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Johann, Magister of the Gold Order
Armament: Handgun
Speciality: Fisticuffs
Mission: Reverse-engineering Skaven technology
Diplomacy: 18 - Johann is naturally likeable and gets along with most people.
Martial: 12 - The only reason his form of 'combat' works is that he's literally bulletproof.
Stewardship: 15 - Some might call gilding your body 'ludicrously expensive'. Johann considers it an investment.
Intrigue: 18 - When most of your body is gold, you learn not to draw attention.
Piety: ???
Learning: 14 - Johann leans heavily on magic to skip right to the discoveries.

Magic: 6 - Johann has a natural gift for elemental Chamon.

Gilded: Johann's skin from the neck down is made of gold, as are some of his internal organs.
Inflexible Magic: While his magic excels at a handful of tasks, some have proven to be completely out of his reach.
Pummeler: Johann has a natural talent for brawling.
I see now we know who we can assign to Diplomacy
 
Intrigue: 18 - When most of your body is gold, you learn not to draw attention.
God damn! he is almost as sneaky as we are! Stop stealing our shit!
[X] [SPIDER] They are foreign allies and thus the responsibility of Prince Kazrik.
[X] [KRAGG] Hit Hard
[X] [KRAGG] Hit When They're Not Looking
[X] Tower of Utter Neutrality
[X] Tower of Oh Dear
 
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Dramatis Personae updated.

Johann, Magister of the Gold Order
Armament: Handgun
Speciality: Fisticuffs
Mission: Reverse-engineering Skaven technology
Diplomacy: 18 - Johann is naturally likeable and gets along with most people.
Martial: 12 - The only reason his form of 'combat' works is that he's literally bulletproof.
Stewardship: 15 - Some might call gilding your body 'ludicrously expensive'. Johann considers it an investment.
Intrigue: 18 - When most of your body is gold, you learn not to draw attention.
Piety: ???
Learning: 14 - Johann leans heavily on magic to skip right to the discoveries.

Magic: 6 - Johann has a natural gift for elemental Chamon.

Gilded: Johann's skin from the neck down is made of gold, as are some of his internal organs.
Inflexible Magic: While his magic excels at a handful of tasks, some have proven to be completely out of his reach.
Pummeler: Johann has a natural talent for brawling.

Oh my god he's Armstrong
 
In terms of themed towers, I'd argue for something like:
Oh Dear + Ulgu Tower + Burning Shadows tower (The Burning Shadows and Ulgu tower synergy is self explanatory, and the Oh dear tower is there in case an serious miscasts occur when turning a mountain's shadows into a death trap)
Not sure if we can use the Oh, Dear button while we're doing the Burning Shadows thing.
@BoneyM?
 
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Alright. Planning ahead for next turn, there are a few topics that we know are likely to come up.

Fungus
Fungus, Extensive Imperial - 100g

We know that the main elevator is "clogged up with mushrooms". That's a task for a learning advisor if I've ever seen one. Beyond that, we're gonna be underground and/or dealing with orcs a bunch, and fungus is common in both those circumstances.

I've cut back on this a bit, and decided to drop the Dwarven section instead of the Imperial one - the main user of this reference once the elevator is clear is probably going to be Panoramia, and I don't think she reads Dwarven.

Sword Training
Imperial Greatswording, Extensive/Esoteric Imperial -250g
Bretonnian Greatswording, Extensive Bretonnian - 100g

We want to be worthy of Kragg's sword once it arrives, which is why a ton of people are planning to do sword training with our dwarf priest buddy.

Boney has said that purchasing sword manuals will provide a bonus to training (not using) swords, and that Bretonnian is more or less understandable with a little effort. I chose Bretonnian over Dwarven because only a single small religious sect of dwarves use greatswords, so finding literature would probably be a longshot. Meanwhile, greatswords are very common with mounted combat in Bretonnia - and hey, we have a sweet shadowsteed, so knowing how to use swords on a horse is useful for us too.

