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Warhammer Fantasy: Divided Loyalties - an Advisor's Quest

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Alratan said:
Do we know if it's Drycha, or is that just our supposition though?
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When we scried them, all the clues point heavily towards it:

Boney said:
you find yourself flinching back from a sense of bottomless wrongs, and you find the alien cadence of recited evils springing to your lips. Bone splinters beneath your fingers and suddenly you are back in the hut, left with nothing but the echoes of festered wrath and the smell of lilac.
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"Bottomless wrongs" "alien cadence of recited evils" "festered wrath" and "smell of lilac" are all really poetic descriptions that match Drycha very well.
 
[X] Bring in the Kreml Guard
Tsarevich Boris is leading the Kreml Guard, but they are travelling on foot on a dirt road and may not arrive in time for the battle. Kislev's forces actually having infantry would be helpful for a battle in a forest. Use Rite of Way to speed their journey.
[X] Bring in Ice Witches
Currently, the only Ice Witch that is likely to be present for the battle is Milica. If you travel to Kislev City, you could bring in additional Ice Witches on Shadowsteeds. Milica says there are at least two and perhaps as many as five Ice Witches in Kislev City that would be able to respond and could meaningfully contribute to a battle.
[X] Investigate the missing leyline
The Waystone Nexus in Gross Selon seems to be set up to receive energy from Kislev City, but currently nothing is coming through. Investigate where the leyline should be to see if it is being intercepted somewhere in the Shirokij.

Guard, Ice Witches and the Waystone seem like the best options to me. Although I can't help but look at the write-in option and think there's probably something super clever we could do. Maybe have Johann do some investigating while we do something else?

Edit: alas lack of time means I can't spend the time to think of anything better.
 
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DragonParadox said:
We know it smelled of Lilac in the vision and that is her thing, strong evidence but not 100%, enough to cause worry of meta-gaming, though the GM judged that it would not change our actions much.
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Because honestly any preparations to counter Drycha that we can make are also sensible preparations for countering any wood elf war host. Knowing the fact that we are against a legendary Named character honestly changes nothing.
 
I'm in favour of grabbing the royal duo here.

Waystone interlude was attractive last turn because Boris might have been able to provide access to places that peak influence Ice Witches would keep locked down. Now that they know we are here, they'll be on guard and sneaking past sounds like a grudging. If the flow isn't restored at Gross Selon, we can always inquire about it later.

Kalashinivik sounds like pure curiosity and scouting like suicide, and as cute as granny Ljiljana was, this fight sounds like a numbers game.

Logistics officer Mathilde isn't as sexy as spy-researcher Mathilde, but it's what gets the job done here.
 
I really want this one
[ ] Investigate the missing leyline
The Waystone Nexus in Gross Selon seems to be set up to receive energy from Kislev City, but currently nothing is coming through. Investigate where the leyline should be to see if it is being intercepted somewhere in the Shirokij.
All that power has got to be being used for something and if its going to hit us we need to know as much about it as possible.

If we used right of way to bring Tsarevich Boris and the Kreml guard how much faster would they get here?
 
Boney said:
The next morning the quiet of dawn is broken by the eerie howl given off by the 'wings' of the Winged Lancers of the Gospodar: a banner of feathers attached to the rear of their saddle that gives off an ululation that ripples through the air and the Winds alike, which rather piques your interest. Everyone that has spoken or written of Kislev at war mentions the howl of the Winged Lancers, and you can see why. At first you suspect enchantment, but as careful a study as one can make later you realize that it is an enchantment only in the most technical of senses, in the same way that a lever is a machine. The product of centuries of tradition and bloodshed have created something that simply exists as much in the ethereal realm as it does in the physical, and when dragged through the ethereal at great speed and in great numbers creates a reverberation that is as unsettling to the soul as the howl of the wings is to the ears.
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This is fascinating—a non-magical item that's able to affect the winds simply due to the weight of tradition they carry. This leans more divine than arcane, but without a guiding will behind it—it is simply a story come to life. Faith and courage and glory made manifest.
 
Lampshade said:
I'm in favour of grabbing the royal duo here.

Waystone interlude was attractive last turn because Boris might have been able to provide access to places that peak influence Ice Witches would keep locked down. Now that they know we are here, they'll be on guard and sneaking past sounds like a grudging. If the flow isn't restored at Gross Selon, we can always inquire about it later.

Kalashinivik sounds like pure curiosity and scouting like suicide, and as cute as granny Ljiljana was, this fight sounds like a numbers game.

Logistics officer Mathilde isn't as sexy as spy-researcher Mathilde, but it's what gets the job done here.
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The fear is that the way line flows directly through the area where the warhost is and that the elves/trees could be fucking with it.
 
[ ] Bring in the Kreml Guard
Of the options that will prepare us for battle, this is probably the one I like most. We get to forge a connection with Boris after all, and we get to test the use of Rite of Way with infantry forces.

