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Warhammer Fantasy: Divided Loyalties - an Advisor's Quest

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BoneyM said:
The other Councillors seem to be used to you not always being called upon in these meetings, and you take that you aren't taken aside for a one-on-one meeting with Belegar as approval to continue.
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Council Member: So, what problems have you been encountering lately?
Mathilde Weber: My employee poured magical gold into his eyes of his own volition.
Council Member: ... are they ok?
Mathilde Weber: They would have been if the magic held, but..., you know... magic. The magic failed and they boiled their eyes and now they are blind until they can try again.
Council Member: ... so about that elevator.
 
I'm a bit surprised about how that went down, but in hindsight it makes perfect sense. It's not like there's been much cause for them to need to learn how to gracefully coordinate before this. Seeing as they'd rarely leave.

BoneyM said:
'Ask an acquaintance', which also allows for a free gambit.
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Will working together on the captured light fixture ever be a possible duckling action or is that something we'll need a main action for if we want to get it done?
 
My proposal:

MAX: Receive dictation.

JOHANN: Attempt to take advantage of his temporarily blindness to improve his Windsight

DUCK: Work with Panoramia for her to finally get around to investigating the greenskin mushrooms she found.

EIC: Integrate the Gong Farmers and the Niter Factory into the EIC, and expand production.

Travel to the Grey College and attend lessons there: Practical Diplomacy

Investigate how the We communicates with... itself?

Dictate papers: Queekish-Khazalid Dictionary, including spoken Low Queekish

Investigate how the Vitae reacts to Dwarven magic-dampening Runes. (2 Dwarf favours)

PENTHOUSE: Have a tower built atop Karag Nar: -100gc for 1 room, bonus to room's purpose.

SERENITY: Queekish-Reikspiel Dictionary, including spoken Low Queekish (1/2)

Dictionaries, AV, practical diplo, spider friends. Johann works on Windsight, EIC can have our damn factory so it can do some more good.

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BoneyM said:
"They've declared that they can't work on Gyrocopters without breaching Guild Secrets of the Engineers Guild of Karaz-a-Karak,"
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Don't the Engineers that work on the current K8Ps Aircorp come from Karaz-a-Karak's Engineers Guild?
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"This is Prince Gotri Stoneheart. The title is still being debated, but for now he is 'Sky-Thane'. Gotri, put a branch of the Aircorp in Karag Lhune."

"Isn't it-"

"Yes. It's retaken. Have the hangars been cleared?"

"Aye," says King Belegar, too stubborn to show any bewilderment.

"They'll need a branch of the Engineer's Guild to maintain them, so see to that as well." The rest of the details are shaken out in rapid-fire fashion, and mere minutes later you find yourself climbing the innumerable stairs once more.
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Welp, while I go back through the updates I've missed while on... sabbatical from the thread...

I must say that while I am unsurprised by this behavior from the Karaz-a-Karak workers, I truly expected better from them.

Arrogant assholes...
 
Thomasfoolery said:
Will working together on the captured light fixture ever be a possible duckling action or is that something we'll need a main action for if we want to get it done?
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None of the Ducklings have the skills to contribute to that.

Chimeraguard said:
Don't the Engineers that work on the current K8Ps Aircorp come from Karaz-a-Karak's Engineers Guild?
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Yes, but they were the ones willing to be indefinitely seconded to a foreign Karak, under the authority of a local Engineers Guild headed by someone from Zhufbar.
 
picklepikkl said:
My proposal:

MAX: Receive dictation.

JOHANN: Attempt to take advantage of his temporarily blindness to improve his Windsight

DUCK: Work with Panoramia for her to finally get around to investigating the greenskin mushrooms she found.

EIC: Integrate the Gong Farmers and the Niter Factory into the EIC, and expand production.

Travel to the Grey College and attend lessons there: Practical Diplomacy

Investigate how the We communicates with... itself?

Dictate papers: Queekish-Khazalid Dictionary, including spoken Low Queekish

Investigate how the Vitae reacts to Dwarven magic-dampening Runes. (2 Dwarf favours)

PENTHOUSE: Have a tower built atop Karag Nar: -100gc for 1 room, bonus to room's purpose.

SERENITY: Queekish-Reikspiel Dictionary, including spoken Low Queekish (1/2)

Dictionaries, AV, practical diplo, spider friends. Johann works on Windsight, EIC can have our damn factory so it can do some more good.
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I think that we should take the linguists, Mathilde is a learning genius, but making a whole dictionary by herself is way off any of her specialties...
 
I feel we should definitely go and put our gong and niter factories under the EIC they would be able to use them a lot more effectively and we wouldn't have to micromanage them any more.
 
This is what I have in mind.

We've been sitting on the Tongs thing for too long now. I'm tired of not using opportunities to research this stuff when we have tower bonuses specifically for that.

MAX: Receive dictation.

JOHANN: Attempt to take advantage of his temporarily blindness to improve his Windsight

DUCK: Spend time with Hubert in an attempt to find him a purpose. (NEW)

EIC: Integrate the Gong Farmers and the Niter Factory into the EIC, and expand production.

Travel to the Grey College and attend lessons there: Powerstone Creation (1 College Favor)

Investigate the possibility of using one Wind to directly manipulate another.

Dictate papers: Queekish-Khazalid Dictionary, including spoken Low Queekish

Investigate how the Vitae reacts to Dwarven magic-dampening Runes. (2 Dwarf favours)

PENTHOUSE: Have a tower built atop Karag Nar: -100gc for 1 room, bonus to room's purpose.

