The Syndicates know that a faith with a 30-45% Mutated Membership Ratio would not be keen on signing over the villages they spent years improving just to make some money. They know you are unwilling to consider that, and have tried to maneuver so they wouldn't tip you off early.
They failed, btw. The dude that argued back? Pilgrim. You'll learn next turn who's fucking with y'all's efforts.
Why would it matter if they tip us off or not? We don't own enough shares to go against House Ulatarn so if they convince the nobles of a shady scheme there isn't much we can do. On the other hand, we own over 20% of the shares and I doubt they could force us to sign them over, no matter what House Ulatarn says.
They appear to have a leader now, so they might be reorganising.
They always had Marnia listed as the (suspected) leader? I mean, I could throw in a basic infiltration because 'Reviving Old Ties' doesn't have a DC but I don't think we could target the Watchers.
[X] Plan Throw Cash at the Forge Clans
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[Faith] Build An Orphanage - (Big) - (Strul)- (3/7 Turns Complete)
--[X] Seek Mutated Help - (...0.1? Goodwill=+100) - (+1 to roll = 0.001 Goodwill)
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[Faith] Establish Soup-Kitchens Within Major Cities - (3/4 Turns Complete)
-[X]
[Diplomacy] Designing Black Holes - (Agriculture, Guard Presence, Civilian Inf., Water) - (0/1 Turns Complete) - (-40 Materials, -10 Goodwill)
--[X] Hire Civil Planners And Architects
-[X]
[Diplomacy] Reviving Old Ties - (0/1 Turns Complete) - (-34 Materials)
-[X]
[Diplomacy] We Are Legion - (1/9 Turns Complete)
-[X]
[Martial] Pump Those Legs! - (Re-Trained: The Wall) - (6 Unit-Points - Overstrenght (Double Unit count))
-[X]
[Learning] Re-Use, Re-Duce, Re-Make - (11/16 Successes)
--[X][DoD], [PD], (Scientific Theory +15, +6FF, 2[SC] +24)=+45
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-[X]
[Learning] Detective Courses For Beginners - (A Book With Legacy) - (1/2 Successes)
--[X](Scientific Theory +15, +6FF)=+21
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-[X]
[Learning] Mutant Equipment: Wyverns - (Advanced Biology) - (2/5 Successes)
--[X] (Scientific Theory +15, 3[DOC] +18, 1[SUR] +12)=+45
--[X] 1x Armored "Succubus" Suit +50 to Pioneer Biology/Psychology/Armor=+50
-[X]
[Archeology] Ransack the Command Center - (2/4 Turns Complete)
--[X](4[ENG] +56, +6FF)=+62
-[X]
[Tree of Knowledge] Artisinal Robotics Creation - (0/3 Turns Complete) - (-175 Materials, -1 Scientist, -20 FF) - [Sandcrete -12.5 Materials]
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[Holdings] Medium Quarantine Area - (4/6 Turns Complete)
--[X] (Hire Contractors: 1*7 Materials= (-7 Materials)
-[X]
[Holdings] Medical Substance Assistance - (4/7 Turns Complete)
--[X] (Hire Contractors: 2*7 Materials= (-14 Materials)
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[Aria action] Relax - (Spend time with Chiedi before the burgeoning pandemic keeps them too busy)
--[X] (We Can Do It! +/- 10, Trauma: Common People Purge Survivor -5)=-15
-[X]
[Martyris action] Too Much To Do - (Medical Spiders - (0/1 Turns Complete) - (-42 Materials))
--[X] (Adjudicator +20)=+20
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[Martyris action] Too Much To Do - (Healing For All! - (0/1 Turns Complete) - (-73 Materials???))
--[X] (Adjudicator +20, +5FF)=+25
--[X] Martyris contacts Baron Esker in regard to how existing BHVs would be affected by the Pilgrims paying for medical treatments. Would there be a need to organize their access to treatment specifically?
-[X] Merchants - (All Are Free Actions)
--[X] Backroom Deals - (Scutter Makers)
-[X] The Adventurer Guild - (1 Action)
--[X] Investigate - (Spread of the various sicknesses and their origin) - (-3 Materials)
-[X] The Union Of Herbalists - (1 Action)
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-[X] Stupendously Scholastic Scholars of Science - (1 Action)
--[X] Suffer Their Droning - (4/6 Turns Complete) - (-15 Materials)
-[X] The Military - (1 Action)
--[X] War Lessons - (The Wall) - (-2 Materials)
-[X] Forge Clan Vanar-Feer - (1 Action)
--[X] Made To Order
---[X] 200 Sealed Suits(Atmospheric Sealing (Immune to Biological/Chemical Damage) - (-135 Materials)
---[X] 1 Comprehensive Pandemic Quarantine Station(1X 1.200 people (6 months/2 Turn)) - (-105 Materials)
---[X] 3 Basic Pandemic Kit(1 X 5.000 people (3 months/1 Turn)) - (-225 Materials)
-[X] The Followers Of Light - (1 Action)
--[X] We Work As One - (Reviving Old Ties)
-[X] Conclave Of Fraya - (1 Action)
--[X] Eternal Arts - (Norqod) - ((22/69) Turns Complete) - (-5 Materials)
Costs: 40 Materials+ 34 Materials+ 175 Materials+ 12.5 Materials+ 7 Materials+ 14 Materials+ 42 Materials+ 73 Materials+ 3 Materials+ 15 Materials+ 2 Materials+ 135 Materials+ 105 Materials+ 225 Materials+ 5 Materials= 887.5 Materials
Budget: 929.63 Materials= Materials
Remaining budget: 929.63 Materials - 887.5 Materials= 42.13 Materials
Goodwill cost: 0.001 Goodwill+ 10 Goodwill= 10.001 Goodwill
Current Goodwill: 84.75 Goodwill
Remaining Goodwill: 84.75 Goodwill - 10.001 Goodwill = 74.749 Goodwill
For the Diplomacy project, I went with 'Reviving Old Ties' to boost various other Actions. Martial expands the Wall unit due to it being our blocking force, and to get a feel for how re-training works.
Learning mainly finishes existing projects. The Mutant Equipment gets the Succubus armor because we don't really have any other Artefact that seems to fit with the idea of equipment. The Retinal Implantation Guide or the Larva Vivisection Reports would be the only other Biological options that aren't overkill...
We should also have two open slots during the next Turn, probably 'Compulsive Behaviour' to get 2/2 and something for airships.
Archeology keeps looting.
The Tree expands our robot production, both to help with the pandemic and to get our bonus for Electronics to +50.
Norqod finishes its projects, which should also help with the pandemic.
Hero Actions are mostly Martyris jumping on the pandemic and Aria relaxing in case things escalated into the next Turn. If it gets worse, then we really don't want Aria to have -25 to her dice rolls.
This spends a lot on the pandemic but it sounds like Internal Security and the attackers(cough*Watchers*cough) are going to fight a shadow war in the background, so the really nasty stuff might show up only once the attackers get desperate. Better to already have stuff in place if it comes to that.
Also; "nine out of every eleven villages" having some sickness that could spread sounds like it could grow a lot over 3 months.