Next turn we will have something else to do and the same three options:
Order Johann to do something utterly unrelated to his interest, which will get voters complaining.
Order Johann to do what he wants, which will get voters complaining.
Order Johann to do what he wants then try to contort things such that Johann doing what he wants is useful to us.
This is not a situation I want to continue.
Part of the problem is that Mathilde relationship with Johaan is not particularly strong, and so much of Johaan is an unknown. If he becomes more a known quality, alot of the complains are going to fade. But yes, I can see alot of Johaan votes falling into the dynamic you've described, especially if he remains an unknown quantity. Basically, I'd feel if we can make Johann a more known quantity, alot of the maybes, supposes, walking on eggshells, screw Johaan we are his boss, appease Johaann etc arguments are hopefully going to ease up, as will the appeasement versus force Johaan to do X arguments. We don't know how Johann really ticks, and until some vote gives us a chance to get a firmer sense of how Johann ticks beyond Skaventech! (which Citadel Focus attempts to uncover) , Johann would always remain this divisive "unknown".
Also, TBH, if we are going to ask Johaan to do something utterly unrelated to his interest, I'd prefer it if it's clearly
critical to the primary mission of our job as Court Wizard of the current turn, since we hired him in our office as Court Wizard in particular, an office where we will often have priority, primary missions in each turn
. Spider Web research does not qualify because it has nothing to do at all with Relocation, but there could have been other things that might and had planning gone down differently during the moratorium, perhaps the conversation could have turned out differently. Plan Citadel Focus happens to have a set of actions that intersect with our primary mission of relocation, involving one of the most likely failure modes of relocation: Skaven warptech, in our current theater of operations: the Under-Citadel. If this is the metric though, where would apply such a metric fall in your schema regarding say, a turn where our primary mission involves Orc Shamans?
Odds are, I would be on the other side - that scenario would have been one where I probably would have backed a plan that pits Johann into one of the failure modes of that hypothetical primary Orc-centric mission that I think a convincing case could be made that Johann is uniquely suited to, even if it has nothing to do with the Skaven, even if he wants to hit Clan Skyre that turn, and Clan Skyre is nowhere near our current theater of operations. The lack of information about Johann obviously would make such a hypothetical vote way more messier than a scenario where the thread has a firmer grasp of Johann.
We don't have the same issue with Maximillian, by the way, and that's partly because we probably have a clearer grasp of Maximillian than Johann.
The word you're looking for is probably "discreet", because English has a lot of words.)
