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Warhammer Fantasy: Divided Loyalties - an Advisor's Quest

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IronFist said:
Until they get strong enough to spread.

In which case a Lord magister going on a fact finding mission and the Empire getting enough information to decide, yep, we don't want those fuckers anywhere near us.
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If they get strong enough to spread. The world has weathered worse. Not every catastrophe needs our personal touch.

Only so many Mathilde Hours to spend on stuff.
 
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[X] [PURCHASE] Write-in. - A dwarven axe for Baba Brzeginias/Gerdouen
[X] [LIBRARY] Back-fill.

Boney said:
It took some waiting for her conversation with Soizic to finish,
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This? This right here? This is bait. ;)

Codex said:
I'm sure @Glau is rejoicing at this and I'd honestly look forward to an omake about it.
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Pretty much, yeah, but now I just have to figure out a possible conversation subject and backfill. My head-canon Soizic would absolutely be asking about her dreams and maybe about recruiting other knights with 'secrets', but I'm hesitating over this possibly being contradicted in canon later.

Andres said:
For the benefit for the Empire and everyone at its borders. Bretonnia, Kislev, the Eonir, Tilea, and the Dwarves themselves all stand to benefit as well. It would be a valuable and beneficial book to all these parties, giving us reputation, money, and letting us do a much greater amount of good than any other writing option.
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Not really interested, sorry. We don't need the money or fame, and I'm pretty doubtful we are going to add anything revolutionary, after all of those polities have hundreds of years of diplomatic history.

And I doubt that the challenge is in how the dwarves are approached, but rather in the difference of material interests.
 
[X] [LIBRARY] Back-fill.
[X] [PURCHASE] The Lady: Extensive Bretonnian, Shallya: Extensive Bretonnian, The Kingdom Of Bretonnia: Extensive Bretonnian, Trade: Extensive Eonir, A dwarven axe for Baba Brzeginias/Gerdouen

I think it be nice to do something for her since she helped us out big time but not totally sure on this vote since some people suggested that she wouldn't like the gift
 
Glau said:
Pretty much, yeah, but now I just have to figure out a possible conversation subject and backfill. My head-canon Soizic would absolutely be asking about her dreams and maybe about recruiting other knights with 'secrets', but I'm hesitating over this possibly being contradicted in canon later.
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It might help you to know that Damsels are not limited by practically any of Bretonnia's rules about general conduct and propriety and that they can do whatever the hell they want. There are canonical examples of Damsels that have slept around the courts of nobles and talked with peasants and generally any number of things that would be scandalous for a noble, and they really don't give a fuck. They're also highly individualistic, so really, you can do whatever you want with the Damsel as long as she remains the coy and playfully vague doublespeaking character that she is in the update.
 
Woltaire said:
I think it be nice to do something for her since she helped us out big time but not totally sure on this vote since some people suggested that she wouldn't like the gift
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The text of the quote suggests that the village does after-market modifications rather than build from scratch, and since we aren't getting a runed ax, I don't see any issues.

Metal items are VALUABLE in small villages like this. An axe, especially dwarf-make, would be appreciated.
 
Nerdasaurus Rex said:
I think "Dragomas is actually a dragon" is one of my favourite thread jokes, if only because it's more believable than a journeyman somehow surviving the trip to Cathay, becoming friends with the Dragon Emperor, learning how to turn into a celestial dragon and then coming back.
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Dunno why this popped up now, but wanted to note I hope its not the case. As funny as "sike I was a Cathay dragon-god-son all along!" would be, the sheer gumption of a "base human" (yes i know still a mage yada yada) being able to pull this off appeals to me more. I find the narrative thread of "yeah everyday Empire full of clever badasses too" more appealing than "here's dragon God playing a joke."

picklepikkl said:
Boney explained:
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I saw that part about the sons. My question was regarding daddy-o since I'm 99% sure we've seen a Manhavok doing stuff in Stirland while this is Manhorak
 
[X] [LIBRARY] Colleges of Magic: Apparitions, Power Stones, Forest Spirits, Liminal Realms
[X] [PURCHASE] The Lady: Extensive Bretonnian, Shallya: Extensive Bretonnian, The Kingdom Of Bretonnia: Extensive Bretonnian, Trade: Extensive Eonir
[X] [PURCHASE] The Lady: Extensive Bretonnian, Shallya: Extensive Bretonnian, The Kingdom Of Bretonnia: Extensive Bretonnian, Trade: Extensive Eonir, A dwarven axe for Baba Brzeginias/Gerdouen
[X] [COLLEGE] No purchase.

[X] [LIBRARY] Colleges of Magic: Apparitions, Power Stones, Forest Spirits, Hysh
 
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Mopman43 said:
I'm fully and entirely aware.

(Honestly, I get thoroughly tired of people constantly bringing it up whenever a conversation mentions Hussars- a single mention on Reddit and you get a hundred people going "When the Winged Hussars arrived! Charging down the mountainside!" It's not even Sabaton's best song…)
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So you're saying you're annoyed when Winged Hussars arrives?
:V
 
Glau said:
Pretty much, yeah, but now I just have to figure out a possible conversation subject and backfill. My head-canon Soizic would absolutely be asking about her dreams and maybe about recruiting other knights with 'secrets', but I'm hesitating over this possibly being contradicted in canon later.
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Codex said:
It might help you to know that Damsels are not limited by practically any of Bretonnia's rules about general conduct and propriety and that they can do whatever the hell they want. There are canonical examples of Damsels that have slept around the courts of nobles and talked with peasants and generally any number of things that would be scandalous for a noble, and they really don't give a fuck. They're also highly individualistic, so really, you can do whatever you want with the Damsel as long as she remains the coy and playfully vague doublespeaking character that she is in the update.
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Pretty much this, The damsels are arguably the most socially 'free' group in all of the Old world; they do what they want, where they want, as they want. and only rarely get slapped on the wrist by the Enchantress unless they really, really go overboard.

