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Warhammer Fantasy: Divided Loyalties - an Advisor's Quest

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[X] Court Wizard

I'm more on the research side of thing so I'm picking the research-y job.

[x] Marry me...
- [x] Soon

Anton is good for Mathilde and he is a hell of a diplomat, they would make a great team IMO.
 
Johann you utter twat.

I am not sure about Anton. He is nice, but...ehhh idk.
Gun girl can be a decent match too, and one less likely to randomly up and disappear to other end of Empire for a year or three.
 
buli-buli said:
Any thoughts on Anton's marriage aside from "not Mathilde"?
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I'm tempted to go withthis
[ ] Stay single. Marry for love.

To see what he manages to come up with, maybe tell him to let us take a look at them before he gets formally engaged to make sure they're not secretly a vampire or chaos worshipper or something though.
 
[X] Marry them...
- [X] Reinhild Gerber

She seems nice, and Anton likes her.

[X] 'Head Ranger' (Spymaster), Internal Focus
[X] Court Wizard

Stay within our core competencies.
 
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[X] Marry them...
- [X] Reinhild Gerber
[X] 'Head Ranger' (Spymaster), Internal Focus
[X] Steward
 
[X] Marry me...
- [X] Soon
[X] Stay single. Marry for love.
[X] Court Wizard
[X] 'Head Ranger' (Spymaster), External Focus

I shipped those two since the beginning. Always had a soft spot with the puppy and serious kind of ships. Also, his nobility status would provide Mathilde resources and higher connections within the Empire.

People have made a lot of convincing arguments to go for court wizard.
 
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Anton is a good guy but I literally see zero actual chemistry here.

[X] Marry them...
- [X] Reinhild Gerber

Literally just voting for this because it's the one with the highest chance of winning that isn't us marrying him.
 
I'm firmly in the camp of, "Not Mathilde". It's just not a good match, we'll almost never be around and being married to a Wizard is political baggage he doesn't need.

[X] Marry them...
- [X] Wilhelmina.
[X] Court Wizard
[X] Stay single. Marry for love.
 
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[X] Marry them...
- [X] Wilhelmina.

Anton needs someone who can function in areas he lack, and Wilhelmina needs someone who wouldn't screw her over. So it is an almost natural combination that ensures EIC remains as lucrative and tax paying as possible.

[X] Steward

Weber is a neutral party far from established dwarven economic structure, that makes her the fair option for the budding K8P. It helps that she is a Grey, less random smuck trying to push their "brilliant" idea without thinking.
 
A bit sad we didn't get an update on Kasmir, but I suppose our grand return would be slightly less idyllic if it also included attempted murder.

BoneyM said:
With painful memories now insulated by your graduation and the Expedition, you can admit that you had more than a little bit of a crush on Abelhelm, and if thinks had been different... well, things probably wouldn't have been different, he was a Witch Hunter and he was your boss and he had a daughter only six years your younger, but maybe they could have been... but now you'll never know, and that's the end of it.
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Mathilde, that's just quitter talk. And you are many things, but a quitter is not one of them!.. Well, there was that one time with the paper, but if love turns out to be anything like writing academic papers then you do well to quit it!

Even ignoring what I am obvious thinking of, Warhammer is weird enough that there are multiple plausible ways for the dead and the living to communicate. You might get a chance to ask him.

[X] Stay single. Marry for love.
Never settle when it comes to love! The rest of your life is more than just a resource to be spent and more than something that should just be spent on "okay".

And I am not just saying because my heart still carries a torch for AsarnilXAnton.

NavySeel said:
If we did marry I'd want it to be to some one who could come with us on adventures.

That's not Anton.
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Much as my preferred pairing is someone that did go with us on adventures (and will again in the future if I have something to say about it), there is something to be said to have someone to return home to.

Who knows, maybe if Abelhelm had that he'd been able to push his body just a little bit more.
 
killfr3nzy said:
Hmm, would've though insights on the Anvil to be rarer, but looking at the rating it's not quite a one-off or always-dangerous, no.
(Aren't Bile Trolls just shittily-mutated Nurgle trolls, and extremely rare? Why would that be valuable? Now I'm gonna have to check TT stats...)
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Your missing out on how the driving force behind the academic equivalent of 'street cred' that comes from being familiar with utterly obscure topics and papers. Nothing gives you power there quite like making all the other academics scramble to find some random paper so you can't lord it over them all.
BoneyM said:
When I wrote that I'd assumed people would realize that they can't literally rewrite the same paper over and over to break the system over their knee.
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I'd like to point of that deeply stupid thing from the '80s with eggs. They went from 'hyper lethal poison from the cholesterol' to the 'perfect super food' every other month. Decades later they discover the cholesterol content and its bizarre random flux in studies was determined to be how you cooked the yoke. Also, now dietary cholesterol is basically irrelevant now (particularly compared to your genetics propensity for generating cholesterol in your system). Of course that is this week and may change on a dime.

