Differences on Julia Ashburn's Projects
This is a list of active and future plans and projects as well as current tasks for [[setting/Julia Ashburn]].
* **Ambition**: Become a ~~harpy~~ fixern established keeper/fixer for the Clan
* See about being useful for the Clan
==== Power PlantHerd ====
**Goals:** Ensure a large enough group of blood dolls that I can count on to be available when needed.
* ~~Find out how one goes about making someone a blood doll instead of just an acquaintance.~~
* Make blood dolls out of candidates ((rolled as (Manipulation + Empathy), accumulate 15 successes))
==== Power Plant ====
**Goals:** Ensure that [[setting/Baddow Fields Power Station]] becomes and remains a profitable enterprise.
**Tasks:**
* Meet with potential architects
- ~~Ask in social circle for architects~~
- Ask [[setting/Mr. McFlite]] to find architects → pending
- Review potential candidates
* Meet with engineers to discuss optimal layout and secondary requirements for power plant buildings.
- ~~Loan engineers from fellow [[setting/Power Plant Club]] members for broader discussion.~~
- Host engineers so they can discuss the topic with each other.
- Share results of engineering discussion with PPC members.
* Meet with architects armed with insights from engineering discussion.
* Get favourable canal shipping
- ~~Talk with [[setting/Lord Falkland]] about river and canal shipping~~
==== Kew Gardens ====
**Goals:** Become caretaker of [[setting/Kew Gardens]], and maintain the territorySecure contracts for [[setting/Clan Angliae]]
* Handle the competition for the position
- Ensure that [[setting/Lady Yolanda]] does not gain the position
- Ensure that [[setting/Miss Callington]] does not gain the position
* Discover areas of influence
- ~~Verify information from [[setting/Lady Eagleton]]~~
- Determine Trilion influence over Kew Gardens board
- Explore regularity and people involved in tax evasion scheme and asset trusts
- Gain access to potential minimally influenced new Kew Gardens Constabulary
* Determine neighbourhood players
- Find out which kindred live nearby Kew Gardens
- See about influencing which kindred live nearby Kew Gardens
- Find out which influential kine live nearby Kew Gardens
* Have plausible reason to be in Kew Gardens and interact with relevant individuals
- Acquire a house inside Kew Gardens ((which will be [[setting/Cherrypond Mansion]]))
- Ensure that [[setting/Clan Trilion]] does not take notice (or interferes)
==== Occult Library & Research ====
**Goals:** Build and maintain a library of occult knowledge for the benefit of myself and the clan.
* Have someone to organize and maintain the library itself, with an eye for the occult
- ~~Appoint a librarian: [[setting/Miss Steele]]~~
* Build the collection
- Keep an eyefavourable shipping based on potential sources of new books
- Ask among the members of the [[setting/Malificae Nocterna]]
- Review the possibility of sending buyers to significant cities
* Have a location for the library and laboratory
- ~~Set aside parts of the planned [[setting/Halpine House]] expansion~~
* Acquire ingredients
- Honey over ten years old
- Special honeys from the Egyptian museum (maybe accessible via Lord Falkland's contactsuggestions
* ~~Have end-of-construction party when the main building is done, before it is fouled with [[setting/Mr. Roberts]]coal and work~~
==== Kew Gardens ====
**Goals:** As caretaker of [[setting/Kew Gardens]] maintain the territory for [[setting/Clan Angliae]]
* Use establishment of [[setting/Kew Gardens#Damascena Botanical Laboratory|botanical research laboratory]] to gain acquaintances and influence on committee members
==== Occult Library & Research ====
**Goals:** Build and maintain a library of occult knowledge for the benefit of myself and the clan.
* Build the collection
- Keep an eye on potential sources of new books
* Acquire ingredients
- Buy supply of henna leafs and powder from the middle-east
- Secure henna leaf supply by obtaining access to plants of the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawsonia_inermis|Lawsonia inermis]] species. Cultivate them myself if feasible (due to temperature requirements).