oh ya, that hasn't happened yet. (I'm not great with the Warhammer timeline.)
still be a cool place for an short adventure
Warhammer Fantasy: Divided Loyalties - an Advisor's Quest
- Thread starter Boney
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still be a cool place for an short adventure
- Location
- USA
I'd rather not poke the Skaven too hard if we can help it. Spook them enough and they'll overreact with a swarm.
I would rather work towards becoming completely a creature of Ulgu. Cython said we could do it.
- Location
- Australia
In the CHERUB books it's noted that while at home, agents start itching for the next mission, and when they're on a mission, they can't wait to finish and get back home. I've noticed that the same rule seems to be true for these kinds of quests. Normal turns we crave adventure, adventure turns we crave an end and a return to home.
- Location
- Oklahoma
On the subject of immortality: I like the idea of becoming an Ulgu incarnate or dragon or whatever, but I ultimately feel that the search for eternal life is unlikely to be relevant.
Mathilde is a powerful wizard and lives a very high risk life, the chances of dying of old age or even living long enough for it to start slowing her down are ... Slim.
Mathilde is a powerful wizard and lives a very high risk life, the chances of dying of old age or even living long enough for it to start slowing her down are ... Slim.
If it happens, sweet, but I'm not above buying a couple more decades by injecting Mr. Khatep's magic snake oil.
There's also the concern that the further we slide into Ulgu, the more it's going to shape our personality. I'm not saying I want the final product the Mortuary Cult is peddling, but it's the only form of eternal life I can think of that doesn't have psyche affecting side effects. Maybe a blessing from Isha in the form of rebuilding your body one molecule at a time, but I'm not sure.
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- Location
- MS, USA
I have a suggestion for another test we can run in the background in a similar vein to the rock-to-sand tests.
In light of the information that the forest is quite old, fetch an apple or similar and attach it a very long piece of string or wire, then attach that to a fishing pole (or fishing pole-like construction). Cast the object into the forest, give it some time, then reel it back.
The idea is to essentially repeat the test Mathilde did with Hubert. If we can rule out time shenanigans for both the desert and the forest, then we can probably rule it out altogether, and that just leaves us with transformation and translocation.
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- Location
- some computer lab
I too hope we ascertain the status of Karag Dum soon
- Location
- Omniverse #1345
The forest is 11km away. It's a big desert.
Mopman43
Mountain-Hermit of Nitpeak
- Location
- Vermont
The forest is something like 11 km away. I don't think they'll have enough line.
- Location
- MS, USA
Hmm. Ok, that's fine. Anyone strong enough to lob it?
We can probably (key word 'probably') rule time shenanigans of the accelerated variety out anyway, thanks to the beastmen, but I had an idea that could have helped, so I proposed it.
pucflek
Verified simpleton
- Location
- Czech Republic
That has some serious drawbacks. I mean, beats being dead, but, you know. I am mostly working of the assumption that this is what Elspeth von Draken did, but with Shyish.
[X] Spectate the Tribes "testing against the Dum". Watch for Cor-Dum abilities and its effects on chaos tribes.
[X] Fortify here and see if anything interesting happens over the next day
[X] Approach the Kvellige camp peacefully and attempt to discuss the Karak with them
[X] Fortify here and see if anything interesting happens over the next day
[X] Approach the Kvellige camp peacefully and attempt to discuss the Karak with them
- Pronouns
- He/Him
Not if we wipe the warband out! They have a ready explanation for people not coming back: Cor-Dum did it. No reason to investigate further or even pray for answers.
But the folks in Karag-Dum will still worry. That's our foot in the door; one that we might need, since we can't wait around forever. Gotta convince the dwarves that it's a greater shame to hide from us than to reveal what's up, you feel?
Cor-Dum told us not to approach. We don't know why.
Using Ranald's Coin to communicate by fucking up a war band is much safer, I'd say.
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tapkomet
Senātus Populusque Rōmānus
- Location
- Ukraine
Eh? When?
- Pronouns
- He/Him
When he screamed his head off at us/the expedition exclusively. He was most aggressive when we had Borek, least aggressive (literally silent) when Borek separated from the group, and then gave one last bellow after Borek was "to safety" before following him back into the forest.
It's a clear-cut warning display. He welcomed Borek. He did the opposite for us. The problem in front of us is thus "people (and cor-dum) in the karak want us to go away. How do we change that?"
Trying to out-wait a bunch of dug-in dwarves and doing nothing else does not sound like a winning strategy there, not gonna lie. I'm not opposed to waiting around for a day before we go out and abuse Ranald's Coin or whatever since there's more to learn about the weird shit, but I don't think we're going to solve this without proactive measures.
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- Location
- Earth
If we can watch warbands fighting from where we are the others can too.
- Location
- Aotearoa
Theres always Heidi's approach, which is arguably better, because you get young again.
It's not at all safe if we provoke the larger connected Kurgan tribe to attack the Expedition in retaliation.
This 'everybody can take a front' detente seems somewhat ritualised to me, the tribes aren't here to fight each other (as they'd usually do)- they're here specifically to test themselves against Cor Dum. If so, interfering with that is almost certainly looked upon very poorly.
The steam tanks can't outrun Nomad horses, being harassed and attacked by the angered Kurgan tribes all the way back across the steppe would mean a lot of death.
Refresh my memory on the details? It's been a while since I read that.
It would be a big problem when we need to stop and sleep, or buy food, but the guns on the ships outrange horse archers by a lot, and you really don't want to bring bows to a cannon fight - it's the knights who'd be getting harried.
- Location
- Oklahoma
We don't have a supply line, gunpowder is very limited.
Omegahugger
Inattentive Idiot
I am still not convinced what Heidi got was "just" a blessing from a priestess and that she isn't a full blown chosen of both Ranald and Shallya.
Yes, I know that she said differently, but lying is literally one of Ranald's blessings.
Apart from the word is an admitted liar there's also the fact that being a servant of 2 gods should, by everything Mathilde knows about magic, drive one insane with contradicting mentalities.
- Location
- Finland
I'm a bit worried that people have gotten tunnel visioned about what they want to do, and forgotten that Kurgans are not just static props for us to act upon.
Also, Kurgan know Cor Dum is here, and they probably came prepared.
I'm not sure we are prepared to fight even one of the warbands outside our cannon range, let alone both, or more.
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Mopman43
Mountain-Hermit of Nitpeak
- Location
- Vermont
She does favors for Shallyans until they rewind her clock, so to speak.