Snake Juice
Aethyr - Extensive/Antiquarian Imperial - 200g and 2 College Favor
The Warp - Extensive Imperial - 100g

Following clarifications from BoneyM, I've adjusted this section to add bonuses to the topics that will apply to Snekjuice research.

"Aethyr" is almost certainly relevant to a huge number of studies we plan on doing in the future, so it's probably worth the rep.

Bonus
Romance Novels, Varied - 50g

Mathilde likes these. She should buy a couple.

Total Spending: 2 College Favor, 800g
 
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How many towers can our Mountain hold?

Of the many fine properties that mountains possess, one is that they are extremely large.

Dawn and Dusk + Utter Neutrality + Serenity = Tower of Research

Please don't put the room of maximum magic on top of the room of minimum magic.

@BoneyM, would getting an item of Enchant Item from the college be okay? It seems like it could give us a small bonus to basically everything.

You could get a specific item permanently enchanted that way, but no, you can't have a wand of +5% to everything.

Oh hey, Kazador's still doing what he does best. @BoneyM What part of Eight Peaks has the Throng of Karak Azul been focused on?

Kazador's military operations tend towards the unstructured. 'Focus' might be assuming a bit much of him.

Followers of Morai-Heg??

Elf pantheon being split into SUPER GOOD and SUPER EVIL halves is a late-edition invention and is dumb as heck. Earlier editions had the split being more 'light' and 'dark' with both sides having moral ambiguity.

@BoneyM so next construction options will have a clearly delinated "built another tower" and "build another room in Tower X"?

Yes.
 
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My personal opinion is that the Serenity Tower is entirely appropriate and in-theme to be the next stage of the Research Tower, with the Oh No at the top.

We get the research room, we get the paper-writing room, then we get the high-energy experiments room when we've got high-energy experiments to actually do.
Agreed, seems pretty in-theme with "calm, measured, controlled magic".

Ulgu room and Baleful Eye of Sauron are clearly the manlingiest of manling towers.
 
You can't use one room's bonus on something happening in another room, no.
Okay, but what if we, like, stood in the doorway with one foot on each side?
Hold on, the tower is built vertically.
What if we lay on the stairs so our head was in one room and our legs were in the other? I'm sure there would be no negative effects on either our casting or our accuracy.
 
It wouldnt be a horrible idea to get like 5-6 favor sneaking weapon with just 2 basic runes and a decent rune in either a dagger or a shortsword or immediate use and in the future aswell in the assasin role. Probably +hit , +fire damage and a decent 25 - 40 point rune is my thought.

Since it will take awhile to get our op weapon and we dont have it yet. Or if u dont want to spend favors on another sword then what about getting a runed gun instead , in thales quest on spacebattles in his knight quest he had one after he left brettonia atleast and dwarfs are the source of guns in whf aswell. So runed guns might be interesting idea to pursue instead.

Basicly kragg was seeing what rune to do for us and hit hard might be the fabled +10 str rune people so please keep it in mind altough wouldnt hate more speed to minimize greatsword weakness aswell.
 
It seems to me like it might be better to put the "no magic" and "extra magic" things in entirely different towers. We can have a bridge connecting them if need be, but two extreme opposites in the same tower doesn't seem the best, even if we're not putting them right on top/below each other.
 
My semi-worry is that he is actually considering going rogue, and looking into ways of escaping/dealing with us when he does.
This seems unlike due to Lord Magister Wilhelmine making him aware she is aware of Johann's activities, and even if her reputation is lessened among the other Colleges it remains a significant deterrent. Actually this makes me wonder how comparable she is to the IRS in terms of reputation if you don't pay your taxes tithe.
 
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X] [SPIDER] They are foreign allies and thus the responsibility of Prince Kazrik.

[x] [KRAGG] Hit Hard

[x] Tower of Utter Neutrality - with rune and material and a great deal of care, make your Tower completely magically neutral. Large bonus to studying anything magical, small bonus to studying everything else from higher Magesight contrast. 250gc, 5 Dwarf favours
 
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