This is a clever theory, but has the snag that he looks suspiciously at Wolf before he starts teaching Mathilde.
My guess is that it has to do with the fact that you need the right mindset to cast MMM and a familiar's mindset is capable of "leaking" and polluting a spell the wizard is trying to cast:
And so he's giving the familiar a suspicious eye because he has an inkling that Wolf's happy-go-lucky nature is going to mess with the teaching.
And here we have more evidence of Mathilde's subtleness. Barely even needed to present her arguments. Masterful work.
Immediately jumps past negotiation and straight to "Holy shit I want a piece of that". Truly Mathilde is the Ringmaster and everyone merely parts of her show.
I think this is not just a knack for communication, but also how fluent Mathilde is in wibbly wobbly shadowmancy talk,
mainly based on how well she rolled here.
Completely justifiable.
He could just be suspicious of dog slobber.
Right, but he's taught three generations of wizards how to cast this spell. If familiar mindstate leakage is a known issue, then he arrives at K8P, sees Mathilde's familiar being, well, a happy playful dog, and internally goes "ah, this might be a problem, better watch out for it screwing up her casting."
What does "it" refer to in their legends? Does the Empire literally censor the official origin myths of two close by polities or is it more vague and allowing for plausible deniability?
Yeah, but you are still bound to the Articles on your way to becoming Emperor/Empress.
How would we decide that. Usually we vote on what to do, not on how Mathilde justifies said actions to herself or how she feels about it while doing stuff.
That's +28 + 20 + 5 to the DC 70 casting roll too (DC 50 to cast a spell we don't know, and -20 to our rolls because we don't know it), bringing it down to DC 17. I didn't include the tower bonus because we can't get that in the College, and we know that the College lowers DCs by around the same amount the tower raises our numbers, so it's about the same either way.
If the thread makes choices because they're worried about the ominous warnings, BoneyM will write Mathilde making those choices for that reason. They read every post in the thread, so they're capable of getting a pretty good idea of that sort of thing.
Probably by way of the shape of the discussion in the thread.
There's also the teacher bonuses, which i imagine being at least ten for competent instructors, maybe twenty if Regimand didn't have any sort of extra bonus for being our Master. We didn't see Melkoth's, probably because it's fuck-off huge, but normal teachers would have at least something, I think.
If the only result of that roll is preventing a "You see that wibbly stuff?" "... What?" situation, I'll be happy.
Somehow, every missed class was Diplomacy. Regimand still isn't sure if that was intentional or not.
Hey, when we started out, Martial was our lowest stat and Diplomacy just our second-lowest!
@BoneyM, I think you missed this edit to TNE's post.
Seeing how we don't micromanage the Ducklings and usually only cost our hired Gold Wizards a subset of their actions each turn, do you also have something like lists of their more general advancements that are/were unrelated to Karak Dum?
What is the state of art right now when it comes to things like portraits? Is accurate anatomy and depth already a thing among both Humans and Dwarves? Has realism already taken off?
I'm kind of worried about the omnious warnings of what lies in the North, too
