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Warhammer Fantasy: Divided Loyalties - an Advisor's Quest

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[X] Visit Uzkulak, the Chaos Dwarf equivalent to Barak Varr
[X] Visit the combes that Qrech told you about
[X] Head Engineer Gotrek Gurnisson
[X] Ice Crone Ljiljana
[X] Magister Egrimm van Horstmann
 
I really want to check in with the expedition leadership and Ruprecht. I would really prefer to avoid going on two sidequests in the same turn. I think that Uzkulak is the better option of the two, at least there is the possibility of some benefits for the expedition in terms of securing more food.

[x] Visit Uzkulak, the Chaos Dwarf equivalent to Barak Varr
[x] Thane Borek Forkbeard
[x] Head Engineer Gotrek Gurnisson
[x] Head Ranger Snorri Farstrider
[x] Sir Ruprecht Wulfhart the Younger
 
[X] Thane Borek Forkbeard
[X] Head Engineer Gotrek Gurnisson
[X] Head Ranger Snorri Farstrider
[X] Sir Ruprecht Wulfhart the Younger
 
[X] Visit Uzkulak, the Chaos Dwarf equivalent to Barak Varr
[X] Sir Ruprecht Wulfhart the Younger
[X] Magister Egrimm van Horstmann
 
Ambivalent on the other options but I really want to talk to Borek and Snorri after what we just did.

[X] Thane Borek Forkbeard
[X] Head Ranger Snorri Farstrider
[X] Visit the combes that Qrech told you about
 
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neutronium95 said:
I really want to check in with the expedition leadership and Ruprecht. I would really prefer to avoid going on two sidequests in the same turn. I think that Uzkulak is the better option of the two, at least there is the possibility of some benefits for the expedition in terms of securing more food.
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Well, going to the combes is the only option gives us the chance of actually knowing what the Skavens are up to, including if they are planning to attack the expedition so even if we discard all the valuable loot that we may get... That is actually something pretty tangible.
 
[x] Thane Borek Forkbeard
[x] Head Ranger Snorri Farstrider
[x] Preceptor Joerg von Zavstra
[x] Sir Ruprecht Wulfhart the Younger
 
[X] Head Engineer Gotrek Gurnisson
[X] Head Ranger Snorri Farstrider
[X] Citharus, Barbitus, and Timpania
[X] Sir Ruprecht Wulfhart the Younger
[X] Visit the combes that Qrech told you about
[X] Thane Borek Forkbeard
 
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picklepikkl said:
I'll be honest: I'd be totally fine losing the Light choir this turn. I know it sounds crazy, but I am 100% OK letting Horstmann manage that situation. He's said that he's on it (so we know it's not going to languish even if we don't do something about it, which isn't true for other social options), and being a Hysh wizard he has better groundwork to interact with them. I'd much rather talk to expedition leadership than check in on Barbitus.
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It does seem likely that regardless of whether or not he's a cultist he'd play checking in on the journeymen straight unless he plans to blow his cover during the expedition.

Especially so now that it's been brought up and he's on record about keeping an eye out, as it looks even worse on his record it ends up he missed something happening.
 
[X] Head Engineer Gotrek Gurnisson
[X] Citharus, Barbitus, and Timpania
[X] Head Ranger Snorri Farstrider
[X] Visit the combes that Qrech told you about
[X] Sir Ruprecht Wulfhart the Younger
[X] Thane Borek Forkbeard
 
Thomasfoolery said:
It does seem likely that regardless of whether or not he's a cultist he'd play checking in on the journeymen straight unless he plans to blow his cover during the expedition.

Especially so now that it's been brought up and he's on record about keeping an eye out, as it looks even worse on his record it ends up he missed something happening.
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Him being a cultist would, if anything, be an even bigger prompt to check in on his choir- people in emotional turmoil are rather easier to corrupt.
 
Mopman43 said:
Him being a cultist would, if anything, be an even bigger prompt to check in on his choir- people in emotional turmoil are rather easier to corrupt.
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Does he really want to risk exposing any such sympathies to a Journeymen in that scenario though? He's on the fast track to the upper echelons right now with his Patriarch's favor. Is it worth taking a gamble on a meh prospect and potentially letting something slip when he's got bigger payoffs waiting if he stays the course?
 
butchock said:
@BoneyM you mentioned hobgoblin tribes, ogres, cathayan warlords visiting Uzkulak, how about vampires, dark elf corsairs, tomb king minions? Also will you introduce non-WFB Army races (or your own races) from Ind and Khuresh like Snakemen, Elephant-men and Monkey-men?
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Ind and Khuresh don't have easy access to Uzkulak. The River Ruin is polluted to the point that wooden ships get eaten away if they spend too long trying to sail up it. Dark Elves, some Tomb Kings, and some Vampires are included under 'pirates of every stripe and species'.

