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[ ] Plan Loltop:
-[ ] WEB-MAT: Hunt an apparition with a member of WEB-MAT (Johann, Red Rider)
-[ ] Waystone: Experiment with alternatives to the Waystone Rune (Egrimm)
-[ ] Waystone: Tributary Design (Teclisean, with Johann)

-[ ] Waystone: Foundation (Everyone)
-[ ] Tributary: International (Kislev) (Kislevites)
-[ ] Create Orbs of Sorcery solo

-[ ] EIC: Have the EIC keep tabs on mercenaries so that they can be more easily hired if needed.
-[ ] KAU: Begin copying the full corpus of a Partner Library. (Grand University of Nuln)
-[ ] Eike Actions: EIC, Orbs, Kislev
-[ ] Eike Study: Deconstruct Mathilde's time as Spymaster of Stirland

You need to pick something to do with the Coin. Probably use the Gambler face on the Orbs. And pick a paper to write using the Serenity action (there's no reason not to, as it's free).

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I do like the Study action in particular. Eike will be enthusiastic about it, given her Awe trait. Having her Investigate us, flying around to interview figures and research information (publicly available and not) sounds like a good soft Intrigue action. It lets Mathilde tell stories and review how she did and what she could have done better, maybe de-mystify some things. On the surface it might seem self-congratulatory, but Mathilde was one of the only openly acknowledged spymasters in the nation. Most at least pretend to be doing something else as a day-job. It's a very valid exercise.

The WEBMAT Waystones actions will probably suffer from lack of perspective. I took off the Ranaldian Tributaries as that would be a separate action to the Teclisian ones. The plan is at its maximum with the latter, and Johann has more to contribute to it. Tochter would have been valuable for Teclisian tributaries, but at the very least put Egrimm on it too so there's representatives from three Colleges rather than two - he's fine doing two actions.

I'd want someone with experience with runes on looking at alternatives to the one we have. Egrimm's enchanting experience and Light College contacts might help, but it's not an obvious translation of expertise. Thorek is the obvious choice, though Sarvoi and Hatalath probably have good insights. Sadly including them would make it non-WEBMAT, though.
 
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The biggest concern I have with Druchii negotiations would be other nations getting wind of it and being pissed. But having it all take place in Laurelorn should help a lot on keeping it all quiet.
 
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The biggest concern I have with Druuchi negotiations would be other nations getting wind of it and being pissed. But having it all take place in Laurelorn should help a lot on keeping it all quiet.

The only people who'd be really pissed are Ulthuan. Kislev's coastline is just as poor as the Empire's, Tilea and Estalia aren't big enough to matter, the Dwarves already know we trade with knife-ears, and Bretonnia was actively at war with and invading the Empire that one time the Druchii sacked and razed one of their biggest cities, so their opinion can be easily discounted.
 
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The Druchii are seeking novelties and luxuries, yes? So how much do you think they'll pay for a copy of Mathilde's romance collection? It currently has a street value of 750 GC, but we have some really obscure stuff that the Druchii won't be able to access easily.

They might even not have all the Druichii books.

The biggest concern I have with Druchii negotiations would be other nations getting wind of it and being pissed. But having it all take place in Laurelorn should help a lot on keeping it all quiet.

As you say; if we have a private meeting in Laurelorn, it would be very hard for people to find out. Their gods could probably still tip them off though.

We might also be able to sell information to Bretonnia about this bunch of Druichii's rivals.
 
Bretonnia was actively at war with and invading the Empire that one time the Druchii sacked and razed one of their biggest cities, so their opinion can be easily discounted.

You can discount it sure. They'll still have it though, and if they find out can find ways to express it.

We might also be able to sell information to Bretonnia about this bunch of Druichii's rivals.

