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Warhammer Fantasy: Divided Loyalties - an Advisor's Quest

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I can't see any reason not to pick the latter three options for the book. We should obviously pick the candidate we got a 100 on. Perhaps for the turn we should help directly to get the campaign moving along? Not sure what we could really do, but it sounds like it needs help.
 
BoneyM said:
"Ulgunar kirior onai Tar-Eltharin, caladai-eldoir-kurn," you retort, and he stares at you, quite surprised.

"I haven't heard-" he breaks off, and almost haltingly continues in Eltharin. "I have not heard the tongue of the True Elves in close to two centuries."

"If it would please you, I would be happy to converse with you in it," you respond.

"Of course!" he stops, and looks frustrated with himself. "Of course. I would like that very much."
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Yay! a friend!
@BoneyM im guessing that bit we said is something like "the ulgu wizards learn the true language, dragonlord" right?
 
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[X] Jacques Seingalt, wandering adventurer.

[X] Have a scribe transfer them into book form - one copy for you, one for the Imperial College, one for Asarnil.

Plan "Stuff we need to do while we're not immediately needed"
-[X] Integrate the Roadwarden network of covered areas into the Watch.
Ranald's Blessing
-[X] Enchantment: You've finally got the equipment, now you've just got to unpack it all and set up your laboratory.
-[X] Undead Research: You know the basics, now. Perhaps a great deal of effort will allow you to advance further.
 
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LonelyWolf999 said:
I can't see any reason not to pick the latter three options for the book. We should obviously pick the candidate we got a 100 on. Perhaps for the turn we should help directly to get the campaign moving along? Not sure what we could really do, but it sounds like it needs help.
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Well, risking pissing off the Phoenix King could be a reason not to do the third.

And yes, maybe General-staffing could be good. We are, at the least, the fastest ground-based messenger available.

I'd actually like to hire both of them in some capacity. They're both good, skilled individuals with some principles, it seems.
 
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Dadarian said:
Plan "Stuff we need to do while we're not immediately needed"
-[X] Integrate the Roadwarden network of covered areas into the Watch.
Ranald's Blessing
-[X] Enchantment: You've finally got the equipment, now you've just got to unpack it all and set up your laboratory.
-[X] Undead Research: You know the basics, now. Perhaps a great deal of effort will allow you to advance further.
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You need something like this. Also note which is additional work, as that one gets malus mainly.

[X] Plan "Stuff we need to do while we're not immediately needed"
-[X] Integrate the Roadwarden network of covered areas into the Watch.
--[X] Ranald's Blessing
-[X] Enchantment: You've finally got the equipment, now you've just got to unpack it all and set up your laboratory.
-[X] Undead Research: You know the basics, now. Perhaps a great deal of effort will allow you to advance further.
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VoidZero said:
You need something like this. Also note which is additional work, as that one gets malus mainly.
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None of them are additional work, we get a free Stirland Watch option.

So I guess cleaned up it looks like this.


[X] Jacques Seingalt, wandering adventurer.

[X] Have a scribe transfer them into book form - one copy for you, one for the Imperial College, one for Asarnil.

[X] Plan "Stuff we need to do while we're not immediately needed"
-[X] Integrate the Roadwarden network of covered areas into the Watch.
--[X] Ranald's Blessing
-[X] Enchantment: You've finally got the equipment, now you've just got to unpack it all and set up your laboratory.
-[X] Undead Research: You know the basics, now. Perhaps a great deal of effort will allow you to advance further.
 
So, the Watch commander. Both are highly qualified. One seems more focused on intrigue while the other is more focused on martial.

So... which direction do we want our watch to go? More intrigue or more martial?
 
Thor's Twin said:
So, the Watch commander. Both are highly qualified. One seems more focused on intrigue while the other is more focused on martial.
So... which direction do we want our watch to go? More intrigue or more martial?
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I like martial option, since the watch is the one that's walking around in daylight protecting people. The intrigue one is excellent if we ever want to setup a guild of assassins smugglers robing hood.
 
[X] planing for the future
[X] Jacques Seingalt, wandering adventurer.

[X] Have a scribe transfer them into book form - one copy for you, one for the Imperial College, one for Asarnil.
[X] Hire some printing press time and a translator, and start selling Reikspiel versions to anyone who's interested.
[X]Hire some printing press time and find a merchant willing to ship and sell as many copies as they can to Ulthuan.
it be nice and profitable to sells them as well it may encourage some of the more adventurist of the elves to come to the empire

[X] Off the Leash: Let Julia handle the network without your micromanagement from now on.
[X] Integrate the Roadwarden network of covered areas into the Watch.

[X] Practice, Practice, Practice: Having been thrown into the deep end of imperial politics, it would probably be a good idea to brush up on your skills and internalize the lessons you've learned (choose which trait; can be taken multiple times; will be more effective if you've used the trait a lot lately).
[X] Qhaysh Skunkworks: It would take careful study to unlock the secrets of the liquid. It would take considerably less time to find out if it can be made to burn, or explode, or do something militarily useful.
--[X] Ranald's Blessing
[X] Thieves Guild: It's currently little more than a church group, albeit of a very unconventional god. If it could be expanded under your aegis, it could be a powerful tool.
--[X] Jack Albright, career criminal.
- he would be a nice leader for the thieves guild we can give his some time to see what he does with it ( also very good information or used to dig up dirt on people)
 
[X] Jack Albright, career criminal.
[X] Have a scribe transfer them into book form - one copy for you, one for the Imperial College, one for Asarnil.
[X] Hire some printing press time and a translator, and start selling Reikspiel versions to anyone who's interested.
[X] Hire some printing press time and find a merchant willing to ship and sell as many copies as they can to Ulthuan.
 
