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Warhammer Fantasy: Divided Loyalties - an Advisor's Quest

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I forget if it's been asked before but is there any group in Laurelorn that worships Loec that Mathilde could visit and talk to about it
 
Tea with Heidi and a visit to our godson to describe the horribly convoluted plot that could have shaken the very foundations of the Empire and cast doubt on Gabriella's very identity… then end it with "And I took care of it".
 
Mopman43 said:
Far as I'm aware, the last update was that he adopted a relation to serve as heir and is in a long-term relationship with the gun girl without the expectation of ever marrying or having kids.
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Pretty much, as we saw from the last update with him, he is currently in a happy relationship and has adopted a kid to be his child and heir as shown here.

Boney said:
As much fun as it is to appear unexpectedly, courtesy won out this time, and when you arrive in Blutdorf Anton is ready to welcome you. Apart from the usual greetings and gossip he has an important introduction to make to you: that of his first cousin twice removed and now adopted son, Anton.

"The name was his idea," Anton says to you after the boy makes a formal and overawed greeting to you and is allowed to flee. "He's very earnest and serious about everything, I don't think he's capable of doing anything halfway. He was an ensign aboard a Wolfship in the Imperial First and doing quite well at it."

"What made you decide to adopt?"

"The rest of the family was starting to notice I hadn't married and beginning to fight amongst itself over who would inherit, and this was the best way to stop them." He shrugs with an easy and apparently genuine smile. "I just don't feel like there's an absence in my life that terribly needs filling with a wife. Reinhild and I enjoy each other's company, but it's not going to result in a marriage, nor in an heir if her amulet works the way the Jades say it does. And Blutdorf and Kirchham are happy to take every scrap of attention I can spare them. So why roll the dice with a new child when there's a perfectly good one ready to go?"

You nod. "As long as you're happy, then that seems very sensible."
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Mopman43 said:
Far as I'm aware, the last update was that he adopted a relation to serve as heir and is in a long-term relationship with the gun girl without the expectation of ever marrying or having kids.
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I think long term relationship might be overselling what they have. They're friends who have sex. Long term makes it sound like they're dating, which we still don't know about.
 
Boney said:
If anyone's got ideas for new social actions, now's a good time to share them.
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I remember someone suggesting we check up on any potential Grudges we avenged.

Other than that there's talking to our new Kislevite and Jade recruits, headpat hunting in case we didn't already get all permutations of that in the main part of the turn and such a long backlog of old social actions we seem to definitely want to take, but never before first interacting with the new and shiny options.

I'm not saying that this should be that turn, but it might even be a good idea to one time not add any new options after some turn that's less filled with making new acquaintances or shaking up the status quo in any way.
Boney said:
Remember when Mathilde was made Lady Magister and part of that was them all collectively admitting they have nothing but a bunch of contradictory guesses about what the hell it was?
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Oh. My read of that was that each guess was based on some first attempts of poking at the thing filtered through the magical paradigm of each. Or in other words that they were not just blindly guessing, but relatively true statements based on what they themselves have achieved and witnessed. I want Mathilde to have her own line to throw into the room during the next Grey LM promotion, one that is not just based on random stuff we the players make up.

Especially Algard seemed to be able to make actual use of the space, for storage purposes and such. Though maybe he can specifically only do that within the walls of the Grey College. At the very least multiple Grey LMs seem able to enter and exit the College's interdimensional backyard, something that Mathilde still can't do at all. So if everything else is a wash, what would be the first step to gaining just that skill in particular?
 
I say we hang out with best Rat Friend Qrech at least one more time. He's pretty old and not long for this world and is a good representation of our Karak Eight Peaks days.

The least we can do is just check up on him, a few gifts from Kislev and Laurelorn and make sure we got plans to lay him to rest.
 
Historyman14 said:
I say we hang out with best Rat Friend Qrech at least one more time. He's pretty old and not long for this world and is a good representation of our Karak Eight Peaks days.

The least we can do is just check up on him, a few gifts from Kislev and Laurelorn and make sure we got plans to lay him to rest.
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I want to do that when he gets his PHD, which I'm certain he'll get. I just don't know when. Boney might be tracking that in the background. I'm also certain he'll live long enough to get that PHD.
 
Rafin said:
Especially Algard seemed to be able to make actual use of the space, for storage purposes and such. Though maybe he can specifically only do that within the walls of the Grey College. At the very least multiple Grey LMs seem able to enter and exit the College's interdimensional backyard, something that Mathilde still can't do at all. So if everything else is a wash, what would be the first step to gaining just that skill in particular?
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That's just institutional knowledge of where the door is. Algard's tried to figure it out but all he's managed is very minor manipulations of the existing liminal realm of the Grey College, and his other attempts were failures, with his famous towers being him finding a creative use for a technique that was a complete failure at what it was originally intended to do.
 
Boney said:
That's just institutional knowledge of where the door is. Algard's tried to figure it out but all he's managed is very minor manipulations of the existing liminal realm of the Grey College, and his other attempts were failures, with his famous towers being him finding a creative use for a technique that was a complete failure at what it was originally intended to do.
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Respect for him managing to recycle a failure in one area into such a glorious success in another.
 
Boney said:
That's just institutional knowledge of where the door is. Algard's tried to figure it out but all he's managed is very minor manipulations of the existing liminal realm of the Grey College, and his other attempts were failures, with his famous towers being him finding a creative use for a technique that was a complete failure at what it was originally intended to do.
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Yes, but what kind of Grey Wizard would be if he just came out and admitted that sort of thing?:V
 
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Codex said:
Respect for him managing to recycle a failure in one area into such a glorious success in another.
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There's a fairly widespread theory that Pit of Shades was an attempt to create a liminal realm by brute force - cutting open the barrier between reality and the warp on one side and forcing a bunch of air into it. When that didn't work, the inevitable follow-up would have been 'okay, what happens if we did that in the direction of an enemy?'

Come to think of it, there's similar theories for a lot of the more destructive Battle Magics.
 
The real reason the Colleges are primarily a military institution isn't that they're obligated to be one, it's that they consistently fail to not make militarily relevant spells.
 
Playing hooky with reality is an inherently dangerous proposition, so I guess with enough magic thrown around it becomes more and more difficult not to make something very threatening to everyone in the general vicinity.
 
I can't help but notice that there were no social actions for elves last time. It feels like we should have someone in Laurelorn to talk to that we didn't drag there.

On the topic of people we've dragged there, I actually would really like a segment where we talk with Max about enchantment. I feel like it would both serve as a way to get Ideas about how chamon users look at enchantment and to get an idea of how his project is going, not so much because I expect us to help as because I'd like an Idea of what he would actually consider a success on that front. He's mostly just spouted grandiose metaphors instead of concrete goals.
 
"Ok, but hear me out, guys, what if we use magic to split what cannot be split (an atom)? Surely that will lead us to greater understanding about the nature of the world and the spiritual, yes?"
 
As a side note, the Stirland-Sylvania arc is reaching its final act. The siege on Mikalsdorf and Waldenhof has been lifted last turn, and it's been six months. I have no idea how it's going so I can't suggest anything, but there is that.
 
storryeater said:
"Ok, but hear me out, guys, what if we use magic to split what cannot be split (an atom)? Surely that will lead us to greater understanding about the nature of the world and the spiritual, yes?"
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"Okay so that didn't work. Aurfan Hamehr became a Great Unclean One, and we just lost a good chunk of land in the middle of the empire, any more ideas?"

"Oh, I have one!"

"Shoot."

"How about we do the complete opposite? Instead of splitting atoms, how about we create the opposite of them?"
 
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