Rules

Endeavours

Choose a longer ambition. Return to it each week. Discover what a season of effort can achieve.

An Endeavour is a sustained project pursued across a Spindrift season, with one update each real-life week. It represents continuing attention to a larger goal: training, a hobby, creative work, an institutional project, or another serious ambition.

A Deed is a focused commitment. An Endeavour is something you keep working on.

Sustained attention

One Endeavour per Season

Each character pursues one Endeavour per Spindrift season, alongside their four Deeds each month. A season contains four Spindrift months and takes four real-life weeks. Each weekly update represents one Spindrift month of continuing work.

Choose a concrete goal with a scope you and the GM can assess. “Practice fencing” describes an activity; “study under a master to prepare for a prestigious competition” gives the season a purpose. A hobby qualifies when you deliberately pursue a meaningful goal. Ordinary recreation remains free activity.

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One update each real-life week

Four Updates to Complete the Seasonal Effort

Give the GM a short update each week through Discord: what you worked on, what approach or resources you used, what changed, and how you respond. The GM resolves uncertainty and consequences as appropriate. Each update moves the project into its next Spindrift month.

Update 1 · Month 1
Establish
Define the goal, approach, and resources. Begin the work.
Update 2 · Month 2
Develop
Make progress and respond to the first difficulties.
Update 3 · Month 3
Adapt
Continue the work, adjusting to events and discoveries.
Update 4 · Month 4
Resolve
Determine what the season's effort accomplished and what remains.

These stages are a useful example structure. A garden, a military training programme, and a political campaign will unfold differently. Adapt the updates to the actual work and events in the world.

Four updates complete the seasonal effort; they do not guarantee the intended outcome. Especially large ambitions can continue into another season. At season's end, establish what was achieved and what a further season would involve.

Ongoing work & particular interventions

Supporting Deeds

The Endeavour represents continuing work: training, teaching, substantial creation, research projects, relationship cultivation, and ongoing organization. Its routine steps do not each consume a Deed. Your monthly Deeds remain available for other priorities or for additional focused commitments that help the project.

A Deed might secure a tutor, acquire scarce materials, solve a setback, negotiate access, or personally lead an important operation. Explain what that extra commitment changes about the Endeavour. Support should matter through the circumstances it creates; it does not automatically grant a bonus die or guarantee completion.

A supporting Deed must accomplish something additional and distinct. Do not charge twice for work already covered by an Endeavour. Taking an assessment can be a Deed; studying under a master is an Endeavour. Checking a particular record can be a Deed; assembling a researched case is an Endeavour. Covert activity also fits both scopes: infiltrate a particular meeting as a Deed, or build lasting access through an Endeavour.

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What the work changes

Results & Development

An update does not automatically require a roll. Resolve uncertainty when the outcome matters, using the relevant rating, circumstances, and existing test rules. Agree what success can accomplish and what setbacks may cost.

Relevant Qualities shape capability. Holdings, Personnel, and Possessions can enable work, provide expertise, or change its scale. Delegation depends on available people, authority, competence, and circumstances.

Eligible Identity can support a relevant roll under its existing limits. A relevant Bond shapes commitment, potency, and consequences under the Bond rules. Neither creates an automatic benefit merely because a project matters to the character.

Training and teaching establish effort toward development. Completing four updates does not automatically increase a Quality, Bond, or Asset rating. Apply the relevant advancement rules where they exist; an example project does not establish a new advancement procedure.

At the fourth update, describe the actual result: a finished work, restored usefulness, demonstrated readiness, an agreement, a partial achievement, or an unresolved problem. Record meaningful consequences and decide whether further work deserves another seasonal Endeavour. A publicly meaningful outcome may create a Prestige Source, but Prestige is not purchased by spending an Endeavour.

Find your next ambition

Extended Examples

Browse 224 possible Endeavours across 18 categories. These are starting points, not a closed action menu. Choose a concrete seasonal goal and agree its scope with the GM; large ambitions may need further seasons.

