[X] [Inno] Looks important, invest heavily (-3 Wealth, -3 Mysticism, -1 Tech, ???)
YES!!!!
We want this badly. The two major inventions here that could be discovered are paper and aspirin. Paper is going to be an enormous deal for us; we're a centralized bureaucracy and the relative difficulty of getting something to write stuff on has been a major stumbling block for us. Having more paper would do wonders for literacy and the ability for us to centralize our empire. This is extremely important culturally as well. Cheap paper will mean that stories and ideas start getting written down. There isn't an area of our society which wouldn't benefit from this.
As for aspirin, it was isolated from willow bark which they can plausibly find if they're mashing up and experimenting with tree bark. It would be nowhere near modern potency, but tincture of willow bark is an immensely useful medicine. It has uses in surgury, in reducing pain and inflammation, even people with bad hearts can benefit from it.
Paper is obviously what's being signaled here, but there's potential for more.
[X] [AG] Those things are expensive, they'll need to pay (Open games, Diplo income changed to Wealth income, ???)
[X] [AG] They may join (Open games, ???)
Not being invited to the Artisan Games is obviously a snub and I don't want that to remain. There's no reason for us to annoy two of our powerful neighbours for no reason. If it means pooling innovation rolls in order to make peace with two near-peer almost-Great Powers, that's what we're going to have to do.
[X] [Policy] Switch to Mass Levy
Fuck Nomads! Also, screw Kings who feel the need to swing their dicks around just to show everyone what they've got.
We saw how insanely lucky we were last time that we tangled with the Pure. The Thunder Speakers were destroyed and the only reason that we didn't lose more was because the Pure got extremely unlucky with their disease rolls. I don't want us to be ravaged like we were last time. We have more cavalry this time, but the Forhuch have a Military Hero-King from the sounds of it. We need to throw literally everything we have at them if we don't want a repeat of last time. If we don't act quickly, it's very likely that our nascent March in the Spirit Channel will be wiped out.
The Mass Levy is the only way that we're really going to be able to contest the Foruch and protect the Harmurri against the Highland Kingdom. War is coming; virtually everyone around us has Martial Heroes. Epic Age 2: Electric Boogaloo is upon us. Time to call everything up so we can just destroy the enemy and get it over with.
[X][Kick] 1 Stability, 2 Temp Econ damage
I was convinced on this by other arguments.
[X] [Trade] Smiths work overtime! (-2 Tech/turn but can meet demand for trade)
[X] [Trade] Push the guilds to the limit to meet demands (Trade Tech for Wealth, up to 5 per phase, to attempt to top up Wealth)
Both of these sound like they're going to force the Guilds to innovate. Being forced to work hard is going to make them look for anything they can do to save labour. The only question is if the second option is too expensive. Increased work increases demand for labour saving devices.
Got a decent amount of hierarchy room it seems...not that we ever end up with anything changing there 
