Kornet
Quite possibly a sloth abomination
- Location
- Mother Russia
That's why she limited herself to 20% share and we have 36% one.
She counts on us to save Stirland.
Warhammer Fantasy: Divided Loyalties - an Advisor's Quest
- Thread starter Boney
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She counts on us to save Stirland.
Roswita suffers from an obvious tunnel vision (and from a nasty case of a bad steward advisor).
It looks worse than it is, but basically she created an economic behemoth that she has no control of, and which could prove really problematic in a generation or two.
Anton deserves a happy ending.
In regards for the advisor position, I am kinda liking the no vote. Keeps us flexible and in charge of our own timetable and plans, while available for shenanigans.
Also, the drawback of College's prodding won't happen because we will be doing a lot of research, and sending much of the data gathered to them.
As for the vote:
[X] Stay single. Marry for love.
[X] 'Head Ranger' (Spymaster), Internal Focus
[X] Court Wizard
[X] No role
It looks worse than it is, but basically she created an economic behemoth that she has no control of, and which could prove really problematic in a generation or two.
Anton deserves a happy ending.
In regards for the advisor position, I am kinda liking the no vote. Keeps us flexible and in charge of our own timetable and plans, while available for shenanigans.
Also, the drawback of College's prodding won't happen because we will be doing a lot of research, and sending much of the data gathered to them.
As for the vote:
[X] Stay single. Marry for love.
[X] 'Head Ranger' (Spymaster), Internal Focus
[X] Court Wizard
[X] No role
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Sinsystems
Patron Librarian
- Pronouns
- He/Him
Please stop commenting on things GMs and moderators have said not to talk about.
NavySeel
"I don't know what I'm doing."
- Location
- Places
I seriously recommend stopping... I have some slight issues with that rule at times but seriously this isn't the place to discuss that.
- Location
- yorkshire
Valarauko
Demon of Power
- Location
- Angband
[X] Marry them...
- [X] Reinhild Gerber
[X] Stay single. Marry for love.
Either of these is reasonable. It's Anton; he's managed spectacular feats of interpersonal diplomacy before. If not, guns are good. As to Mathilde herself, we're on the Silk Road. Any number of interesting characters will stop by. Eventually Boney will throw us a bone and parade a few husbando candidates in front of us. We just need to leave some room in our schedule for socializing (or information gathering, as the case may be) and pop into town every so often, methinks.
[X] 'Head Ranger' (Spymaster), Internal Focus
[X] 'Head Ranger' (Spymaster), External Focus
[X] Court Wizard
As to these, I'm not really interested in people-managing, especially because that's the most likely to end up like an empire quest, and while those are fun, basically every damn Warhammer quest has become that. Let's not for once, shall we? Internal focus allows us to flex the infiltration skills that earned us our fame, external focus means maybe dealing with intrigue among the Border Princes (a more conventional spymastery job), and the Wizard means we'll have Adventures in Poking Things, which is also all to the good.
- [X] Reinhild Gerber
[X] Stay single. Marry for love.
Either of these is reasonable. It's Anton; he's managed spectacular feats of interpersonal diplomacy before. If not, guns are good. As to Mathilde herself, we're on the Silk Road. Any number of interesting characters will stop by. Eventually Boney will throw us a bone and parade a few husbando candidates in front of us. We just need to leave some room in our schedule for socializing (or information gathering, as the case may be) and pop into town every so often, methinks.
[X] 'Head Ranger' (Spymaster), Internal Focus
[X] 'Head Ranger' (Spymaster), External Focus
[X] Court Wizard
As to these, I'm not really interested in people-managing, especially because that's the most likely to end up like an empire quest, and while those are fun, basically every damn Warhammer quest has become that. Let's not for once, shall we? Internal focus allows us to flex the infiltration skills that earned us our fame, external focus means maybe dealing with intrigue among the Border Princes (a more conventional spymastery job), and the Wizard means we'll have Adventures in Poking Things, which is also all to the good.
NSMS
Probably evil, unfortunately.
- Location
- A rapidly widening tear in the fabric of reality
Economics scare us, though! All they'll need to do is wave a few ledgers at Mathilde and she'll leap away, hissing like a cat!
notanautomaton
I've got 99 quests, I've finished one
She might be planning on handing each child an equally sized share, such that her most accomplished child (the EIC) survives. If she has five kids then they'd each be getting a four percent share, which is low enough that the competent shareholders can stop them.
- Location
- The Star Kingdom of Manticore
Right now I am hoping that even though it looks like court wizard will win we will be able to spare some time to helping set up trade for K8P. We are just at such a huge crossroads that it seems a little silly to not make use of it to build a massive web of informants.
