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[Devastator]

Lets see how things go.

[Happerry]

I'd be totally up for researching an Unlucky Strike spell that does the reverse of our Lucky Strike spell to cast on the other side.

Or just spending a design action to monkey see monkey do replicate the wand of heroism for wider use.

Voting Against the order to Deploy Ballistae on the boats only: [4] Happerry, ATHATH, Mardent23, Sosoku234
Giving the Trader the Wand of Heroism []: ATHATH
Giving the Trader the Wand of Gust of Wind [5]: ATHATH, Mardent23, Sosoku234, S34N1C, Taricus, Happerry
Giving the trader Storm Strike [2]: S34N1C, Taricus
NOT Killing the Trader [4]: ATHATH, Mardent23, Taricus, Happerry
NOT Telling the Trader About the Existence of Arstotska []: ATHATH, S34N1C
Don't sell anything to the Trader [1]: Detoxicated

[Taricus]

We do need at least one expense credit, because if we get that we've got lamellar armour (the good stuff) for everyone. Our halberdiers will be pretty damn feared by the Arstotzkans.

[ATHATH]

Voting Against the order to Deploy Ballistae on the boats only: [4] Happerry, ATHATH, Mardent23, Sosoku234
Giving the Trader the Wand of Gust of Wind [5]: ATHATH, Mardent23, Sosoku234, S34N1C, Taricus, Happerry
Giving the trader Storm Strike [2]: S34N1C, Taricus
NOT Killing the Trader [4]: ATHATH, Mardent23, Taricus, Happerry
NOT Telling the Trader About the Existence of Arstotska []: ATHATH, S34N1C
Don't sell anything to the Trader [1]: Detoxicated
NOT Giving the Trader Storm Strike [1]: ATHATH

[Taricus]

Hey how are you guys with selling the old teletalk wands? We never said they had to be consumer friendly!

[ATHATH]

Hey how are you guys with selling the old teletalk wands? We never said they had to be consumer friendly!

That might get us murdered by the Trader/his country, and if he sells the wands to Arstotska, they could reverse-engineer them and develop properly-working teletalk wands (or other divination magic).

[Devastator]

I'm fine with Storm strike, really.  Against the teletalk wands, because I think the buyer may want a demonstration.  Also against boats only, these won't have a shock effect and we need everything we can get on the ground.

Voting Against the order to Deploy Ballistae on the boats only: [5] Happerry, ATHATH, Mardent23, Sosoku234, Devastator
Giving the Trader the Wand of Gust of Wind [6]: ATHATH, Mardent23, Sosoku234, S34N1C, Taricus, Happerry, Devastator
Giving the trader Storm Strike [3]: S34N1C, Taricus, Devastator
NOT Killing the Trader [4]: ATHATH, Mardent23, Taricus, Happerry
NOT Telling the Trader About the Existence of Arstotska [2]: ATHATH, S34N1C
Don't sell anything to the Trader [1]: Detoxicated
NOT Giving the Trader Storm Strike [1]: ATHATH

[ATHATH]

I'm fine with Storm strike, really.  Against the teletalk wands, because I think the buyer may want a demonstration.  Also against boats only, these won't have a shock effect and we need everything we can get on the ground.

Storm Strike is one of our biggest advantages against the Arstotskans. If they get their dirty mitts on that spell... I suspect that WE may be the ones spewing copious amounts of salt soon.

@evictedSaint: Can we use Teletalk wands to aid in communication with the Trader? It apparently works on Arstotskans, and they probably (correct me if I'm wrong here) don't speak our language.

[Taricus]

I dunno, if the Arstotzkans get the storm strike spell they'll get hit themselves; we've got the clear skies spell to prevent getting caught in the storm.

[evictedSaint]

You know what? That's a good point.

After some fiddling about with hand gestures and pictures, you eventually call in a mage to cast "detect thoughts" on the trader.

His thoughts primarily consist of amazement at the mages weaving magic before him, but you also manage to discern that he's an entirely honest man who just wants to make some coin selling whatever magic he can get back in his home country.  He is aware of Arstotzka to the north, but if he can successfully purchase some magical artifacts from Moskurg he sees no reason to waste the time to sail all the way up the coast.

Teletalk wands, unfortunately, do not work with the trader as thoughts are not auto translated.  He is surprised to hear your foreign language in his head, however, and oogles the wand with childlike wonder.