Something like this would definitely make it much easier to swallow though. Thinking about it, as Bretonnia gets raided massively more than the Empire, that actually might be where much of the value comes from. There's only so many Druchii ships picking over the scraps of the Empire's coastline. In comparison to Bretonnia's massively larger one. That would be one way to run a racket, you farm out capturing the monsters to pay for the deal to Bretonnia in exchange for troop movements while pocketing the magical lore effectively for free.
 
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As you say; if we have a private meeting in Laurelorn, it would be very hard for people to find out. Their gods could probably still tip them off though.
Gods aren't really that big about sharing concrete info about shit they don't know. Gods aren't omniscient they can only focus so much and the only god we have that regularly focuses on us is ranald... And ranald don't snitch.
 
Bretonnia probably wouldn't care about Druuchi trades where we handed over not-particularly-militarily-relevant stuff as our part of the trade. Though I don't see any particular reason to loudly advertise that we're making such trades with them, either.
 
Bretonnia was actively at war with and invading the Empire that one time the Druchii sacked and razed one of their biggest cities
The sack of L'Anguille was 13 years after the end of the 4th Parravon War.

the Dwarves already know we trade with knife-ears
There is a substantial difference between Laurelorn and Naggaroth, and the Dwarfs are in fact capable of recognizing that difference.
 
I wouldn't be so quick to assume that other factions can't find out; Qrech knew exactly who Mathilde was even though his main focus and her actions were a thousand miles apart. Others have information networks too, and the Druchii who we trade with have no incentive to keep things quiet over selling information to others to gain advantage.
 
Yeah, one started a war with them, the other ambushed them a lot... They know the druchii are "bad" but the only ones who actually deal with them is Barak varr when they find each other at sea...
No, actually, the dwarfs started that war by rocking up to the court of someone they claimed to consider an ally and being insulting shitheads.
 
Honestly, as long as we are not trading things that are then used in the attacks on them, I doubt nations other than Ulthuan are going to care, and even they only some. I don't think there's any kind of international expectation of embargo with slavers or commiters of other atrocities.
 
No, actually, the dwarfs started that war by rocking up to the court of someone they claimed to consider an ally and being insulting shitheads.
At the time, they had no idea the Druuchi existed because the Asur didn't want to admit to it, and so believed that ally had murdered several of their caravans, IIRC. Reaching out diplomatically at all instead of just declaring war was frankly generous of them, and they had every right to be angry.

It's not like with humans after all - as far as they knew, there was exactly one nation of elves in existence.
 
No, actually, the dwarfs started that war by rocking up to the court of someone they claimed to consider an ally and being insulting shitheads.

I mean if you are looking for first causes I think not admitting that you even had a civil war and thus that elves who do not serve the Phoenix King even exist is the worse sin. It is reasonable from the dwarfs perspective that the organized elven group attacking their caravans belonged to the only elven state they knew about.

Also the beard shaving was such a pointless act of escalation that one almost has to be impressed by how fast those bridges were burned.
 
Others have information networks too, and the Druchii who we trade with have no incentive to keep things quiet over selling information to others to gain advantage.

To who would exactly sell the Druuchii said information and why? Doing so would probably mean we won't trade with them anymore, besides it wouldn't give any advantage to them.


I also feel a lot of people are taking one trade one Lady Magister of the Empire does as what the entire Empire as a polity does when that is very much not the case.
 
At the time, they had no idea the Druuchi existed because the Asur didn't want to admit to it, and so believed that ally had murdered several of their caravans, IIRC. Reaching out diplomatically at all instead of just declaring war was frankly generous of them, and they had every right to be angry.

It's not like with humans after all - as far as they knew, there was exactly one nation of elves in existence.
And instead of admitting it they shaved the beards and as such guaranteed war. For the dwarfs there is not much difference between the elf's that attacked their caravans and the ones that shaved their beards in response about complaints of those raided caravans.

Edit: and keep in mind, some dwarfs still would love to burn laurelorn to the ground even though laurelorn was much more clear about not being part of the high elves any more. Cough Kragg cough
 
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