TEAM: Sawbones, Tavin REPORT DEADLINE: April 5, 2020
ASSIGNMENT: Bartolo Nuño, an Inquisition ally, has taken to tulip breeding—as have most of the nobles in Antiva, most of them betting huge fortunes on tulip futures, while Nuño has only pursued it as a side-hobby to dog breeding. However, his latest batch of bulbs has been rumored to be extremely promising and bidding on them likely to be both record breaking and just the thing to lift Nuño’s lackluster fortunes. However, a blight (small b) has begun affecting tulip bulbs, some of Nuño’s included. Find cures for the blight or at least make Nuño’s immune, and earn his unending gratitude and financial assistance for Riftwatch and the Inquisition.
DETAILS: The team has the option of developing, or at least attempting to develop, two potential solutions:
1. A fungicide that will protect tulips from the fungus. This will ultimately require acquiring significant amounts of drakestone--at least some of which will need to be collected from mining tunnels directly, since funds are limited--and various plant oils to experiment with and find the correct and least wasteful balance.
2. An advanced form of the fungus that will more quickly and stubbornly spread and ruin everyone's tulips equally. This could be discovered either intentionally or unintentionally, by exposing the fungus to processed lyrium and Amrita Vein oil.
They could also plausibly happen upon both.
Depending on which they successfully develop, they'll then have several choices. For example, if they have an advanced strain of the fungus, they could use it to destroy most of Antiva's tulips and pop the economic bubble surrounding them--which wouldn't particularly enrich Nuño directly, but would hurt several of his competitors who have invested more heavily in their bulbs than he has as a hobbyist.
Or they could use a combination of their fungicide and the advanced fungus to ensure that all tulips are ruined except Nuño's. Or they could provide the fungicide only to him and assist him in keeping it a secret from everyone else. Or they could provide it to him but make the fungicide freely available--or available for purchase, since Riftwatch could use the money--to other Antivans seeking to protect their own yields, which would earn less gratitude from Nuño specifically but might earn favor from other, less prominently positioned Antivans.
Sawbones and Tavin are welcome to either make this decision themselves due to not having time to consult with someone before Nuño needs them to explain what they're doing, or to consult with their Division Head about what to do.
QUESTIONS? If you have questions specific to your assignment, reply to this and we'll answer them. If you have general questions applicable to every assignment instead of just yours, ask here.
Tulipgit to Quit
REPORT DEADLINE: April 5, 2020
ASSIGNMENT: Bartolo Nuño, an Inquisition ally, has taken to tulip breeding—as have most of the nobles in Antiva, most of them betting huge fortunes on tulip futures, while Nuño has only pursued it as a side-hobby to dog breeding. However, his latest batch of bulbs has been rumored to be extremely promising and bidding on them likely to be both record breaking and just the thing to lift Nuño’s lackluster fortunes. However, a blight (small b) has begun affecting tulip bulbs, some of Nuño’s included. Find cures for the blight or at least make Nuño’s immune, and earn his unending gratitude and financial assistance for Riftwatch and the Inquisition.
DETAILS: The team has the option of developing, or at least attempting to develop, two potential solutions:
1. A fungicide that will protect tulips from the fungus. This will ultimately require acquiring significant amounts of drakestone--at least some of which will need to be collected from mining tunnels directly, since funds are limited--and various plant oils to experiment with and find the correct and least wasteful balance.
2. An advanced form of the fungus that will more quickly and stubbornly spread and ruin everyone's tulips equally. This could be discovered either intentionally or unintentionally, by exposing the fungus to processed lyrium and Amrita Vein oil.
They could also plausibly happen upon both.
Depending on which they successfully develop, they'll then have several choices. For example, if they have an advanced strain of the fungus, they could use it to destroy most of Antiva's tulips and pop the economic bubble surrounding them--which wouldn't particularly enrich Nuño directly, but would hurt several of his competitors who have invested more heavily in their bulbs than he has as a hobbyist.
Or they could use a combination of their fungicide and the advanced fungus to ensure that all tulips are ruined except Nuño's. Or they could provide the fungicide only to him and assist him in keeping it a secret from everyone else. Or they could provide it to him but make the fungicide freely available--or available for purchase, since Riftwatch could use the money--to other Antivans seeking to protect their own yields, which would earn less gratitude from Nuño specifically but might earn favor from other, less prominently positioned Antivans.
Sawbones and Tavin are welcome to either make this decision themselves due to not having time to consult with someone before Nuño needs them to explain what they're doing, or to consult with their Division Head about what to do.
QUESTIONS? If you have questions specific to your assignment, reply to this and we'll answer them. If you have general questions applicable to every assignment instead of just yours, ask here.