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Warhammer Fantasy: Divided Loyalties - an Advisor's Quest

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BoneyM said:
The Grey College does not believe in doing small injuries. If they decide they must make an enemy of Mathilde, they won't be using accountancy quibbles as their weapon of choice.
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Andd somehow i got the image that if the grey decide to make an enemy out Mathilde, they will do it using an enchanted knive to the heart or a magical nuke.
Kinda like if Ethan Hunt goes rogue (again).

The thing about being a wiz with Mathilde's combat stat, is that the cost of 'forcibly retiring' her will likely involve a crack team of Grey Wizzard, or the one guy that raise Mathilde.

To (mis)quote Goodfellas, your enemy will come as your friend and someone you absolutely trust.
 
[X] (LIBRARY) High-level policy

[X] (LIBRARY NAME) World's Memory / Karaz Kron

[X] (BRANCH NAME) World's Edge Branch for Esoteric Research
 
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B_omega said:
Andd somehow i got the image that if the grey decide to make an enemy out Mathilde, they will do it using an enchanted knive to the heart or a magical nuke.
Kinda like if Ethan Hunt goes rogue (again).

The thing about being a wiz with Mathilde's combat stat, is that the cost of 'forcibly retiring' her will likely involve a crack team of Grey Wizzard, or the one guy that raise Mathilde.

To (mis)quote Goodfellas, your enemy will come as your friend and someone you absolutely trust.
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To be fair if the Grey College knew what book Mathy had read they would already have deployed those contingencies and if their fears were justified it probably would not be enough. Competent they may be but not without flaw, or we would not be alive.
 
[X] (LIBRARY) Hands-off
[X] (LIBRARY) High-level policy
[X] (BRANCH NAME) The Sunrise Society
[X] (BRANCH NAME) Autonomous Cooperative Research Organization
 
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[X] (LIBRARY) Hands-off
[X] (LIBRARY) High-level policy
This thread keeps eternally clamoring that we need every AP, yet jumps on every available option to shrink our per turn pool.
I just don't see what Mathilde could do better in the day-to-day running of a Library than a professional who can devote their entire working time to it.
The only possible thing I could imagine are her connections giving access to the rare and restricted, and those kinds of books we can still buy and donate if we really feel the need.
 
[x] (LIBRARY) Head Librarian
[x] (LIBRARY NAME) World's Memory / Karaz Kron
[x] (BRANCH NAME) World's Edge Branch for Esoteric Research
[X] (BRANCH NAME) The Sunrise Society
 
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Valmond said:
During her work managing the branch college and waystone Project, Lady Magister Weber learns, much to her shock, that she is the Senior Fellow of the Grey College, and has been for quite sometime.
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Scene: It is a few years later. Mathilde returns from her trip to the Grey College where she found out she is in fact the Senior Fellow.

Panoramia: Is something wrong? You look a bit dazed and upset.

Mathilde: I went looking for the Grey College's Senior Fellow to help us out in our upcoming collaboration.

Panoramia: And?

Mathilde: Turns out I am the Senior Fellow. My name was on the door and signature on all the paperwork. I've been doing the job without realizing it for years! I thought it was just paperwork for the Branch College and Waystone project!

Panoramia: *starts to laugh*

Mathilde: *pouts* Patriarch Algard did that too. It's not funny! You know those bastards had a betting pool going on over there about how long it'd take me to notice?

Panoramia: *wheezes* Who-who won?

Mathilde: *grumbles indignantly* Nobody! Apparently it took me longer to notice than any of them thought it wou - Stop laughing!
 
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[X] (LIBRARY) High-level policy

For me this is not a compromise vote, but exactly what I hoped for and imagined from the start.
I don't see Mathilde as a librarian or even as the owner of this thing, but neither do I see the Library as something we just toss money at and hope that the Dwarves just happen to do exactly what we want in our absence.

Like, if I had to choose between the other two I don't even have all that much of a preference right now. I don't like either extreme.

