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Warhammer Fantasy: Divided Loyalties - an Advisor's Quest

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ctulhuslp said:
I am not sure how loyal Cold Ones are? I thought they are about as loyal and friendly as particularly treacherous and infuriated demigryph.
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I mean, the salesman said they would serve whoever hatches them, and mistress of intrigue mathilde didn't think he was lying
 
... I'm so very tempted to buy the Border Princess title. In the end though, I don't think we need it at all. Nor do we want to bother with hiring mercenaries to carve out a kingdom for ourselves.

[X] Ulthar's Rangers and Petrescu's marksmen are ranging far to ensure that any greenskin that claps eyes on the Expedition don't live to tell the tale. Assist them.
[X] Test their skills in battle.
[X] Help Esbern teach Seija to Dispel.

[X] Purchase the strange Lustrian eggs (200 gc).
[X] Purchase the Helldrake scales (100 gc).
[X] Do not purchase the title of a Border Princess.

Does anyone have any guesses for what the eggs could be?
 
TimEd said:
Ok. The 'Mathilde is Gandalf' chart? Completely inaccurate. A new one has arisen. If we put ourself on fire, we could pull off a decent 'Mathilde is Balrog' impression. Because the favors are SO worth it.
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Hm.
We are immune to fire.
Fire produces shadows.
Shadows are how we do killy things and magicky things, among other stuff.

You know, the whole "put ourselves on fire" thing seems like a useful tactic.
 
One camapign help, one social (to unlock future options), one training the journeymanlings.

[X] Ulthar's Rangers and Petrescu's marksmen are ranging far to ensure that any greenskin that claps eyes on the Expedition don't live to tell the tale. Assist them.
[X] Marshal Titus Muggins
[X] Help Esbern teach Seija to Dispel.

[X] Do not purchase the strange Lustrian eggs.
[X] Purchase the Helldrake scales (100 gc).
[X] Purchase the title of a Border Princess (300 gc).

Title is a vanity and a distraction, most likely infested by greenskins and surround by more.
 
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Tbf, one way for Border Prince deal to work out is to gift it to someone else. Put a good friend there and work with them to turn Border Princes into another imperial province.

Say, Anton or some of our other friends. Maybe someone else we know.
 
Ok, its from Lustria. And reading the wiki, it basically guarantees something dangerous.

Maybe this is a Lizardman egg? How messed up would that be?
 
[X] Ulthar's Rangers and Petrescu's marksmen are ranging far to ensure that any greenskin that claps eyes on the Expedition don't live to tell the tale. Assist them.
[X] Purchase the strange Lustrian eggs (200 gc).
[X] Purchase the Helldrake scales (100 gc).

I doubt we will have the same chance to buy these things on our return trip so better get them now. Border Prince claim is useless for so many reasons and also can't afford it.
 
The interaction between the runepriest and Kragg is hilarious. That runepriest is probably half a millenium old, is a recognized master at his craft and is most likely one of the most influential people in Barak Varr (which itself is one of the most prominent and largest dwarven kingdoms), and he is acting like a school-boy.

I am a bit tilted that the Johann technology action didn't make the cut, as it seemed obvious to me that it was far more useful (and urgent) than the familiar action, but what can you do...

The dwarven kings' meeting went fine apparently, I am glad we did not waste time on it.

The mercenary action sadly didn't pan out, but as the dice give, so do they take away.

The market options... interesting. Not very useful, but still interesting.

That runic artifact is versatile. And powerful. And cool. That went better than expected.
A question for @BoneyM , the resistance to fire is of the mundane variety, correct? As in, Mathilde is not now immune to magical fire, or dragonfire, or what have you?

My votes:

[X] Ulthar's Rangers and Petrescu's marksmen are ranging far to ensure that any greenskin that claps eyes on the Expedition don't live to tell the tale. Assist them.
[X] Have Ulthar handpick his best sharpshooters to be equipped with envenomed bolts.
[X] Marksman Codrin Petrescu
[X] Test their skills in battle.
[X] Help Esbern teach Seija to Dispel.
[X] Introduce him to the dwarven smiths so he can try to convince them to teach him.
[X] Ask the smiths to teach him as a favour to you (-2 favours)
[X] Ask him to teach Johann to Dispel.

[X] Purchase the strange Lustrian eggs (200 gc).
[X] Purchase the Helldrake scales (100 gc).
[X] Do not purchase the title of a Border Princess.
 
BoneyM said:
Somewhere, someone is having a quiet word with Kragg the Grim; he's ranking his level of disapproval and finding that he disapproves of the Dwarven Empire being in your debt more than he does crafting an item for a manling.
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I love your characterization of Kragg. I also love the character himself and think that the fact he was retconned is a travesty. But what does "burning Chaos taint" does in practical terms? Immunity to fire, spelleating, toughness and returning blows I understand, but that one is kinda vague, while it seems like it is the most important of the effects (judging by the combined rune intricacy, the fact that it was granted by Valaya herself and the fact that fire protection is pretty basic rune by itself)

[X] Ulthar's Rangers and Petrescu's marksmen are ranging far to ensure that any greenskin that claps eyes on the Expedition don't live to tell the tale. Assist them.
[X] Purchase the strange Lustrian eggs (200 gc).
[X] Purchase the Helldrake scales (100 gc).
[X] Do not purchase the title of a Border Princess.
 
