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Warhammer Fantasy: Divided Loyalties - an Advisor's Quest

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Boney said:
[Mathilde's Magesight: Learning, 5+29+10(Windsage)=44.]
[Mathilde's insight: Learning, 2+29=31.]
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Well, that is one heck of an 'off day'.

going to the Taalites and saying 'take me to your biggest, fanciest rocks'
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For finding Waystones, a great idea.
For investigating Waystones… rather less so. Tallites aren't big on the scientific method. And priests aren't often keen on people poking their sacred rocks.

Mordheim
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Wasn't Mordheim raised to the ground by Magnus?
Like, literally raised to the ground. The whole 'till no stone stands upon another' treatment.

"I get that, but even in the really tame parts of Laurelorn you're always being glared at either from a tree or by a tree. I have been looking for it and there's just nothing out there. No spites, no spirits, no wooden spirit-golems, no overgrown and overly clever animals."
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…more wonders we will probably never get round to dragging under a microscope.


[X] The Ostermark Hedgewise
[X] Ice Witches
People we want to contact anyway.

[X] Queen Marrisith's suggestion
[X] Lady Kaia 'Stormwitch' Fanmaris
Political opportunities.

[X] Vicereine Cadaeth
Sexy tree.
 
[X] Lady Kaia 'Stormwitch' Fanmaris
[X] The Ostermark Hedgewise

Either of these will work I think and from different directions, given that we do not seem to have any Longshanks on our trail there shouldn't be any issue with poking the Hedgewise.
 
Angelform said:
Wasn't Mordheim raised to the ground by Magnus?
Like, literally raised to the ground. The whole 'till no stone stands upon another' treatment.
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I am not an encyclopedia as much as I'd like to be one, but aside from Dynasty of Dynamic Alcoholism, I don't remember Magnus doing that. I sped through Heirs of Sigmar and there is no mention of that. Heirs still has Mordheim act as a spectre laying a shadow over Ostermark.
 
Johann: "Mathilde, aren't you supposed to be good at this kind of thing *smugface* ?"

On a more serious note, I would avoid bringing in the elves just yet.
 
Derpmind said:
Hmm. If the forest spirits are trying to prepare some nefarious plan, it's not too unlikely they're using the power of a Waystone to do it. So what about this for a write-in?

[] Write-In: Investigate the path the waystone's energy should be flowing between Bechafen and Kislev.
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That's about three hundred miles of wilderness you want Mathilde to comb through.
 
Angelform said:
Wasn't Mordheim raised to the ground by Magnus?
Like, literally raised to the ground. The whole 'till no stone stands upon another' treatment.
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He burned everything that would burn and knocked over every wall above ground level, but there's still an enormous amount of catacombs, sewers, basements, and underground warrens full of gribblies there and the Beastmen keep erecting herdstones on top of it. In the quest, Ostermark purged it and the surrounding woods while Stirland was doing its own purge of the Haunted Hills - Panoramia was part of that campaign.
 
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Derpmind said:
So what about this for a write-in?

[] Write-In: Investigate the path the waystone's energy should be flowing between Bechafen and Kislev.
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Since we wouldn't be contacting any other faction, this would probably fall under the option of 'From scratch'. You might also want to specify if we try to follow the stream from Kislev City, if there is any, or how we try to navigate if we start from the other end. For example, like this:

[X] From scratch
-[X] Send Johann in a gyrobomber to investigate the direct line between Gross Selon and Kislev City, with Mathilde following on a Shadowsteed.
 
Horium said:
Johann: "Mathilde, aren't you supposed to be good at this kind of thing *smugface* ?"

On a more serious note, I would avoid bringing in the elves just yet.
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I'm actually glad Johann didn't rub it in Mathilde's face. Mathilde is very proud of her Magesight, and this section:
Boney said:
"But this is the end of the chain, there's only streams from individual Waystones coming here." That's why you didn't spot it until Johann brought your attention to it, you reason.
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Struck me as Mathilde soothing her ego. Johann is a pretty good friend, and knowing how he was pitied and looked down on, seen as a pity project for his lack of ability to use Alchemy, I can definitely see why he wouldn't.
 
DragonParadox said:
I think we should be at least a bit wary of bringing not just Laurelorn but the queen, she would do her level best to bring another province into her anti-Norland alliance and we do not really want the Eonir to wield too much power in imperial politics. Keep in mind the lector counts are not used to dealing with the subtlety and political acumen of the elves, they are more used to dwarfs, if they are used to any elder race.
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While that's bad for Nordland, embedding the Eonir more deeply into Imperial politics is probably a win for the Empire. If Nordland knows they have no chance of getting broader support from the other provinces then they'r much less likely to cause trouble.

The Eonir are also much more likely to share what they know with us and by implication the rest of the Empire if it's that much less likely that a century down the down it will have been taken down and used against them on the battlefield.

The Eonir are going to be looki it to do this kind of thing anyway, so I think we should guide them to focus their efforts where we know about it.

Setting a precedent of elven involvement where the first interaction they have with a province is helping dealing with threatening spirits is also a good thing. It hopefully makes it more likely that people will go to them for help with such matters in the future, and that the elves will see reasons to do so.
 
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Alratan said:
While that's bad for Nordland, embedding the Eonir more deeply into Imperial politics is probably a win for the Empire. If Nordland knows they have no chance of getting broader support from the other provinces then they'r much less likely to cause trouble.
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Nordland has lost five towns and half its territory, and if the elves win their land claims then Nordland will lose three more settlements, all of which are major coastal towns, including the current headquarters of the Second Imperial Fleet. They can't afford to back down over this. If Nordland looses this conflict, we're looking at the potential extinction of Nordland as a province, with its territory divided between Middenland and Ostland.

Which is one way of solving the problem, I guess, but it's hardly ideal.


[X] The Ostermark Hedgewise
 
It's a good thing Johann's back and shoulders are gilded, because he is carrying the fuck out of this team.

Will edit in a vote when I catch up on the discussion.

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[X] The Ostermark Hedgewise
[X] Ice Witches
[X] Tsarevich Boris Bokha
 
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Codex said:
I'm actually glad Johann didn't rub it in Mathilde's face.
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Oh, me too, but I was still amused by the imagery.

Codex said:
Struck me as Mathilde soothing her ego.
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Definitely. And honestly, Mathilde could use eating a humble pie, once in a while.

Her overwhelming success has in-character led to (deserved) pride. Nevertheless, it's better for her character (and those around her) to be taken down a peg occasionally.
 
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Yes I'm dyslexic, haha. It's so funny that you take this swing eveytime.

So amusing.

(I try to be a good sport about it in general, and don't mind the odd joke, but when it's the same 3 posters every time I really start to take it to heart.)
 
Boney said:
You have an unnerving conversation with an uncharacteristically canny Ogre leading a group of his fellows in the employ of Ostermark, who appears surprisingly cooperative despite his sobriquet of 'Maneater' and tells you at length in heavily accented Reikspiel about the unusually large pack of giant wolves his Ogres had chased down, defeated, and consumed.
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Haven't seen any comments on this- is this a confirmed Golgfag sighting? Has the Ogre destined to be the most famous mercenary in the Old World crossed the World's Edge Mountains?

(Keep him away from the Moot)

[x] Tsarevich Boris Bokha
 
Mopman43 said:
Haven't seen any comments on this- is this a confirmed Golgfag sighting? Has the Ogre destined to be the most famous mercenary in the Old World crossed the World's Edge Mountains?
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I danced around actually using his name because there's rumours they'll be renaming him for Total Warhammer. But yeah, at this point in time there's only one Ogre going by 'Maneater'.
 
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