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Warhammer Fantasy: Divided Loyalties - an Advisor's Quest

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Hm. Press on to the meeting point, collect the supplies, dump the canons in a couple of the wagons off the edge of a cliff and otherwise salvage as much space as possible.

Viable? It reduces our firepower but starvation is a serious issue.
 
Byzantine said:
Hm. Press on to the meeting point, collect the supplies, dump the canons in a couple of the wagons off the edge of a cliff and otherwise salvage as much space as possible.

Viable? It reduces our firepower but starvation is a serious issue.
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We've only got the 1 cold room (per wagon?) for the meat, we can't store it where the guns are.
 
That... Was a blow. Did not see that coming. Several characters had already been butterflied already, but Gotrek was unexpected. This really hammered it home because we actually got to know him in this timeline.

That said, I'd have been more distressed if Asarnil & Deathfang had died or worse any of the ducklings. We're relatively close to them after all.
 
well this is a rather shitty update to binge-read the quest into.

i mean, it could have been worse. it could well get worse. ugh. fucking critfail chains.
 
BoneyM said:
Polyandry is accepted but not the norm in Dwarven society, despite it being practiced by Grungni, Valaya, and Grimnir. It's most common in Warrior Clans where a wife is wed to multiple brothers in the hope that at least one will survive long enough to father children.
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How do the Dwarves deal with lines of succession in combination with polyandry?
BoneyM said:
but it's extremely difficult to mine into rock in secret.
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Why mine in secret? If a noble is rich enough to dig a wine cellar in their new summer manor despite having built it in bedrock then that's their right, no? Also, Dwarves.
BoneyM said:
It could work for very narrow ditches but that's about it.
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Isn't it meant to pave over small cliffs and such. I would have thought that that also makes it work on narrow or even relatively narrow ditches.
NSMS said:
"The fire can't keep burning if there's nothing left for it to burn!"
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That's actually a real thing.
NSMS said:
Be thorough enough when setting someone on fire, and they will be immune to further burning damage once it's over!
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"Build a man a fire, and he'll be warm for a day. Set a man on fire, and he'll be warm for the rest of his life." - Terry Pratchett
 
Rafin said:
How do the Dwarves deal with lines of succession in combination with polyandry?
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However they decided to in advance.

Rafin said:
Why mine in secret? If a noble is rich enough to dig a wine cellar in their new summer manor despite having built it in bedrock then that's their right, no? Also, Dwarves.
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"Ah, yes, 'wine'," says every thief in the county as they make plans to raid what they're absolutely sure is a treasure vault.

Rafin said:
Isn't it meant to pave over small cliffs and such. I would have thought that that also makes it work on narrow or even relatively narrow ditches.
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If it's too wide the spell stops saying 'hey, the dirt turns into air here, skywalk it' and starts saying 'the air is continuing on to more air, this is fine' and doesn't. It's not actually detecting what is and isn't solid, it's just determining what isn't consistent.
 
ninjafish said:
Besides assuming that he is still alive

Wouldn't he only gonna become a slayer if we all fucking die?

I'm pretty sure it was something about the expedition going to shit that caused him to go slayer in canon.

I mean he is probably dead, anyway. But worth noting.
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You mean that time he fell off a cliff and was assumed to be dead?
 
....I am so glad that I did not read this update with food, unlike the past two times this happened. Yay for impatience?

Welp, that another named characters dead in the tally. But let us push on, at the very least. We have to.
 
Man, imagine if it had been the Volans. Most of the mages would have died. If it were the... whichever-one-Ljiljana is on, either the Kriestov or Magnus or something. We would have been stuck facing the idea of "Try to scout out the Mauraders yourself and search for the Chaos Goblet yourself? Or do nothing?" And more likely than not, then we would have ended up in the awkward place of owing a debt to Kislev after being unable to discharge it!

And if it were the Alric, then it could have been Borek dying. That would also have been a shock. The leader of the expedition, and the only one from Karag Dum...
BoneyM said:
The Rite would make cornering more dangerous, not less, because it conceals the road.
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Ah. That's probably something to keep in mind, then. For how the Rite works.
Angelform said:
Also it occurs that if the Slayers hadn't been slaughtered at Vlag they would have died in the fall.
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Oh man that's right. That would have been... sucky spiritually and morale-wise. Dying not to an enemy but to a rockslide.

[X] Press on
 
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This is truly a tragedy.

We might have been well on our way to avert Gotrek's tragic fate thanks to that cushy clan membership & guild position at K8P getting him away from the environment that would have lead to his slayerdom. And all that thanks to sheer dumb luck of him being the one designing the steam wagons.

And then through that very same dumb luck his life is cut short. Not through enemy action. Not through heroic sacrifice. But quite literally because 'Rocks fall, everybody dies'. It's Abelheim's glorious last charge all over again.

Anyway, back to the expedition. Whether we press forward or turn back, we lack the food capacity to do so without foraging. The Nomad Tribe we had the food deal with lies just ahead, so we will be able to recover the food we'll use up reaching Karag Dum, so pressing on should be net neutral.
 
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