the princess is great for introductions in Ulthuan, but most others in the Old World are not going to recognize her. But a letter from a known ruler in Araby is a great signal of legitimacy for other rulers in Araby, and likely others around the Southern Sea such as Estalia and Tilea. Not to mention connections to merchents, and more 'respectable' academics than Paht traditionally gets along with. That is a lot of potential contacts that could both expand our reach and even potentially lay inroads for gaining a new audience.
It Belongs to a Museum
- Thread starter Boney
- Start date
- Fantasy
If I wanted to leverage legitimate means of acquiring contacts and artifacts I wouldn't have voted for the Vampire Coast. Give me contraband from a variably trustworthy source!
[X] The Serpent Crown
[X] Amos
I'm not helping, but I like both?
[X] Amos
I'm not helping, but I like both?
[X] Amos
Adrian XXIV
Average User, from Poland
- Location
- Poland
- Pronouns
- He/Him
Funny coincidence: Golden Magus is servant of Tzeentch and exactly 9 people voted for him
- Pronouns
- He/Him
[X] The Golden Magus
Djinn are interesting and underexplored, and therefore cool.
Djinn are interesting and underexplored, and therefore cool.
NuclearConsensus
Herald of the Thorned One
- Location
- the Philippines
[X] The Serpent Crown
- Location
- North Wales
- Pronouns
- He/Him/His
If anything, he'd probably fall in with the extremist wing of the faith. Verenan orthodoxy only requires that knowledge be preserved, not that it be spread to whoever asks despite any danger.
Mopman43
Mountain-Hermit of Nitpeak
- Location
- Vermont
Wanted to point out, but Total Warhammer actually already has a Vampirate analogue to Zheng Yi Sao.
Dead Flag Fleet
Dead Flag Fleet is a minor Vampire Coast faction introduced in Total War: Warhammer III. It is led by Zheng Shih and can be found on the eastern shores of Cathay. Beichai, Jade River Delta Chimai, Jade River Delta Fu-chow, Jade River Delta Zhi-Zhu, Plains of Xen Raider Pirate Naval Aggressor War...
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[x] Amos
- Location
- A Pit Of My Own Making
- Pronouns
- He/Him
Ooop. Well, there can be two of them.
Voting closed, writing has begun, but I'm farmsitting and it might be interrupted because, among like fifteen other things, I'm not sure if the chicken fence fell down on its own or if one of the dogs figured out how to barge it down to get at the eggs, and if it's the latter then that bit of wire I fixed it with has zero chance of holding up to another visit.
- Location
- A Pit Of My Own Making
- Pronouns
- He/Him
Ooh, Boney lore:
- Has at least one dog
- Has at least one chicken
- Has at least one fence
xamaplak
WHAT DO YOU MEAN YOU'RE @SOUP?
- Location
- the Soup Store
- Pronouns
- He/Him
He said farmsitting, not farmliving.
Boney lore
1) Knows someone with a farm
2) can fix a fence, kinda
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Ah, the eternal problem of dogs - keeping them in the places you'd prefer them to be and out of the places you'd very much prefer them not to be! Best of luck!
Right, then - while we're waiting for (some of) the secrets of our new Contact to (potentially) be revealed, here's something I've been sitting on for a few days! What started off as an idea to create some sort of tracker for what subjects we've investigated and leads we've collected and followed up on rapidly grew into a record of the actions taken and results thereof over the history of the museum! I'm hoping this can serve as a resource for the thread.
I'm also hopeful that it can be improved upon or at some point superseded! There are plenty of limitations here (needing to spread single actions across multiple rows, for one thing, while keeping them unmerged so that different things in them they can be sorted easily and the current inability to represent the changes to our understanding of different artefacts across the museum's existence both spring to mind) that I'm sure someone more familiar with data management could figure out ways around, while I'm also sure that one or two mistakes have slipped through that people will no doubt find at some point! Thus, I've made the spreadsheet freely editable so that people can tweak things and make improvements! (Don't worry, I've also got a private copy in case vandalism or errors occur.)
More than that, I'm aware that spreadsheets weren't originally designed to be used as databases - which is, fundamentally, what this is. I'd be delighted if anybody familiar with a programme better suited to the task (preferably online and publicly accessible/editable) were to grab the gathered information and make something more useful, comprehensive and flexible out of it!
As a final note, and apologies if this is already totally obvious - Boney, would it be possible to confirm whether the Year listed in each of the threadmark titles refers to the year in which the actions described in the prose are undertaken or that in which the actions offered as options for selection are undertaken? The 'You have three actions to undertake this year.' statement would seem to suggest the latter, which is the interpretation I've gone with for now for the chronology, but it'd good to be sure about this sort of thing with a publicly viewable archive, especially since it did take me a moment to wrap my brain around it and I'm sure there's a possibility for other people to be confused!
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The year on the threadmark label is the year that the actions described are taking place. The vote is for what to do in the coming year. You can think of one year ending and the next beginning with the phrase 'you have three actions to undertake this year'.
Thank you for the clarification - I'll make the relevant edits!
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Drat, this means that all of the plans are going to need to start with 'Year 13 V/N Exhibit', aren't they? Well then!
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Happy Easter all!
The interloper is a Blue Heeler - caught it in there while I was feeding the chooks last night. There's also a Kelpie, a Jack Russell Terrier, and a Cavoodle. It's an energetic little pack and the Jack Russell especially turns into a sook of a lapdog when her family is gone, so it's a writing environment with a lot of distractions, but it does make for a nice change of pace.