Out of an entire more modern technology tree, I daresay Mathilde will find something more personally relevant to her than a machine gun. Several things, even.
Because I want to see the result of us stealing all of that technology.
I've bolded the last bit, because that's the part where I disagree based on the way Boney does the quest.
Boney does Bazaar-style QMing. This means that until we go take an action to find out what the Golds have done, the Golds haven't done anything. This isn't true for everything in the quest, obviously -- there are a number of things that tick in the background regardless of whether Mathilde is around to pay attention to them, and there's things like the rumor mills we invested in that mean that Mathilde "passively" gains info about various topics without needing to spend more actions -- but it's true for a lot of things, often things that are direct repercussions of Mathilde's actions. So, for example, it's never going to be the case that the Golds figured out skaventech X without warpstone and have given it to Y unless we take this action, because until we invest the action to go look, Boney isn't going to invest the time to figure out what happened and what repercussions it has on the setting. In a very real sense, our attention dictates what's real in the sense of having consequences and what's not, to some extent.
You're right. I took a look at the current arc's socials, and it's more of a coin flip than I expected.
Yes, Liminal Pathways are a seperate topic:
Those are all super interesting but I don't think any of them apply to the liminal realm study we're going to maybe do next turn, that should probably be covered by our +5 on Liminal Realms.
Fair points. Actually I just thought of another possible Eonir subject, Hoeth - we wanted books on Verena and Hoeth for their library science info, and Hoeth books are possibly more useful than Verena books because they go all the way up to esoteric.
You probably should count this one as a null result because Wissenland wasn't an option in the following turn.
That particular one was, afaict, our chance to go see the collapse of the Imperial Gunnery School for ourselves, which obviously wasn't an option the following turn because, well, it had happened and we found out about it through other channels. The current Wissenland option is very different, it's about finding out who the Spymaster is.
Because we need our own specifically trained scribes for handling those very old and valuable tablets and scrolls, and random literate Cityborn we threw money at are not going to cut it.
Out scribes do not speak or read elthatrin...
Yes you do? Especially if you want it copied correctly. If you don't know the language you do not know if spacing is important, if certain flourishes change the meaning or if that dot is intended or an ink stain...
You should rephrase your question to be more specific. Remember, our scribes aren't what we use during the purchase round. We give our scribes jobs during the regular turn as part of the Library action. The purchase round is where our library budget is used to buy from Barak Varr/hire College copyists/hire Cityborn copyists. So even if our scribe team is capable of doing copying from the Library of Mourning -- which I am pretty sure it isn't, because they don't have Eltharin as a known language and back during the scribe vote six months ago there was a lot of discussion how if you try to copy a language you're not literate in by hand you're going to get a ton of transcription errors -- it's not relevant to the question of the purchase round.
Ohhhh, they were talking about the book buying round. Yes that's just belegar bankrolling our book needs by whatever way we choose.
Let's not offense the guys who ensure everyone has a peaceful afterlife.
Should probably add some books on Solipsism to the next purchase, eh.
What is the shadow realm? And I was referring to the Morrites.
