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[x] [SPIDER] The We can be a powerful military ally against the Skaven.
[x] [UNDUMGI] Francesco Caravello, Tilean ex-merchant
[x] [ARMOUR] Make no recommendation.

Spiders seem likely to both be very useful in defending the hold against Skaven, and also more trustworthy in that position - means we're not asking them to go against any previous alliances with the greenskins. There's obvious problems with encouraging the hivemind to consider breaking alliances acceptable. Long-term can wait until we've demonstrated that ability to get along with each other.

Soizic's interesting to me, but the potential issue with Ranald is something that I'd want resolved or dealt with before putting her in a position of power.

Against sticking an oar in on the Armour vote; that's properly Dwarven business, as far as I'm concerned.
 
[ ] [SPIDER] The We can be a welcome addition to the multispecies community of Karak Eight Peaks.

There is no easy way to communicate. We literally cannot make them part of society.
We could just give them an enchanted object to cast the spell we've been casting on them whenever they want. Boom, now they're talking spiders, and we don't need to hand out easily lost magical items to every human who wants to interact with them.
 
It's not wasteful, because it's likely increases our ability to enact change more than anything else we can do, as the standard way for humans to get powerful enough to matter is to use high end dwarven weapons, and it's also likely to help us earn dwarf favour more quickly. We've seen we get most significant for assassinating high value targets, An incredibly powerful sword is tailor made for that, because we're not always going to get lucky and kill targets that can't fight back. For example, a lot of skaven leaders are magic users, so would see/sense the magic of our active spells once we got close and so we'd have to fight them.
I'm sorry, did you miss the part where I said "I have heard the arguments and remain unmoved?"
 
I can just imagine Mathilde just critiquing a necromancer's technique in how they using their spells, and everybody just stops and stares at her for a moment.
She was already doing this during Drakenhof. It was kind of great how all through the push she's like 'What is with these fumble-fingered necromancers? How are they all so terrible at this? You'd think they'd never stepped foot inside a College and somebody just decided to make a necromantic apprentice out of some Sylvanian cheesemaker!'
Sorry, I'm unfamiliar with Warhammer. Who is the Lady, and how do we know she's devoted to her? I didn't think there was mention of a god in her writeup.

In any even, even if she herself is not a Ranaldite, we can use her as a model of "someone who did what was right for the right reasons, even if society's norms were all against her, and when society tried to shove her back in the box she flipped them the bird and kept helping people."
Admittedly, Ranald showing favor on an ex-Bretonnian knight who hates him but that continuously does things Ranald the Protector agrees with... that's so him.
 
[X] [SPIDER] The We can be a powerful military ally against the greenskins.
[X] [SPIDER] The We can be a powerful military ally against the Skaven.
[X] [SPIDER] The We can be a welcome addition to the multispecies community of Karak Eight Peaks.

We just established communications with some weird alien species. That's a big thing. It would be a waste to just chase the spiders away.

[X] [UNDUMGI] Francesco Caravello, Tilean ex-merchant

[X] [ARMOUR] Make no recommendation.

[] Ranger's Greatsword sounds like a good idea.

I was opposed to an extremely expensive and powerful weapon, and with this vote even more so. I don't want to try and get Kragg to spend a lot of time working on some inferior Umgi weapon. (instead of a proper Dawi one)
 
Your books from Wurtbad seem fairly lonely, but they'll soon have company - you went perhaps a touch overboard on your way through Barak Varr, and in the coming months the delivery of books for your nascent library will form a significant fraction of the imports.
There is no such thing as too many books. Only insufficient storage space.

Thankful you erred on the side of comprehensiveness, you put aside all your tomes on known spiders and instead take up Dzierzon's Ants, Termites and Bees, Lorraine's A New Relation With The Hives, the Anonymous Formicidaemon - Possible Parallels Between Insects And Warp Entities, and manage to be only temporarily sidetracked by jotting in corrections in the margins of Waaagh And Hive, which started with half an interesting idea and then flailed helplessly with it for the length of a tome.
We are going to teach Wolf to say "We have a book for that!" aren't we?

Seriously though the book bonuses are more than worth the gold. Not sure they are worth Favours but we shall see.

Nice to meet someone (someones?) reasonable.
Also excellent work portraying an alien yet still comprehensible mindset.

Oswald Oswaldson
Francesco Caravello
Soizic
From the Empire. Engineer family. Career soldier.
Former merchant. Tilean. Interest in the East.
Bretonnian. Knight (not technically questing). Knows the value in bending certain rules while maintaining honour.

All are workable. All have their own baggage.

Three Skaven clans? Then again, three fighting each other could be less dangerous than one united in purpose.
More varied opposition, which will need to be accounted for.
Johann will be pleased to know the mech rats are present.

'World's Edge Armour'
Sweet loot. No use to Mathilde but probably Favour worthy depending on what we do with it.

your words seem to have installed a spine of steel in [Anton]
No less than one should expect of The Dragon Finder.

[First Secret of Dhar acquired]
[Second Secret of Dhar acquired]
So basically we can do do an undead army what we did to the Greenskins, but more so and at will. That is ridiculously amazing.
 
The Colleges could enchant some items and in the long run a form of communication will emerge.

The We is smart - it can be taught stuff.
If it was with Mathilde and small number of people, then sure. If it was just matter of military aliance, then sure. But a part of society? Especially dwarf society, with dwarves that considers spiders an enemy and fights them? Just recall spider incident on road to K8P. You don't want to have spider neighbour next door.
 
