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Warhammer Fantasy: Divided Loyalties - an Advisor's Quest

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Since you're answering questions Boney, I thought I'd ask. Is it possible for an action inquiring about the results on the investigation into the Boyar to our social options, not right away, but in the future?
 
Codex said:
@Boney I'm fully expecting a "no" as an answer to this question, but I still have to ask. Partly out of amusement and partly out of practicality.

Does Mathilde know how valuable Manticore dung is? If so, does she know the process of safely handling it for collection? I doubt Tzar Vladimir cares much about the dung so we probably wouldn't have to ask him for it. Then again, we don't know where the Manticore's territory is, so chances are it's a complete wash. I still feel the need to ask.
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She would be vaguely aware of its value but not of how to handle it, and getting it out of the Tzar would be tricky. The natural answer to 'can I have the poop?' is '...why???' and at that point Mathilde has to choose between lying to a Tzar for profit or telling him that it's worth its weight in gold.

NuclearConsensus said:
Since you're answering questions Boney, I thought I'd ask. Is it possible for an action inquiring about the results on the investigation into the Boyar to our social options, not right away, but in the future?
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It probably will be.
 
Boney said:
She would be vaguely aware of its value but not of how to handle it, and getting it out of the Tzar would be tricky. The natural answer to 'can I have the poop?' is '...why???' and at that point Mathilde has to choose between lying to a Tzar for profit or telling him that it's worth its weight in gold.
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Couldn't she just produce her slightly out of date Gong Farmer license? :V
 
Boney said:
I think this is supposed to be a cute reference to Ratatoskr, the squirrel of the world-tree Yggdrasil in Norse mythology, but they were unable to help themselves and made it stupid and grimdark.
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I don't think the tone was grimdark. It was three armies vs a giant squirrel. That's the kind of thing you get a glimpse of in a cutaway in a comedic cartoon.

Boney said:
Dicerolls.
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fictionfan said:
I suggest against leaving the favor unclaimed. They aren't dwarfs. Favors expire.
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WFRP 4e, page 198, in the Do Me a Favour! section:
The powerful often find it is far more useful to have various individuals owing them Favours than merely soliciting money in return for their help. What's more, it can be an investment: help a student today, call in a favour from a successful lawyer years later.
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Giving someone a favour that you cash in when they're higher ranked in order to get bigger returns is normal when it comes to favour-trading between the powerful. It straight up says this is how it works in the update in regards to Boris, so if that's what you're worried about, there's nothing to fear unless you think Mathilde is wrong or Boney is lying.
 
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Boney said:
She would be vaguely aware of its value but not of how to handle it, and getting it out of the Tzar would be tricky. The natural answer to 'can I have the poop?' is '...why???' and at that point Mathilde has to choose between lying to a Tzar for profit or telling him that it's worth its weight in gold.
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Ah, understandable. Honestly, this is a more in-depth/more hopeful reply than I was expecting. If we choose anything else other than the Manticore (which is likely) I feel tempted to just tell the Tzar the dung is useful just so that it doesn't go to waste. If we can't have it, at least someone should put it to use. Reuse, Reduce, Recycle and all that.
 
Boney said:
She would be vaguely aware of its value but not of how to handle it, and getting it out of the Tzar would be tricky. The natural answer to 'can I have the poop?' is '...why???' and at that point Mathilde has to choose between lying to a Tzar for profit or telling him that it's worth its weight in gold.
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Turning this on its head, would it be worth telling the Tzar how much it is worth? Not expecting a favor or anything from it, but every bit of goodwill helps. I mean depending on how used his taxidermist is to dealing with Manticores he might not know and there went a valuable resource.

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Uhhh...is there even any Manticore poop on the scene? Did it crap itself when Boris killed it or something? Or are we suggesting that the dung be extracted from inside the Manticore?
...or are we sending search parties into the Forest of Shadows with the understanding that since the Manticore has been here for a while it probably left some dung?
 
Codex said:
Ah, understandable. Honestly, this is a more in-depth/more hopeful reply than I was expecting. If we choose anything else other than the Manticore (which is likely) I feel tempted to just tell the Tzar the dung is useful just so that it doesn't go to waste. If we can't have it, at least someone should put it to use. Reuse, Reduce, Recycle and all that.
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DragonParadox said:
Turning this on its head, would it be worth telling the Tzar how much it is worth? Not expecting a favor or anything from it, but every bit of goodwill helps. I mean depending on how used his taxidermist is to dealing with Manticores he might not know and there went a valuable resource.
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His taxidermist would be aware of it, and probably wouldn't be stupid enough to try to embezzle it directly from the Tzar. Nobody wants to be executed for stealing poop.
 
mathymancer said:
Uhhh...is there even any Manticore poop on the scene? Did it crap itself when Boris killed it or something? Or are we suggesting that the dung be extracted from inside the Manticore?
...or are we sending search parties into the Forest of Shadows with the understanding that since the Manticore has been here for a while it probably left some dung?
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If it was full before the fight, then it's probably got some inside it. If not, maybe Kislev can track the steps to its territory to collect the dung.

I cannot stress to you how valuable the dung is. A single dose of Manticore Spoor poison is worth 65 Imperial Gold Crowns as a base value, which can go up or down depending on the market. I can't calculate how much of the poison can be produced by how much volume of dung, but it's probably a LOT. More importantly than the price, it's a very strong poison that can cause instant death if you fail a Willpower and Toughness test.
 
Codex said:
If it was full before the fight, then it's probably got some inside it. If not, maybe Kislev can track the steps to its territory to collect the dung.

I cannot stress to you how valuable the dung is. A single dose of Manticore Spoor poison is worth 65 Imperial Gold Crowns as a base value, which can go up or down depending on the market. I can't calculate how much of the poison can be produced by how much volume of dung, but it's probably a LOT. More importantly than the price, it's a very strong poison that can cause instant death if you fail a Willpower and Toughness test.
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You wouldn't even have to cut it open to get at it. Fun fact about dead bodies, when something dies it's bowls loosen and as a result any poop it has comes out.
 
We do not actually know how the biology of a Chaos Monster works. It might be that you do need to cut open its triply reinforced bowels and burn away the magic smoke that turns you purple before you can get at the stuff. I imagine that taxidermist is quite well paid.
 
Ericwinter said:
Lord Magisters are fucking terrifying.
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And smug. Mostly smug.
Ericwinter said:
Mathilde: goes out to investigate rumors of disturbances in order to recruit a couple of Orders into the project.

Also Mathilde: sets off a city wide manhunt and murders a Chaos champion while making friends with a Cult, then instigates a mass mobilization of Kislevite forces to murder a tree spirit army and murders the most dangerous of said tree spirits personally.

Parranoth and Mira: :o:o
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Belegar: Wait, you didn't know?

Also, a perfect summary of the woodsmen in this fight: You may crush peasants in feudal Bretonnia, but in Soviet Novgorod Kislev, peasants crush you.
 
Sinsystems said:
So many pieces of media gloss over how most people shit themselves when they die.
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Most pieces of media also gloss over periods. Not everything is detailed in works of fiction. GRRM had an obsession with gross stuff sometimes. I vividly remember the infamous Danaerys defecation scene from the books. Haunts me.

I certainly don't expect Boney to start writing about Mathilde's periods and how she deals with them.
 
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