Different does not automatically equate to better.
We can absolutely build a better future in K8P. We have been doing so.
A large part of why I want to stay in Karak Eight Peaks is the amount of infrastructure we've invested in here. Whether that's personal or institutional or in the literal towers we've built. I want Mathilde's story to be one of not only accomplishing great deeds and making a name for herself, but also of making a place and building a home for herself. It's something we were on our way to doing in Stirland, and it's something we're doing now. Except this time, we're not getting fired.
Yeah, this is how I feel. I have
zero doubt that Boney could tell a kickass story with a kickass set of characters and kickass worldbuilding in literally any of the potential environments. I am not concerned about "oh maybe the quality will go downhill when we leave K8P." But I want this quest to not just be the story of L. M. D. T. etc. Mathilde Weber roving around righting wrongs, but also of her building a
home. Having friends. Having family. I love the relationships we build and the character moments within them, and I'd like to keep deepening them and seeing how they evolve. Like, yes, in theory we can keep up with people via social actions if we leave (though probably not in Lustria), but the degree to which we split between K8P and Stirland/Empire characters already has led to lots of frustration and arguments, and making that
worse just seems very bad.
The intent of it is to get on top of our horrendous, ridiculous backlog so it isn't quite so overwhelming and we aren't leaving tonnes of potentially huge magical advances and plot threads on the floor. Especially since people voted to increase the research queue again in the Chaos Dwarf city.
Actually investigate the Tongs option and put to bed the whole "is it totally useless?" debate. Put 3 actions into AV and we can literally complete every experiment we know of except directly weaponizing it. Or get the apparitions project completed, or research the coin. I just want to get to the point where we aren't literally unable shake loose actions to work on our major long running plots for multiple turns. I don't mind if it only lasts even 2 turns if it meant we actually devote all our free personal actions (or more if we have our wizards along) to making tangible progress with these long running plot threads.
Well-said. It is very frustrating that on the one hand the thread consistently votes to
add to our to-do list but on the other consistelty doesn't vote to
do the things on the list. One year of research sabbatical wouldn't be bad at all; we don't even need Max and Johann for it, really, if it turns out hiring them is too hard.
60 pages behind except for threadmarked things (such an unfortunately familiar feeling), so I've probably missed some relevant arguments, but what I want to do is a research sabbatical, possibly preceded by the Kislev thing, and then focus on Waystones.
I strongly recommend just opening up
BoneyM's recent posts, getting up to date on those, and then just skimming the last few pages. During the time we were at Dum when I had no energy to follow the thread actively through all the arguments, I did a lot of that and it worked well.
