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It Belongs to a Museum
- Thread starter Boney
- Start date
- Fantasy
somewhatLazy
Serial Procrastinator
- Location
- lurking
[X] Plan Skeleton Crew
1. Acquire Acquisitionist for finding artifacts for a "Piracy in the Vampire Coast" exhibit
2. Acquire a centrepiece for a "Wonders of Lustria" exhibit
3. Split into two exhibits
4. Get enough goodwill to hire the Black Lion or someone else capable of taking care of animals
5. Dinosaur zoo! Dinosaur zoo! Dinosaur zoo! On our private island!
1. Acquire Acquisitionist for finding artifacts for a "Piracy in the Vampire Coast" exhibit
2. Acquire a centrepiece for a "Wonders of Lustria" exhibit
3. Split into two exhibits
4. Get enough goodwill to hire the Black Lion or someone else capable of taking care of animals
5. Dinosaur zoo! Dinosaur zoo! Dinosaur zoo! On our private island!
The medium the Lizardmen prefer to communicate that with is the charred remains of former settlements, not museum exhibits. I wouldn't expect the Lizardmen to feel gratitude for you asking people nicely to not rob the Lizardmen, especially when they're going to keep trying to rob the Lizardmen.
I understand how you reached that conclusion, but that's not what I meant. The intention is for you to choose the Patron (like Luthor) or Contact (like Aelsabrim) that you would like to see an array of new contact options from. I phrased it in this way to future-proof it for when you might have multiple of both.
- Location
- Pittsburgh PA
- Pronouns
- He/Him
[X] Plan Skeleton Crew
- Location
- Washington
To be honest, i feel like we functionally just saw what contacts Luthor has on offer for us, in char-gen, and "Vampiric Peer" wasn't one of them.
- Location
- North Wales
- Pronouns
- He/Him/His
If the idea for the immediate future of the Museum is to please Luthor, I do think asking Luthor for contacts he believes are relevant to his interests is perhaps the most impactful thing we could do.
It seems bizarre if the man primarily interested in vampires, who is himself a vampire and knows a lot of other vampires both personally and by reputation, can't introduce us to someone with expertise in vampires.
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- Location
- California, USA
- Pronouns
- He/Him
[X] Plan: Things Elves Like
- Location
- Canada
Eh, that was an earlier form of the idea, mixing Contacts and what are now known as Acquisitionists. There may be another set available now... especially since we'll be talking to a different Luthor!
[X] Plan: Things Elves Like
Might there be a reason for there being a disconnect between what Luthor Harkon should know and what Luthor Harkon actually knows? Perhaps relating to why someone who should know so much about Vampires is so willing to reward having a source of information at hand about Vampires?
- Location
- Moscow
Is learning Lizardmen language an option? Skink traders have to communicate in some way and a lot of writing has been looted from them.
- Location
- North Wales
- Pronouns
- He/Him/His
Fair enough. If open-water fishing for [ ] Acquire Acquisitionist is more likely to get us a source on vampiric materials than asking Luthor for a letter of introduction, then there really is no reason to go with the latter option. And with that being the only difference against pickl's plan:
[X] Plan Skeleton Crew
[X] Plan Skeleton Crew
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- Location
- Aotearoa
Plus... he already hired for the Museum the person he knows with the most knowledge about Vampires, and unlike Harkon, we already know ourself.
The Phoenixian
The Glacier Witch
- Location
- My own little world
[X] Plan Skeleton Crew
Simple. Solid. This plan reads to me as evenly focused between building up existing exhibits, and creating openings for new ones. Since even if the Rare Skeletons aren't centerpeices for exhibits in their own right, they'll be fine trophies for the existing exhibit.
[X] Plan Lustrian Economic Lessons
I'm not the fondest of the Beasts, but looking into New World Colonies is a fascinating idea all on it's own.
