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Warhammer Fantasy: Divided Loyalties - an Advisor's Quest

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BoneyM said:
Laws do not exist in a vacuum. Someone would need to reach the conclusion that Arcane Marks make someone a mutant and then try to make that the official policy of the state, and considering the consequences of that declaration it would go up the chain of command before the decision is finalized. At the top of that chain is the Emperor who looks at the note with his morning reports saying "should we declare war on literally every Wizard in the Empire, yes/no" and spits his coffee all over the table and has a little word with someone and the person that started all of this would be very lucky if all that happens is that they get reassigned to Swamp Town.
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So what we can take from this is that WHF has coffee.

Awesome.

Are all students addicts yet, or have the Colleges managed to dodge that?, Or:

Can I please have 4-7 k words on coffee in WHF and its geopolitical infulence as a trade good, with addendums regarding its effects on non humans, and an equally in depth examination of equivalant drugs on the trade and poltics of these non-humans.

Ok, 4-7 is asking you to condense a lot and that feels unfair to ask.

Can we have 18 - 20 k words please?
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Edit: BoneyM rated this as funny.

I...
Sometimes people take my posts as jokes.
Which is fair, many times they are jokes.

But the point here is that I think we should not hold out for a phd level essay on the geopolitical impacts of coffee (or equivalant) on the various WHF cultures, and I think we might be best off preparing ourselves for the possibilty that the '7k words on various dwarven ales and their histories' is not infact, on its way any day now.

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dinomannitro6 said:
Grungit Grungit Ungorit
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Boney already had a reference to that song in-story, and had a Khazalid version of the first line of the chorus that more closely matched the tune:
BoneyM said:
Tens of thousands of voices rise in song, and not a song of vengeance and glory, but a song of industry and exploration.

Ai Anar Dawi Un An Âlit A Kur...
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Which Vizzi then expanded into a translation of the entire chorus:
Vizzi said:
Ai Anar Dawi Un An Âlit A Kur
Âlar Âlar Kur, Âlar Âlar Kur
Ai Anar Dawi Un An Âlit A Kur
Âlar Âlar Kur, Âlit A Kur
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BoneyM said:
It's imported from Araby and isn't really popular outside of Tilea, so most students have never heard of it and those that have usually can't afford it.
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Bro, bro, bro.

Was not asking with the intent of actually getting an answer.

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And you went and did a bit of worldbuilding and stuff.

Freakin' awesome, that's what you are.
 
BoneyM said:
It's imported from Araby and isn't really popular outside of Tilea, so most students have never heard of it and those that have usually can't afford it.
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Whereas of course Journeymanling Mathilde had heard of coffee (and definitely well before you mentioned it), but doesn't really understand those grad students complaints about affordability. :)
 
Come to think of it, how much does Mathilde get paid? I mean, I know her share of the EIC nets her 175 Crowns every 6 months, but that's only one income stream. I can't remember how many other sources of money she has access to and how much she gets from them.
 
Not so much that we have to spend lot of time figuring out how to get rid of it.
But we are probably getting up there so best not to ask for a raise.
 
Codex said:
Come to think of it, how much does Mathilde get paid? I mean, I know her share of the EIC nets her 175 Crowns every 6 months, but that's only one income stream. I can't remember how many other sources of money she has access to and how much she gets from them.
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She was getting paid 120 crowns a year as Loremaster, and the taxes from her fief accumulate to await her next visit. The niter factories were folded into the EIC not long ago.
 
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Alliterate said:
So a modest but deserved stipend of 100GC... and the small consideration of 600GC + 4DF a year of

As I gather

:V
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Belegar saw Mathilde was using her own money to buy huge numbers of books to help with her role as Loremaster, sighed, muttered something about 'wizards', and gave her a stipend for books six times larger than her actual salary.

No wonder Mathilde's so loyal to him. :V
 
Alliterate said:
So a modest but deserved stipend of 100GC... and the small consideration of 600GC + 4DF a year of

As I gather

:V
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To be fair, having lots of books for various subjects lying around is basically a Loremaster's job. Keeping those books afterwards is a little weird, but a lot of jobs probably have larger expenses than their own personal paycheck.
 
Ericwinter said:
To be fair, having lots of books for various subjects lying around is basically a Loremaster's job. Keeping those books afterwards is a little weird, but a lot of jobs probably have larger expenses than their own personal paycheck.
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Dwarf loremasters likely have their own libraries, indexed in their own ways. Its as much a piece of job equipment as a wizard's staff is to the wizard
 
To those curious, the total bonus from our entire library's Public section (and only the Public section) is +176. Discounting favor costs, each +1 is 50 GC, which is likely a cheaper price than your average book because of Mathilde scoring a natural 100 giving her access to an excellent retail contact, and Favor costs probably making the prices of some of these books cheaper. That means Mathilde's Public section of her library is worth an approximate 8800 GC, and scribing her books is like a 90% discount if I remember correctly. If we wanted to scribe only Mathilde's personal library to add it to the Great Library, it would cost 880 GC, or roughly 9 years worth of salary from her job as Loremaster.

Thankfully, Transcendant Boon and Belegar's fat stacks makes it much easier to hire all the scholars, scribes, librarians, masons, woodworkers, and architects involved. Combined with getting even more books than what we have in our library, getting printers (I'm not sure if the types of printers available are desirable for us though?), and the resources involved to actually make it a great library, and I think it would be costing tens of thousands of GC, perhaps hundreds of thousands. If you ever want to spend money and feel like it's barely a drop in the bucket, that sounds like a good place to spend it.
 
Codex said:
getting printers (I'm not sure if the types of printers available are desirable for us though?)
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There's early woodcut and etching printers currently in use, but no movable type yet, so they'd be useful if you want to make a lot of copies of a book but not so much for small runs. The customers of the current printers tend to be agitators and rabble-rousers, and they're getting a lot of pushback from the authorities because of it. Other opponents include the Cult of Scripsisti, Goddess of Scribes, for obvious reasons, and a lot of suspicion from portions of the Cult of Sigmar who consider typos to be the work of Tzeentch and therefore consider the possible mass production of typos to be a worrying new development in heretical technology.
 
BoneyM said:
and a lot of suspicion from portions of the Cult of Sigmar who consider typos to be the work of Tzeentch and therefore consider the possible mass production of typos to be a worrying new development in heretical technology.
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I wanted to rate your post as informative but this is unbelievably funny. The Cult of Sigmar are so ridiculous sometimes that they border on the comical.
 
Codex said:
I wanted to rate your post as informative but this is unbelievably funny. The Cult of Sigmar are so ridiculous sometimes that they border on the comical.
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There was a printing of the Bible that listed Thou Shalt Commit Adultery as a commandment and described God as having a great ass. I could see the Sigmarites taking it that badly if there was an equivalent oopsie in a printing of the Deus Sigmar.
 
BoneyM said:
There was a printing of the Bible that listed Thou Shalt Commit Adultery as a commandment and described God as having a great ass. I could see the Sigmarites taking it that badly if there was an equivalent oopsie in a printing of the Deus Sigmar.
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And let's be honest, while typos may not inherently be the work of Tzeentch, there's no reason why he couldn't deliberately invoke them for something like this, even if only by poking a cultist or two involved in running the presses. On the other hand, he's also the god of Change and this is a pretty big change, so he might not want to screw with it... eh, it's Tzeentch. Even if some part of him liked the idea of printing presses being common, another 42 parts would still be against it.
 
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