I mean next turn I'd like to finally spend that free social action on either Wolf or Belegar. See if we can get him to expand our remit a little to include scouting/information gathering.
I think the main opposition here is that an expansion of our remit means potential Action point starvation. I think the thread would be very reluctant to commit at least one turn to scouting every turn, especially considering the following priorities:
1. Getting a shrine of Ranald up
2. Researching the Wisdom Asp juice
3. Commerce the long process of building our Penthouse, so our money doesn't just sit there, but actually go to investing in magical infarstructure, and before those funds, which the thread is itching to spend goes to other less essential things because it sounds amusing, as has happened this turn.
4. Learning new spells
5. Doing our next assignment as a Court Wizard
Furthermore, the Anton vs Wolf vote was very close the last time round, so I suspect the Wolf vote would show up very strongly this round - there's a huge constituency thinks things we are neglecting our Wolf. So yes, it's an uphill struggle to convince the thread to have Belegar officially expand our remit. You'd have to propose axing one of these several popular options out of the contention, and give a very good reason why approaching King Belegar ought to take priority over one of those other very popular and in some cases, time-sensitive actions.
Honestly, I'm hoping for a penthouse building option where Mathilde could simply create a blue-print, have the Dwarves start building the structure/skeleton of her penthouse in an action, and gradually over a series of turns, set up room after room as she finds time to fill in the skeleton. I do feel we need to cordon off/earmark the funds to penthouse construction as soon as possible at least - for one, it allows the thread to agree ahead of time, rather than rehash things every turn as to how ambitious or penthouse should be each time we go for an expansion, which would be very, very tiring and crumbersome. For another, I think it divests Mathilde of directly held, liquid currency as soon as possible if indeed Mathilde should not be holding on to too much liquid wealth at once. I do foresee if we don't do this, the Penthouse/tower would never be complete since it's hard to get the thread to keep agreeing to stick to a multi-turn penthouse/tower plan given how big the thread is, and action point starvation would make progress really hard.
@BoneyM : could there be a way for Mathilde to plan out/blueprint her Karag Nar penthouse/tower ahead of time, lock a building fund into it, to be slowly released as Mathilde finds the free time to execute the plan, room by room? Or for example, to get the skeleton of her penthouse built by the Dwarves over a few turns without her direct involvement beyond the initial commission, then spend turns to slowly flesh it out with facilities, security measures and dedicated rooms as budget/time permits?
