Warhammer Fantasy: Divided Loyalties - an Advisor's Quest
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[X] Locals
[X] Cult of Verena
I like the We, but I want a multicultural and multiracial staff that represents K8P, and the We excludes that possibility. I tolerate Cython, but I don't like them.
I'm kind of bummed that I didn't have the energy to make a reaction post for this update. I just didn't have the energy to do it yesterday. It's been so many pages since the update that I'm not sure anyone would read it, but I guess I can still give it a try today. I really did like the update.
[X] Cult of Verena
I like the We, but I want a multicultural and multiracial staff that represents K8P, and the We excludes that possibility. I tolerate Cython, but I don't like them.
I'm kind of bummed that I didn't have the energy to make a reaction post for this update. I just didn't have the energy to do it yesterday. It's been so many pages since the update that I'm not sure anyone would read it, but I guess I can still give it a try today. I really did like the update.
[X] The We
Considering how they were able to learn a new language in a couple of hours, and are completely attuned to the wind of enlightenment. Even on purely the merits of their skills I think they'd do a solid job.
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I would read it. I don't foresee it being less entertaining for having been written a day after the update instead of on the day.
Parabola
Divided Loyalties Librarian
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I have this mental image of Ranald being flabbergasted that the dwarf soul he placed into a human as a laugh was actually a reincarnated Ulgu dragon's soul.
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I would love to read it.
Remember what Gunnars said at the wedding?
I'm picturing Ranald being stared down by a council of grumpy dwarfs that want to know if Mathilde's soul is human or dwarf and He's siting there like..
Haha.
You guys don't know shit.
Ericwinter
Definitely not a Skaven Infiltrator
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To be fair, he probably doesn't know shit either, and that's just how he likes it.
Ah, the custom distro Linux defense against viruses - anyone who wants to try has to specifically engineer something for it, and if it gets to that point nothing is secure anyway...
[X] Locals
[X] Cult of Verena
That's my reason to not vote We too; I don't want a library where it's impossible for there to be non-spider librarians. I'm currently not voting for Cython, but might change my mind later if it ends up close between Cython and the We.
Regarding this update, I'm a bit surprised that I haven't seen any comment on Dragomas saying that our discovery about Dhar might be trouble for creating new Waystones, at least in the Empire. It's a long way off still, and there may be ways around it, but I thought it deserved some consideration. If nothing else, it might mean that we turn out to be the ones who have effectively cheated our partners in House Tindomiel by not giving them what they signed up for.
It'd be top classified Wizard business and he absolutely can have select people read in on enough to work on it, if we didn't just outsource the Dhar to elves
deathofrats0808
Don’t think of it as dying; just as leaving early
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I think it's more "no one does hazards for hiveminds" rather than "you need a hazard tailored to the We specifically" though. Still a good defence, but not quite as specialised as you're suggesting.
Ericwinter
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So, random thought, and definitely one that probably won't come to fruition for a while, but… We can, theoretically, make a full set of Orbs of Sorcery. Things that can power the biggest baddest kinds of Battlemagic enchantments in each Wind. A good enchanter could make pretty good use of just one. Mathilde… isn't just a good enchanter, and she wouldn't have just one in a batch. We're not just uniquely suited to making these things, we're also uniquely suited to using them.
Anyone want to take a stab at theorizing Windherded Battle Altars, Orbs included? Because right now I'm kinda imagining a flying death ray with Pit of Shades carpet bombing and flamethrowers to protect against other flyers. You know, once Mathilde gets both her Enchanting and Windherding skills high enough.
Anyone want to take a stab at theorizing Windherded Battle Altars, Orbs included? Because right now I'm kinda imagining a flying death ray with Pit of Shades carpet bombing and flamethrowers to protect against other flyers. You know, once Mathilde gets both her Enchanting and Windherding skills high enough.
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I think there is just very little to comment on.
Yeah, could be an issue if we don't find non dhar method.
Could mean no more new waystones, might mean new waystones are going to be done with super high security clearance and only with imperial dispensation, no way of knowing yet.
We gave them the rights to build any new waystones in the empire.
And that is what they get, if we can't get any new waystones, well, that was always a possibility.
Though i suspect having House Tindomiel doing the wind enchanting bit makes it more likely we can avoid the "no new waystones" bit.
No human wizard handling dhar, and elf wizards doing it only under extremely close scrutiny and with imperial dispensation for where and when to do it.
The Project would have to proceed quite a bit to reach the point where it could be said with any confidence whether or not an Orb would even help a Waystone or Nexus.
Mathilde knows that round Orbs work. She doesn't know whether other shapes do. She could try, but it would risk at least one of the Orbs and possibly endanger the others if the results are particularly bad.
This seems like it should be viable.
It's theoretically possible, but Mathilde would be blazing the trail herself since it hasn't been tried by College Wizards before.
Correct.
Outside of a few edge scenarios like having to operate in a complete magical vacuum, the difference between 'provides power' and 'makes the available ambient power go a longer way' is academic.
Mathilde would make the spirit of the agreement very clear, in that the books would remain at least as much Mathilde's as they would be Cython's and there would be an expectation of at least some degree of reciprocity. She won't just leave the lot of them in a box on Cython's front porch like a box of abandoned puppies, free to a good home.
It's impossible to say how they'd react without knowing how they make their ones.
It's currently acting as a spare room, Mathilde is spending most of her time away from K8P these days and there's nothing that immediately occurs to me that the room would come in handy to convert to.
Some has been used in the constant skirmishes of Dwarven life, but most of it remains and a fair bit is being earmarked for the upcoming reboot of the Silver Road Wars.
At typical levels of background magic, it's usually a matter of minutes. If killed in or quickly transported to somewhere like the Colleges with high levels of magic it could be more like hours.
Nordlander Hedgewise do.
I always greatly appreciate that sort of post.
Ambit
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oh boy here we go lmao
Back when I was still doing piracy to watch anime and stuff I felt like a genius when I realized that my WiiU was practically invincible in that regard.
Travisplo
The Necromonsieur
Well for one, it could probably be a good idea to have at least two orbs or at least Power Stones, of different Winds at the ends of each 'chain' of Waystones, just to make sure that there can never be an overflow of one single Wind in any one place- imagine if a Waystone was fed only Ulgu for years by sheer chance. So, you have an Ulgu and some other Orb in the structure, so you can guarantee the generation of at least a small amount of Dhar on demand, if need be. Two differing wind Orbs, because if you have only one, you might end up with an Ulgu Orb in a Waystone saturated with only Ulgu.
Ericwinter
Definitely not a Skaven Infiltrator
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- America
…Heh. Haha. Hah!
Okay, got that out of my system. I sooo want to try this. Maybe not immediately, but sometime.
Doesn't sound particularly practical then. Maybe someone would take a poke at apparition embalming once we publish an AV book, but I wouldn't expect much,
Ericwinter
Definitely not a Skaven Infiltrator
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- America
TaliesinSkye
Occasional Editor
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I would have imagined the key difference being whether or not the orb is eventually discharged under regular use.