GW have a stick up their ass, but that is a twisting of the facts. Alfabusa said that he stopped working on it because of the policies, rather than GW shutting them down. He decided to move on to his own projects.
It was the Astartes fan animation project that was shut down by GW by giving the creator a choice to either come work for their animation team or they copyright strike the entire thing.
Mostly I was imagining GW saying: we'll give Boney x% of royalties on an Amazon or otherwise publishing of this quest.
So just to keep track, we have an Ulgu power stone already, and need 35 CF to purchase the rest to do the Morbs. Since we're at 33/35 CF, we can be fairly certain that we'll have enough to do this action next turn, barring a total flub on our next paper.
We also spend 1 CF/turn on the EIC-spy guy. But 3 shouldn't be hard to earn.
Charcoal trade is good and Nordland expansion is a bad idea. To be more precise, it's not that Nordland expansion is bad, it's that Nordland expansion isn't happening.
I have a feeling that trade links themselves might be important in keeping Middineland invested in the Eonir alliance. After all at the moment the allience relies on Ar-Ulric which Nordland is attacking the legilimency of it. With trade links burghers and nobles alike will be earning money from both the trade and the tolls and that might lead to a groundswell support if Elector Count wants to back the alliance.
GW has a zero tolarance policy towards fan animations. Which means while they might not have gone after them yet but it was probably a matter of time considering trends and said policy. But result is same GW wanted fanworks to stop and it stopped dead though the youtube. I don't want to find out if they are going extend the policy to fanfiction because this story is actually perfect example to be made for such policy (being the fanfic with biggest following I know of), if they want to do that.
Bit of a give-and-take there, less likely to be disrupted by Goblins, more likely to be disrupted by humans.
That would be like replacing copper wires with gold wires. Nothing is going to stop determination of human peasants to fuck the shit up for their benefit, not even silk is that only somewhat more resistant to cutting. Not even Gomril is that resistant I think.
I'd vote for this. Mathymancer gave some good feedback for tweaking the Waystone actions; personally, rather than divide Eike Study between two things (giving her less time on each), I'd put her on just Petty Spells and add the EIC action to the Eike Actions. Maybe also bring her to the Tributary: Water Spirit (Stirland) action? She won't be able to contribute at that one, but it would give her a chance to see magic being put to use to benefit the people of her home in a long-lasting way, which is important for her moral development (one of the most important parts of Grey Wizarding).
This is my favorite I've seen so far. The one thing I might do differently is to swap the Egrimm action to writing the Windfall paper. My reasons are threefold:
Boney has said that Mathilde would, in an ideal world, want to do the Orbs of Sorcery creation in the Room of Calamity, which is out of commission for a year. Since we'd really, really, really prefer that nothing go wrong when making eight objects of incredible magical power, I think we should wait for the ideal here rather than do it under less-safe conditions.
I mean... yes, but you run the other gamut. When the changes happened, Alfabrussa stopped because while any lawsuit leveled against him could probably be won, most people can´t afford to push theit luck anyway because they don´t have the funds and don´t wanna stress themselves out running a multi year lawsuit against a big corporation that can take the loss unlike a private citizen.
Maybe they don't have dedicated Orders of assassins like the Druchii or Skavens, but they certainly have at least some people who can kill someone well-protected. It beggars belief that a superpower spanning an entire continent and having access to more powerful and more widespread magic than any human nation can't muster anything to discreetly kill high-value targets. Especially when they have been locked in an eternal war with a peer power with no notion of fair play.
You have way too much faith in humanity…
Aur politics are almost never even affected by violence or sabotage. Given that the Ausr are a highly martial culture, with the nobles in particular all being trained warriors with small private armies, I'd argue that assassination is a step beyond either of those.
Don´t confuse Corporate with Humanity. But yeah, GW is an IP bully, their attention anywhere is bad for everyone. The only reason its not the most hated company in the fantasy fandoms right now is because Wizards of the Coast decided they did not like being the second worst in the industry and really wanted that hat.
Regarding your third point, I'm aware of the problem with the Only Gork paper but the Windherding is a backup CF source - assuming that we don't completely fuck up the enchantment again, we can and probably will give it to the Colleges for some CF. And if we roll poorly on the paper and the Windherding there's still the codifying of RoW, which should give us a decent chunck of CF - the MAP gave quite a few favours IIRC. If we roll poorly on the Codifying and the paper and the Windherding then I would say that a lack of CF is the least of our problems and we should probably do a Pilgrimage of Fingers or something because Ranald is clearly mad at us for some reason.
