Poor Sofia. It's hard to feel out of control of your own life, and harder still when the only avenue to asserting that control is to do dangerous or self-destructive things. I've seen relatives go down that path and been powerless to help them; I hope that the example of the Wizards of Karak Eight Peaks, and Panoramia's guidance and support, leads her to happier trails.
Speaking of which, I'm glad we voted for Gretel this turn because it was nice to check in to one of the Wizards of Karak Eight Peaks having made something unconventional of herself and being perfectly happy with the results. I'm glad her Border Princessing is working out so far, but the thing about the Border Princes is that it always works out right up until the point when it doesn't. Hopefully between their planning and the Waaaghbane lessons, "so far" is something that people are saying in a hundred or two hundred years.
(Also wait she hit a
growth spurt in the last four years, how fucking young was she when she showed up at Karak Eight Peaks? Or did her Arcane Mark fuck with things until she forced the issue calorically?)
Fun times with the Golds. No farsqueakers, but they've figured out like 80% of how gas masks work, which is impressive as hell at their tech level. And they've not just figured out how the stuff works, but done R&D on making weapons that the Empire can field that don't have "AND THEN TAKE A HUGE HONKING RIP OF WARPSTONE COCAINE" as a step in the process. And hooray for the Warp Lightning countermeasures! And it occurs to me that if we do take the Apparition action this coming turn, from a narrative perspective it very easily dovetails with having taken this social action -- it was our price, after all.
canon -> cannon
'Social interaction initiated by someone else' has been shelved for now for lack of ideas and an unwillingness to further delay updating when everything else is good to go
Oof at the lack of ideas, but I think the approach you settled on is a reasonable one, and I can't fault prioritizing wrapping up the turn. For what it's worth, we've had a number of bonus interludes that
didn't come out of our social action budget, so I for one will not feel shorted if nothing turns up this turn.
Ok, enough is enough. Sod the AP hell, next turn we are investigating the hold-up with the spiders.
Not a thing Mathilde can usefully contribute to, per Boney:
It's not Mathilde's problem.
If it becomes relevant enough to the main story, I'll put in the research to come up with a convincing explanation.
For the sake of our QM's sanity, let's all just accept that background rolls gonna background roll and take his word that it's not a plot hook or something interesting to write about. If that changes, I'm sure an option will appear in our social turns, but until then it's a gameplay abstraction, and we shouldn't do a write-in for the sake of poking those.
Correction, I'm 24. I'm already getting to the point where I'm unconciously shaving one year off my age. Damn.
Oh man, I remember the time when my age switched from being "a number I automatically and reflexively knew and stored in cache" to "something I had to calculate and occasionally messed up." For me it was my late 20s, well done on hitting it earlier. It just stopped mattering once I was out of formal education with an age cohort.
Anyway, regarding book vote, I did a
giant effortpost a while back that I recommend people check out. For my part, here are several [LIBRARY] votes based on that I think are good options:
[ ] [LIBRARY] Colleges of Magic: Shyish, Ghur, Chamon, Hysh
[ ] [LIBRARY] Barak Varr booksellers: Druchii of Naggaroth, Ten Kingdoms of Ulthuan, Kingdom of Nehekhara
[ ] [LIBRARY] Library of Mournings: Linguistics, Hoeth
[ ] [LIBRARY] Library of Mournings: Linguistics, Ladrielle
[ ] [LIBRARY] Back-fill: Social sciences
And here are my actual votes:
[X] [LIBRARY] Library of Mournings: Linguistics, Hoeth
[X] [DWARF] No purchase.
[X] [COLLEGE] No purchase.
[X] [PURCHASE] No purchase.
As much as I look longingly for more BOOK, I have been convinced that the benefits are marginal compared to keeping our eyes on the prize of the markets of Lothern, perhaps in only a few more turns, especially when we have giant Nuln libraries to
steal copy-paste.