So, since
Mathilde-of-the-Many-Titles and
Golden Age Dwarf Santa are both Companion options in the new
Karaz Ankor jump, I wrote a little thing. Yes, I'm linking both this thread and the other one, because I'm posting this in both.
Praise
@soulcake and
@BoneyM.
NEGAVERSE: RHUNRIKKI STROLLAZ
From strol, to walk or travel, and -az, 'the definitive article, the real thing.' I couldn't find a khazalid for 'lost' or I'd have used that instead.
Well, you're still alive, so that went better than it could have. Beardlings!
Absently brushing the soot from your beard as best you can, you begin formulating a right proper avalanche of a grumble on the subject of careless experimentation. Then, as the remainder of the smoke clears, you pause. This is not Kraka Drakk. The stone is wrong, the elevation is wrong, the sun coming in that window is at the wrong angle for this time of day, and
that is not a Dwarf.
Is this one of those seafaring Elgi there's been word of? No, too short, only barely taller than you are. And her ears are round -
The runed belt she's wearing catches your eye, and from there the rest of the runes in the room. Everything else ceases to be important. Whatever Hold you've ended up in, that one with the sapphire crown is clearly the King. This leaves you with the question of what damnfool apprentice is responsible for the absolutely
shameful work being worn on open display in front of him like prize gifts and why their
shoddy mine bracing of a master didn't step in!
As you open your mouth to begin a truly incensed grumbling, the Elder to the King's left collects himself and starts speaking first.
Things abruptly get very strange.
What You Know
- You are in Karak Eight Peaks. It is the Age of Vengeance, the Ancestors are all but gone, and the Dwarves are fading. (Bah!)
- Kraka Drakk and the other Northern Holds have been lost for centuries. (BAH!)
- What you took for a simple Elder, insofar as such a thing exists, is Kragg the Grim, regarded as the greatest Runelord of this Age (BAH!).
- Things, in general, are a complete and utter shambles, and would be worse if not for the Umgi - 'human' - Mathilde Weber, who is serving as 'Loremaster' to King Belegar Ironhammer, and is apparently responsible for retaking five of the Eight Peaks from a variety of bitterly hated foes you've never heard of in your life (and also Trolls) in a single day.
- Via a fairly rapid exchange of grumbles and counter-grumbles with Kragg, you have established your bonafides as a genuine 'Golden Age' Runelord.
More detailed dossiers on individuals of note will be forthcoming shortly, but in general, wat do?
Management reminds you that this is a Negaverse Omake and you should not actually vote here, just in case you mistook me for the OP.
[ ] Investigate just how far Thungni's art has fallen.
[ ] Get the lay of the land. What are these
urk and
grobi and
thaggoraki to be spoken of with such hatred? What is the current military, economic, and political situation? Not to put too fine a point on it,
what in the Ancestors' names is going on here!
[ ] Analyse your arrival point as quickly and efficiently as you can. If there are traces to be found, they'll likely fade with time.
[ ] Something else?
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BoneyCake said:
>Despite being barely of adult age by Dwarf standards, Loremaster Weber is considered a Grandmaster of her Guild, the mhornzukofri, and is uniformly considered to have proven her skill, merit, and reliability by even the dourest of Karak Eight Peaks' Elders.
Given she apparently
conquered five peaks in a day I'm not surprised! Against orcs and skaven? She's a fucking
shadow mage! I could
maybe understand fire or death or something like that, but even with Dwarf army support how would you even -
[O] Investigate Loremaster Weber
I appreciate the lure of the What The Fuck but
[O] Analyse your arrival point
Is both time critical and super important. If we can get back and forth, or bring people back and forward - like, what if the Ancestors vanished because they came forward in time to save the Dwarves?
You're, uh. You're kinda jumping ahead a bit there. In the first place screwing with time seems hella unsafe, because A) if you look at the character sheet, or if you're familiar with Snorri from the original Quest, you'll notice that we have no (zero) experience with time, and B) which part of the Warhammer universe is characterised by fucky time? Exactly.
[O] Investigate just how far Thungni's art has fallen.
-[O] Think about what you'd need to do for a proper apprenticeship here
Kraka Drakk will survive without us; given that Word of Bonecake from the What Happened To StrollarQuest post is that we are Strollar Snorri plus a bit of extra knowledge and research and some secrets, Drakk - Goldenage!Drak? Gold!Drak? Snorri's Drak? - has a bunch of our former apprentices and their apprentices, plus a bunch of others. These clowns have us and that's it, as far as actually good runelords go.
Getting to call Kragg the Grim a clown is amazing all by itself, but I have to admit I'm hella excited for a Dwarf from before all the Grudge and Slayer stuff to get stuck into modern Mallus and shake things up. Mathilde seems crazy awesome too (Bonecake, what the hell did you roll?) and while I'm slightly terrified I also really really want to see a collab. What will happen when we put Snorri Presents on the woman who routed five mountains' worth of gribblies in a day? I don't know, but I want to find out.
As cool as that sounds, remember we have Winds Denied? Weber is going to be lugging around a fat -35 penalty whenever we wander in her general direction. Personally I don't see that as a bad thing because tbh I'm sus she's some flavour of cultist, probably the Just As Planned type (Weber? spinning webs? plotting? hmm), but if you like her you might wanna keep it in mind.
[O] Analyse your arrival point
Time-critical options are king.
Can't we control that, though? I'm pretty sure even these local degenerates (
) can do something that basic.
[O] Investigate just how far Thungni's art has fallen.
-[O] Look into this strange power the Umgi have developed and see if there might be any use for it in your research.
Beard Hair 425 said:
Bonecake, what the hell did you roll?
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THIS IS WHERE OUR GOOD DICE WENT AT THE END OF DORFSANTA QUEST
MATHILDE YOU KILLED MY FAVOURITE QUEST
but also Grey Wizard Murderblender is an exceptionally cool concept even without basically singlehandedly retaking Karak Eight Peaks so I forgive you. Something about Grumbly Dorf Santa Grandpa and Cheerful Murderblender Wizard Granddaughter really tickles my interest bone.
[O] Investigate just how far Thungni's art has fallen.
-[O] Look into this strange power the Umgi have developed and see if there might be any use for it in your research.
Unknown to critsux
Nor known to boxcars
This is the only path
So I pray
Unlimited Cling Onto Mathilde Works!
[O] Investigate just how far Thungni's art has fallen.
-[O] Look into this strange power the Umgi have developed and see if there might be any use for it in your research.
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