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RHUNRIKKI STROLLAR (Warhammer Fantasy Golden Age Dwarf Runelord Quest)

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I'm not going to weigh in on the logic of either side's arguments, but I will ask that everyone read over what they write and really consider if the words they used are polite and won't be inflammatory intentionally or not. You cant account for people's tolerances perfectly but at least try to say your piece without saying things that can be easily construed as overly dismissive of the other side of the argument, thank you.

Please endeavour to be cordial. :^)
 
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[X] [You:] Alone. Cannot take if either Karstah or Retainers are with you. Stand a good distance away from the statue while it works. You'd well out into a sort of no man's land, where you'd purposefully be making yourself an equally juicy target for the Fimir to think about attacking instead of the statue and its work crew if they manage to get to your lines. You still can't bring the full capabilities of your cloak to bear, not like if you were properly out alone by yourself, but you can certainly bring out more than if you were near anyone.

[X] [Karstah:] With the front. Karstah will be among the first to enter combat if the enemy breaks through the Ranger screen.

[X] [Retainers:] With Karstah. She is your heir, the legacy you will leave behind should the worst come to pass. They will guard her, as they would you, with their lives.
 
Snerra roped Nain and Karstah into doing the same as her.
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Can we find a Khazlid word for trolling that wouldn't be mortally offensive?
Such a wholesome little troll :V.

Also, what do you make of the beardling runesmiths trading rune advice?
I didn't catch anything particularly dodgy.
 
[X] [You:] Alone. Cannot take if either Karstah or Retainers are with you. Stand a good distance away from the statue while it works. You'd well out into a sort of no man's land, where you'd purposefully be making yourself an equally juicy target for the Fimir to think about attacking instead of the statue and its work crew if they manage to get to your lines. You still can't bring the full capabilities of your cloak to bear, not like if you were properly out alone by yourself, but you can certainly bring out more than if you were near anyone.

[X] [Karstah:] With the front. Karstah will be among the first to enter combat if the enemy breaks through the Ranger screen.

[X] [Retainers:] With Karstah. She is your heir, the legacy you will leave behind should the worst come to pass. They will guard her, as they would you, with their lives.
 
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[X] [You:] Alone.
[X] [Karstah:] With the statue.
[X] [Retainers:] With Karstah.

Time to introduce the giant enemy crabs to Hurricane Snorri!
 
Fight in the way that best suits us, especially as there is a good chance we end up fighting the Hashut fragment.

I am easily tempted by the promise of seeing the axe. It is beautiful and I look forward to playing with whatever Runes we get out of it.
Absolutely worth giving our full support.

Ogra has offered us compensation for protecting the waystones. Honestly would feel bad accepting it, as it is our duty to Alric to do that anyway.


soulcake said:
"It isn't a pressing need, but I would like to broach the topic now. Just in case. The campaign will be hard-fought, and the enemies we will face are not to be trifled with," Rudil explains.

"Sensible, if grim," you tell him, catching onto his meaning easily enough.
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This is why I want Hearthguard Banners, so that more of them might survive.

Anyway votes,
Fighting from the place we are strongest, but would also be fine with taking the front.
Karstah front, where she may continue living up to being our heir.
Hearthguard, Protect Karstah both because she needs it more than us, and because she is fighting at the front of the line as well.

[x] [You:] Alone.
[x] [Karstah:] With the front.
[x] [Retainers:] With Karstah.
 
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[X] [You:] Alone.
[X] [Karstah:] With the statue.
[X] [Retainers:] With the screen.

I'm tempted to put the hearthguard with Karstah, but she's probably safer with them screening attackers instead of sitting on top of her waiting for them to show up.

Taking the opportunity to go full Volcano early is sort of a gamble though. On one hand it helps us with morale, let's the other leaders see what Snorri's new equipment can do so they can plan for it, and makes it easier to fulfill our current goals.

On the other hand it also alerts the Fimir to what Snorri can do well before we've reached anything strategically vital.

I'm a little torn, but ultimately it's probably better to use what we have so that they have to spend effort trying to counter Snorri than letting them freely invest those resources in messing with the throng for the sake of saving volcano mode for a surprise or something.
 
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You still can't bring the full capabilities of your cloak to bear, not like if you were properly out alone by yourself, but you can certainly bring out more than if you were near anyone.
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Shame we're gonna have to put off seeing Snorri go all out though. On the plus side, everyone is going to think the mantle & Mhorni are amazing only for us one up that later. Queue Snorri grumbling over beardlings underestimating him.
 
[X] [You:] Alone. Cannot take if either Karstah or Retainers are with you. Stand a good distance away from the statue while it works. You'd well out into a sort of no man's land, where you'd purposefully be making yourself an equally juicy target for the Fimir to think about attacking instead of the statue and its work crew if they manage to get to your lines. You still can't bring the full capabilities of your cloak to bear, not like if you were properly out alone by yourself, but you can certainly bring out more than if you were near anyone.