Simon_Jester said:
Just to be clear, @BoneyM , does Mathilde foresee angry dwarf reactions if she does?
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As long as she doesn't rub it in any noses, the Dwarves of this Expedition are practical enough to look the other way, and Mathilde has good enough rep to spin up a justification. They're already on board with buying cattle from the Dolgans.

Fayhem said:
@BoneyM Is the second sentence typoed, or am I just misreading/misparsing it somehow? As written it looks like a pure tautology, but from the first sentence it seems like you meant something more like "The amount of effort you save from there being fog is at best equal to the amount of effort creating the fog costs you."
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Yes, it was typoed. Your rewording is correct.

wrecksalot said:
Golden plaques from the new world are explicitly on offer, so at least some stuff from there has made it to uzkulak.
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New World refers to Lustria, which is in the equivalent position of Central and South America if the Old World is Europe. Nehekhara is in the Southlands, the positional equivalent of Africa.

King Arthur said:
I deleted the poll link to avoid potentally affecting the vote via methods that I don't know the GM's opinion on, I should have asked first.
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I'm not a fan of having off-site components to the quest in general, and there were problems with this one specifically. A non-binding external poll seems like it would self-select for those most invested in going there, and the way you've framed it makes 'I want to go to Uzkulak but I don't want to buy food there' require self-defeating honesty to vote for.

Rafin said:
I was more curious about it being resisted by savvy named characters with high stats or relevant traits or if it requires something like divine intervention, legendary mental powers or the combined scrutiny of a premier magical intelligence agency
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Impossible to predict without knowing exactly how their mind works.

Rafin said:
Do we know for how long she's been a Journeywoman?
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Only a couple of years or so.

storryeater said:
Also, @BoneyM , the articles of magic claim that we hold obeissance to the Emperor and the Supreme Patriarch above our college specific oaths (the articles too, as those are above the Emperor who is above the Patriarch, but that is irrelevant to my question). Does that mean that the Emperor and/or Supreme Patriarch can rescind our oaths? Does that mean that the supreme patriarch can rescind his own oaths? Strict reading of the Articles means that yes, they can, although I imagine it is one of these political cans of worms nobody wants to open, and for good reason, thus it is not actually something that is ever done.
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The Sieges of the Colleges demonstrated rather dramatically that when the chips are down, Wizards will side with their Colleges over the orders of the Emperor. Policy since then has been focused on making sure the chips stay up, as it were.
 
Thomasfoolery said:
Does he really want to risk exposing any such sympathies to a Journeymen in that scenario though? He's on the fast track to the upper echelons right now with his Patriarch's favor. Is it worth taking a gamble on a meh prospect and potentially letting something slip when he's got bigger payoffs waiting if he stays the course?
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There's a difference between planting the first seeds of corruption and having him do something terribly visible, you know? If nothing else, just making Barbitus more reliant on him would be beneficial in the long run.
 
Mopman43 said:
There's a difference between planting the first seeds of corruption and having him do something terribly visible, you know? If nothing else, just making Barbitus more reliant on him would be beneficial in the long run.
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Sure, but these journeymen have also been trained since childhood to combat chaos and cultists. Trying to subtly lay that kind of groundwork seems to have a pretty significant chance of backfiring in comparison to the potential reward. Especially here and now, when everyone is keyed up to maximum about keeping an eye out for that kind of thing.
 
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[x] Thane Borek Forkbeard
[X] Sir Ruprecht Wulfhart the Younger
[x] Head Ranger Snorri Farstrider
[X] Visit Uzkulak, the Chaos Dwarf equivalent to Barak Varr
[X] Citharus, Barbitus, and Timpania
 
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[X] Thane Borek Forkbeard
[X] Head Engineer Gotrek Gurnisson
[X] Head Ranger Snorri Farstrider

[X] Visit Uzkulak, the Chaos Dwarf equivalent to Barak Varr

I've been convinced. Let's not steal another Magister's ducklings, that's very rude.
 
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[X] Thane Borek Forkbeard
[X] Head Engineer Gotrek Gurnisson
[X] Head Ranger Snorri Farstrider

[X] Sir Ruprecht Wulfhart the Younger

[X] Visit Uzkulak, the Chaos Dwarf equivalent to Barak Varr
[X] Visit the combes that Qrech told you about
 
[X] Head Engineer Gotrek Gurnisson
[X] Head Ranger Snorri Farstrider
[X] Visit Uzkulak, the Chaos Dwarf equivalent to Barak Varr
[X] Visit the combes that Qrech told you about
 
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