Only if he does not die (or becomes to infirm to cut the deal) in the meantime and he does not look to be the most healthy.
Servant to the Unlife - A Warhammer Fantasy Quest
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Only if he does not die (or becomes to infirm to cut the deal) in the meantime and he does not look to be the most healthy.
I'm not that concerned about time since the turns are significantly shorter than usual. I would imagine turn lengths right now are measured in days not weeks.
The baron is old as hell and taking dubious elixirs. I still think the sooner the better as far as dealing with this and it's not like fixing up the ghouls or Helmut will put us in a better position vis a vis him.
Thanks for the update QM. Hope the Orokos dice roller is user-friendly.
It allows me to write-in silly little descriptions for every individual roll. I am very pleased.
She's annoyed with having to do everything.
She's a priest and spellcaster which is a skillset that has a lot of synergy.
Getting that legitimacy for the boss is something he'd be happy about.
Being able to talk to people is good.
Good to see her making ties with people.
She may not like them but she respect how they're trying to be happy.
Needing to help people do their jobs is understandably annoying.
That's an interesting project.
Maybe we can get the warrior as a possible combat trainer.
Reputation is essential.
[X] Plan Rebirth of the Living, Gossip with the Dead
Connections and helping minons seems good.
[X] Do not
I want her to keep her name.
[X] Plan Rebirth of the Living, Gossip with the Dead
[X] Do not.
[X] Do not.
Feeding on vampire blood, ayup. I think we have Strigoi.
Hopefuly we can ally with that Strigoi rather than having to fight them.
Just noticed the edit, can't really help the lack of diplomacy in this case, our best diplomat is a ghost, maybe if we can find her a good enough corpse and disguise it to look alive, but that will take a while...
Huh actually @Prospalz can Nehertari channel Lathain? That is allow herself to be temporarily possessed by the ghost so she can be diplomatic at the locals and the like? I expect this to take an action if we can do it, but I am curious if it's viable at all.
Not at this time, and particularly not Lathain.
But willing channeling of spirits for yourself and others is a viable field of study.
OK, that puts us back to getting her a body which is going to be rather hard since elf corpses do not grow on trees... at least not around here.
I wonder though, how human-like (for lack of a better word) can we make stone vessels. Could we make something that is small enough and flexible enough that is could pass for human with a cloak and a mask? Having one's diplomat look like a nazgul isn't ideal, but it is better than them being visibly a ghost.
Somewhat depends on a roll, but theoretically yes. With a cloak and a mask.
And just to be clear, do we know if she would prefer this to a human body? Obviously that would be easier, but the last thing we need is a resentful undead elf.
Lathain is not very enthused about sub-par vessels and thinks that it'll inhibit her talents and abilities more than it would really help you. She'll bear with it if you consider it a true necessity.
When asked about what would be a "suitable vessel", she says something like "Nefertari, dear, I appreciate the gesture - but that's beyond you right now" and is reticent to explain further.
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I mean, a purpose-made stone body seems to me a lot better than a random rotting corpse.
Got it, we are going to have to look into another diplomat for in person work, no sense annoying her with a subpar vessel. Oswald maybe? He did not strike me as particularly skilled, but he does have the advantage of being a local and alive. Alternatively stick a mask and a cloak on Helmut. As a local noble he should have some diplomatic skill.
Also not insane. Another rare quality to find in Sylvania.
Alive, local and sane. A pretty rare combination.
I'm a little late to the party but going to put forward a plan. There's a couple of reasons for this:
- I really like the idea of making the Baron out with his old age issue, but at the moment I do not think it's a good sell, for two reasons. The spell involves the Baron appearing dead for multiple days, when nobility is involved and with his situation as precarious as it is he's at real risk of waking up buried with no town, he needs a reason to trust us first. Second, he's asked us to perform an investigation and we're coming back to him with this offer before we've closed it as requested. Thankfully there's a very good solution to this. When we finish the investigation and the problem is dealt with the Baron will have more reason to trust us and may be in a better position to take a several day long nap.
