KnownParadox
Not a sphere
- Location
- Canada
[X] Spectacle
Simply because it sounds the most fun.
Simply because it sounds the most fun.
Warhammer Fantasy: Divided Loyalties - an Advisor's Quest
- Thread starter Boney
- Start date
- Fantasy Users' Choice!
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- warhammer warhammer fantasy fantasy be gay do crimes (gay) female protagonist pansexual protagonist ck2 quest divided loyalties mountain vietnam ranald is real this is a dwarf quest (dwarfs) this is maybe an elf quest this is not a vampire quest this is not an empire quest try it and find out open voting
Voted best in category in the Users' Choice awards.
- Location
- Texas
- Pronouns
- He/Him
Parabola
Divided Loyalties Librarian
- Location
- The Destination of Fate
- Pronouns
- She/Her
We're assassinating this man during the time we set aside to spread tributaries. We don't have the spare time to somehow find a Lahmian. That's the sort of thing that requires a dedicated action.
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- Location
- Texas
- Pronouns
- He/Him
[X] The Locked Room Murder: Too perfect version
[X] Nighttime Visit With Style
[X] Nighttime Visit With Style
[X] Nighttime Visit
[X] Nighttime Visit with subtle supernatural elements.
-[X] Lay down hints that a vampire was the assassin.
A completely mundane murder at night sounds perfect. If we want to add supernatural elements we can strangle him to death with magic (supernatural since it won't have tool or fingermarks) or arrange for someone to spot a bat flying nearby at the appropriate moment that can be discovered in a later investigation.
We want things to be subtle and making them too obvious seems like a bad idea.
[X] Nighttime Visit with subtle supernatural elements.
-[X] Lay down hints that a vampire was the assassin.
A completely mundane murder at night sounds perfect. If we want to add supernatural elements we can strangle him to death with magic (supernatural since it won't have tool or fingermarks) or arrange for someone to spot a bat flying nearby at the appropriate moment that can be discovered in a later investigation.
We want things to be subtle and making them too obvious seems like a bad idea.
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Do we have any reason to suspect Boris of being compromised? Maybe by something that wants to take the lahmians out of the picture? Maybe another vampire bloodline?
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King Arthur
The Once and Future King
No, and off the top of my head, if he was working for Lahmians he wouldn't want us to arrange things to make it look like a Lahmian did the assassination.
- Location
- Hollister
[X] Plan: Spontaneous Heart Attack
And of course, thinking he's a Lahmian plant anyway sends us down the same route Mathilde mentioned vis-a-vis Tzeentch. Some things just have to be taken as is; perfect info is rare to come by.
I'm surprised this guy hasn't already been assassinated if anyone with shadow magic can just sneak in and stab him. Are assassinations just not super common then?
- Location
- The Surface Of A Hostile Planet
If your bar for "hard to assassinate" is "any old Grey Lord Magister with the Unseen trait can get in", then you may be setting the bar too high.
There's single digit numbers of people who can do what Mathilde does in the entire Old World.
- Pronouns
- He
The Ice Witches are currently content to wait out his lifespan, the Hags aren't the type to have this ambition, and the Boyars are relatively placated by his anti-centralization.
- Location
- United States
[X] Plan: Spontaneous Heart Attack
- Location
- Actually pretty lost
Plan Spontaneous Heart Attack is a mistake. It's not subtle, which is Boris's primary concern, and there's a non-trivial chance of having a shadow knife fly out of him when it goes off per Word of Boney, which would be disastrous if it's recognised.
I think all of the locked-room options are ideal, even if we have to lock the room ourselves. It makes sense as to why the Lahmian would miss it if they entered and exited via magic, and is also a clear enough pointer to magic that a motivated investigation from Boris will pick up on it. It's exactly what he asked for.
It's be nice if we converged on a plan for that, I'll approval vote the lot for now.
[x] The Locked Room Murder: Too perfect version
[x] Nighttime Visit With Style
[x] The Locked Room Murder
I think all of the locked-room options are ideal, even if we have to lock the room ourselves. It makes sense as to why the Lahmian would miss it if they entered and exited via magic, and is also a clear enough pointer to magic that a motivated investigation from Boris will pick up on it. It's exactly what he asked for.
It's be nice if we converged on a plan for that, I'll approval vote the lot for now.
[x] The Locked Room Murder: Too perfect version
[x] Nighttime Visit With Style
[x] The Locked Room Murder
What's the claimed Lahmian course of action leading to the spontaneous heart attack? At least the one which doesn't obviously trace back to Us, the Person who Perfected This as our Trademark Spell We Named After US.
Conversely, what reason does a Lahmian in direct contact with the Tzar trying to make it look like an accident have to use a shadow knife?
We should probably cut the clothes afterwards with an actual knife-thrust whose momentum, etc. don't match up.
[X] Nighttime Visit With Style
Conversely, what reason does a Lahmian in direct contact with the Tzar trying to make it look like an accident have to use a shadow knife?
We should probably cut the clothes afterwards with an actual knife-thrust whose momentum, etc. don't match up.
[X] Nighttime Visit With Style
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EternalObserver
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- Location
- The Void
[X] Nighttime Visit With Style
Parabola
Divided Loyalties Librarian
- Location
- The Destination of Fate
- Pronouns
- She/Her
This says more about how Mathilde makes it look easy than anything else. Assassins of this level of skill are rare, let alone ones with Ulgu on their side.