What would you recommend as useful work for him?
If you know how to use a weapon, you know how to maintain a weapon. For a device like a firearm, knowledge of maintenance can easily translate into knowledge of construction.
Fair, but I'd still rather have the Aqshy beacon, since that still puts a half-day clock on any siege.
We could ask the dragon...
Spend favor for saving AP?
...it is, in fact, extremely tempting. We would need to learn either Illusion or Shroud of Invisibility to avoid the trait, but the former is partially known already, and as you point out, College Favour is very gettable. We don't get the benefit of the Tower of Dusk and Dawn on our spell learning, but we get action economy (yay!) and instruction (probably not as good as a +20 on the roll, but still good).
* Max is a trained smith with 16 Learning, Patient, and Law of Logic. He could take a swing at any of the artifacts in our backlog and do a good job. My personal preference is "work on getting Johann unstuck on the ratling gun," but @veekie makes a good point about synergy.
The college gives us a lower DC rather than a bonus IIRC. They have thier own spell-learning set-ups.
GET ME GOTREK, RIGHT NOW! - Mathilde, if she knew he existed, probably.
The phrase "let sleeping dogs lie"? Yeah, Karak Eight Peaks has a slightly different version...
Yeah, I understand that. The question is whether the lower DC is a delta of more than 20. If it isn't, Tower is still better... but having a guaranteed swing at both the spell we really want and a partially-known spell that would avoid the negatrait is probably worth it.
The real value isn't the long-term AP saving, it's "we get a guarantee of two chances to avoid the nega-trait this turn," which is otherwise impossible.
This has been asked a bunch. Not without trade contacts in Marienburg.
I will say that it's worth it, and will second any plan that puts this in motion.
Basically, gacha works by going to the college and hoping that someone is teaching the spells we want to learn. This translates into a roll. By paying 10 favor, we are essentially pulling strings to make sure that the spells we want are definitely being taught.@Quest I don't understand the mechanics of how it would work - but people say it is possible. I'm up for it.
Do you want to be the one to poke the thing that kills Greater Daemons awake with a stick? Because I'm not doing it.
We have a lot more favor than we have AP. We get about 4 per turn free before taking into account any pending favors and any favors for actions that also happen to help the college. This is all without actively spending AP on getting favor.
I'd prefer either handlers or Undumgi for the EIC action, I don't think the mistform paper is really worth writing (I am biased towards writing papers with tactical applications, in pursuit of a goal of "making the Empire better able to fight its enemies," so I'd prefer to get the bonus on the Waaaagh countering paper), and I think securing our home against infiltration is better than securing the dungeon when we've already got a Mystical Matrix on our boy.
I'd prefer two Qrech actions but that's personal preference. I do think we should fortify our penthouse first. Otherwise, it looks good.
I really think this would be a good thing to get out of the way.