-I feel Plan: Divinity and Revification Studies doesn't do enough to move us forward on finishing our task, it sets us up, which is nice, but once we get one win under our belt we can start asking for more.
Therefore I present:
[X] Plan finishing the job
-[X] Try to learn more about local divinities. Sigmar is a god of hammers, right?
-[X] Study the flow of winds in the region. Creating a full wind map of the region in less than a month is probably impossible, but now that you had seen disturbed winds over Gablitz, make you think that, perhaps, you have other means of finding the perpetrators.
-[X] Set out to Waldenhoff to seek out alleged "black market." Oswald, mercenary from Gablitz is ready to accompany you. Mikhail is also there, allegedly.
-[X] Attempt to craft war statuary. It is not much, but Albert provided you with a small shipment of medium-quality materials for your projects... You are reasonably sure these remains of some sort of shattered statue. Still, it is enough; you'll manage.
-[X] Or, perhaps, interrogate some other corpses in your possession? You have quite a few available thanks to your choices and Yulia's efforts.
The hope is that between talking to the dead ghouls that were storming the temple, studying the winds of magic and visiting the black market we have enough chances to succeed to get an idea of where the magical coven is and who we are dealing with. This should be enough to decide what to do about them next turn. Getting an idea of the local gods will be useful for convincing the Baron and other people we are a legit, if weird priest. And we might need some muscle for dealing with the coven. War statuary seems more reliable than experimenting on ghoul force and it's another job we can maybe tick off.
Hopefully there's some side benefits to studying the winds of magic (information and where is good to cast big spells), going to the black market (somewhere to buy and sell things when we have money) and talking to our stored corpses (maybe one of them will be useful)
- I really like the idea of making the Baron out with his old age issue, but at the moment I do not think it's a good sell, for two reasons. The spell involves the Baron appearing dead for multiple days, when nobility is involved and with his situation as precarious as it is he's at real risk of waking up buried with no town, he needs a reason to trust us first. Second, he's asked us to perform an investigation and we're coming back to him with this offer before we've closed it as requested. Thankfully there's a very good solution to this. When we finish the investigation and the problem is dealt with the Baron will have more reason to trust us and may be in a better position to take a several day long nap.
-I feel Plan: Divinity and Revification Studies doesn't do enough to move us forward on finishing our task, it sets us up, which is nice, but once we get one win under our belt we can start asking for more.
Therefore I present:
[X] Plan finishing the job
-[X] Try to learn more about local divinities. Sigmar is a god of hammers, right?
-[X] Study the flow of winds in the region. Creating a full wind map of the region in less than a month is probably impossible, but now that you had seen disturbed winds over Gablitz, make you think that, perhaps, you have other means of finding the perpetrators.
-[X] Set out to Waldenhoff to seek out alleged "black market." Oswald, mercenary from Gablitz is ready to accompany you. Mikhail is also there, allegedly.
-[X] Attempt to craft war statuary. It is not much, but Albert provided you with a small shipment of medium-quality materials for your projects... You are reasonably sure these remains of some sort of shattered statue. Still, it is enough; you'll manage.
-[X] Or, perhaps, interrogate some other corpses in your possession? You have quite a few available thanks to your choices and Yulia's efforts.
The hope is that between talking to the dead ghouls that were storming the temple, studying the winds of magic and visiting the black market we have enough chances to succeed to get an idea of where the magical coven is and who we are dealing with. This should be enough to decide what to do about them next turn. Getting an idea of the local gods will be useful for convincing the Baron and other people we are a legit, if weird priest. And we might need some muscle for dealing with the coven. War statuary seems more reliable than experimenting on ghoul force and it's another job we can maybe tick off.
Hopefully there's some side benefits to studying the winds of magic (information and where is good to cast big spells), going to the black market (somewhere to buy and sell things when we have money) and talking to our stored corpses (maybe one of them will be useful)