Greetings from page 8980, everyone.
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Karaz Ankor troubleshooter, or Ambassador-at-Large to the Karaz Ankor... we could end up rubbing shoulders with the Karak Vlag dwarfs again, after having saved them. That could be cool. But, ah, I want a job that lets us do the Waystone thing.
Also, some things on my To-Do list that I want to get done:
*Seviroscope for Kragg
*Elfcation
*Our Papers list exploded when we got all those coins, and all those Ghyran/Ulgu/etc mushrooms... and then exploded even more with our expedition! Even divine research. And Aethyric Vitae. And tongs.
*All sorts of social things. Talking to people, seeing the echoes and repercussions of our saving the Okral, and then the Karag Dum expedition... Seeing how the EIC and Canal and Marienburg thing is going still/again.
To clarify, I want to get some of that to-do list done on the way to our new job, or while doing our next job, or whatever. Elfcation doesn't necessarily have to happen just yet but eh. And then there's our Transcendent Boon.
I actually kind of want a turn or two to whittle down our big to-do list, before the next big job. (Unfortunately, the world may not always be kind enough to wait for that!)
Also... I want to see what the Kislevites are doing. It'd require taking the "High Priestess of Ranald" job, but... argh. How long would that job go for? Urgh. So many cool things I want to do! ... Like... I want the Kislev thing, but I want to get it done as a single job or project, perhaps over a few turns, rather than "Yep, I'm doing this for the next 5-10 turns!" thing.
The Eonir Waystone project though.
We have a renewable, constant, source of Dwarf Runesmith favor.
... Also also. The Empire Great Deeds we have available. I know there's a lot of talk on using them for something at K8P, but... I wonder if we can have the Great Deeds be put to work for something Eonir Waystone Research-related instead? For that matter, for all we know, we may want to hang on to the Great Deeds until
after we've gotten some effort into the Waystone job invested.
Because, here's the thing I'm fretting about: that we do the Waystone job, we actually make progress, and then we find out "Holy shit, we could ask the Empire to provide backing for a Cool Thing!
This is something we can spend a Great Deed on!" Except then we are out of Great Deeds, because we spent them on building a research or campus in K8P. ><
Speaking of Great Deed stuff though, can somebody remind me -- was it said somewhere that we could use our Great Deed to ask the Colleges to make a Seviroscope? I feel like that was a question that was asked at some point, but I don't recall what the answer was.
((Also, if the Great Deed can get stuff from the Colleges -- I am fairly sure this is not the case, but... -- one cool thing to ask for would be... well, I actually wrote this upper part of the post last, so... but anyway. Ask the Jade College to come to Stirland and set up some productive farmland. Maybe using the Ghyran Acorn.))
It has come to the attention of Grand Count Konstantin von Liebwitz that the Lady Magister Mathilde Weber has peerless expertise in certain sensitive matters that may present difficulty for Wissenland and Nuln in these coming years, that would benefit the Empire as a whole should she accept the position of Spymaster of Wissenland...
Hmm. When we heard of Roswita's troubles with Sylvania, we had a few Actions/Options open up for helping out in Stirland/Sylvania, right. It was up to us whether to do so or not, and that time we decided to do so. For old times' sake, and because we had a connection to Stirland. We've actually had several standing options (it's the "Foreign Relations" small section!
) in the turns where we could intervene in matters across the Empire abroad; such as joining the fight against Skaven in Nuln, or... my brain forgets, but, uh, the other 2 or 3 locations where Skaven were fought in.
Anyway.
If we don't take this position, how interested would people be in a "drive-by action where we sneak into Under-Nuln with the Prowler (or Gambler, but Prowler might fit better!) active and scout it out the way we did the Skaven locations in Karak Eight Peaks" action?
Helping Nuln the way we helped Roswita that one time.
There's no guarantee that we'd be as dramatically effective as when we intervened in Sylvania, of course. There's not even necessarily a guarantee that we'd be all that useful. But. We could scout out more of Under-Nuln, and with our literacy in Queekish we'd be able to read signs and papers and so would have a slightly better idea of what things are worth stealing. ((On the other hand, the Skaven under the Empire are aware of and prepared for the Empire's Wizards. Whereas the K8P Skaven were very much
not expecting the Dwarfs to inexplicably have an Ulgu-using Wizard along.))
The only other oddity is reports from Talabecland that there's been a fairly significant increase in the worship of Karnos, the local God of the Hunt. Unusual, but as he's not proscribed and seems relatively harmless, it's probably not anything to worry about.
This is clearly THE ONLY THING THAT MATTERS, now.
If we take up a post in eastern Stirland, I guess we'd be close enough to Talabecland to look into that, huh?
We'd also be close enough to keep an immediate and direct eye on the Stirland trading company we founded.
Not exactly wanting to do so, but --
on the other hand, I am
very tempted to take the Nachthafen option for the sheer amusement factor. Veeery tempted, heh. "Yet
another creature of the night (Mathilde: "Twilight! And shadows! Not night!") for our mayor or Baroness? Ho hum."
... I wonder if the Ghyran Nut could help breath more life into some of Stirland's territories?
... Or, for that matter... Could a Ghyran Nut result in the creation of
good farmland for Stirland?
Hmmm.
We don't have
much College Favor to spare (... curses) but if we
did... Could we spend College Favor to have some people from the Jade College come by and, together with our provided Ghyran Acorn, create good-quality farmland for Stirland? And, specifically, farmland that
won't just run out of fertility in 2/5/10/whatever years; actually-good farmland that will actually-last.
(I'm sure Roswita will be thrilled by such a thing, but hey!)
Man, if Panoramia ever finishes -- or gets close enough to such, anyway -- her task in Karak Eight Peaks' farmland... It would be interesting to hire her to go make farmland in Stirland.
Alternatively: we do the Eonir Waystone Research thing, and we get enough favor with them as a result, that we can ask them to help out with Stirland's farmland.