BoneyM said:
He won't remain in Wurtbad for long unless he's hired for this job.
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Alright then.

Okay so I'm in favor of the thief as our watch commander, primarily because the main duty of the watch for us is as a means of gathering information and rooting out things like cults and other insidious elements. If a problem gets to the point where the watch can't handle it then we should call in the army, but with a good intrigue commander we can hopefully avoid reaching that point.
 
"The Dämmerlichtreiter," the man breathes.

You blink in surprise at him. "The what now?" You had been prepared for all sorts of reactions, but not calling you that.

He stares, wild-eyed, pointing accusingly. "You! The Rider of Dusk! The woman who rides the coming of night across Stirland, bringing ruin to the enemies of the Hunter-Count!"

You stare back, and a delighted smile spreads across your face. "I mean... gosh. I hadn't realized people had been noticing. The Rider of Dusk? That's... wow." You bask for a moment, but duty calls. "Anyway. Not why I'm here."
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This is comedy gold and I love it. And want the "Titles" line in our character sheet updated.

He looks around the inn nervously - it's usually crowded, but not this early, and there's nobody within earshot. He lowers his voice anyway. "You're fighting the War Below."

"The War Below," you say musingly. Overly dramatic name for fighting against vermin and smugglers, but it has a nice ring to it. "The Watch is looking for an new leader. Ideally, someone with the creativity and inside knowledge to bring it success as it expands across Stirland."
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Unless I drastically misread this conversation, this man knows about the skaven, is watching us put together a force which will be suited for fighting a bloody war against them in southern Stirland after it's built up its numbers and methods in much safer central Stirland, and Mathilde just confirmed to him that that's what she's doing when she actually has no idea what she's walking into. Wow, that is going to turn out colorfully.

If we hire him he will be prepping for that, where the other guy will be trying to build up the watch as a more military force- from his interview he talking about keeping safe every village and being willing to ride out and destroy bandit groups as selling points. They would each build up a very different Watch, I think. And... I kind of feel like Jack Albright has a skillset that we want to build up a group of agents with whereas Jacques mostly pushes us toward things that we can lean on the military for if we need them done.

...if we put Jacques in charge of the Watch I kind of want to keep Jack on retainer and have him train up a personal cadre of thief/assassin/skilled skulker types, because we have a lot of informants in our network but a shortage of people who can go out and make shady things happen other than ourself. @BoneyM, if we put a personal action into it this turn is that an option, rather than watching Jack vanish back into the Old World?

[ ] Hand them over to him in their current form; he would be fine with this, and would take his own actions with them.
[ ] Have a scribe transfer them into book form - one copy for you, one for the Imperial College, one for Asarnil.
[ ] Hire some printing press time and a translator, and start selling Reikspiel versions to anyone who's interested.
[ ] Hire some printing press time and find a merchant willing to ship and sell as many copies as they can to Ulthuan.
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I would definitely go with making the three book copies. Selling them in Reikspiel is also a definite yes; we need money and bringing Asarnil glory among our own people is something he would never object to. Ulthuan... seems a lot iffier. It's effectively an elven internal political move that he might not want to make. For that matter, we might not want our name on the byline of something that is spread around Ulthuan as the deeds of an exile and thus become primarily known, in such elven minds as know us at all, as Asarnil's scribe.

...on the other hand, right now we're not known in elven minds at all, so. Someone with a better handle on elf politics and psychology than me should weigh in here.


For other actions, I'm thinking General Staff (we do want to actually show up on the front, however much it isn't moving, so that Van Hal knows we were serious about participating and hopefully we can learn something about military strategy) and Bound Spells (all the reasons for taking that action last turn basically still apply). Open to other arguments, though.
 
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@BoneyM - with regards to Bounded Spells, can we bind our shadowsteed spell to someone and would it come with mastery for them? I ask as this would really be invaluable in enabling others to fast travel and the ability to relay orders could be invaluable.
 
I suppose hiring them both, one for the War Below and one for the Lands Above, would defeat the purpose of uniting the Watch with the Rat Catchers in the first place?

EDIT: Other question, ORGANIZATIONAL ACTION says PICK NONE, but then each sub heading says PICK ONE. Which do we...?
 
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DarkLight140 said:
@BoneyM, if we put a personal action into it this turn is that an option, rather than watching Jack vanish back into the Old World?
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The person you don't pick is returning to their travels. The prestige of the position of Commander of the Stirland Watch is a big selling point, they're not willing to become your personal lackey.

Guile said:
I suppose hiring them both, one for the War Below and one for the Lands Above, would defeat the purpose of uniting the Watch with the Rat Catchers in the first place?
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Yes, it's one or the other.

Guile said:
EDIT: Other question, ORGANIZATIONAL ACTION says PICK NONE, but then each sub heading says PICK ONE. Which do we...?
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Already fixed, PICK ONE is struck out.
 
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[X] Jack Albright, career criminal.
[X] Have a scribe transfer them into book form - one copy for you, one for the Imperial College, one for Asarnil.
[X] Hire some printing press time and a translator, and start selling Reikspiel versions to anyone who's interested.

In the end, I have to go with the decorated war hero over the more personally-engaging (to me) thief.

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-[X] Bound Spells: Though the corrosive Dhar made them high-maintenance, the design of the bound spells in the castle's infiltrators has fascinating possibilities. The memories had faded but you've managed to refresh them. Try to adapt it for use with Ulgu.
--[X] Ranald's blessing
-[X] Attach yourself to a specific regiment so you can spend some time in the thick of things.

The war is going slower than anticipated. Get some practice getting the stink of burning undead out of your robes.
 
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