The mere fact that he considers going to gym a "punishment for the body" and refuses to take breaks when injured strongly indicates that he does not and that what he does is not healthy.
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@torroar, As a fellow gym goer, just how many hours a day do you go to the Gym? For me when I was under doctor ordered gym therepy. I went 2 to 3 hours a day for 6 months. 1 hour swimming, 1 hour on the equipment doing a routine, and 1 hour walking or using the bike. Any more than that is not healthy for a body, It needs rest.
Imperious
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That does make me wonder, shouldn't Roland be in his seventies by now? Even if he's still alive, he might soon be too old to complete the Quest due to his body weakening from age, if he isn't already.
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I'd prefer to not to give any more detail than I have, personally. I'll just not mention it anymore, I guess. The primary reasoning behind speaking of it at all was to make sure people knew I wouldn't be able to respond in overly comprehensive manner for the most part/make long edits/etc. during said period. It was a bit fun with the garbled bits when I was doing cardio, but I'll just stay silent during the workout fully.
Well, hopefully. One of my main weaknesses is a compulsion to answer posts/positions/misconceptions/etc. when I peruse the thread.
Well, hopefully. One of my main weaknesses is a compulsion to answer posts/positions/misconceptions/etc. when I peruse the thread.
I'm rootin for you fellow gym bro!
Pace your sets, ironclad the diet, and let those gainz shine!
That will not stop us from worrying about your health. If anything it will make it worse.
Imperious
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Found it:
So having been born at 2280, Roland should be 64 as of this turn, as well as Questing for 46 years. He's been questing for over 70% of the time he's been alive so far.
So having been born at 2280, Roland should be 64 as of this turn, as well as Questing for 46 years. He's been questing for over 70% of the time he's been alive so far.
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It's like he's playing EverQuest.
Imperious
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Maybe he's just not worthy? We saw earlier that he wasn't capable of confronting his son even when duty demanded it, a tendency that would definitely stop him from completing The Quest. He later managed to stand up to Charles, but maybe there's some other thing that's holding him back from completing the Quest. Roland is a great fighter, but that's not enough to get the Grail by itself. It could be he still doesn't have the right personality for it.
Edit: Looking back at his last interlude the Fey Enchantress mentioned that she's waiting for the day he comes back home along with giving him her favor. Something is probably still holding him back, but even the Lady's closest representative expects him to complete it.
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If roland,at 64 years old is still able to do the quest it may mean that the lady had some plans with him , like a fixer or something and it give him enough strenght to continue the quest . Maybe she wants something better then a mere grail knight,maybe an avatar or a champion or a choosen.
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Every Grail Knight has their own Quest.
Given that Roland would, upon succeeding, return to Bretonnia and asume the lordship over Mousillon, his Quest will not only test his strength, piety and fortitude, proving his worthiness to be a Grail Knight, but also whether an entire Dukedom, cursed and rotten, may return to the light of the Lady. This means that any and all taint from his family must be expunged, before Mousillon can be healed. Otherwise who is to say that his family won't fall from grace again?
This is redemption for him and his people in equal measure. Either a new beginning or failure.
Given that Roland would, upon succeeding, return to Bretonnia and asume the lordship over Mousillon, his Quest will not only test his strength, piety and fortitude, proving his worthiness to be a Grail Knight, but also whether an entire Dukedom, cursed and rotten, may return to the light of the Lady. This means that any and all taint from his family must be expunged, before Mousillon can be healed. Otherwise who is to say that his family won't fall from grace again?
This is redemption for him and his people in equal measure. Either a new beginning or failure.
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Imperious
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Though its been fourteen years in game since we had his last interlude in which he beat his fallen to Chaos son and met the Enchantress. One wonders what has he been doing in those fourteen years since. Charles survived that fight with Roland. Perhaps they've had other fights since.
Or perhaps he may finally die fighting evil, far from and forgotten from home, only remembered by the eclectic sorts who travelled with him.
