bundebad. vC(?)
And for all the get rich quick temptations- we're a Grey Wizard, with sworn and enforced oaths against doing that (albeit oaths with loopholes). I just don't think we should go wild on personal enrichment.
GW M. Regimand Speiseschrank, H-BM
GW D. Mathilde Weber, H-BM
C. Gabriella v. Bundebad. vC(?)
And for all the get rich quick temptations- we're a Grey Wizard, with sworn and enforced oaths against doing that (albeit oaths with loopholes). I just don't think we should go wild on personal enrichment.
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- Location
- Outside the Box
- Pronouns
- She/Her
Please don't overlook this, everyone. Now's the time to set things up to our best advantage as much as possible. Personal training actions can wait, and anything we can do to influence who the next Elector Count and/or Advisors will be is worth doing.
Edit: Most actions. We probably want to do the practice action for diplomacy and maybe martial soon, right?
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- Location
- Norway
No. I'm guessing that vC might be a note for "vampire Count" and H-BM might be "Has Blackmail" so maybe the L is "Leverage" as part of a list of ways to pressure people.
Edit: @DocMatoi 's suggestion of "von Carstein" seems more likely, on second thought.
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Sinsystems
Patron Librarian
I like the plan but I think we can hold off on training martial this turn, we did just get another trait that boosts it.
Setting up the Watch's faith takes an action, either the action from Jack or one of your own.
- Location
- Aotearoa
I believe we have one turns grace on capitalising on experience with training.
Weird capitalisation then. I assumed initials, because vC says von Carstein to me.
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- Location
- Germany
Ah, fixing, thanks.
DocMatoi
Theoretical Lover of Girls
- Location
- within 2 hours of the White House
- Pronouns
- They/Them
von carstein, i think, but thats really good i couldnt figure the other two out for the life of me
- Pronouns
- He/Him
[X]Plan SPEND SPEND SPEND/Politics
-[X] Trade Delegation: Convince Wilhelmina to partner your network with the EIC based on the value of market information. Especially likely to work since Wilhelmina will soon be losing her position of power in Stirland's government.
-[X] Set up saltpeter production facilities using headhunted experts from Nuln. (-2 Budget Points)
-[X] Abelhelm left you with a list of notarized names. Pass them on to your Master and let the fireworks fly. (does not take an action)
--[X] As above, but insist on being a part of whatever happens.
--[X] Ranald's Blessing
-[X] It may be a moot point, but you can still send off the entirety of information gathered on undead types in Sylvania to your string-pullers. (does not take an action)
-[X] Buy out half of Markus' shares in the EIC. (does not take an action; increases your debt to Stirland)
-[X] Spend time with Anton, possibly talking about how good a candidate he would be - local support, known to external powers, and a few powerful friends supporting him, and so forth.
-[X] Spend time with Wilhelmina. As emptied as the treasury of Stirland was by the campaign, the EIC may be the wealthiest institution in the province.
-[X] Attend the Elector's Meet yourself, to take any opportunity that arises to manipulate events in your favour.
--[X] Support Anton if the next Van Hal does not appear.
-[X] Though the Haunted Hills have always technically belonged to the Elector Count, they've suddenly skyrocketed in value. If you could backdate some purchases from the Elector Count, you could make a killing reselling them, and still retain your own slice of prime grazelands.
-[X] Free Time: Now well-established in Wurtbad, you can spend some time in your scant off hours getting to know someone better. Pick one character. (does not take an action)
---[X] Kasmir
Tank the Sigmar penalty for a turn to get the expensive part of saltpeter manufacture out of the way.
Deal with our secret master, talk with all the rest of the council (except Gustav, who isn't as important politically), deal with our debt, and prep for the elector's meet.
This is a terrible turn for that. Way too many oppertunities right now.
-[X] Trade Delegation: Convince Wilhelmina to partner your network with the EIC based on the value of market information. Especially likely to work since Wilhelmina will soon be losing her position of power in Stirland's government.
-[X] Set up saltpeter production facilities using headhunted experts from Nuln. (-2 Budget Points)
-[X] Abelhelm left you with a list of notarized names. Pass them on to your Master and let the fireworks fly. (does not take an action)
--[X] As above, but insist on being a part of whatever happens.
