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Terek Times: Turn 1
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    • Resplendant Air, RY 579

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    Terek Times

    Available Capital: 10

    Act Upon the World: Advocate for a specific course of action in Terek Affairs.
    Difficulty Variable, Goal Number 1, Capital Required: Variable, Interval: Variable

    Grow Size, Insufficient Wealth and Demand

    Grow Wealth and Reach
    Get more people to read your paper.
    Difficulty 4, Goal Number 12, Capital Required: 4, Interval: One Month.

    Grow Competence
    Train your employees in the art of journalism.
    Difficulty 3, Goal Number: 8, Capital Required: 3, Interval: One Month

    Grow Influence
    Make the Terek Times a name that carries weight, that people listen to.
    Difficulty 5, Goal Number 9, Capital Required: 5, Interval: 1 Year (planing period 1 month).

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    Perspective Publishing:

    Available capital: 10

    Options:

    Act Upon the World, Insufficient Influence

    Grow Size, Insufficient Reach

    Grow Wealth, Insufficient Reach

    Grow Reach
    Get more people to know who you are, and what you can do. Advertise.
    Difficulty 3, Goal Number 3, Capital Required: 3, Interval: One Month

    Grow Competence
    Train your apprentices in the black art of printing.
    Difficulty 5, Goal Number 7, Capital Required: 5, Interval: One Month

    Hire a manager for the business: Free up your time, granting you an additional personal action, or the ability to personally manage a different business.
    (Automatically Succeeds, a bureaucracy roll will determine how competent the manager is.)

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    Personal Actions: 1 Action Locked

    [x] Study Calibration

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    +10xp for founding the first newspaper in Creation.
     
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    • Well in general it seems wise to grow Competence before reach. We want to be good at what we do before we let people know.

    Also if we want to grow the Newspaper we should get Frugal Merchant Method and Insightful Buyer Technique. It should allows to much more easily figure out what people want.
     
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    [X][Terek Times]Grow Competence

    [x][Perspective Publishing] Hire a manager for the business
    [x][Perspective Publishing] Grow Reach

    I think that Perspective Publishing has reach high enough competence for now. Now time to grow it out.

    [X]Spend XP on Frugal Merchant Method and Insightful Buyer Technique
     
    [X][Terek Times]Grow Competence

    [x][Perspective Publishing] Hire a manager for the business
    [x][Perspective Publishing] Grow Reach
    [X]Spend XP on Frugal Merchant Method and Insightful Buyer Technique
     
    Drat I forgot about
    Speed the Wheels (8m)
    Type: Simple; Duration: One task; Keywords: --
    Prereqs: Bureaucracy 5, Essence 1; Deft Official's Way
    Accelerate the speed of a Bureaucratic process by a number of steps equal to your Essence: from centuries to seasons to
    months to weeks to days to minutes.

    [X][Terek Times]Grow Competence

    [x][Perspective Publishing] Hire a manager for the business
    [x][Perspective Publishing] Grow Reach
    [X]Spend XP on Deft Official's Way and Speed the Wheels

    Much more powerful considering the format.
     
    [X][Terek Times]Grow Competence

    [x][Perspective Publishing] Hire a manager for the business
    [x][Perspective Publishing] Grow Reach
     
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    Well let's save the XP I guess.
    [X][Terek Times]Grow Competence

    [x][Perspective Publishing] Hire a manager for the business
    [x][Perspective Publishing] Grow Reach
     
    Terek Times: Turn 1 Results
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    • Ascending Water, RY 579

    Terek Times

    Train Competence:

    You are blessed to have one employee with a natural talent for journalism. Descending Quartz is easily the match of any reporter from earth, real or fictional. Well, maybe not Superman. Regardless, her example is one that you have the rest of your employees emulate. At their level, even just the basic tips she shares is enough to see notable improvement in their competence.

    Who would have thought a street urchin saved by a martial arts master would have such talent at journalism?

    (Success)


    Perspective Publishing:

    You have hired a manager to handle the superintendence of Perspective Publishing. He appears to be of professional competence, and should do well enough at keeping the ship steady. The money should keep rolling in without you needing to much care about how its going day to day.


    Personal Action:

    [x] Investigate Calibration.

    Your studies have borne fruit. You have discovered that, according to the scholars of this world, the physics which presents itself to the eye is not the true physics. Instead it is shape, imposed upon the chaos of the Wyld by the world's creators. The actual physics of the wyld is covered by the "mystical" discipline of sorcery, and you have shifted your investigation towards learning this "magical" Art.


    Rumor Mill:

    Resplendent Air

    Polished Granite secures deal to Supply Sijan with wood: The burial rites of certain cultures along the river Avarice, including Terek, requires that one be buried in a coffin made from a tree that drank the waters of the river. Merchant Polished Granite of Terek has secured a deal to exclusively supply Sijan with such wood for the next ten years.