No deity in the Old World is all knowing or infallible, and even if Roland hadn't simply slipped through the cracks, there's every chance that the Lady is simply… busy, as wildly unfair as that is. Only has so many favours, and too many knights to give them too.
Or maybe she simply thinks that it's better if Roland never comes home.
I think it'll either be a heroic, yet tragic, death, or a happy ending.. of sorts, though. I can't imagine old age or sickness getting to him first, not without a fight.
No deity in the Old World is all knowing or infallible, and even if Roland hadn't simply slipped through the cracks, there's every chance that the Lady is simply… busy, as wildly unfair as that is. Only has so many favours, and too many knights to give them too.
Or maybe she simply thinks that it's better if Roland never comes home.
I think it'll either be a heroic, yet tragic, death, or a happy ending.. of sorts, though. I can't imagine old age or sickness getting to him first, not without a fight.
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Imperious
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The thing is in his last interlude the Fey Enchantress explicitly says that she expects Roland to come back home. The Enchantress is the Lady's highest ranking representative, to the point that she gets to essentially appoint and dismiss Bretonnia's Grail Knight kings at will. If she says that Roland is expected to successfully complete the Quest then that strongly suggests that so does the Lady, and that the enchantress decided to give Roland her own favor suggests that he wasn't beyond the Lady's notice.
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Well, may the dice gods bless Roland in his quest.
The man got some hard odds though, specially with his son now a full convert of Slannesh. Granted, he might get some karmic justice by being betrayed by the witch. (Granted, it will be extra karmic if he turns around and betray her instead, knowing her modus operandi).
Really, I hope Roland does succeed, and we get the interlude the moment he does.
The man got some hard odds though, specially with his son now a full convert of Slannesh. Granted, he might get some karmic justice by being betrayed by the witch. (Granted, it will be extra karmic if he turns around and betray her instead, knowing her modus operandi).
Really, I hope Roland does succeed, and we get the interlude the moment he does.
Imperious
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Also the last test of any successful Questing Knight is to fight and beat the Green Knight in one on one before drinking from the Grail. We've never had the Green Knight show up in Quest, and I'd be curious to see Torroar's take on him.
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I'm a little scared I admit. Here's hoping things go well.
Think I got the math stuff fixed now, thanks so much! And a final delivery went out to Averland, so a final payment was received.
Imperious
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Well...
There's certainly a great many ways to get creative with this.
Somewhat like the myth the Warhammer Green Knight also tests the aspiring Grail Knight at his last stretch. Personally I think it fits with the theme of The Quest if the fight with the Green Knight is more then just a combat apptitude fight, particularly since it's very unlikely that any mortal knight can beat the lore Green Knight, so the GK needs to judge that the knight before him is worthy enough of the Grail for the Green Knight to throw the fight.
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but is his heart still attached to the rest of the body? 'cause I'm sure some necrarchs (and skaven) love to play at Dr Frankeinstein and sew together abominations from unassorted body parts
Or it could even be that he's mutated into a Chaos spawn (or any sort of mutant), but his original heart is still present and working and will come back to Bretonnia as foretold by the Fay Enchantress only to get killed by another knight.
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Imperious
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Makes me wonder if the Enchantress' statement was an elaborate troll. In Barony of the damned, a supplemental RPG book focused on Mousillon, there's a story about a knight named Mallobaude. Mallobaude was a magnificent knight, and was so eager to serve that upon being promoted from a Knight Errant to a Knight of the Realm, he proceeded to swear the Questing Vow. Mallobaude proceeded to quest for many years accomplishing many great deeds be it rooting out a Chaos cult, stopping the advance of Goblin tribes or slaying monsters.
Yet despite all these great accomplishments as a Questing Knight, he had never found the Grail.