Each idea represents continuing work across four updates. Results depend on resources, opposition, and events. Ordinary hobbies and recreation can remain free activity. Training follows relevant advancement rules, relationships retain the other party's agency, and religious or magical effects follow their established rules.

The same sphere of life can support both scales: Sponsor a Tournament is a particular Deed; establishing an annual tournament tradition is an Endeavour. A campaign, progress, pilgrimage, or major salvage operation belongs here when its goal requires continuing work and linked steps. Its normal work is covered by the Endeavour; supporting Deeds remain additional and distinct.

Training & Education

10 ideas

Study under a master: Pursue a specific discipline with an experienced teacher.
Prepare for a competition: Train toward a tournament, examination, or prestigious contest.
Learn unfamiliar customs: Prepare to operate within another court, culture, or institution.
Develop practical expertise: Work toward handling a particular navigational, medical, legal, or technical challenge.
Broaden an existing practice: Study a new approach within a familiar Quality.
Educate an heir: Oversee a season of lessons and practical responsibilities.
Tutor an apprentice: Guide a student toward completing a defined task independently.
Train a household: Prepare retainers for particular duties.
Rehearse coordinated action: Develop cooperation among specialists who must work together.
Study a language: Pursue useful communication through instruction and practice, where appropriate to the setting.

Hobbies & Personal Pursuits

10 ideas

Cultivate a garden: Develop a distinctive collection of plants or reef life.
Build a collection: Assemble objects around a historical, artistic, or personal theme.
Catalogue a collection: Identify, document, and organize what you already possess.
Develop a culinary repertoire: Prepare a body of recipes for a household or important occasion.
Pursue a naturalist's study: Observe and document a species or habitat.
Restore a treasured object: Return a damaged heirloom or work of art to good condition.
Perfect a personal craft: Complete an ambitious piece through sustained practice.
Prepare an exhibition: Select, interpret, and arrange a collection for visitors.
Record personal memoirs: Organize recollections into a coherent account.
Explore a philosophical question: Develop a considered position through reading and discussion.

Art, Craft & Performance

10 ideas

Compose a musical work: Create a piece for a particular audience or occasion.
Write a play: Develop a dramatic work through drafting and rehearsal.
Prepare a performance: Bring performers and material together into a finished production.
Create a portrait series: Depict a household, institution, or historical theme.
Produce a major artwork: Complete an ambitious sculpture, tapestry, or other work.
Craft a ceremonial object: Make a significant gift, emblem, or item of office.
Write a treatise: Present a developed argument or body of knowledge.
Compile an anthology: Gather and edit poetry, stories, songs, or testimony.
Develop a workshop design: Produce and test a design for later manufacture.
Restore an artistic work: Recover a damaged work's appearance or usefulness.

Scholarship & Discovery

13 ideas

Research an inheritance claim: Assemble evidence supporting or challenging a lineage.
Reconstruct a historical event: Compare accounts and establish what can be known.
Study an unusual artifact: Investigate its origin, purpose, and significance.
Translate a difficult text: Produce an interpretation with supporting notes.
Compile a regional history: Gather records and testimony about a place.
Investigate a recurring phenomenon: Observe patterns and assess possible explanations.
Develop a legal argument: Assemble precedents and evidence for a future case.
Prepare a scholarly expedition: Establish questions, sources, and methods.
Organize an archive: Make scattered records usable and accessible.
Produce a reference work: Compile a chart, catalogue, genealogy, or handbook.
Investigate a disputed theory: Gather sources, design relevant tests, compare results, and develop a supported conclusion.
Seek forbidden knowledge: Locate guarded sources, weigh their restrictions and risks, and pursue a defined question through sustained study.
Copy a body of manuscripts: Locate reliable texts, organize copying, and compare the copies for accuracy and preservation.

