For reference: If the snake emerges, what do we do about it? Presumably, attempt to murder it before it murders us, or to run away. What tactics does Mathilde expect to be effective/ineffective in attempting these courses of action, considering her personal resources and the resources which Van Hal could potentially deploy on her behalf?
Revision on the Mindhole of Julia. She can accept and give her written consent, or she can refuse and handle the more aboveboard ops only
I could not resist taking a poke at Kasmir. Please inform me if anyone finds this objectionable.
Elaborated on the pokeball.
Its fine. If you feel that, just cut the last line from my private report(and give it a new plan name) and it works.
Hm. You're right, I suspect. The closest we'd ever get is something like this:
Mindhole.
Do not cast spells at the magic backlash phenomenon. In a mirror.
How about it @BoneyM? Feels like maybe some sort of counterespionage trait might be in order. Or... Diligent. We followed every damn lead, even after the interrogation gave the info up?
Hey. I think my approach is pretty elegant and very Mathilde. Why fight the thing if you can make it just forget about you and go bother someone else?
He actually follows it better than Marthilde does at present. He studies, assesses, plans...then uses a decisive violence to close the case
This is much better. Though, I should mention that I don't consider actually needing to mindhole her a likely scenario at all- she was raised in a family of traders and merchants, even if she wasn't any good at trading and merchanting. Ranald is the god of thieves, but also the god of merchants, who worship his luck/fortune aspect. It's the nobles that make their wealth from taxes rather than trade and have the most to lose in the event of a peasant rebellion over poor conditions who hate him.
I can definitely see that for raw stats, but it feels like Traits might be more closely tied to Deeds than training...?
I think our understanding of stat improvement and trait acquisition got a little fuzzy after this post, which said that taking a lot of magical actions increases magical traits and that critting magical rolls or research increases Learning. It was sort of assumed- by me, at least- that this applied to other stats as well, meaning that taking a lot of intrigue actions would increase intrigue Traits and that critting intrigue rolls or actions would increase Intrigue. The fact that we got Interrogator from a non-study action reinforced this understanding of the situation.
Think of it that way: when wizard chick is gone, all those noble fashion-chasers will sell all those now-useless trinkets at half price.
Yeah, but Van Hal (and witch hunters generally) like violence, from what we have seen so far. He has been itching to go out and shoot things, he took great pleasure in going around killing stuff, and so on. For an Elector-Count the necessary violence is around nil, because they have people to do violence for them. Van Hal doesn't have to go out and fight, but he clearly seems to enjoy doing it.
So what you're saying is that the upcoming turn is a very good time for Train Intrigue and Train Learning actions?
