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Adhoc vote count started by picklepikkl on Jul 16, 2023 at 5:03 AM, finished with 355 posts and 40 votes.

It's possible that Boney is just going to lock things up soon with a close-to-minimum-length voting period, but he didn't mention doing so the way he did last turn, so in the interest of boosting thread participation, I've decided to make a voters' guide for the one category that seems to have any contention whatsoever.

Vote [ ] [LIBRARY] Library of Mournings: Linguistics, Hoeth if:
You want to enhance Mathilde's ability to translate unknown languages (like might be found on the Lustrian rubbings) and for her to learn how elves organize their libraries.

Vote [ ] [LIBRARY] Library of Mournings: Linguistics, Ladrielle if:
Translating unknown languages as above sounds great, but you think knowing someone's religion before negotiating with them is a priority, or just think misterious women are attractive.

Vote [ ] [LIBRARY] Barak Varr booksellers: Druchii of Naggaroth, Ten Kingdoms of Ulthuan, Kingdom of Nehekhara if:
You think this quest doesn't have enough elves in it and want to go talk to some more, or want to be prepared if those elves come talk to us. Alternately, you might be really into Egyptology, either because it's legitimately an incredibly fascinating field of study or because 1999's The Mummy was your bisexual awakening.

Vote [ ] [LIBRARY] Back-fill: Social sciences if:
The thing you value, more than anything, is gaining the maximum amount of BÖÖK. You want more BÖÖK. You need more BÖÖK. Seeing those numbers go up and those topic headings fill out is one of the only experiences that makes you feel anything anymore on this bitch of an Earth. If you don't get more BÖÖK, the shakes will start. You care not from whence the pages turn, only that they turn. BÖÖK.
 
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[X] [LIBRARY] Back-fill: Social sciences
[X] [COLLEGE] A translation of the Indic Aqshy books obtained from the Elementalists (1 CF)
 
[X] [LIBRARY] Barak Varr booksellers: Druchii of Naggaroth, Ten Kingdoms of Ulthuan, Kingdom of Nehekhara
[X] [COLLEGE] A translation of the Indic Aqshy books obtained from the Elementalists (1 CF)
 
[X] [LIBRARY] Barak Varr booksellers: Druchii of Naggaroth, Ten Kingdoms of Ulthuan, Kingdom of Nehekhara
[X] [COLLEGE] A translation of the Indic Aqshy books obtained from the Elementalists (1 CF)
 
I never want to check in with the salamanders if there's any other social option available, even in a hypothetical scenario where we'd get a bit of CF out of it. Wordcount is zero sum and the salamanders aren't worth it.
I really enjoyed the scenes where we checked up on the.... skaven organ vats, I think it was. Where the adrenalin was found and an Amythyest wizard, or a maybe Morrite wrote papers on it.

Though that might partially because it involved kicking the humourists in the kidneys. Metaphoriacally.
Maybe if the salamanders are shown to have a preference to writing scathing rebuttals to humourist "theories"?
 
When you've got a capital city with a population the size of Rome at its height, you have a polity that can reasonably be described as properly settled, even if it also happens that Here Be Monsters features in many of its maps. Besides that, I'm looking at the Reikland Map and there's loads of towns and villages, to say nothing of the many hamlets and small villages that wouldn't show up on any map. The Empire has crap-ton of people in it. Reikland alone - even excluding Altdorf - probably out-populations Norsca.
The problem "Here Be Monsters" features bring is that Empire is, at all times, under a low scale siege by its own forests.
Most of its land is a "no go" zone for anyone not heavily armed, and often even them, the safe areas are separated by those no go zones.
Empire is not properly settled when compared to the area of map it occupies.

And anytime an Everchosen rolls around, Empire faces a choice of if they want to risk Everchosen winning and keeping enough troops back home to avoid cities being razed, or if they want to do all they can to keep Everchosen from rolling through Kislev and risk their major population centers from being razed by Beastmen, Skaven, Orcs, Vampires and/or Necromancers.
 
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I think I will make a appeal for the druchii and high elves books.
We know currently waaaaaaaaaaaaay to little about both of them and they will interfere into our business if they even get a whiff of it. So having info on them will help quite a bit to inform our choices when all three elven communities clash in laurelorn.
 
We might even end up with the Asrai involved as well at some point, so we could end up interacting with all four types of elves.

Which is pretty crazy by normal standards, let alone by someone with Dwarf-Friend status.
 
