Warhammer Fantasy: A Dynasty of Dynamic Alcoholism

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Gwen could also be assigned as Elydra care.

The latter sacrificed herself for her at the end despite her trauma.

So hopefully that may build another rapport in the future.
 
Cgce said:
I honestly hate this chapter.
The real world is fk enough at the moment,i dont need more in a story i read for a brief escape from the real world.
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Perhaps not come and read this kind if story if you are not in the mindspace for it? You are allowed to stop and put a chapter away for later if you need it. It sounds like a more happy, low stakes story is better for you right now.
 
Cgce said:
I honestly hate this chapter.
The real world is fk enough at the moment,i dont need more in a story i read for a brief escape from the real world.
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Look for Lizardman quests, the wto I know I quite chill.
Also hate is a strong word, you may change your mind in future about it.
Also good practice to reread the 'better' chapter of this story every now and again. I know I do. :)

Dragonofelder said:
Since people seem to like this I'll expand on it
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I mean. Hohenzolerns could be a rouge traders dynasty...
 
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torroar said:
All dead. By the hands of Chaos. Magnus the Pious supposedly brought all the God's with him to strike Chaos down. Well they don't look too 'struck down' to you. Your grip tightens further, the other hand curled into such a tight fist that your blood drips from where nails have dug too deep into flesh. If the most Pious Emperor decides to ignore Ostland so be it. Where was Sigmar's blessing in Wulfenburg to protect the rest of your family, those who were never fighters? Or for those who were in the north? Or Ulrics?
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Doing a brief reread - imagine how different it would have been if Freddy kept a grudge against Magnus.
 
Dragonofelder said:
Doing a brief reread - imagine how different it would have been if Freddy kept a grudge against Magnus.
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Only if this roll in the second turn had been flubbed, perhaps. Instead, Magnus sent a large amount of aid:

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Well. Just…well. The Emperor did not come himself, but he apparently decided to do the next best thing. Apparently, according to the very well-equipped man in front of you, your short and simple letter explaining the issues that Ostland was suffering from reached Magnus. The words chastised and regretful were thrown about in your slight daze, as well as the words 'determined to make up for this neglect'.

The Emperor, Magnus the Pious, has not quite sent you an army. But he has sent you in no uncertain means a heady amount of support.

A full fourth of the newly named and founded Knights Griffon, anointed by Magnus himself, have come to Ostland. Formed this very year, from the most elite and devout of the famous Knights Panther. They, as well as their commander Sir Erwin, have been sent here to assist you in your efforts at the monstrously difficult task that you have set for yourself – the cleansing of the Forest of Shadows. These incredibly pious and skilled men have been sent here to assist your efforts and have been explicitly ordered by the Emperor to subordinate themselves to you. But as the Knights Griffon were formed out of the 100 most devout of the Knights Panther, and their numbers have not yet begun to grow, the Emperor who admittedly fought an entire war, the Great War in fact, he knows that you would need more.

So he sent a detachment of the Imperial Foot. You know, the foot equivalent of the Reiksguard Knights? Three thousand of the finest warriors accessible by the Empire have come, and with them their incredible expertise, experience, and equipment. There is much less fighting in the South against the general threats of the Empire, and so Magnus has sent them here where they can do the most good. Accompanying them are five veteran Warriors Priests of Sigmar, veterans of the Great War Against Chaos. Though the Foot is nominally under the command of their Lieutenant Jaeger, they follow the orders of Ser Erwin overall. As do the others who have come.

Four cannon, and the men trained to use them, have come to offer the power and devastation created by the famous weapons of Nuln. You have never seen one of these put to use yourself, but you have heard the stories. All three of these groups are to be here for some time, their 'objective' to assist you until you should feel you no longer need their services or they are dead. Retreat and return are not an option. It says something that Magnus believes in you that you can manage your apparent task within your lifetime and that of these men. Their loyalty, experience, and skill is unquestionable, and that they arrived and bowed to you during court sends a blatant message.

The Emperor is with Ostland, and her Count. The effect was only intensified when you are presented with an incredible gift for which you have no comparable return to. Magnus the Pious, that devout man who many say is one of the most humble men in history, has heard of your rather simple life up until this point. As such, he has sent you an absolutely expertly made smithing hammer with a lacquered black hilt and entirely featureless head. Humble. Yet effective. The message belted out by Sir Erwin when he presents the entire force to Wulfenburg and yourself in an entirely unplanned parade/celebration/greetings that the Emperor regrets being unable to be there during your wedding to Natasha and a generally circular set of phrases and sentences that were later clarified by said wife to be the Emperor explicitly giving approval to your marriage and to Natasha in particular. You didn't quite get it at the time, but the nobles of Ostland did. As did the Witch Hunters who turned out to see just what was going on.

