Warhammer Fantasy: Divided Loyalties - an Advisor's Quest

[X] Remain here and help Ulthar make sense of the reports flowing in.

I'm just gonna quietly sneak in here and vote.

[X] Continue downwards to the Grand Avenue.

[x] Remain here and help Ulthar make sense of the reports flowing in.

[X] Remain here and help Ulthar make sense of the reports flowing in.
[X] Continue downwards to the Grand Avenue.

[X] Go to the Mushroom Caves...
-[X] And collect samples in danger of being destroyed in the fighting.

[X] Go to the Mushroom Caves...
-[X] And collect samples in danger of being destroyed in the fighting.

For a while I thought these shrooms were part of the orc ecosystem, but of not, dropping them off to the relevent wizard seems useful imo.

[X] Remain here and help Ulthar make sense of the reports flowing in.

[X] Continue downwards to the Grand Avenue.

The rangers have been working with Pannonia a lot, I think they'll pick up some samples for her. If we aren't urgently needed here then lets's not fight room to room. If we can't see the enemy coming we'll have to be casting aetheric armour every few minutes which is dangerous.

The longer sight lines where we have a chance to read key points of the battle and hit them with terror or rally friendlies with crown of fire will suit us better.

[x] Remain here and help Ulthar make sense of the reports flowing in.

[X] Remain here and help Ulthar make sense of the reports flowing in.

At some point, it would be nice to try researching some of those Grey Battle Wizard spells, especially if we're going to get in more fights after K8P. I'd especially like to see rapid teleportation, and the fog of war spell.

[x] Remain here and help Ulthar make sense of the reports flowing in.

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[X] Remain here and help Ulthar make sense of the reports flowing in.

That also allow us to be part of the reserve if everything goes to shit on one of the Chiselward fronts.

[X] Remain here and help Ulthar make sense of the reports flowing in.

[X] Go to the Mushroom Caves...
-[X] And join the attack.

Only option I dislike is collecting mushrooms. I seriously doubt the dwarves could completely destroy all of them during the fighting even if they tried. If you want the fanling to look at them, just escort her to survey the remains the next day. (Might be a good use of her time anyway to detect whether there are any more shroom-based dangers.)

[X] Remain here and help Ulthar make sense of the reports flowing in.

Sure, seems convincing. And I missed it, too.
Let's be a warrior of fog-of-war.

[x] Remain here and help Ulthar make sense of the reports flowing in.

Changing vote:

[X] Remain here and help Ulthar make sense of the reports flowing in.

I really want to see more of that particular kind of "combat", so

[X] Remain here and help Ulthar make sense of the reports flowing in.

[X] Remain here and help Ulthar make sense of the reports flowing in.

[x] Remain here and help Ulthar make sense of the reports flowing in.

[x] Remain here and help Ulthar make sense of the reports flowing in.

[x] Remain here and help Ulthar make sense of the reports flowing in.

[x] Continue downwards to the Grand Avenue.

Because the position is important enough that if they've rolled poorly we'll want to be there, but making sense of the reports would be my second choice.

[X] Remain here and help Ulthar make sense of the reports flowing in.

BoneyM said:

Thanks, I think a big part of what's interesting about fantasy universes is the alien mindsets, both of humans living in fantasy worlds and of non-human races. Depicting Dwarves as cranky bearded humans would be a huge missed opportunity, and even though Mathilde has been getting on really well with Dwarves, she's also quite aware that they're entirely different to people, and she's still going to get caught out here and there by it.

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One interesting thing one of the 2nd Edition Roleplay books picks up and runs with is how strongly the Empire, particularly the southern provinces, were influenced by the dwarves.

It's easy to forget that the Empire was formed largely as a dwarven uplift project.

Before the dwarves intervened, the pre-Empire tribes were pre-literate Bronze Age pastoralists who didn't make permanent year-round settlements (although they did have winter dwellings). After the dwarves had finished teaching the early Empire they were literate, steel making city dwelling agriculturalists. (As an aside, that's why it's noted in a couple of places that many of the Reikspeil words for crafting, particularly those related to stone or metal, are Khazalid loanwords.)

That was all a long time ago, but contact and cultural influence has continued. Tome of Salvation mentions that dwarven style ancestor worship is standard in the southern Empire, amongst other adoption of dwarven customs.

As a result, Mathilde's regional cultural background should be particularly compatible with the dwarves, as she'll share many unspoken assumptions - even if they are manifested differently due to different psychology, and there should be a deep implicit understanding of dwarven nature that has been assimilated into her cultural heritage after thousands of years of continual contact. Dwarven psychology may be different, but it won't be alien, it will have been explained to her through children's stories and folk tales and similar all her life, particularly considering that there's a decent sized minority population of Imperial dwarves who have immigrated to live in the Empire.