Exploration & Navigation

10 ideas

Chart an unfamiliar route: Develop a usable account of its passages and hazards.
Survey a region: Systematically document its geography and resources.
Study seasonal currents: Build knowledge of changing travel conditions.
Explore a ruin complex: Investigate connected sites through repeated expeditions.
Document a dangerous passage: Identify landmarks, risks, and possible refuges.
Assess a settlement site: Determine whether a location could support the intended use.
Map a frontier: Improve knowledge of an uncertain boundary region.
Establish expedition support: Arrange guides, supplies, transport, and staging points.
Search a broad area: Conduct a sustained search for a missing vessel, expedition, or site.
Compile travelers' reports: Compare scattered observations into practical guidance.

House & Household

10 ideas

Restore a neglected Holding: Return an existing property to useful operation.
Reorganize household administration: Clarify responsibilities and address persistent problems.
Prepare an heir for responsibility: Gradually entrust them with meaningful duties.
Preserve House history: Gather records, testimony, and heirlooms.
Resolve an internal grievance: Work toward a durable settlement within the household.
Improve household hospitality: Prepare staff, accommodation, and arrangements for important guests.
Review estate obligations: Establish what is owed, disputed, or being neglected.
Prepare for succession: Organize records, relationships, and practical arrangements.
Rehabilitate a troubled workshop: Address the causes of its poor operation.
Develop a House initiative: Coordinate a defined charitable, cultural, or economic project.

Factions & Institutions

10 ideas

Establish a local chapter: Gather people and resources for a functioning presence.
Revitalize a declining chapter: Address weak participation or ineffective leadership.
Train new members: Prepare recruits for specific responsibilities.
Develop internal procedures: Establish workable practices for recurring tasks.
Organize institutional records: Clarify membership, obligations, holdings, or decisions.
Build cooperation between branches: Address practical barriers to joint work.
Prepare a policy proposal: Investigate a problem and develop an actionable response.
Coordinate a seasonal programme: Sustain a series of services, gatherings, or activities.
Address institutional misconduct: Investigate problems and pursue appropriate remedies.
Prepare a leadership transition: Support continuity through a change of office.

Politics & Diplomacy

18 ideas

Build a coalition: Develop cooperation around a defined shared objective.
Negotiate a lasting agreement: Work through the terms and obstacles of a substantial settlement.
Repair diplomatic relations: Address the causes of a damaged relationship.
Prepare a marriage settlement: Coordinate expectations, obligations, and practical terms.
Develop a public campaign: Build sustained support for a proposal.
Mediate a prolonged dispute: Work toward an agreement between hostile parties.
Prepare a claim for recognition: Assemble evidence, supporters, and a formal case.
Coordinate regional cooperation: Establish arrangements for a shared problem.
Develop a reform proposal: Turn a political ambition into a workable programme.
Build confidence between rivals: Create opportunities for credible cooperation.
Cultivate an alliance: Develop shared interests, negotiate obligations, and demonstrate credible cooperation over time.
Establish diplomatic relations: Find accepted channels, exchange representatives, and work toward recognized terms between previously unconnected parties.
Make a lasting peace: Address grievances, obligations, guarantees, and practical barriers to a durable end to hostilities.
Settle a feud: Trace its causes and claims, seek willing participants, and pursue terms that can survive beyond one meeting.
Reform a governing practice: Examine the current practice, consult those affected, and work toward an authorized replacement that can function.
Investigate corruption: Compare records and testimony, follow linked abuses, and assemble a case for the authority able to act.
Establish a policy: Develop a proposal, secure the necessary authority, and coordinate implementation and review.
Resolve a territorial dispute: Compare claims and surveys, negotiate boundaries and access, and pursue an accepted continuing settlement.

Commerce & Supply

13 ideas

Establish a trading partnership: Bring interested merchants into a workable agreement.
Develop a supply network: Arrange reliable access to needed materials.
Prepare a commercial venture: Assess demand, partners, transport, and risk.
Restore a disrupted trade connection: Address the obstacles preventing exchange.
Find a use for unusual salvage: Investigate its value and potential buyers.
Reorganize a troubled enterprise: Address persistent operational problems.
Develop a new workshop product: Move from an idea toward something usable.
Prepare a major commission: Coordinate design, workers, materials, and expectations.
Organize seasonal provisioning: Arrange supplies for a household, institution, or expedition.
Investigate commercial losses: Identify and address the causes of repeated shortfalls.
Develop an investment venture: Assess a proposal, arrange available financing and partners, and oversee a defined stage of its operation.
Reconcile complicated debts: Trace obligations and competing claims, negotiate feasible terms, and work toward a durable settlement.
Establish a seasonal market: Secure a site and permissions, recruit merchants, and arrange the support needed for recurring exchange.