[X] [Karstah:] With the front. Karstah will be among the first to enter combat if the enemy breaks through the Ranger screen.

[X] [Retainers:] With Karstah. She is your heir, the legacy you will leave behind should the worst come to pass. They will guard her, as they would you, with their lives.
 
[X] [You:] Alone.
[X] [Karstah:] With the statue.
[X] [Retainers:] With the screen.
 
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Discord and Patreon
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    • Otherwise known as me selling out to big business.

    Hello! I wanted this to be part of the update itself, and I may very well add it. But you may have noticed that I have created a Discord and Patreon in my signature respectively. Why? Well besides the money, the circumstances of this thread and the background have changed things.

    TLDR: My attempts to dissuade a Discord community have been bungled by my own actions and made the few people who ARE in it have a potential advantage and are already probably pretty cabal-like if you squint. So I decided to just make things as open as I could feasibly manage.
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    Fair warning, you're about to read like several hundred words of me trying to explain why I have started a Discord and Patreon.

    As you may or may not know when I was asked about a Discord way back during the quest's early stages I had said that while I had no real issues with a Discord, I didn't want a cabal forming for Rhunrikki in the background. So I didn't have a Discord link publically available anywhere for that reason, and well also because I was using a different person's server to do stuff in and while I didn't think they'd have minded I still felt weird? Kinda like going to a party and bringing several dozen uninvited guests in my head. Weird I know. Anyway, flash forward a few years to now and here I am making a Discord and Patreon so what's changed?

    Well, the Patreon is pretty obvious I think. I still have some reservations about it if I'm honest, but I figure at worst it becomes like 5 bucks I get a month that I can spend on ice cream or it can, in my wildest dreams, become a second source of income and man I'd like to commission more art without worrying about my tuition, bills and ice cream!

    Now the Discord. Yeah, I fucked up here. Trying to be obtuse about it I think screwed me over because it meant only some people got in rather than everyone, which made an exclusive club sort of feeling. If I could do it again I should have probably never mentioned the Discord existing or been forthright with a link entirely rather than my half-and-half approach. So what, I had a small number of people in the Discord who saw the Duct Tape and popsicle sticks behind everything, no issue if I didn't spoil certain things right? Correct, but I did! A mix of overeagerness and I felt weird having a channel where I posted nothing at all, so over the course of these past few years I have posted a few odds and ends that on reflection could have easily led to cabal-like behaviour like posting voting sections to the Discord earlier than the thread. Not often mind you, but often enough that I don't like it. The people in the channel kept a tight leash on how they interacted with that knowledge, but In a few year's time I may have ended up forming the perfect breeding ground for a Cabal that was not only able to see updates and voting segments early, but you had to go through hoops to get access too. The funny thing is, talking to others and trying to think of fair Patreon rewards made me realize the extent of my error.

    So now I've sort of opened the can of worms already, and I can't exactly seal it back up again without a fair amount of pain, I like hearing feedback and getting early impressions about parts I'm not sure about. So fuck it, I'm opening it wide and doing my best not to fragment my readers. At this point I had to decide if I wanted a Discord just for Rhunrikki, or for my writing in general. I decided on the latter because I do have a few ideas on the backburner.
    The nitty-gritty of it.
    Thread:
    Where I will post updates once fully complete, and finalized WoGs and announcements. Nothing changes on this end.

    Discord:
    You can talk about stuff in there too, and arguably some discussions will probably benefit more from Discord's format than a forum's. The link is open and permanent and any announcements or WoGs I post there will be posted here in a more formal and finalized form to maintain informational parity and keep people who'd prefer to be thread only from feeling like they're at an informational disadvantage.

    Patreon:
    You get access to Behind the Scenes Channels and can view parts of the update early as I finish them, as well as vote on stuff like art commissions, snippets I write or POVS of that nature. All for 1 USD a month!

    So yeah. If you like wanna toss a dollar my way I'd greatly appreciate it, but I will do everything I can to try and ensure it will never be necessary to participate in this quest.

    If you have any questions or concerns feel free to air them, god knows Im flying by the seat of my fuckin pants. I think this post is acceptable by SV rules but I could be wrong, please let me know as well.
     
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    • soulcake said:
    If you have any questions or concerns feel free to air them, god knows Im flying by the seat of my fuckin pants. I think this post is acceptable by SV rules but I could be wrong, please let me know as well
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    You do not have anything to worry about. I have seen a Patreon with multiple 100+ bucks tiers granting both voting privileges and concrete mechanical advantages for the protagonist advertised on this forum.
     
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