- Location
- Mid-Atlantic
Well, there are probably several steps with varying difficulty in both cases. My intuition is that making up a court will be easier, but also dramatically more expensive. But that's my opinion.
I'm a High Fantasy Tax Collector, So What? A CKII Tax Collector Quest
- Thread starter hYGP
- Start date
- Original Fantasy
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- Tags
- death ck2 quest all proceeds go to real spiders are we revolutionaries or reactionaries today criminal justice discussion makes the gm fuzzy don't count your boats before they sail granary management if i lose my meows get me likes to replace them justice spider knock knock it's the finance ministry meows for discussion while supplies last taxation taxes this is not an empire quest
For that matter, how did they even recognize us? Just because a bishop is railing against us as a godless heretic doesn't mean every innkeeper in the area would immediately be able to identify us AS that godless heretic
- Location
- USA
We're a foreigner. Obviously the suspicious foreigner has to be that guy the priests are talking about.
Although considering this is a port city, they should see a lot of foreigners so that explanation is a bit suspect.
Maybe our evil twin passed through and they hate us by association.
- Location
- Leeds
Could you just say how long an average assignment lasts?
Ohhh, now I know why our stats are such a big deal, I didn't realise DCs would be so low we could auto pass them.
Incliend to either take down the bishop or go for the shiny. Both seems greedy when we're finding our feet.
- Location
- Somewhere over the rainbow
...unless, of course, someone who already knew what you looked like and the party that you'd be coming with would (mostly) look like spent their time to proclaim the dangers of a group that blasphemed against the Compact and the natural order of things and how even though one of them appeared to don the cloth they were themselves triply damned for blaspheming against the way things had always been -
As far as Agueda knows, Besim Rosenberg hired teams of artists and presses to create sketches of your parties at his own expense and distributed them to the local churches, using his position to warn the flock not to associate with these people for the sake of their own immortal soul. Now, they didn't know Kerrie was going to be here, which is what you eventually used to get your foot in the door, but as far as you can tell when people saw you, Tekla, and Cormag together they turned away and avoided you.
A lesser assessor might take five years. If Agueda could be confident that he'd have a court ready and willing to take evidence, he believes he could genuinely get it done in five months. The "court ready and willing to take evidence" and "somebody's here working against you" are the main sticking points, but Agueda's still pretty sure that he can get it all done, it'll just be a little tricky.
Dark Lord Potato
Aspiring OverLord from Canada
- Location
- Ottawa, Ontario
[X] Plan Slow and Steady
- [X] [YEAR] Stay silent.
- [X] [ENEMY] Take him down.
- [X] [Martial] Power Base
- [X] [Diplo] Of The Cloth
- [X] [Intr] Obtaining Documentation
- [X] [Learn] Odds and Ends
- [X] [Stew] Better Lodgings
- [X] [Piety] National Spirits
- [X] [Stew] Just Look Up the Jurisdiction Part I
-- [X] Free Action
- [X] [YEAR] Stay silent.
- [X] [ENEMY] Take him down.
- [X] [Martial] Power Base
- [X] [Diplo] Of The Cloth
- [X] [Intr] Obtaining Documentation
- [X] [Learn] Odds and Ends
- [X] [Stew] Better Lodgings
- [X] [Piety] National Spirits
- [X] [Stew] Just Look Up the Jurisdiction Part I
-- [X] Free Action
- Location
- Mid-Atlantic
Maybe one of our enemies passed word to this guy about our traveling companions, so they knew to warn about a man traveling in the company of a clergy-in-name-only who happens to be colored green and oh yeah "Tekla the Mad, the notorious un-burned heretic, he looks like this?"
So yeah this.
Wow.
If he's willing to go that far to screw with us, that just makes it all the more important that we neutralize him quickly.
- Location
- USA
Makes the "Enemies x10" plan all the crazier. Sure we could get away with doing whatever we want, but we'd probably have been spending most of our time surviving our enemies.
It would have been a glorious trainwreck.
BREWING SUSPICION MONTH 1 ROLL CALL
- Location
- Somewhere over the rainbow
Inserted tally
Right, so I forgot to switch settings on this thing. Oh well. 10-1, Securing a Beachhead wins. Roll me 7 d100s.
MARTIAL: DC 14. Base Stat: 16. Cost: 1 Budget.
DIPLOMACY: DC 18. Base Stat: 17. Cost: 2 Budget.
INTRIGUE: DC 22. Base Stat: 22+3. Cost: 0 Budget.
LEARNING: DC N/A. Base Stat: 20. Cost: 0 Budget.
STEWARDSHIP: DC 25. Base Stat: 22. Cost: 2 Budget.
PIETY: DC 15. Base Stat: 20. Cost: 2 Budget.
Total Income: 0 Budget.
Total Expenditures: 7 Budget.
Net Loss: 7 Budget.
Right, so I forgot to switch settings on this thing. Oh well. 10-1, Securing a Beachhead wins. Roll me 7 d100s.
MARTIAL: DC 14. Base Stat: 16. Cost: 1 Budget.
