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 ==== Herd ==== **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.~~ * Find enoughMake blood doll candidates,s out of candidates ((rolled as (AppearanceManipulation + Leadership), accumulate 15 successes)) * Make blood dolls out of candidates ((rolled as (//undefined as of yet//Empathy), accumulate 15 successes)) ==== Power Plant ==== **Goals:** Ensure that [[setting/Baddow Fields Power Station]] becomes and remains a profitable enterprise. * ~~Meet with potential architects~~ - ~~Ask in social circle for architects~~ - ~~Ask [[setting/Mr. McFlite]] to find architects~~ - ~~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~~ - Secure contracts for favourable shipping based on Lord Falkland's suggestions * ((Discuss with ST the progress on construction during the summer periods)) * Have end-of-construction party when the main building is done, before it is fouled~~Have end-of-construction party when the main building is done, before it is fouled with coal and work~~ ==== Kew Gardens ==== **Goals:** As caretaker of [[setting/Kew Gardens]] maintain the territory for [[setting/Clan Angliae]] * Discover areas of influence - ~~Verify information from [[setting/Lady Eagleton]]~~ - Determine Trilion influence over Use establishment of [[setting/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 → Visited police ball, follow-up to establish acquaintances * Determine neighbourhood players - Find out which kindred live nearby Kew Gardens - ~~See about influencing which kindred live nearby Kew Gardens~~ - Ask [[setting/Lady Norfolk]] for help in this, and see about having her move into a residence near the 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)~~ - ~~Fund establishment of #Damascena Botanical Laboratory|botanical research laboratory to have a reason to socialize with members of the board~~ * Use establishment of 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. * 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 eye on potential sources of new books - ~~Ask among the members of the [[setting/Malificae Nocterna]]~~ - Review the possibility of sending buyers to significant cities - ~~Receive books from Malificae Nocterna contacts in the United States~~ * 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 contact with [[setting/Mr. Roberts]] - 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). - ~~Acquire blood from twins (and find a method to store it)~~ → Twins in service of [[setting/Miss Gladstone]] - ~~Buy a supply of mercury~~ - ~~Buy a supply of beeswax~~ - ~~Buy a supply of olive oil~~ - ~~Acquire several white rabbits for keeping in the garden (and access to hair of white rabbit hair)~~