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Warhammer Fantasy: Divided Loyalties - an Advisor's Quest

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Boney said:
This is one of my favourite kinds of joke, it's funny from a modern perspective but true from an in-setting one. Merchants get rich without owning land or titles, which is considered by many nobles to be an affront to the natural order of things.
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"Plus, merchants buy things at low prices and sell those same things at high prices. Like when a man contradicts himself, it's not clear which statement is a lie, but it's clear that he lied. One of those prices must be wrong. I'm not sure which of them, maybe both, but the merchant is definitely cheating someone here." :thonk:

Variations on the above argument contributed to immense tangles of historic law and judges trying to figure out the the "correct" price range of objects and how much of a markup should be legal for transported goods, which in turn rapidly bogged down in trying to count all the different tariffs and tolls on a long route. Peasants would accuse high-priced merchants of gouging, while high-priced merchants would accuse lower-priced competitors of smuggling and tax evasion. :eyebrow:
 
I'm still really not seeing the supposed trouble with admitting either trauma or grief. Both are acceptable explanations for a lapse in judgement years ago. Reiner Starke doesn't personally care about the reason; if he does, well, what's it to him? If this a to have a coherent answer to outside inquiries about us, well, the Grey Order is certain to frame their answer to show their newest Lady Magister in the best possible light.

Admitting grief is not tantamount to allowing tawdry rumormongering about a salacious affair, it's admitting that we admired and were mentored by Van Hal.

Admitting trauma is not tantamount to having others question our judgement or our fitness to lead or judging us for weakness, it's allowing that we were young and Van Hal died right alongside us and that shook a young journeywoman.

Therefore:

[x] Grief
[x] Trauma
 
Well, guess I'll approval vote Trauma, since I prefer it to grief.

[X] You wanted to reform the watch into a more intrigue focused organization, but your steps had fierce opposition in the watch. You thought attempting to bring the worship of Ranald into the watch will give you a pretext to remove those most opposed to your changes from the organization. It wasn't a very good idea, but you went through with it because you worried Stirland was especially vulnerable in the wake of Abelhelm's death, so you rushed things.
[X] Trauma
 
Jyn Ryvia said:
Because it's not very Ranaldly (tho not banned) to admit to being a Ranaldite. So the true faith voters would never vote Faith.

What? Of course it makes sense!
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I would totally vote Faith, with an addendum to steal Starke's coin purse as he gapes at our brazen confession. But it doesn't actually feel right for me personally as fueled by the power of hindsight so I went with Grief. Possibly with an invisitext addendum to steal his coin purse the moment he lets his guard down.
 
[X] Skaven

It is the Skaven's fault. If they hadn't invaded their would not be a vampire problem to kill our husbando.
 
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