Voted best in category in the Users' Choice awards.
Hm.

Seeing so much dancing around the subject so much has left me wondering how many people are voting for the dragon because dragons are hot.
 
C'mon, Johann voters! Lend him your energy effortposts!
Effort posts are weak giants with feet of clay, vulnerable like Onix' stuck in the middle of the sea.

No, what you need are cute shippable moments.

@picklepikkl, you have practiced the arcane arts of the search engine. What you should do is scour the entire canon, picking up as many cute, adorable and/or sweet moments as you can, and them slowly disseminate them through the thread, so no one can close their eyes to the chemistry between Goldenboy and Shadowlass.
 
...Well, this definitely isn't the voting landscape I expected to see when I woke up.

[X] [ROMANCE] Magister Johann
Dropping my other votes and re-quoting my effortpost:

C'mon, Johann voters! Lend him your energy effortposts!
I'll effort post after I have cooked and eaten dinner and not a moment sooner! An effort poster is never late picklepikkl. She arrives precisely when she means to.
 
Hm.

Seeing so much dancing around the subject so much has left me wondering how many people are voting for the dragon because dragons are hot.
To my surprise, this thread is the only place Google can find where the phrase "inherent eroticism of dragons" has been used. But yeah, like vampires, if you start looking at dragons sideways there's things hiding in the implications of their mythological representations.
Fridge benefits, surely.
If they shake a cup of milk and sugar around, do we get ice cream?
 
Johann had his eyes set on Skaventech as a means to an end. The equation has changed since he took sight on that target as a newly-minted Magister.

Two puns about his eyes in one line of text? Have you no shame?

It's not. Vote for the things you actually want. Artificially inflating the non-romance votes won't change who will eventually win the romance voting, it will just make it take longer.

That's not strictly true. Voting for non-romance options can turn "2 romance in the top 4" scenario into "1 romance in the top 4" even if it cannot change who gets 1st place among romance options, and those scenarios are obviously different romance-wise.

Hm.

Seeing so much dancing around the subject so much has left me wondering how many people are voting for the dragon because dragons are hot.
This one is actually cold.

[X] Belegar, to discuss the northern Karaks and the Expedition.
[X] Eike Hochschild, to get to know your future business partner.
[X] Kasmir, to see how he's keeping himself busy in Sylvania.
[X] [ROMANCE] Journeywoman Panoramia

@BoneyM, our work on the lightbulb has "Insight: Agreement", which usually means that there is already a lot of research on the topic and our results are in line with what was achieved previously. Does that mean that the uses of electricity were already studied (presumabl by Celestials) and we just didn't know about it?
 
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I give everyone who votes for dragon likes from this point onward.

VOTE FOR CYTHON MY COMRADES!

FOR DRAGONS AND FOR THE MEMES!
 
@BoneyM, our work on the lightbulb has "Insight: Agreement", which usually means that there is already a lot of research on the topic and your results are in line with what was achieved previously. Does that mean that the uses of electricity were already studied (presumabl by Celestials) and we just didn't know about it?

"You can use Azyr to make light" has everyone looking at the spell Marsh Lights and saying "yes, we know."
 
"You can use Azyr to make light" has everyone looking at Marsh Lights and saying "yes, we know."

Technically our paper is about using a by product of azyr to make light in a new novel way that doesn't require a wizard being constantly involved.

Seriously, just get a bunch of celestials to create a super lightning maker and hook that sunnuvabitch up to some wiring and you got yourself the beginnings of a power grid!
 
"You can use Azyr to make light" has everyone looking at Marsh Lights and saying "yes, we know."
But this one says you can use Azyr to make light without casting a light-related spell. Beyond even that it says that non-Celestial Wizards can build a thing that will make Azyr make light without needing any enchanting other than a generic Azyr battery. It's definitely not practical, but it is pretty unprecedented I'd think.
 
[X] Belegar, to discuss the northern Karaks and the Expedition.
[X] Eike Hochschild, to get to know your future business partner.
[X] Kasmir, to see how he's keeping himself busy in Sylvania.
[X] Barak Varr, to watch the progress of the canal.
[X] Follow up on your donation of the Skaven organ-vat, and see what has been made of it.
[X] The Gold College, to see what's become of their research into Skaven technology.
 
