Thomasfoolery said:
I had gotten the impression that once we leveled up our flesh magic all the applications we know also improved, not that we would have to retrain them to the current standard, is this correct?
Increasing your sorcery level automatically lets you use your abilities more often, run maintainable abilities for a longer period of time, affect a bigger area with AoE abilities, and generally enjoy any other obvious benefits of having more power to throw around. But if you want to do something you couldn't do at all before (like turn your burst of strength ability into something maintainable) you'll still have to research that.
Thomasfoolery said:
Also is it possible to combine the Proclaiming our lordship to the commoners project and meeting the Unexpected Knight project into one action?
Yes, you'll have to visit the knight's hamlet anyway to do the claiming so you can talk to him then.
Thomasfoolery said:
Finally, taxes are collected on April 15, so if next turn we set Traian to trying to crack the River Tarrifs problem how would that work? Would he just be halfway through and we'd have to accept the current tax scheme or is it possible for him to have either gotten a grasp on the problem by then or at least gotten far enough along that a problem is clearly evident so we could have cause to delay things until it's resolved?
It's the household tax that's due on April 15th, not the river tarrifs. From what you can tell the river tarrif doesn't have a due date - what happens is after the river thaws every boatman who wants to work this year has to go to Eztergrom to buy a license. Most of them will do that at some point in April, so around mid-May the harbormaster's office totals up the receipts and then sends you your cut.
So if you send Traian to Eztergrom for the month of April he can investigate their procedures, monitor the paperwork and find out whether they're cheating you, assuming the locals cooperate. But if they're being dishonest they'll probably refuse to let him see the books, and you might have to show up in person to deal with that.
Thomasfoolery said:
Also just in general if we're going to work on any magic applications this turn I think it should definitely be healing, that was one of the main reasons to get lvl 2 and now that we're going to be heading out into the field to solve problems it'll probably be quite useful indeed, even if it obviously won't be a cure-all.
That might be a good idea.
Since you decided to keep both mistresses some kind of birth control magic might also be a good idea...
Thomasfoolery said:
Edit: Hmm... also we were sent here partially to try to get some support from the neighboring baronies, so even though that's looking quite a bit harder what with the incidents we've learned about we should probably ask Dita about the issue as she likely has some more in-depth knowledge about the area. She might also have some insight about possible bridal candidates but that seems a bit more of a touchy subject.
Dita:
"Support for the Petrans? In this area? That could take some doing, but you might be able to make something out of this thing that's going on between Rogatica and Kiscun."
"Baron Janek is the current ruler of Rogatica, and he's a serious fundamentalist warmonger type. He's been training and expanding his army ever since he took over, and they're getting tough enough that Nikolai is a little worried about what would happen if he came after Pischia for revenge. But Janek has been fixated on Kiscun for the last few years."
"See, Baron Kiscun has lost all three of his sons. The oldest died fighting the Rogaticans the last time they were at war, the second went off to join the crusade in Anatolia and never came back, and the third... well, he died in a hunting accident that might not have been an accident."
"Baron Kiscun's getting old now, and his wife died years ago. So he's been training his daughter Ezti to take over while he tries to find her a good husband. Ordinarily that would be easy, because Ezti's smart and strong and beautiful and I swear she's got some kind of divine favor from Khersis, and she an amazing archer and she's so good with that spear of hers she can actually beat men sometimes..."
Dita seems to realize she's gushing, and cuts off with a slight blush.
"Um, anyway, she's been looking for a strong alliance because everyone knows if Rogatica goes to war with Kiscun again they're going to win. But Janek ran into her at a tourney a couple of years ago, and decided he was going to marry her and claim all of Kiscun for himself. She hates him of course, but she hasn't been able to find anyone who was willing to stand up to him."
"So if you want to get involved in that mess you could probably make an ally, although you'd end up with an enemy too."
fitzgerald said:
GM question
For Regency Magic to work properly the correct order of events is
1) Proclaim Lordship over all communities
2) Walk borders with Lord or heir of neighbhors
3) Do final claiming ritual
Correct.
Thomasfoolery said:
One thing I think needs to definitely be done is to check out that knight that's living in our fief, Traian should count up all the houses so we can get more tax money (we're starting to empty our current reserve pretty fast and we have lot's of big ticket items coming up).
That makes sense. Although one day as you're musing about priorities Aldona points out that there's no way a peasant family that wasn't expecting to have to pay the household tax is going to be able to come up with the money on such short notice. So you might want to have a plan ready to deal with that, or else wait and do the survey after April 15 so people will have a year to save up.
Thomasfoolery said:
Other than that I'll ask ShaperV again if more troops can be added to our current units without degrading their skill, cause otherwise I'm not sure about sinking more time into training our current units.
If you raise a new unit of troops and merge it with an existing one their Skill and Discipline stats will be averaged. Also, reorganizing your troops freqeuntly will tend to reduce their Discipline rating.
Ideally what you want to do is decide how many troops you need, and then recruit and trian them all at once. But that would require having the money to equip them all, which would be problematic right now.
Thomasfoolery said:
Also remember we need to take care of all the haunts before claiming lordship. Though the beastman breeding sounds like the most urgent task to take of.
Could be. They're certainly the only potential threat that might actually destroy a settlement. Bandits or pirates might rob a village and kill a few people, but an aggressive tribe of beastmen could easily wipe out a hamlet or cause serious casualties in an undefended village.
fitzgerald said:
Can Dominic reasonaly approach someone to get a loan to cover the SP costs of tje granery to repaid say over 3 years @ 500 sp a year
Possibly, but odds are there aren't any banks or money lenders in Eztergrom who have that kind of money. More likely you'd have to make a trip to one of Borjeria's larger cities to arrange the loan, which would end up taking up a month or more of your time. You'd definitely have to go in person, because your family name is the only reason you'd be able to borrow that much cash.
