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Warhammer Fantasy: Divided Loyalties - an Advisor's Quest

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Well, there is the remnants of Alberich's cult that the Stirlander Perpetual didn't manage to completely wipe out. And Slaanesh has two big reasons to hate us now.
 
Projectile said:
Since everyone seems to be properly paranoid and prudently pessimistic, it's on me to jinx us.

Drycha is dead. She was blasted by a blinding amount of Aqshy in the middle of her escape spell, which she failed to complete. Being interrupted mid-cast is itself dangerous. If her soul survived the destruction of her body, a miscast, and the obscene concentration of magical fire, she was still surrounded by a hostile forest spirit.

...there's no possible way she could have survived that!

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I hope her interrupted-in-the-middle teleportation spell does not put her in uncertain state between here and there and between simply dying and getting away unscathed, condemning her to eternity of bleeding her life essence away and not being able to die at the same time.
 
Chopak said:
I hope her interrupted-in-the-middle teleportation spell does not put her in uncertain state between here and there and between simply dying and getting away unscathed, condemning her to eternity of bleeding her life essence away and not being able to die at the same time.
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Eh, that only really happened the first time because it was caught between multiple teleportations all intersecting each other in very weird ways. More likely, her soul would have been scattered in a bunch of tiny pieces all over the Warp, or at least the Forest of Shadows, if the spell did anything at all.

Though, talking about the failed spell, I'll note that this is the second time Mathilde has shattered a spell by the simple expedience of throwing a giant mass of magic at it. It seems to be a pretty effective method.
 
Chopak said:
I hope her interrupted-in-the-middle teleportation spell does not put her in uncertain state between here and there and between simply dying and getting away unscathed, condemning her to eternity of bleeding her life essence away and not being able to die at the same time.
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Not without us being able to write a paper about it anyway.
 
GrimTheMad said:
Mathilde's initial experiences with counterspelling were via cannonball to the face. It is a time honored tradition, at this point.
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Wasn't she kind of miffed at how simple it was when in one engagement in Sylvania, the army encountered a cursed/tainted water source and the solution to it was to just lob rocks at the place it was emerging from to fix it?

In a way, Dragonflask was also counterspell, just not in the conventional sense.
 
Ah, yet another example of Mathilde being the most unorthodox Grey Wizard ever. Who needs finesse, cunning, and skill when you can just blow people to smithereens? :V
 
MiracleGrow said:
I may have been playing to much Elden Ring. But with uglu focus on borders and such. Wouldn't it be easy to make some crazy spell where you swing your sword and it sends out a blade of uglu at people. It's fucking dumb but would look cool and that's what matters :V
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Could probably find a way to cast penumbral pendulum using a blade as a focus, in a swinging motion.
That said, when I say 'find a way' I really mean spend a bunch of AP torturing the spell into cooperation entirely for style.
 
BurnNote said:
Hey now, getting that many canons together was a great feat of diplomacy. Remember Anton's Law: It doesn't matter how wimpy you are if you have beefy friends.
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Isn't he supposed to be kinda ripped though? I remember seeing a probable picture of him at some point that was pretty ripped. He's just had this really good habit of critting.

Back on the topic of dispelling though, I really want to see Mathilde get into a magic duel with a necromancer or vampire or something at some point. Counting Learning she's basically got a +60 to messing with Necromancy. Maybe we can start in Sylvania if and when it becomes time to mess with actual Waystones. Or go help Roswita when she finally attacks that one town she's been surging for several years. I mean, if we need to get permission like we could have asked for from Kislev, that would probably be the way to do it.
 
We make so much hay of Mathilde being an unorthodox Grey Wizard, but we've honestly been an excellent diplomat rather without really meaning to. Covert action, special operations, and diplomacy, that's us. Just never ask us to run a clandestine op.
 
Ericwinter said:
Isn't he supposed to be kinda ripped though? I remember seeing a probable picture of him at some point that was pretty ripped. He's just had this really good habit of critting.
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I don't think there's ever been a picture of Anton? Maybe you're thinking of Johan?

Anton... is probably average? A pretty decent shot, but when you're friends are a Lady Magister, a guy who became Elector Count because he was so good a fighting gribblies, and Asarnil himself, you're still not going to look like much.
Valarauko said:
We make so much hay of Mathilde being an unorthodox Grey Wizard, but we've honestly been an excellent diplomat rather without really meaning to. Covert action, special operations, and diplomacy, that's us. Just never ask us to run a clandestine op.
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The Skaven language was a epochal sigint triumph.
 
Valarauko said:
We make so much hay of Mathilde being an unorthodox Grey Wizard, but we've honestly been an excellent diplomat rather without really meaning to. Covert action, special operations, and diplomacy, that's us. Just never ask us to run a clandestine op.
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Sort of? Mostly she just kills monsters or armies and people like her for that. As for Clandestine ops… eh, it's sort of a James Bond thing. She can do it, but by the time Mathilde gets involved things call for brutal murder rather quickly. Not a lot of ways to hide that.
BurnNote said:
I don't think there's ever been a picture of Anton? Maybe you're thinking of Johan?

Anton... is probably average? A pretty decent shot, but when you're friends are a Lady Magister, a guy who became Elector Count because he was so good a fighting gribblies, and Asarnil himself, you're still not going to look like much.
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It was a long time ago, but I distinctly remember this red-haired farm boy image. I think Boney said it was pretty close, but never bothered making it official?
 
Deathbybunnies said:
Hey, Alric still doesn't know who stole his victory out from under him.
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Sure, that's a political victory, but a foot pursuit through crowds in a major city doesn't exactly scream clandestine. And Slaanesh certainly knows what we did.
BurnNote said:
The Skaven language was a epochal sigint triumph.
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No argument there, but extracting valuable intelligence through interrogation isn't really running an operation.
 
HungryHamadryad said:
Could probably find a way to cast penumbral pendulum using a blade as a focus, in a swinging motion.
That said, when I say 'find a way' I really mean spend a bunch of AP torturing the spell into cooperation entirely for style.
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I'm not sure Battle Magic can actually be cast without the proper form. It's already dangerous casting it normally.
 
Valarauko said:
No argument there, but extracting valuable intelligence through interrogation isn't really running an operation.
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It was more than a single interrogation. It was capturing someone without the enemy knowing, subverting them, feeding them captured intel for translations, and then deciphering a language from those translations.

But if you want a larger thing, then Mathilde also directed the information warfare aspect of the K8Ps campaign, and that was a great success as well.
 
Mathilde can do personal stealth (ie sneaking up on things) and disguises well enough, it's just that she almost inevitably goes loud when it comes to the actual shanking and aftermath. Whereas other Greys stay quiet the whole way through, so that you have trouble telling they were even there (ie the previous Empress's death).

She can also stay quiet (ie Queekish), she just chooses not to.
 
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