However! I think we have a great opportunity with Otto right now. Now that he has failed to wed his daughter to the king he doesn't have an immediate dog in any would be succession, either for the Westerlings or for us. It may behoove us to try to throw an action at him from time to time to try to get him inside our camp. As Hand of the King and a very astute politician he would be a good ally to have and a bad enemy to have in case the Westerlings win him over.
Agreed, but not this turn. Also, why are you spending a talk action on Tarly? We've already talked a lot with him, and I think we'd be better off spending that talk elsewhere.
I suppose training ourselves gets priority over training Syrax because the best thing we could possibly do on dragonback against Daemon's and the Velaryons' dragons is fly the hell away as swiftly as possible?
That and we spent an action on Training Syrax already, plus we need skill at arms earlier if we plan to do anything martial on our tour.
Also, we could probably take Seasmoke if we had too.
Boremund is alive, his son is unmarried at the moment.
Okay, Borros just established himself as the #2 on the list of potential husbands. Considering only power, position, etc. We'll see how well he does when we meet him in person.
Otto was literally schemeing before the ashes were cold. Pushing for Rhaenyra as heir while basically shoving his daughter at Viserys that same night.
Yeah... he's probably not happy about us messing that up, but then again he gave us no reason to think he was behind it, so rationally he can't reject us. Plus he is even more dependent on Alicent's relationship with Rhaenyra for soft power beyond Viserys. Bring her along on our tour, and maybe she finds a good match. (Just watch, we end up with Borros marrying Alicent).
[X] Plan: Family Time
-[X] Speak with Viserys
-[X] Speak With Lady Johanna Westerling
-[X] Help with Wedding Preperations
-[X] Study Valyrian History with your Father.
No Train action, we cannot keep putting that off if we intend to become a knight.
I understand wanting to spend an action on speaking with Johanna, but why spend an action on speaking with Alicent rather then with our personal trainer in Tarly or with the Hand of the King in Otto? Judging from last time talking with Tarly makes our training actions more effective, while the iron is hot with Otto to try to establish ourselves as his preferred choice for the succession. What's pressing about talking with Alicent right now over either of those two?
Because we just spent an action talking with Otto. Additionally I see no benefit from talking with Tarly. We are Training with him, there is no need to do both. We are talking with Alicent because she might end up our lover, and if she does then a marriage to Laenor is likely to work out with our goals.
Perhaps we talk to Otto next turn after giving him time to cool down about the failure of his plot and let the realization sink in that Alicent's relationship with us is now his path to soft power.
