Apologies for such a long wait, we'll return promptly to the Black Ark and not do any more side stuff from now on for the foreseeable future
Why the apologies? This is awesome!

I do hope we will get more insights into karaz a karak in the future
Logan was getting healed by Light and Jade wizards, so it looks like the anti-magic defenses broke with the gate?
Unlikely for the whole of karaz a karak, there are six more walls just like the front one, it likely just extends to the first wall, but i sure hope that is enough.

Is volans with this expedition? Him fighting wurzag would be epic!
 
Why the apologies? This is awesome!

I do hope we will get more insights into karaz a karak in the future

Unlikely for the whole of karaz a karak, there are six more walls just like the front one, it likely just extends to the first wall, but i sure hope that is enough.

Is volans with this expedition? Him fighting wurzag would be epic!
Wurrzag probably isn't here, he headed east.

Volans definitely isn't here:

Battle Wizard Detachments from all 8 Magical Colleges (Includes ALL Battle Wizards alive)
Matriarch Hildegaard of the Jade Order
Patriarch Gehenna of the Golden Order
Patriarch Caelum of the Celestial Order
Patriarch Gunther of the Amethyst Order
Wizard Detachments from all 8 Magical Colleges including Wizard Lords, Magisters, Journeymen, Apprentices
 
wow, universe go boom! and logan Hohenzollern be crazy. just like the rest of his family. Gork or Mort will be feeling that for a while, and I am still chuckling even as I type this post.
 
I mean yeah, but at the same time I don't think G/M actually know that, which means they are just gonna… not want to do that again for a few decades until they forget about it.
"We'z got two feet, (four ya grot), and We'z NOT LETTIN THEM STUNTIES GIT THE BEST OOVAUS!! WE'Z GORK N MORK, WE'Z DA BEST!!!"

Joking, you're probably right but I do feel that Gork and Mork are the sort of gods that absolutely will try again given the opportunity. They're Orks the gate fighting back isn't exactly going to make them less enthusiastic :D

Otherwise I think they're...maybe good? There's a hole, one that can be expanded, but hopefully the Orks will focus on it as a choke point, and they've lost 1 maybe two of their aces that would be good for opening them up.

I'm sure they have more, but once we're down to merely infinite orks,...maybe things will do better? I dunno. Still feels like winning isn't in the cards, but I'm operating under the assumption that enemies in fiction tend to be a lot more brittle than we think we just can't appreciate it while we're facing the behemoth.
 
Targetting enemy leaders is the best way to do it, since Gorbad lost when he threw a large part of his horde into prepared defenses that whittled his army down. Causing a reaction for parts of it to drift off until only his core tribe alongside goblin tribe was left.

So we probably need to just really kill off about a hundred targets or so (Optimistically speaking), and not all of the orcs.
 
Barely awake

Full uninterrupted ritual would have done more damage

Two kicks for two Gods

They got one kick instead

This was the better outcome than no interruption at all

Danger of choices
Most Shaman Ritual
Middle Artillery
Least Warbosses

Also, POV could not / did not see but lead chaos siege bonegrinder blew arm off hitting gate after applying something special that Warbosses looted from Chaos Dwarfs to set up for big kick

Bye see later
 
Do hope those orcs and gobs in Naggaroth and Dark Lands rise up to fight the DE and Chaos Dwarfs

And where did the orc horde get all that Chaos Dwarfs Artillery? what holding did they loot?
 
Across the lands of Ind, of Khuresh, of Cathay, greenskins from the smallest snotling to the largest orc all reacted as one.
No Nippon? I suppose there really are no greenskins, or beastmen, on Nippon then.

I am also concerned about the Forest Goblins, if they froze up while fighting Beastmen, that could have a negative outcome for a Forest Gobiln.

I suppose the lack of Southlands greenskins getting a mention, might imply that the Southlands greenskins are all at Karaz-a-Karak.

