Voted best in category in the Users' Choice awards.
Edit: Should Boney close the vote or does something not Loremaster have a chance to win?
The vote will end, as ever, when Boney is able to begin writing. We've had larger than 10-vote swings many times over the course of the vote.
the waystone project will be available in the future people is my argument against the waystone project being our main job right now to be honest.
You may be unaware that this is an argument Boney has already shot down as being isomorphic to "never do Waystones":
There will always be time-sensitive opportunities. If there's one you want now that won't stick around then by all means argue for it, but if their existence in general makes Waystones not a possibility now, then it will never be a possibility.
This is an argument that has no end point. There can always be more funding, better contacts, more prestigious bona fides. If someone wants to do the Waystone Project then the way to achieve that is to do the Waystone Project, not eternally pursue some ideal start point. The best time to start the Waystone Project is 4500 years ago, the second best time is now.
But if the vote ends up going to Markgraf it's not unreasonable for the waystone voters to then look for ways to use the position to prep for waystones - look into geoengineering etc. partly for its immediate use and partly as preparation.
Speaking as someone who prefers Waystones to Markgraf: if Markgraf wins, I will oppose efforts to "smuggle in" Waystone research to the new job. We will have enough on our plate trying to wrangle Sylvania and find time for our own research (AV, Divine magic, Windherding, all the loot we picked up in the Chaos Wastes); trying to prioritize preparation for a job we didn't pick and might never pick seems like a complete waste of time.
 
I feel like i should be making an argument for Boadygurad (and spymaster) voters to get behind Markgraf as its the most like it.

but that's not necessarily true

If you want to be more involved with the empire and it problems and characters, and want a high position: please vote Markgarf.

if you want a degree of free rain, but still some responsibility and lots and lots of travel: Waystone would be the way to go.

... most other points dont really apply to those voting groups ( Boadygurad and spymaster) that isn't about the *inherent differences about the jobs.


edit: *example telling Spymater voters that Markgraf will have more Intrge actions and loremaster voters that waystone has more learning actions is a bit of a; 'no shit sherlock' comment.
 
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Edit: Should Boney close the vote or does something not Loremaster have a chance to win?
You mean "something not Waystones"?

I wonder if we might end up in a situation where people keep tactically voting against the option highest in the list and it ebbs and flows for a long, long time. Maybe Boney will have to do a run-off vote after all?

Adhoc vote count started by Katreus on Mar 8, 2021 at 10:50 AM, finished with 3339 posts and 621 votes.
 
You mean "something not Waystones"?

I wonder if we might end up in a situation where people keep tactically voting against the option highest in the list and it ebbs and flows for a long, long time. Maybe Boney will have to do a run-off vote after all?

Adhoc vote count started by Katreus on Mar 8, 2021 at 10:50 AM, finished with 3339 posts and 621 votes.
There have been closer margins. Boney will end the vote when he ends the vote, and that will be that.
 
There have been closer margins. Boney will end the vote when he ends the vote, and that will be that.
Boney did imply run-off is something he might consider, though it was phrased as "if there's a difference of one or two votes". The margin isn't as close atm, but it may yet decrease, and there's a lot of votes in general, so I dunno.

(On the other hand, the margin between 2nd and 3rd is practically nonexistent, so picking 2nd for run-off is weird also. Huh.)
 
We could also try and get the Sylvanians to farm mostly luxury exports and then import food - possibly justifying it based on regions of polluted soil making food crops mildly corruptive - but I don't know how well that'd work on such a large scale with the current tech level.
I don't think that's what you're implying, but first thing that came to my mind when I saw that post was: "So... we should have Sylvanians mine Warpstone from the soil and export it?" That's the most luxury resource we have :D. Yes-yes.
 
Where did he say that?
There was this exchange on Saturday:
Edit: @BoneyM if one option wins by like 1 or 2 more than the other, will there be another vote with only one choice allowed between those two/three options?
Ask me again if one option wins by like 1 or 2 more than the other.
But more recently, we had these comments, which I would take as far more definitive:
No, the winner will be the one with the most votes when voting closes, and that's the end of it.
No. There will be no sort of extra content or 'better' selection method that comes out of a prolonged tie. This is it.
 
I don't think I mind waystone project winning even if we don't become queen of spooky town.

It's a solid goal to work for overall.
 
Boney did imply run-off is something he might consider, though it was phrased as "if there's a difference of one or two votes". The margin isn't as close atm, but it may yet decrease, and there's a lot of votes in general, so I dunno.
He absolutely did not, and in fact he explicitly said there would be no runoff vote, and that the winner here would be final.
You're both correct. BoneyM has first said something like "Ask me again if the vote ends in 1-2 vote difference." But then explicitly ruled out the possibility.
 
So, Im going to try and rise the Margaf flag one last time before approval voting Waystones.

A call to Spymaster players!

If it was Cat and Rat spy games you were after and not just 'skaven yes-yes'

the Shadow wars with the Vampires is the closest your going to get!

Join us

join The Dämmerlichtreiter



[x] Markgraf of Eastern Stirland
 
I think Boney will do that if the dice dictate it, and the dice might be slanted towards producing that outcome, but, uh. Over the last nearly 700,000 words, which exactly have made you think that Boney feels beholden to conventional narrative pacing if the dice and the player decisions say otherwise?

Boney isn't running a novel that we happen to be guiding. Reasoning on the meta level of "this is what the narrative beats ought to be" is going to steer you wrong, and has steered questers wrong in the past.
That said, whether a true Von Carstein wakes up and tries to regain control of Sylvania or not is not really connected to Mathilde's current location. Or at least it shouldn't be, in a purely non-narrative world. Whether BoneyM actually does a periodic "does any ancient undead evil return" roll or not is anyone's guess.
I see that position as 25% bodyguard job and 75% helping elector counts with their problems. I could see the thread focusing on the problems of Electors to the detriment of things that I would like to see.
I see the thread being willing to let various EC's wait a bit, especially when we don't like them and their quests for us are more personal and less saving large amounts of lives.

I'm not the one who suggested it. You grabbed the wrong quote.
Eh. You're the one who explicitly brought up the positive feasibility of single vote and anyway, I pinged the other poster too.
 
So, Im going to try and rise the Margaf flag one last time before approval voting Waystones.

A call to Spymaster players!

If it was Cat and Rat spy games you were after and not just 'skaven yes-yes'

the Shadow wars with the Vampires is the closest your going to get!

Join us

join The Dämmerlichtreiter



[x] Markgraf of Eastern Stirland
I am a waystone, Spymaster and Loremaster voter :D
 
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