The only negative thing, because the world is just like that, is that you didn't get everything that Magnus apparently sent you. There was even supposed to be an entire knightly order that was to shift their Primary Chapter House from Altdorf to Ostland. Unfortunately the Knights of the Everlasting Light somehow disappeared from the main body of the group on the way here. While alarming, that order of knights is also well known for their practically unnatural bad luck.

Reward: Marriage Approved by the Emperor Magnus the Pious. 25 Knights Griffon, 3000 Imperial Foot, 5 Veteran Warrior Priests of Sigmar, Four Cannon. Peasant Opinion Raised to 7/10. Noble Opinion Raised To 6/10.
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Frederick very much is someone who appreciates and remembers those who've helped him.
 
torroar said:
(Not Worth The Trouble?: 40-Extreme Violence(5)+Reasonable(5)+Pragmatist(5)+Trident Intimidation Factor(15)=60/100)
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40+5+5+5+15...
That would be 70?

Was not expecting to see that...

Edit: turns out I read it wrong,... sorry

Lerac said:
Frederick very much is someone who appreciates and remembers those who've helped him.
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Rolled: 96+20=116 would do that...

Actually what happend to them, again? did they go home after the vampire war?
 
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Wow, not to beat a dead horse but those were some really bad rolls. Did a he hand off the Runefang or is that just lost unless he escapes and retrieves it?
 
torroar said:
That Kaufmann lady, she talked about it to Molatok,
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After watcheye's quote, I felt like re-reading this chapter and came upon this. I don't want to "side-track" too much but I wonder if this was some sort of destabilizing attemp by Yellow Fang. Not a deliberate plan but more like seeing a chance at sowing discord between two cults and painting Gunther/Ulricans in a bad light to GT.

Man, I'm so glad Evangeline drop kicked Kaufmann. Hope she gets to do the same to Steinroth.
 
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Niksol said:
Watcheye, you changed a minus to a pluss from the quote.
40-5+5+5+15=60
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schucks, really?, well, now I feel silly...

NutMaster said:
Man, I'm so glad Evangeline drop kicked Kaufmann. Hope she gets to do the same to Steinroth.
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one less problem to bit us in the rear, if Empire was not on fire enough...
still, one less fire to worry about...
Actually, imagine if scaven attacked elfs 'visiting' Marienburg, elfs got pissy about it and straight up razed Under-Marienburg and somehow discovered that Yellow Fang goated Steinroth into being a problem...
one can dream
 
watcheye456 said:
schucks, really?, well, now I feel silly...
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I also find it interesting that the biggest contributing factor to Ava's decision there is "Trident intimidation". It really shows how scary the Northern Trident is to the other electors. A league of three provinces closer tied together than most in imperial history, two of them well known military powerhouses, with Nordland joining them in that reputation when their battle against the drucii gets known, with strong economic and family ties as well as powerful foreign allies. No wonder the other electors are afraid!
 
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watcheye456 said:
schucks, really?, well, now I feel silly...
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You've made a silly of me. Now I have to refix it :(

Nah no worries, it happens.

MercurialEmpress said:
Wow, not to beat a dead horse but those were some really bad rolls. Did a he hand off the Runefang or is that just lost unless he escapes and retrieves it?
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At this point I'm rather more like a pile of ground meat than a dead horse on the matter of rolls, so...yeah. Bad luck. It happens.

As to your question, no, he was wielding it right up until the end, and was transferred in a Lore of Fire mixed with Dhar prison, whereupon he was stripped before being taken to the chamber. However I must note that, for all that the two of them have significantly diverged in a few specific ways, you can expect that Alyssa and Hultressa are in fact still sisters and share certain similarities. Or, to approach it from another direction, the sorceresses did that to him and then immediately fucked off, as the Ark is in somewhat dire straits in multiple regards, and Alyssa is rather more focused immediately on Frederick himself than his equipment. While Frederick was blinded for the most part of this period, it is more than likely that actually destroying such potent magical equipment would have required considerable consistent effort on the part of anyone, especially the Light of Summer, Brain Wounder, Brokdrungni, and the Frozen Promise. Not least of which because two of them are dwarf ultra masterworks, and the latter literally was built upon the premise of regenerating itself.

Instead of trying to comprehend, replicate, or destroy his wargear, Alyssa is torturing Frederick.

