Voted best in category in the Users' Choice awards.
[X] Plan Grand Compromise
- [X] A piece of body armor made with We-silk, that is enchanted to allow Mathilde to (i) fly in the air, (ii) shoot crows from her mouth, (iii) enhance her calligraphy abilities so that she can write papers faster to generate CF, (iv) enhance her strength to the point that she can carry around a squadron of Dwarf Ironbreakers on her biceps, (v) sprout wheat so that she can keep those Dwarf Ironbreakers fed, and (vi) transmute any item she touches into gold (if she so desires) so that she always has ready spending money.
- [X] Upon completion of the crafting, there shall be a grand inauguration ceremony at which the armor shall be named... "Armor of Ton Varnus".
I appreciate this joke. But please do note that, by putting Xs in the brackets, the tally will read this as your actual official vote, removing your previous vote(s) for anything else.
 
Ok, this was so good it convinced me that the armor can create moments as cool as the Airship. I'll add an approval vote.

[ ] Armor of von Tarnus
[X] Plan: The Prismatic Wanderer
[X] Plan: The Prismatic Wanderer (Researcher ver)
[X] Plan Tower of Doom! and Research!

[X] Plan Not Pickle Requests Variant with Apparitions
[X] Outsourcing Apparition hunting and storage to provide us with captured Apparitions for spell creation on request
[X] Save the boon until we choose our next project
 
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It's hard not to regard it as a compromise when the Airship plan is MAXIMUM FLYING VEHICLE and the Armor plan is MAXIMUM DEFENSIVE BOOST and the scattershot plan is eight medium sized goodies, among them an improvement to a flying vehicle and an improvement to her defensive capabilities. Given the voting ratios and general expressed sentiments, I'd say it even follows the aphorism of good compromises leaving all parties unsatisfied.

In this vein of thought, I like MAXIMUM DIVIDED LOYALTIES, which is what drew me to read the quest years ago. My favorite character growth arc was us reading the Liber Mortis during stolen moments during the K8P campaign. My favorite character is Qrech, for what we did to him and for him. My favorite event was when Birdman popped in to say hello and the questers collectively acted like Tzeentch got down on one knee and asked for our hand in marriage.

Thus this is why my original vote was for the Dhar studies dispensation. More Divided loyaties. Barring an extraordinary vote swing though, I'll settle for the ability to better survive having divided loyaties in the future.
 
"Algard, is it normal for Mathilde to spin around like for so long, debating about armour, airship...and something about pickles..does she want pickles?"
"Yeah, typical grey behaviour, our nature makes it so even we aren't fully sure what to choose, first time it's been so long though and undecided, usually one of the options becomes more firmly secured as what we actually want"
 
[X] Plan Pickle Requests mk IV

In the spirit if disarmament and because I do not like what the armor would say about Mathilde as a reward for her Magnum Opus dropping my approval vote for the airship
 
Do not lose sight of the promise of We-silk robes, friends! They have been too long in the coming and too strong an affirmation of some of Mathilde's core themes, of an open mind turning the unknown and strange into allies and turning those alliances into strength, for a sudden swerve to deprive us of a payoff now! We must not be tempted by the siren's song of the mechanical bonus from the true course of narrative satisfaction!

(Though, you know, we'll still be friends even if you are!)
 
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Adhoc vote count started by Adrian XXIV on Apr 3, 2025 at 8:35 AM, finished with 5637 posts and 409 votes.


We are one vote way to a three way tie.

If you can tolerate two of the three options, a three way roll off is more palatable than a two way one.
 
Adhoc vote count started by Adrian XXIV on Apr 3, 2025 at 8:35 AM, finished with 5637 posts and 409 votes.


We are one vote way to a three way tie.

If you can tolerate two of the three options, a three way roll off is more palatable than a two way one.
Boney has repeatedly said we're not doing that, please respect it.
 
[X] Plan Pickle Requests mk IV
[x] Dispensation to study methods of destroying or beneficially transforming Dhar
 
Wading into minions is just about the worst possible active usage of our battlefield time, and against just about every enemy we are likely to face makes us vulnerable to them deciding that however many Orcs/Skaven/Beastmen/Druchi/Wights is an acceptable sacrifice to hit us while we're occupied with something we can't actually safely test the Armor on.
 
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That she feels like her primary role is as a weapon, a member of the Orders rather than the Colleges of Magic, that she can do the most good by stabbing the bad guys. That is just not the story I want to read.


... Or it means that Mathilde recognizes that she's done a hell of a lot to improve the world through a variety of means, and wants some insurance so that she'll be able to keep doing so.

Or she'd just rather not die.

I'm not even voting for the armor and I find a lot of the arguments against it ridiculous.
 
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