Community & Public Works

10 ideas

Organize sustained relief: Coordinate aid following a disaster or disruption.
Restore a shared facility: Return a communal space or service to operation.
Prepare a public festival: Bring together participants, resources, and arrangements.
Establish a teaching programme: Organize continuing instruction for a community.
Improve access to care: Coordinate practitioners, facilities, and supplies.
Preserve a threatened local tradition: Document it and support its continued practice.
Resolve a recurring local problem: Develop a durable response with those affected.
Support displaced people: Arrange accommodation, supplies, and routes toward stability.
Organize stewardship of a site: Establish responsibilities for its continuing care.
Develop a public information resource: Make useful records or guidance available.

Command, Security & Readiness

18 ideas

Train recruits for service: Prepare Personnel for a clearly defined role.
Improve coordination between units: Develop practical cooperation and communication.
Prepare a defensive plan: Assess threats, resources, and responsibilities.
Review a Holding's security: Identify weaknesses and implement feasible improvements.
Prepare crews for dangerous work: Train for the demands of a particular operation.
Establish emergency arrangements: Organize responses to foreseeable crises.
Restore discipline: Address the causes of persistent problems within a force or crew.
Prepare an operational campaign: Coordinate intelligence, logistics, and objectives.
Develop protective arrangements: Sustain security around a threatened person or institution.
Organize recovery after a crisis: Restore readiness and address outstanding damage.
Conduct a military campaign: Pursue an agreed strategic objective through logistics, coordination, and a continuing sequence of operations; distinct interventions may use Deeds.
Besiege a stronghold: Organize forces, supply, intelligence, and negotiations around a sustained siege, with scope and outcomes resolved under existing rules.
Relieve a siege: Coordinate access, supplies, forces, and negotiations to end or ease an ongoing encirclement.
Establish a patrol system: Identify threatened routes, assign available Personnel, and develop a sustainable schedule and response plan.
Drill troops: Train an available force through repeated exercises aimed at a defined operational capability.
Prepare for a prestigious joust: Train with suitable teachers and equipment, study the competition, and assess readiness under existing advancement rules.
Suppress recurring raids: Trace the raiders' support, coordinate defenses, and pursue a durable response across several operations.
Organize a prisoner recovery campaign: Locate captives, establish contact, and develop feasible arrangements for their release or recovery.

Faith, Ceremony & Contemplation

16 ideas

Prepare a major observance: Coordinate its ceremonial and practical requirements.
Study a religious tradition: Pursue instruction, texts, and discussion.
Compile ritual knowledge: Organize existing practices and accounts.
Restore a sacred site: Address its physical condition and arrangements for care.
Prepare a pilgrimage: Arrange its route, support, and purpose.
Undertake sustained contemplation: Explore a defined spiritual or ethical question.
Document a local religious practice: Preserve testimony and interpretation.
Prepare a ceremonial calendar: Coordinate responsibilities across a season.
Study a disputed doctrine: Assemble arguments and seek informed judgment.
Develop a work of devotion: Create a text, artwork, or other substantial offering.
Undertake a pilgrimage: Follow a meaningful route through travel, observances, and obligations toward an agreed seasonal goal.
Found a sanctuary: Secure a site, recognition, caretakers, and resources for a functioning sacred institution.
Endow a religious institution: Arrange a credible continuing source of support and negotiate its responsibilities with the institution.
Renew a neglected observance: Recover its practices, gather participants, and establish arrangements for its continued celebration.
Fulfill a demanding vow: Pursue the linked tasks, journeys, and restitution required by a substantial promise.
Investigate a sacred mystery: Compare testimony, sites, and religious interpretations without presuming a supernatural answer.