    Fae Repelled: A levy under the noble Glittering Jet has fought off a raid from the nearby Raksha enclave. Casualties were surprisingly light, and Glittering Jet has received much acclaim from his leadership.


    Descending Air

    Anathema Killed: Terek's Immaculates have killed one of the Silver Anathema. The Anathema in question was a 15 year old named Burnished Turquoise, who became Anathema during a fae raid. Burnished Turquoise had helped fight off the fae, and was in the process of doing some sort of magic for the stated purpose of increasing the harvest yields when the Immaculates slew her. Other members of her village say she seemed like the same person, while the Immaculates warn not to be taken in by the wiles of the Silver Anathema.

    New Copper Mine Found: Per ancient oaths, the nearby Elemental Court has assisted the Royal Family with locating a deposit of a value ore. This time around the ore discovered was a deposit of copper. This new mine is expected to give considerable dividends to the state's budget.
     
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    • Terek Times: Turn 2
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    • Ascending Water, RY 579

    Terek Times

    Available Capital: 11

    Act Upon the World: Advocate for a specific course of action in Terek Affairs.
    Difficulty Variable, Goal Number 1, Capital Required: Variable, Interval: Variable

    Grow Size, Insufficient Wealth and Demand

    Grow Wealth and Reach
    Get more people to read your paper.
    Difficulty 4, Goal Number 11, Capital Required: 4, Interval: One Month.

    Grow Competence
    Train your employees in the art of journalism.
    Difficulty 3, Goal Number: 8, Capital Required: 3, Interval: One Month

    Grow Influence
    Make the Terek Times a name that carries weight, that people listen to.
    Difficulty 5, Goal Number 8, Capital Required: 5, Interval: 1 Year (planing period 1 month).



    Personal Actions: Pick 2

    [x] Investigate Calibration (Locked)
    [] Write a book on how to run a business and be a merchant
    [] Research Metallurgy in this world
    [] Train Faceted Opal more
    [] Experiment with gunpowder
    [] Write a book on the social contract [Note: Will Make Enemies]
    [] Research the Greater Chamber of the Terek Deliberative
    [] Attempt to socialize with members of a political faction of the lesser chamber (write in which)
    [] Write in
     
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    • I don't really see anyway to take advantage of the random events.

    [X][Terek Times]Grow Competence
    This action is basically always going to be taken until at least 4.

    [X] Research Metallurgy in this world
    [X] Experiment with gunpowder

    Right now we are still in the watch and learn phase unless an opportunity comes up.
     
    [X][Terek Times]Grow Competence
    [X][Terek Times]Grow Wealth and Reach

    We can take as many organizational actions as we have capital for, right?

    [X] Research Metallurgy in this world
     
    [X][Terek Times]Grow Competence
    [X][Terek Times]Grow Wealth and Reach

    I would go influence instead, but we likely need a bit more readership first. Maybe next turn. I think that we are going for influence 5 eventually.

    [X] Research Metallurgy in this world
     
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    Might as well review what we have gotten from the rumor mill since we have it.

    Aranfan said:
    Rumor Mill:

    Resplendent Air

    Polished Granite secures deal to Supply Sijan with wood: The burial rites of certain cultures along the river Avarice, including Terek, requires that one be buried in a coffin made from a tree that drank the waters of the river. Merchant Polished Granite of Terek has secured a deal to exclusively supply Sijan with such wood for the next ten years.
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    Interesting, but we are not in that business and are unlikely to ever into that business so not really relevant to us.

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    Fae Repelled: A levy under the noble Glittering Jet has fought off a raid from the nearby Raksha enclave. Casualties were surprisingly light, and Glittering Jet has received much acclaim from his leadership.
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    Something of a non-story. If the fae were not repealed or the casualties were heavy we might want/need to do something about it, but it seems like business as usual and other people are handling it.

    Aranfan said:
    Descending Air

    Anathema Killed: Terek's Immaculates have killed one of the Silver Anathema. The Anathema in question was a 15 year old named Burnished Turquoise, who became Anathema during a fae raid. Burnished Turquoise had helped fight off the fae, and was in the process of doing some sort of magic for the stated purpose of increasing the harvest yields when the Immaculates slew her. Other members of her village say she seemed like the same person, while the Immaculates warn not to be taken in by the wiles of the Silver Anathema.
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    Again mostly a non-story if the Silver Anathema had gotten away and was still as large we might act on this, but as is still business as usual.
    Aranfan said:
    New Copper Mine Found: Per ancient oaths, the nearby Elemental Court has assisted the Royal Family with locating a deposit of a value ore. This time around the ore discovered was a deposit of copper. This new mine is expected to give considerable dividends to the state's budget.
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    This might be interesting for our interests. We plan on getting into electricity eventually and then we are going to want loads and loads of copper. Also a good reason to study Metallurgy it would not do to find out half way that the copper here is different.
     
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