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Warhammer Fantasy: Divided Loyalties - an Advisor's Quest

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Just found out about the quest. I think it's pretty awesome. I also think it's time to get the fuck out of here because, holy shit, that husbando vote came out of nowhere.

None of the above is my vote, for what it's worth. The only guy worth romancing is Van Hal, and, in my experience, getting in on with your boss is always a bad idea. I mean, shit, politically speaking, marrying a mage is already toxic to begin with. Stirland's still pretty much a shithole now and they can't afford the bad press. Even if it's not, a mage falling in love with a lord is always the prologue to some bullshit tragedy. Nope. Better find your hunk somewhere else Mathilde.
 
BoneyM said:
"An unmarried Elector Count usually doesn't stay that way for long," you note neutrally, not sure how you feel about this.
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*sigh* Looks like the shippers were right on this front, but eh, Mattie is young, single, and a bit skittish around people she doesn't know. A budding attraction to Van Hal really isn't that far out of left field.
BoneyM said:
"Ancient history. She died in childbirth in '66. There's three little Van Hals out there, ready to carry on the family mission should this experiment fail, but nobody knows about them but a few trusted allies."
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...I am genuinely honored that he would share that information with us. *sigh* Fucking student loans... how far are we from being able to pay it off? Or at least, being able to pay it off without dipping into our budget?
 
backgroundnoise said:
*sigh* Looks like the shippers were right on this front, but eh, Mattie is young, single, and a bit skittish around people she doesn't know. A budding attraction to Van Hal really isn't that far out of left field.
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I was deliberately ambiguous there. To those inclined, it can be seen as shippy, but it could be concern over the geopolitical implications of an Elector Count's marriage, and the addition of one more complicating factor to Mathilde's job.

backgroundnoise said:
Fucking student loans... how far are we from being able to pay it off? Or at least, being able to pay it off without dipping into our budget?
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Three more years, at the current rate.
 
Ranald above, the Waifu Vote. That which has torn at the very fabric of quests both weak and strong, that saps their spirit and embitters the hearts of men against each other.

But Van Hal needs to win here, like c'mon, he's the only dude that even makes sense.
 
He's on the list:

Sir Markus von Pfaffbach: He's well-off if he was able to invest in the EIC, he holds a position of great honour, and he's damn skilled with his sword.
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ChronOblivion said:
Ranald above, the Waifu Vote. That which has torn at the very fabric of quests both weak and strong, that saps their spirit and embitters the hearts of men against each other.
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I knew it would be sailing into treacherous waters, but it's too much a part of the human experience to ignore, and too important to decide for the thread.
 
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BoneyM said:
This vote is to indicate who, if anyone, Mathilde would want to husbando. Actual husbandoing will be actions you can perform in later turns, if a candidate wins the vote.
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So does that mean that if I want an unrequited romance with Van Hal I can vote for him here and just not pursue? good to know.

I'm think about training greatswords again this turn, we haven't in a while and we already are two action in to getting traits from it to up our martial why stop. As for the Undead research proposal I think it should be under Van Hal directly what ever it is, he is the man with the best knowledge of undead lore out of anyone around, though I favor either a college or witch hunter organization personally.

Other then thati don't know training something? research on the Quaysh juice?
 
Ignoring the husbando vote at the moment, I really want to practice our Swordsmanship again, Markus is basically the first friend we've had outside the College, and he's sad we haven't been by lately. We should fix that.
 
Edit Final: Final Ultra Delux Plan aka, no more changes or i cry.

My watch plan is focus on the poorer and dirtier parts of cities, where the corruption and rot finds easy victims. This will ensure those not yet evil remains that way and makes evil less able to recruit or harm. Rest of the actions are studying undead and spending money to get home shrine cleaned up. Free social will be spent on Juila, our officer in the information network "Grey Coats". This plan now includes following Van's order of expanding the watch toward Worden and Potting. Also derp will bug Van for more budget to fuel the information network cause we broke.