Languages:
Reikspiel
Old Reikspiel
Lingua Praestantia
Eltharin
Khazalid
Huzzah, we fully understand Khazalid now :)

[Book purchases - 700 crowns through the Colleges, 2000 crowns and 1800 gold coins through Barak Varr. Paid with 180 + 1100 ingots.]
[Bedroom furniture and Wizard Quarters set up - paid with 40 ingots.]
Hmm, so one thing to note here is that since dwarven gold coins are worth more than imperial gold crowns, dwarf books are slightly more expensive than imperial ones; ~34 ingots vs ~25. Also interesting that the books on daemons didn't come from the colleges, only the familiars, enchantment, warpstone, and 4 <blank> magics. Guess daemon books might've come from the religious sources, same as divine magic?

Also @BoneyM i assume our salary (which i don't see anywhere on the charsheet, btw) gets added in in the next 'phase' of the turn, after reports?
 
There are people that will yes. There's some that think we shouldn't get a runic weapon at all and frankly if we're only going for ten to fifteen on the weapon i don't think we should bother either.
'Only 10 to 15', i.e. 'only an almost literally legendary weapon'. :p

I know, I know, I completely get the whole opportunity cost and not wanting to have to replace it and how having a super-lethal weapon is never a bad thing and all the other arguments for going all in on a sword, but at the same time... I can't help but laugh whenever someone uses the phrase 'only' when describing a weapon that's in the same tier as a Runefang (or possibly higher, if the '1 favour = 10 points' description is taken literally).
 
I'd note that we can use the Matrix to enchant spiders. The only thing better than hitting Skaven with Spiders is hitting Skaven with Spiders that cause Terror.
 
[X] [SPIDER] The We can be a powerful military ally against the greenskins.
[X] [SPIDER] The We can be a powerful military ally against the Skaven.

[X] [UNDUMGI] Francesco Caravello, Tilean ex-merchant

[X] [ARMOUR] Make no recommendation.
[X] [ARMOUR] It should be returned to the Hold it was stolen from, to build strong ties among the Karaz Ankor.

[X] [RUNE] No purchase.

[X] [ENCHANTMENT] No purchase.

Y'all have fun bickering about stabbing implements now, I'll be back once the fires start dying down. :V
 
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Now that we know that at least some Giant Spider species have access to extremely elaborate and intelligent hive minds, i wonder what this implies for the Forest of Gloom and its Spider worshipping Forest Goblins. As far as i know, this is the only population of Greenskins that worship something other than Gork and Mork. Is it possible that the many, many spiders of the Forest of Gloom are a single massive, ancient hive mind, powerful enough to intermix with the signals the Waaagh field - and thus Gork and Mork - send them? Thus causing the Greenskins to consider the Spiders something similiar to their own gods?

This is an absolutely fascinating discovery. I hope we get a chance to investigate the Forest of Gloom in the future.
 
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[x] [SPIDER] The We can be a powerful military ally against the Skaven.
[x] [UNDUMGI] Francesco Caravello, Tilean ex-merchant
[x] [ARMOUR] Make no recommendation.
[X] [SPIDER] The We can be a powerful military ally against the greenskins.
Updating my vote.
 
Another thought:
[ ] [ENCHANTMENT] College Grounding Rod.
This is a thing we should have. Espetially if we are going to poke odd magic things. It's the one thing we know for sure, using College favor on is worth it and it might save our life someday.
 
[X] [SPIDER] The We can be a powerful military ally against the Skaven.

[X] [UNDUMGI] Francesco Caravello, Tilean ex-merchant

[X] [ARMOUR] Make no recommendation.
 
[] [RUNE] A rune sword worth 25 points, whatever Thorek/Kragg/whoever, think is most suitable for someone who war on the forces of disorder and their works from the shadows.

I would say that we might want to mention that, if possible, we'd like to be able to use it as a staff?
Mind, not a dealbreaker, but it'd certainly be a very useful option.
 
Good lord. Poison that paralyzes and leaves the victim almost completely intact. Spidersilk for the taking.
Trade! We must have trade with the Hive!
Or, if you're so inclined, you twist it the other way, and Dhar disintegrates in such a way to cause more Dhar to disintegrate, and like a single spark striking gunpowder any Dhar construct nearby unleashes all its energy at once, a chain reaction of failing enchantment. No wonder the Grand Theogonist could tear Mannfred Von Carstein's army apart. It required only the faintest hint of power, delivered in just the right spot to start the dominoes falling.
Oh holy Ranald... It's the ultimate anti-undead ability...
 
On the runic item vote, how would people feel about voting for a bastard sword rather than a greatsword?

IIRC Boney has confirmed that all our skills would work with a bastard sword and it keeps us able to get/use a staff as well in the future.

EDIT: Plus Mathilde is small so it doesn't really comprimise our "tiny wizard with huge sword" chic!
 
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There are people that will yes. There's some that think we shouldn't get a runic weapon at all and frankly if we're only going for ten to fifteen on the weapon i don't think we should bother either.
If we didn't have our belt and were offered it now, would you think we shouldn't bother with it?

People seem to forget how awesome even a 15 point item is.
 
[X] [SPIDER] The We can be a powerful military ally against the greenskins.
[X] [SPIDER] The We can be a powerful military ally against the Skaven.
[X] [UNDUMGI] Francesco Caravello, Tilean ex-merchant
[X] [ARMOUR] Make no recommendation.


Right.
We want to plan ahead library, right?
@BoneyM , is it possible to request the books on languages in general and/or on language teaching in particular? In light of next turn being about figuring out how to talk to spiders.

Other than that, I, personally, do not have firm ideas on the matter of books to order.
 
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