As for names, we've come up with enough ideas, be it dignified or punny backronym. I trust my fellows to come up with something good and might toss a vote in there towards the end if I remember.

fan_of_D_Andreev said:
Btw, your argument might mean that this situation is actually more dangerous than I thought: the biggest danger might not be a huge fine, but someone at the Colleges could just want to watch the world burn - and start with making Colleges of Magic to be collectively Grudged by the Karaz Ankor. I guess the Colleges are kind of prepared for such a situation (or should be).
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Anyone who tried to do that would have to have multiple Patriarchs, the Supreme Patriarch or the Emperor either in their pocket or on their puppet strings. Because otherwise said leadership will just take the Dwarfs complaints seriously and send the offending perpetrator's head alongside a bunch of money as recompense. Except of course if they manage to do so with some extremely competent and subtle plan. I guess sometimes Tzeentch also wins big.
BoneyM said:
Kronag would mean something like... propaganda pamphlet, I guess.
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A very specific instruction manual as well maybe. But the Dwarves don't really do those.
BoneyM said:
Post-Time of Woes, so three thousand years, give or take.
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Woah. That late? If they used to have a different word for fortress-city and they literally reverted back to just calling it mountainy place then they have fallen so much more since the Time of Woes than I even thought. Judging from how they look now it can't even have been due to constant steep decline. The languages that descend from the Old One Tongue are known not to drift as much as usual even among Humans. And Dwarves both live longer and change less.
This makes me speculate with some surety that during the Time of Woes there must have been a dark age with at least two consecutive generations in near complete isolation.

Or I am off the mark and the change happened due to something else, like a religious revival with people more commonly using a word that alludes to something the Ancestors said in scripture. Or some other reason I'm not thinking of right now.
Robotninja said:
No, arrest is one of the largest rights for wizards in good standing. We are supposed to get trials. They do not want to undermine that right. Granted, we might die "resisting arrest" if they think we are too dangerous, but they very much do not want to start a precedent of just killing any mage that is suspected of stuff.
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Lol. The Grey College literally assassinated the Empress. If someone with that pull thinks we stand in their way and that they can excuse our death to their fellows then they won't bother with a trial.
 
[X] (LIBRARY) High-level policy
[X] (BRANCH NAME) World's Edge Branch for Esoteric Research
 
[X] (LIBRARY) High-level policy
[X] (BRANCH NAME) World's Edge Branch of Intersectional Research
[X] (BRANCH NAME) The Sunrise Society


Running a library doesn't sound too engaging, and it would be difficult to gracefully step down anytime soon if we took the job.

Darth. said:
Why are people voting on the basis of AP? Boney specifically told us not to do that since the system is being tweaked for the WP.
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That's not what was said, it was about the worry we'd be wasting a half action due to having an uneven number we were told not to be concerned about.
 
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Darth. said:
Why are people voting on the basis of AP? Boney specifically told us not to do that since the system is being tweaked for the WP.
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The vote for head librarian has the note in it will cost 1/2 AP. If he did not want that to be any sort of consideration that would not have been there. while the GM would obviously prefer us to make judgements on the basis of fluff and interest AP is still a good short hand for I want to be involved.
 
Darth. said:
Why are people voting on the basis of AP? Boney specifically told us not to do that since the system is being tweaked for the WP.
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Because no matter what the system used, there will be a finite amount of creative output, and it will be shared by different interests.
The system may change, but it is reasonable to expect that we will have limited number of actions in one form or another.
 
[X] (LIBRARY) High-level policy
[X] (BRANCH NAME) World's Edge Branch for Esoteric Research

Being Head Librarian sounds like a headache; some input without too much time commitment is good, and we can probably remove ourselves from the high level policy too a decade or more later, once the policies of the library are set up.
 
[X] (LIBRARY) High-level policy
[X] (LIBRARY NAME) World's Memory / Karaz Kron
[X] (BRANCH NAME) World's Edge Bastion of Esoteric Research
 
[X] (LIBRARY) Head Librarian
[X] (LIBRARY NAME) World's Memory / Karaz Kron
[X] (BRANCH NAME) World's Edge Branch for Esoteric Research
 
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