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Warhammer Fantasy: Divided Loyalties - an Advisor's Quest

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taovkool said:
I am still very, very uncomfortable in having this Tzeentchian bastard in our council. What? There's a possibility that he isn't? No way. The bastard was way too smug to not be a Tzeentchian bastard.

Can we kill him BoneyM? Pretty please?
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If smugness is an ironclad sign of being a Tzeentchian bastard, I've got some bad news for you about Mathilde... :V
 
BoneyM said:
You can do anything you can convince a majority of the thread to vote for.
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That does include Necromancy, right?


taovkool said:
I am still very, very uncomfortable in having this Tzeentchian bastard in our council. What? There's a possibility that he isn't? No way. The bastard was way too smug to not be a Tzeentchian bastard.

Can we kill him BoneyM? Pretty please?
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I'd support your campaign to kill Egrimm if you'd agree to vote to raise his corpse as a zombie after that. :grin2:
 
Excellent. I'm sad we didn't get to work on AV this turn, but I had hypothesized that doing both immersion actions would help us pick up the Diplomacy skill, and I am very pleased to be right. That was an important gain for our mission here. Hopefully we pick up Yen-Eltharin soon, too.
BoneyM said:
We're hear to work with the Eonir
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hear -> here
BoneyM said:
to inculcate its Apprentices against populism
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inculcate -> inoculate (inculcate is to instill an attitude, inoculate would be to prevent an attitude forming)
 
Speaking of Johann, more and more I'm suspecting that he has a fundamental lack of flexibility in how he works. Not just with his magic, but with his approach to everything.

He struggles to learn magic outside a narrow remit. He struggles to learn languages (and one suspects learn in general, considering his comments on normal research) in formal environments. When he got stuck on the problem of the Ratling gun he got completely stonewalled without Mathilde's help, and his solutions to dealing with it on the battlefield were just applications of tools he already knew rather than anything innovative. His approach to combat is simple, basic, and straightforward to the extreme.

Now, this isn't strictly a criticism of Johann; he's very good at what he does, I'm glad to have him with us, and it's not like being relatively inflexible is a crippling issue. But it is something I've noticed and felt worth noting.
 
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BoneyM said:
usually while bare from the waist up for ease of comparison. You're never fully able to determine whether it would be more awkward for you to look or to not look, but at least the process is making some strides towards better relations between humans and Elves, if the looks from passers-by are anything to judge by.
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You're pandering to my interests, BoneyM, and I love it. I hope you enjoy writing these restrained nods to the thread's thirsty crowd as much as we enjoy reading them.

By the same token, I really like the few times you've thrown in phrasing to ping our meta-paranoia about Engrimm. It could get so annoying if done often, but I really like the rare reference to keep us guessing. But at this stage, we really have nothing but meta knowledge to indicate he might be corrupted.

Man, I'm loving these glimpses into elf culture. Very interesting to show some of the troubles and struggles people face even in what has to be one of the best, if not the best quality of life, city in the Old World.
 
NSMS said:
Speaking of Johann, more and more I'm suspecting that he has a fundamental lack of flexibility in how he works. Not just with his magic, but with his approach to everything.

He struggles to learn magic outside a narrow remit. He struggles to learn languages (and one suspects learn in general, considering his comments on normal research) in formal environments. When he got stuck on the problem of the Ratling gun he got completely stonewalled without Mathilde's help, and his solutions to dealing with it on the battlefield were just applications of tools he already knew rather than anything innovative. His approach to combat is simple, basic, and straightforward to the extreme.

Now, this isn't strictly a criticism of Johann; he's very good at what he does, I'm glad to have him with us, and it's not like being relatively inflexible is a crippling issue. But it is something I've noticed and felt worth noting.
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I'm getting a very strong feeling that Johann would have gotten on great with Abelhelm. They're both individuals who prefer to just go out and do it in jobs that require far more twisty thinking than they really want to engage in.

Neither is stupid, but equally neither is suited to the sort of thinking people expect of them.
 
That was fun. A lot of Mathilde being Mathilde. Poor Egrimm, he doesn't know what he's in for.

Good to speak with Stanisława, I reckon she's going to be a useful contact in the future.

Also interesting how the two elven societies sit on the extremes of freedom vs security. No wonder the Rain Warden wanted guns, they would be a great equaliser for the forestborn.
 
BoneyM said:
It doesn't take long before you to grow frustrated of this approach, and you find a new avenue to investigate when you find yourself drawn into an odeon by a gamine Elf singing longingly of the freedom of the treetops, and over a mug of spiced wine you quiz them on the subject of their song, and they admit sheepishly that they're more longing for one specific person enjoying the freedom of the treetops, namely a member of their 'kithband'.
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I didn't understand what "gamine" meant, but after looking it up, and seeing the use of they as their pronouns, I'm assuming this musician is nonbinary?

If so, I love it. Did we get their name?
 
NSMS said:
Speaking of Johann, more and more I'm suspecting that he has a fundamental lack of flexibility in how he works. Not just with his magic, but with his approach to everything.

He struggles to learn magic outside a narrow remit. He struggles to learn languages (and one suspects learn in general, considering his comments on normal research) in formal environments. When he got stuck on the problem of the Ratling gun he got completely stonewalled without Mathilde's help, and his solutions to dealing with it on the battlefield were just applications of tools he already knew rather than anything innovative. His approach to combat is simple, basic, and straightforward to the extreme.

Now, this isn't strictly a criticism of Johann; he's very good at what he does, I'm glad to have him with us, and it's not like being relatively inflexible is a crippling issue. But it is something I've noticed and felt worth noting.
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Less inflexible and more taught in a very specific way to adhere to a very specific mindset that actually actively cripples his strong points and encourages the use of skills he is weak at. Kind of like how that one Visceral Witch Sight light journeyman was tbh. He had noone teach him the way he could do it really well.
 
O my god. We're in ancient Greece.
Parallels are everywhere. Tor Lithanel is a polis (bonus points for being a colony!). Cityborn are Citizens, Forestborn are metics. And if the Tor Lithanel army sally is anything but a hoplite phalanx stomping overachieving neighbours I will eat my hat. (note: I actually do not own any hats).

The only thing that would make it MORE greek, was if Boney had actually shown us the wrestling spar between Johann and Kadoh. But I guess, it would be too obvious.
 
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BoneyM said:
Johann had previously insisted he had no head for languages, but you suspect he had no head for learning languages in a formal setting, which is rather vindicated by his blooming grasp of the vocabulary without ever picking up a book on the subject for longer than required to look up a word or two.
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Johann to a T. We've long suspected that he learns by doing, noting by how quickly he picked up on his windsight.

Also, the Cityborn and the Forestborn... I'm reminded of Rome, and how difficult it was to become part of the Civitas
 
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