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Warhammer Fantasy: Divided Loyalties - an Advisor's Quest

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Codex said:
I'd like to think that the Druchii's version of "overly vulgar" is some fairly tame stuff like handholding and blushing and cute dates with a couple sharing the same milkshake. Absolutely depraved.
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Probably yeah, having a genuine emotional connection probably counts as very strange indeed for them, even more so if you add things like self-sacrifice or just putting the wishes of another before your own. To the Druchi it is the Caldai who are the gods looked at in askance after all. That said they are elves so at the end of the day do admit that those emotions have some sort of place in the even soul... the general oppinion is likely that anyone who indulges in that sort of thing is 'weak' so they hide it away.

That thought just made me feel a bit guilty that we handed that dark elf over to the ambassador, just the tinniest of pangs.
 
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Aule said:
I see. An effectively instant travel spell would still be very neat, but we probably simply don't have time to spend on developing it. If it was in any way easy it would have been created long ago by one High Elf or another.

For the sake of argument, what about "Mother of Learning"-style Simulacrum spell? A weakened, temporary, soulless magical construct created in your image that nevertheless possesses a fully functional copy of your mind.
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Boney said:
If Mathilde calls for reinforcements, Regimand will probably be there within the minute and the Taalites will start arriving soon after that.




Anything that can think and doesn't have a soul is free real estate for Daemons.
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We might be able to master our shadow arcane mark. It already acts independently of us. The question is if we consider that a good thing.
 
Jyn Ryvia said:
More important, has she been tempted to read any of them. And if so which ones?

Tho I guess the dark elf's are the only ones she can possibly read.
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Though she can speak Mootish and Khazalid, she can only read Reikspiel. And she's picked up a few during the winter months and is generally very judgemental about the impractical decisions made by the characters within.
 
Boney said:
Though she can speak Mootish and Khazalid, she can only read Reikspiel. And she's picked up a few during the winter months and is generally very judgemental about the impractical decisions made by the characters within.
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I hope Mathilde set her straight on that one. I mean a sensible romance protagonist would ruin the fun, it would be like reading about the years a dragon spent curled up in their lair sleeping. I am sure even Cython would agree on that.... we should get the their opinion on romance. :V
 
Boney said:
Though she can speak Mootish and Khazalid, she can only read Reikspiel. And she's picked up a few during the winter months and is generally very judgemental about the impractical decisions made by the characters within.
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Kind of like watching Brokeback Mountain and
Shaking your head dissaprovingly at Jake Gyllenhaal's character bottoming on a mountaintop raw with no lube with no prep on a baked beans diet
Very irresponsible. You can't have fun like that.
 
[X] Kill: Dragonflask

Guys he's a magic user he will probably detect any spell casting and this way is more dragon than than the others.
 
Boney said:
Though she can speak Mootish and Khazalid, she can only read Reikspiel. And she's picked up a few during the winter months and is generally very judgemental about the impractical decisions made by the characters within.
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There's absolutely nothing impractical about pulling on wall sconces until you find a secret door.

It worked for Mathilde, after all.

Admittedly, the secret door was unrelated to the sconces, but the process worked!
 
Boney said:
Fiendishly Complex - Magic 5 required to learn, Magic 7 to cast reliably. (CN 20+):
Breathe Fire: Incredible fire damage, cone AOE.
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veekie said:
And contains battle magic grade Aqshy.
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Minor nitpick, it's not battle magic. And he won't have the time to dispel it, we're just activating an enchanted object. What convinced me to utilise the sword is that it will deactivate any protective spell and magical objects seared by Alberich.
 
K von Carstein said:
Minor nitpick, it's not battle magic. And he won't have the time to dispel it, we're just activating an enchanted object. What convinced me to utilise the sword is that it will deactivate any protective spell and magical objects seared by Alberich.
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The base version is not Battle Magic, but the enchantment was overtuned so high to the point that it's "battle magic grade". A breath fire with the level of destruction that the Flask provides can no longer count as lower tier than Battle Magic. We did spend something like 20 favor, when the average BM spell (lower difficulty) is somewhere around 10 to 12 favor. There is a limit to how much favor you can throw to boost the power of an enchantment until you get diminishing returns, but Boney said that is less of a factor when asking the Bright College to make more fire.
 
veekie said:
...you know the dragonflask is probably the most vulnerable to dispelling of the lot right?

