Thought I'd just take a moment to list out some of our major, non-waystone research projects, because honestly, there's a lot.
This is not my first attempt at such a list, but this one I've hopefully trimmed it down to the more important stuff rather than including everything.
Aethyric Vitae
—Nearly complete. Remaining actions: Powerstone experimentation, Orb of Sorcery creation, Weaponization, Book writing.
—Requires hefty College Favour investment.
—Algard's eyes will literally pop out of his head.
—We should probably use the Gambler on the Book Writing action, just in case?
Branarhune
—Two training actions left; hand switching and double tap. Possible retraining of Guard Bypass?
—Unlocks Greatsword Master rank
Windherding
—Further experimentation needed to unlock potential research tree.
—Lots of proposed enchantments
Apparitions
—Mostly just arguing over which apparition to capture. Requires one action to capture and bind, possible as a WEB-MAT action.
Spell Creation
—Codify Rite of Way.
—Codify Masteries.
—Create fog based BM death spell.
Artefacts and Papers
—Oh gods there's so many of them.
—Vlad's notes seem important, we should probably look into that first?
—Vampire Skulls, Lustrian Rubbings, Kurgan Weapons, and Kurgan Shrine can all be done as WEB-MAT actions. Possibly the
Ghyran Nut as well, but we don't have good employee synergy with that.
—Max can double paper output.
—May need to learn Nehekeran for the vampire prophecies.
Divine research:
—Mostly opportunistic, no direct research path.
—Current leads: Ranald's family, Ranald and Qu'aph, Kislev gods and the Ellinill, Old Gods of the Dwarves.
I'm ignoring a lot of potential options here, as I'm only looking at stuff the thread (and myself) seems to be excited about at the moment. The waystone project is eating a lot of our time, so we can only advance 1 or 2 of these projects a turn. I think AV and Branarhune should be our short term priorities, followed by Apparitions and the BM fog spell, but we should also try to fit some artefact research in as well (some of which can be done through WEB-MAT).
Next turn, I think we should do 2 waystone actions (tributaries, rivers leylines, and the Reikland Nexus are my top three choices right now, but I'm happy to change to anything), have Max write some papers for CF, have Johann take us on a tour of the city, and with our free action go Apparition hunting. That should leave us with an AP left over to do a personal action, possibly the AV powerstone action or the Vlad notes? Does that seem like a solid foundation for a plan? Or should we sacrifice the personal action for a third waystone action?