SuperSonicSound
Shadowmancer of the Shadow Cabal
Omegahugger
Inattentive Idiot
While it is a perfect and flawless plan for Anton to find love, it also requires him to not be married.
There is no need for a backup plan unless he gets a divorce or a death does them part (and that's death parting them permanently, you can't be sure of that in Stirland), both of which this vote assumes won't happen in the foreseeable future.
- Location
- United States of America
Well, since the other possible advisors don't seem to particularly focus on the trade avenue, we should have the ability to have some subtle influence on the whole thing. And, given this:
It's already looking like we are considering it.
Kornet
Quite possibly a sloth abomination
- Location
- Mother Russia
Economics used to scare us. Then we got tutored by Wilhelmine. We've "developed an intuitive grasp of business, exchange and logistics." and are a single action away from getting economics skill.
It's exactly because we understand what is happening we are so frightened. It's a suicide in motion, and we are the girl selling the suicidee a pistol.
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- Location
- his hidden lair
You are missing the point of 'his boyish innocence prevents him from fully appreciating this in the context of Mathilde happily giving up he own innocence and embracing the lifestyle she fell into that calls on her to potentially kill her fellow magister if he pushes the envelope, to accept pre-programmed orders and contingency as the price of doing business, of potentially being obligated to tear down her friend's life work or forward it to those who do so, might have to betray the Dwarfs' confidence in us by explaining their internal issues to the Grey Order'
To try and put a finer point on it because evidently I didn't explain myself well with my previous comment. It's not simply that those places are beautiful, it's that she's content with all the things she has done or might have to do because she firmly believes they serve and protect that beauty and help bring it back into this world. It's about her lifestyle, and that someone as goodnaturedly naive as Anton isn't liable to ever understand her lifestyle. I don't think the thread wants Anton to understand that lifestyle- and that seems to be a fairly big hangup in their potential relationship.
- Location
- Aotearoa
Omegahugger
Inattentive Idiot
At first, we were scared of economics because it was hundreds of numbers we could never understand.
Now, it scares us because we can.
- Location
- United States of America, Michigan
[X] Marry me...
- [X] When I return.
I like Anton so marrying him sounds fun
[X] Steward
I like this idea the best since making trade the hold's economy sounds like a no brainer from what we know. Also it's not like we can't help with the fighting every know and then.
- [X] When I return.
I like Anton so marrying him sounds fun
[X] Steward
I like this idea the best since making trade the hold's economy sounds like a no brainer from what we know. Also it's not like we can't help with the fighting every know and then.
- Location
- Before the Ninth Gate
I think we need to go with Stewardship. The major reason is that as we own part of the EIC, if Wilhelmina dies, we need to be in a position to keep the company benefiting the Empire. I suspect that some rotten kids might get slightly murderous, so this might be sooner than we think.
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It's been less time for them than it's been for us - it's not quite six months since you hired him, and they're still finishing off the improvements you ordered when you left it in their hands, let alone started any of his own accord.
IIRC, the more mundane lessons available in the Grey College were purchasable in favours or gold, but the exact figure escapes me.
DarkLight140
Credit to Team
- Location
- Lost in my thoughts
You're probably remembering that prior to the College Favor system it was said that classes could be paid for in either gold at 50g-100g per, or at some unspecified College Favor value which hadn't been worked out yet. There is no direct conversion between the two. That said, as far as I know there's also never been a GM ruling that we can't pay for classes in cash so we might well still be able to do that instead of relying purely on the favor economy, and if we can it would be a good idea since we're cash-heavy and favor-light right now.
Abusing her divine patronage, network of financial friends, advisor position and semi-willing minions on the other hand…
His swordsmanship could have been better.
Roswita's position seems to be built upon the assumption that Wilhelmina, Anton and Mathilda are friendly towards her. So long as the EIC remains a pro-Elector Count faction she can take a lot of risks with the economy and rely on the EIC to help her out if things go wrong. Letting her focus on pacifying the undead infested east while her good friends handle the west for her. There is even some justification for it. Wilhelmina was helping the Van Hal family long before she became an Advisor. Mathilde didn't make any fuss when leaving, even handed over the entire info network and Abelheim's things without complaint.
…guessing her new diplomat is about as 'skilled' as her steward. That or she refuses to believe that such fine and loyal servants of the Empire would hold a grudge.
- Location
- Aotearoa
No grudges? Good job we're not picking up any Dwarfy traits, then. 
Oh yes. As Journeyman contributors they have the equivalent of another -1 or so because it's assumed the Magister did the heavy lifting but those are still some impressive reports to have their names on.