Honestly, this is the thing that makes me doubt myself most and second-guess my call. Did we just get advice on the right course of action right there?
Warhammer Fantasy: Divided Loyalties - an Advisor's Quest
- Thread starter Boney
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- Fantasy Users' Choice!
Voted best in category in the Users' Choice awards.
Honestly, this is the thing that makes me doubt myself most and second-guess my call. Did we just get advice on the right course of action right there?
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- Pittsburgh PA
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It was actually Alcadizaar the last mortal king of Nehekhara, who was freed from his prison and given a pure warpstone sword by the Skaven.
fictionfan
Please sir, may I have some Meows?
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All I know about the incident I learned by reading the thread.
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Sir_Travelsalot
Never wakes up tired.
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- At Home
The Fellblade wasn't pure Warpstone, it was Gromril (stolen from Karak Azgal, I believe) mixed with Warpstone and enchanted to hell and back by the Grey Seers.
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- Utrecht
and then he died of radiation poisoning
chocolote12
A Penguin Flailing Against The Keyboard Of Life.
I've given to understand that they actually killed Nagash after he completed his ritual. The ritual was done; he'd already resurrected and enslaved pretty much every dead person on his continent, creating an army of evil that would have allowed him to conquer the world. Because he died afterwards and lost concentration on them, the ones with enough willpower and coherence stuck around under their own power; these were the Tomb Kings, who were prepared by the Mortuary Cult to be raised in the best conditions.
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You joke, but it makes sense that the memetic effects even reched the voting results, the vote represents Mathilde's mind and decision making, after all.
Not quite, he had poisoned the River Vitae, killed Nehekara and its gods (bar Usurian who was already dead in a way) and raised every Tomb King and their retinues, he had not gotten around to the part where he subsumed their will with his own when he got stabbed hence free range Tomb Kings.
I think the odds of any response from the colleges being more killy than "Lady magister, 10 other wizards and an army of magic-resistant dwarves in land-battleships (EDIT: and a dragon)" is pretty low. We're a Lady Magister now. We ARE the backup that other people call in to deal with things like this.
Even if this isn't aimed at the expedition, we have an official duty to wreck Chaos's plans. For me, the question is, 'will the ritual trigger before we get back to the expedition if it is aimed at us' and 'can the expedition help, if we did'.
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- Toronto, Ontario(occasionally)
fuck it, changing my vote again.
[X] Act normal
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- Aotearoa
We are, if a very subtle one. The promotion ritual chair wove the markings of rank into our new robes, the Halfling Elder noticed. You'd presumably need a very sharp eye from a distance, though.
Sus mountain is sus!
Are we ahead of the convoy still? I'm not sure if we ranged ahead of the wagons with Snorri to get here. I.e. is this still in the convoys 'future'?
chocolote12
A Penguin Flailing Against The Keyboard Of Life.
I don't think we can actually tell whether or not that's true; they'd have been released from his control upon his demise in any case, under the same rules as Wights and other undead entities on their level.
You can tell by how the Tomb Kings never recall being controlled, they just woke up confused and started fighting each other, there is no mention of them being as puppets in their unliving bodies.
dpara
slightly confused ascendant
The next part has already been quoted recently, but the thread just moves so flippin fast.
But it shows an ongoing enchantment that when supercharged could do what we're seeing here.
chocolote12
A Penguin Flailing Against The Keyboard Of Life.
A few already highly confusing hours under a mostly quiescent master, while they already retained the majority of their free will as a matter of spiritual composition except in regards to his orders, recalled hundreds to thousands of years later? I'd say 'color me skeptical', but I'm mostly just tired. To each of us our own headcanon.
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- Helsinki, Mother´s sofa
Has anyone considered that maybe acting normal is playing into its hand and we just forget there was anything important there?
Running away by definition implies there is something to run away from, which would protect us from this memetic threat. And just staying here risks the expedition forgetting us (until the dragon asks where they left the grey wizard) and us getting ganked at the enemies leisure.
[X] Run like hell
- Every second could count. Return to the Expedition as fast as magic will allow and raise the alarm.
Running away by definition implies there is something to run away from, which would protect us from this memetic threat. And just staying here risks the expedition forgetting us (until the dragon asks where they left the grey wizard) and us getting ganked at the enemies leisure.
[X] Run like hell
- Every second could count. Return to the Expedition as fast as magic will allow and raise the alarm.
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If Mathilde is subconsciously seeing through an infohazard, and phrasing her options as if we're looking at a clear and present threat -
We need to consider that the reason might be that she's looking at a clear and present threat.
Which means: do we think whatever we're looking at is small enough for our present forces to survive the time for reinforcements to get here? Do we think whatever that threat is will respond to "pretend it isn't there" by letting us go, rather than maneuvering to catch us in a more effective ambush?
Asheram
Not quite altogether
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As I see it there are three options.
1. As you say, she's sensing a real threat.
2. She's Mathilde Weber, professionally paranoid.
3. It's an effect from the infohazard that unnerves her.
I've personally said my point that I think we should play it safe, head back to base, and speak with the others. Karag Vlag, despite what others have said, doesn't seem to be going anywhere.
I do not believe that this is playing it safe. Sticking your head in the sand might be comforting, but it's not safe.
The best-case scenario is that whatever hostile is here thinks it's better off letting us go than ambushing us, and you're staking a whole lot on the belief that it's wrong.
I see your point, but we are talking about Tomb Kings, if someone had dared control them, they would have recalled that with the force of fiery hate.