For context we presently have
  • +2 Druchi: All Bretonian sources
  • +4 Asur: A mix of dwarf and imperial
If we went with the Barak Var trade we would get
  • +7 Druchi: Add all imperial books, dwarfs have none
  • +10 Asur: Complete the set
I am not trying to convince anyone since I am pretty ambivalent on the library myself, with a slightly greater inclination to linguistics since I think if you are planning to read Lizardman you are going to need all the help in the world, just trying to give a scale. We do have some sources, we could get significantly more
 
When you've got a capital city with a population the size of Rome at its height, you have a polity that can reasonably be described as properly settled, even if it also happens that Here Be Monsters features in many of its maps. Besides that, I'm looking at the Reikland Map and there's loads of towns and villages, to say nothing of the many hamlets and small villages that wouldn't show up on any map. The Empire has crap-ton of people in it. Reikland alone - even excluding Altdorf - probably out-populations Norsca.

I mean yeah Norsca alone can't defeat the Empire, but Norsca isn't the only place Chaos can draw from, you have the Kurgans, Hung, Dolgan, Tong, and who knows how many other groups the Empire doesn't know much about, Chaos warriors from the wastes, cultists inside the Empire itself, and even Beastmen.
 
[X] [LIBRARY] Library of Mournings: Linguistics, Hoeth
[X] [COLLEGE] A translation of the Indic Aqshy books obtained from the Elementalists (1 CF)
 
[X] [LIBRARY] Barak Varr booksellers: Druchii of Naggaroth, Ten Kingdoms of Ulthuan, Kingdom of Nehekhara
[X] [COLLEGE] A translation of the Indic Aqshy books obtained from the Elementalists (1 CF)
 
Questing is associated with Ranald you say?
*adds red string to board
What does your board also contain? That Boney is Ranald is disguise?

Vote [ ] [LIBRARY] Back-fill: Social sciences if:
The thing you value, more than anything, is gaining the maximum amount of BÖÖK. You want more BÖÖK. You need more BÖÖK. Seeing those numbers go up and those topic headings fill out is one of the only experiences that makes you feel anything anymore on this bitch of an Earth. If you don't get more BÖÖK, the shakes will start. You care not from whence the pages turn, only that they turn. BÖÖK.
BÖÖK

[X] [LIBRARY] Back-fill: Social sciences

I never had a bi awakening :(
I'm straight, but I'm happy to admit there are some times I can go "Hmmm. Yeah. Man hot."
 
[X] [LIBRARY] Library of Mournings: Linguistics, Ladrielle
[X] [COLLEGE] A translation of the Indic Aqshy books obtained from the Elementalists (1 CF)
 
To the non Mournings Library voters, I'll point out that in the next few turns we're going to copy all kinds of Imperial books, probably including some of these topics as well. I'm voting for Eonir books because we know they won't be redundant

I'm concerned that the back-fill in particular is a waste of a turn's acquisition. The Druuchi at least might come up in the next few turns, before we finish copying the books on them. Overall not as efficient, though.
 
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To the non Mournings Library voters, I'll point out that in the next few turns we're going to copy all kinds of Imperial books, probably including some of these topics as well. I'm voting for Eonir books because we know they won't be redundant

I'm concerned that the back-fill in particular is a waste of a turn'e acquisition. The Druuchi at least might come up in the next few turns, before we finish copying the books on them. Overall not as efficient, though.

I mean the Druchi can come up next turn if we so choose, we can vote to talk to them and see what they are offering. Now personally I am not that enthused by the notion, but it is something we can do. just as we can use the Nehekaran books for the coin papers/books which would see their use at once. The only thing that is not guaranteed to show up are the Asur.
 
[x] [LIBRARY] Barak Varr booksellers: Druchii of Naggaroth, Ten Kingdoms of Ulthuan, Kingdom of Nehekhara
[x] [PURCHASE] Trade (Eonir Esoteric, 150 gc)
[x] [COLLEGE] A translation of the Indic Aqshy books obtained from the Elementalists (1 CF)
 
[X] [LIBRARY] Barak Varr booksellers: Druchii of Naggaroth, Ten Kingdoms of Ulthuan, Kingdom of Nehekhara
[X] [LIBRARY] Back-fill: Romance
So is the dwarf no purchase also blocking the other purchase vote? Because it's showing up weird in the tally.
 
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