Here is a roundup post in preparation for our Library purchases.
Resources we have to work with, as of right now before sheet updates:
Money: 255 Imperial gold coins, 228 dwarf gold coins, and silver ingots worth 3993 Imperial gc or 3072 dwarf gc. We cannot actually freely spend a lot of it
as Imperial currency, since we're committed to the legal fiction of most of it being Dawongr Weber's wealth and thus must spend it within the Karaz Ankor, but I am listing this for completeness' sake. Any listings of just "gc" should be construed as dwarf gc for this purpose, since we've got an amazing hookup with a bookseller in Barak Varr who can get us the goods.
(We have 1024 ingots in total. Such a beautiful round number. Disrupting this breaks my heart. But books are a higher good even than aesthetics.)
Favours: 15 Dwarf (hereafter DF), 16 College (hereafter CF)
Potential Library purchases, organized by the goal they would serve:
- Skaven. We've made a friend. We're currently at +7 (Extensive and Esoteric Imperial / Extensive Dwarven).
- Esoteric Dwarf for 150gc, 4 DF to gain +3; if we want to spend less, drop 50gc/2 Favour to go to +2, and drop 50gc/1 Favour additional to go to +1.
- Extensive Brettonian for 100gc to gain +2.
- Linguistics. We want our new friend to teach us Queekish so that we might learn the language of treachery. We're currently at +7 (Extensive and Esoteric Imperial / Extensive Dwarven).
- Esoteric Dwarf for 150gc, 4 DF to gain +3; if we want to spend less, drop 50gc/2 Favour to go to +2, and drop 50gc/1 Favour additional to go to +1.
- Extensive Brettonian for 100gc to gain +2.
- Anatomy. We picked up a copy of Greyseer's Anatomy from the campus bookstore, presumably because we confused it for the TV show with hunky doctors and thought it was a romance novel. Oh well! If we want to understand what it has to teach us about Chaos Dwarfs, knowing something about the subject might help; we're currently at +0 and don't know a fibula from a medulla oblongata.
- Extensive Imperial for 100gc to gain +2.
- Esoteric Imperial for 150gc to gain +3; if we want to spend less, drop 50gc to go to +2, and drop 50gc additional to go to +1.
- Extensive Dwarf for 100gc to gain +2.
- Esoteric Dwarf for 150gc, 4 DF to gain +3; if we want to spend less, drop 50gc/2 Favour to go to +2, and drop 50gc/1 Favour additional to go to +1.
- Extensive Brettonian for 100gc to gain +2.
- Powerstones. We might do something involving them with our snake juice at some point, but we have yet to take a single college class on the subject, so we don't really have any baseline knowledge of them or a place to start; that experiment option was crossed out last turn. Currently +0.
- Extensive Imperial for 100gc to gain +2.
- Esoteric Imperial for 150gc, 4 CF to gain +3; if we want to spend less, drop 50gc/2 Favour to go to +2, and drop 50gc/1 Favour additional to go to +1.
- Hysh. We are studying a thing made up of eight winds and only have books for seven. But more importantly, one of those
complete tossers valuable colleagues might come visit, and we can't do the Smug Grey Wizard thing if we don't have the info on hand with which to be smug.
- Extensive Imperial for 100gc to gain +2.
- We are absolutely not getting Esoteric/Antiquarian/Obscure on this, it would spoil the symmetry of our library. Calculate it your own damn self if you care.
I will update this post as needed if people start seriously floating other subjects.
(Currently, my preference would be Skaven: Extensive Brettonian, Linguistics: Extensive Brettonian, and Anatomy: Extensive all three. 500gc is a noticeable chunk of change, but not a pace that is going to bankrupt us any time soon. We had warning the last time wizards dropped in on us and bought their Lore then, we can do the same if Sunscryer Jr. decides that K8P would look better with a manmade crater in it.)
