[X] Plan Ambush
Kind of the last chance to walk away from this with gains in excess of what we already have.
Kind of the last chance to walk away from this with gains in excess of what we already have.
Warhammer Fantasy: Divided Loyalties - an Advisor's Quest
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To be clear, the articles would not help at all with recruiting the target, I just think they would be a good argument against Alric 100% stonewalling us from even trying.
As for the risk, the target is safe until the ritual day itself and we just saw that the spa branch has been driven out of safety by their own recklessness and boredom. Given that we spotted the target by how similar their emotions looked to the spa branch, it's safe to say they are restless too.
Beyond that it's just a question of whether Alric is willing to risk losing 100% of the credit by ignoring us, or willing to take a sure 50% to avoid that risk.
Given that he is already scraping the bottom of the favor barrel I think there are good odds that he will not want half of a pittance, on top of that he might suspect the Empress and he knows we are close to her. Maybe he will even think Mathilde is here to throw him off the scent of the perfidious chaos worshiping empress.
This is indeed the sixth of eight. Number seven happens three weeks after that and number eight (which might be Alric) four weeks after that.
OK, so even if we don't make it we are not completely screwed, good to know. Though there is the chance that alric kills him and takes the glory so we still should try.
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You could just as easily say that because he's at the bottom of the barrel he can't afford to come away with nothing. On its own that point isn't evidence either way.
Fair point on the empress though, if he wants to come in swinging with wild accusations he does have an angle. However, that increases his risk from getting zero credit to negative credit, because if we then find and kill the attacker he's picked a fight with the empress for no good reason.
The thing is he could legitimately believe that and if he does accusation or not odds are he will not work with us.
Unlike that time he has a lot of time to prepare with enchanted items. Even if he is old he still has a lot of experience fighting chaos. He may think he does not need any help with everything he has done.Yeah and he could have won that duel against Dragonas too...
It was more a joke than a legitimate critique. Even if Alric is a total incompetent (which is not guaranteed) he certainly would not think of it like that.
I think they'd be a bad argument, they're both weak on the face of it and are likely to offend Alric.
The target might be safe until a specific day, but Mathilde's speculated that there's potential tolerance for variance even with bigger changes than that. So killing them a week early is not necessarily a deal breaker, as opposed to just somewhat weakening the overall effect. Also even if it's true that they're safe until a specific day, all the evidence for it is stuff that's completely inaccessible to them (Being abstract magic) coming from an unknown, while Alric is probably casting doubt on it.
The hunting lodge people were not leaving the lodge, they were importing entertainment.
I think Alric's position will be if we're reduced to trying to horn in on his place at the last minute, then we've got little chance on our own. And he's clear to go solo.
Yeah and he could have won that duel against Dragonas too...
To be fair to Alric, he was hit by a spell that causes you to flee in uncontrollable panic, and it only took him a few seconds to shake off the effect.
It just so happens that in that specific context those few seconds were just what Dragomas needed to grab the Staff of Volans and claim the magical equivalent of the high ground.
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Gah, I misread and mixed things up. I'll leave the debate for now until I have time to do a reread.
- Location
- California
We see a Gave being abandoned in the book Knight Errant and there are indeed beastmen watching as the parent leaves the child, so your belief is well founded.
- Location
- Poland
[X] Plan: Find him
Jeopardizer
Stalin and the Secret Police
- Location
- Glorious Frankreich
Someone is probably going to reply within 30 seconds with a link to a post telling me all this has already been discussed but :
- Turn 22 Results - 2480.5 - Part 2
- Someone tried to threaten several time our side of the canals, wich will affect trade in Talabecland, not just Marienburg or whatever.
- Alkharad heavily used trade and smuggling (on the Talabec side of Stirland), wich is why hiring an exciseman as a steward made sense for Roswita
- The conspiracy around the last of the previous dinasty of Stirland's EC made big use of trade (previous spymaster at the center of it).
- Adding to that : Herman Schultz (steward advisor of Van Hal) was on Talabecalnd's payroll.
It's always about trade. And now it's a revenge plot on a family that flirted with dark stuff to put their greedy hands on more gold.
It looks like it could be a good idea to dig for proof of that while Alric plays glory-hound. Making him look like he is in bed with a bunch of chaos/vampire enabling fools will fix the problem.
- Turn 22 Results - 2480.5 - Part 2
- Talabecland was involved in something near grudge-worthy a few years ago, most likely over trade and the canal in Ostermark.
- Someone tried to threaten several time our side of the canals, wich will affect trade in Talabecland, not just Marienburg or whatever.
- Alkharad heavily used trade and smuggling (on the Talabec side of Stirland), wich is why hiring an exciseman as a steward made sense for Roswita
- The conspiracy around the last of the previous dinasty of Stirland's EC made big use of trade (previous spymaster at the center of it).
- Adding to that : Herman Schultz (steward advisor of Van Hal) was on Talabecalnd's payroll.
It's always about trade. And now it's a revenge plot on a family that flirted with dark stuff to put their greedy hands on more gold.
It looks like it could be a good idea to dig for proof of that while Alric plays glory-hound. Making him look like he is in bed with a bunch of chaos/vampire enabling fools will fix the problem.
if we fail this one we still got 1 more murder and whatever he has planned for the finale for time. though the problem is that alric could catch him before us and end this so we still should try anyway.
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Shadowmancer of the Shadow Cabal
[X] Plan Ambush
- Location
- Manchester, UK
- Pronouns
- He/They
[X] Plan Lightly Armed
-[X] Renegotiate with Mira
-[X] Bring in Egrimm and Elrisse
[X] Plan Ambush
[x] Plan Searching in the Shadows
-[X] Renegotiate with Mira
-[X] Bring in Egrimm and Elrisse
[X] Plan Ambush
[x] Plan Searching in the Shadows