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[Exalted, ?] Most High

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Rihaku said:
Hm, you guys know you can strengthen your respective side by describing what governance actions you're taking, or what sorcerous Workings you'd be looking towards? With the vote so close it's almost entirely down to arguments at this point.
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Well, we are about to have a lot of new opening in the Bureaucracy of our Satrap. Obviously the best governance option is to fill those positions with able people we can absolutely trust to run the city for us.

Invite, Moon, Pearl and Saery to our satrap as the new viziers.
 
Saery hasn't graduated yet, so sadly she can't take a permanent position - she'll only be here for Summer Break if you can make her come!
 
I mainly agree with Vitaris's suggestions. I especially liked the idea of making Uncle Pan a sort of sympathetic leader to the other gods. They're a petty lot in general, but he strikes me as an individual who cares about his duty and his responsibilities. Making him a role model for the other gods (possibly via thaumaturgy) strikes me as wise, even with his distaste for Sorcery.

Why does he dislike it? Do we have a reason for that? Is it something from the Usurpation perhaps? Or maybe just a general dislike of people fiddling with things Man Was Not Meant To Know?

Anyway, besides making a magical metropolis, I think the top things I would consider would be making use of the excess population in a variety of ways. Settling farms as was suggested should help prevent food riots, and the large numbers can also be trained up to help fill out the Legion as well as possibly increase a civil guard. I'm not sure what the local emergency response structure is like but given the refugee influx it could probably be better.

I would also like to begin a series of aggressive education reforms. A happy, educated populace is WAY more productive than an uneducated one. Just getting vital life skills spread out in the populace in higher proportions should help dramatically. It's like with CPR, the success rates are much higher in the US in places like Oregon which have a very high per capita rate of training than in say Massachusetts.

As Rihaku has mentioned Saerry, getting her in for a visit would serve many purposes. We've been building a stronger relationship with Nellens through our soon to exist Diplomatic Corps and our husbanding of the Legion. Saery is an old friend who was once our betrothed, and having her come in even for a visit would be a nice visible mark of favor from the House and a way to get the wheels moving in the Realm more. Also, we hte players like her in general and would like to see her again. I wrote in one of the letters so there's SOME communcation.

Someone else could do more? I think that's about it though.
 
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Uncle Pan just happens to have a defining intimacy against sorcerers? In a land that shows blatant signs of extensive sorcerous manipulation? There's clearly a story there. I bet he knows quite a lot, if we could get him to tell us, though that may not be easy. A possible job for Nilul?

Now that I think about it, claiming that we are simply reviving ancient dormant guardians is probably a pretty good excuse for any entities we create. It would simply be evidence that we are obscenely reckless rather than Anathema. This may work substantially better if we set stuff up ahead of time and make it look like we are actually searching for them, though.
 
Yeah, if Pan has a Defining Intimacy against Sorcerors, and we eventually want to learn Sorcery... we might want to start spreading around his worship to other like-minded deities, to make him a tad less irreplaceable.
 
[X] Thaumaturgical Explorations
[X] Consolidate Power
[X] Govern Wisely, Govern Well x3
-[X] Bankrupt

If it requires us breaking our DB masquerade to use sorcery we're never going to use it anyway. So changing my vote.
 
Anasurimbor said:
Uncle Pan just happens to have a defining intimacy against sorcerers? In a land that shows blatant signs of extensive sorcerous manipulation? There's clearly a story there. I bet he knows quite a lot, if we could get him to tell us, though that may not be easy. A possible job for Nilul?
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Hey, it could just be Wyld-Shaping! Perhaps if that freehold had had Deep Wyld in its core...
 
Dark Lord Bob said:
IIRC until we shared our deepest secrets with her and threw ourself at her mercy she was intending to betray us to the Infernals if that seemed like it would help her escape.
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"Betraying" someone she barely knows is not exactly treachery. we bonded and became friends and she won't betray us. Also, NPCs are allowed to experience character growth.
Also, she only intended to sell us over to them if she had no choice.
 
Rihaku said:
...Are you guys seriously going to pass up Sorcery AGAIN
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As powerful sorcery is in the long term you have done a wonderful job of keeping us to afraid of being wiped out in the short term to make long term investments at the cost of short term survival.

It also doesn't help that this version of getting sorcery has abandoning our responsibility for a timeskip as the opportunity cost.

We are expecting an imminent attack so we are optimizing for the 1 month-1 year timescale which Sorcery isn't best for, due to requiring us to either go to war with the realm or not use the higher end abilities of sorcery, and not getting Wake the Sleeper till it may be too late for it to be relevant.
 
cyberswordsmen said:
We are expecting an imminent attack so we are optimizing for the 1 month-1 year timescale which Sorcery isn't best for, due to requiring us to either go to war with the realm or not use the higher end abilities of sorcery, and not getting Wake the Sleeper till it may be too late for it to be relevant.
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We don't actually know when Anys will attack, you know, and Sorcery excels in the long-term...
 
A big problem with sorcery is the fact that anything fun we can do with it will reveal us as anathema.
We should really get our act together and finally get to undermining the immaculate faith and reforming the realm
 
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