Shambling like a tortured god, the bonegrinder did not bother stomping, but instead leaned down with its grotesque assembly of weaponry that had replaced one of its arms and tore the earth and fire apart in a gargantuan sideways scooping motion. In an instant, the fire was thrown off and to the sides to burn fruitlessly out of the way of the greenskins, deep into one of the many pits that had been opened by dwarf-triggered collapses. Logan pretended that he did not hear what sounded like outrage of all things emanating from the daemonic fire as it was plainly and simply removed from the area with one expression of might and crude cunning. It was so swiftly done that Logan was dumbfounded, but not for long. The greenskins seemed outraged, gleeful, too many emotions at once, and yet more and more of them were coming towards the gate, knocking down and trampling tents and those goblins that were not able to get out of the way. A greater amount of chaos, if that was even possible, appeared to have occurred to the south, and it was only the slight healing of his eyes that allowed him to look a miniscule amount more in that direction rather than being blinded once again by sight beyond sight. There, he heard other roaring, crashing, and the clang of metal growing louder and louder. All the while, the pillar of WAAAAAGH!!! energies grew larger and larger.
Yeah, did not see a giant just clearing away the explosion coming. At least the war engines are gone, and some greenskins were killed.

Barely awake

Full uninterrupted ritual would have done more damage

Two kicks for two Gods

They got one kick instead

This was the better outcome than no interruption at all

Danger of choices
Most Shaman Ritual
Middle Artillery
Least Warbosses

Also, POV could not / did not see but lead chaos siege bonegrinder blew arm off hitting gate after applying something special that Warbosses looted from Chaos Dwarfs to set up for big kick

Bye see later
Wow, Logan and Regina targetting the war engines, while Genevieve and Cloudhorn went for the ritual, is a really good outcome then. As succeed or fail the ritual sabotage, the war engines have a chance of getting taken out. Meanwhile the ritual can probably be repeated, but it's going to take a while for a repeat. On the other hand the war engines would see more use, and be a more immediate long term issue if not removed. Had Logan not gone with Regina, Regina possibly would not be ambitous enough to take out as many war engines as possible.

The Karaz-a-Karak defenders now know the greenskins have a ritual that lets them kick down the doors, plus some of what is required for that ritual. They also don't have the enemy war engines to immediately worry about. And the defenders get to learn about a greenskin shaman that was leading the ritual, possibly the Warboss Kull. The defenders also now know the lava rivers were barely a inconvenience for the Whaaagh outside.

Additionally, nice to know Genevieve and Cloudhorn did interrupt the ritual.
 
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If every orc broke their foot. How where they able to fight so well? They don't Regen that fast.
It was 'bond' magic. That's the best way I'm using to explain it. As in the God, Gork or Mork, got hurt, and the God used all the greenskins as a kind of bridge to enter the physical world, or all the greenskins got a side effect of divine interference.

Simple stuff. God possessed greenskins all over planet. Greenskins all over planet not injured, they were frozen in actions though for a brief time, which a canny eyed fighter could take advantage of.
 
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More awake now.

No Nippon? I suppose there really are no greenskins, or beastmen, on Nippon then.

I am also concerned aout the Forest Goblins, if they froze up while fighting Beastmen, that could have a negative outcome for a Forest Gobiln.

I suppose the lack of Southlands greenskins getting a mention, might imply that the Southlands greenskins are all at Karaz-a-Karak.

Edited to include Nippon and Southlands.

If every orc broke their foot. How where they able to track Logan and Regina so fast, and fight so well? They don't Regen that fast.

They didn't track them, they didn't even see them until they had already charged into the tunnel. They expected that they could FINALLY get stuck in properly by going through. They ran into Regina and Logan and a tunnel that only a gobbo could fit through one at a time at the far end.

Adrenaline, rage, and WAAAAGH!! is a hell of a painkiller. Plus they FELT like their foot was broken, not that it necessarily was for all of them. Some shamans now have mush for a foot though.

And greenskins are naturally a lot more durable. They survive stupid shit all the time. It's sorta built into them from spore to spawning. I remember reading on Warhammer Online short story lore for the Choppa class. Orc got a head/eyeball full of wyvern venom, so much so it was swirling around in said eyeball, but kept going along. Another orc got dropped from a massive height, and got annoyed that his vertebrae had gotten all knocked out of place and just sort of grunted+strained and with dumb muscle popped them all back into place and immediately went looking for another fight while surround by the rest of the entirely dead warband.
 
Amazing update as always, torroar. Thanks for the chapter and keep up the good work!

Things are definitely getting spicy, and the fact that the Orcs were able to summon up that kind of power is insane.

