Warhammer Fantasy: A Dynasty of Dynamic Alcoholism

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Doomed Wombat said:
1. Morathi has Malekith's wife killed by mind-controlling some Asur, who was Ariel's sister*
2. Ariel goes on a roaring rampage of revenge and eventually gets to Morathi and beats her down, but Morathi saves her life by promising to teach her dark magic to kill Morgur.
3. Ariel accepts and Morathi does so, typically because it is dark magic it makes Ariel go crazy (which judging by a brief Morathi interlude was very much intentional on her part?) combined with wounds taken from Morgur (not sure when) were influencing her mental state significantly. Which was what Allariell healed away?

*note the more I learn of her the more I realise how much of the Elves problems can be laid at her feet...like not all of them, but a near inexcusable amount of their problems are Morathi's fault...
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I mean. Yes. Much of the issues the elves suffer in the modern day is because of Morathi and her various machinations.

The new(er) set of wounds taken from Morghur taking a few (literal) bites out of her body and soul occurred during the Athel Loren side of the Battle of the Bone Gate. She got severely fucked up. Like, horrendously so. The last time someone tried to take the sheer weight of pain and corruption she'd felt from a mixture of Morghur and Morathi, Adanhu aka one of the 3 last Elders of the Treemen straight up got freaking vaporized by the effort of cleansing her. But at least this time she hasn't been mainlining Dhar for centuries. Still, the sheer effort and power required to heal Ariel of her wounds both physical and spiritual that she's just been stubbornly (like a dwarf, almost) just ignoring and keeping on drained the Everqueen severely. In the long run, the effort to do so didn't even heal her completely, more like burned out the corruption and cauterized the wounds, but that was enough to knock Allarielle out. The sheer level of damage and healing required took down the Everqueen, and that's a hell of a thing to do when she can just point at lesser daemons and explode them. It's hard to properly get that across, or at least I struggled with it, as battles of the soul seen from the outside are never as impressive. Ariel is sort of like a 3rd-degree burn victim with 70% coverage who has been literally still on fire for the past few decades and has only just been doused, with some of the barest preliminary skin grafts on her most vulnerable areas. And then she picked up a spear and got to stabbing.
 
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Do we really have what it takes to kill Drycha is all i am gonna ask. I mean, she will most likely escape if we do not try to face her, but shit, i really don't want Freddy to die. Maybe thats wrong to do tho, we are supposed to play long term benefits.
 
pucflek said:
Do we really have what it takes to kill Drycha is all i am gonna ask. I mean, she will most likely escape if we do not try to face her, but shit, i really don't want Freddy to die. Maybe thats wrong to do tho, we are supposed to play long term benefits.
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Even if we can't directly kill her the goal then becomes stall her as long as takes for either Ariel or Durthu to kill her while trying to keep Bloodglade alive for that time.
 
Alexander Sturnn said:
You wrote 'I would like for us to die'. Again, why do you WANT Frederick to die and break his Promise to Natasha? I know that we CAN die at any Time and with every risk we take, but why do you explicitly WANT it to happen?
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Because my idea is explicitly about what happens after this battle, after we've won. You're the one who stopped reading half way through you were so anxious.
 
xXxBlueViperxXx said:
Even if we can't directly kill her the goal then becomes stall her as long as takes for either Ariel or Durthu to kill her while trying to keep Bloodglade alive for that time.
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I was more trying to say that Frederick is our pawn to sacrifice, and if him trying to slow down Drycha makes it harder for Chaos to fuck shit up in future days, then it would still be a net benefit even if he died in the process, because we are playing a Dynasty quest and have worthy successors. We really need to get something that will help us against magic, if we can.
 
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pucflek said:
Do we really have what it takes to kill Drycha is all i am gonna ask.
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We have a Runefang. There's very few things in Mallus the application of a Runefang to the face cannot kill. Sigmar really got his money's worth from the Dwarves with those babies.

I'd also bet that Freddy has what it takes to kill Drycha in direct combat, especially in his current mindset, and with some support.

Biggest question is whether we can find and catch her, Lore of Shadows makes people annoyingly slippery.
 
