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- nz
[X] [Lore] It's dangerous, but we cannot afford to ignore it entirely. Create a secret organization to study it.
[X] Plan Removing Impurities
[X] Plan Removing Impurities
In the Wake of Monsters - an Advisor's Quest
- Thread starter Exmorri
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- Fantasy
- Location
- Internet, The
Unless I'm missing something, the new upkeep is 53g. 88 - 35 = 53. Therefore, even the minimal embezzling will be enough to stay in the black.
- Location
- Norway
By and large, except for the first Marshal he had to shoot for padding the records with hundreds of fake soldiers, embezzling their pay and hollowing out the army?
But I grant your point. Stirland had the advantage -- okay, Stirland had the silver lining to a massive disadvantage -- of sitting next to Sylvania, which meant people generally knew not to screw around too much because it was dangerous. Silverport, on the other hand, sits on a major river fork raking in the trademoney, and doesn't perceive any similar threat from its neighbors. To the north, what looks like a nation of rentacops LARPing as Sparta. To the south, what looks like a bunch of monarchist imbeciles currently in their sixth year of civil war over the kingship.
It wasn't all that catastrophic. The Abominations didn't even destroy the city!
But you're right in thinking that word did eventually reach Heaven. At first they thought it was just particularly powerful rogue cultivators of some sort, so initial response was just to notify your former city god (you know, the one that got removed for dereliction of duty) with a request to round up some good-aligned cultivators, here's a heavenly writ of authority to help you along, please get this sorted out.When it became clear that there was worse stuff going on, the celestial gods sent in a heavenly strike force and smote one of the Abominations' blasphemous secret research labs somewhere out in the backwoods - the Abominations knew enough not to do that kind of potentially explosive research in the city they wanted to rule. And when I say "worse stuff" and "blasphemous", I mean something vaguely like this mechanic from Exalted:
Then there was some "Did we get them? I think we got them. No, wait, there's another one." followed by smiting a solo Abomination who'd taken over one of the Petty Princedoms and erected a mile-high stele to their own glory there, some comparing notes and garbled reports, and offscreen stuff that would be a bit spoilery to tell you about at this point. The Abominations disappeared mysteriously and the celestial gods looked at each other and basically declared the problem solved so they could get back to their myriad other things to do.
Pretty much. You could also look into setting up a semaphore/heliograph.
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It seems like now that we've somewhat stemmed the financial bleeding and actually have a source of somewhat capable subordinates it might be time to start working on larger projects like a central bank or maybe some form of insurance. Both of these would provide our merchants with a massive advantage over competitors.
- Location
- Somewhere
Nooooo, next turn would be the time to diplomance Bridge, Wisdom, and Ascension, to reduce our competent clerk rep. We are so close to having a minor diplo status with three great clans.
I'm planning on having marble tell void he wants an assignment he won't be expected to fix in half a year, so he can focus on his star metal and reputation. And so we can use slow and steady.
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- Location
- Norway
Isn't that a self-limiting problem, which will mostly be a bad end for scholars who are stupid about it?
Speaking of self-inflicted bad ends, I'm reminded of something I saw on Twitter:
(image: user buying aluminum on Amazon.com, suggested other items are iron oxide and magnesium)
Homemade thermite heh
Demon portals sounds like the kind of problem that survive the cause
Isn't that a self-limiting problem, which will mostly be a bad end for scholars who are stupid about it?
Demon portals sounds like the kind of problem that survive the cause
Well, that was popular. Out of curiosity, do you wish to lead this secret organization yourself? And then dedicate it to reverse-engineering the tools and weapons of the Abominations as well as their lore? Possibly even militarize the secret organization in expectation of the Abominations' return?
Well, when you put it that way, how could I possibly vote any other way?
[X] [Lore] It's dangerous, but we cannot afford to ignore it entirely. Create a secret organization to study it.
At the moment, none of the plans make me happy. None of them balance the audit the way I would like, and I'm not a fan of completely halting our embezzlement. Dropping it to 10g sounds right to me, particularly if we clear away our debt.
- Location
- Norway
They don't stay open permanently, if that's what you're worried about. See the study action in turn 6:
Still a bad idea for many other reasons though.
[X] [Lore] It's dangerous, but we cannot afford to ignore it entirely. Create a secret organization to study it.
[X] Plan Removing Impurities
Purification, purification, purification!
[X] Plan Removing Impurities
Purification, purification, purification!
[X] [Lore] It's dangerous, but we cannot afford to ignore it entirely. Create a secret organization to study it.
[X] Plan Removing Impurities w/ Stop Embezzling
-[X] Pick between 1 and 6 actions to spend on watching present spending
--[X] 2 action
-[X] Pick between 0 and 6 actions to spend on reading past records
--[X] 2 actions
-[X][Action] Study Smithing. Zara has blessed you with particular competence and understanding here.
-[X] Study Old Tongue and Three's booklet with Wolf Three.