Also,
"Cloudhorn went mad! A horrible premonition! She said we had to stop them, stop their casting, at any cost! Well!" She shook...Cloudhorn, apparently, the mad eyes of the squig creature bloodshot and wobbling in their sockets as if ready to outright pop out any any moment, "We tried! And this was the result!" She shook the squig again and waggled her bleeding stump at the same time.
"We were overpowered, almost instantly! Their leader, dancing, simply pointed and laughed, and Cloudhorn," she sputters as the squig-that-was-Cloudhorn manages to bite at her remaining hand hard enough to pierce the skin.

Genevieve: "I kid you not Morty Logan, she turns herself into a pickle squig. A Pickle Rick Squig Cloudhorn! Funniest shit I've ever seen."
 
Nippon is a lie, it's never existed, it's a collective figment of imagination.

Have you ever seen any canon material of actual relevance set on Nippon?

Has anyone written popular works or Quests exploring Nippon?

Checkmate Nippon believers.
You did not read torroar's Nippon sidestories? The ones with Agatha, Genevieve, Johanna, Alisa, and Elspeth von Draken. Shame, you're missing out on a rollercoaster.

Specifically these...
[Canon] Jade, Amethyst, Molten Agate - torroar
[Canon] Bloody Amethyst, Sunlit Agate - torroar
[Canon] Burning Agate, Stained Amethyst - torroar
[Canon] Cloudy Amethyst, Blazing Agate - torroar
[Canon] Shimmering Amethyst, Ablaze Agate, Shadowed Jet - torroar
[Canon] Warm Agate, Warm Amethyst - torroar
[Canon] Black Blood Diamond, Cracked Amethyst - torroar
[Canon] Cracked Amethyst, Morganite Dust, Rising Jet - torroar
[Canon] Fractured Amethyst, Fulminating Agate, Delusive Rubelite, Curious Gold, Falling Jet - torroar
[Canon] Eastern Reconstitutions - torroar
 
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He is probably memeing, just like how there arent any skaven, just beastmen that look like overgrown rats as they carry a minigun and completely decked out in gadgets not too disimilar to engineers.
 
I did find it very fitting to see two people blessed by Ulric and Sigmar fighting together side by side to hold back a green tide to help protect their dwarf allies.

For all that the cults are rivals with each other you can't deny they are also close allies who can come together to fight greater threats.
 
Well we dropped the ball here going for side quests and not going on the critical mission with full strength of the party. I feel we keep understanding the scale and power of the main forces of the waagh.
 
Well we dropped the ball here going for side quests and not going on the critical mission with full strength of the party. I feel we keep understanding the scale and power of the main forces of the waagh.
The rolls weren't amazingly high.

The full party was not possible to send to the greenskin shaman ritual. Regina would split and go on her own to lightly sabotage the war engines, because Logan is not there, Regina cannot do what was done in the update.

Had Logan gone with Genevieve and Cloudhorn, Logan would need high rolls to make a difference. And if Logan failed, which is plausible, and got the same result Genevieve did here in the update (only one foot kicks the door). Regina might be dead or have done nothing substantial to the war engines.
 
Gah damn what the hell are they feedin' these damn Orcs lmfao

Zog me bleedin' foot indeed. Def think we made the right choice cause I heavily question whether Logan could have done much more with the shamans besides get turned into a second squig like poor Cloudhorn. Shame she got so heavily fucked by the shamans too, she was probably the best type of Wizard to have there in terms of potential AOE damage if she could cast Urannon's Thunderbolt or Comet of Casandora (if those were in her wheelhouse and she could pull it off without getting counterspelled into oblivion by the shamans.

Also is Regina some sort of prototype Stormcast Eternal for Sigmar? The description sounds like that

Really glad we got this look into what was happening on the mountain front, cause while the greentide is def a nightmare at least we (the players) know they're still gettin' shit done in some way, and that Freddy's damn kid is still alive for now LOL

The side stuff was peak, and really reminded us how this do be a dynasty quest at the end of the day with a family full of badasses, thanks Torroar!
 
We don't even know when this happened. It might have happened before during the siege before the Ark was forced to retreat. Or maybe it hasn't happened yet but again. we don't know.

Yeah I know that lol
I just figure it was mostly likely decently recent given the siege was shown to have been going on for a hot minute before Logan's excursion, and if it was a bit recent he's probably still alive. Probably.
More fun to assume they're still kickin' than not lol
 
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