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Warhammer Fantasy: Divided Loyalties - an Advisor's Quest

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Codex said:
I think Nerdasaurus is referring to the turbulence of Chaos in general, not just this particular city. There's been an underlying assumption/theory that taking that action will let us discover that the next Everchosen is coming in the near future, allowing us to prepare for it. I'm personally not comfortable with the kind of metagamey nature to it, but I guess I can sort of kind of maybe justify Mathilde being worried about Chaos being on the move, since Regimand outright said as much.
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Seems like schmuck bait to me.
Ok, in the unlikely scenario this works, we learned that a new ever chosen.
Now what?
Drop everything and go hunt them down?
 
Codex said:
I mentioned that Mathilde's Windsight is known to be exceptional in the Colleges, or at least it should be known because there were rumors that Panoramia had heard despite being so far away from the Colleges. I imagine Mathilde can use that as leverage to convince Alric. Whether he'd accept or not I don't know, but imo it increases the chances of him accepting from "negligble" to "possible".
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Boney said:
The titles she can claim are 'probably the best Magesight amongst mortal Wizards of the Old World' and 'most well-liked living human by non-traditional Dwarves', and those took time and effort and giving up other avenues of empowerment to attain, and are all the sweeter for it.
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storryeater said:
She is also probably the human closer to being corrupted by the Green gods, but I dunno if she wants to claim that title, no matter how brutally cunning she gets.
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I remember Boney making a post once where he did a snippet of someone going up to Algard to tell him that Mathilde's been subverted by Gork and Mork and that guy being laughed out of the office at how absurd the idea was. It was fun. Couldn't find it though.
 
Wasn't one of the potential outcomes for absorbing the waaagh! energy Mathilde becoming more orky? (bigger, more muscles, greener) It might be a little more believable then.
 
Jreengus said:
Wasn't one of the potential outcomes for absorbing the waaagh! energy Mathilde becoming more orky? (bigger, more muscles, greener) It might be a little more believable then.
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It was, but I'm pretty sure it lost horribly. That was one of the extremely rare opportunities where a person could become Orky, and it had to be done against Gork and Mork's will. They don't corrupt. If you want to become an Ork, you have to steal the Waaagh from them.
 
Jreengus said:
Wasn't one of the potential outcomes for absorbing the waaagh! energy Mathilde becoming more orky? (bigger, more muscles, greener) It might be a little more believable then.
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Yes, if we had chosen the orc option... which I think was one of the few votes to get less traction than using necromancy. I think there were low single digit votes, though not as small as 'I am just human'. Clearly SV does not want to play an orc, but we want to play a normal human even less. :V
 
Codex said:
I remember Boney making a post once where he did a snippet of someone going up to Algard to tell him that Mathilde's been subverted by Gork and Mork and that guy being laughed out of the office at how absurd the idea was. It was fun. Couldn't find it though.
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Here you go. First our very own @Alliterate posted a very funny omake:
Alliterate said:
Dame Weber Presents: Experience of the Waaagh!
A side lecture hall in the Grey College.

You resist the urge to slam your head on the lectern. "No... not at all like that. I mean, it's just... ugh, the [Roit Proppa Scrap] wants you."

Frustrated at your inability- again- to communicate the alien nature of Waaagh! energies even in person, you reach out for Ulgu to illustrate the link. The dozing heads around the lecture hall swing round and lock on you. Ulgu fizzes in your grasp, boisterously reaching out across the hall as you try to demonstrate what you mean. "See, it's as if the [Waaagh!] energy links the greenskins, conferring common purpose" you continue, as the haze of Ulgu forms an energetic cloud over the heads of the assembled College members. "It's the essential nature of greenskins, distilled, then reinforced and amplified by the, well, the [C'mon have a go if yoo think yoor 'ard enuf] of it all." The audience is agreeing, enthusiastically- they seem to be grasping the concept with the help of the roiling energy, so you continue. "As I was saying, the [thas roit Cunnin to be so Brutal, it is] builds up and needs a [Roit Proppa Scrap] to... to..."

You're interrupted from your explanation by the unexpected sight of dozens of crusty old Wizards boiling out of the lecture theatre, waving staffs and fortunately still scabbarded [choppas] as they head off to show [them glowy arrogant gits] in the Light College what's for.

(Mathilde has invented a new spell, a form of Shadow Waaagh! What will you call it?)
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And then a few months later, people were worried in the thread that if we wrote the paper about countering the Waaagh, it would show insights we could only have gotten from being tied to the greenskin gods, and we would fall under suspicion, and then Boney gave us this gem:
Boney said:
"Magister Patriarch, I fear that one of our own has fallen under the sway of dark powers."

