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« on: May 24, 2018, 11:16:09 am »
You decide to grant audience to the scholars first.
"Greetings, Empress Ruberta!" Their delegates, all with beards of varying lengths, bow their heads in respect. "We have begun an ambitious project to determine whether the Pantheonist books about stars and heavens are correct. There are just enough discrepancies in calculations that we cannot help but question the mechanics of the night skies. For this, we wish to create large instruments that will allow us to see further into the skies by use of lenses. For this, we need gemstones of best quality as well as dedicated glassworks that would be able to provide us with materials."
"We would place orders on the glassworks every few yearss, and would only take clearest and largest of gemstones per year."
A) Of course we will provide! For science!
B) You're asking for too much. Shoo!
C) Oh, I can sell you these if you want. But no freebies.
D) Interesting! Tell me more about your 'celestial mechanics'!