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I'd rather delay any fortifications until we establish the nature and location of any mineral wealth. We might want to protect it, if it's valuable enough.

Eh~ I'm unsure of the rate we are expected to spend the 1200ish gold we told grey accountant we were going to spend. I think it's fairly safe to use up half like my plan and would rather voters vote to spend as much.
 
Not only do we study Enchanting, we also have access to the Liber Mortis.

... I'm not the only one wanting to put it to use here, right?
Admit it. You just want a NecroNeko familiar.

Eh~ I'm unsure of the rate we are expected to spend the 1200ish gold we told grey accountant we were going to spend. I think it's fairly safe to use up half like my plan and would rather voters vote to spend as much.
Surveying first, spending later is perfectly justifiable, as long as we follow up shortly after.
 
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I admit it, after Abelheim's death I want Mathilde to go down the path of a Nekoromancer.

How much time did that pun took you?
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In other news, the upcoming conflict within empire and mountain ww1 would be very good for EIC to expand out of Stirland. Great money to be made from feeding the armies and buying up soldiers' spoil of war in bulk. Might want to take the exam next next turn, just for Mathilde to finish forming the new fog spell and invisibility for plan b if drafted.
 
Why is Matilde suddenly into mining and whatnot. These are some random-ass Stirlandian hills in some nowhere land. We are a Grey Wizard. We should either be researching magic, or widening our intelligence sources, or be making useful friends or connections, or fighting the enemies of the Empire, or hell even take some holidays and socialize. This is not a civ or nation builder quest guys. The CK2 part is for the stat system, not the gameplay goals.

[X] Plan: Man what is this backlog of stuff I need to study

And just for fun I also approve this one:

[X] Plan Seventeen Can't Think Of A Name
 
Speaking of Familiars what would you guys think about a Panther familiar they are cute and deadly and keeps with the cat theme!!! :V
 
A Panther familiar would be nice, but, I repeat from the update: Animals that are suitable to be familiars are incredibly rare. Mathilde has a palace full of cats, more cats are common in the city, and even so searching through those for a cat familiar still has the lowest chance of success of the familiar options.
If you were bent on having a panther familiar specifically, you might have to examine a hundred panthers to find a suitable one. Where are you going to find a hundred panthers in the first place?
 
By all means.

I have been thinking of some long term goals we may wish to work towards:
1) Track down Teclis and follow him on his adventures.
2) Sneak into a fallen Dwarf Hold and reverse engineer the secrets of Rune Smithing.
3) Become Supreme Patriarch Matriarch.
4) Rid Sylvania of undead.
4b) Rid Mousillon of undead.
4c) Rid Nehekhara of undead.
5) Create an Empire-wide personal spy network.
6) Become an Advisor to the Emperor.
6b) Become the advisor to someone and make them Emperor.
6c) Become Emperor.
7) Take over a Tilean city state and declare its allegiance to the Empire.
7b) Take over a City state and don't declare allegiance to anyone.
8) Kill, or arrange the death of, Malekith.
9) Open trade relations between the Empire and Nippon.
10) Find out if Cathay is ruled by an actual dragon or just someone with delusions of dragonhood.

Any thoughts?
 
Another reason to become Magister ASAP: it means we can get a drudge apprentice to carry out minor actions for us like buying library filler.
 
Another reason to become Magister ASAP: it means we can get a drudge apprentice to carry out minor actions for us like buying library filler.
We can, but will an Apprentice not be an action sink, needing training actions?

An assigned Journeyman is probably more like you imagine, unfortunately we're not Spymistress anymore and have no cool roles to delegate.

In my mind,

Apprentice = Undergrad, a net drain.

Journeyman = Postgrad, doing our drudge work.
 
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Maybe a Journeyman, then. *shrug* I have the vague impression that an early-stage Apprentice would be an action sink but they are sinks who sit in Grey College proper, learning Petty Magic and "chaos is bad", a late-stage Apprentice can be trusted to do stuff for us while mostly following around and learning by watching, and a Journeyman would require us to find meaningful stuff for them to do that isn't library stocking.

But whichever one it is, rank has its privileges. Probably.
 
4) Rid Sylvania of undead.
4b) Rid Mousillon of undead.
4c) Rid Nehekhara of undead.

Increasingly ambitious I see.

2) Sneak into a fallen Dwarf Hold and reverse engineer the secrets of Rune Smithing.

Fairly sure we can't make much direct use of rune smithing, and just being caught making the attempt would cost us pretty much all our dorf cred, so...don't get caught?

7) Take over a Tilean city state and declare its allegiance to the Empire.

While I approve of this in principal in practice any Tilean city you take over is going to inevitably be full of Tileans, which almost makes it not worth it. /estaliansympathizer
 
By all means.

I have been thinking of some long term goals we may wish to work towards:
1) Track down Teclis and follow him on his adventures.
2) Sneak into a fallen Dwarf Hold and reverse engineer the secrets of Rune Smithing.
3) Become Supreme Patriarch Matriarch.
4) Rid Sylvania of undead.
4b) Rid Mousillon of undead.
4c) Rid Nehekhara of undead.
5) Create an Empire-wide personal spy network.
6) Become an Advisor to the Emperor.
6b) Become the advisor to someone and make them Emperor.
6c) Become Emperor.
7) Take over a Tilean city state and declare its allegiance to the Empire.
7b) Take over a City state and don't declare allegiance to anyone.
8) Kill, or arrange the death of, Malekith.
9) Open trade relations between the Empire and Nippon.
10) Find out if Cathay is ruled by an actual dragon or just someone with delusions of dragonhood.

Any thoughts?
1 is doable, but he probably won't want the equivalent of a monkey that can use a fork around
2 is foolish, as it is both impractical, dangerous and likely to piss off the dwarfs
3 is doable with a long time frame
4 are ... Doable? But very hard
5 is doable with abstraction for the sake of boneys sanity
6a and b are doable
6c is illegal
7 oughta be fun
8 would be very very hard, as malekith has been preparing to get murdered for centuries. And also against the prophecies that foretell his demise.
9 is doable but hard for boney, as he would have to basically build Nippon from scratch
10 see above
 
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We can, but will an Apprentice not be an action sink, needing training actions?

An assigned Journeyman is probably more like you imagine, unfortunately we're not Spymistress anymore and have no cool roles to delegate.

In my mind,

Apprentice = Undergrad, a net drain.

Journeyman = Postgrad, doing our drudge work.
The bulk of the people who do work like that for the Colleges are "apprentices-in-perpetuity", which is to say, people who are magical and loyal to the Colleges but don't have the ability to rise past Magic 1 in game terms. They never make it to journeyman but at about the point where they would, instead they basically graduate into being their Magister's minion for life (as their Magister remains responsible for their actions and will still need to hunt them down or be executed as responsible if they fall to dhar, etc. there's no getting away from that). Because "by far the majority of people with any kind of magical aptitude will not have the talents needed to rise in rank" (Realms of Sorcery p. 77), there are many more of these people than Magisters. The flavor is ambiguous enough that a not unreasonable interpretation would say that they outnumber all other ranks of College members combined.

So yes, an apprentice is a net drain. After a decade they either become a journeyman and don't work for you anymore (count the number of actions we've done for our Master since making journeyman and set expectations appropriately; we're not even supposed to be within fifty leagues of him right now), or they become your lifelong minion.
 
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So hey, question.

Apparently if we pay a 1.5x penalty, we can have stuff built and examined without taking an action in our little land grant.

Why are we not taking advantage of this to get more stuff done there And get actions done?
 
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