- Location
- France
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Warhammer Fantasy: Divided Loyalties - an Advisor's Quest
- Thread starter Boney
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- Location
- Australia
What about the trips we made to attack the skaven? He didn't really give off anti-stealth vibes then. Is it simply because he's confident he's at a stage he doesn't need it?
- Location
- Aotearoa
The outpost. Remember your stealth failure at the outpost!
- Location
- USA
He really wasn't very stealthy back then. Aside from following Mathilde when she's tracing out a torturous route around patrols/outposts, his idea of stealth is "punch everyone unconscious before they can raise the alarm." Which, I must admit, can work, for a given definition of stealth...
Ericwinter
Definitely not a Skaven Infiltrator
- Location
- America
To be fair, Johann does have Intrigue 20. He's not bad when he wants to be, it's just… he doesn't usually want to.
Looking at the character sheets though, I'm kinda surprised to see that Egrimm only has 19 diplomacy. Would have thought a guy with his reputation would be somewhere in the mid-20s, at least., even if he's not evil here.
Looking at the character sheets though, I'm kinda surprised to see that Egrimm only has 19 diplomacy. Would have thought a guy with his reputation would be somewhere in the mid-20s, at least., even if he's not evil here.
Malfean stealth is a perfectly valid school of stealth. It just encourages you to be really fucking good if you want to succeed.
- Location
- Australia
Belegar did the Expedition with Stewardship 16. 19 is very high.
NuclearConsensus
Herald of the Thorned One
- Location
- the Philippines
I gave this some thought last night before I went to sleep. Didn't get very far, because some of the LMs are a bit unknown to me, but the ones I did decide on were:
Algard: a random innocuous book from his Screaming Towers usually correlating to the identity or affiliation of their latest victim.
Melkoth: title unimportant, but usually has a visible publication date somewhere to tease those trying to figure out his age again. Has occasionally been sighted with a book that wouldn't have been published yet.
Wilhelmine: ledgers of the Grey College usually, which is how the public likes it. Everyone trembles once she's sighted with ledgers from the House of Goellner, which is interpreted as her being on the warpath but is actually just her being nostalgic.
Ericwinter
Definitely not a Skaven Infiltrator
- Location
- America
It's high, yes, but Egrimm supposedly had the charm to corrupt most of a college in canon. I would have expected at least heroic levels of diplomacy.
Though I suppose he could have ahead time to grow before then, he's just barely a Lord Magister by this point. And maybe focused on different things if he isn't evil.
- Location
- on the way to the fire.
- Pronouns
- He
Kurtis Krammovitch: a banned(to the public) book about the practices of the Hedgefolks, sparking arguments about whatever he is reading it to better infiltrating them or whatever he is secretly a Hedgefolk infiltrating the Grey College.
Lady Magister Grey: The anatomy book on Hobgoblins bodies she published, with the understanding that if she have to appear in public them she might as well fuck with whatever latest Hobogoblin assassin had been sent after her.
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- Aotearoa
As a Close Personal Friend of the Empress such fashion foibles naturally must become daring, rather than gauche.
deathofrats0808
Don’t think of it as dying; just as leaving early
- Location
- Earth
Not really. His canon rise to power came through guile, murder and his truly brilliant grasp of magic. He didn't need to be super diplomatic, he painted himself as a hero, the only one who could save the Light Order from the dire straits it was in.
Also, he didn't corrupt any members of the College. No one left with him when he escaped Altdorf, save Baudros. He was ultimately a liar, not a charmer.
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- USA
"No, no, no, if wizard chic is killing off my purchase selection one more time..." -- Overheard one day in Karag Nar, believed to be coming from the Wizard's Tower
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- Aotearoa
You saying Wizard Chic is going to make a comeback among the (eventual) kids of the Undumgi? Just as Eike is trying to outfit her private laboratory, where she can squirrel personal projects away from Mathilde's endless, earnest meddling helpful oversight?
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Mopman43
Mountain-Hermit of Nitpeak
- Location
- Vermont
Admittedly, with the resources Eike will have in the EIC, I would not bet on her being as stymied by Wizard Chic.
She'd be at the level were she could have a private commission from a glassblower instead of just trying to buy what's in stock.
- Location
- USA
Well, for this particular instance, I was simply picturing...
Head Librarian Mathilde: "Where are all the books?"
EIC Clerk: "Ma'am, I'm sorry, but apparently the titles you wanted are all the rage with the nobility youths now, so there's a massive waiting list."
Head Librarian Mathilde: "..."
Head Librarian Mathilde: "Where are all the books?"
EIC Clerk: "Ma'am, I'm sorry, but apparently the titles you wanted are all the rage with the nobility youths now, so there's a massive waiting list."
Head Librarian Mathilde: "..."
- Location
- Aotearoa
Yes, though I think I recall that also was a blocked option for us, in that their order books were already jammed full of commissions.
...Though I guess not many could or would pay Eonir prices.
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- Earth
Probably depends on which canon source you use. Realms of Sorcery p88 describes him corrupting many members of the Colleges, both before and after his escape.
So as someone that thinks its time to bite the bullet and get at least one of the damaged Battle magics in the near future (if we survive)
Because way stone is turning into mini-arc quest and doesn't look to be stoping if all the clues we are seeing are any tell.
what do people think?
The Penumbral Pendulum or Pit of Shades?
Pit is stronger, but Pendulum might be a bit, bit, easier to learn and cast.
Because way stone is turning into mini-arc quest and doesn't look to be stoping if all the clues we are seeing are any tell.
what do people think?
The Penumbral Pendulum or Pit of Shades?
Pit is stronger, but Pendulum might be a bit, bit, easier to learn and cast.
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- Location
- The Surface Of A Hostile Planet
I much prefer the Pendulum for Mathilde - she's all about edge cases and the edge of a sword, so it's significantly more thematically congruent.
Plus there's my long-term plan to make Mathilde a sick-ass anime character:
Wiadi
Uncompromising Radical Leftist
- Location
- Something Clever
- Pronouns
- She/Her
How d'you figure? We're most (or all depending on whose list you use) of the way through our initial slate of planned recruitments, after which I imagine focus will shift substantially toward the actual research side of things.
- Location
- Earth
I guess that depends on whether the research leans more on the theoretical or practical side, and how much additional favor trading we need to pull to recruit more factions/keep existing factions from jumping ship due to tensions from bad diplo rolls.
How much time we spend holed up in a lab or conference room as opposed to adventuring in the field is still up in the air.
How much time we spend holed up in a lab or conference room as opposed to adventuring in the field is still up in the air.
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- Aotearoa
Given that learning existing Battlemagics has high (crit?) roll requirements (and the initial miscast chance) that could require more than one action to complete, I think I'd rather spend the... three? actions (per RoW, with the refinement step I think) on inventing a sweet new Misty-Cloudy Battlemagic that can leverage our Staff of Mistery.
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