Chronic said:
We have a Runefang. There's very few things in Mallus the application of a Runefang to the face cannot kill. Sigmar really got his money's worth from the Dwarves with those babies.
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There are very few thing on Mallus that can hurt Durthu. There are very few things on Mallus that had direct hand in corrupting one of the last Treemen ancients. Drycha can fuck Frederick up, kill him even, with a fairly high chance i would bet even.
 
Well alrighty then, I guess it's time to make Khorne pine for Fred's soul like some kind of love forlorn maiden, by going full murderblender on some wooden whores! :mad:
 
Ok, I can breath again. Things are real bad! But not cataclysmically bad as they were. At least until Durthu remembers Nat exists again.

Golden Eyed King said:
I like how the young elf girl (only 41 years old!) Is now all concerned that we might die she feels like a young girl who just found out dogs don't live as long as humans.
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The gnarled but friendly bulldog who has been dispensing life advice just saying "Oh, yeah I'm gonna die in an hour or two. It's been a good run!" is a uniquely crappy fact in a already bad day for that poor kid.
 
pucflek said:
There are very few thing on Mallus that can hurt Durthu. There are very few things on Mallus that had direct hand in corrupting one of the last Treemen ancients. Drycha can fuck Frederick up, kill him even, with a fairly high chance i would bet even.
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I think Freddy has a chance against most things. Maybe not a large chance, but a chance.

If we were up against Drycha solo, it'd be worse, but we'll have Bloodglade, and if we manage to hold out, others can join in.
 
pucflek said:
There are very few thing on Mallus that can hurt Durthu. There are very few things on Mallus that had direct hand in corrupting one of the last Treemen ancients. Drycha can fuck Frederick up, kill him even, with a fairly high chance i would bet even.
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Sure, but I'd say we have good odds of either killing her or stalling her enough to let Ariel or Durthu enter the battle. Freddy has an annoying habit of not dying when he really, really should, the same martial skill as the squire of Tyrion, really good magic equipment and Bloodglade to back him up.
 
*Meanwhile in the Khorne Quest*

"My Lord, have you heard? Frederick von Hohenzollern rage is-"

"NO...JUST NO. IT'S NOT GOING TO HAPPEN, STOP FALLING FOR IT, GUYS. LOOK AT POOR
U'ZUHL. HASN'T CAME OUT OF HIS ROOM AND JUST STARES SADLY AT HIS CLOAK."

"But-"

"JUST LET IT GO. WE'LL ALL BE HAPPIER. WE'RE ON TO THAT NIPPONESE LADY AND HER MAGIC BOAT."
 
Doomed Wombat said:
Hey ho my two cents is that my fav bits were the scenes with Elydra @torroar its very interesting seeing both sides of the incomprehension. I wonder how this will affect Elydra's opinion of humans knowing that by elf standards no human gets above young adult standards, and generally peaks when most elves are considered children...I think I've no idea what an elf considers a child or not.
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Thanks! I liked writing them to examine the sheer differences in psychology mixed with similarities.

Doomed Wombat said:
Mmm I just didn't know this lore about her screwing the Astaire as well.
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Ah, yeah. She couldn't abide someone having influence over Malekith in ways she couldn't control. Better to trick the Asur (who she already doesn't like) and ensure that they slaughter an entire army of Asrai, setting back chances for peace rather significantly and thus lowering chances of the two elven groups reconciling in any manner.
 
Freddy and Natasha should take a vacation when this is all over. They deserve it after everything they've been through.

...Not really sure if there's any good vacation spots, though. Most places in Warhammer are a couple leagues away from immediate danger. Maybe Stirland? I've heard Wurtbad is famous for it's hot springs. They could use the relaxation.
 
That was a ride.

So, uh, Bloodglade or Durthu? I'm leaning more towards Bloodglade considering Durthu isn't exactly...welcoming of Frederick but the reward of getting Durthu is so good though.
 
torroar said:
To expand on this:

There are, essentially, 3 tiers of Treeman.

