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From a Dead World (Skaven Quest)

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EVA-Saiyajin said:
As is, just an amusing vision in my head right now, not worth pursuing unless our current competence and ability increases in certain, very significant ways.
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Eh, honestly, all we have to do is hope that some of the Chaos Dwarf rockets didn't go off and are in good enough shape to use/reverse engineer or that the Chaos Dwarves we turned into Skaven know how to make Chaos Dwarf Rockets.

Like, we are already basically halfway there, this probably wouldn't be hard to pull off. In all honestly what we'd really want probably is some sort of way to distract the Slann and the other Gods from interfering, maybe some sort of death ray/weather machine or some other super weapon that will tie them up and make them too busy to mess up our God eating the moon plan.
 
Could we PLEASE not feed Morrslieb to our god? You know that he won't leave any for the rest of us, given the chance! ... For that matter, he might not leave ANYTHING for us, given half the chance. I mean, if we allow him to manifest, what use would he have for us?

The Horned Rat may be our god, but that also means that He is the Skavenesty of Skaven, and should only be afforded the barest minimum of trust! Also, lots of groveling, because GOD, but still! Paranoia must be our watch word, for... everything, really!

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Thinking about it, and after some contemplation of other sources, could the dwarves be heading for the (possible) third Warp Portal in the (something something) mountains? I'm not sure if that's the one Grimnir went after.
 
EVA-Saiyajin said:
Thinking about it, and after some contemplation of other sources, could the dwarves be heading for the (possible) third Warp Portal in the (something something) mountains? I'm not sure if that's the one Grimnir went after.
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Oh right, that particular snippet of lore. I should correct this about nowish: thaaaaaat didn't happen. Grimnir didn't end up in the Middle Mountains fighting daemons forever, because if you'll notice, those are in the Empire. They're in friggin Ostland. How in the hell Grimnir ended up there in GW canon after going north past Norsca and creating the gigantic road of skulls stretching into the Chaos Wastes kinda boggles my mind. So.

Long time ago, Grimnir decided, based on all applicable evidence, that all this chaos shit must be being spewed out of a giant portal up north somewhere. He decided hey, I have these axes that can kill daemons, let's see if I can't go kill the portal. So he shaved his head and basically became the first Slayer only he wore armor at first, marched up north, at some point gave one of his axes to his son Morgrim, and headed off into the Wastes, killing piles of daemons as he went. At some point before he reached the hold of Karak Dum he lost his armor in battle, hence why the dwarfs remember him as a typical slayer - some of the dwarfs who escaped from there told the rest about it. Anyway, Grimnir keeps carving a path north into the Wastes. [REDACTED] later, and he's a god and the Road of Skulls is taking on an actively warp-repelling effect.

Got the thought from MOG's quest, didn't ya? :p
 
Xantalos said:
Oh right, that particular snippet of lore. I should correct this about nowish: thaaaaaat didn't happen. Grimnir didn't end up in the Middle Mountains fighting daemons forever, because if you'll notice, those are in the Empire. They're in friggin Ostland. How in the hell Grimnir ended up there in GW canon after going north past Norsca and creating the gigantic road of skulls stretching into the Chaos Wastes kinda boggles my mind. So.

Long time ago, Grimnir decided, based on all applicable evidence, that all this chaos shit must be being spewed out of a giant portal up north somewhere. He decided hey, I have these axes that can kill daemons, let's see if I can't go kill the portal. So he shaved his head and basically became the first Slayer only he wore armor at first, marched up north, at some point gave one of his axes to his son Morgrim, and headed off into the Wastes, killing piles of daemons as he went. At some point before he reached the hold of Karak Dum he lost his armor in battle, hence why the dwarfs remember him as a typical slayer - some of the dwarfs who escaped from there told the rest about it. Anyway, Grimnir keeps carving a path north into the Wastes. [REDACTED] later, and he's a god and the Road of Skulls is taking on an actively warp-repelling effect.

Got the thought from MOG's quest, didn't ya? :p
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Gotcha. Cool!

Indeed, though in all honesty I was aware of the possible (conflicting canon) third Portal prior to that. I was just unaware of a source that said Grimnir went after the potential third one, rather than the northern one.
 
EVA-Saiyajin said:
Gotcha. Cool!

Indeed, though in all honesty I was aware of the possible (conflicting canon) third Portal prior to that. I was just unaware of a source that said Grimnir went after the potential third one, rather than the northern one.
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Truth be told I never saw anything that said Grimnir went after some random third warp portal until End Times lore came about and that last Gotrek and Felix novel happened, so maybe it was then? I admit I didn't delve super deep into that stuff until then.

Either way, yeah Grimnir's up north someplace. No one quite knows where, or if he died as a lot of dwarfs think, but either way he's up north.
 
Xantalos said:
Truth be told I never saw anything that said Grimnir went after some random third warp portal until End Times lore came about and that last Gotrek and Felix novel happened, so maybe it was then? I admit I didn't delve super deep into that stuff until then.
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It was a few mentions from fellow Sbers, honestly, trustworthy ones though.
 
EVA-Saiyajin said:
It was a few mentions from fellow Sbers, honestly, trustworthy ones though.
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Ah. Well, I trust their word but if I incorporated that bit in there things would get weird quickly, hence the other option being a thing.

Plus, wouldn't it be a little anticlimactic for all the dwarfs to get ready to go on this bigass journey only for them to just go to another mountain range a few hundred miles away at most and go through a portal in there?
 
A slightly off topic question... but I keep hearing about this 'MOG' WarHammer Quest... What is it?
 
