Probably at some point Opalyn is going to get used to how everything looks here, but not yet.

Town Hall back where Opalyn comes from looks more like this:

How shameful.  Even the poorest town can at least afford to decorate their town hall with clockworks!

You know, that's actually correct. If Opalyn ever makes it back, she might well personally sponsor some clockworks for the Town Hall in her hometown.

There's also a tiny rooftop rocket launcher if you look closely.

She might not bother with that part if she's being honest.

Anyway, can she meet the re-matchmaker?

"Hello! I'm Doctor Disaster's new secretary, also known as the Supreme Sultana. Nice to meet you! Mind if I ask you a few questions?"

"I am very busssssyyyyy no nevermind!  Supreme Sultana, you say?  A person of your status could be just the thing I need for the next step in my plans!"

"And I'd be very interested in hearing about your plans, but there's something else I want from you first."

"Do you still have all the survey data from the matchmaking program, and what assurances did you make about the confidentiality of said data?"

"Why, of course I still have the data!  And I'm afraid I don't understand the second part of your question."

Yeah, that's what Opalyn thought.

"I would like you to run a little additional matchmaking for a woman-interested-in-men of my acquaintance who somehow missed the first round of the survey. Or if you're too busssssyyyy you could instead just hand me all the completed surveys and I'll handle it myself. Oh, and she's only interested in available men, not men who would need to divorce their wives to get together with someone new, so you could filter the surveys according to that."

"Requiring everyone to agree with a matchmaking plan is an impossible and stupid constraint!  Obviously when the current arrangements are the results of haphazard chance, moving to an optimal mating arrangement will involve rematching some people to new mates of a lower sexual market value than those they currently, undeservedly, lucked into possessing!  A woman such as yourself deserves the best man in town -- nay, a whole harem of them -- irrespective of whatever women have them now!"

Rats, he's seen right through Opalyn.

"Just give me the surveys and I'll figure it out."

Hmph.

"Anyway, what's your next plan and how do you hope I can help?"

"If you'd give me some notion of your -- pardon me, mistress, her -- criteria, I can have my Automated Mate Sorter prioritize the prospects for you accordingly!"

Opalyn strongly suspects that if this guy is anywhere near the machine when it's doing its work, it will somehow magically say that's he's the top match!

"Orrrrr maybe you could let me borrow the Automated Mate Sorter as well!"

"Of course, mistress!  It shouldn't take me more than a week to teach you of the mating codes that would be required to operate the machine, and the very process of learning would no doubt open your eyes to unprecedented vistas of romantic diversity!"

That is incredibly kind but will not be at all necessary and Opalyn will just take the raw surveys with no automated sorting, please!

And then she will very firmly change the subject!

What is Aqqord's new project?

He always has several brilliant projects in the works, aside from his more usual activity of doing all of the planning for all of the town government's logistics!  The one in which she might perhaps be most interested is his proposal to relocate all of the town government's buildings to within easy walking distance of the Disastrous Castle, along with installing direct speech-transmission lines between each person's office and the bedrooms of the individuals in the Disastrous Castle who most often overrule that person's ideas!

No.

Anything else that is entirely different from that?

He has a plan to rework the town's defenses!  For example, a single Zangordian Death Laser could replace the Wolfen Bug Zapper and three out of five Air Defense Stations, and would actually be cheaper to operate now that their usual routes for missile ammunition for the Air Defense Stations has been cut off.  It would involve cutting most electrical and steam use in town, if the town actually came under assault, but that seems fine to him.

Opalyn cannot immediately tell if this idea is good or terrible!

Has he already run it by the Chiefs of the Male Soldiers and Female Soldiers and anybody else relevant and what did they have to say about it?

Nobody else in this city has any idea of what constitutes a good or bad plan, such as for example it being cheaper and equally effective.  There is therefore usually little point in showing his plans to anyone.  They can only be successfully implemented as surprises snaked through the predictable malfunctions of the Town Hall voting machines. 

Opalyn finds it equally believable that Aqqord's good ideas are overlooked, or that they are not good ideas at all!

He is welcome to write down what the idea is, what advantages and disadvantages his idea has as compared to the current system, and submit the plan to Opalyn for review. Opalyn will then talk to other folks and find out their objections and try to figure out if the objections have merit or not.

But fair warning, if Aqqord's ideas are flawed in ways that Aqqord should already have known about and did not account for in his report, Opalyn will trust him less in the future.

If Opalyn looks into the idea, can he promise not to sneak-implement it for two weeks?