Granted that only really works with a rival to compete with and not slight revision for typos number 48.
Sinsystems said:
So if we wanted to write a second paper on the Dragon Ogres we'd need to acquire considerable information by say capturing one and doing experiments to see how the various forms of lightning effects them or something along those lines.
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ctulhuslp said:
Well, stealing skaven lighting cannon thingie in order to shoot it at Dragon Ogres is....
Certainly something we could write a paper on, but...
uh
I just imagine Kragg's disapproval level once he hears of that
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To do that paper you'd need to get several dragon ogre fed by different lightnings (or combinations of lightnings) and the herd them into the lightning cannons shots. Preferably different lightning canon used for sample size and comparison. Though the more interesting paper is probably on how you managed to herd all those dragon ogres in the first place. Also, how your subduing them for all those health check ups.

Of course Kragg may read your paper (or at all get someone to describe it to him properly) just so he knows exactly how to disapprove of you for doing that. I half expect he'll have to research a new rune variant to do it properly.
ichypa said:
I like the mental image I just got of Skaven engineers just submitting papers to various academic institutions under pen names, just entirely unprompted. So Imperial academia has mysteriously unseen, but brilliant, members who all seem to have odd verbal tics somehow communicated into their writing.
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Only literate skaven are near the top of the skaven hierarchy and they only use this for recording keeping and lists of things... if a skaven can write that paper at and submit it, that society is already walking dead. Short lifespans and genetic chronic backstabbing syndrome do not a literate society make.
Omegahugger said:
While the concept was discarded due to logical reasons, I do like the concept of a pistol that's completely normal except it can shatter castle gates by pistolwhipping.
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Kind of like the idea of this pistol with a flip out bayonet on top that counts as a battering ram. Dramatic nonsense reveal that makes them laugh before they poke you through several walls at once. Even more discarded due to logical reasons (not the least of which is lack of surface area to actually rune on.)
veekie said:
The mark apparently applies mainly to the Grey Wizard's face.
If we had a weapon that memorable they'd probably remember "A wizard with <Weapon Name>" instead of "A mysterious Wizard"
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NavySeel said:
That's not how that mark work it only makes your face forgettable.
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Yes, forgettable faceless wizard with a legendary weapon, that will be comically effective for dragging in assassins trying to replace you.... or at least impersonate you... or set up a line of blank faces going out and being the new Ace Rimmer('Red Dwarf' reference). Everyone that hasn't met you is quite vulnerable to this kind of ploy. MC isn't a massive social butterfly... in fact is quite stealthy. Nevermind how many living people have really seen the weapon itself. Most of the planet is vulnerable to 'eh, close enough' levels of effect.

So yeah, super weapon designed for notoriety is just asking for problems down the line. Its like a narative character that is 'catnip' for Tzeechians.
thamuzz said:
Off the top of your head, can you name Thor's belt? How about his hammer?
Which shows up in Marvel's Thor?
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Inital reaction: 'Mjolnier' aka 'Smasher'. I'm not sure the belt has a name solid name outside 'Thor's belt of super strength'.
After catching up in the thread: While is has a name in Norse runic and such its nature of requiring me to know asci code keys to spell it correctly makes me not bother with memorizing the official bland name.

Also, is made for a guy/god who decided to take a rowboat out to fish up a serpent with a head in the scale in super carriers for size. Not exactly a master wordsmith and metaphor driven character.
Kornet said:
May I once again suggest waifuing Anton?
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Outside of bored/miscasting amber mages and the like the term you want is 'husbando'.
 
Err yeah, Anton's like a brother and well..although he's very sweet and pragmatically, we're not the worst choice *ever*, it feels awkward regardless.
Plus, it's unfair for him I think, we're going to be away most of the time.

I'd say we could tell Wilhemina that she can tell potential suitors that if hurting our beloved friend/adopted brother would be most unwise but I think that's it.

[] Court Wizard

I won't vote for now, waiting for discussion to happen.
 
[X] Steward

this role will have a huge influence on the economic and diplomatic future of the dwarves, and I'd prefer to tie the dwarfs and the empire further together.
 
[X] Court Wizard

[X] Steward

[X] Marry them...
- [X] Reinhild Gerber

- [X] Stefanie Krebs

- [X] Cordula von Halstedt

- [X] Wilhelmina.


[X] Stay single. Marry for love.
[X] Stay out of it

Literally anything but Marry Me.
 
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I want to do what is basically a mix of Court Wizard and Head Ranger - Internal. Either is fine by me - I want to be first line of defense against Weird Shit, but I also want to be proactive about it, and go stab the evil in gonads as our own scouting action. Which we probably will be able to do? Not sure.

[X] Marry them...
- [X] Reinhild Gerber
[X] Court Wizard
[X] 'Head Ranger' (Spymaster), External Focus

It seems Anton likes the redhead enough, and she is closer than Mathilde.
Plus, again, Mathilde is liable to basically run around the world doing stuff with no set time for rest. I am not sure how feasible is a family with a settled-down noble dude in such a case.
 
Robotninja said:
Not completely uninterested, but I think there should be genuine chemistry. We should absolutely take some effort to make sure that he winds up with someone who does not exploit him, at least.
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I mean, it might be due to both parties inherent adorability, but they are cute together.

There's a reason why Anton came in #2 in the original waifu vote.
 
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