Warhammer Fantasy: Divided Loyalties - an Advisor's Quest
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Theunderbolt
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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] Ignore the creature and press on. You've aport to scout.
[x] Ignore the creature and press on. You've aport to scout.
Imrix
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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] Ignore the creature and press on. You've a port to scout.
These are the kinds of monsters that meet multiple charging knights head on, and shatter veteran warriors in full plate with every swing. If he catches us in melee, we are meat. He will eat us. If we are lucky he'll finish killing us first.
[X] Ignore the creature and press on. You've a port to scout.
Here's the thing: While our mobility and magic are potent assets, our 'ludicrous toughness' is nothing to this thing. They hit like, well, dragon ogres. The head of his axe alone is probably about as big as our entire body.
These are the kinds of monsters that meet multiple charging knights head on, and shatter veteran warriors in full plate with every swing. If he catches us in melee, we are meat. He will eat us. If we are lucky he'll finish killing us first.
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Yeah, we're screwed on anything but glancing hit (though it depends on how strong a rune Kragg added to our belt) but we will come back four times while he's getting a runic retribution each time. We're tough enough to be on the same level.
Night_stalker
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Honestly, I just want to go back to report this because if there's one Dragon Ogre, there might be others, and a whole lot of other stuff running around we can't see. Reporting it is the kind of thing the Dwarves understand, because now they know "Hey, there's goddamn Dragon Ogre up ahead, get ready for combat".
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But if it is connected to something important, then we can scout with a much lower risk of being spotted than a ranger, and infinitly better escape abilities.
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- Brazil
The problem it just runing back to report is that we won't be doing our job, we know there is a dragon ogre but thats it, we don't know if its alone, if there is a clan around here or even if there is whole chaos army the other side of the mountains, and since we are here as a scout, finding about those things is basicaly why we are, if the army has to pass here whitout realy knowing what is around we didn't do our job right.
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- Germany
[X] Ignore the creature and press on. You've a port to scout.
We got a job to do. Let's do it.
Mathilde also has no mundane skills at scouting or stealth, and all her stealth spells only last a few minutes, as far as I can see. I am not confident that she can track the Dragon Ogre and remain undetected.
We got a job to do. Let's do it.
Mathilde also has no mundane skills at scouting or stealth, and all her stealth spells only last a few minutes, as far as I can see. I am not confident that she can track the Dragon Ogre and remain undetected.
Night_stalker
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And if we die because he saw us, and turned us into lunch, then they won't even have a warning.
Imrix
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Here's the thing; if we have to come back via Seed of Regrowth even once, we're screwed, because it doesn't negate a mortal wound, it returns us from one. Which implies a certain amount of time spent incapacitated within grabbing range of a ginormous, alarmingly fast and probably hungry Dragon Ogre.
Again: If he catches us in melee, we are meat. He will eat us.
The Seed of Regrowth is not, in point of fact, an infallible tool of resurrection. It's very useful if we fall in battle where the chaos and tumult can shield us from view while we get back on our feet, but against something like a Dragon Ogre I would almost call it a liability, because it means if we get grabbed, Mathilde's bad end gets drawn out into a nightmare scenario of repeatedly waking up in time to feel herself be eaten alive.
Which means our only worthwhile offensive option in melee is the Rune of Spite, and I refuse to field-test that for the first time against a Dragon Ogre.
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Night_stalker
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Plus, well, he's a Dragon Ogre. He could easily grab us and just eat us outright. Or start slamming us into the ground.
Or any number of ways. Being able to withstand a lot of pain just means we're now a meal that's also entertaining for it.
chocolote12
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Grabbing us and eating us outright means he gets double-eaten, or double-ground-slammed.
Like, yeah, we're not likely to survive fighting him, but he's not getting out of it unscathed. Can he survive a dragon ogre twice his strength chewing on his skull? Keeping in mind that our skull is supernaturally durable, and that he won't merely suffer twice the force it'd take to mulch human bones.
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He's pretty damn tough, more so then us at any rate. Can you say with certainty he can't just tank it? Or say, cripple us, and let the wildlife or enviroment kill us, then feast on our remains?
Or rip off the belt?
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- Memphis, TN
Do Dragon Ogre Shaggoths lead smaller dragon ogres often or are they more loners?
Which is why we also shouldn't follow him. While not as immediately fatal as attacking him, we have no idea how good his senses are, how smart he is or what supernatural abilities he has. The more time we spend on his tail, the greater the chance that something gives us away. The bastard is thousands of years old, he's got more tricks than we know.
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- Memphis, TN
Also can't Dragon ogres shoot lighting?
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- Brazil
The Seed of regrownt grants perfect regeneration, so that is no probem and thus if he builds distance better for us.
And why would he even think of messing with our belt ?
It isn't a Shaggoths but a normal one.
That they store from storms and there hasn't been any recently around the region.
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There's nothing stopping us from just recasting shadowcloak on ourself before its duration ends, and I assume that our intrigue score will apply to stealth.
Seeing us is very far from turning us into lunch. He may be mobile as a goat on the mountain slope, but drop a 10 yard sphere of darkness on him and he's going to find it considerably harder to stick the landing.
Don't be silly; he's not an actual ogre, he won't EAT us.
He'll just take our head as a trophy many times as it regrows.
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- Northern Ireland, UK
[x] Turn back and alert the Expedition to the creature, and the possibility of more.
[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.
Night_stalker
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Because it still takes time to regenerate, and if say, he smushes our bones, that means it'll take some time to heal.
As for the belt, he's old. He's seen people with magical gear in the past, probably will recognize Dwarf runes, if not knowing what they do per say...
chocolote12
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I said that "We probably wouldn't survive"? But no, I don't think he can survive being chewed up by something with twice his jaw strength, much less four times over. And he can't do the second option, because the moment he lets up we Wizard at him some more; Dhar is notable for being exceptionally easy to get into if we feel desperate at that point, to say nothing of any of the more standard options we possess, like just running away with our tireless mount that he can't outspeed because it sprints half again as fast as a sprinting mortal horse except endlessly and without regard for dubious terrain.
All of this presupposed that he can get into melee with us in the first place.
And I don't think we're going to monologue to him about how our belt of Spite makes us unbeatable.
Only after thunderstorms, I think.
The Dwarf Runes that he can't see because they're on the inside of the belt?
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Night_stalker
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Fair point, didn't remember that.
Just saying, he's old, and if he gets his mitts on us, don't count on being able to tank it.