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Who Needs Harmony?: An MLP Empire Quest

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DrunkenDiogenes said:
We need to focus on our dragon, I mean even after removing the maluses it still doesnt look all that good with stats.
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Sheesh. You make Gwyndlyn sound like she's a royal pet rather than part of the family.

As an aside, it saddens me that you guys didn't vote to have Gawain grow up to be taught dear old dad's art around gold. It just feels like he should have a kid to pass his skills on to, and you guys didn't really vote for him to pass down the merchant blood and skills to any of them.
 
PyrrosWarrior said:
Sheesh. You make Gwyndlyn sound like she's a royal pet rather than part of the family.

As an aside, it saddens me that you guys didn't vote to have Gawain grow up to be taught dear old dad's art around gold. It just feels like he should have a kid to pass his skills on to, and you guys didn't really vote for him to pass down the merchant blood and skills to any of them.
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Not sure what you mean gawain has better stats then us in everything except learning. So i think he has dear old dads nack for gold.
 
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PyrrosWarrior said:
I was referring to each of Garrick's kids's education. You guys didn't have any of them educated in Garrick's merchant ways.
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Well with gawain we kinda went for an all around since he was better then us in stewardship and our other kids we kinda went for what they liked more then push them to be us, besides with gawain having his stats i think hes got dads nack of gold already.
 
Raptor580 said:
Well with gawain we kinda went for an all around since he was better then us in stewardship and our other kids we kinda went for what they liked more then push them to be us, besides with gawain having his stats i think hes got dads nack of gold already.
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I don't really care about stats. It's about the narrative man. You know, each of the kids inherit a different part of their parents' legacy. Also, it wasn't really about "what they like more" considering their education, as I recall, started more when they were extremely young and you guys voted for what each of them should move in to as a hobby before they had actually formed a connection to one thing or the other.
 
PyrrosWarrior said:
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Mušḫuššu

Mušḫuššu is a draconic creature of Babylonian Mythology. While not being very well-known itself, it gave rise to the Hydra, and consequentially the Hydra Constellation. It was defeated by the prophet Daniel through poisoning in the Biblical Book of Daniel. It has a draconic appearance, with a...
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Mušḫuššu - Wikipedia

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It's a Mušḫuššu and it is a Babylonian creature that is described as being a mix of a lion, eagle, and horned dragon! Mind you, to fit the setting, we would have to come up with a different name, but I am glad to have finally found something after that conversation about whether such a hybrid has ever appeared in mythology a month or so ago.
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*gains a faraway look as he remembers the absolute horrorshow that was the Babylonia Singularity*
Let's… not do that
 
PyrrosWarrior said:
I don't really care about stats. It's about the narrative man. You know, each of the kids inherit a different part of their parents' legacy. Also, it wasn't really about "what they like more" considering their education, as I recall, started more when they were extremely young and you guys voted for what each of them should move in to as a hobby before they had actually formed a connection to one thing or the other.
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if its in terms of narrative them i think gawain will be fine nothing says that our heir has to inherit our merchant ways besides he probably has picked it up from being with us, He will be a fine ruler in his own right.
 
PyrrosWarrior said:
Sheesh. You make Gwyndlyn sound like she's a royal pet rather than part of the family.

As an aside, it saddens me that you guys didn't vote to have Gawain grow up to be taught dear old dad's art around gold. It just feels like he should have a kid to pass his skills on to, and you guys didn't really vote for him to pass down the merchant blood and skills to any of them.
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Pet Is not so important that we need to dedicate action to ensure pet is having good life and properly educated. CONTEXT My Dear Senate Member, you are behaving as politician even in your offtime.

Also im sorry but Stewarship is not that important when we are constantly dealing with Shit happening. and not to mention that The Only time Ravenburg failed he let changeling get away, SO THEY ARE STILL OUT THERE, plotting.
 
Raptor580 said:
if its in terms of narrative them i think gawain will be fine nothing says that our heir has to inherit our merchant ways besides he probably has picked it up from being with us, He will be a fine ruler in his own right.
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Well duh. I didn't say he had to. I said that, as an aside, I PERSONALLY was sad that you guys didn't vote for even one of his children to be trained in his merchant ways. As in, when I was reading through the story to catch up, I had high hopes that consistently diminished with each child that you guys would have one of them educated in that path.
 
PyrrosWarrior said:
Well duh. I didn't say he had to. I said that, as an aside, I PERSONALLY was sad that you guys didn't vote for even one of his children to be trained in his merchant ways. As in, when I was reading through the story to catch up, I had high hopes that consistently diminished with each child that you guys would have one of them educated in that path.
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Never know we might have another child at one point.
 
[X] Martial: Gawain shall be given a commission and a position of authority within the military. Exactly what role he will play is as of yet uncertain, but your military command could always use another effective leader to carry out operations, both logistical and combative in nature.

A warrior prince just like a certain prince of Lordaeron...
 
PyrrosWarrior said:
Well duh. I didn't say he had to. I said that, as an aside, I PERSONALLY was sad that you guys didn't vote for even one of his children to be trained in his merchant ways. As in, when I was reading through the story to catch up, I had high hopes that consistently diminished with each child that you guys would have one of them educated in that path.
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If we wanna have one mercantile-minded kid, why not Pearl? She´s perpetually last in line anyway, so she might just as well look for a career outside of governing altogether.
 