[NUKE9.13]

Hey hey, good thinking! Alright then, since he's legit, I wouldn't mind selling him both Gust of Wind and Teletalk- only Gust if he is not willing to buy both. Heck, I'll even throw in the Staff of TR if it gets us both expense credits.
We shouldn't sell the wand of Heroism, though.

[Devastator]

Well, that helps.  Whatever gets us both is good, and if we can manage that without the heroism wand, that's good.

[Happerry]

Voting Against the order to Deploy Ballistae on the boats only: [5] Happerry, ATHATH, Mardent23, Sosoku234, Devastator
Giving the Trader the Wand of Gust of Wind [6]: ATHATH, Mardent23, Sosoku234, S34N1C, Taricus, Happerry, Devastator
Giving the trader Storm Strike [4]: S34N1C, Taricus, Devastator, Happerry
NOT Killing the Trader [4]: ATHATH, Mardent23, Taricus, Happerry
NOT Telling the Trader About the Existence of Arstotska [2]: ATHATH, S34N1C
Don't sell anything to the Trader [1]: Detoxicated
NOT Giving the Trader Storm Strike [1]: ATHATH
Giving the Trader Teletalk Wands [1]: Happerry

Well, in that case, let's sell him stuff! Added my vote to selling him the Storm Strike and Teletalk wands.

[NUKE9.13]

Uh. Does Storm Strike use a wand? If it does, then yeah, we should sell it. But I think it involves a ritual, which is harder to sell in a convenient package.

Voting Against the order to Deploy Ballistae on the boats only: [5] Happerry, ATHATH, Mardent23, Sosoku234, Devastator
Voting For the order to deploy Ballistae on ships only: [2] Kashyyk, NUKE9.13
Giving the Trader the Wand of Gust of Wind [7]: ATHATH, Mardent23, Sosoku234, S34N1C, Taricus, Happerry, Devastator, NUKE9.13

Giving the trader Storm Strike [4]: S34N1C, Taricus, Devastator, Happerry
NOT Giving the Trader Storm Strike [1]: ATHATH

Giving the Trader Teletalk Wands [1+1]: Happerry
  Provided it gets us both expense credits [1]: NUKE9.13

Don't sell anything to the Trader [1]: Detoxicated
NOT Killing the Trader [4]: ATHATH, Mardent23, Taricus, Happerry
NOT Telling the Trader About the Existence of Arstotska [2]: ATHATH, S34N1C He already knows.

[Kashyyk]

I vote for robbing the trader, because of the following:

The only magical artefacts we have are teletalk wands, Tubikh Rrahim staves and the Wand of Heroism. Either we don't want to sell them, or they are worthless to him. Every other spell we have is just that, a spell, not an artefact.

Arstotzka has their Wand of Fireballs, which is is probably obsolete for them by now, they have their amulets of magic detection, they have crystal weapons. All of these things they could easily sell to the trader.

Thus, we stop trying to sell him crap and just rob him of his wealth and the artefacts he bought from the Arstotzkans. We can then throw expense credits at everything and reverse engineer their artefacts for our own ends.

Voting Against the order to Deploy Ballistae on the boats only: [5] Happerry, ATHATH, Mardent23, Sosoku234, Devastator
Voting For the order to deploy Ballistae on ships only: [2] Kashyyk, NUKE9.13
Giving the Trader the Wand of Gust of Wind [7]: ATHATH, Mardent23, Sosoku234, S34N1C, Taricus, Happerry, Devastator, NUKE9.13

Giving the trader Storm Strike [4]: S34N1C, Taricus, Devastator, Happerry
NOT Giving the Trader Storm Strike [1]: ATHATH

Giving the Trader Teletalk Wands [1+1]: Happerry
  Provided it gets us both expense credits [1]: NUKE9.13

Don't sell anything to the Trader [1]: Detoxicated
Robbing the trader [1]: Kashyyk
NOT Killing the Trader [4]: ATHATH, Mardent23, Taricus, Happerry
NOT Telling the Trader About the Existence of Arstotska [2]: ATHATH, S34N1C He already knows.

Also, evicted: if we limit ballista to naval use only, will that increase the number of ballista the navy can use, or will we just be hampering ourselves for no reason?