If it doesn't matter when we ask the questions why not do it later then? Doesn't seem to be a rush.
I didn't say that it doesn't matter when. What I said was that your elaborated reasons for being against doing it now rather than later could be used to deny them every time until it's 'appropriate' but that there wouldn't be such a time by your apparent standards this March but they are going to be answered this month
regardless because they are on the Plan Vote so this reasoning of yours isn't justification to not do it at any particular point in time during the current month.
Degorium's reasoning for wanting to do the free action now rather than potentially several real life months later is my own.
I'm extremely curious about literally all of this information and to be honest it feels like these are questions that are good to have answers to well before any real action takes place potentially on any of those fronts
At its core it's five Essence for just massive Secrets / greater understanding of ourselves our enemies our allies and what we and potentially our enemies are capable of.
For example, the Crown question regarding Mab is from several Arcs ago. Mab originally used the information that we'd be gaining from that CQ to tempt us. We had to pass a roll not to fall into some kind of trap because she triggered our Urge of the Forbidden. Had we met Mab in person at any point after that Arc with Nemesis!Maeve she would have been free to do so again. Asking that question then pulls ammo out of her hands, ammo that is likely only so effective because it concerns the "Green Sun", the title of the Quest.
I think narrative flow has a lot more value than you're crediting it with too. The drawn out and exhausting setup for our recent arcs has in part been a result of how we organize things. We go to hell and then come back with a list of random odds and ends to do. We bounce between tasks and end up missing opportunities to work things into each other.
I'm having a hard time thinking of any examples of what you're actually describing here. Some Arcs tend to get drawn out because the thread is ambitious so we end up tackling multiple things at once so we don't have to deal with those things later on and to take advantage of opportunities when they present themselves.
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The Boston Arc for example. We went to Boston for Harvard then decided to secure it and the Well against Mikaboshi and after killing his plane of troops that he was forced to send to save face, killing his troops in city, removing his other in Boston assets and stopping the attack on America's economy we could have stopped right there and returned to the Mikaboshi issue later as he would have had to deal with other Yama Kings sensing weakness and taking advantage of perceived vulnerability.
We instead decided to go to Hell and continue the Boston action and you were one of the main advocates of doing so having been the one who came up with the Hope Plague idea to make the attack more devastating and viable. In the process drawing out the Arc but likely saving us time later by more proactively dealing with an enemy that was experimenting with essence to try and make something like Molly.
Or the White Council Traitor Arc. We didn't need to spend extra time pushing our Book of Laws agenda back then and it made the Arc even longer but we took advantage of that opportunity and worked it into that current action. There was even an argument about shoving more agendas into that action such as the Pigeon God.
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We can't do everything at once due to time and essence constraints and what you seem to be asking for is that we make Arcs even
more drawn out instead of of leaving some newly discovered plot threads for later because of how drawn out some of our Arcs have been.
What opportunity(s) would we be missing out on by coming back to the make a movie plotline later this month instead of doing it right here and now?
If we actually moved between general tasks as collective efforts I think the same arcs would feel less drawn out and generally get more done.
We should do the hit list all at once after we've finished the topic we've started.
When you say general task do you mean different AP actions that are related in location and or objectives? You are going to have to explain this because what you seem to be suggesting, that we combine similar AP actions to make multi Arcs, would make those Arcs feel even more drawn out rather than giving us a breather in between.
Edit: Fact check, you were actually one of the main advocates against going to Hell and came up with the Hope Bringer after the thread voted to do so regardless. I misremembered.