1. You've got your regular ol' Treeman, centuries to a few thousand years old. These are the most common, there are thousands in Athel Loren but not all of them are active at the same time.
2. Then you've got the Treeman Ancient, who is multiple thousands of years old, and is far more powerful. These guys often wield powerful magic, rather than the more physical bashing and smashing that the regular Treemen do.
3. Then there are the Treemen Elder Ancients, the true oldies. There used to be many, and then there were 3. The truth of this is, they all started as your 'basic' treeman, but they survived the First Chaos Invasion of the world, and continued to do so for long afterwards. Thus, being the Elder Ancients. Such is their connection with one another, however, that their powers flowed into each other when they expired. Thus, the more of the Elder Ancients died, the more powerful the survivors grew. A tragic sort of Highlander thing, it seems. But Adanhu expired in the act of cleansing Ariel due to the sheer power of corruption and taint left in Ariel when she was super corrupted by overdrawing on the dark magic taught to her by Morathi and her wounds from Morghur. She learned how to better temper utilization of the former, but was grievously wounded by the latter more recently. Coeddil, well, he fell to Chaos in his brooding and was an enemy even before that terrible fall, slaughtering the elves during a painful winter indeed. And now, only Durthu is left as an ally to the Asrai, and he's not entirely sane either. But nor is he nearly as crazy as Drycha is.




I can't answer that until the update happens. That is when she'll decide what to do.
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Well the main thing is that Durthu would be themendously powerful if he wasn't so damn angry.

Honestly, it's basically impossible but if you could somehow get him to become same again he would become the most powerful person in Warhammer Fantasy besides the chaos gods.

Like literally, the only reason that Durthu can't just wreck everyone is he's so angry he hasn't even realized his true power.

If we did that, it would change everything, but it's of such small probability, especially as a human it's besically impossible.

Probably the only one who could do it is one of the old Everqueens.
 
OriOriOriOri said:
You know what, absolutely fuck these hippie elves!!!

We get called in for a bit of diplomacy so as to keep things calm and it has been one trainwreck after another. We have been ridiculed, dismissed, and given offense by these arrogant knife-ears, the love of our life almost died and some no name minion had to be ordered to help her even after all the effort and sacrifice on our part to help them.

We have these nature abominations passing judgement upon us when they are not worth the kindling to light a fire in a hurricane, a previously mad as squirrels Bitch-Queen Ariel that is still gonna be an insufferable holier-than-though to us mortals even after all we have done for her mark my words.

In essence fuck these arrogant treehuggers. After we finish chopping the treewhore in a thousand pieces I vote to never enter this damned wood again and DEMAND!!!! Some proper compensation from these assholes, I dont care if Ariel or Allariell delivers it but I want something CONCRETE for all that we did here just because I dont like their stupid attitude.

Fuck the Asrai.

EDIT: I am leaning towards Bloodgrail or whatever its stupid name is. Finish it fast and let us get outta here.

EDIT2: @torroar your writing is superb, you are a master storyteller. The fact I am so mad with the current situation is a testament to your skill as a writer. Great job.
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Ah, I see you have been newly introduced to the WHF pastime of hating on the wood elves. There's a reason we say "Fuck the Wood Elves." It's because of shit like this.

Anyway, speaking of the vote, the best option is Bloodglade or Ariel to me. No point in risking Durthu trying to gank us for attempting to get his help since he's a fucking speciest tree that wants to exterminate "fleshlings" and if he can "accidentally" do it in the middle of the battle, it's a bonus.

...God, remind me why we're helping these speciest assholes? Can't we fuck off and let them both exterminate each other?
 
you know, I actually feel a bit of pity for Drycha. She absolutely needs to die of course, but its always rather pitiful to watch someone's absolute belief shatter when they hit reality.


[] Bloodglade - The younger dryad is losing, but she fights on to try and defeat the one that invaded her forests. The immediate path, the most dangerous path. But, if Bloodglade falls, then Drycha escapes.

anyways, I think we should help Bloodglade, it would be the surest way to kill Drycha, since she's the closest to her, and when you are trying to stop someone from getting away that's the most important thing. We'd only need to stall her enough for the heavy assets to catch her.
 
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