Questor said:
the runes that he has devised are but a paid imitation of the ones found upon the Crystal Heart.
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I think you meant pale.

Ok, things went decently well.


MARTIAL

now that the hardbeak line is ready we might actually really consider mothballing the peregrine line. We'll see.

Advisors did a decent job. Enough said.

DIPLOMACY

We now have a steady supply of orichalcum.

First obvious use is to upgrade the elite knights to orichalcum blades and normal knights to black steel. A study on how runes and orichalcum work together could be interesting as well.
Also black steel armours/shields.

We could really use Gawain here by the way. We have a constantly growing number of factions to interact with, the third action would be very useful. We still need to talk with the diamond dog from the island,

STEWARDSHIP

We made progress on the rails.

The idea of an emperor visiting the sewers is pretty funny to be honest

The refugees are no longer a problem (more or less), and they'll hopefully soon become a resource.

LEARNING

We should probably publish a second book with the agricultural knowledge from the earth pony with the less... "acceptable/understandable" tips.

Now that he has proved at least some of them work, there are certain to be at least a few willing to try his more "out there" ideas.

Runes need more attention. They will likely never become "common", but they could be used, for example, to make more efficient steam machines (or to substitute the engine in some cases), they could be used for the airships, maybe to give an extra oomph to our cannons, maybe to help rare and delicate medicinal herbs grow... Many possible uses.


INTRIGUE

Nice tunnels and nice crit.

Now we have to look at the other faction

PIETY

...maybe if we strengthen the crystal heart enough it will end up choosing/making an avatar to communicate with? I'm a bit tempted to try.
 
Pittauro said:
now that the hardbeak line is ready we might actually really consider mothballing the peregrine line. We'll see.
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Well, a while ago I voiced the idea of repurposing the Peregrine as a tourist attraction to put it to some use at least. After all, here(-ish) was it where our noble soldiers first met a hostile army and won...pretty impressive once spun just right.
 
[X] Learning: As a former student of Archimedes, Gawain already possesses all the necessary attributes of a scholar and researcher. What better place to have him work than alongside his former mentor in the act of benefiting the Empire's knowledge base?
 
[X] Learning: As a former student of Archimedes, Gawain already possesses all the necessary attributes of a scholar and researcher. What better place to have him work than alongside his former mentor in the act of benefiting the Empire's knowledge base?
 
Overall a good turn.

As for Gawain, I believe Learning would be the best round out for him.

[X] Learning: As a former student of Archimedes, Gawain already possesses all the necessary attributes of a scholar and researcher. What better place to have him work than alongside his former mentor in the act of benefiting the Empire's knowledge base?
 
This is important to me, were there any omakes that had Garrick Golden-Feather call crow-murder/false on being blood related to the position of Emperor, only for someone to either prove the claim true, or agree it is possible the blood relation is a lie?
 
[X] Diplomacy
DaLintyGuy said:
[X] Diplomacy


It would likely be pointless, except for some of the refugees I suppose. The vast majority of our population simply lacks the correct racial magic.
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His advice was explicitly useful for not earth ponies.

It's just that the book we ended up with does not contain the stranger advices, to make it more likely farmers would try them.

Now that they have proof they work even without magic, they will likely be willing to try more of what he suggests
 
[X]Diplomacy: As his friendship with Ki Seong has shown, Gawain has no difficulty bridging cultural divides and forging connections with individuals of differing backgrounds; valuable skills for a head of state and diplomat alike. Gisa could always use another helping talon managing the growing number of foreign delegations and embassies she has been placed in charge of. Gawain should fit right in.
 
Our Boy Gawain's Stats In a Nutshell (again):
Martial: 14+2+2+1=19
Diplomacy: 13+2+2+2=19
Stewardship: 14+2=16
Learning: 10+2=12
Intrigue: 11+2=13
Piety = 0(?)

So like, more speculation for once Gawain ascends to the throne; I wonder if he'll inherit our 'Blade of the King' (One Piece Zoro much?) and thus get a +1 Martial boost from it as well (thus an even 20, I like numbers divisible by 5)? Also will that Orichalcum Sword we got him some odd turns ago give him a boost at some point or nay? Or will we just get a bundle option to boost him again that way? Like a battledress makeover for him or something.

I also feel like, apart from Questline Plothook the only other option to boost him aside from his Government Posting (Learning FTW) would be something to do with Pony Merlin.

Also I forgot who said it earlier in the thread, but I like the idea of applyiong our other kids' Stats to rolls to Help with Actions once they're old enough for postings, even half a stat applied is better than nothing if anything. It would give us reasons to boost them and prioritize their personal options a little more again (when things aren't on fire at least lol).

Also on a completely and utterly unrelated note, imagine if we adopted ONE MORE kid (pls be a Diamond Puppy, COMPLETE. THE. SET. [5 is also my favorite number shuddup]) after retiring and letting Gawain take over, cuteness, fluff.
 
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