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Warhammer Fantasy: Divided Loyalties - an Advisor's Quest

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If you really want a staff/rifle the easiest method is to build a grounding rod into rifle with a spike on the end as a fixed bayonet equivalent. Would be somewhat disposable, but as long as it wasn't a super expensive thing it'd be pulling double duty. I fear casting magic through a tube that constantly explodes inside wouldn't really make sense not to be unstable outside of one for bright wizards. Well, unless it was stupid expensive and unlike the greatsword, upgrades in firearms tech would make it need replacement/upgrades to keep up with the Jones. Need to invent the changable rail slide mod slot to make it worth while. Probably worth more to make enchanted one shot ammo for more Ulgu spells. That or an underslung grenade launcher equivalent that fires off canisters that let you *THOOMP* out preloaded AoE spells would work... if the idea came up somehow. That would be a fairly big 'IF'.

OTOH, making a specially designed, pistol shaped wand that boosts projectile shadow chisels seems to be a solid (as much as that term can be applied to Ulgu projectiles) idea. Have to alter the shadow chisels so they work at range though. Basically, a silenced pistol.
 
Nix's Warden said:
No idea if anyone mention it since I'm not going through Chat but it looks like we've fully learned Khazalid as of last update. Strangely still not fully learned Economics despite our active hand in the EIC.
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I'm pretty sure it's just Boney not keeping the character sheet fully updated. Mathilde visibly progressed in Khazalid over the interludes and demonstrated fluency by the time of her enthusiastic walk with king Kazador (that entire scene is in Khazalid, Kazador doesn't know a word in Reikspiel)
 
@BoneyM We've delivered some stuff we didn't have time/skills to research to the Colleges. What would it take to have the Colleges send some of the stuff brought in by other mages to us to get researched? Would it even happen, or is that only for people who stay in the Colleges?
 
[X] Plan Not Really Preliminary Anymore
Im voting for this solely because its to help the We find a home now which was Belegars direct request of us if we dont have them move on. Im not in favor of teaching the We any form of writing though. Also its about time we look at that poison.
 
We just spent 25 favors on a sword and it hasn't even been delivered yet, can we avoid moving on to the next super-killy weapon before we get to use it a bit? I'm honestly not sure I'm willing to spend on a gun of any sort past our current revolver, and I really, really think trying to gandalf it should either require relearning technique from scratch, or be ruled out for encumbrance right from the start.

Sheathstaff is a cool idea, but would need to be rule of cool rather than practical arguements- it's pretty much impossible to draw a sword from over the shoulder if more than like the first 1/3 of the blade is enclosed.

For me, ideally, a grounding rod in the shape of a plain iron stiletto, for renald tie-in. Not too big to carry into a tunnel, not trying to be a magic weapon plus grounding rod, just simple.

At this point a staff is practically something that should just be left in the ulgu room for use as needed.
 
Glau said:
Sheathstaff is a cool idea, but would need to be rule of cool rather than practical arguements- it's pretty much impossible to draw a sword from over the shoulder if more than like the first 1/3 of the blade is enclosed.
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Just use Uglu to make the sheath selectively solid. If the side of the sheath has a slit, it's entirely possible to draw from a back sheath - Shadiversity did a whole video series on it.
 
BioWolf said:
[X] Plan Not Really Preliminary Anymore
Im voting for this solely because its to help the We find a home now which was Belegars direct request of us if we dont have them move on. Im not in favor of teaching the We any form of writing though. Also its about time we look at that poison.
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The other vote does far more for the We from what I can tell.
 
Redshirt Army said:
The next time we do scouting, I'd like to do it as a "cooperate with a fellow councillor" thing. Presumably Dreng has a better idea of what K8P needs scouted than we do, given he has more insight on our future military plans.

Beyond that, it lets us develop another partnership among the council, and makes sure we don't step on Dreng's toes with our activities.
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That's actually a pretty good idea. We can mesh scouting with developing our relationship, and now that we've proved what we did in the Reclamation was no fluke and that we're not limited to causing mayhem (especially since he wasn't part of the original Council) he knows we're reliable.
 
Nix's Warden said:
No idea if anyone mention it since I'm not going through Chat but it looks like we've fully learned Khazalid as of last update. Strangely still not fully learned Economics despite our active hand in the EIC.
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The thing about economics is if you go back and look at the turns she was learning it you'd see its basically take college level economics. Like crazy amounts of fancy math and exotic concepts that make your brain hurt conceptualizing them. Like looking at this stuff is like looking at a cypher actively working to be purposefully obtuse and confuse you into insanity level mathematical nonsense. Particularly to a person with no learning in the field. Literally a person who grew up a medieval peasant and became a mage dealing with five variable algebraic equations interacting with each other in protective analysis of trending markets without a calculator level gibberish.

So no, the Economics skill can't really upgrade itself without actually doing related paperwork or taking related classes. It involves things considered freakishly arcane by pretty much everyone on the planet. I'm pretty sure that if you started doing random discussions of economics and projected it across a battlefield and tied in an attention grabbing spell into it, you could actually drive people insane.

Completely worth knowing just for the exercise in arcane mental gymnastics though... mostly because MC is a Grey Mage.
 
Valarauko said:
Alternatively, the dwarves have good enough machining that having a hinge on it and a latch isn't out of the question.
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Honestly, I can get behind this. No need for a magical solution when a mundane one works fine. The biggest issue is that since it's Mathilde who'd be making the sheath, she'd have to be the one to figure out the mechanism - albeit with dwarven help.
 
I mean let's see if the dwarves give us a sheath with our new rune blade first. While I imagine it's not an irreplaceable work of art like the blade who knows what they're going to make. Though another thing I thought of was if we use a plain sheath would it help disguising our sword as a normal blade?
 
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tbh i half-expect that we're going to find the raw materials for our eventual staff in a game of fetch with Wolf where he comes back, not with the stick we threw, but with an ash pole shimmering with magic.

it seems like the sort of thing that happens to Mathilde.
 
Necratoid said:
The thing about economics is if you go back and look at the turns she was learning it you'd see its basically take college level economics. Like crazy amounts of fancy math and exotic concepts that make your brain hurt conceptualizing them. Like looking at this stuff is like looking at a cypher actively working to be purposefully obtuse and confuse you into insanity level mathematical nonsense.
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...it's not that bad. She's only learning mercantilism. Has trigonometry even been invented yet?
 
picklepikkl said:
tbh i half-expect that we're going to find the raw materials for our eventual staff in a game of fetch with Wolf where he comes back, not with the stick we threw, but with an ash pole shimmering with magic.

it seems like the sort of thing that happens to Mathilde.
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At that point it'd be a Ranald Joke so I'd be like "Yoink thanks pal." :V
 
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