And so Mallobaude's journies eventually brought him to a Chapel where a Damsel of the Lady resided. Mallobaude, grim and angry railed his frustration at the Damsel, believing that the Lady had forsaken him to by having not graced him with the Grail for his great deeds and that he had seemingly been destined to devote his life to the Quest with nothing to show for it.
The Damsel proceeded to answer him as she did many other Questing Knights who came to her with same. The Quest is not done to gain recognition from the Lady or a sip from the Grail but to test a knight whether he can reach the point when he understands he may never see the Grail, that point of frustration and despair, and still carry on.
Or tl;dr according to the Damsel a successful Questing Knight cannot be motivated to do his duty due to an expectation of reward, but rather be willing to do his duty even if he expects he will receive nothing for it.
So maybe the Enchantress' gift to Roland was meant to hype him up about how he was on the verge of completing The Quest, only for him to spend the following decade with nothing to show for it, to see whether he can then come to the realization that he's okay with that
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Hmmmm, well you took the result I gave when I included the -1500 for Averland Deliveries to account for the net income including the Averland Deliveries.
18261 (Marlin's Treasury Reserve)-1500 (Averland Deliveries no longer exist, so we shouldn't get the +1500 benefit from net income this turn?) -1000 [House Weiss Ongoing Trade War] -100 cost per turn due to Titan Cannon Logistics -150 due to Vapor Tank maintenance fee from third Vapor Tank = 15511 Treasury Reserve
It's an easy fix for Treasury Reserve. 15511+1500= 17011 Treasury Reserve
Don't forget to add -100 cost per turn due to Titan Cannon Logistics, -150 due to Vapor Tank maintenance fee from third Vapor Tank, and -1000 from House Weiss Ongoing Trade War, to expenses.
Vapor Tank Maintenance: -300 Gold Crowns Per Turn --> Vapor Tank Maintenance: -450 Gold Crowns Per Turn
Titan Cannon Logistics: -100 Gold Crowns Per Turn --> Titan Cannon Logistics: -200 Gold Crowns Per Turn
Trading Income: 2,085 Gold Crowns Per Year [Suffering -500 Per Turn From Geisen Trade War] [Suffering -750 Per Turn From Rutger Trade War) [Suffering -1,000 Per Turn From Kislev ????] --> Trading Income: 1,085 Gold Crowns Per Year [Suffering -500 Per Turn From Geisen Trade War] [Suffering -750 Per Turn From Rutger Trade War) [Suffering -1,000 Per Turn From Kislev ????] [Suffering -1000 Per Turn From Weiss Trade War]
Total Expenditures: 10,306 Gold Crowns --> Total Expenditures: 11,556 Gold Crowns
Net Income: 16,619 Gold Crowns Per Year --> Net Income: 15,369 Gold Crowns Per Year
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And if you want to skip ahead to the end of the calculations for removing the +1500 to Net Income from Averland deliveries
If torroar removes -1500 due to Averland Deliveries
Averland Deliveries: 1,500 Gold Crowns Per Year. --> Averland Deliveries: 0 Gold Crowns Per Year. [Contract Ended]
Total Income: 26,925 Gold Crowns Per Year --> Total Income: 25,425 Gold Crowns Per Year
Total Expenditures: 11,556 Gold Crowns -
Net Income: 15,369 Gold Crowns Per Year --> Net Income: 13,869 Gold Crowns Per Year
Finally, "Reward: Militia further scrutinized by professional troops, but also better trained. Improvements to Militia Capabilities/Discipline." I don't see this on the front page. I see Anna's Hollowburst bullet made it on the upgrade sheet, but somehow the militia improvement didn't make it onto the "military/economy/politics" sheet.
There was a Sons of Manann increase? From what I can tell the "Sons of Manann" Knightly Order has been unchanged for a while. I don't see any change from the recent EM archival sheets.
Oh, and Magister Thistle is not present as existing on the Front Page.
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That's because of his Grey Wizard magic, obviously. Very sneaky.