If they have one 'rule' in how they are written, it's 'promote the Ladys/Enchantress's agenda' when on the clock... however they see fit. So 'how does this benefit the agenda' would be the only limit on want they are talking about.... unless she is hitting on her. then that's personal time.

I mean, you could have the damsels poke at her to get journeying or going 'why aren't you promoting Bretonnin culture in the Undumgi more' if you wanted the drama... it won't be out of character for a damsel in their mission... it would just make her a bit of a 'bull in a china shop' of a damsel.
 
pucflek said:
I actually... really like Kasmir. Its weird how far that friendship went. Kinda want to spend more time with him tbh.
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Same, he's like Mathilde's old war buddy. Even more than her other war buddies.

They might have started out opposed but Mathilde was at least partly a catalyst for Kasmir's growth as a person, and she was able to watch that occur.

And, even more relevantly, they went through hell together. Conflicts can birth friendships, but especially so does hardship, which they experienced together marching on Sylvania and through the death of Abelhelm, where Kasmir also saw Mathilde at her lowest. Her other war buddies never reached such a point, because things generally never got that bad.

It's a very special bond, which even if we don't see each other often at all is very unlikely to fade. If the two end up together again because of a new war or something, I can see them clasping arms at their first meeting in decades like nothing ever changed.

Or I might be looking too far into it. I dunno, but those are my thoughts.
 
I've finally hot to omakes. And I found discussion about Mathilde secretly being a vampire. And then I remembered her recent experience with moving other kinds of magic with her own - it mean what she now can imitate vampiric dhar vortex if needed. She can do the same thing as her friend The Empress - pretend to be a vampire
 
DragonParadox said:
I'll be honest, though I am interested in the Damsels I do not want to do Iron Orc hunting next turn. We have just come off a turn with 15 parts of adventure, so in terms of the narrative I would rather keep things more compact and get more stuff done research wise over the next turn rather than go on another military/intrigue campaign. We do not even know if one action will be enough to deal enough damage to the orcs. After all this was offered as one of the main locations for the Project and the orcs as our first challenge. Being able to deal with them in one go would be a bit like being able to handle the Norland situation in one action.
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The bolded bit is a big part of my [wriggles hand uncertainly] when it comes to discussion of the Iron Orc issue. We players and Mathilde just don't know enough about the situation imo.

If it's "there are many tough orcs and they need killed" then that's not a great for us, AP wise. Maybe we'd be able to point groups of them at eachother, but since chaos is involved I imagine that'd be trickier than with baseline orcs.

Alternatively, if the Iron Orcs are being enhanced/blessed by methods that make use of a small number of rare artefacts or locations, then destroying those would be very worthwhile, and fit Mathilde's skills/items[1]



[1] Pity we don't have a 'bag of holding' item/spell. I'd prefer to use gunpowder and run away than using the flask/branhulme.
 
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BeepSmile said:
Alternatively, if the Iron Orcs are being enhanced/blessed by methods that make use of a small number of rare artefacts or locations, then destroying those would be very worthwhile, and fit Mathilde's skills/items[1]
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My view is that Chaos Armour is rare and unusual. According to some sources, the Chaos Dwarves make most of the parts that the Chaos Gods then bond to their chosen warriors. If there's a second manufacturing site in the mountains south of Carcassone, the Chaos Dwarf precedent suggests it's both a high skill and very rare piece of infrastructure.

We want to destroy it anyway. But Mathilde is particularly likely to be able to follow some iron orcs, sneak into the foundry invisibly, and then nuke the place to the ground.

She may literally be the best person in the Old World at addressing this problem. And not by a small amount. Between her skills and tools, she may be able to deal with this with a moderate amount of difficulty, while the Brettonians would have to spend an ocean of blood and a mountain of treasure to do the same.

tl;dr: Iron orcs delenda est
 
Jyn Ryvia said:
its a Ranald 'spell', so we could probably get a 'holy relic' off of Hedi if we tried.

it's just that Ranald might just keep it if we stash stuff in his bag.
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I was reading up on Ranald spells there and there is one that causes one's money pouch to be empty when searched, but there was no mention of the limits on volume/mass[1]. Also this relic would be explicitly used for transportation of gunpowder for blowing up infrastructure and certainly killing a few iron orcs in the area, which is messy and somewhat untargeted violence.

Ranald is generally not a fan of messy violence and killing... On the other hand, there is a very real "acceptable target" situation going on here, 'cuz the target would be chaos corrupted orc's infrastructure. If Ranald would be ok with us using a relic of his for this sort of thing, I doubt he'd nick the gunpowder.

[1] The vibe I got from the text was 'moneypouch sized' which would make this method non-viable.
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Of course this is all based on the assumption "iron orcs have targetable infrastructure vital for the buffing/production/armament of new iron orcs" and "we don't want to use the flask on it because [specific circumstances]"
 
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Ohhhh! I HAVE HAD AN IDEA! (Tremble before me).

If we do look into these orcs, and we find out they have a small amount of vital infrastructure, and we want to blow those up from a distance...

I have no recollection of any statement on the matter, but intuitively I feel that it is much easier to make a one-use enchanted item than a rechargeable one. [looks at how Boney has previously described the process of enchanting] Then again, maybe not.

@Boney
1. Is making a one-use enchantment (significantly) easier to create than a multi-use one?
2. is it possible to commission a (or two or three) one-use bomb(s) from the Bright College?
 
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