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[X] Plan Close the Noose
Warhammer Fantasy: Divided Loyalties - an Advisor's Quest
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We're siccing the Witch Hunters on the search and it'd be vastly more effective to actually have a set of mutations to check for rather than nab random people for random mutations
Given this and a few other comments regarding travel time, I'm beginning to think that you took the ambiguous distances of K8P during the murderbowl as a dire personal failing and have since overcompensated.
... He's gonna hide as a prostitute isn't he? At least if he's going for slaanesh. QUICK! CHECK THE WHORE HOUSES!
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You're definitely making a joke and I hate to be a buzzkill, but we don't use the w word to refer to prostitutes. It's somewhat derogotary.
Personally prostitution being associated with Slaanesh is a bit of a pet peeve of mine.
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As much as memetic Slaanesh is associated with sex, it's important to remember that canon Slaanesh is desire and excess too, and can be present in an artist's perfectionism or the feasting of a glutton.
If anything, they're lower probability of being Slaanesh associated, since the "for money" part of "sex for money" means they probably aren't doing it just to excessively indulge in their own pleasure
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Oh, I get it but it sounds better when shouted then "QUICK! CHECK THE HOUSES OF PLEASURES!" and I honestly don't associate prostitutes themselves with slaanesh but if I were a slaaneshi cultists that needed to hide somewhere and I was in the walking, talking and dancing stereotype that is WHF I would hide as a prostitute.
Edit: I just remembered the word bordello...
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I wonder if we should use the Humblebrag for this....
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Or brothel. Through the years there's been dozens of different variations on the names for places of pleasure.
Anyways, I actually think it'd be stupid to hide as a prostitute. That's one of the first placces where you'd be found out as a Slaaneshi. Prostitutes keep themselves safe and they protect each other (assuming it's a healthy environment) and Slaanesh is the biggest obstacle to a prostitute's job. If they find out one of them is worshipping Slaanesh, chances are they band together to get them busted, and people will jump to help them because prostitution is highly profitable and has historically been an excellent way to maintain public order and happiness. It's one of the least safe spaces for Slaaneshi people.
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If you mean the coin we can't change it mid turn. Kind of a shame we didn't set it to protector though, I know some people argued for it and in hindsight it would have been a good choice if we'd known then what we'd be doing here.
I was favouring Plan Ambush (Mira + manhunt prep), to clear the way with Mira to bring in our minions and ask her to send as many of her own as she can spare, but the above argument convinced me otherwise by pointing out how that wouldn't actually impact the logistics of the manhunt all that much.
[X] Plan Close the Noose
-[X] Scour the city: The Longshanks
-[X] Research: Alberich's form
Obligatory alternative:
[X] Plan Hedging Alric's bets
-[X] Ready forces: Longshanks
--[X] Send Regimand to ready forces in Talagaad
-[X] Attune with Ulgu to prepare to Melkor the whole spa.
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...how do peasants placate Beastmen? That just seems... weird. How does a tree placate a tornado?
They don't for the most part, but they do try. Many villages leave out everything from backed goods to beer out for the beastmen, some go as far as paying proper tribute to them and that is the start of many rural cults.
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Cookies and milk.
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[X] Plan Searching in the Shadows
[X] Plan Erimm on Blasting Duty
A direct search seems smart to me, we know where to look for him and we have professional monster hunters on call.
I don't think there's any point in readying people around the spa if we miss our monster. Alric is supposed to be one of the most experienced wizards alive, and he's had months to lock that place down. I'm worried we'd only cause confusion because we never made contact with Alric or the Unfahingers.
[X] Plan Erimm on Blasting Duty
A direct search seems smart to me, we know where to look for him and we have professional monster hunters on call.
I don't think there's any point in readying people around the spa if we miss our monster. Alric is supposed to be one of the most experienced wizards alive, and he's had months to lock that place down. I'm worried we'd only cause confusion because we never made contact with Alric or the Unfahingers.
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Mentioned in a previous post by Boney here.
Brothels seem more likely Nurgle's territory.
At least, if abusive
Most beastmen tribes wouldn't mind overlooking a village if its a source of luxuries they can't make themselves.
Especially if they used to be a villager
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Beastmen have a level of intelligence. "Raid the villages that don't pay tribute" is a simple calculation that they can make. If all the villages are paying tribute, then "raid the village that pays the smallest tribute". If the only village nearby is paying tribute, then they'd likely still raid that village, but it would be lower priority compared to villages that don't keep tribute. Beastmen are also obsessed with Gaves:
"Throughout the lands of the Empire and northwards, it is not uncommon for healthy Human parents to produce a Mutant child. Some try to conceal their baby's deformities, but most feel such shame that they give them up to the forests and rivers, abandoning them to die from hunger or exposure. The Beastmen are keen for the whimpers of these lost children. Such foundlings are always adopted and reared with the rest of the herd, since the Beastmen regard these infants as gifts from their Gods.
These Mutants are called Gaves or Gave Children. As they grow, they often become Gors, Ungors, or even Brays, but the rest of the herd do not apply the same stigma that they do others of their kind since they are holy (or, rather, unholy) gifts, and any Gave can rise high in Beastman society" Page 102 Tome of Corruption
I imagine if a village regularly gives Gave children, Beastmen are going to tell each other that they should probably not raid the village. Why do so when they give so many precious gifts?
"Throughout the lands of the Empire and northwards, it is not uncommon for healthy Human parents to produce a Mutant child. Some try to conceal their baby's deformities, but most feel such shame that they give them up to the forests and rivers, abandoning them to die from hunger or exposure. The Beastmen are keen for the whimpers of these lost children. Such foundlings are always adopted and reared with the rest of the herd, since the Beastmen regard these infants as gifts from their Gods.
These Mutants are called Gaves or Gave Children. As they grow, they often become Gors, Ungors, or even Brays, but the rest of the herd do not apply the same stigma that they do others of their kind since they are holy (or, rather, unholy) gifts, and any Gave can rise high in Beastman society" Page 102 Tome of Corruption
I imagine if a village regularly gives Gave children, Beastmen are going to tell each other that they should probably not raid the village. Why do so when they give so many precious gifts?
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Also, given that prostitutes perform their job without much clothing, any mutation would be extremely obvious.
What if that's, like, a thing? >_>
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I know you are the expert here and most certainly compared to me, but I read the passage you quoted as implying that the beastmen don't realize that the gave come from the village.
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Beastmen are sentient, thinking and while usually malevolent, lot of that is taught. Considering lot of those that probably wander forests of the Empire are skinchangers that likely came from those selfsame villages instead of actually born and bred beastmen the idea is not that far fetched, and thats even if you do subscribe to the theory of natural beastmen being irrevocably evil.
There is also, in at least one source material, a secret Beastmen fiefdom in the west, in Bretonnia, that operates mostly on similar principle to Norscan tribes (EDIT: NVM, i remember reading about it but i can't seem to find the source anymore, so probably just my imagination), with slaves and free living humans paying tributes instead of just running on pure destruction that Beastmen are said to embody.
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