[X] Plan Stabilized Foundation
-[X] Sneak into Toril and perform a surprise inspection on the books. If someone was skimming, you did not want to give them a chance to cover their tracks. With the Lord ill, who knows what he might have overlooked. Dying was a major distraction from one's duties.
-[X] Replace the previous Lord's people with handpicked individuals you know would be loyal to you and you alone. They might be loyal to the local lord, they might be spies. You had no way to know and you were confident in your spies ability to screen people for various posts. They are less effective at vetting the people already in place given you have so few spies in Bloodthorn valley to work with.
-[X] Focus on Surveying. You are a newly appointed Lord; without the necessary preparation and background you will almost certainly make a mistake in the future. Take a tour around your new fief to familiarize yourself with the locals and get a feel for how the previous Lord's administration worked so that you'll have better understanding on how to run yours. (E.g. Scout potential sites or natural resources for future development; observe whether the ecosystem of fauna & flora is balanced; understand which issues plaguing the fief to prioritize, establish a relationship with the Adventurers, locate which areas require fortification, read about the history of the land, etc.)
[X] Plan: Catching up
-[X] Establish a supply of cultivation aids so you can begin cultivating right away. Pills, spirit stones, and other tools that will accelerate your cultivation. You needed to maximize the value you got for your time given you would be taking over an entire fief!
-[X] Expand your knowledge of Alchemy. Sure, you knew basic techniques but you had the potential to create pills that were beyond the reach of other men. Your instructors had told you as much. Why not explore this potential to its fullest? After all, pills were a critical resource for cultivation and you needed to grow your powers quickly.
-[X] Focus on Cultivation. You were forty years behind and you needed to catch up as quickly as possible. That meant bending the rules a bit, risking some Corruption, and acquiring as many cultivation aids as you could financially afford with the resources allotted to you for your position as Lord of Bloodthorn valley. You needed to get your own elemental focus as quickly as possible. It would be wood, of course.
[X] Surpise inspection
-[X] Sneak into Toril and perform a surprise inspection on the books. If someone was skimming, you did not want to give them a chance to cover their tracks. With the Lord ill, who knows what he might have overlooked. Dying was a major distraction from one's duties.
-[X] Expand your knowledge of Alchemy. Sure, you knew basic techniques but you had the potential to create pills that were beyond the reach of other men. Your instructors had told you as much. Why not explore this potential to its fullest? After all, pills were a critical resource for cultivation and you needed to grow your powers quickly.
-[X] Focus on Cultivation. You were forty years behind and you needed to catch up as quickly as possible. That meant bending the rules a bit, risking some Corruption, and acquiring as many cultivation aids as you could financially afford with the resources allotted to you for your position as Lord of Bloodthorn valley. You needed to get your own elemental focus as quickly as possible. It would be wood, of course.
[X] Sneaky Alchemy
-[X] Sneak into Toril and perform a surprise inspection on the books. If someone was skimming, you did not want to give them a chance to cover their tracks. With the Lord ill, who knows what he might have overlooked. Dying was a major distraction from one's duties.
-[X] Expand your knowledge of Alchemy. Sure, you knew basic techniques but you had the potential to create pills that were beyond the reach of other men. Your instructors had told you as much. Why not explore this potential to its fullest? After all, pills were a critical resource for cultivation and you needed to grow your powers quickly.
-[X] Focus on Pills. You love alchemy and you want to become the best alchemist you can spare the time to be. Your spies could acquire foreign pill techniques for you to use and you could research them yourself. It was also the fastest way to cultivate given many pills were cultivation aids capable of amplifying cultivation in one or more areas.
[X] Plan Safe Base
-[X] Sneak into Toril and perform a surprise inspection on the books. If someone was skimming, you did not want to give them a chance to cover their tracks. With the Lord ill, who knows what he might have overlooked. Dying was a major distraction from one's duties.
-[X] Fortify the borders against spirit beasts, raiders and other monsters. Sure, you had adventurers but they were unreliable sorts. You were surrounded by the Tian Shen mountain range, a wilderness that was frozen all year and contained many dangerous creatures. The Tian Shen was also the border between your people and the Orc Tribes. Orcs were known to raid through the Tian Shen in late summer when the ice had receded enough to open the mountain passes.
-[X] Focus on Pills. You love alchemy and you want to become the best alchemist you can spare the time to be. Your spies could acquire foreign pill techniques for you to use and you could research them yourself. It was also the fastest way to cultivate given many pills were cultivation aids capable of amplifying cultivation in one or more areas.
[X] Consolidation and Alchemy
-[X] Sneak into Toril and perform a surprise inspection on the books. If someone was skimming, you did not want to give them a chance to cover their tracks. With the Lord ill, who knows what he might have overlooked. Dying was a major distraction from one's duties.
-[X] Replace the previous Lord's people with handpicked individuals you know would be loyal to you and you alone. They might be loyal to the local lord, they might be spies. You had no way to know and you were confident in your spies ability to screen people for various posts. They are less effective at vetting the people already in place given you have so few spies in Bloodthorn valley to work with.
-[X] Focus on Pills. You love alchemy and you want to become the best alchemist you can spare the time to be. Your spies could acquire foreign pill techniques for you to use and you could research them yourself. It was also the fastest way to cultivate given many pills were cultivation aids capable of amplifying cultivation in one or more areas.
