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[X] Lord Seilph, the Mystic
[X] Orb Reveal
[X] Pan's Treehouse
[X] Silk
[X] Swordplay
[X] Karak Vlag books
All of that would probably be manageable were it not for the third reason—that the real Eike Hochschild has elected to undertake a two-year-long research sabbatical in faraway Ulthuan and remains out of contact, having departed the week before Emperor Luitpold's death. For the Dämmerlichtreiter's former apprentice, managing the company, navigating the Grey Order's internal affairs, supporting the Empress, schmoozing with the Allies of Man, and all the rest would have been doable, expected even.

For the Perpetual Apprentice she hired to maintain appearances in a decidedly much less hectic political and economic landscape, well.

You, 'Eike Hochschild,' have big shoes to fill.

Good luck.

You'll need it.
Objective revealed: Preserve your cover as Eike Hochschild.
This is genius.
 
H47So82 left Echo range of We.

H47So82 could not think without the rest of the We, but it could still know things.

H47So82 stopped and swung it foremost-limbs in a specific pattern. The wide-metalic-four-legs swung its upper limbs in the appropriate counter-pattern and nodded. H47So82 proceeded past and into the darkness.

H47So02 knew it was the 47th hunter-We to be hatched in the month of Sommerzeit in the year of 2482. It did not know why Reikspiel was used for the month, but it did know 2482 was the second year of the Great-Many-Food.

H47So02 reached the end of the web-sign thread and wondered on.

H47So02 knew that not-We could make sounds-with-meaning. It knew Dawi (wide-metalic-four-legs), Human (tall-not-green-four-legs) and Halfling (short-not-green-four-legs) not-Wes were not-food. It knew that Skaven (furry-four-legs) and greenskin (green-four-legs) not-Wes were sometimes-food and how they could be made more-food.

H47So02 wondered.

H47So02 knew that very soon the Echo of its mission would be forgotten, deliberately not included in the Echo of the We. It also knew that the not-food-Echo of its mission, forged from ink and parchment, would persist until the ending of the world. Forever available for any We, other-We or not-We to add to its Echo when needed.

H47So02 wondered.

H47So02 knew that Warpstone, carried commonly by Skaven, was the cause of the tumorous cysts that eventually killed most Egg-Layers. It also knew of safe-food in the forms of cows and sheep and pigs. All of which not-We could provide. And of the insatiable appetite for silk that not-We possessed.

H47So02 wondered.

H47So02 knew of the mountain of not-food-Echos the not-We of the Karak-We were gathering. It knew of the new-We that had been added to the Great-Many-Food to guard and care for the not-food-Echos.

H47So02 detected web-sign thread and followed it.

H47So02 knew that there was more in this world for the We, all Wes, than dark tunnels and the looming threat of no-food. It knew than survival was only the foundation of life and that there was so much more it did not know.

H47So02 entered Echo range of other-We. And began to share what it knew.


AN: Just something hopeful that came to me as the New Year approaches.
 
[X] Niedzwenka
[X] Sarvoi
[X] Lord Seilph, the Mystic
[X] Okri
[X] Pan's Treehouse
[X] Middenland
[X] Wissenland
[X] Druchii Diplomats
[X] Skull River Ambush
[X] Kalashiniviks
[X] Silk
 
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[X] Orb Reveal
[X] Silk
[X] Swordplay
[X] Pan's Treehouse
[X] Lord Seilph, the Mystic

I just want Mathilde to do sword things. It's been so long, it feels like.
Alas, it's actually not too long ago in quest terms we finished Branarhune, in order to advance our swording skills further we would either need to get in fights, which many people are wary of due to the risk of Mathilde's death, or keep trying to improve our skills despite our already extreme prowess, which many people feel is unnecessary and some people fear may make Mathilde more vulnerable to Slaanesh's temptation of perfection without a need, and finally many people don't want to do social actions which show off Branarhune to others due to the risk that knowledge might spread to our enemies and nullify Branarhune's main advantage, surprising our foe with it and using it to nullify their martial skill bonus and kill them before they can adapt to it and counter it.
 
[X] Lord Seilph, the Mystic
[X] Orb Reveal
[X] Pan's Treehouse
[X] Silk
[X] Karak Vlag books

Mathilde: Hey baby! Want to head to your treehouse and curl up in my new silk sheet? Would you prefer to ponder my Orb or read lost lore of an entire magical college after?
Pan: Oh, you are too good at Wizard dirty talk for your own good.
 
