They've got something like a proper meeting / breakout room, now, for this conversation.  Well, not by Civilized standards, obviously, but better than just grabbing a random not-especially-so-purposed room in an archduke's villa.

...Keltham probably owes that guy a favor at some point.

Anyways.  It's pretty clear at this point that competence at learning Law has stratified into Carissa-Asmodia-Meritxell-Ione, Pilar-Gregoria-Peranza-Tonia, and Jacme-Pera-Paxti-Yaisa.  The original contract for having the girls come in was for one week, as Keltham understands it.

So, um.  How does Cheliax handle this situation?  In Civilization in non-top-secret projects, you just let people go work on something they'll be better at.  In Civilization's top-secret projects, everybody who goes through an elaborate screening process has been predicted by prediction market to work out.  In either case, you had an explicit understanding with them before they came in about under what circumstances they'd go, but Keltham is kinda guessing that the reason this explicit understanding has not been mentioned to him is that it does not in fact exist.

They've got something like a proper meeting / breakout room, now, for this conversation.  Well, not by Civilized standards, obviously, but better than just grabbing a random not-especially-so-purposed room in an archduke's villa.

...Keltham probably owes that guy a favor at some point.

Anyways.  It's pretty clear at this point that competence at learning Law has stratified into Carissa-Asmodia-Meritxell-Ione, Pilar-Gregoria-Peranza-Tonia, and Jacme-Pera-Paxti-Yaisa.  The original contract for having the girls come in was for one week, as Keltham understands it.

So, um.  How does Cheliax handle this situation?  In Civilization in non-top-secret projects, you just let people go work on something they'll be better at.  In Civilization's top-secret projects, everybody who goes through an elaborate screening process to receive classified info has been predicted by prediction market to work out.  In either case, you had an explicit understanding with them before they came in about under what circumstances they'd go, but Keltham is kinda guessing that the reason this explicit understanding has not been mentioned to him is that it does not in fact exist.

They've got something like a proper meeting / breakout room, now, for this conversation.  Well, not by Civilized standards, obviously, but better than just grabbing a random not-especially-so-purposed room in an archduke's villa.

...Keltham probably owes that guy a favor at some point.

Anyways.  It's pretty clear at this point that competence at learning Law has stratified into Carissa-Asmodia-Meritxell-Ione, Pilar-Gregoria-Peranza-Tonia, and Jacme-Pela-Paxti-Yaisa.  The original contract for having the girls come in was for one week, as Keltham understands it.

So, um.  How does Cheliax handle this situation?  In Civilization in non-top-secret projects, you just let people go work on something they'll be better at.  In Civilization's top-secret projects, everybody who goes through an elaborate screening process to receive classified info has been predicted by prediction market to work out.  In either case, you had an explicit understanding with them before they came in about under what circumstances they'd go, but Keltham is kinda guessing that the reason this explicit understanding has not been mentioned to him is that it does not in fact exist.

They've got something like a proper meeting / breakout room, now, for this conversation.  Well, not by Civilized standards, obviously, but better than just grabbing a random not-especially-so-purposed room in an archduke's villa.

...Keltham probably owes that guy a favor at some point.

Anyways.  It's pretty clear at this point that competence at learning Law has stratified into Carissa-Asmodia-Meritxell-Ione, Pilar-Gregoria-Peranza-Tonia, and Jacme-Pela-Paxti-Yaisa.  The original contract for having the girls come in was for one week, as Keltham understands it.

So, um.  Keltham isn't sure what's... expected.  On his model of things, the bottom third there will slow further classroom learning down noticeably, and probably not produce enough work output to make up for it, and if there's any ability to add additional people, they'd take up his limited number of teaching slots...

Okay, now that he's saying this out loud it's pretty obvious what the decision has to be, even though Keltham really doesn't like it.  (And feels even worse about how he was just flirting with them while managing not to think through this line of thought to its clear conclusion, though Keltham doesn't say any of that out loud.)

How does Cheliax handle this situation?  In Civilization in non-top-secret projects, you just let people go work on something they'll be better at.  In Civilization's top-secret projects, everybody who goes through an elaborate screening process to receive classified info has been predicted by prediction market to work out.  In either case, you had an explicit understanding with them before they came in about under what circumstances they'd go, but Keltham is kinda guessing that the reason this explicit understanding has not been mentioned to him is that it does not in fact exist.

They've got something like a proper meeting / breakout room, now, for this conversation.  Well, not by Civilized standards, obviously, but better than just grabbing a random not-especially-so-purposed room in an archduke's villa.

...Keltham probably owes that guy a favor at some point.

Anyways.  It's pretty clear at this point that competence at learning Law has stratified into Carissa-Asmodia-Meritxell-Ione, Pilar-Gregoria-Peranza-Tonia, and Jacme-Pela-Paxti-Yaisa.  The original contract for having the girls come in was for one week, as Keltham understands it.

So, um.  Keltham isn't sure what's... expected.  On his model of things, the bottom third there will slow further classroom learning down noticeably, and probably not produce enough work output to make up for it.  And if there's any ability to add additional people, they're opportunity-costly, they'd take up a limited number of student slots...

Okay, now that he's saying this out loud it's pretty obvious what the decision has to be, even though Keltham really doesn't like it.  (And feels even worse about how he was just flirting with them while managing not to think through this line of thought to its clear conclusion, though Keltham doesn't say any of that out loud.)

How does Cheliax handle this situation?  In Civilization in non-top-secret projects, you just let people go work on something they'll be better at.  In Civilization's top-secret projects, everybody who goes through an elaborate screening process to receive classified info has been predicted by prediction market to work out.  In either case, you had an explicit understanding with them before they came in about under what circumstances they'd go, but Keltham is kinda guessing that the reason this explicit understanding has not been mentioned to him is that it does not in fact exist.

They've got something like a proper meeting / breakout room, now, for this conversation.  Well, not by Civilized standards, obviously, but better than just grabbing a random not-especially-so-purposed room in an archduke's villa.

...Keltham probably owes that guy a favor at some point.

Anyways.  It's pretty clear at this point that competence at learning Law has stratified into Carissa-Asmodia-Meritxell-Ione, Pilar-Gregoria-Peranza-Tonia, and Jacme-Pela-Paxti-Yaisa.  The original contract for having the girls come in was for one week, as Keltham understands it.

So, um.  Keltham isn't sure what's... expected, about Jacme-Pela-Paxti-Yaisa.  On his model of things, the bottom third there will noticeably slow down further lecture learning, and probably not produce enough work output to make up for it.  And if there's any ability to add additional people, they're opportunity-costly, they'd take up a limited number of student slots...

Okay, now that he's saying this out loud it's pretty obvious what the decision has to be, even though Keltham really doesn't like it.  (And feels even worse about how he was just flirting with them while managing not to think through this line of thought to its clear conclusion, though Keltham doesn't say any of that out loud.)

How does Cheliax handle this situation?  In Civilization in non-top-secret projects, you just let people go work on something they'll be better at.  In Civilization's top-secret projects, everybody who goes through an elaborate screening process to receive classified info has been predicted by prediction market to work out.  In either case, you had an explicit understanding with them before they came in about under what circumstances they'd go, but Keltham is kinda guessing that the reason this explicit understanding has not been mentioned to him is that it does not in fact exist.