[X] Plan Broken Heart
-[X] Consolidation: You currently have a patchwork of useful contacts. Backfill so that you can rightfully claim to cover entire towns.
--[X] Ranald's Blessing
-[X] [Network] Name: Grey Coats
-[X] Expand the ranks of the Watch, so that they're able to start covering even the poorer parts of their covered area.
-[X] Complete taking control of the renamed Stirland Watch. (finishes action begun last turn)
-[X] Integrate the rat catchers, sewer-jacks and gong farmers into the Watch, and begin having the rank-and-file of the Watch learn from them (Watch speciality action).
-[X] Expand the Watch into the County of Worden, prioritizing Worden and Potting.
-[X] Can I Come Too?: Everyone seems to be riding off to Leicheberg lately. Tag along and see what's going on with these Haunted Hills. (NEW)
-[X] Diggy Diggy Hole, Remixed: You're getting sick of having workmen tramping in and out of your abode. Recruit an entire team and personally oversee them to clear out all of the reachable portions of the Palace-Shrine and be done with it. (-personal gold)
-[X] [Additional] Undead Research: This is Stirland. Time to bone up on your knowledge of the Undead.
-[X] Free Time: Now well-established in Wurtbad, you can spend some time in your scant off hours getting to know someone better. Pick one character. (no action required)
--[X] Julia
-[X] These agents are getting expensive. Write up a proposal for your discretionary budget to be increased, instead of waiting for Van Hal to decide to increase it. (warning: attracts oversight to your current budget)
--[X] Budget increase dearly needed as the information network need huge expansion to refill the void left by the demise of the League, as well as watching the Watch to prevent corruption and hostile plants. Push for increase of 100 Gold at minimal, due to need to finding and keeping reliable officers.


BoneyM said:
Ranald: NO, THAT'S HERESY
Wisdom's Asp: DEFINITELY NOT
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VoidZero said:
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:jackiechan: WHY MUST YOU TAUNT ME!?!?
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In case people wonder about name of the plan .
 
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BoneyM said:
As for the Waifu Vote, no matter how heated you get, no matter how much people beg, I will not let you waifu the demon snake.
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You may have crossed out Ranald, but I can't help but notice that you didn't specifically deny him.

That being said, I don't want to go for anybody, really. Questing Romance is a bitter poison to me, if not a very potent one.
 
[X] Plan Broken Heart
-[X] Consolidation: You currently have a patchwork of useful contacts. Backfill so that you can rightfully claim to cover entire towns.
-[X] [Network] Name: Grey Coats
-[X] Expand the ranks of the Watch, so that they're able to start covering even the poorer parts of their covered area.
-[X] Complete taking control of the renamed Stirland Watch. (finishes action begun last turn)
-[X] Integrate the rat catchers, sewer-jacks and gong farmers into the Watch, and begin having the rank-and-file of the Watch learn from them (Watch speciality action).
-[X] Pretty Good Swords: You've struck up a friendship with the Champion of the Greatswords and have discovered a talent for wielding them. Continue to cultivate this.
-[X] Diggy Diggy Hole, Remixed: You're getting sick of having workmen tramping in and out of your abode. Recruit an entire team and personally oversee them to clear out all of the reachable portions of the Palace-Shrine and be done with it. (-personal gold)
-[X] [Additional] Undead Research: This is Stirland. Time to bone up on your knowledge of the Undead.
-[X] Qhaysh Juice: Whatever it is, it's dripping out of the box at a steady rate. It's got to be good for something. (NEW)
-[X] Free Time: Now well-established in Wurtbad, you can spend some time in your scant off hours getting to know someone better. Pick one character. (no action required)
--[X] Julia

[X] [WAIFU] Van Hall
 
[X] [WAIFU] None of the above: Mathilde is open to the idea, but none of the current options really do it for her.

Not really feeling plan broken heart but I wanted to make sure a correctly formatted waifu vote for my option was in the thread so we don't have to deal with last turn's [watch] underground, underground, rat catchers cluster fuck
 
[X] [WAIFU] Van Hal

This for now. Gonna get back to my computer to run through the full vote.
 
[X] Plan Broken Heart
-[X] Consolidation: You currently have a patchwork of useful contacts. Backfill so that you can rightfully claim to cover entire towns.
--[X] Ranald's Blessing
-[X] [Network] Name: Grey Coats
-[X] Expand the ranks of the Watch, so that they're able to start covering even the poorer parts of their covered area.
-[X] Complete taking control of the renamed Stirland Watch. (finishes action begun last turn)
-[X] Integrate the rat catchers, sewer-jacks and gong farmers into the Watch, and begin having the rank-and-file of the Watch learn from them (Watch speciality action).
-[X] Expand the Watch into the County of Worden, prioritizing Worden and Potting.
-[X] Pretty Good Swords: You've struck up a friendship with the Champion of the Greatswords and have discovered a talent for wielding them. Continue to cultivate this.
-[X] Diggy Diggy Hole, Remixed: You're getting sick of having workmen tramping in and out of your abode. Recruit an entire team and personally oversee them to clear out all of the reachable portions of the Palace-Shrine and be done with it. (-personal gold)
-[X] Undead Research: This is Stirland. Time to bone up on your knowledge of the Undead.
-[X] Free Time: Now well-established in Wurtbad, you can spend some time in your scant off hours getting to know someone better. Pick one character. (no action required)
--[X] Julia


