Warhammer Fantasy: Divided Loyalties - an Advisor's Quest
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[X] Bring in Ice Witches
Ice Witches on Kislev soil. That's scary as hell and means we'll probably have the magic advantage.
Ice Witches on Kislev soil. That's scary as hell and means we'll probably have the magic advantage.
[ ] Find the Boyar
My main problem with this is that if Boyar Kalashnikov WAS doing something nefarious, we have no autority to really interrogate him and he could just not tell us. As a foreigner, we can't really force to boyar to tell us more than he is willing to, which might be very little.
Would it be wise to bring Boris to interrogate the Boyar or could we borrow his autority (how much autority does Boris have over Boyars anyway)?
My main problem with this is that if Boyar Kalashnikov WAS doing something nefarious, we have no autority to really interrogate him and he could just not tell us. As a foreigner, we can't really force to boyar to tell us more than he is willing to, which might be very little.
Would it be wise to bring Boris to interrogate the Boyar or could we borrow his autority (how much autority does Boris have over Boyars anyway)?
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It seems like the sort of thing the witches should be able to do- freezing a road hard and scraping it level with ice like a glacier would to get hard/flat ground to march over. I bet there's a half-made variant somewhere.
You could scale it down into a thief's friend pretty easily: the way it attaches to irregularities means you've got a spell built to cover up squeaky floors, pits, and pressure plates for a small group to move through a building.
I can see this being done as a chariot, laying the fog down in it's wake as it leads a cavalry charge across a battlefield. You'd probably want to do it on a fighting vehicle given the way it would be used.
It seems like the sort of thing the witches should be able to do- freezing a road hard and scraping it level with ice like a glacier would to get hard/flat ground to march over. I bet there's a half-made variant somewhere.
You could scale it down into a thief's friend pretty easily: the way it attaches to irregularities means you've got a spell built to cover up squeaky floors, pits, and pressure plates for a small group to move through a building.
I can see this being done as a chariot, laying the fog down in it's wake as it leads a cavalry charge across a battlefield. You'd probably want to do it on a fighting vehicle given the way it would be used.
The problem with the Boyar action is that we already know why the Wood Elves are here—to lure him into a trap and kill him.
That's it, that's their objective. Their reasons for wanting to kill him don't have any effect upon our strategy or theirs.
Like, lets say we find out he's a vampire. Or that he destroyed a sacred grove. Or he's aligned with chaos. Or a hundred other things that would mobilise Athel Loren. Having that knowledge changes nothing—we still have to fight (if only because Kislevian honour and the Tsar's bloodlust demands it) and it won't change our strategy, our tactics, our deployment.
Maybe it'll make us empathise with the wood elves—but then again, these intruders have been slaughtering innocent, unrelated humans in their beds. Nothing justifies that.
It's also not a time sensitive matter. We can go up to him after the battle—a battle he's not even going to be present for—and ask him. Hell, we can invite some Ice Witches to help us as well, they'll probably want to know why he was targeted too. And Boris is a sensible chap, he's going to wonder why the elves set a trap for this one specific Boyar. But that can be done after the battle.
Getting more reinforcements for the battle is, however, a time sensitive matter. The day after tomorrow Kislev is going to ride out against the intruders, liberate the besieged villages, and the blood of men and elves will stain the earth, and there is nothing that can be done to stop it. What we can do is tilt the odds heavily in our favour, and whether that's by scouting ahead, or bringing in a second army, or recruiting additional battle wizards, it doesn't matter—those actions will save lives in the here and now. Satisfying our curiosity won't.
That's it, that's their objective. Their reasons for wanting to kill him don't have any effect upon our strategy or theirs.
Like, lets say we find out he's a vampire. Or that he destroyed a sacred grove. Or he's aligned with chaos. Or a hundred other things that would mobilise Athel Loren. Having that knowledge changes nothing—we still have to fight (if only because Kislevian honour and the Tsar's bloodlust demands it) and it won't change our strategy, our tactics, our deployment.
Maybe it'll make us empathise with the wood elves—but then again, these intruders have been slaughtering innocent, unrelated humans in their beds. Nothing justifies that.
It's also not a time sensitive matter. We can go up to him after the battle—a battle he's not even going to be present for—and ask him. Hell, we can invite some Ice Witches to help us as well, they'll probably want to know why he was targeted too. And Boris is a sensible chap, he's going to wonder why the elves set a trap for this one specific Boyar. But that can be done after the battle.
Getting more reinforcements for the battle is, however, a time sensitive matter. The day after tomorrow Kislev is going to ride out against the intruders, liberate the besieged villages, and the blood of men and elves will stain the earth, and there is nothing that can be done to stop it. What we can do is tilt the odds heavily in our favour, and whether that's by scouting ahead, or bringing in a second army, or recruiting additional battle wizards, it doesn't matter—those actions will save lives in the here and now. Satisfying our curiosity won't.
dinomannitro6
all your gender is belong to us
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- The Land Where The Sunflowers Bloom
might be why Boris knew to ask about slipperiness
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- Aotearoa
It'd be a neat trick, the renowned
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That actually sounds like a really interesting spell. Create a carpet of mist that muffles footsteps and puts a barrier between you and the floor, allowing you to cross unimpeded.
"Mathilde's Muted Mist"
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- California
[x] Bring in Ice Witches
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- Aotearoa
Plus a paper on the Cloudy Audible Repetitious Peturbation Elimination Technique.
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WhiteNights
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If it's anything like Kefir, it has pretty strong sour/tangy note, plus the way alcohol alters the taste adds to the strength. Not that kefir has as much alcohol, especially modern commercial kefir.
It would probably also be easier to find in Russian/health food shops for us/Europe posters.
[X] Bring in Ice Witches
[X] Contact Ostermark
[X] Find the Boyar
Mopman43
Mountain-Hermit of Nitpeak
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- Vermont
For what it's worth, the grocery store I worked at stocked it, at it wasn't exactly a specialty place.
I crossed a wire around 1am and confused myself into thinking kvas was the Kislev word for vodka, since vodka isn't mentioned once in Realm of the Ice Queen. But yeah it's plainly referring to kvass, I'll fix that section.
What she knows is that magic is coming into Kislev City from Erengrad and out of it to Praag, and Gross Selon is set up to receive energy from Kislev City that it isn't getting.
WhiteNights
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I tasted it back when I worked at a health food store and it started being trendy as a probiotic drink and it didn't really take in my country. So your mileage may very.
Mopman43
Mountain-Hermit of Nitpeak
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I mean, isn't it referring to vodka?
"kvas: A clear, distilled spirit popular throughout Kislev, renowned for its potency and medicinal properties"
Kvass is supposed to be cloudy, no?
That part sounds exactly like vodka and is probably what I was basing it off, but the extended description sounds much more like kvass, right down to the ingredients, the varieties, and being a treatment for scurvy.