--[X] Ranald's Blessing
-[X] It may be a moot point, but you can still send off the entirety of information gathered on undead types in Sylvania to your string-pullers. (does not take an action)
-[X] Buy out half of Markus' shares in the EIC. (does not take an action; increases your debt to Stirland)
-[X] Spend time with Anton, possibly talking about how good a candidate he would be - local support, known to external powers, and a few powerful friends supporting him, and so forth.
-[X] Spend time with Wilhelmina. As emptied as the treasury of Stirland was by the campaign, the EIC may be the wealthiest institution in the province.
-[X] Attend the Elector's Meet yourself, to take any opportunity that arises to manipulate events in your favour.
--[X] Support Anton if the next Van Hal does not appear.
-[X] Though the Haunted Hills have always technically belonged to the Elector Count, they've suddenly skyrocketed in value. If you could backdate some purchases from the Elector Count, you could make a killing reselling them, and still retain your own slice of prime grazelands.
-[X] Free Time: Now well-established in Wurtbad, you can spend some time in your scant off hours getting to know someone better. Pick one character. (does not take an action)
---[X] Kasmir
Tank the Sigmar penalty for a turn to get the expensive part of saltpeter manufacture out of the way.
Deal with our secret master, talk with all the rest of the council (except Gustav, who isn't as important politically), deal with our debt, and prep for the elector's meet.
This is a terrible turn for that. Way too many oppertunities right now.
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VoidZero
Passing Flan 布丁魔王
- Location
- Anywhere but RL
I would suggest we spend 1 action each to buddy up with Stewardship and Dipo advisor while doing creative accounting. Having more resources at our disposal makes the new Count less willing to make groundbreaking change in the court. Chaplain and General might be GG tho.
chocolote12
A Penguin Flailing Against The Keyboard Of Life.
I'm guessing "Human - Blackmail". As opposed to "von Carstien" or "vampire c-something", because that's self-evidently blackmail and needs no further notation.
Sinsystems
Patron Librarian
[X] Plan Abelhelm's Last Gift
-[X] As above, but insist on being a part of whatever happens.
--[X] Ranald's Blessing
-[X] Visit the Amethyst Wizards in Altdorf and ask what the hell they were playing at.
-[X] Concentrate the gathered information on undead types in Sylvania into a single dense tome and publish it. It's likely to be of some use and interest to Morrites and Amethyst Wizards. Not ground-breaking, but a nice feather in your academic cap nonetheless.
-[X] Though the Haunted Hills have always technically belonged to the Elector Count, they've suddenly skyrocketed in value. If you could backdate some purchases from the Elector Count, you could make a killing reselling them, and still retain your own slice of prime grazelands.
-[X] Spend time with Wilhelmina. As emptied as the treasury of Stirland was by the campaign, the EIC may be the wealthiest institution in the province.
Basically as much as I would love to do some research, this isn't the time and I'd rather we deal with the remaining fallout of the campaign. First we deal with our backers, with divine blessing, to find out what the hell the Amethysts were up to so we can head off any fallout from that and finally a bit of embezzling and talking to a friend.
-[X] As above, but insist on being a part of whatever happens.
--[X] Ranald's Blessing
-[X] Visit the Amethyst Wizards in Altdorf and ask what the hell they were playing at.
-[X] Concentrate the gathered information on undead types in Sylvania into a single dense tome and publish it. It's likely to be of some use and interest to Morrites and Amethyst Wizards. Not ground-breaking, but a nice feather in your academic cap nonetheless.
-[X] Though the Haunted Hills have always technically belonged to the Elector Count, they've suddenly skyrocketed in value. If you could backdate some purchases from the Elector Count, you could make a killing reselling them, and still retain your own slice of prime grazelands.
-[X] Spend time with Wilhelmina. As emptied as the treasury of Stirland was by the campaign, the EIC may be the wealthiest institution in the province.
Basically as much as I would love to do some research, this isn't the time and I'd rather we deal with the remaining fallout of the campaign. First we deal with our backers, with divine blessing, to find out what the hell the Amethysts were up to so we can head off any fallout from that and finally a bit of embezzling and talking to a friend.
- Location
- Aotearoa
If this is true, beginning to get a nasty idea that our handlers aren't technically human any more. Or alive. Say... an highly embedded Von Carstein scouting out the opposition to their 'rightful claims' in Stirland and Sylvania.
However, I'm not convinced that H-BM is the capitalisation for Human-BlackMail.
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