All of his descendants though? If the reason the Slayer King cycle continues is because no one has managed to fulfill it that means every single King since Baragor has failed to die in battle despite thousands of years of opportunity and the fact that dying in battle is a pretty common cause of death for Dwarven Kings since they often personally participate in them.
If I had to guess, the Drakebeards are simply built different.
 
If I had to guess, the Drakebeards are simply built different.
According to the wiki the current Ungrim Ironfist is the five times great-grandson of the original Baragor. That means there are a total of eight generations of Slayer KIngs including Baragor and Ungrim. Not counting Ungrim (since there's still the possibility of him dying in battle) and spitballing a wild guesstimate that there's maybe a 15% rate of Kings dying in battle that means the probability of the cycle of Slayer Kings continuing on to this point is 0.85^7 or ~32.06%. That's actually much higher than I intuitively expected and makes your explanation, while technically statistically unlikely, definitely plausible. You've convinced me, if it's true each new King of Karak Kadrin feels obligated to take up the Slayer Oath sworn by their parent if they didn't manage to die in a way that fulfills it then yes, that 7 generations of Karak Kadrin's Kings died in such a way that their successor inherited their oath isn't an unreasonably unlikely scenario.
 
[X] Orb Reveal (NEW-ish)
[X] Silk (NEW)
[X] Karak Vlag books (NEW)
[X] Lord Seilph, the Mystic (NEW)
[X] Druchii Diplomats

I haven't checked the tally to see if we're going to diplomacy the Drucii but finding out what they are up to seems kind of important given the buggers are such a huge pain generally. As for the other options I think they go with out requiring an explanation.
 
[X] Orb Reveal (NEW-ish)
[X] Silk (NEW)
[X] Karak Vlag books (NEW)
[X] Lord Seilph, the Mystic (NEW)
[X] Druchii Diplomats

I haven't checked the tally to see if we're going to diplomacy the Drucii but finding out what they are up to seems kind of important given the buggers are such a huge pain generally. As for the other options I think they go with out requiring an explanation.
If you don't want to know the results of the tally don't highlight the inline spoiler below but if you do,

No we aren't going to do Druchii diplomacy this turn barring a miracle, all five of the new options, the Orb reveal, silk, Pan's treehouse, the Karak Vlag books, and Lord Seilph have such a large lead that if you combine the votes with and without (NEW) as part of them the least popular of the five, Karak Vlag books, has over two and a half times as many votes as the next most popular action, looking into the Skull River Ambush. Sorry.
 
Even the construction of the library itself probably wasn't that expensive, it was made by carving out space inside a mountain and Dwarves are excellent at that and even thousands of books don't take up that much space when put in rows upon rows of bookshelf after bookshelf.
I think the main expense in a library is more the maintenance rather than the initial costs.

If books had a habit of staying perfectly preserved with relatively little care the field of history would be much different.
 
I think the main expense in a library is more the maintenance rather than the initial costs.

If books had a habit of staying perfectly preserved with relatively little care the field of history would be much different.
We have a bookshelf explicitly designed to protect its contents, no matter what form they may take, each with its own individually crafted storage space, from the ravages of time. Yes eventually even this may not be enough and we'll have to retranscribe it to a new copy so the knowledge isn't lost when the original crumbles away but we won't have to worry about that for a long time.
Enter this: the Mark One 'Kvinn' Wheeled Modular Bookcase.

The skeleton of the Kvinn looks very much like a short and sturdy stone bookcase with the shelves removed, and it theoretically could be used that way, and perhaps sections could be set up for copies of the more in-demand books if the library starts to attract enough visitors that individual tomes could become bottlenecks. But for the initial collection, your priority is that everything will stay where it is left until it is needed, whether that be an hour or a week or a century later, and over a long enough time period the forces of gravity, moving air, ambient damp, and the friction of books being pulled out and returned begins to accumulate. So in place of shelves can go an array of other carefully-crafted modules. For most books, labelled sliding shelves of varying size will be the answer, with individually-crafted felt-lined cavities for each item. A clever latching mechanism leaves a handle visibly protruding if a shelf isn't fully closed and locked in place, and it requires the proper weight inside of it before it will allow itself to be latched. This is intended to be more a proof against misplaced books than a security mechanism, and it can be replaced with a key lock for the more valuable or dangerous tomes. A similar module has been designed for holding scrolls of various widths and diameters, and as a proof of concept, purpose-built modules for containing various awkward items ranging from a broken pick to a large boulder have been roughly hewn from scrap stone to demonstrate that the system could be adjusted to almost any contents.
 
Truly, patrons, with their grubby oily hands, and habit of taking books out of their perfect preservation shelves are the truest bane of a library. How dare they sully the books.
 
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