Thanks... And I'm glad to see the necromantic rituals the rats cast were successful in getting you back into this quest. :p
 
So you sometimes work so slowly an entire generation of Skaven breed and die before the next interesting thing happens?

Sheesh, looks like you would've done better as a Dwarf rather than one of those mangy rats! XD :p

That said, it's being very interesting, seeing what's happening in the rest of the world...
 
I do have a very dwarf-like writing style, don't I? I have been getting better, though - I started this thing as a much more novice writer than I am now, and the experience of putting out what few updates there are for this has helped me increase my speed, at least a bit.
 
Right, so I figure you guys deserve some news.

The interlude's being a whiny bitch, so I haven't made much progress on it as of yet. Considering who it's about, not surprising, but yeah. I've some ideas on how to make some progress, however, so we'll see how that goes.

Never fear though, I haven't been idle. If you'll take a look at the Tech List threadmark, I've compiled a comprehensive list of the tech you guys currently have at your disposal, as well as what an average warlord clan is currently kitted out with. If you read carefully, you'll notice that many of them have room for improvement in them, and each clan has a general area of focus to give you guys ideas on what you can try to develop next.

Because I know you guys love your tech discussions :V

I've also updated all the lore threadmarks bar the economics and the dragon one - they say basically the same thing, but in a clearer manner.

So ... feel free to talk about what you wanna research, ask me for clarifications, etc. With luck I'll get past this one point in the interlude soon!
 
Xantalos said:
- Corpse Stitching - Horripila commonly stitches extra limbs onto their warriors, but as of late some projects have been made involving stitching entirely new creatures together out of skaven corpses. It's unclear if they'll be able to obtain any means of getting the resultant abominations animated, however.
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So, what would happen if we took these corpse-stitched, and combined it with
A) Necromancy
OR
B) Daemonbinding

I personally see option B as a plan without flaw, nor any possibility or error!:p
 
Chimeraguard said:
So, what would happen if we took these corpse-stitched, and combined it with
A) Necromancy
OR
B) Daemonbinding

I personally see option B as a plan without flaw, nor any possibility or error!:p
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It'd certainly be interesting to see!

I should clarify just in case it isn't clear, the foreign research assets tab is stuff you've looted from other people that you haven't researched yet. When you do, the thing you research will be moved to the appropriate clan tab.
 
Xantalos said:
- The Port of Ruin - Situated by the sea at the mouth of the River Ruin is a hidden port where the dawi-zharr constructed dark mockeries of their western kin's ironclads, as well as other, more advanced designs. Now they're all for the taking.
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I see something that Admiral 'Cap'n' Vrisk Ironscratch will have an absolute ball playing with! ... Incidentally, how is it that the good Cap'n managed to out rank this guy:
Xantalos said:
Arch-Economist Skrisnik Goldfang of the Warpfang Bank
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Seriously, our non-navy outranks the ECONOMY? Did we do that, and I just missed it? Or is everyone else on the council just that scary, the Cap'n just that crazy?

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Sightsear said:
I see something that Admiral 'Cap'n' Vrisk Ironscratch will have an absolute ball playing with! ... Incidentally, how is it that the good Cap'n managed to out rank this guy:

Seriously, our non-navy outranks the ECONOMY? Did we do that, and I just missed it? Or is everyone else on the council just that scary, the Cap'n just that crazy?
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...huh. Y'know, I totally missed the implications of that somehow. I recall I copied most of the clan leaders off of a list on Lexicanum and subbed in the characters I didn't much like with my own original people. Didn't really look at it after that.

Congratulations, you've caught me in a rather significant error that I may not have caught on my own! I'll now correct that posthaste - likely the Bank will be placed where Moulder currently is or somesuch to account for their high influence.

Sightsear said:
Or is everyone else on the council just that scary, the Cap'n just that crazy?
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The members of the Council are scary folk indeed, but Vrisk is a breed apart at times since he completely fails to acknowledge your reality. If you piss him off, it's likely that he'll pull some completely unexpected crazy shit out of left field that no one would've ever expected someone as unstable as him could've pulled off. It's why he's on the Council in the first place, because skaven may be hard to trust but at least you can count on them trying to backstab you at some point. Vrisk, however, is completely unpredictable.
 
Oh (and yes I know I'm triple posting, I'm the QM I get to do that), I also made a shorter summary of the turn 0 results if you want to review what happened in it without going through the whole 28,000 word monstrosity. It's in a spoiler just below the first one.
 
Okay... Just read the Technology List, and these are the ones I think are a priority...

Chaos Dwarf War Machines - Hopefully it means an improvement of Skaven Weapon Reliability, from 'Requires user being almost suicidal to use' to 'Only mildly suicidal to use/Daredevil and Skaven Use Only'
The Port of Ruin - Actually learn to build ships.
Improving Basic Magnified Studies + Basic Hygiene - Means more Skaven to feed into our war effort...

What are the rest of you guys thoughts?
 
Pyro Hawk said:
Okay... Just read the Technology List, and these are the ones I think are a priority...

Chaos Dwarf War Machines - Hopefully it means an improvement of Skaven Weapon Reliability, from 'Requires user being almost suicidal to use' to 'Only mildly suicidal to use/Daredevil and Skaven Use Only'
The Port of Ruin - Actually learn to build ships.
Improving Basic Magnified Studies + Basic Hygiene - Means more Skaven to feed into our war effort...

What are the rest of you guys thoughts?
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Why the Port? Not necessarily disagreeing, but what's your reasoning?
 
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