- Location
- Earth
Pretty sure it's just the favour cost. We don't have unlimited DF, so we tend to avoid going above our stipend.
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Warhammer Fantasy: Divided Loyalties - an Advisor's Quest
- Thread starter Boney
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Pretty sure it's just the favour cost. We don't have unlimited DF, so we tend to avoid going above our stipend.
neutronium95
Mad Rocketeer
- Location
- The test site
- Pronouns
- She/Her
[X] [COLLEGE] Aqshy item emulating Dragon Breath (20 Favor).
- Location
- Europa, Jupiter Orbit
@BoneyM Did you reshuffle these to make more aesthetic and practical sense? Because personally I thought that it being our own fault for establishing the rooms in the order we did was a fun touch. And it feels weird that something like the runed and occupied dungeon or the connected to flowing water bathroom can just be lowered by one floor whenever convenient.
I agree, the weird haphazard layout fitted a wizards skewed priorities.
'Why yes, I did build my magic tower before my bedroom and basically lived in my hallway for years.'
'the bathroom is down the stairs and to the left, just below the dungeon'
'what's with all the low doors? those are for Wolf, I would not go in any of them, he traps them... ok, he trips every room but those ones are embarrassing as well as deadly.'
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A Novel Gambit
- Location
- Earth
Article: Charisma - How well your character is able to charm or convince others! An average adult will have a charisma rating of 10.
"You can't seriously expect me to engage with this charade," Cython grumbled.
The ice dragon plodded through the penthouse's tight corridors, carefully weaving a space expansion matrix around Karag Nar's softly glowing spine as it followed the grey robed wizard's descent into the mountain.
"Come on, when's the last time you had an opportunity for study like this?" Mathilde wheedled. As she fiddled with a set of keys, her shadow darted out from beneath her robes for another peek at the ancient Hysh being before retreating back to relative safety.
"As I recall, not three cycles hence." it retorted. "Many were the slain. There was ample opportunity, had I wished it to be so."
"Ah, but they weren't cooperative, and I sincerely doubt you had much interest in securing that. Besides, this one already speaks Khazalid!"
"We shall see," the dragon allowed.
"Here, just let me set up the scenario before you go in, okay?"
"I remain skeptical. But go on, if you must."
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Qrech looked up from the essay he was writing as the door opened, shivering as he felt an unnatural chill in his whiskers.
"Mathilde. Why is it cold?"
The wizard grimaced. "Well, that's a bit of a long story. Do you want the good news or the bad news first?"
"The bad news. Always start with the negatives." the skaven replied.
"My faction lost the war. The dwarves were utterly crushed, and Karak Eight Peaks is under new management."
"And yet, here you are?" he asked suspiciously. "You have successfully bargained for a new position, I take it?"
"That's part of the good news. The rest of it is that we now have a third player for our tabletop sessions!"
At the signal, the doorway expanded and Cython entered the cell with a blast of frigid air.
"Greetings, Qrech of the Under-Empire. You may address me as Cython, and I claim dominion over these mountains. I am told you are a most intriguing specimen of your kind. Shall we discuss things over a game?"
- Location
- New Brunswick, NJ
- Pronouns
- He/Him/His
A paper.
Regarding the layout of our home: Boney specifically said he'd juggle the rooms around to make aesthetic sense back when we first investigated taking dig-down actions after Karagril, so we could house Qrech privately. People were worried about having our dungeon on literally the first floor below the entrance and he didn't want the aesthetics to be a blocker from people just picking the rooms they liked. Our towers have also been arranged according to his whim rather than in strict construction order or anything.
- Location
- Czech Republic
[X] [COLLEGE] Aqshy item emulating Dragon Breath (20 Favor).
NSMS
Probably evil, unfortunately.
- Location
- A rapidly widening tear in the fabric of reality
Maybe the dwarves installed each room in a giant sliding cube, so we can push them around and reshuffle them whenever we feel like it?
- Location
- Outside the Box
- Pronouns
- She/Her
In that case, I think I'm gonna headcanon Algard absentmindedly reshuffled a few rooms while he was working on the Eye. Simple stuff for a tower-mancer like him. "Would you like the bedroom to have an east or west view? Or both, but you'll have to maintain the window's enchantment yourself..."
- Location
- Chicago
- Pronouns
- She/They
Oh this is wonderful. I can almost hear the growl in their voice and the way 'seriously' gets stretched out. The scene is just the right combo of plausible and crack that I love it, and the blatant abuse of the coin is so evident you didn't even need to hint at it.
Only thing that threw me a bit was the phrasing around the mountain's spine. I usually think of the ridgeline as the spine, was this meant to be there dragon's instead?
- Location
- Earth
Glad you enjoyed it!
The spine refers to the Eye of Gazul's massive steel beam that runs from the tower straight down through the mountain.
- Location
- Europa, Jupiter Orbit
I'm curious how Thorek sells this stuff to other Runesmiths. Especially to other Runelords that actually use Anvil Runes and other slowly recharging expendables. Because "I use an array that recharges our most sacred Runes with this liquid magic some Umgi Zhuforki has showed me a couple years ago" sounds like it's only not squarely in the kickflip zone due to some technicality or other.
Actually, does the AV even ever get directly shipped to someone else, or does Thorek just advertise that he can recharge Runes now and use it all in house, getting a cut of the favor every time we get our three?
