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[X] You are a faithful of Ranald, being in the right place at the right time to unbalance the scales. Try to steal the energies.
 
[X] You are a faithful of Ranald, being in the right place at the right time to unbalance the scales. Try to steal the energies.

I'm a little concerned about what a 100 would've looked like, given how this turned out.
 
The Mork option I think is about getting very specifically in tune with Orkoid psychology and the primitive destructiveness they get about. Its becoming the locus for a God that isn't our own and all the attendant affects of that.

The Mork option sounds like the real munchkin template-stacking option tbh. I'd vote for that if I wanted to be an Orc Wizard Knight Priest Shaman Necromancer or somesuch wackiness.
 
The Teclis/Colleges vote is legitimately sad to me, it feels like Stockholm Syndrome. Teclis did not care about us, even in the abstract, he handed the barbarians a few scraps of lore so they would better be able to gunk up the gears of Chaos with their blood, the Empire which the Colleges serve cares about us even less with most of its inhabitants holding us in open contempt even as it spends the lives of mages in its wars. The way I see if in terms of Mathilde's character the options that actually define a positive interaction are Ranald who came through for us time and again and the Dwarfs who honored her as a skilled craftsman and ally.
It's deciding to take our knowledge of magic and use it to the best of our ability to solve the problem, from the perspective of character development I consider it the working towards Lord-Magister option.
 
[X] You are a faithful of Ranald, being in the right place at the right time to unbalance the scales. Try to steal the energies.

It's either this or the dwarf option and that might nuke our belt, so I am going with this.
 
Normally I would be all about accepting the powerful energies of wrong deities, but Gorkamorka doesn't seem like they'd have anything that can be used to bring back the dead nor is green good for Mathilde's complexion, so I'm passing on that for now.

On the other hand, if we're ever to make our displeasure to Sigmar known personally we need to have some experience in "taking care of" divine energies, and I think this might be the safest environment possible for that. This is Warhammer, there is no such thing as safe destruction of gods
[X] You are Dwarf-friend and you bear upon your person a masterpiece developed by the oldest and wisest Runepriest of the Karaz Ankor. Try to destroy the energies.

Plus, you never know when a Chaos Entity tries to charge of you and knowing how to dismantle power beyond human reckoning would be useful.

Sweet fucking Sigmar,
Wrong deity my friend.

Sigmar's light does not shine in Mathilde's shadow.

Way I see it, if Ranald goes bad it goes really bad and he can't help us and he loses and we lose his blessing as he retreats for a time. We may or may not be able to gain it again, and then it likely goes to the fail state of the human option which is mutative or harmful effects. Such as having our head explode or our face becoming a goblins or just I dunno. Turning into a Squig.
I mean, we're dealing with Waaagh power here.

"Mathilde's head goes squish" is a probably the worst case scenario for all of them.

The Mork option sounds like the real munchkin template-stacking option tbh. I'd vote for that if I wanted to be an Orc Wizard Knight Priest Shaman Necromancer or somesuch wackiness.
... Don't tempt me before I've formally made my vote like that.
 
my only worry with the ranald option is that itll give us a Divine Mark of Ranald (Tome of Salvation p 244) and most of those suck.
 
[X] You are a faithful of Ranald, being in the right place at the right time to unbalance the scales. Try to steal the energies.

It's either this or the dwarf option and that might nuke our belt, so I am going with this.
Granted, if its nuking the belt it probably won't nuke us. On the other tiny wizard lady hand, I'm not sure how Kragg would react to that, probably down to how well Mathilde can smooth talk him(so a second roll later on possibly?)
 
Honestly, the only reason I'm willing to vote Ranald, is because it is Ranald.

I wouldn't dare try this for a different diety's benefit.
But, if one of the God of Thieves and Gamblers faithful cannot pull this off, then who could?

Well, stealing divine power was how Ranald ascended to begin with. I reckon he knows how to use it.
[X] You are Dwarf-friend and you bear upon your person a masterpiece developed by the oldest and wisest Runepriest of the Karaz Ankor. Try to destroy the energies.

