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- He/Him
Warhammer Fantasy: Divided Loyalties - an Advisor's Quest
- Thread starter Boney
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- Fantasy Users' Choice!
Voted best in category in the Users' Choice awards.
- Location
- Singapore
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Hmm, even if everyone who did not vote for Ranald was to vote strategically and vote to ground the energies like a Grey Magister, there will only be 94 votes versus the 161 votes for fencing the energy to Ranald. Basically, the quest either needs at least 67 votes going to the Grey Magisters (taking the total number of votes to a whooping 300), everyone who voted for other options to switch to the Grey Magister option, or enough defections from the Ranald camp to change the outcome. I think unless we get another influx of votes in the next four hours (which might still happen), it's safe to say Ranald almost certainly would win.
Hmm, even if everyone who did not vote for Ranald was to vote strategically and vote to ground the energies like a Grey Magister, there will only be 94 votes versus the 161 votes for fencing the energy to Ranald. Basically, the quest either needs at least 67 votes going to the Grey Magisters (taking the total number of votes to a whooping 300), everyone who voted for other options to switch to the Grey Magister option, or enough defections from the Ranald camp to change the outcome. I think unless we get another influx of votes in the next four hours (which might still happen), it's safe to say Ranald almost certainly would win.
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chocolote12
A Penguin Flailing Against The Keyboard Of Life.
Yeah, I'd prefer not to see the d6 result until the actual post has been made. The anticipation, no matter what we roll, won't be pleasant, I don't think.
- Location
- Derna
god yes. I don't think I've ever felt so genuinely sad about a written character's death as I was about Abelhelm's, for example. Certainly not in a quest. Most deaths are an ending, but his wasn't. We deserved to see more of him, Mathilde deserved to see more of him, and we didn't. And he's gone. Most deaths are satisfying, but his was the opposite. It left the whole story, Mathilde and us the voters drifting, liftless. And then we moved on, somewhat, but the 'could have been' is still haunting us even a year and a half of real time later. We want to talk to him, and Omega wants to...uh...but most of all, we want to know what could've been. And we won't. Isn't that amazing? Boney's trapped in a quest factory churning out these amazing updates that we can't read without wondering about the road not taken. A bit more luck on one roll, and...
God, that's the good shit right there. Reading the whole quest in a couple days really fucks you up by the way.
As a solidly 'bleh' writer, reading this quest feels an awful lot like being that Runesmith looking over Kragg's shoulder. The amount of raw talent required to take the dice fucking your future plans and turn it into an incredibly powerful, all too real chain of grief is...damn. And that's just one facet. Christ.
- Location
- Australia
Best case scenario, saying it succeeds and we give all the divine power to Ranald, I just wanna say, it's not really often I see questers give up potential godhood. Like, they usually jump at the opportunity to achieve godlike power, and here we are trying to foist it off on our god.
Its kind of surreal for me.
Its kind of surreal for me.
chocolote12
A Penguin Flailing Against The Keyboard Of Life.
It's kind of an assumption of the thread, but that's not what our vote says at all. It says that we're a worshiper of Ranald, and we're going to do what comes natural to us; steal it. Not pass it on, or fence it or anything. Those are just assumptions.
So you very well may not have seen such a thing after all.
- Location
- some computer lab
- Location
- Around here
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- He/Him
[X] You are a faithful of Ranald, being in the right place at the right time to unbalance the scales. Try to steal the energies.
I actually think this is safest; my feeling is that because the energy is so Cunnin', it's actually more amenable to being stolen than to being grounded.
I actually think this is safest; my feeling is that because the energy is so Cunnin', it's actually more amenable to being stolen than to being grounded.
A single die rolled for all to see fits the moment better, but I'll roll it offsite and link it in the post so that everyone can choose for themselves whether to be forewarned. I trust everyone here to not get too caught up in the moment.
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- He/Him
That works perfectly. thank you.
[X] You are a faithful of Ranald, being in the right place at the right time to unbalance the scales. Try to steal the energies
- Location
- Singapore
Still, 235+ votes in a single update is a feat only a handful of quests in Sufficient velocity and Spacebattles has ever surpassed right? I'm curious about what faster-moving quests you have in mind.
- Location
- Australia
Sage_of_Eyes has definitely gotten there on SB before with their AGG quests. Can't think of more off the top of my head but there has been some very contested votes in those quests.
- Location
- Singapore
Contested as in there was a vocal minority that protested against a vote going a certain way in a landslide? Or contested in the sense the vote was neck to neck throughout the voting period?
Because I do think that if the Grey Wizard and Ragnald options were close, we would be seeing even more discussion than there already has been about this matter, and for that matter, I suspect even more parts of Divided Loyalties reader bases would come out of lurking and vote. It won't surprise me if there are lurking readers that are holding off from voting because the Ragnald vote took an early lead and never really let go of that lead.
- Location
- Australia
The latter mostly, though there has been some very large uncontested votes that got a very large number of voters.
- Location
- Aotearoa
I think that's almost certain. Looking at the 'who is viewing this thread' below, there are 89 members (and 28 guests) in the last 15 minutes or so, and several of them checked at random definitely haven't voted.
- Location
- The Surface Of A Hostile Planet
chocolote12
A Penguin Flailing Against The Keyboard Of Life.
Generally speaking Lurkers come out either because they think they'll matter, or because they want to make a point. So, when at crossroads, and at the peaks of action. Most of the time what other people are voting for is what they want anyways, so they just coast.
I'd say that this definitely counted as a peak.
I'd say that this definitely counted as a peak.
I expected that if we were using the Dwarf belt to deal with the magical energy that we'd have to unbalance the energies and turn it into dhar so that the belt could burn it all.
The result would presumably be a massive conflagration.
The result would presumably be a massive conflagration.
- Location
- Derna
[X] You are a faithful of Ranald, being in the right place at the right time to unbalance the scales. Try to steal the energies.
gotta pump those numbers up I guess. and on a completely unrelated note.
edit: aight there we go, spoiler tags are great and don't suck at all
gotta pump those numbers up I guess. and on a completely unrelated note.
edit: aight there we go, spoiler tags are great and don't suck at all
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It was an odd gift, but the cats got most of it before it started to smell too bad.
- Location
- between Venus and Mars
Low chance of it happening either way, but I kinda want to see what would happen with a 100 roll on this and what a 1 would be. yeah a 1 would probably kill us, but i'm morbidly curious on how spectacularly we would go out. And with a 100... well I'm sure there would be awesomeness involved.