Technically our paper is about using a by product of azyr to make light in a new novel way that doesn't require a wizard being constantly involved.

Seriously, just get a bunch of celestials to create a super lightning maker and hook that sunnuvabitch up to some wiring and you got yourself the beginnings of a power grid!

I don't think anyone has made the distinction between Azyr and the electrical energy if creates yet.
 
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It does (slightly) decrease the likelyhood of multiple romance votes winning during the same turn. Ans since some people care about the number of winning romance votes nearly as much as they do about who in particular wins and yet you haven't given players any option to vote on that, it seems like a fair vote if you aren't really passionately in favor or against any of the non-romance options. None of them are mechanically significant or putting us on a firm narrative path after all. And personally I trust you to write something cool even for the social options that I'm not burning to see.
That's not strictly true. Voting for non-romance options can turn "2 romance in the top 4" scenario into "1 romance in the top 4" even if it cannot change who gets 1st place among romance options, and those scenarios are obviously different romance-wise.

I suppose that's true. I don't like that level of strategic voting but put like that I can't really deny it has a place here.

Technically our paper is about using a by product of azyr to make light in a new novel way that doesn't require a wizard being constantly involved.

Seriously, just get a bunch of celestials to create a super lightning maker and hook that sunnuvabitch up to some wiring and you got yourself the beginnings of a power grid!
But this one says you can use Azyr to make light without casting a light-related spell. Beyond even that it says that non-Celestial Wizards can build a thing that will make Azyr make light without needing any enchanting other than a generic Azyr battery. It's definitely not practical, but it is pretty unprecedented I'd think.

Working as intended. The Colleges don't have the benefit of a fully revealed tech tree to see what will turn out to be significant. All they see is 'oh, a roundabout way to duplicate an incredibly easy spell. That's kind of cool, I guess'.

@BoneyM do we know how much Azyr was actually drained from the Blue Tower to power that device?

More than it would have taken to cost Marsh Lights.
 
[X] [ROMANCE] The Ice Dragon of Karag Zilfin
[X] Sir Ruprecht Wulfhart, leader of the frontier town of Ulrikadrin.
[X] Stirland, to see for yourself how the war against Sylvania is progressing.
[X] Kasmir, to see how he's keeping himself busy in Sylvania.
[X] Julia, to see what she has gotten up to as Stirland's most experienced spy master.
[X] The Amber College, to check in on the salamanders.
[X] The Gold College, to see what's become of their research into Skaven technology.
 
[X] Belegar, to discuss the northern Karaks and the Expedition.
[X] Eike Hochschild, to get to know your future business partner.
[X] Kasmir, to see how he's keeping himself busy in Sylvania.
[X] Barak Varr, to watch the progress of the canal.
 
I don't think anyone has made the distinction between Azyr and the electrical energy if creates yet.
It's still undifferentiated Azyr from a battery or powerstone being made to do "a thing" (turning on a light in this case) without additional Azyr-based spellcasting or enchanting being needed. It's like a Muggle inventing the Light spell as long as he has an external mana battery.
 
[X] [ROMANCE] Baron Anton Kiesinger II
[X] [ROMANCE] Magister Johann
[X] Belegar, to discuss the northern Karaks and the Expedition.
[X] Kasmir, to see how he's keeping himself busy in Sylvania.
[X] Sir Ruprecht Wulfhart, leader of the frontier town of Ulrikadrin.
 
[X] [ROMANCE] Journeywoman Panoramia

[X] Gretel, who's apparently spending her newly-earned wealth to make herself at home.

[X] Belegar, to discuss the northern Karaks and the Expedition.
[X] Elder Hluodwica, High Priestess of Esmerelda and civilian leader of the Eight Peaks Halflings.

[X] Barak Varr, to watch the progress of the canal.
[X] Stirland, to see for yourself how the war against Sylvania is progressing.

[X] Kasmir, to see how he's keeping himself busy in Sylvania.

[X] The Amber College, to check in on the salamanders.
[X] The Gold College, to see what's become of their research into Skaven technology.
[X] Follow up on your donation of the Skaven organ-vat, and see what has been made of it.
 
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