Relationships & Personal Obligations

14 ideas

Repair an estranged relationship: Make sustained efforts to address its underlying problems.
Develop a mentorship: Establish a continuing relationship of guidance and responsibility.
Honor a substantial promise: Work through the commitments required to fulfill it.
Reconnect a scattered household: Restore communication and opportunities for contact.
Support someone through recovery: Provide sustained practical and personal assistance.
Reconcile competing obligations: Seek an arrangement that those involved can accept.
Preserve someone's legacy: Gather their work, records, or testimony.
Prepare someone for a transition: Support their entry into office, service, or household life.
Build trust with a community: Demonstrate commitment through continuing involvement.
Resolve unfinished family business: Address a specific longstanding responsibility.
Pursue a romance: Build a continuing relationship through shared experiences and honest intentions, respecting the other person's agency.
Undertake a personal quest: Define the promise or question driving the quest and pursue its linked journeys, discoveries, and obligations.
Recover from a lasting injury: Seek suitable care, adapt routines, and work toward a concrete recovery goal under existing rules.
Establish a new residence: Arrange accommodation, household support, obligations, and connections needed to make a new home function.

Covert Projects & Intrigue

16 ideas

Establish a cover identity: Develop the history, connections, and practical details needed to sustain it.
Build an information network: Cultivate sources around a particular concern.
Investigate a concealed organization: Assemble an understanding of its people and activities.
Develop access to a restricted circle: Work toward a position from which future action is possible.
Maintain a clandestine relationship: Sustain a consequential secret channel.
Trace hidden patronage: Investigate who supports a person, institution, or operation.
Protect a vulnerable secret: Address the people and circumstances that threaten exposure.
Develop a counterintelligence effort: Identify and respond to attempts to gather information.
Prepare a covert operation: Assemble the access, resources, and knowledge it requires.
Unravel a campaign of deception: Compare evidence and expose the structure of a false account.
Conduct a campaign of discredit: Coordinate sources, disclosures, and public claims over time to undermine a target's credibility, facing opposition and consequences.
Establish a smuggling route: Develop contacts, transport, concealment, and contingency arrangements for repeated illicit journeys.
Turn a hostile network: Identify loyalties and vulnerabilities, approach sources, and work toward changing the network's commitments.
Conduct a campaign of sabotage: Study vulnerabilities and coordinate sustained disruption around a defined objective.
Fabricate a supported genealogy: Create linked records and corroborating claims capable of sustaining a false lineage, with discovery and opposition remaining possible.
Counter a rumor campaign: Trace circulating claims, establish credible evidence, and sustain a response before the relevant audiences.

Court, Patronage & Reputation

12 ideas

Reform a court: Review access, precedence, offices, and hearings; work with those affected to establish a functioning new practice.
Establish a patronage network: Find artists, scholars, or institutions to support and develop reciprocal expectations through continuing involvement.
Cultivate a ruler's favor: Serve a patron's interests, learn the court's expectations, and build a credible record of support without assuming a favorable response.
Restore a House's reputation: Investigate the damage, address its causes, and demonstrate a different course through sustained public conduct.
Establish an annual tournament tradition: Secure hosts, prizes, participants, and a recurring place in the ceremonial calendar.
Found a festival: Develop its purpose, local support, arrangements, and prospects for recurring observance.
Make a progress: Plan and undertake a circuit of dependent lands, hearing communities and addressing responsibilities along the route.
Tour your lands: Visit multiple Holdings, compare their needs, and develop a coordinated response across the estate.
Build a monument: Develop a design, secure permissions and resources, and oversee construction toward an agreed seasonal milestone.
Commission a portrait cycle: Coordinate an artist, subjects, sittings, and revisions for a substantial record of a House or institution.
Commission a chronicle: Bring together records, testimony, and a chronicler to produce a substantial account of the history you wish to preserve.
Develop a courtly salon: Gather a continuing circle of guests, establish its purpose, and sustain a programme of artistic or intellectual exchange.

