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Warhammer Fantasy: Divided Loyalties - an Advisor's Quest

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Boney said:
I am horrified to report that there doesn't seem to be any reason why not.
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…This is probably a bad idea. Not quite "binding a creature that devours your wind" bad idea, but still bad idea. I want to try it.

[X] Bind

Actually, how likely would this be to piss off the Laurelorn elves, you just said something about the Grey Lords having done similar, so I hope not very?
 
[X] Dragonflask

Wonder how pedantic (in a good way) is Boney gonna take this? If the dragonflask works like a dragon's firebreath and a human's maximum velocity is 60 m/s. Then say Drycha's bottom half is 30 meters away and her top half is 60 meters away, would he write Drycha's legs being engulfed by flames then hearing her scream half a second after?

I still remember a couple people including me him calculating and including Regimand taking 4 days to reach Mathilde being a sign from Ranald, a literal coincidence people took as a sign from god.

Edit: Man everything really did just happen while I was typing this.
 
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Ericwinter said:
Actually, how likely would this be to piss off the Laurelorn elves, you just said something about the Grey Lords having done similar, so I hope not very?
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Actually succesfully binding one of the most malevolent spirits in forest history would probably be a pretty big diplomatic + :V Provided we succeed the hilariously lopsided check against us :V
Redshirt Army said:
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Okay, now that's some advanced hubris.

As a joke, it's funny, as an actual course of action, it seems suicidal. Let's not.
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Okay, but consider the shinies. :V

As for a joke, it started as it, but i honestly think that Drycha is weakened enought that this might be feasible. Its a question of how badly it could fire back.
 
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So speaking seriously for a moment, binding Drycha is likely to be... rather difficult and unlikely to succeed. But aside that, this is similar to using Counter to try and salvage enchanted wood for a staff. As in, it's less likely to succeed, increasing the chances Drycha survives to do bad stuff another day and perhaps even start attacking Mathilde's allies with her considerable resources and experience. Trying to bind Drycha, especially when Mathilde's never done so before, is all that on steroids. It's better to take the win we can secure before us than risk a loss on trying to get better loot. Bind might even be the worst choice we can make, as in the likely event of failure it's certain to make Drycha have a capital-G Grudge against us where other actions might not.
 
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Chlof said:
Everyone hates Drycha.
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It was more the general idea of binding a dryad at all, but fair point.

Although, I think there was, at one point, a mention that binding forest spirits is about as moral as binding humans? I mean, it would be a good way to lock her spirit in place temporarily so we can make sure she dies, but not sure we would want to permanently bind her for lots of reasons.
 
...okay so trying Bind and finding out is admittedly deeply tempting, but...
Boney said:
In a grotesque mirror of your blade, his fingernails punch through Aethyric Armour and your robe and your skin and your intestines and don't meet a scrap of resistance they can't immediately overcome, and agony floods through you as his talons tear open what you can only assume is your liver. Branulhune slips from your hands, and the part of your mind not occupied by agony begins to recalculate.

[Alkharad's magical spot check: Learning, 17+34=51.]

"It's interesting," he says, as he pulls his hand free from your torso, examining the blood and viscera clinging to it curiously, not noticing or not caring about the mirror of your wound that has appeared in his stomach, carving through organs he needs much less than you do yours. "Alive, you'd be useful. Dead, you'd be obedient. But if I can suspend you right in the middle..."

He leans close, filling your fading vision with his hideous visage. Your Magesight remains clear, and you can see Dhar leaping to his will, and a tendril of hideous magic extends from his bloodied hand and reaches towards you to try to enslave your soul right on the cusp of death...

And is met with the full force of Dwarven indignance.

Alkharad howls in agony as fire burns inside his skull, and with your last scrap of willpower you allow the nonsense words of a Jade Enchantress' whimsy to trigger the seed in your palm. In the strange sensation of painlessness where you know there should be pain, vines burrow through muscle and veins up your arm and into your torso, and bark grows over the gaping hole in your abdomen as your intestines are unscrambled and your liver knitted back together. By the time you pull yourself back to your feet, Alkharad is doing the same, smoke pouring from his nose and ears.

"That," he pants. "Was incredibly stupid of me."
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If we try this and it blows up in our face, Alkharad will be incomprehensibly smug about it when he eventually reconstitutes, and that just can't be allowed to happen :V

[X] Dragonflask
 
Redshirt Army said:
I considered them. They're still unattainable.
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If Drycha was truly so overpowering, she wouldn't get gimped by us in single turn. Yes, spirit realm is where her true power lies, but she is also

1) hurt(physically)
2)hurt (emotionally) (the forest that was supposed to help her refused her ergo
3) betrayed
4) entire ambush got outambushed, she is confused


Thats enough surprises that it ought to overpower her natural advantages. if there was ever a chance to bind a powerful spirit, its now.
 
Redshirt Army said:
I considered them. They're still unattainable.
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But you forgot one thing, she is bailing. If the binding failed, we loss nothing but time.

But if we succeeded? We will score some major points.

I love nothing but to roll the dice and prayed to our primary benefactors.

Afterall, win or loss, we basically won the battle and our main objectives already
 
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pucflek said:
If Drycha was truly so overpowering, she wouldn't get gimped by us in single turn. Yes, spirit realm is where her true power lies, but she is also

1) hurt(physically)
2)hurt (emotionally) (the forest that was supposed to help her refused her ergo
3) betrayed
4) entire ambush got outambushed, she is confused


if there was ever a chance to bind a powerful spirit, its now.
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Do Not Consume Energy Orbs Bigger Than Your Head

N156 said:
But you forgot one thing, she is bailing. If the binding failed, we loss nothing but time.
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I assure you that there are worse outcomes in fucking up an attempt to stick Drycha in our soul than "wasting time".
 
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