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Warhammer Fantasy: Divided Loyalties - an Advisor's Quest

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Boney said:
The magical underpinnings of the plan attract much comment from the more magically-inclined parts of the crowd, at first because they insist that it can't work and then, after trying it themselves, insisting that it shouldn't.
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Boney said:
Sarvoi reads over the schematics, laughs, frowns, mutters something about cobbling for centipedes, then disappears for several days. When he returns it's with an armful of scrolls and a manic gleam in his eye, and he spends several weeks walking the Fanpatar Mages through your logic and several hours getting you to include details so minor and self-evident you have to look up how to actually describe them.
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Boney said:
The only difficulty was in convincing the Dwarves to make it only strong enough to last out the experiments instead of something that will still be standing for centuries to come, but you managed it by making it clear that this was for dubious Zhufokri experiments, and thus would require lightweight structures to minimize the amount of shrapnel produced.
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Boney said:
You spend some time at the bottom of that hole in reality, trying to figure out how to best make use of a perfectly spherical area, before doing the sensible thing and kicking the problem over to some Dwarves. You get a number of flat looks from the carpenters of Clan Ironspike as you lay out the requirements - building techniques to create structures within spherical caps of varying dimensions without drilling, nailing, or screwing into it. They ask you why, then insist you stop explaining why.
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Great news, these two races now have another thing to bond over.
 
Boney said:
Enchantments aren't computers, they can't do tests or remember variables or make calculations. They do the thing they were made to do.
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You're thinking of this as more of a system that has to include it's own capacity for logic than it needs to be.
It's a lot more like a release valve on a dam or something, where if the release valve isn't in the right position to leak, runoff overflows to run a waterwheel that changes the position of the valve.

But I did go back and read where you said this isn't a problem for the thread, so I'll cut my full explanation.

It's just that if you can explain a mechanical solution to the problem in a two to four sentences It's not worth calling computer work.
 
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Somic said:
Mathilde: "I want to learn the Dark Tongue!"
Grey College: "Why?"
Mathilde: "To loan some words I need to describe the relative spatial position of the barrier between reality and the Warp, and also so I can pilfer knowledge from any texts on daemonology I might come across!"
Grey College: "..."
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Mathilde: "I am inventing new and confusing directions to be lost in!"
 
[X] Eike
[X] Middenland
[X] Nordland
[X] The Black Water Canal
[X] Tzar Boris Bokha
[X] Skull River Ambush
[X] Kalishiniviks
[X] Niedzwenka
 
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[X] Tzar Boris Bokha
[X] The Black Water Canal
[X] Druchii Diplomats
[X] Amber College
[X] Skull River Ambush
 
...actually, can we cut the complicated stuff and just send a letter to the Grey College asking if there's any accepted, or at least known loanwords for directions in more than the basic three dimensions? We aren't the first wizard to study liminal realms, after all.
 
Somic said:
...actually, can we cut the complicated stuff and just send a letter to the Grey College asking if there's any accepted, or at least known loanwords for directions in more than the basic three dimensions? We aren't the first wizard to study liminal realms, after all.
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Might as well just publish the book (and make the Morbs) and let Algard worry about the Liminal Realms research.

Cause I'm sure that could to be a whole research arc on it's own.

...Serious question, how likely is it that he straight-up retires from Patriarch to pursue the sudden chance to actually manipulate Liminal Realms?
 
[X] Eonir Tourism
We get to see elves being bewildered by the lives of the imperials and or delighted at the outside world, what's not to love
[X] Tzar Boris Bokha
This will letusbe smug and mysterious. Why is this foreign atamanka vedma here.
[X] The Black Water Canal
Infrastructure good
[X] Eike
Talking gods between a ranaldian and a shallyan sounds very interesting to me, and our wack understanding of divinity will only amplify that
[X] Okri
I wanna see how the Dwarven version of Fire Force is going. Less racism, I assume
 
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[X] Eonir Tourism
[X] Druchii Diplomats

Really want to have some Druchii interactions, especially before the Asur decide to make an appearance.
 
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NuclearConsensus said:
And now I have the image of a Daemonologist just minding their own business, poking liminal realms to see what's in them, when they poke the wrong one and then get swarmed by a host of partially regenerated vampires thirsting for blood. "Oops! All vampires!"
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This reminds of Atomic Robo (webseries about Tesla's robot son, go read it) where they keep opening portals to a world overrun by vampires.

They eventually destroyed it using a train.

DragonParadox said:
To be fair the vampires would go mad in short order from the lack of blood, I do not think that would help with cracking their way out, the greater problem is that someone on the other side might break them out before that happens.
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Isn't depriving vampires of blood how you get Varghulfs?

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Or was it Varghiests?

Boney said:
There are 14 competing standards.
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Time to make 15!
 
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Dragonofelder said:
Isn't depriving vampires of blood how you get Varghulfs?

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Or was it Varghiests?
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It was Vargheists.
Boney said:
Vargheist. Like most Stirlandians, you knew the legends: deep in the bowels of Castle Drakenhof, there are row after row of countless coffins that the von Carsteins call their beds. But they are far from united, and whenever one falls from grace, their coffin would be chained shut as they slept, and they would remain trapped with nothing but their terrible hunger and the dark magic of Sylvania for company, and both would twist and mutate them until they were finally strong and insane enough to tear themselves free... it was one of a thousand terrible stories about the vampires, each less likely than the last, but it seems that this one was actually true.
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I'm struggling to come up with a Watsonian reason why the witches couldn't just try again next turn. Political exile? They seem to largely not care though.
 
Dragonofelder said:
Isn't depriving vampires of blood how you get Varghulfs?

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Or was it Varghiests?
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Good point. If that's the case it sounds like trapping is basically a similar recipe for the creation of Varghiests but replacing "Until they're strong enough to break out of the the chain bound coffin with "Until they're strong enough to claw a hole back in to reality."
 
Boney said:
There are 14 competing standards.
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Unironically true even in real life! Four-dimensional objects have a lot of different English names. Even the most famous one you'd think might have a standardized name, the tesseract (hands up if you learned the word from A Wrinkle In Time) has a ton of names:
The tesseract is also called an 8-cell, C8, (regular) octachoron, octahedroid,[2] cubic prism, and tetracube.[3]
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8-cell and C8 are more mathematical descriptors than names (basically equivalent to describing a normal cube as having six sides; a tesseract has eight cubes), but the other four are all, well, different names for the same thing, because geometers kept writing things and inventing their own terminology.

Anyway, I'd really like us to get both the Middenland/Nordland actions this turn, but I'd happily settle for just one. I'm surprised @mathymancer hasn't shown up to rep for the Skull River Ambush yet, though!
 
picklepikkl said:
Unironically true even in real life! Four-dimensional objects have a lot of different English names. Even the most famous one you'd think might have a standardized name, the tesseract (hands up if you learned the word from A Wrinkle In Time) has a ton of names:

8-cell and C8 are more mathematical descriptors than names (basically equivalent to describing a normal cube as having six sides; a tesseract has eight cubes), but the other four are all, well, different names for the same thing, because geometers kept writing things and inventing their own terminology.
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...Now I want Mathilde to learn them all just for the simple practical reason of listing them in the book's section on liminal realms for reference. "We'll be using this word, but it can also be referred to by such, such, and such" is just useful for communicating the principle, imo.

Although she'll probably do it automatically when she gets to writing it x)
 
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