[ ] Bring in Ice Witches
The Ice Witches seem to be out of their element in the forest. While no doubt impressive fighters, they are perhaps not best suited for the coming battle.

[ ] Bring in the Tzar
I prefer Boris to the Tzar, but I have very little to base this on other than a vague impression that Boris is a more reasonable guy. It's mostly the fact that I think we want Boris, and do we really need him and the Tzar? I would rather not have the ruler and his heir on the same battlefield.

[ ] Find the Boyar
This is our best shot at finding out what is going on. Knowing the enemy's motives might help us counter them. But perhaps we should beware the pull of Ulgu - while I would sure like to satisfy my curiosity, is this really the best use of our time, when we know a fight is coming either way?

[ ] Investigate the missing leyline
If the Athel Loren forces are using the Waystone energy, perhaps we can use this to determine their exact locations or even disrupt the energy flow, as we did in Karak Vlag.

[ ] Scout the Shirokij
Hideously dangerous. On the other hand, the 'Scouting (2/3)' on our character sheet is mocking me. This investigation and the one before it didn't really give Mathilde a chance to train her skills because she mostly went around asking people for help.

I think I'll go for Boris and the Waystone. Those seem like good options, and while they might not be the very best, they're also good for Mathilde's long term goals: we can make connections with Boris and we can work with an Ice Witch on a Waystone related matter.
 
Tobtorp said:
If we go for the leyline, would we also be doing some incidental scouting or how would it go if the leyline is disrupted somewhere in the area of the warhost.
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If they leyline action is taken, Mathilde would be investigating between the Shirokij and Kislev City, far from any potential enemies. She won't be looking for where it actually terminates, just checking to see if it's flowing from Kislev City into the Shirokij or whether it's not flowing from Kislev City at all.
 
Tobtorp said:
The fear is that the way line flows directly through the area where the warhost is and that the elves/trees could be fucking with it.
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The problem with this is that if we went directly to Boris, we could have justified screwing with it as much as we like. With Ice Witches already on the job, not going through them or telling them how to do their job on their home ground could catastrophically backfire.
 
Lampshade said:
The problem with this is that if we went directly to Boris, we could have justified screwing with it as much as we like. With Ice Witches already on the job, not going through them or telling them how to do their job on their home ground could catastrophically backfire.
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As boney said up top, we are not going to the waystone and fucking with that, we are using our windsight to check the leyline directly.
 
Boney said:
If they leyline action is taken, Mathilde would be investigating between the Shirokij and Kislev City, far from any potential enemies. She won't be looking for where it actually terminates, just checking to see if it's flowing from Kislev City into the Shirokij or whether it's not flowing from Kislev City at all.
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Ah, OK I had thought we would be going into the woods. In that case I think I will vote for bringing Boris and company here so we do not have an all cavalry fight in the woods. That sounds like a really bad match up.
 
DragonParadox said:
Ah, OK I had thought we would be going into the woods. In that case I think I will vote for bringing Boris and company here so we do not have an all cavalry fight in the woods. That sounds like a really bad match up.
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Yeah, that is a bit confusing. I've tweaked the description to make it clearer:
The Waystone Nexus in Gross Selon seems to be set up to receive energy from Kislev City, but currently nothing is coming through. Investigate where the leyline should be between Resvynhaf and Kislev City to see if it is still flowing out of Kislev City, because if it is, then it is being intercepted somewhere in the Shirokij.
 
Boris and finding the Boyar make the most sense to me. Finding out why a force is moving can give us the information we need to counter their intentions.
 
Bringing in Boris strikes a nice balance woth regard to speed/authority ratio.

Also we should definitely go in with the force as it's likely that we are the only ones able to speak Eltharin.
 
I may have missed the relevant discussion.
But is that giant pillar of warpstone in Skaven capital a Waystone or ex-Waystone?
 
Yeah, we really need Boris. Kislev have the best cavalry in the world, and if they say they can fight in a forest, I'm inclined to believe them—but having actual infantry will make all the world of difference, especially in a fight against people who have turned said forest into a trap. Besides, I doubt the wood elves are actually expecting anyone to wander in right now, let a lone a full army with three mages, infantry, cavalry and possibly some bears?

Don't get me wrong, this is going to be messy in a fog of war kinda way, but I have faith that Kislev will come out on top.
 
NHO said:
I may have missed the relevant discussion.
But is that giant pillar of warpstone in Skaven capital a Waystone or ex-Waystone?
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We do not really know, though it seems unlikely. Tylos was inhabited by dwarfs and humans and for humans to have even gotten there it has to be founded after the War of the Beard ended the Golden Age. Odds are by then the dwarfs will have forgotten how to make waystones, if indeed they were even able to make them without elf aid, which unlike the reverse is not 100% proven, just inferred by the existence of Karak Waystones
 
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