DIPLOMACY: DC 18. Base Stat: 17. Cost: 2 Budget.
INTRIGUE: DC 22. Base Stat: 22+3. Cost: 0 Budget.
LEARNING: DC N/A. Base Stat: 20. Cost: 0 Budget.
STEWARDSHIP: DC 25. Base Stat: 22. Cost: 2 Budget.
PIETY: DC 15. Base Stat: 20. Cost: 2 Budget.
Total Income: 0 Budget.
Total Expenditures: 7 Budget.
Net Loss: 7 Budget.
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- Location
- Mid-Atlantic
Rolling as soon as I figure out how, I think I have to add it to a post...
EDIT: OK I think that worked and I got a 67?
EDIT: OK I think that worked and I got a 67?
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- Location
- Pittsburgh PA
- Pronouns
- He/Him
Ah that budget doesn't look good.
- Location
- Mid-Atlantic
Remember, that's a government budget. It's meant to be spent, even if ideally we'd like to conserve as much of it as possible. We've been told to budget for roughly 20 turns, so in the short term this isn't bad.
Think of it as startup capital invested in us by the Ministry of Finance, in hopes that we can bring them a much larger payoff in the long run by getting the taxation situation in this city unfucked.
I wouldn't object to us setting up a side hustle or somehow managing to direct some confiscated assets into our own expense account or something; that's pretty much par for the course in a society like this and would give us more flexibility.
[Remember, even that juggernaut of CK2 protagonist bureaucrat characters, Mathilde Weber of Warhammer Fantasy, began her career embezzling part of her spymistress budget to pay off her student loans]
- Location
- USA
Lol, I guess I'll take learning (and probably will bomb it)
Edit: FUCK YES!!!
Edit: FUCK YES!!!
Solarstream
It's all in the cards
- Location
- Zombie World
- Pronouns
- He/Him
I guess that means I'm rolling stewardship?
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F
- Location
- Somewhere over the rainbow
Aight, that's a crit. I guarantee you you will receive at least 2 good items out of this. This vote is for you and and you alone.
Do you wish for:
Bands - It was initially a glass circle on a black band, thrown in the back of a storage closet. With some precision cleaning and exposure to a particularly harsh sunlight, symbols reappeared upon the dial. The Divine Gathering will not care about such a small item whose secrets you cannot even begin to divine.
Power - A simple enough modification, and well-approved by the Divine Gathering since olden times, the only difference is that too many people were too careless with giving random little trinkets to one of the foremost inventors in the kingdom. You sure aren't complaining about your new magical hand cannons, though.
Key Fragment - You don't know why someone thought this was a good idea. It came inside a sealed box that some noble or another decided was worth simply clearing out of their storehouse. Tekla, naturally, opened it up. As soon as Tekla realized what this was, he very nearly cast it into the ocean. Truthfully, you're tempted to do the same.
Because if you're reading this fragment of a fragment correctly, you now hold part of a manual.
A manual to operate a Calamity Frame.
But what is a Calamity Frame?
- Location
- USA
The Calamity, Calamity Frames, Calamity Armors
- Location
- Somewhere over the rainbow
Little is known about these hulking giants. These glittering colossi are seen from a great distance, often in opposition to the terrible Calamity Armors. No one in living memory has ever seen one move. The Divine Gathering absolutely forbids approaching either Calamity Frames or Armors.
As for their significance?
Your civilization hears the words of the Divine Gathering through the Church of the Compact. That Compact of the Precursors that undergirds the Divine Gathering was forged in the wake of the Calamity, the event that brought down the Precursors. The Divine Gathering is sparse on the details, heavy on the symbolism about the Calamity - for how could one describe the battles between Calamity Frames and Armors shattering the heavens and lands and tearing apart the very stars in heaven as anything but symbolic - but in general, the Divine Gathering of the Spirits of Heaven, Earth, and Life holds that the technology, the greed, and the arrogance of the Precursors lead to the Calamity.
Chief among their representations of their hubris and callousness of the Precursors are the Calamity Armors, the literal heralds of the apocalypse that laid waste to the entire civilization. The Calamity Frames of the Precursors, apparently, were the great opponents to the Calamity Armors whose grand battles against the Calamity Frames eventually resulted in their mutual destruction, as the rest of the world collapsed to cinders around them. This is not, however, an indication that the Calamity Frames were good; by contrast, the Gathering makes it clear that these Calamity Frames were machines that cared nothing for anything but obliterating the Calamity Armors, and in their own turn helped bring down the whole world.
But if those Calamity Frames are operable...the person who commanded such power could bring the whole world to heel.
We still need 2 more d100s.
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NeonLights
Formerly Reliable_2IC
- Location
- In shambles
Dice for the dice gods! Rolls for the roll throne!
Edit: OK, so that was a mistake.
Edit: OK, so that was a mistake.
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- Location
- USA
100% this. I was on the squad that thought the Trainwreck Quest sounded fun.
It also plays into getting us something that gives interesting options rather than immediate power, which I generally approve of.