Warhammer Fantasy: Divided Loyalties - an Advisor's Quest
- Thread starter Boney
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While I have already stated my primary reason for voting Markgraf (I quite like Roswita), I do have more reasons. I think that Sylvania offers a unique strategic importance to the empire- the ability to close off a hostile front. As it stands, Sylvania is essentially hostile territory that directly threatens four Counties. I have a hard time imagining that Averland, for example, doesn't keep forces on the border since Vampiric armies can get going quickly. If we can accomplish our goal of removing the threat of vampires, I imagine that would not only free up forces in Stirland but also in neighboring counties.
With regards to side projects, we have been offered quite a lot of freedom- whatever it takes to get rid of the vampire menace. When we get rid of the current active vampires, I think we could split our time between making sure more don't rise and research. This is also where I think waystones come in- I am not saying this is a prerequisite for the project or anything, I just think it would be easier to negotiate if we have a title of some importance and waystones in land we own. I also like the narrative of literally cleaning up the place we were born and solving the necromancy problem by repairing the waystones. The best way for waystones, is, of course, to vote waystone, I just think Markgraf-> Waystone flows well narrative-wise.
With regards to side projects, we have been offered quite a lot of freedom- whatever it takes to get rid of the vampire menace. When we get rid of the current active vampires, I think we could split our time between making sure more don't rise and research. This is also where I think waystones come in- I am not saying this is a prerequisite for the project or anything, I just think it would be easier to negotiate if we have a title of some importance and waystones in land we own. I also like the narrative of literally cleaning up the place we were born and solving the necromancy problem by repairing the waystones. The best way for waystones, is, of course, to vote waystone, I just think Markgraf-> Waystone flows well narrative-wise.
I am afraid you need to remove the space in your vote for it to be counted.
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- Location
- on the way to the fire.
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- He
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You know, maybe a trip to swamptown can be productive even if we don't make friends with the lizards...
Note: this comment offer no opinion on the practicalities involved in this endeavour.
EDIT: top four votes are 255/253/253/245, that's one hell of a close run.
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[X] Markgraf of Eastern Stirland
[X] Loremaster-at-Large of Karak Eight Peaks
[X] Loremaster-at-Large of Karak Eight Peaks
Sir_Travelsalot
Never wakes up tired.
- Location
- At Home
You'll need to remove the space between X and ] if you want the tally to pick up your votes.
QuietlyObserving
The Railgun That Walks Like a Bear
- Location
- Here.
[X] The Waystone Project
[X] Bodyguard and Tutor to Prince Mandred
This might actually be the first time I've voted in this quest. Huh.
[X] Bodyguard and Tutor to Prince Mandred
This might actually be the first time I've voted in this quest. Huh.
- Location
- Utrecht
CuttleFish2.0
Friendly neighborhood cuttlefish
- Location
- Seattle, Washington.
While I think this is true given that it's one of the current options it would also likely represent a serious digression from the Waystone project in narrative terms and I think BoneyM will likely veto it for a goodlong while just on the principle that if we wanted to go to Nagarythe now is explicitly the time to vote for doing it, not trying to finagle doing it by way of the Waystone project. Also it's probably unlikely to work (at least the Protector angle; we're going to be clear on the other side of Ulthuan from the major magical institution).
Maybe if we get lucky and have already established ourselves as being knowledgeable (for a human) in terms of Waystones (so something like ~10+ turns down the line of the project).
Waystone project is very much is you choose to do it, that is what you will be doing for the next 20 turns
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- Earth
Why does this remind me of binary? Or was it R/B/G? Something comp-sci.
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- The Surface Of A Hostile Planet
RGBA has four values on a 0 to 255 scale.
deathofrats0808
Don’t think of it as dying; just as leaving early
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- Earth
RGB colour numbers? They max out at 255, so that might be why.
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- Earth
Any 8 bits of space can hold 256 different values. Unsigned those are 0-255.
- Location
- Before the Ninth Gate
Cause it's FF/FD/FD/F5 in Hex
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- New Brunswick, NJ
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- He/Him/His
Oh yeah; to be clear, I am thinking about something like 4-6 months of real time down the line. Enough time for us to settle into an equilibrium and be ready for a change of pace into another adventure. Definitely not saying right away.
(Tangent: of the four leading options, I'd say that Waystones has the greatest ease taking time later on to go to Nagarythe, Bodyguard and Loremaster-at-large less so but still a fair amount given that those jobs are about putting out the fire of the year, and Markgraf the least because of our responsibility is to fight the crisis in front of us, not the one in Ulthuan.)
With regard to the Protector, I agree that the elves who know most about Waystones are in the wrong part of Ulthuan to directly get pinged. I still think it would be useful, though, because of favor-trading. If a high-up Shadow Warrior is impressed by us and feels they owe us, we can leverage their connections to other notables of Ulthuan we wouldn't be able to access on our own. At least, I think it's plausible enough to be worth a shot if we pick Waystones.
Protector would be much better at supporting Bodyguard, Loremaster-At-Large, or Markgraf positions though.
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- UK
About a 1% difference in votes between top 3 options, with 4th only being a few percent behind that.
This is really something else.
This is really something else.
- Location
- USA
And yet none of them hit the 50% mark...a plurality win is valid, but doesn't feel as good as an outright majority.
Ericwinter
Definitely not a Skaven Infiltrator
- Location
- America
...Oh my god, it's still going. What the hell. 
We're too good at being dwarves
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Also we've broken the vote record again now. There are 2170 people watching the thread maybe we can get to the mythical 1000 voters?
For your first point: I freely admit that I have no arguments that will change someone of the "merit" of my choice
. From my point of view this has mostly been a "What is your favourite colour?"-kinda decision from the start.I do not understand your second part at all though. Right now people are trying to get the benefits of ranked choice for themselves by abusing the unlimited vote switching allowed by this forum. They could achieve the same in a way that does not require as much time and generates less empty posts by communicating. Doing so would also hide less information. Right now each of the top votes has a chunk of strategic votes that will disappear as soon as the situtation changes. Each matching pair of voters that make a trade would bring the shown number closer to the amount of true supporters.
I understand that y'all are worried about slippery slope stuff though. I just want to note that there is a genuine, metaphorical baby involved in the situation.
Tasoli
Life is for Living
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- Behind the Keyboard.
Have you seen the tag cloud? This thread has dominated it since last night and now there is only Asoiaf and Worm tags that is not from this thread.