Dynasty & Inheritance

10 ideas

Arrange a dynastic marriage: Explore a match, seek the prospective partners' agreement, and coordinate the Houses' expectations and obligations.
Seek a suitable match: Investigate possible partners, learn their interests, and pursue introductions toward a concrete betrothal proposal.
Foster a child: Provide continuing care, education, and introduction to household responsibilities under an agreed fostering arrangement.
Establish a cadet branch: Arrange the household, support, recognition, and obligations needed for a functioning branch of a House.
Settle an inheritance: Compare claims, assess property and obligations, and seek a durable settlement among those involved.
Protect the succession: Identify contested claims and practical risks, prepare records, and work toward credible support for an orderly succession.
Compile a genealogy: Compare scattered records and testimony to produce a documented account of a lineage.
Reconcile estranged kin: Address the sources of a family breach and create opportunities for an accepted settlement.
Restore a disfavored relative's standing: Resolve outstanding grievances and build the support needed for a relative's return to family or public life.
Prepare a ward for independence: Teach responsibilities, arrange support, and gradually entrust the ward with decisions they can carry forward.

Estates, Holdings & Stewardship

12 ideas

Develop an estate: Survey needs and resources, coordinate tenants and officers, and pursue a defined programme of improvements.
Improve a Holding: Agree a concrete improvement, arrange resources and skilled work, and assess what the seasonal effort achieves.
Build a new Holding: Seek a suitable site, permissions, materials, and workers; establish a feasible milestone rather than assuming a completed Asset.
Expand a harbor: Survey access and demand, agree works, and coordinate construction and disruption.
Fortify a Holding: Assess threats, plan feasible defenses, and oversee their construction or improvement.
Beautify an estate: Coordinate gardens, artwork, repairs, and public spaces around a defined purpose or occasion.
Settle new tenants: Arrange access, obligations, accommodation, and the resources needed for a viable community.
Prepare for storm season: Assess vulnerable Holdings, organize stores and shelters, and establish practical emergency arrangements.
Survey estate boundaries: Compare grants and local knowledge, examine the terrain, and document disputed or uncertain limits.
Reorganize estate staff: Review duties and problems, seek suitable officers, and put a workable division of responsibilities into practice.
Restore a monument: Assess the damage and historical significance, arrange appropriate work, and oversee its conservation.
Rebuild after a disaster: Assess losses, secure resources, and coordinate recovery toward an agreed seasonal objective.

Sea, Salvage & Reef Life

12 ideas

Conduct a major salvage operation: Survey a wreck, establish claims and access, arrange crews and equipment, and coordinate repeated recoveries.
Chart a current system: Compare observations across routes and changing conditions to produce useful guidance for travelers.
Restore a damaged reef: Investigate the damage, coordinate feasible care, and assess recovery across the season.
Develop a fishery: Study a viable site, negotiate access, and organize workers, equipment, and stewardship.
Establish a safe passage: Survey hazards, negotiate access, and arrange guides, markers, or support for continuing travel.
Explore a trench system: Prepare support and conduct linked expeditions toward a defined mapping or discovery goal.
Track a dangerous sea beast: Compare sightings, study its movements, and coordinate a sustained response to the threat.
Recover a lost relic: Investigate scattered leads, arrange expeditions, and work toward locating and retrieving a particular relic.
Investigate a series of wrecks: Compare routes, cargoes, testimony, and conditions to establish what connects the losses.
Develop a whalefall enterprise: Assess access and competing claims, coordinate recoveries, and arrange feasible uses for what is gathered.
Establish a caravan route: Find usable passages, gather guides and support, and negotiate the access needed for repeated journeys.
Prepare an expedition beyond familiar waters: Gather charts, supplies, specialists, and contingency plans for a defined exploratory goal.

For particular actions and interventions, browse the Common Deeds catalogue: 265 patterns with examples across 19 categories. Compare Deeds and Endeavours →

A season in practice

Worked Example Endeavours

These examples show possible progress, rather than mandatory stages or promised rewards. Let discoveries, opposition, relationships, and other players' choices change how the season unfolds.

