Who's talking about intimidation? On the other hand "Hey you agreed to take Belegars money, here's a task for the good of the Hold" is by no means unreasonable.
Not extremely urgent, but of elevated prirority given how long we've been sitting on it.
Working under Mathilde is his price for a permit to poke at Skaven from a safe base behind dwarven defenses.
I mean if that's the case, I uh..hope he packs up and leave?
I removed the second paper writing action, so it's legal again. I don't feel comfortable dropping doggo after the last vote.
Applies to coin too most likely; also way less liable to make people go "uh mathilde why do you poke demonic blood tho".
I feel like journeymen who would poke an ominous box with clearly inhuman blood leaking out of it would not have survived to the age of 30 the way these have.
Yeah, I just like coin research less. If I was equally excited, I'd chosen coin research over snake juice but I'm not.
I mean, considering everything that happened since we trapped the Asp that stopped us from doing anything with it (Abelhelm's death, the Sylvania campaign, and dwarves happening), you can't say it was wholly on the players deciding to delay.
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Yes we do. But I'd rather he work for us willingly. He's a peer in the college, quite possibly a better established peer. Let's not make him an enemy. I want to work with him to come to a mutually beneficial arrangement. Sort of like "This is what you get if you work for me". Stuff like like access to our library may well be invaluable for him.
We already forced him to work for us. My point is that if we don't actually try to get him to work with us, we won't find out will we? We've already handled his lies so that he isn't a liability to our relationship to the dwarves. Now that he's done that, let's either come to a mutually beneficial arrangement or out off his pay, let him do his thing while hiring someone else to take his place.
If we didn't force him to work for us, he would have got that stuff anyway. There's a reason you use a carrot and a stick not only a stick.
Look man, we voted to get him under us. He's here because his life's work is trying to reverse engineer skaven tech. We can choose to bar him from working here and earn an enemy for life, or we can spend an action to see if we can come to an arrangement. If we can't, we can just cut off the pay and let him focus on his own work while hiring someone else.
Have you considered that Plan Magical Mathilde meets criteria 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5 of your shilling?
He is working for us willingly? He is choosing to work part time under us in exchange for access to Skaven and their tech. That's the arrangement. The assertion that we will make an enemy of him if we 'force' him to use one of his six actions per turn on his job is kinda bizarre?