-[X][Free Social] Socialize and build connections with one of the great clans of Silverport. (Bridge)
-[X] Pay down remainder of debt immediately. (-69g)
-[X] Stop Embezzling
So this is pretty much as the plan name suggests, the same as Removing Impurities but with us fully stopping our embezzling. The reason I went for this is as an example to set prior to spending four actions on this exact thing, because it could be used as leverage in the future even if it's unlikely, and our boss has a Vigilance blessing on him. I also think it's quite wise narratively as if we don't I feel there is a near inevitable follow up vote on what to do with people who are doing the exact same thing we are, particularly if they are aware of us having done so in the past when it was more blatant.
If we want more money legally via our office we can just do as past stewards have done and either get a pay rise, or have the state subsidize our research reducing our expenses.
Edit - Swapped Mirrormetal for studying with Wolf Three.
[X] Plan Removing Impurities w/ Stop Embezzling
-[X] Pick between 1 and 6 actions to spend on watching present spending
--[X] 2 action
-[X] Pick between 0 and 6 actions to spend on reading past records
--[X] 2 actions
-[X][Action] Study Smithing. Zara has blessed you with particular competence and understanding here.
-[X] Study Old Tongue and Three's booklet with Wolf Three.
-[X][Free Social] Socialize and build connections with one of the great clans of Silverport. (Bridge)
-[X] Pay down remainder of debt immediately. (-69g)
-[X] Stop Embezzling
So this is pretty much as the plan name suggests, the same as Removing Impurities but with us fully stopping our embezzling. The reason I went for this is as an example to set prior to spending four actions on this exact thing, because it could be used as leverage in the future even if it's unlikely, and our boss has a Vigilance blessing on him. I also think it's quite wise narratively as if we don't I feel there is a near inevitable follow up vote on what to do with people who are doing the exact same thing we are, particularly if they are aware of us having done so in the past when it was more blatant.
If we want more money legally via our office we can just do as past stewards have done and either get a pay rise, or have the state subsidize our research reducing our expenses.
Edit - Swapped Mirrormetal for studying with Wolf Three.
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- Burgundian Netherlands
Eh, it also doesn't have the action of studying the book with Three as I would have preferred, but it stops the embezzlement at least. If our suspicion is correct and Shining Void knows (or at least has a suspicion) about our embezzlement, just reducing it to undetectable amounts is kind of redundant, as it has been detected already.
[X] Plan Removing Impurities w/ Stop Embezzling
[X] [Lore] It's dangerous, but we cannot afford to ignore it entirely. Create a secret organization to study it.
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You know what, I kind of agree with you on your first point. The only upcoming expense we're aware of is the trading mission opportunity cost, so I think it would be fine to swap promote mirrormetal out for it this turn. Having a bad ending then stopping the lessons just feels slightly wrong, and if it feels wrong then I imagine there may be a relationship point drop.
[X] [Lore] It's dangerous, but we cannot afford to ignore it entirely. Create a secret organization to study it.
[X] Plan Removing Impurities w/ Stop Embezzling
Alright, shifting.
[X] Plan Removing Impurities w/ Stop Embezzling
Alright, shifting.
Not in that the portals stick around, in that things pass in and our while its open and THAT has consequences which stick around
- Location
- 1
[X] [Lore] It's dangerous, but we cannot afford to ignore it entirely. Create a secret organization to study it.
[X] Plan Removing Impurities w/ Stop Embezzling
[X] Plan Removing Impurities w/ Stop Embezzling
I'd like to remind people of this, since most of the plans seem to focus very heavily on past auditing.
Thanks, given a total of 4 actions are being spent, I'll change to an even split of two and two.
[X] [Lore] It's dangerous, but we cannot afford to ignore it entirely. Create a secret organization to study it.
[X] Plan Removing Impurities w/ Stop Embezzling
I guess we can not have any weakness for enemy to attack us if we want to advance our clan to great clan status.
Stop embezzling then we can become normal clerk like everyone think of us.
[X] Plan Removing Impurities w/ Stop Embezzling
I guess we can not have any weakness for enemy to attack us if we want to advance our clan to great clan status.
Stop embezzling then we can become normal clerk like everyone think of us.
- Location
- Poland
- Pronouns
- He/Him
[X] Plan Removing Impurities w/ Stop Embezzling
... I forgot to change my original plan to this, so I'd just change my vote instead.
Further 10g/turn is not a high price for removing burning trash out of our backyard.
And it does feel wrong to leave Three alone like that. Just hoping it'll turn out better than last time.
... I forgot to change my original plan to this, so I'd just change my vote instead.
Further 10g/turn is not a high price for removing burning trash out of our backyard.
And it does feel wrong to leave Three alone like that. Just hoping it'll turn out better than last time.
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Pathetic King
"I Speak To The Audient Void."
- Location
- Colorado
[X] Plan Removing Impurities w/ Stop Embezzling