Never forget, the Gods are fickle, and none so more than the literal God of Gambling. This can go wrong in many, many horrible ways. So I'll vote for a more 'boring' option, but one I find less risky than trying to steal powers from an Orc god.

...do remember that Kragg's rune works by turning the energy into fire.
This is quite a lot of energy.
We need good reasoning more than greed. Please, tell me you at least have reasoning and thought and not just ambition if you vote for Ranald, that's all I ask.
Ranald is the professional here, he's done this before. When your back is to the wall, when skill isn't enough, when you're alone but for the roll of the dice.

He protects.
Now, he IS one of the weaker and narrower gods, so he might not be able to help, but he'll be there for you even if all he can give is a pat on the back.

...also mechanically:
-Ranald's Blessing is waiting. We hadn't used it yet this season and I reckon theres no more opportune moment than this.
-Piety is actually our highest stat. We have a better chance of doing this than the other ways.
 
It's deciding to take our knowledge of magic and use it to the best of our ability to solve the problem, from the perspective of character development I consider it the working towards Lord-Magister option.

Except it does not say our magic, it says Teclis and Colleges, this is a vote about trust and that option is trust in the system, the same one that has been treating Mathilde and indeed all other mages like pariahs.
 
[X] You are a faithful of Ranald, being in the right place at the right time to unbalance the scales. Try to steal the energies.
 
[X] You are the justice of Mork, delivering swift death upon the heresy of Only Gork. Try to accept the energies.

Because gosh darn it, someone should vote for it.

Also, have y'all considered that sending Ranald a flood of Gork Energy might well change the guy? Human gods are malleable. I feel like this might end up skewing him to Ranald the Protector over Ranald the Gambler, or create a new face of the god, or something.
 
[X] You are the justice of Mork, delivering swift death upon the heresy of Only Gork. Try to accept the energies.

Because gosh darn it, someone should vote for it.

Also, have y'all considered that sending Ranald a flood of Gork Energy might well change the guy? Human gods are malleable. I feel like this might end up skewing him to Ranald the Protector over Ranald the Gambler, or create a new face of the god, or something.
I honestly kinda doubt its enough to change him, but given he ascended by literally stealing divine power in the first place I'm not that worried.
 
[X] You are a Magister of the Grey Order, and follow the traditions laid down by Teclis and Magnus the Pious. Try to ground the energies
 
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[X] You are a faithful of Ranald, being in the right place at the right time to unbalance the scales. Try to steal the energies.
 
[X] You are a Magister of the Grey Order, and follow the traditions laid down by Teclis and Magnus the Pious. Try to ground the energies.

Because I think this is the safest, and most feasible option. These traditions and methods exist for a reason after all, and just going "Give it to Ranald for the shinies" isn't very appealing to me. I like the idea of being a bad-ass professional Grey Wizard more than a priest of Ranald.
 
To be fair, this is WFRP 2e, in which no one is allowed to be good or have a good day, so its par for the course...
But geez GW couldnt you give our catboy some better stuff?
Ooo thankie!

Hrnn so we have:

-Hedonist!Mathilde
-Super Paranoid Mega Liar!Mathilde
-Unfriendly Rogue!Mathilde
-Flexible and Fast!Mathilde(is she becoming a Harlequin?)
-Crazy Cat Lady!Mathilde
-Not!Ulgu Forgettable Lady of Mystery!Mathilde
-Lucky Bitch!Mathilde
-Crazy Give Her a Knoif and She's the Joker!Mathilde
-Gang Marked!Mathilde

Honestly Lithe, Crazy Cat Lady, Lucky Bitch, and Gang Marked are all not that bad.
 
[X] You are a Magister of the Grey Order, and follow the traditions laid down by Teclis and Magnus the Pious. Try to ground the energies.

Because I think this is the safest, and most feasible option. These traditions and methods exist for a reason after all, and just going "Give it to Ranald for the shinies" isn't very appealing to me. I like the idea of being a bad-ass professional Grey Wizard more than a priest of Ranald.
I don't think anyone is going to give it to Ranald for the shinies. We give it to him because he got our backs in a lot of bullshit times and because we've been ridiculously lucky.

If he wants to reward us for it, cool, but theres no expectation here
 
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