I don't really care for most of the plans being currently floated, so here's my rough outline, which is free to a good home if someone wants to iron out details:
* Waystone: Build a Waystone (everyone)
-Gambler
* Waystone: Other Networks: Karaz Ankor (Thorek)
* Create Orbs of Sorcery solo (requires one of each Power Stone)
* Attempt to gain control of one of your Arcane Marks (shrug?)
* Explore one of the Wards of Laurelorn (Storm)
* EIC: Gather as much Ithilmar from throughout the Old World as possible to resell to the Eonir for a one-time profit
* KAU: Hire educators to teach a language or group of languages to your scribes (Old World Languages)
* Serenity: AV part 1
* Eike tag-along: Karaz Ankor network, Storm Ward, KAU action (so she can develop her language knowledge)
* Eike study: Intrigue training with the Hochlander
Take a swing at our first waystone prototype, take advantage of the fact that everyone has stuff to do to go poke at the Karaz Ankor network with Thorek, finally investigate an Arcane Mark, and finish our Advanced Eonir Diplomacy skill, which should help in navigating the political nonsense that just got a lot more intense.
I think that getting our scribes educated in languages is more useful than copying the lesser Nuln libraries, because Old World Languages includes Khazalid and means we can start negotiating for access to Karak archives. And I want to do the Ithilmar thing before it gets sniped out from under us, it would suck to be dreamcrushed on the profits we can use for avoiding thread arguments about how much money we spend on books.
I'll take a stab at this.
[ ] WEB-MAT: Way Waystones
-[ ] WEB-MAT: JOHANN: Lovely Laurelorn (Ward of Storms), with Eike/Wolf (To finish up our Advanced Eonir Diplomacy)
-[ ] WEB-MAT: MAX: Receive dictation: Linguistic Drift in Lizardmen Glyphs & The Polyphenic Theory of Lizardmen Society
-[ ] WEB-MAT: JOHANN: Waystone: Other Networks (Laurelorn) (Johann, Lord Hatalath of the Grey Lords,
Cadaeth of the Ward of Frost, Lecturer Sarvoi of House Tindomiel)
-[ ] Waystone: Other Networks (Karaz Ankor) (Thorek)
-[ ] Waystone: Build a Waystone (with everyone)
--[ ] The Gambler
-[ ] Attempt to gain control of one of your Arcane Marks (Unnatural Shadow)
-[ ] EIC: Gather as much Ithilmar from throughout the Old World as possible to resell to the Eonir for a one-time profit
-[ ] KAU: Hire educators to teach a language or group of languages to your scribes (Old World Languages)
-[ ] SERENITY: Write a book : Aethyric Vitae 1/2
-[ ] Eike Actions: Karaz Ankor Network, Storm ward exproration, KAU language lessons (Khazalid emphasis)
-[ ] Eike Study: Intrigue training with the Hochlander
The action is setting up the teaching, the actual education is going to take significantly longer than a single month. Attending those lessons isn't going to be more action-efficient than any other method of learning a language and you're definitely not going to get three complete languages out of a single action.
I don't know that Eike will get a language from the KAU action based on this post from Boney, but maybe he'll be merciful and let her get just one language if we specify which? I think it's more likely she'll pick up a smattering of several or get a chance at either stewardship or diplomacy from the negotiations to setup the classes. Whichever way, it's what you asked for so it stays.
The failure modes for Orbs of Sorcerery are all terrible, so I think we want to do one of either Waystones or Orbs. Johann lets us do Laurelorn actions as a WEB-MAT action. Dropping orbs lets us pick up a second WEB-MAT action for that sweet, sweet free third WEB-MAT action. I picked Lizardmen papers both because they're fresh and because there's a lot of overlap between lizardmen geomancy and the Waystones so there's a chance that a better understanding of their language and runes will result in a better Waystone. For a similar reason, I'd like to use the bonus WEB-MAT action to investigate the Laurelorn waystone network. Johann lets us do Laurelorn actions as WEB-MAT actions and I'm hoping that will extend to the Laurelorn Waystones. Also, a compare and contrast between the Karaz Ankor and Laurelorn networks may be more interesting than just the Karaz Ankor network alone. I wish I could squeeze looking at the Kislev network in too, but I'd have to drop the Arcane Mark action to do that since I couldn't think of a way to justify it as a WEB-MAT action. As several others have noted, Kislev has contributed next to nothing so far, and a compare/contrast with their network is likely to be even better than one with Laurelorn.
I also wish we could free up an action to spend time with Eltharion. He's already been super helpful. Who knows what else we could learn from him? The options start with more waystone secrets, move onto getting to write another Elven biography, and then from there, the sky's the limit. He wields a magic (dwarf?) sword, we wield a magic dwarf sword. There's lots of room for bonding and trick swapping there.