I'm an idiot. I always read this as there being some interesting unreplicable spell Luuk found that transforms dragons into humans under certain conditions. But it's literally Luuk managing to integrate a Ghur version of Mathilde's Matrix, probably after he idly observed some other Ambers trying and failing to adapt it outside of Altar level enchantments and playing around with the concept himself.
I'm sure that others must have pointed this out back when the chapter in question was fresh, but I don't really have time to read everyone's comments so I never noticed until now. Wow.
NSMS
Probably evil, unfortunately.
- Location
- A rapidly widening tear in the fabric of reality
Thorek's basically second only to Kragg in prestige. If he says something's okay to use, other runesmiths will go along with it and pretend it's not radical unless there's a very very good reason not to. Plus, the sheer practicality and utility of being able to rapidly recharge anvil runes is going to be hard for even conservative dwarves to ignore.
I figure the general evaluation is "its a reagent, it works as advertised, Thorek verifies it". There may also be a precedent on this matter, of using magically charged substances to do runesmithing.
Exactly how the Umgi who actually provides the reagent gets the reagent is Umgi business and dwarves poke their nose into that on their own account.
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consequences
Not A Nice Person At All
- Location
- Jerkville
The alternative is loading your Anvil into the gyro transport in a hurry and charging straight into the center of a Storm of Magic and setting it up to recharge while a desperate battle is fought by your bodyguard contingent against everyone else that wants to tap into those sweet sweet winds. So, you know, allowances can be made, and backdating on the centuries of methodical testing can probably be forged.
Akasha
The Only Truth
- Location
- 「̛̛́́ ͏̨҉̕͏ ͏̶̴」
[X] [LIBRARY] Dark Lands: Extensive + Esoteric Imperial (200gc), Marauder Tribes: Extensive Imperial + Extensive Dwarven (200gc), Karaz Ankor: Esoteric Dwarven (150gc, 4DF), Enchanting: Esoteric Imperial (50gc, 2CF)
[X] [DWARF] Runesmith briefing on Karag Dum (2 gallons AV)
[X] [COLLEGE] Aqshy item emulating Dragon Breath (20 Favor).
[X] [PURCHASE] Commission a painting of the duckling club together from an artist.
[X] [DWARF] Runesmith briefing on Karag Dum (2 gallons AV)
[X] [COLLEGE] Aqshy item emulating Dragon Breath (20 Favor).
[X] [PURCHASE] Commission a painting of the duckling club together from an artist.
- Location
- USA
[X] [LIBRARY] Dark Lands: Extensive + Esoteric Imperial (200gc), Marauder Tribes: Extensive Imperial + Extensive Dwarven (200gc), Karaz Ankor: Esoteric Dwarven (150gc, 4DF), Enchanting: Esoteric Imperial (50gc, 2CF)
[X] [DWARF] Runesmith briefing on Karag Dum (2 gallons AV)
[X] [COLLEGE] Aqshy item emulating Dragon Breath (20 Favor).
[X] [PURCHASE] No purchase.
[X] [DWARF] Runesmith briefing on Karag Dum (2 gallons AV)
[X] [COLLEGE] Aqshy item emulating Dragon Breath (20 Favor).
[X] [PURCHASE] No purchase.
- Location
- Canada
- Pronouns
- He/Him
[X] [COLLEGE] Item of Light's Demand: 5 Favor
Boney described the runesmith view on AV back when it was Kragg as the most likely person to help with it. (tho we would have had to use favour to get him to look at it)
'he really really don't like what he is hearing'
'but he really really wants to spam ancestor runes'
I place AV as something every runesmith hates less then they love what it does. (that's not the same as not hating it)
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- Location
- Chicago
- Pronouns
- She/They
Honestly, handing over the box itself to the runesmiths- for a *permenant* source of recharge that they can keep deep in an access-controled vault- is something we should do near the end of our career, or in our will. It'd give the dwarves an edge they need.
Alternatively, it might be a reasonable price for open cooperation between the elves in the empire, wizards of the empire, and the runesmiths in K8P (minus Kragg), if we really wanted to make a go of the waystones project.
Alternatively, it might be a reasonable price for open cooperation between the elves in the empire, wizards of the empire, and the runesmiths in K8P (minus Kragg), if we really wanted to make a go of the waystones project.
Mopman43
Mountain-Hermit of Nitpeak
- Location
- Vermont
[X] [LIBRARY] Dark Lands: Extensive + Esoteric Imperial (200gc), Marauder Tribes: Extensive Imperial + Extensive Dwarven (200gc), Karaz Ankor: Esoteric Dwarven (150gc, 4DF), Enchanting: Esoteric Imperial (50gc, 2CF)
[X] [DWARF] Runesmith briefing on Karag Dum (2 gallons AV)
[X] [PURCHASE] Commission a painting of the duckling club together from an artist.
[X] [DWARF] Runesmith briefing on Karag Dum (2 gallons AV)
[X] [PURCHASE] Commission a painting of the duckling club together from an artist.
counter argument: when (not if) we find a wizard use for it, it goes to the Grey College.
cause that's our first loyalty, our first oath. (well, second, the first is the empire.)
the dwarfs would respect that keeping to the mathys first oath, so no funny business!
the runesmiths can still get some, its just they have to trade nice things to the greys like runes and rooms of opps etc etc.
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