Training: Study Under a Master Navigator

Goal: Become capable of navigating a particularly dangerous stretch of water.

Update 1: Find a teacher, assess your weaknesses, and begin studying charts.
Update 2: Practice reading currents and recognizing hazards.
Update 3: Attempt a supervised passage and address mistakes.
Update 4: Undertake a final practical assessment.

Possible result: The season can establish demonstrated competence and a relationship with the teacher. Any Quality development follows the relevant advancement rules; completing training does not automatically raise a rating.

A supporting Deed: Secure access to restricted charts or arrange a suitable vessel.

Hobby: Cultivate a Remarkable Reef Garden

Goal: Prepare a garden worthy of hosting a prestigious gathering.

Update 1: Plan the garden and establish its first specimens.
Update 2: Tend its growth and acquire unusual varieties.
Update 3: Deal with disease, environmental problems, or competing demands.
Update 4: Present the garden and discover how visitors receive it.

Possible result: The garden gives a personal interest a concrete purpose and opportunities for relationships, reputation, and future stories. Maintaining an ordinary garden can remain free activity.

A supporting Deed: Obtain a rare specimen or consult an expert about a problem.

Creative Work: Compose a Courtly Performance

Goal: Create a work commemorating a disputed historical event.

Update 1: Research the event and choose what story to tell.
Update 2: Develop the composition and recruit collaborators.
Update 3: Rehearse, revise, and face objections to its portrayal.
Update 4: Finish the work and establish whether it is ready for an audience.

Possible result: Completing the work and arranging its public debut can be separate commitments. Its subject may create interest, controversy, or new obligations.

A supporting Deed: Perform the finished work before the court, where its reception becomes a consequential event.

House Project: Restore a Neglected Workshop

Goal: Return an existing workshop to useful operation.

Update 1: Assess its condition, ownership, and outstanding obligations.
Update 2: Arrange repairs, materials, and suitable workers.
Update 3: Oversee the work and resolve emerging difficulties.
Update 4: Test its operation and determine what remains unfinished.

Possible result: The project can restore an existing Holding's usefulness. It does not automatically grant a new Asset or a numerical improvement; resolve those changes through the relevant rules and circumstances.

A supporting Deed: Personally negotiate for scarce materials or intervene in a dispute among the workers.

Faction Project: Prepare Recruits for Service

Goal: Turn an inexperienced group into Personnel ready for a specific duty.

Update 1: Assess recruits and establish training.
Update 2: Develop the skills needed for their intended role.
Update 3: Conduct exercises that expose weaknesses.
Update 4: Evaluate their readiness for deployment.

Possible result: The group might be ready for routine service, ready only with supervision, or still need work. Describe the result according to what the training actually established.

A supporting Deed: Lead the recruits during an actual operation through a Command Deed.

Scholarship: Investigate an Ancient Inheritance Claim

Goal: Assemble a credible case from scattered historical evidence.

Update 1: Identify the claim and locate promising sources.
Update 2: Examine records and compare conflicting accounts.
Update 3: Seek corroboration and confront gaps or contrary evidence.
Update 4: Produce a documented conclusion.

Possible result: The Endeavour produces research. What it establishes depends on the evidence; an unwelcome conclusion can still be a meaningful result.

A supporting Deed: Present the case through a Petition to the authority capable of recognizing the claim.

Political Work: Establish a Trading Partnership

Goal: Bring several merchants together around a workable enterprise.

Update 1: Identify interested parties and their expectations.
Update 2: Develop proposed terms, contributions, and responsibilities.
Update 3: Address disagreements and practical obstacles.
Update 4: Determine whether the partners can commit to an agreement.

Possible result: The season can establish an agreement, reveal conditions that still need to be met, or expose incompatible interests. Other characters retain their own choices.

A supporting Deed: Meet a prospective partner, negotiate a particular obstacle, or acquire a resource the enterprise needs.