And contains battle magic grade Aqshy.
Compared with the blankety blank sword
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We are going to cast the flask directly from stealth, so it is unlikely that Alberich will be able to dispel it in time even with Slaaneshian reflexes.

... Granted, that still leaves it several magnitudes easier to dispel than Greatsword To The Face, the trick powerful enough to work even against Khorne's Anti-Magic.
 
Resonant said:
Also @Boney Will Mathilde be informing Heidi about this Alberich event after its resolved?
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This might still be unhealthy for Alric, no?

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Boney said:
the last handful of hung-over Knight and Dwarves
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Should be plural.

By the way, did Boney ever share what delivery mechanism the Urmskaladrak had for the Slayers? I think he did but I can't remember what it was.

Nerdasaurus Rex said:
On the topic of gay hobbits, whist I think interpreting Sam and Frodo as in love with each other is a valid interpretation of the text, it is very much an interpretation shaped by our modern perspective, and I don't think it's the take Tolkien was trying for when he wrote them.

Rather, I think their relationship is an idealised and romanticised version of the master-servant relationship. They are the only people that they can show vulnerability to each other—Frodo can't show vulnerability to his peers because he is the landed gentry and has to put up a front of quiet English dignity, and Sam is a working class bloke who is never expected to display emotions at all. But they are around each other constantly, as their relationship as master and servant push them into a position of emotional intimacy and vulnerability. They are free to be who they are around each other, because their roles in society free them from each others judgement, and from this emotional intimacy blooms trust, understanding... and love.

But Tolkien leaves the type of love undefined—in modern english, love is a very broad term with multiple meanings. I love my parents, I love my friends, I love myself, I love this quest. Despite using the same word, the way I actually feel is slightly different. The ancient greeks had different words for this—Agape and Eros and Storge and so on, categorising love based on the relationship of the people involved.

So, do Frodo and Sam love each other? Yes, I think it's clear that they do. Are they in love, and romantically entangled? That, I feel, is up to the reader.
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Well, Tolkien was a devout Catholic and none of the couples in his work ever have premarital sex iirc.
 
Rafin said:
By the way, did Boney ever share what delivery mechanism the Urmskaladrak had for the Slayers? I think he did but I can't remember what it was.
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In the grim darkness of the far future, fam, I got you.
Ekzentric Lohner said:
@BoneyM Since all three of the inventor, the likely location of the invention, and the ammunition are no longer available to appear in the story, can you tell us what Gotrek's solution for delivering Slayers from the mothership to fights would have been?
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Boney said:
Ziplines.
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SuperSonicSound said:
Given the level of favour we spent I don't believe the base spell would have been breath fire unless the enchanter had one hell of a mastery for it.
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No, it was.
Boney said:
After a great deal of internal back-and-forth, you've decided to burn most of your accumulated favour with the Colleges by commissioning as mighty an enchantment as you possibly can from the Bright College: an item emulating the spell Breathe Fire, only much more so. Enchantments aren't usually scalable like that, but one notable exception is when asking Aqshy to make fire.
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Emulating suggests it's a much more powerful spell that's tailoring the form to be like breath fire, as opposed to an upscaled breath fire. Granted that's essentially splitting hairs.
 
SuperSonicSound said:
Our purchase was the following.

[*] [COLLEGE] Aqshy item emulating Dragon Breath (20 Favor).

Given the level of favour we spent I don't believe the base spell would have been breath fire unless the enchanter had one hell of a mastery for it.
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There is no Battle Magic Fire Breath spell. The Battle Magic Spells in 8th Edition are Kindleflame (Lore Attribute), Fireball (Signature Spell), Cascading Fire Cloak, Flaming Sword of Rhuin, The Burning Head, Piercing Bolts of Burning, Fulminating Flame Cage, and Flame Storm. In 6th and 7th Edition Piercing Bolts was Fiery Blast, Fulminating Flame Cage was instead Conflagration of Doom, and Flame Storm was instead Wall of Fire. The Storm of Magic Cataclysm Spells from 8E are Fireball Barrage, Withering Heat and Magma Storm.

None of these Battle Magic spells are fire breath, much less even conal in shape. Almost all the fire attack spells are projectiles and vortexes.
 
From what I recall @Boney said that for the most part it is not posibile to scale non-battle magic to battle magic level, but there is an exception for just asking a fire mage to put more fire into something because it is so in tune with the wind.
 
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