SERENITY: Queekish-Reikspiel Dictionary, including spoken Low Queekish (1/2)
 
My votes are for:

[ ] JOHANN: Attempt to take advantage of his temporarily blindness to improve his Windsight. (NEW)

[ ] DUCK: Magical target-shooting is rough on normal targets. Set up a specialized target range for your ducklings, and for any other wizards at Eight Peaks.

[ ] Bring in a Perpetual Apprentice to start grooming as a handler for intelligence matters of the EIC. (1 favour/turn)
- The sooner this happens, the sooner the benefits will come.
and:

[ ] Write a paper: Brief observations on Eshin Sorcery (FADING)
- Last chance.
 
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Dictating to Max and finally doing that dictionary is obvious. I'd like to investigate the mushrooms with Panoramia because that option has been around for a while, and apparently the mushrooms have been preventing the Halflings from cultivating some of the land. I forgot about that. I don't think we've spent much time with Panoramia for a while outside of the regular meetings, and I think she cares more about the mushrooms than becoming a magister.
 
HM. Preferences, I guess! I'd prefer to get the dictionary done ASAP, but whatever happens happens.

[ ] MAX: Shrug
Whatever works toward The Goal.

[ ] JOHANN: Attempt to take advantage of his temporarily blindness to improve his Windsight.

Sitting around slowly healing sucks, get productive!

[ ] DUCK: Spend time with Hubert in an attempt to find him a purpose.

Narrowing my eyes at the wizard wannabe.

[ ] Investigate how the Vitae reacts to Dwarven magic-dampening Runes. (2 Dwarf favours)

Prefer to get this done first before going to the following, but I'm okay jumping the gun for it.

[ ] Call in favours to get a specific Runesmith to examine the interaction between Runes and Vitae with you.

Kraaaaaaaag, go get your anvil!!!

[ ] Wolf is fully grown, very smart, and a Very Good Boy. Train him further. (specify what he will be taught)

Reikspiel or Khazalid for utility time. That or we make him a huge pile of flash cards he can whip out with Move to tell people what he wants. :V

[ ] Integrate the Gong Farmers and the Niter Factory into the EIC, and expand production.

It was enough of a hubbub last vote that I imagine it's worth doing.
 
[ ] Investigate how the Vitae reacts to Dwarven magic-dampening Runes. (2 Dwarf favours)

[ ] Call in favours to get a specific Runesmith to examine the interaction between Runes and Vitae with you. (10 Dwarf Favor or whatever is best of the best tier)

I'm fine with doing both of these two instead of learning the tongs method.
 
[ ] DUCK: Work with Panoramia for her to finally get around to investigating the greenskin mushrooms she found.
[ ] DUCK: Spend time with Hubert in an attempt to find him a purpose. (NEW)
Damm I'm torn on this :/

[ ] DUCK: When Gretel makes her foray into being a mercenary, go with her to supervise and, if necessary, intervene. (NEW)
Wonder if we can loan her out Hysh item, or if it would even be helpful, but not interested in the action expenditure. Birds gotta fly some day.

[ ] MAX: Receive dictation: specify which. Must be taken with a 'dictate' action. - Dwarf Book, of course


[ ] JOHANN: Allow him to take it easy until his eyes recover enough for a second attempt at Gilding. (NEW)
[ ] JOHANN: Attempt to take advantage of his temporarily blindness to improve his Windsight. (NEW)
Honestly not sure which I want. Am leaning to the windsight, but would like to hear arguments for resting

[ ] Bring in a Perpetual Apprentice to start grooming as a handler for intelligence matters of the EIC. (1 favour/turn) This, then, the handlers and such, then the gong farmers turn after that

[ ] Dictate papers: select which two, must be taken with Max's 'receive dictation'. Dwarven dictionary, of course.
[ ] SERENITY: Reikspiel Dictionary

[ ] PENTHOUSE: Have a tower built atop Karag Nar: -100gc for 1 room, bonus to room's purpose.
[ ] PENTHOUSE: Have additional rooms excavated underneath your Penthouse: -125gc for 5 rooms.
Very much in favour of towers. Towers cool.

Floating actions, Three available
[ ] Call in favours to get a specific Runesmith to examine the interaction between Runes and Vitae with you. [Coin]
Want this, very much, have been eager for this, with max roll if we can.

[ ] Travel to the Grey College and attend lessons there - Diplomacy
Has been talked about a lot and is worth doing

[ ] Gain enough control of your attraction to smoke and gases to have it collect away from your face.
Last action, but not strongly held to, i.e. worth trying at some point but there may well be better options now
 
picklepikkl said:
EIC: Integrate the Gong Farmers and the Niter Factory into the EIC, and expand production.
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We voted to use the EIC to be an information source. In addition, we spent a lot of actions preparing the EIC to be used as an information source. So we should be either exploiting its information, or expanding its capabilities. I think getting the non-private information would be a better use of time. Alternatively, now that we know Roswita's plans, telling Roswita about tax cheaters synergizes REALLY nicely, weakening the Vampire counts.
picklepikkl said:
DUCK: Work with Panoramia for her to finally get around to investigating the greenskin mushrooms she found.
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This is definitely something I want to do.
picklepikkl said:
Investigate how the Vitae reacts to Dwarven magic-dampening Runes. (2 Dwarf favours)
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If we are planning to make AV our next Belegar project, we'll get the favours for free. Instead, see what happens with the powerstone.
picklepikkl said:
Investigate how the We communicates with... itself?
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Ultimately much less necessary than other things we could be studying, especially the Coin. Why not study that instead? In addition, if Johann gets Windsight, we could outsource spider-talk to him on a later turn.
 
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