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[X] Ulthar's Rangers and Petrescu's marksmen are ranging far to ensure that any greenskin that claps eyes on the Expedition don't live to tell the tale. Assist them.
[X] Ask him to teach Johann to Dispel.
[X] Help Esbern teach Seija to Dispel.
[X] Purchase the strange Lustrian eggs (200 gc).
[X] Purchase the Helldrake scales (100 gc).
[X] Do not purchase the title of a Border Princess.
 
[X] Ulthar's Rangers and Petrescu's marksmen are ranging far to ensure that any greenskin that claps eyes on the Expedition don't live to tell the tale. Assist them.
[X] Marshal Titus Muggins
[X] Help Esbern teach Seija to Dispel.

[X] Purchase the strange Lustrian eggs (200 gc).
[X] Purchase the Helldrake scales (100 gc).
 
Gul Damar said:
Border Prince claim is useless for so many reasons
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Please enumerate them, if there's so many.

So far the only argument I've seen other than the cost is "May be seen as going rogue by the Grey College". That one's always a possibility whenever Mathilde does something that could be seen as self-serving, but it doesn't mean that the claim is useless, just potentially dangerous.
 
[X] Ulthar's Rangers and Petrescu's marksmen are ranging far to ensure that any greenskin that claps eyes on the Expedition don't live to tell the tale. Assist them.
[X] Have Ulthar handpick his best sharpshooters to be equipped with envenomed bolts.
[X] Marksman Codrin Petrescu
[X] Purchase the strange Lustrian eggs (200 gc).
[X] Purchase the Helldrake scales (100 gc).
[X] Do not purchase the title of a Border Princess.
 
[X] Ulthar's Rangers and Petrescu's marksmen are ranging far to ensure that any greenskin that claps eyes on the Expedition don't live to tell the tale. Assist them.
[X] Test their skills in battle.
[X] Help Esbern teach Seija to Dispel.
[X] Ask him to reforge your sword into a superior one.
[X] Introduce him to the dwarven smiths so he can try to convince them to teach him.
[X] Do not purchase the strange Lustrian eggs.
[X] Purchase the Helldrake scales (100 gc).
[X] Do not purchase the title of a Border Princess.
 
[X] Ulthar's Rangers and Petrescu's marksmen are ranging far to ensure that any greenskin that claps eyes on the Expedition don't live to tell the tale. Assist them.
[X] Have Ulthar handpick his best sharpshooters to be equipped with envenomed bolts.

[X] Help Esbern teach Seija to Dispel.

[X] Ask him to teach Johann to Dispel.

[X] Purchase the strange Lustrian eggs (200 gc).

[X] Do not purchase the Helldrake scales.

[X] Purchase the title of a Border Princess (300 gc).

Because we can't use the scales and I want more titles.
 
Horium said:
A question for @BoneyM , the resistance to fire is of the mundane variety, correct? As in, Mathilde is not now immune to magical fire, or dragonfire, or what have you?
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Magically-created fire is still fire, and harms by being really hot; you'd be immune to that. Dragonfire is rather infamous for burning whatever it damn well pleases, so you don't like your chances there.

LockedMind said:
I love your characterization of Kragg. I also love the character himself and think that he was retconned is a travesty. But what does "burning Chaos taint" does in practical terms? Immunity to fire, spelleating, toughness and returning blows I understand, but that one is kinda vague, while it seems like it is the most important of the effects (judging by the combined rune intricacy, the fact that it was granted by Valaya herself and the fact that fire protection is pretty basic rune by itself)
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It means that you could juggle warpstone, hug a demon, and fling Dhar around and just have to deal with your robes getting singed as the corruption burns away rather than sinking into your soul. If you had this in Sylvania you would have just had to deal with occasional minor flashfires on your skin instead of those ominous 'go on, raise the dead, you know you want to' options popping up all over the place. It probably says a lot about Kragg's opinion of manling wizards that he saw that as the main sort of 'protection' you needed.

That said, while it makes you immune to metaphysical corruption it doesn't make you immune to metaphorical corruption; you could still go down a dark road where you become the next Nagash or fall to one of the Chaos Gods through hubris or personality flaws or personal tragedy, but you're not going to get fishhooked into it by mystical means.
 
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Border princess would have been alot more viable if we grabbed command of the stirland portion instead of mages. Now that we dont then it doesnt make sense and i like the other options abit better .
Saurus monstrous mount for combat mainly i imagine but as a alternative to shadowsteed aswell or whatever gribble is coming out of them and wolf familar would make us even more boss.

And hell people the amulet was worth the drama even tough i wanted a weapon especially the third rune , like the first rune aswell but 2nd is just meh altough it isnt bad at all.

[X] Ulthar's Rangers and Petrescu's marksmen are ranging far to ensure that any greenskin that claps eyes on the Expedition don't live to tell the tale. Assist them.
[X] Marshal Titus Muggins
[X] Help Esbern teach Seija to Dispel.

[X] Purchase the strange Lustrian eggs (200 gc).
[X] Purchase the Helldrake scales (100 gc).
[X] Do not purchase the title of a Border Princess.
 
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At very least in this, we had a first hand demonstration of dragons breathing white hot fire that is capable of burning stone.
 
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