[X]Plan: Three Avenues
-[X] New Acquisitionist (1 Goodwill Spent)
-[X] Research Relic (Slann Palanquin)
-[X] Skeletons (Rare)
A plan more built on the idea focused on looking for new centerpieces through various means that also promise to do little work buffing the current exhibit regardless of the outcome. Either the Rare Skeletons will have an Centerpiece of their own, or they feed the current exhibit as trophies. The Palanquin is the most likely object to gain interesting magical notes once studied, but while the odds of neat lore are very high, the chance of it being a centerpiece are significantly lower. And the Acquisitionist is just the use of Goodwill that most appeals to me.
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Tangentially, I could see an argument for using Goodwill to cultivate an appeal of Lizardmen or Lustria in the Awakening citizens, since it would add +9 interest (From +4 to +13) and boost to exactly the second rung of goodwill if my math is right but while it could pay dividends in the long run — as we're quite specced into local geography and lizardmen society by what we can currently acquire — there's not a particular immediate need for it. I will say it strikes me as a sleeper powerhouse option though. Also one that's liable to have An Effect on Awakening's culture and it's interactions with the locals.
Simple. Solid. This plan reads to me as evenly focused between building up existing exhibits, and creating openings for new ones. Since even if the Rare Skeletons aren't centerpeices for exhibits in their own right, they'll be fine trophies for the existing exhibit.
[X] Plan Lustrian Economic Lessons
I'm not the fondest of the Beasts, but looking into New World Colonies is a fascinating idea all on it's own.
[X]Plan: Three Avenues
-[X] New Acquisitionist (1 Goodwill Spent)
-[X] Research Relic (Slann Palanquin)
-[X] Skeletons (Rare)
A plan more built on the idea focused on looking for new centerpieces through various means that also promise to do little work buffing the current exhibit regardless of the outcome. Either the Rare Skeletons will have an Centerpiece of their own, or they feed the current exhibit as trophies. The Palanquin is the most likely object to gain interesting magical notes once studied, but while the odds of neat lore are very high, the chance of it being a centerpiece are significantly lower. And the Acquisitionist is just the use of Goodwill that most appeals to me.
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Tangentially, I could see an argument for using Goodwill to cultivate an appeal of Lizardmen or Lustria in the Awakening citizens, since it would add +9 interest (From +4 to +13) and boost to exactly the second rung of goodwill if my math is right but while it could pay dividends in the long run — as we're quite specced into local geography and lizardmen society by what we can currently acquire — there's not a particular immediate need for it. I will say it strikes me as a sleeper powerhouse option though. Also one that's liable to have An Effect on Awakening's culture and it's interactions with the locals.
Apart from a few simple words, like a certain expression of greeting and acknowledgement, the Lizardmen languages don't get along with mammalian throats. There are a few warmbloods in the world that can comprehend Skinkian, but generally Skinks learn warmblood languages when necessary instead.
- Location
- Canada
Has it, though? We've only got a few of Relics that include any glyphs at all, and the ones we have look more like military insignia than like proper writing.
We don't know this in character (and Boney!Canon may disagree), but... Saurian canonically isn't pronounceable by non-Lizardman throats. Also, the writing is a foreign pictographic language, so translation will likely be difficult.
EDIT: Ninja'd, but apparently the answer is no. Presumably the Skink traders know Eltharin instead.
[X] Plan: Things Elves Like
I want to diversify our exhibits, and the gems speak to me
I want to diversify our exhibits, and the gems speak to me
Wiadi
Uncompromising Radical Leftist
- Location
- Something Clever
- Pronouns
- She/Her
Reasonably confident that was a Skink Priest mummy, not a Slann, given how the table seemed to be otherwise arranged in roughly escalating order of Good Ideas.
...try that one again? Though if I'm parsing correctly, I think you're getting confused between Contacts (what we currently have one of) and Acquisitionists (what we currently have zero of). The latter are more fire-and-forget, we'd just need to spend one action sending them off and then wait around a while for whatever haul they bring back.
Where is the aquisitionalist shown? Is there one?
Edit: I think I took new to mean another.
Edit Edit: Still kinda confused.
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