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Warhammer Fantasy: Divided Loyalties - an Advisor's Quest

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[ ] Skull River Ambush
I've been voting for this one since the thing happened, but there never seems to be much momentum for it. Seriously, what became of that mess? At this point, it feels like it ought to have blown up already if it was going to blow up... but since it hasn't come up in-character, it's like knowing that there's a land mine in the vicinity of your house, but not where it is or whether it's live.

[ ] Silk
This has also been a long time in coming, and ought to be neat.

[ ] Orb Reveal
Much too cool to not do.

[ ] Lord Seilph, the Mystic
Yeah, let's peek in on the guy with questionable interests. It's probably okay, but...

[ ] Pan's Treehouse
Time with the ladyfriend is always worthwhile.

The new books are shiny, but probably ought to wait until we can actually, you know, read Kislevarin? As-is, it feels like we'd only be getting half-benefit. (not that social turns are technically a benefit thing, but...)
 
I wonder what the knock on effects of K8P becoming a silk producer will be. All of a sudden the silk trade with Cathay will become a lot less attractive. Will merchants stop going to Cathay entirely, or will they change to transporting other goods instead. If the trade does dry up, how important is it to Cathay's economy?
 
It's been over 11 years in-quest we've been waiting for Silk - and in that time, we've not gone up a single point of Magic, so we haven't wanted to re-enchant Aethyric Armour. As such, if and when we finally do so, we'll be able to enchant a swanky new set of silk robes, instead of whatever cloth Mathilde's current duds are made of. It's all worked out!
 
neutronium95 said:
I wonder what the knock on effects of K8P becoming a silk producer will be. All of a sudden the silk trade with Cathay will become a lot less attractive. Will merchants stop going to Cathay entirely, or will they change to transporting other goods instead. If the trade does dry up, how important is it to Cathay's economy?
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Cathay is still one of the major economic powers of the world and producer of a whole bunch of valuable luxury goods. They will have to rename the road to something else though since Silk Road will no longer be apropos.
 
neutronium95 said:
I wonder what the knock on effects of K8P becoming a silk producer will be. All of a sudden the silk trade with Cathay will become a lot less attractive. Will merchants stop going to Cathay entirely, or will they change to transporting other goods instead. If the trade does dry up, how important is it to Cathay's economy?
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There was some speculation (on the linked page and the next) about this a little while ago!
 
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Eh, I think some people would still prefer Cathyan silk over K8P silk. After all, part of the appeal of silk is how rare and hard to get it is, and wearing silk gotten from a dangerous two-way journey to the other side of the planet does a lot more to showcase your wealth than getting it from a Dwarfhold.

Question, though; are we keeping the fact that it's the We who produce the silk a secret?
 
neutronium95 said:
I wonder what the knock on effects of K8P becoming a silk producer will be. All of a sudden the silk trade with Cathay will become a lot less attractive. Will merchants stop going to Cathay entirely, or will they change to transporting other goods instead. If the trade does dry up, how important is it to Cathay's economy?
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While Silk is Nice and important, spices are even more so. You do espionage and minor skirmishing over silk, you go to war over spices.
 
WE-SILK IS HEEEEEERE!

Between AV and We-Silk, the Colleges are going to be scrambling. Invaluable silk-armor that can be won by wizards into battle AND trying to capture Apparitions to figure out how to controllably bleed them without killing them so Orbs of Sorcery can be reliably produced.

Eike clearly needs some more magic and enchantment training if she's got this level of affinity for it this young. Way too much potential for us to pass up a chance to teach her our Shadowsteed mastery (seriously, being able to travel at speeds comparable to a car limited only by your own endurance for a smooth ride rather than a horse ride is a big deal) or train her on how to make devastating use of Mindhole and Take No Heed, etc..

It also strangely makes sense that the Jade Wizards would have a natural instinct for communicating with forests in more oddball ways, because while the Eonir might have extensive practice and learned excellence, Jade Wizards have attuned to and partially transformed their very souls into the energy forests draw to them and are filled with.

Elrisse continues to provide me with minor amusement at how she points out how things could be technically considered highly illegal or shady, to the point that I feel like she feels an outsized need to be the voice of reason in this gaggle of relative mad scientists considering every method they can think of before considering all the problems associated with them.