[X] [WAIFU] Van Hall
 
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BoneyM said:
This vote is to indicate who, if anyone, Mathilde would want to husbando. Actual husbandoing will be actions you can perform in later turns, if a candidate wins the vote.
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Julia isn't an option?

It might be useful to take the top few votes as a sense of where Mathilde's brain is at rather than just the winner. People are rarely attracted to only a single person in real life, after all.
 
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BoneyM said:
Some hold they want to reclaim.
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Gird your loins lads, Mt Vietnam comes.
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[ ] Consolidation: You currently have a patchwork of useful contacts. Backfill so that you can rightfully claim to cover entire towns.
[ ] Interweave your network with the Watch as it expands, so that you can use the Watch to cover your network's communication lines and actions. (NEW)
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Right, got to consolidate before expanding. As long as we don't take the action to expand the watch, this is easy to pick.
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[ ] Expand the ranks of the Watch, so that they're able to start covering even the poorer parts of their covered area.
[ ] Improve the training of the Watch, hiring trainers and dedicating paid time each week to sharpening skills.
[ ] Integrate the Roadwarden network of covered areas into the Watch.
[ ] Expand the administration of the Watch so that they can expand into other counties without your personal oversight.
[ ] Seek out a new leader for the Watch.
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I want all of them.

But I think finding a new leader for it is of paramount importance. It will likely give bonus actions or bonus to actions, and we need someone to run it as a proper full time job.
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[ ] Complete taking control of the renamed Stirland Watch. (finishes action begun last turn)
[ ] Investigate the possibility of adding a River Warden branch of the Watch.
[ ] Integrate the rat catchers, sewer-jacks and gong farmers into the Watch, and begin having the rank-and-file of the Watch learn from them (Watch speciality action).
[ ] Expand the Watch into the rest of the County of Wurtbad, first priority being Tarshof.
[ ] Expand the Watch into the County of Worden, prioritizing Worden and Potting
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Completing our job is obvious, integrating our choice of specialty is obvious.
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[ ] Can I Come Too?: Everyone seems to be riding off to Leicheberg lately. Tag along and see what's going on with these Haunted Hills. (NEW
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I really want to do this. Expeditions are always fun.
BoneyM said:
[ ] Pretty Good Swords: You've struck up a friendship with the Champion of the Greatswords and have discovered a talent for wielding them. Continue to cultivate this.
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we should continue this line lest our training degrade. We have yet to pick up the trait proper. Couple more turns I think.
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[ ] Diggy Diggy Hole, Remixed: You're getting sick of having workmen tramping in and out of your abode. Recruit an entire team and personally oversee them to clear out all of the reachable portions of the Palace-Shrine and be done with it. (-personal gold)
[ ] Enchantment: So far you've still failed to find suitable equipment (damn Wizard Chic) but you could always try to throw your authority behind commissions from glassblowers and blacksmiths. (-discretionary gold, action required to set up and learn to use equipment)
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Please. Let's get set up.
BoneyM said:
[ ] Undead Research: This is Stirland. Time to bone up on your knowledge of the Undead.
[ ] Shyish-kebabs: The Shyish swords are hideously dangerous as weapons, but fascinating as a subject of study. Try to reverse-engineer the lost enchantments woven into them.
[ ] Bound Spells: Though the corrosive Dhar made them high-maintenance, the design of the bound spells in the castle's infiltrators has fascinating possibilities. Try to adapt it for use with Ulgu.
[ ] Qhaysh Juice: Whatever it is, it's dripping out of the box at a steady rate. It's got to be good for something. (NEW)
[ ] As a Journeywoman, the path to Magister is marked by mastering more than the two shadow spells you already know. Send to the Grey Order for the basics and work on figuring out one of the others
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I think we ought to wait till we have a wizard workshop to investigate spells and stuff.
 
[X] [WAIFU]None, period: Mathilde is not for romance.

I prefer CK2 but if you could have person actions be personalised (like your doing now) I would like that.
 
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