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If anyone has anything suitable, they bring it up when the relevant part is being researched.
I interpreted MrHobbit's question more as "Can we re-do the Research actions with the people who weren't there the first time around (as we don't invite everyone on every action) and see if those members do have anything of their own to add."

For which my personal answer would be that, in-character, if Mathilde felt those people had viable contributions she would have invited them the first time around, and the thread's vote reflects that. Making a second session with the 'also-rans' feels a little weird.
 
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It would be different if we were demanding wagon loads of gold or something, but unfortunately we're one of those 'No, you fools don't understand the value of my work!' villains instead of a 'More Money for Me!' villain
Villain? Surely not, we use our hell powered doom laser for good, you can ask our handicapped and metal plated henchman or the army of giant spiders if you don't take our word for it. And all the political maneuvering and assassinations are done whit the purest of intentions, you can trust our vaguely germanic self whit both your life and top government secrets.
 
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MrHobbit's question was more "Can we re-do the Research actions with the people who weren't there the first time around (as we don't invite everyone on every action) and see if those members do have anything of their own to add."

For which my personal answer would be that, in-character, if Mathilde felt those people had viable contributions she would have invited them the first time around, and the thread's vote reflects that. Making a second session with the 'also-rans' feels a little weird.

I suspect if the prototypes we currently have don't work for whatever reason, there will be a "back to the drawing board" moment that will let us draw in the others to explore untrod paths, but until those prototypes fail, they are what we're stuck with for the time being.

It's the balancing act of the project—pulling in more people on to each component gives us more options, but overworking the team by making them do everything will result in disaster over the long term.
 
I interpreted MrHobbit's question more as "Can we re-do the Research actions with the people who weren't there the first time around (as we don't invite everyone on every action) and see if those members do have anything of their own to add."

For which my personal answer would be that, in-character, if Mathilde felt those people had viable contributions she would have invited them the first time around, and the thread's vote reflects that. Making a second session with the 'also-rans' feels a little weird.
I believe it was established that with the 'laying the foundations' action where we made our working theory of how waystones work that it'd have to be redone to incorporate new perspectives added from members who joined after the action. Dunno about the rest.
 
The entire Warhammer franchise is rife with the trope of 'this ancient thing that's keeping everything from falling apart is on the edge of failing and either nobody knows about it or nobody knows how to fix it', even when it doesn't make any sense. When 40k actually followed through on all of those accumulated doomsdays it tore the galaxy in half.
Not even all. Some of the big ones are still unresolved.

I'd also expect different clans to have long standing arguments about the correct way to style and braid your beard.
Probably, though beard styling is a sensitive enough issue that I imagine even dwarves have to on some level agree to disagree or the grudges would be endless. Like, there's an actual list of accepted 'proper' styles and as long as you stick to it you're okay and won't get more than comparatively minor disagreement.
 
I interpreted MrHobbit's question more as "Can we re-do the Research actions with the people who weren't there the first time around (as we don't invite everyone on every action) and see if those members do have anything of their own to add."

For which my personal answer would be that, in-character, if Mathilde felt those people had viable contributions she would have invited them the first time around, and the thread's vote reflects that. Making a second session with the 'also-rans' feels a little weird.

You can go back to the drawing board with different people if you're not happy with the options that the first time around produced.
 
Of the research actions, most have produced pretty workable results. I don't think we're likely to get a better capstone than the runic option; it's got drawbacks, but they're very workable. Riverine leylines gave several good options, as did the foundations. There's also not many left to form a second research group for foundations - just Aksel, Tochter and Cadaeth, though I suppose Tochter might have had something to say and predicting what Aksel will come up with is impossible in advance.

We could do another focus group on leyline solutions in general. The first one had Sarvoi, Hatalath, Zlata, Elrisse, and Thorek, and the group came up with the general solutions of "River", "Air", "Ground" (with no viable path to doing this) and "Material", with "Road" added retrospectively. A wider group might come up with a different paradigm. But then we've just brought Ulthuan on board, and Golden Age leylines are likely to be their biggest contribution.

About the only other that we've done that seems likely to benefit from more opinions is the the tributary research. Not because what we got wasn't good, but because they left gaps. But then
a) everyone was involved in that research action, as it was the opening meeting, so we have nobody left to ask until the project is expanded further (and Ulthuan explicitly does not have tributaries or ideas on them, as that's what they're coming to us for) and
b) that action left us with several options left unprototyped, like runic tributaries, that we should probably follow up on rather than redoing the spitballing stage even if we had people left to spitball with.
 
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Adhoc vote count started by Boney on Dec 14, 2023 at 1:19 AM, finished with 1634 posts and 160 votes.
 
You know one of the more interesting things that is likely to come out of this is the reaction of the high elves to all this. Yes they have a very strong grip on the Marienburg trade, but given their whole economy is based in no small measure on trade, any new trade routes that give them access to more goods are good for them. I'm not sure Eltharion will notice.... or care, but whoever they send to talk to us might...

Come to think of it who do you guys think they will send? A Sapheian Archmage would probably be the most qualified, but also the most likely to rub the other members the wrong way, so maybe Eltharion has someone in mind from his own court with orders to work with whatever weird shit the humans have in mind as long as it gets the stones done. On the other side of things someone from Lothern would be naturally more used to working with other peoples and they would also be a good ambasador to Laurelorn.
 
Well it does make sense, if there is any human an Asur prince would listen to it is the millennia-old horror of the woods and she was the one who made the tributary they are likely to use rolling like a champ all the while.
 
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