Glad to know the AV book will make it clear that trying to use the capture-and-bleed method on daemons is not only stupid, it's probably bound to failure by nature of daemons disrupting the neutral and real environment AV needs to exist. While the incentive provided by AV for really ramping up efforts to capture and contain Apparitions will be too great for the Colleges to ignore, it should also give the Colleges enough push to more strongly back the "Apparitions are not Daemons" stance.
 
infinityDivided said:
Eh, I think some people would still prefer Cathyan silk over K8P silk. After all, part of the appeal of silk is how rare and hard to get it is, and wearing silk gotten from a dangerous two-way journey to the other side of the planet does a lot more to showcase your wealth than getting it from a Dwarfhold.

Question, though; are we keeping the fact that it's the We who produce the silk a secret?
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I think the fact that the We are the source will be kept secret at first, but probably will be figured out once someone connects the dots between the silk production and the giant friendly spiders that run the library.

Also on that note, I think that the We population might explode as I recall a fair market rate of meat being the price for the silk and once the silk starts selling that will increase demand and thus prompt an increase in supply using all this new meat.
 
SaltyWaffles said:
Elrisse continues to provide me with minor amusement at how she points out how things could be technically considered highly illegal or shady, to the point that I feel like she feels an outsized need to be the voice of reason in this gaggle of relative mad scientists considering every method they can think of before considering all the problems associated with them.
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"You're ALL going on the watchlist. …Yes, even me. I've heard too much."
 
SaltyWaffles said:
Elrisse continues to provide me with minor amusement at how she points out how things could be technically considered highly illegal or shady, to the point that I feel like she feels an outsized need to be the voice of reason in this gaggle of relative mad scientists considering every method they can think of before considering all the problems associated with them.
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Elrisse clearly works for the SCP Ethics committee.
 
Mopman43 said:
No chance of that.

If we were producing what we are over there, it probably wouldn't be all that valuable. No chance that it'll be worth it to send it over.
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We-silk is extremely useful in ways other kinds of silk just isn't. While silk-for-clothing would be a non-product for Cathay, the two other kinds of silk would be extremely valuable. Silk armor is the kind of thing that can provide an entire layer of protection against physical attacks and fire, while fitting under other forms of existing armor (or over it), making it highly desirable for elite warriors and VIPs. The rope-silk would be of great use for anything involving a crane, and Cathay undoubtedly makes extensive use of sea and riverine trade. Bonus points for both products being light enough and flexible enough to be a very practical good to haul across a continent in a trade caravan.

Still, if anything, it would just increase the overall appeal and volume of trade between the Old World and Cathay. Because while the Old World's demand for silk clothing and sheets might be met by the We, there are still a variety of lucrative trade goods from Cathay with eager buyers in the west and now a couple of lucrative trade goods from the west with soon-to-be-eager buyers in the east.

But it will be quite a while before the amount of We-silk produced establishes its own dominance over the Old World and demand for We-silk armor and We-silk ropes is sufficiently met in the west for lucrative trade with the east to be worth the risk and cost of buying the silk to sell to the east in the first place.
 
SaltyWaffles said:
Silk armor is the kind of thing that can provide an entire layer of protection against physical attacks and fire, while fitting under other forms of existing armor (or over it), making it highly desirable for elite warriors and VIPs.
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I do want to buy some under-armour for Mathilde, now that it's available. It's mostly redundant with our Aethyric Armour, but we've seen our magic be disabled once in the quest, and there's any number of magical effects for turning off magic. Branalhune has one, even!
 
To summarise the last six months: we started three large scale waystone infrastructure projects, revealed AV and the Morbs, resolved a major dispute within the Runesmith's guild, found an ancient holy site, built a trade route into Laurelorn, unleashed the Jade college upon the Eonir, unleashed a Grey Lord upon Sylvania, broke the economy with We-Silk, and somehow found the time to make a musical instrument that detects dark magic as a side project.

Did I forget anything?

"Unseen but not unfelt" continues to only be half true.
 
Boney said:
to Tochter, who has the look of someone who's trying very hard to find a reason why what she's just told
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I think that last aprt should be "just been told"?
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[ ] Orb Reveal (NEW-ish)
The Orbs are made, the books are written, the time is right. You'll show them. You'll show them all.
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Yeeeeesssss... The orb flex! It is here! I have frigging tears in my eyes, I'm so happy. And with the silk too!
 
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