Point of order, Pan has personal philosophical and religious objections (that incidentally I find quite valid) to the rituals and oaths required to achieve Magisterhood in the Jade College, that have clearly taken time to come to terms with.
I never really understood that argument, do people not now how draining repetative work is? Ask any office worker just how miserable it can get.
She is ambient about it but part of the relation ship is wanting/helping significant other to be succesfull. Unless she says she is against it for a valid reason giving her a push is actually good thing. She had a decent reason in religious matters but it looks to be solved in her mind so why not?
Mathilde too was ready long before she actually took the exams and was delaying because of her work. If somebody had freed her time she would probably would have been a magister atleast a couple of years earlier.
I wasn't dissing the scale of what she does... just the length of her to do list when compared to ours, and the fact that she effectively takes a couple of months "easy" every year. Sure it's not complete indolence, but compared to Mathilde's constant blistering pace, it may as well be.
I will remember this for when the name vote comes up
Panoramia: I do have to agree, your mounties are magnificent.
RE: Ringwraiths, I'd like to remind people that this bonus exists, and at least the last time I combed the thread a few months ago it has literally never been used. I could be mistaken about that, but I couldn't find a single instance in which it triggered. Given where we've spent most of our time the last few years, I think this largely makes sense, and if the Kurgan had created trouble we might have gotten some use out of it on the expedition - but we're headed off to play politics in a forest and a Karak. We also just got a personal gyro, which means we're not going to be riding quite so much as we used to.
So one of the issues I have with 'handmaidens' (that isn't 'it's not a fucking ringwraith') is the assumption that they would be better assassins.
That's because we didn't see the first turn vote on the new job yet. For all we now it can be three forest fires stacked atop one another.
This is a fair point, but I do think they'd be more useful in application as 'suddenly mooks' even when we're casting battle magic and someone tries to gank us, than riders would be.
I hope that's not a complaint? I mean, the second part of the bonus alone we've used all the time- tireless fast terrain-ignoring travel has been a staggeringly powerful capability from the moment we acquired it.
During Alkharad's assault while escorting Rosie. You can see our Martial bonus at +26 when mounted, +21 when we dismounted to join the remaining (not-so-)Greatswords.
If subtlety is important Mathilde can do it herself.
