Just have a bunch of orbs to swap out for the sole purpose of ambient mood lighting.
Warhammer Fantasy: Divided Loyalties - an Advisor's Quest
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I do have the (possibly-Tzeentchian) temptation to see what happens if we take an Orb that warps reality to be conducive to Winds and create a liminal space, whose reality is freshly defined by Winds, within its area of effect.
This is understating it actually, as the precise 50 roll that resulted in Schrodinger's Snake only happened after the snake crit-failed a roll to manifest at the worst possible moment, and furthermore with a crit success by Mathilde building the box and Ranald's divine intervention invoked. The box may as well be a divine artifact of Ranald, and Boney's explicitly said it cannot be reproduced.
I mean we have friends in the colleges who can use orbs:
- Ulgu: We keep this one
- Ghyan: Panoramia
- Ghur: Esbern & Seija
- Hysh: Ergrim
- Chammon: Johann, maybe he can implant it in his chest
- Shysh:... not sure if Gretel would be interested, but we can always hand it Elsbeth and tell her to make something cool
- Aqshy: Might be a bit too energy intensive for Adela, give it to the fellow who made the flask for us, the one who now only does enchantments
- Azyr: Hubert can't use it, but there is that one Azyr wizard who had the good sense to run away from a Slann, if nothing else he should have some good suggestions on where we can go with our new boat
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... I know EXACTLY what we would do with not needed orbs...
Didn't we loot one of those from Clan Skyre?
Nothing comes to mind.
Prismatic Wanderer seems pretty likely to win (barring a surprise comeback from the armor), what would be prime locations to visit using it? I would definitely be a fan of checking out Nehekhara eventually as well as the Southlands generally. Cathay is also an interesting option.
Lustria would also be cool but definitely seems like it would be a dangerous option to get to let alone explore.
Lustria would also be cool but definitely seems like it would be a dangerous option to get to let alone explore.
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I PROPOSE WE MAKE A NEW SET OF ORBS IMMEDIATELY AND SET UP MATHILDES CRADLE DIRECTLY IN OUR ENTRANCE WAY!
I think it depends on how long it takes us to make it and how long until we wrap up the Project. The only journey that makes sense as a Project action is to look for Titan metal. After that I too would like to see Nehekara since we have the chance to learn the language and then read the scrolls and the notes.
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One problem. What order do we put the orbs in?
In order on the Wheel of magic, clockwise, starting with Ulgu.
We built ONE trap, and it had a literal 1% chance of successfully trapping the apparition it was targeted to trap, and it required a specific apparition created by a specific type of misscast. That's hardly reproduceable.
Are we still posting crazy reward requests?
We could ask the colleges to support the current Dwarven campaign - I think Belegar referred to it as the Second Silver Road War.
I kind of want to ask for Marienburg. Who needs a sky ship when you can have an entire navy and a city to fund it.
We could ask the colleges to support the current Dwarven campaign - I think Belegar referred to it as the Second Silver Road War.
I kind of want to ask for Marienburg. Who needs a sky ship when you can have an entire navy and a city to fund it.
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Accurate depiction of the insights of Fozzrik's tome:
And here we are, 13,000 thread pages later, figuring out how to effectively get a flying castle of our own. Some interests spring eternal.
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Actually the roll at the time was to see if the trap caught the snake or killed it, but we rolled the exact number that was accidentally left in the middle and Boney decided that we caught it in such a way that it was neither alive or dead.
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It was less than 1% - Boney said he didn't correctly define the possibility space and just decided to roll with it once he realized what happened.
Unfortunately, the fact that the Cathayans already have a variety of floating palaces and war machines does mean that offering to take the inevitable trade delegation coming to ask what's happened to all the silk buyers back to Cathay wouldn't be as big of a flex as it might be. That would be even more awesome otherwise.
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Hasn't officially started yet, and thorgrim has also not yet asked for general help. Last we knew he wanted to actually take the silver road and it's outpost until they got to the karak, but he also wanted the former owners of these outposts to either reestablish them or relinquish their claims on them before moving on to the next, which takes time.
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It is not implausible that although TRICKING a snake into a mirror box is irreproducable, one might be able to apply the known apparition catching techniques from the first part of binding one and then put it into a mirror box yourself.
aka "Johann punches a snake until it gives up and then manhandles it into a mirror box and shuts it closed."
aka "Johann punches a snake until it gives up and then manhandles it into a mirror box and shuts it closed."
No, the mirror box works reliably. It's the "not dead, not alive, but constantly dying part" that has the 0.001 percent reproducibility.
Blackangel
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Well, yes, but this is essentially what I mean by "reliable apparition trap."
It's a step we essentially skipped over due to luck, but I bet the colleges are about to throw gold into solving it because it's a very solvable problem.
It's not really. It works on the asp because the asp can use mirrors to enter the warp, which means parts of the asp are in the warp, Regenerating, while parts are cut up and sliced into thin strip in the material world dying (and bleeding).
For this method to work on other apparitions you'd need them to be able to willing jump the warp barrier but only partially and then kill them and trap them in a way that would keep them regenerating but not enough so that they can stop dying.
We don't need to wait for the Project to end, as in fact we have an entire set of "examine foreign Waystone networks" actions that we've barely touched, and it's much better to do them now when we have the Project's wide assortment of experts still available to decipher what we might find.
At the bare minimum, we should look at the Kislev network, because there's some very heavy non-Waystone divine secrets wrapped up in there which the Ice Witches wouldn't want Mathilde looking into outside the context of the Waystone Project, and right now we have Boris' "anything to kill the Za" mood and Niedzwenka who spills Ice Witch secrets just to troll them.
And while I don't think we can reasonably access Athel Loren's waystones any time soon, mapping Bretonnia and Tilea would at least let us scout the entire perimeter of it. I was thinking of pushing for that mapping in the Elfcation turn, but I think we're more likely to take Protector than Father.
@Boney Would it be worthwhile to try mapping/examining Nagarythe's network in the same turn as the elfcation plan? I'm unclear on how much these actions are "things we can try" vs "things Mathilde actually expects she can get results from" given the presence of Athel Loren and Nehekhara on the list, and the elves are less hostile than those two but possibly more secretive.