Powder, Gears, and Blessed Steam - A WHF Engineering Quest
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I see, thanks for clarifying and I do like to see more of Godri and the Amethyst Wizard and their history together.
Is she Magaret's surrogate mother, grandma or both? *concerned noises*
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c5Y25FT7DxE
I'm afraid that we will 100% fail at this action until we heal. Our success roles are very low for this. I say we should peddle those guns we have instead. Maybe find some easier work instead.
Heresy in our sense of the word, but not Warhammer. She was put on trial for it and let off, remember?
[X] Offer to take the rabbit to where she's buried.
Yeah because Margret wasn't worshiping any proscribed gods, she was (and is) a weirdo who thinks steam is divine. That is not something the authorities have on the black list, it does not mean the inspiration was not Aetheryc, just that it was not something they had everseen before. This is not 40K where everything that isn't explicitly accepted is forbidden.
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I don't think that bunny is actually a dead rabbit, animal souls should not really be that powerful or possess the self-will to survive in the Aethyr and also it if was just a ghost it could go to Morr's realm. I suspect it is more like a unique kind of fey. They were meant to have arisen from the conglomerate emotions of simple lifeforms.
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[X] Accept the rabbit.
I choose you spectral lagomorph!
I choose you spectral lagomorph!
An aeolipile is not really a proper steam engine. There are no high pressures involved, like in a boiler fed resiprocating system. It's basically a glorified kettle with a spinning nozzle. So, it'd be quite difficult to make one explode.
WilyMachineKing1
Executive Manager of Limbus Company
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[X] Accept the rabbit.
You know I have been thinking of how to apply a friendly spirit to engineering problems and surprisingly here are quite a lot of use cases:
- The spirit can see things no human could, like the inside of a working prototype boiler looking for faults
- Absent eyes of meat that work on boring old light a spirit would be able to spot in complete darkness or attach itself to a shell or canonball in flight (G-forces what's that?)
- A spirit is a source of magic, alchemy works by manipulating materials which have soaked in magic. We could say let reagents marinate in its presence and then see what they are good for
Well, that could have gone terribly. Well, no. It did go terribly. But it could have gone even more terribly.
While there is some hope in gettin an in with shallayan priests to get that shoulder patched up, perhaps through Morr's cult, we do need to remember that we just shot a priestess that, apparently no-one suspected of being a necromancer.
To reveal we did it because we knew she was one might end up with us accidentally letting slip that we have magesight, too, which would be bad.
Also, our wound isn't fool-proof... well... proof of necromancy. It could have been a regular Shyish spell, for all we know.
In any case, we should absolutely be less gung-ho about getting into fights in the future. This is Warhammer, and if any of you have played WHFRP, you'll know that getting into fights tends to be fast and miserable for low level characters.
Also, we are a low level character.
While there is some hope in gettin an in with shallayan priests to get that shoulder patched up, perhaps through Morr's cult, we do need to remember that we just shot a priestess that, apparently no-one suspected of being a necromancer.
To reveal we did it because we knew she was one might end up with us accidentally letting slip that we have magesight, too, which would be bad.
Also, our wound isn't fool-proof... well... proof of necromancy. It could have been a regular Shyish spell, for all we know.
In any case, we should absolutely be less gung-ho about getting into fights in the future. This is Warhammer, and if any of you have played WHFRP, you'll know that getting into fights tends to be fast and miserable for low level characters.
Also, we are a low level character.
Having mage sight on its own isn't a problem. A lot of people have magesight without the ability to manipulate the winds (or divine power). It is using magic, not seeing magic that's regulated. We listened to a bunch of spirits and then shot a necromancer with our very solid and non magical revolver.
No Amethyst Robes, still a witch, we would be in the clear killing her.
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- Location
- Fort Worth, TX
[X] Accept the rabbit.
Alectai
Speaks Words of Wisdom... On occasion
Having Magesight isn't illegal, practicing magic outside the Colleges is.
And frankly, the fact we crit succeeded our initial attack and she still shrugged it off apparently was ridiculous, this was apparently not a low-level Necromancer that we just ganked. Most Wizards can't facetank bullets to center mass when they weren't expecting a fight. We have virtually everything going for us and presumably almost killed her in our opening, and that amounted to being just one less die from her baseline pool at the start, and the rest were irrelevant. I'd be saying "Was that a fucking Vampire we just iced?" if it wasn't for the fact that our character didn't get her throat torn out by a matrix dodging killing machine.
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She might have had some of the really powerful suitability mutations, though it seems unlikely someone would get lucky enough for long enough to get so many and still look presentable for lack of a better word. I don't think she was undead at least or we would have seen that, she would have looked more like the ghosts I think. Also I cannot imagine one of the undead managing to pretend to be a priestess of Morr for long, not unless this branch of the Cult is so corrupted it has to be burned to the ground root and branch.
That is my long-winded way of shrugging 'I don't know what the hell she was'
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[X] Accept the rabbit.
She could be a really weak at combat vampire. One focused on blending in to the max rather than being a combat monster.
Hmm... Lahmians are the second best at magic after the Necrarchs and she was described as looking very beautiful, with a compassionate expression etc... Still if that was a vampire, we need to hand that corpse in to the Morites yesterday, if we just burn it she will reform.