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Warhammer Fantasy: Divided Loyalties - an Advisor's Quest

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Ericwinter said:
The sad thing is, even if Drycha had prepared for an Ulgu spellcaster, she probably wasn't prepared for canon sword, possibly followed up by a pocket nuke.

I am suddenly reminded of the Elephantine school of stealth.
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Funny story there.

At the end of the day, the limitation on an assassin's ability to fuck shit up tends to be their capacity to output damage from the opening that they've made.

If you have the ability to maximize your damage output in your Surprise Attack, then that makes you a better assassin. Especially in a world where bisection is a merely painful injury for immortal monsters rather than something life threatening. Having a pocket nuke to finish the job is prudence in that context, not overkill.

It's just that Mathilde's good enough at keeping enchantments separated that she can pivot to using gadgets outside of her Wind without fucking herself up too much.
 
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To summarise: Kislevites are badasses and trees should not pick fights with lumberjacks.

Rather unimpressive bonuses for Drycha. I suppose she is somewhat out of her element but I was expecting more.

Do not want her getting away. She is defined by how she holds a grudge.
Do not want to follow her into an other-worldly realm we know little about.
Dragonflask seems unwise given the singular target and nearby friendlies.

I trust Kragg's work above all else but given Drycha's showings I'm reasonably confident Mathilde is at least an equal caster.

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Some metagaming musings.

Granny Ice rolled 38, probably in an atttempt to counter the Treeman, since it looks as if she didn't attempt to chase Drycha after Ninja Tree tried to escape. I am not sure if we know her Learning or Martial, but I am guessing something in the 25-30 range considering her senior position.

The Kreml Guard rolled 36 and they have a +20 Martial bonus, for a likely total of 56.

Treeman rolled 84 and likely has a significant Martial bonus (+25, +30, +35?). It has certainly managed to win whatever Martial contest it was dealing with, but it has already taken two extremely heavy blows and is likely running on fumes. Not sure if that will translate as a debuff, but I am not too concerned about whatever is going on over there.
 
[X] Dragonflask

As a spirit who's apparently explicitly looking to shed the remainder of her mortal form to escape, do we know if destroying said physical forms actually kills dryads? Obviously it's not optimal else Drycha would have just bugged out already, but there's plenty of things in Warhammer that can survive (or rather revive from) that sort of stuff, and dryads really seem like the sort of things that would also apply too.

Also, I'll admit I really like the image of Drycha's soul fleeing back to Athel Loren humiliated in battle, sundered in form, burned by Aqshy and hounded by the forest. You can only imagine the anger. Obviously not a good situation depending on if she can reconstitute herself in times at all relevant to humans but I can't deny the narrative potential of such a scenario really excites me.
 
FallenPears said:
As a spirit who's apparently explicitly looking to shed the remainder of her mortal form to escape, do we know if destroying said physical forms actually kills dryads? Obviously it's not optimal else Drycha would have just bugged out already, but there's plenty of things in Warhammer that can survive (or rather revive from) that sort of stuff, and dryads really seem like the sort of things that would also apply too.

Also, I'll admit I really like the image of Drycha's soul fleeing back to Athel Loren humiliated in battle, sundered in form, burned by Aqshy and hounded by the forest. You can only imagine the anger. Obviously not a good situation depending on if she can reconstitute herself in times at all relevant to humans but I can't deny the narrative potential of such a scenario really excites me.
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Depending on how the likely coming rolls go, I imagine there's a broad spectrum of options as to the results. My best case scenario is approximately that she times it just wrong, invites All of the Fire into the liminal realm with her arriving soul stuff, and her soul tanks all of the damage before we receive a lootsplosion of all of the artifacts she's been accumulating these last few millenia.
 
FallenPears said:
[X] Dragonflask

As a spirit who's apparently explicitly looking to shed the remainder of her mortal form to escape, do we know if destroying said physical forms actually kills dryads? Obviously it's not optimal else Drycha would have just bugged out already, but there's plenty of things in Warhammer that can survive (or rather revive from) that sort of stuff, and dryads really seem like the sort of things that would also apply too.

Also, I'll admit I really like the image of Drycha's soul fleeing back to Athel Loren humiliated in battle, sundered in form, burned by Aqshy and hounded by the forest. You can only imagine the anger. Obviously not a good situation depending on if she can reconstitute herself in times at all relevant to humans but I can't deny the narrative potential of such a scenario really excites me.
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It should very much be either fatal, or sufficiently close to it that she's not going to be in any position to cause trouble for the next century or so.

Even a Daemon doesn't get to be instantly resummoned if it gets blasted to ashes, and Drycha doesn't have Daemon level undyingness. What preserves her is being a coward who picks her battles well, just that in this case she rolled a bad matchup, did shit research, and figured it was a milk run when she was charging into a beartrap. Then she still tried to go for points instead of bugging out when her distractions started getting blended.

Dryads are very physical for all that they can play silly buggers with time and space. There'd be a greater risk of her somehow regrowing from the legs we cut off than her somehow laughing off getting hit in the face with Fire based Battle Magic while any item based contingencies are down and she wasn't prepped for a fight against someone who could push back.

Even then though, her consciousness is probably centered in her head, and she's not really had time to set up anything special otherwise.
 
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consequences said:
Depending on how the likely coming rolls go, I imagine there's a broad spectrum of options as to the results. My best case scenario is approximately that she times it just wrong, invites All of the Fire into the liminal realm with her arriving soul stuff, and her soul tanks all of the damage before we receive a lootsplosion of all of the artifacts she's been accumulating these last few millenia.
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Her plan appears to be to teleport to a tree and use that as her escape route back to the liminal realm, not go there directly. If we nuke her before she can teleport, she'll never open the door there.
 
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