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Warhammer Fantasy: Divided Loyalties - an Advisor's Quest

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Boney said:
This is an underpining of your Orders?"
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*underpinning
Boney said:
"What's the difference between a Mage and a politician?" You give him a questioning look. "Once tries to wrestle poorly-understood forces into submission for personal gain despite the fact that it could all blow up in his face and ruin the lives of everyone around him, and the other casts spells."

You can't help but join him in laughter.
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Ha! I like this guy.
Boney said:
Zlata stares forlornly out over a park full of Elven athletes. "They had me swear a vow of chastity," she bemoans, "and sent me to the land of beautiful men."

"We are all called on to sacrifice for our peoples," you commiserate.

"Hopefully our business here ends on good terms," she says with a heartfelt sigh, "so I can return after I am promoted."
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Zlata is hilarious. She may not have been the biggest get for the project, but she's good company at least.
Boney said:
And while you might have preferred that an Ice Witch of greater age and experience like Ljiljana or Věnceslava, there's something to be said for someone who's too intimidated to play games, and won't do anything but her best.
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"that an Ice Witch of greater age and experience like Ljiljana or Věnceslava" what? I think the "that" either needs a follow-up or to just be dropped, as the sentence works without it.
Boney said:
[ ] You
Eike will become the Apprentice of Lady Magister Mathilde Weber.
[ ] Wilhelmine
Eike will become the Apprentice of Lady Magister Wilhelmine von Bucht, Bursar of the Grey Order.
[ ] Starke
Eike will become the Apprentice of Lord Magister Reiner Starke, Porter of the Grey Order.
[ ] Regimand
Eike will become the Apprentice of Magister Regimand Speiseschrank.
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A surprisingly tempting list of options - Wilhelmine especially. But in the end, I can honestly really only choose:

[X] You
 
[X] You

Wilhelmine is surprisingly tempting, but in the end, I've been vibrating in anticipation for this ever since she turned out to be a Wizard.
 
Boney said:
You nod. "I work with her grandmother in a trade concern in Stirland, and Eike's to inherit her grandmother's stake in it."

"The EIC, yes. I've encountered them a time or two in my other job, they're a nightmare to suborn. Was Eike named after the company?"
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Before I go to bed, I also want to say: It's hilarious that Mathilde did such a good job instilling ideals of patriotism and national unity in the EIC, that now its various members are a royal pain for the rest of her Order to get any kind of leverage on.

She basically admitted to trying to install Ranald in the Stirland Watch because she was upset with Sigmar, and leaves a trail of His four Faces everywhere she goes, yet somehow she was instrumental in creating an organization that appears wildly out of character to anything remotely Ranaldian. It looks almost Agnostic from the outside, being about profit and not faith, but it would otherwise easily be mistaken for a Sigmarite Mercantile Cult due to their chest-thumping patriotism and die-hard unwillingness to even glance at a Dwarf with anything less than complete forthrightness.

Reiner Starke must be so confused.
 
[X] You

It'd be nice to have an heir to pass her tricks and expertise to, and possibly a few bits from the big pile of forbidden knowledge.
 
[X] You

[X] Wilhelmine

If we don't pick Eike as our apprentice I'm just going to assume we're never going to have an apprentice period. There is no one else we are as invested in to take as a personal student, and outside Mandred, there's no other potential apprentices we know of or are aware of without taking the option of taking a look at the crop and taking a pick.
 
MooseHowl said:
Before I go to bed, I also want to say: It's hilarious that Mathilde did such a good job instilling ideals of patriotism and national unity in the EIC, that now its various members are a royal pain for the rest of her Order to get any kind of leverage on.

She basically admitted to trying to install Ranald in the Stirland Watch because she was upset with Sigmar, and leaves a trail of His four Faces everywhere she goes, yet somehow she was instrumental in creating an organization that appears wildly out of character to anything remotely Ranaldian. It looks almost Agnostic from the outside, being about profit and not faith, but it would otherwise easily be mistaken for a Sigmarite Mercantile Cult due to their chest-thumping patriotism and die-hard unwillingness to even glance at a Dwarf with anything less than complete forthrightness.

Reiner Starke must be so confused.
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To be fair, that's also Mathilde herself to a T. Sure, she's obviously Ranaldite, but someone who hasn't quite grokked that yet could easily mistake her for Sigmarite.
 
Well this was a cool moment. I especially liked how Sarvoi beat out the elven stereotype and came to understand our PoV on becoming rather than learning magic, he seems like someone we could be friends with in spite of the gap in age and experience and also just plain fun to be around. I can just see him cracking jokes about how Weber's library is full of spiders when we open it to the public. :V

As for the Eike vote... well I did champion to take her on as an apprentice and while I am not enamored at the notion of taking that course at least we know she will finish next turn so that is only one turn of a dead skill

[X] You
 
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