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fantastic update all around. I started reading it casually on my morning walk to Starbucks, and when I came back got on my laptop and started over so I could read it more closely and hang on to every word. Just really excellent worldbuilding and writing.
(This also resulted in me catching some typos and stuff, because of who I am as a person.)
It is said that a Runefang can cut through a tree trunk so cleanly that the tree remains standing afterwards and still needs to be pushed over.
Runefang: Omae wa mou shindeiru.
Tree: Nani?!
The villagers begin to look at you with calculating eyes, and you wonder if you might have miscalculated.
Repetition of "calculating/miscalculated" feels a little awkward here, not sure if you want to adjust.
but there's enough logs stacked
there's -> there are (or change "logs" to a mass noun like wood/timber/lumber)
as your fingers are if it detects
it detects -> they detect
Perhaps that is sufficient answers for Paranoth.
that is -> those are (or answers -> answer would also work here).
[Insert Halétha comments here]
Ostermark Hedgewise are Ranaldites, right, not Halethans? That's why I thought the handsigns were similar and the presence seemed familiar. It's the Nordland Hedgewise who worship Haletha.
(Though this update has made me more hype about recruiting
any Hedgewise, and the next turn we don't desperately need the Gambler we should definitely go grab some Halethans.)
I'm curious to see who the other magesight roll was for
I am pretty sure it was for whoever was on the other side of Part the Branches, to see if they noticed us. Standard trope in scrying spells: if you form a magical link to look at something extremely powerful, if they notice it they can use that same link to look back at
you. Thankfully, they rolled low -- hopefully low enough.
Anyway! This was a very productive use of our time evaluating the local Hedgewise and laying groundwork for their eventual recruitment into the Colleges, which is absolutely 100% the reason we came there. I'm sure Baba Brzeginias is
this close to dropping everything and moving to Altdorf to be properly trained. Just need to give her some time to think about it, more flies with honey and all that.
[X] Opportune
Seems like a slam-dunk to me, I'd been pessimistic about our odds of getting Kislevite magical traditions on board but this makes it a
lot more workable if it pans out, so I feel like we should grab this with both hands. And next turn is Overwork-safe, so we're OK to borrow an action from next turn if need be.
Shame we didn't end up using the Protector this turn, but the Protector would have complicated our Talabheim adventure by making it abundantly clear to Alric that we were the source of all his woes, so I'll shrug philosophically about it. Though you know, I wonder if Night Prowler will work on Asrai settlements, if it turns out they set one up in Kislev's forests. It worked in greenskin mountains, after all. I wouldn't want to
keep the Night Prowler active for our next turn (if we have to spend some of "next turn's" time on this, presumably that means we'd in-fiction need to have flipped the Coin), but we might still be able to wrangle some use out of it while we're still in its active period.