Instead of trying to stabilize the Ark's sociopolitical and religious structure, Alyssa is torturing Frederick.

Instead of performing stringently necessary restabilization and repair and resequencing of the remaining Dhar Anchorstones which keep the Ark floating and moving and shielded from magic, Alyssa is torturing Frederick.

So that's kinda what's going on after Natasha blew up her farms, Hultressa blew up another, another individual did another thing which blew up one of the Dhar Anchorstone complexes, and Alyssa's moment of ascension in prestige and power at the Auction was ruined, which caused the shell to almost completely crack off of the nut. Then she captured the closest thing to her sister that she could at the moment, learned that her secret effort to sabotage and screw over her sister to steal her daughter which Alyssa considers her creation by all rights failed, and is now focusing on said closest remaining thing. Which, in this case, is Frederick.

Warpath Natasha does not have Brain Wounder on hand, no, but they've got a fully equipped Roland and Jaqueline, a reactivated and freed Handmaiden, the Asrai heroine Kerillian, and a larger than otherwise would be number of Asur nobility/noble retinue who were recently captured and are all highly trained, two very angry elite Whitewing warriors, a big gaggle of very fanatical Bretonnian peasants that have just been rescued by none other than the erstwhile once Ducal noble of Mousillon, and a rather powerful vampiress.

While the Ark is undergoing a significant civil war between non-Cult of Pleasure Druchii, the Cult of Pleasure, and the Cult of Pleasure vs. other Cult of Pleasure members.
 
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Not to mention a very angy Vampire who is more than willing to shove her halberd where the Morsilib wont shine.
 
You gotta be careful with that, man. I know you've got a skaven profile picture, but Thanquol showed that too much snorting of substances makes the skaven snout just about dissolve entirely.
 
torroar said:
Instead of trying to comprehend, replicate, or destroy his wargear, Alyssa is torturing Frederick.

Instead of trying to stabilize the Ark's sociopolitical and religious structure, Alyssa is torturing Frederick.

Instead of performing stringently necessary restabilization and repair and resequencing of the remaining Dhar Anchorstones which keep the Ark floating and moving and shielded from magic, Alyssa is torturing Frederick.
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Don't worry guys.

/turns and hits the copium.

I'm confident in Frederick's history of rolls against female elves (see: Hultressa, Gwendolyn, Eldyra, Sunweaver, Dawnstone, Aurelion, Alarielle, Ariel, etc). Pretty soon, in between having Frederick ingest questionable fluids and carving him up like a turkey, I'm positive Frederick also becomes Alyssa's BFF.

Soon, Alyssa's rants of that time Hultressa had the audacity to wear the same skimpy bikini as her at Druchii prom will go to "You would not believe the day I had". All will go according to keikaku. All to the horror of Eldyra, who watches with the sort of sinking feeling like her high school bully fell in love with her weird, but well meaning uncle.
 
Oh yeah there's this absolutely hideous description of him in one of the later Gotrek and Felix books, like, waaaaaay after Nuln and all that. For like, years and years, he's constantly mentioned as taking a hit of his precious, precious warp snuff. Like, as much as, more even, than I've written Frederick drinking now and again mid-scene. He snorts whole boxes of the stuff on the regular, and I think it's kind of implied that as it is literally warpstone based he's actually getting partially mutated and steadily empowered by it because he's way more magically powerful as the series goes on.

Anyway, Felix describes him, IIRC, as this monstrous raggedy skaven who's actually gone down to the bone on his nose from his constant warp snuff snorting. Like, fully peeled away all skin, tissue, muscle, to expose solely bone there. Just two boney slits there that he, presumably, still presses his warp snuff up to so he can snort, no proper nostrils remaining at all.
 
torroar said:
While the Ark is undergoing a significant civil war between non-Cult of Pleasure Druchii, the Cult of Pleasure, and the Cult of Pleasure vs. other Cult of Pleasure members.
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Plus Cult of Mantlan, which if I recall (correcly this time!) did not show up to auction. and well seeing how Alissia essentialy set the ark on fire and buggered of may actually RALLY proper resistence...

chances are signinficant that the ark arrival will turn into a beaching event...

As for ou friendly Vampiress, she can fly. That's big.

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Aleadrex said:
Pretty soon, in between having Frederick ingest questionable fluids and carving him up like a turkey, I'm positive Frederick also becomes Alyssa's BFF.
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if you thing Eldyra is having it rough, do keep in mind all those poor wall hanger that have to watch it unfold. the befudlement will mess with them something fearce....
 
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