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Warhammer Fantasy: Divided Loyalties - an Advisor's Quest

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Ok so I think we should go for the gold since that was the first option but 5 times what is spent is a huge bonus. Anyways besides the Mandred option I want to mess with the witch hunters, because it be funny to have them there and for Mathilde to show up and scare them.
 
Boney said:
[ ] [ITHILMAR] Precious Stones
[ ] [ITHILMAR] Middenland Crowns
[ ] [ITHILMAR] Trade Goods
[ ] [ITHILMAR] Barter (specify what)
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This one's gonna be one hell of a doozy. Crowns would be the most immediately useful, but trade goods would really launch the EIC into the big leagues economically. I don't particularly care for going to Nagarythe next turn, either, so I'm fine with getting our wealth more slowly.

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Eike skill revealed:
Infiltration: She has a very good grasp of how to be seen but not noticed. +1 Intrigue

Eike has learned:
Advanced Infiltration (2/3)
Advanced Accounting (1/3)

Eike Intrigue increased.

Eike stat revealed:
Intrigue: 12+3+1=15
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I'm so proud of her. Objectively we know that she clearly had a knack for this before coming to the Grey College, and that we didn't actually have that much of a hand in her development of it, but it's still gratifying to see her excel at several somethings that she is sure to benefit from in the future.

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Until the tree reaches whatever height it believes to be sufficient for it to start putting resources towards reproducing, there's nothing here to study. So instead you put your time towards teaching Panoramia the subtle art of acting mysterious and smug when someone asks questions you don't actually have the answers for, and before long all of Karak Eight Peaks believes that she somehow deliberately created a giant tree as a centerpiece of the inner Karak - possibly as an aid to her future plans of turning the central caldera into grazelands, possibly just to show off.
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A subtle, and should-be-universal lesson in wizard smugness.

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This would be my pick for socials:
[] Initiate
[] Dooming and Quickening
[] Witch Hunter
[] Amber College
[] Entrance Examination

Mostly the new options that showed up, + the Amber College because I long for my salamanders.
 
[] Initiate
[] Dooming and Quickening
[] Witch Hunter
[] Entrance Examination

oooo these four feel like absolute must take options not sure for the fifth yet though
 
Okay, we sent Eike half way across the continent, made a ton of money, and grew a massive tree in the middle of the Karak just because. Seems like a productive few months.

[ ] [ITHILMAR] Trade Goods

I know we were wanting hard cash, but accelerating the EIC's growth in the northern Empire is a massive benefit, and will take in a lot of profits long term.

[ ] Initiate

This was going to happen sooner or later. It's best that we deal with it early, so we can establish a good precedent and not get things politically muddy when the well meaning busybodies get involved.

[ ] Dooming and Quickening
[ ] Entrance Examination

He's our Godson, it would be weird if we weren't there.

[ ] Witch Hunter
This does sound like fun, who's up for scaring the crap out of a witch hunter?

[ ] Niedzwenka
[ ] Sarvoi
Two very fun characters, and I'm very interested in what they have to say.

[ ] Druchii Diplomats
I just want to make sure they are not up to something. Actually, they are Druchii. They probably are up to something. If it's a threat we can nip it in the bud now, and if it's an opportunity we can profit from it.
 
I'd point out that swordplay is highly relevant. We are about to go to Ulthuan and try to sword a bunch of Druchii. It would be nice to know where we stack up in swording when it comes to elves. Obviously, we are no Asarnil who clowned a servant of Khorne into a sacrifice during combat, but I'd like to know what level of elf we could face.

[ ] [ITHILMAR] Trade Goods

Also, we can't spend these in the Empire because we'd crash the market. I think we could spend these in Ulthuan just fine.
 
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Boney said:
The Queen gets right down to business, and the offer she gives you tests your unflappable facade. You'd bought the famously light Ithilmar for its weight in gold, and you're being offered its volume in gold. According to your mental abacus, this equates to a lot of money. You string together enough thoughts to vaguely consider haggling, but though Queen Marrisith is young for an Elven Queen, that still means centuries of life experience to your mere few decades, so you simply accept. That's still a staggering fivefold return on your initial investment.
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The Queen presents several possibilities to you. The first is payment in precious stones, which would likely translate into a favourable exchange rate because they've been cut by Elven artisans, but would take time for even the EIC to convert into hard currency without crashing prices. The second would be for Laurelorn to take a loan from a selection of noble families, merchant houses, and the Cult of Ulric, which the Queen foresees no trouble in paying back with a few years of a trade surplus of Elven-made luxuries flowing into the Empire, and a sizeable chest of wolf-stamped Middenland crowns to be handed over to you. The third is for the EIC to be granted full access to the markets of Tor Lithanel and allowed to buy up as many trade goods as it thinks it can shift until it exhausts the equivalent value of the Ithilmar, supercharging the EIC's expansion into the northern Empire and ensuring a massive spike in profits for the EIC in general and you in particular, but meaning you won't directly receive a lump sum that you can turn around and spend immediately. Finally, there's a straightforward barter - if you have something in mind for that money that Laurelorn could produce, you could cut out the middle-Elf entirely and just have the Queen make it happen.
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- There will be a thirty hour moratorium for people trying to figure out what one does with a Money stat of Yes.
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"Vow of Poverty? What Vow of Poverty?"

I know, I know, this is the EIC's money so the Vow doesn't apply, but it's still deeply hilarious how Mathilde keeps ending with more and more incredibly huge amounts of money in (near) her hands. It's like all the fish in the ocean have entered a Jumping Aboard Mathilde's Ship competition.
 
For Ithilmar Barter the best idea I have is getting the light Ithilmar armor Elven mages can wear to combine with the eventual We silk robes, It's probably light enough for it to not impact Mathilde's speed in any way and would be the way to get the best armor possible for a mage.

Scavenging the Helldrake scales and adding carved Ulgu Branchwraith wood to it could bring the armor on the level of major artifacts.

Incorporating an Ulgu Orb of Sorcery on top sounds a bit insane, but if we are going all out might as well.
 
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So, does the timeline of actions line up for just asking an Elf if they're familiar with this kind of tree?

Edit: Also, have the tree's roots started breaking into the various tunnels under the caldera? The ones that one Ork warboss nope'd away from getting ambushed in.
 
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[ ] Initiate
For the first time, a child born in Karag Nar has shown a capability of using magic. It is the duty of a Wizard to ascertain their suitability to join one of the Orders of Magic.

[ ] Entrance Examination
Dragomas is forming a panel of eight Wizards from the eight Orders to determine the most suitable fit for a certain child of nobility. Be the Grey Order's representative on that panel.

It'd be fun to see both of these alongside each other, both the ordinary/'common' way of being inducted into the Orders, and Dragomas pulling out all the stops for Mandred.
 
if we're guessing at purposes, im gonna throw out the possibility of "this is how you grow dryads"

[X] Dooming and Quickening
[X] Witch Hunter
[X] Entrance Examination
[X] Initiate
 
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Parabola said:
This one's gonna be one hell of a doozy. Crowns would be the most immediately useful, but trade goods would really launch the EIC into the big leagues economically. I don't particularly care for going to Nagarythe next turn, either, so I'm fine with getting our wealth more slowly.
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Launching the EIC into becoming a 4-polity international trade juggernaut that economically ties the majority of the Old World together seems a bit more important than 'grab some dosh' or 'get a fancy hauberk'
 
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