"Grimvala," he says with a nod as he takes his seat across from her, "Something on your mind"
Missing a question mark on that.
Gold. Goldsmiths. One of his fellow retainers.
It's Enlag.
Because whenever it involves Enlag and Goldsmiths, it's almost always Enlag.
"It's Enlag and the Gold Song isn't it," he asks, pinching his nose.
... Ha. It's the gold song from Discworld, except for Warhammer. They try to come up with new descriptors and words for gold. Hence why the song can take so long to do! Because it's a challenge to come up with new descriptors for it.
That's something from actual Warhammer Fantasy lore too, I think. i.e. The gold song. Pretty sure I saw something like that in the wiki. Not sure whether they took it from Pratchett or whether Pratchett took it from them. Or whether both took it from Tolkien. Hee.
Dumaraz - Darkness Splitter, named for the foaming white rapids that carve through the black volcanic sands and that form the river banks, and for the dark caverns it's carved through the mountains between its source and the Sea of Claws.
- The Rune Metal Pt. 1b complete! The Rune Metal Pt. 2b unlocked!
-- Creating a Gromril Chain is… disturbingly easy, if incredibly tedious, for you and only you. Taking years of concentrated effort, even for you, to make but a single shirt. You can do it, doing what only Grungni could, but...leaving it as simple proof of concept, let alone one that requires such extraordinary circumstances, doesn't sit right with you.
-- +1 Gromril Chain Shirt. Making this shirt took the same amount of time as several hundred sets of far more effective platemail. The inefficiency galls you, potential prestige be damned.
-- +2 progress to The Rune Metal Pt. 5, new totals: [Cost: (12 -4) =8 actions]
- +5 progress to The Rune Metal Pt. 2b, new totals: [Cost: (14 -5) =9 actions] Without Zharrgal or Barak Azamar you would have required an entire forge set composed entirely of Adamant to forge the chain. As is, you can likely create the pieces needed to make it less of a hassle. Making a method to do this for other Dawi though...still eludes you.
9 actions... If we put all 4 Snorri actions into this, we'd get +2 bonus actions from Soul of the Earth and +2 bonus actions from Journeyman of the Odd, for a total of 8. If we put 3 Snorri actions into this, we'd get +1 from Soul of the Earth and +2 from Journeyman of the Odd, for a total of 6.
This... might be doable for Turn 40, Armoured Maidens, but... very tricky to manage for Prince Gimli's wedding gift at Turn 36.
If we tried to make it work, it'd require... The minimum amount of actions into the Princess's prosthetics, let's say 1. (Shameful. For 3 runic items.) And we spend 3 Snorri actions on the Rune Metal 2b, bringing it down to 3 actions needed.
Then on turn 36, we spend... 1 action on designing the wedding gift, 1 action on making it, and 2 Snorri actions (with Soul of the Earth, it turns into +1 action) on finishing up Rune Metal 2b.
This is literally
barely doable, but requires totally focusing on Gromril Chainmail and 1-actioning the requests. Which, to be fair... We
can do that. We
are a Runelord. If an item takes 1 action to complete, then us taking 1 action on it is not slacking. Just... some of us were hyped for going very into the Prosthetics and the Wedding Gift, with many actions on them, so...
And to top it off...
A month later you find yourself finally thinking all of this oddness is done and dealt with. Your colleagues had all found lodgings elsewhere or gone home after promising not to reveal what you'd shown them, the newest members of your Hearth Guard were being integrated, and work on Grom was finally reaching the stage where you were finally needed.
We might be seeing Karak Grom-related actions cropping up too.
- +5 progress to Dronril, Dronwut, new totals: [Cost: (6 -4 -1[Standing Bonus]) =1 action]
This was a highly convenient time to get a standing bonus on a research. Because if it were left at 2 actions left, you'd either need to spend 2 at once and thus overflow it... or drag it out over the course of 2 turns. Instead, it's neatly left at just 1 action to finish off!
... Argh, speaking of research, we still haven't gotten around to uncovering what Kholek's brain can do! Damn you Master Yorri, you jinxed us by joking how we'll keep it on ice for ages like we did the Troll heart!
