Parabola
Divided Loyalties Librarian
- Location
- The Destination of Fate
- Pronouns
- She/Her
Frankly, compared to some other quests, I gotta say that Mathilde is actually reasonably focused on her job, while still having enough free time to get up to her usual nonsense.
It's just that there's several dozen things we could get up to at any time, people we could be helping, and as with almost all quests, there will always be a time cost to everything we do - you can only be in one place at a time, after all.
I think Boney does a fantastic job of mostly keeping questers on track by pointing out the realities of ideas that they come up with, like 'such-and-such person might disapprove of that', 'yes but it is illegal', 'X generally frowns upon that', 'you can but it is considered bad for your mental health', and everyone's favorite, 'try it and find out.' Rarely, if he feels a bit frustrated, he pulls out variations on '...why do you even want to do that?', 'you can get a better (though less dramatic) result by doing [thing that was already possible]', or even 'this is building chicken coops before getting eggs'.
And sometimes, just sometimes, some ideas are actually pretty decent! Turning off the waystones that fed Karak Vlag was a write-in, and the idea of using the Metalsmith's Guild's boon to help Nuln rebuild its cannon foundries in exchange for permission to copy Nuln's books was an idea someone came up with independently of Boney!
Edit: ...But the sewers thing was pretty weird, ngl. I didn't know about the metagaming regarding Skaven when I first read through the quest so it just seemed a bit odd. It wasn't a terribly big focus of the quest for that section, but still!
It's just that there's several dozen things we could get up to at any time, people we could be helping, and as with almost all quests, there will always be a time cost to everything we do - you can only be in one place at a time, after all.
I think Boney does a fantastic job of mostly keeping questers on track by pointing out the realities of ideas that they come up with, like 'such-and-such person might disapprove of that', 'yes but it is illegal', 'X generally frowns upon that', 'you can but it is considered bad for your mental health', and everyone's favorite, 'try it and find out.' Rarely, if he feels a bit frustrated, he pulls out variations on '...why do you even want to do that?', 'you can get a better (though less dramatic) result by doing [thing that was already possible]', or even 'this is building chicken coops before getting eggs'.
And sometimes, just sometimes, some ideas are actually pretty decent! Turning off the waystones that fed Karak Vlag was a write-in, and the idea of using the Metalsmith's Guild's boon to help Nuln rebuild its cannon foundries in exchange for permission to copy Nuln's books was an idea someone came up with independently of Boney!
Edit: ...But the sewers thing was pretty weird, ngl. I didn't know about the metagaming regarding Skaven when I first read through the quest so it just seemed a bit odd. It wasn't a terribly big focus of the quest for that section, but still!
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