I've mentioned it before, but I think "ask for mega boat and then just wait for it instead of getting involved in it's creation for the fun magic babble scenes, the added customization and/or quality, and to have a major capstone of mathildes windherding" is perhaps the one outcome of this vote that would legit make me kinda angry/upset? Like, I'm not gonna be ecstatic if the boat or a number of other options win, but I'll still be looking forward to how they develop and feature in the future. But going for the boat as a superproject and then not fully committing to it? That would honestly just feel insulting to everyone involved
So I get what you're saying, but consider the counterpoint: that over 60% of the votes cast thus far are
not for the boat and that this vote was not set up or flagged as an opportunity to transform the quest's narrative. There is no
mandate for making the ship an ongoing commitment, is my point.
Like, I'm going to try to be a good sport if the ship wins. If someone has a cool Windherding idea for it while it's being built, sure, I'll spend an AP on Windherding for it the way I would vote to spend an AP on a different Windherding project. If we have an opportunity for a slightly farther-away adventure like visiting Nehekhara, then yeah, all about the Prismatic Wanderer. But I am going to strenuously resist arguments of the form "well the boat won so obviously that means we should be
regularly spending AP on its construction" or "well the boat won so obviously that means we should make managing it an ongoing half-action." Those are
separate questions to vote on, not issues that are being tacitly voted on here, and it would
not be inconsistent or a betrayal for the thread to vote for a cool-ass boat and then not make it a major narrative element of the quest. It is
totally reasonable for some people to go "I want a cool-ass boat so that when I vote for Mathilde to go on an adventure she goes in her cool-ass boat and maybe it gives us air support because that would rule" but otherwise not spend AP on it or pull it to the narrative forefront. That is a real thing that people do in real life, even, so much so that it's a tired punchline!
I feel like I'm missing something here. @picklepikkl you have a really good head for this, do you see any obvious problem? The main problem I have is the narrative oddness, but Boney's been willing in the past to do things as makes sense even if it's unsatisfying narratively.
I'm not totally clear on what you're finding confusing. For instance, I don't actually think all the Runesmith Clans knew that energy was being spent to K-a-K. Or, rather, I think that before the Time of Woes, the leadership of each hold's Runesmith Clan knew, but there's no reason to think the knowledge was more widely spread than that. It would make perfect sense that this knowledge, like knowledge of many runes, was lost in the chaotic every-Hold-for-itself times if leadership got ganked without passing it on. Even if Thorek knew before we told him (and I couldn't find text suggesting that he did, where did you see that?) that's no guarantee that other Runesmith Clans preserved that understanding -- Karak Azul was so isolated it never learned how to make gunpowder, for example, so we know it's an odd duck in other respects.
Basically: can you distill your confusion and use quotes from the quest text to highlight the potential issues?
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