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Warhammer Fantasy: Divided Loyalties - an Advisor's Quest

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As I understand it, Dragon Ogres are strong, tough, and fast. I'm not confident that Mathilde has anything in her arsenal that could reliably take it down, and she may not even be able to outrun it, but she should have a good chance of staying hidden and evading it with her spells. Dragon Ogres have a noted immunity against lightning, but nothing about being strong against Ulgu, as far as I know.

As a scout, Matty's top priority should be getting as much intel back to the Throng as possible. The Dragon Ogre may be a loner or otherwise inconsequential, but I think it would be worthwhile to investigate further. If it's part of a larger force, Belegar needs to know, and if not, Mathilde should be able to slink away and continue on to scout the port.

[X] You don't know enough to make a decision one way or the other. Follow the creature and see if its actions shed light on its purpose.

Approval voting:

[X] Ignore the creature and press on. You've a port to scout.
 
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[X] If he's a scout, he cannot be allowed to live and alert some unknown number of his kin to the Expedition. Attack.

YOLO.

Edit: on the other hand... Approval voting

[X] You don't know enough to make a decision one way or the other. Follow the creature and see if its actions shed light on its purpose.
 
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[X] You don't know enough to make a decision one way or the other. Follow the creature and see if its actions shed light on its purpose.
 
[X] You don't know enough to make a decision one way or the other. Follow the creature and see if its actions shed light on its purpose.
[x] Ignore the creature and press on. You've a port to scout.

Track it. We're good at stealth and we need more intel to determine if there are more.
I'm not sure we CAN kill it alone. Our offense is too low.

Alternatively we don't poke the megabeast and recon the rest of the area like our job

BoneyM said:
"Carnivore," she confirms. "Not apex. Not especially intelligent, but sharp senses."
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Hmm medium to small dinosaur, kind of dumb but good senses...
 
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DarkLight140 said:
This logic isn't solid; we aren't anywhere near the Expedition, and he thus likely hasn't seen us or them. Killing scouts is the sort of thing that inspires recon in force, and we won't be back for days, so if we're concerned about concealing the Expedition from a theoretical dragon ogre clan then we shouldn't be attacking.
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Remember how we just spend 100 gold buying helldrake scales for enchanting? Imagine the sort of stuff we could make with a creature that predates the opening of the chaos gates!

... I mean, if we won't go the necromancy route I need to get use out of dead bodies through other ways.

Katarsiis said:
YOLFT.
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FTFY
 
Keeping in mind this thing is one of the few things that can wreck us through the belt and possibly eat us beyond the Seed's ability to fix.
 
Omegahugger said:
Remember how we just spend 100 gold buying helldrake scales for enchanting? Imagine the sort of stuff we could make with a creature that predates the opening of the chaos gates!

... I mean, if we won't go the necromancy route I need to get use out of dead bodies through other ways.
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Oh, I don't disagree that killing this thing for enchanting components would be great (assuming we can get around the whole Chaos-taint issue). But it's also impractical.

A dragon ogre is huge. Even discounting the difficulties of killing it in the first place, Mathilde is not a butcher, nor equipped as one, and her carrying capacity on shadowhorse is limited. She wouldn't be able to harvest more than a small fraction of the body.

Waiting until the Expedition's main forces show up and can help us kill it and then process the body with trained dwarven artisans is much more sensible.
 
[X] You don't know enough to make a decision one way or the other. Follow the creature and see if its actions shed light on its purpose.

Even if we kill it, if it IS a scout then we've still screwed up, because we won't be able to warn the throng about its friends. As for scouting the port, I think a dragon ogre is higher priority than anything else we might find.
 
[X] You don't know enough to make a decision one way or the other. Follow the creature and see if its actions shed light on its purpose.
 
[X] You don't know enough to make a decision one way or the other. Follow the creature and see if its actions shed light on its purpose.
[x] Ignore the creature and press on. You've a port to scout.
 
You know, I was wondering what the worse possible thing we could encounter on this scouting trip would be. Question answered.
[x] You don't know enough to make a decision one way or the other. Follow the creature and see if its actions shed light on its purpose.
 
HanEmpire said:
That may not be enough to overcome a Dragon Ogre. These things are ancient, only get stronger with time, and are pumped full of Chaos Blessings.
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To be fair, it seems like this isn't a Shaggoth. That would probably be enough to make even me go "yeah, let's not".

And I'm pretty sure Mathilde (with a greatsword) would at least be theoretically capable of taking one down in the tabletop.
 
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