"Oh dear. Tzeentch?"

"No, it's-"

"Slaanesh?"

"None of those-"

"Oh, Vampires?"

"No, Mork!"

"..."

"..."

"Get out of my office."
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Followed by:
Boney said:
Later:

"Grey Wizards are meant for foightin' and lootin'!" shouts Magister Weber, running past with an enormous sword in one hand and fistfuls of valuables in the other.
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I wasn't trying to imply it was popular, I wasn't around and haven't read thread discussion from back then. Just that it would be kinda obvious if Hathilde had successfully corrupted herself.

E: The typo stays. It is too appropriate.
 
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Mathilde is already shredded. I struggle to think that she would grow more muscular without it being impractical as hell. Becoming taller and greener though, that's a problem.

Well, I imagine Panoramia wouldn't mind the green, but the height is definitely the most noticable part. Something must be off to have Mathilde be tall.
 
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You know I like to think that the contents of trade chatter finds its way into Mathilde's head at times like this, like she will be thinking of what do do next about the investigation and boom: 'But what if I was more orc-y that one time?' :V
 
DragonParadox said:
You know I like to think that the contents of trade chatter finds its way into Mathilde's head at times like this, like she will be thinking of what do do next about the investigation and boom: 'But what if I was more orc-y that one time?' :V
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I try not to think about it:
Shovern said:
It might be a little something like...
This:



And to think, that's the Highly redacted version.
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(I like to think that I am the part of Mathilde's brain that is fussy about notes, obsessed with B Ö Ö K, and gets passive-aggressive about other wizards' research methodologies.)
 
[X] Plan Close the Noose

Midkey bummed not to get a chance at PLUNDER, but this does everything I want to do at this point.
 
picklepikkl said:
I try not to think about it:

(I like to think that I am the part of Mathilde's brain that is fussy about notes, obsessed with B Ö Ö K, and gets passive-aggressive about other wizards' research methodologies.)
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I find it amusing how much the thread changes and evolves with time. I was barely posting at the time that post was made, but I saw nearly every message in the thread at the time.

And yet for all the changes the thread goes through over time as people go in and out, the energy remains the same. It's great.
 
Boney said:
Yes, if the current target of the ritual was cooperative you could triangulate a location to within a few blocks in a week.
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This is all I need to choose plan
[X] Plan: Find him

This is the best plan to find and neutralize the guy. It should not be discarded for political gain. As for Alric himself, he can't exactly refuse when we might find the guy anyway and get him NO credit. (Also unless I'm missing something, stopping us from triangulating a chaos entity would be a breach of the articles. On phone though, so the chance I missed something is high)
 
racnor said:
This is the best plan to find and neutralize the guy. It should not be discarded for political gain. As for Alric himself, he can't exactly refuse when we might find the guy anyway and get him NO credit. (Also unless I'm missing something, stopping us from triangulating a chaos entity would be a breach of the articles. On phone though, so the chance I missed something is high)
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Personally if I thought it would work I would go for it. I think the odds are very low though. Alric has already made it clear he doesn't want anyone else in on this, shown by the location he chose to begin with and not recruiting anyone since. So he's going to be heavily against any inclusion.

He also already has weeks of establishing trust with them to convince them against leaving. Which is really not a hard argument to make. "Do you want to stay in this heavily warded, personally prepped, holy spa, with me. Or do you want to wander around the city where these people hope to get you closer to the guy killing your family?"

I also don't think any argument to the articles could be made here, considering he has a very solid plan in place to deal with things. Even aside from that unilaterally recruiting someone as a demon dowsing rod I don't think would generally fly under them.
 
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Thomasfoolery said:
Personally if I thought it would work I would go for it. I think the odds are very low though. Alric has already made it clear he doesn't want anyone else in on this, shown by the location he chose to begin with and not recruiting anyone since. So he's going to be heavily against any inclusion.

He also already has weeks of establishing trust with them to convince them against leaving. Which is really not a hard argument to make. "Do you want to stay in this heavily warded, personally prepped, holy spa, with me. Or do you want to wander around the city where these people hope to get you closer to the guy killing your family?"
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To be honest i think that if we played our hands right we might be able to swing it, especially if we give them answers that Alric does not have, but I do not see why we would want to. At the end of the day we have no attachment in the random noble that is the next target. If they get killed we will have weeks to follow the thread of the ritual the hard way until the next murder.

So why force a confrontation with another Lord Magister, one who is desperate and feels backed into a corner?
 
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