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Warhammer Fantasy: Divided Loyalties - an Advisor's Quest

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@Boney As usual, thank you very much for the update.

Bunch of interesting stuff. Eight Gallons for eight Orbs of Sorcery is definitely worth it and is highly intriguing.
 
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@Boney As usual, thank you very much for the update.

Bunch of interesting stuff. Eight Gallons for eight Orbs of Sorcery is definitely worth it and is highly intriguing.
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Meant to ask, actually, how big of a deal is this? The Orbs are irreplaceable, I get that, but how much oomph can you get out of one? Would Mathilde even need to stop at the size of Teclis' versions? How much more practical oomph could Mathilde make with this?
 
"And maybe have the letters informing their Magisters Patriarch left on their respective desks, rather than sent directly to wherever they are right now."
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I like Dragomas. He's a good egg.

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I did not consider that AV could create orbs of sorcery from power stones - I thought that it would just make more powerstones. I wonder what OoS are typically used for.
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Anyway: [*] ALL OF THEM
 
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pucflek said:
Yes?
Do you see Old World? Do you see that its like, maybe 1/10th of total landmass? How in the world could Old World alone possibly be considered a lynchpin of a network that supposedly spans the entirety of world.

If the Reik Basin got cut off, that would be a tragedy for the old world,not Ulthuan.

Althought it really depends on how strained the network already is to keep Ulthuan afloat. But absent all the other people drawing energy from it already, it would be fine most likely.
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That assumes it spans the whole world.

The High Elves never got far into Lustria, they've never been farther east into the supercontinent than the Old World, I doubt the Dragon Emperor let them build some in Cathay.
 
To those that said AV tree was tapped out: IN YOUR FACE! Hahaha

Now... This seems like something a Seviroscope 2.0, camera edition would be useful for.
Or alternatively, get Horstmann to learn Speed of Light so he can observe.
Or just ask Cython to watch while accelerating his perception ,like he did to learn Khazlid
 
Execute/Dumbo said:
Meant to ask, actually, how big of a deal is this? The Orbs are irreplaceable, I get that, but how much oomph can you get out of one? Would Mathilde even need to stop at the size of Teclis' versions? How much more practical oomph could Mathilde make with this?
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Orbs of Sorcery are what the Colleges used to make stuff like the giant Hysh death-rays the Light College has.
 
Boney said:
"Do you mean the part where the mechanisms keeping the world out of the grasp of Chaos is a sorcery that utilizes the wicked powers of Dark Magic?" Egrimm says, to winces from Tochter and Elrisse.
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Glad everyone noticed that. Makes things a lot easier.

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'His' treasure. You wonder if the Dragon is aware that the Empire still considers it to belong to the state, and that there are promissory notes circulating using the hoard he rests upon as security. Normally there's a lot of resistance to any sort of currency that isn't made of precious metals, but gold being guarded by a Dragon is considered by many to be less likely to disappear overnight than gold secured in a more traditional vault.
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Move over Gold Standard, it's time to run an economy on the Dragon Horde Standard. Also I now have ideas for D&D worldbuilding.

Boney said:
He smiles at you. "Dragons develop bestial cunning first, and true intelligence only after they've grown larger than this fellow currently is. Right now he's about at the level of a crow or a dog - clever, but not really the sort to eavesdrop."
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Ooh, dragon lifecycle lore. Of course, dogs and crows are pretty intelligent to start with, particularly when there are Amber's who can talk to them.

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The Golds have a stockpile of the stuff from having absorbed all the pre-Teclisean alchemists, one of yours should be able to requisition some."
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Oh good, that makes that part so much easier. Might want to think about hiring an alchemist—as far as I'm aware, neither Max or Johann do proper Gold Magic Alchemy.

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You smile, and begin to tell him about what you learned about Kislev's Waystones.
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Cat's out of the bag now. It'll be interesting to see if we can do something similar.

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On your way to meeting with Adela, you'd reflected on the fact that none of the the three Journeymen who'd arrived in Karak Eight Peaks eight years ago had reached higher rank, but each had instead found a place for themselves in the organizations outside of the Empire. That train of thought is rather derailed when you find Adela wearing the robes of a Magister instead of those of a Journeyman.

"Adela!" you say happily, giving the younger woman a hug in greeting. "When did you make Magister?"

"I haven't technically, but the Bright Order brevets you according to your association with military units, and the powers that be decided that the Karag Nar Gunnery School counts. After the Chancellor and my aunt got married-"
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I'm glad to see she's doing well for herself—she seems happy and confident and in her element.

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"The Chancellor of the Gunnery School? You mean Oswald?" She nods. "Is your family completely subsuming that institution?"
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Oh no. More Oswaldson's running around the place. Glad he's happy too.

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She considers that for a while. "So I'd get paid to learn a lot about steam that the Dwarves otherwise would never tell me, and to hop around the continent to wherever you think is the most interesting?"

You consider the current open questions of kurgans and obelisks, and the mystery of what's west of L'Anguille. "Possibly outside the continent as well."

"Sounds like you've got yourself a pilot."
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Easy sell, just as we anticipated, and now all of our logistical problems are solved.

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Over a number of days, eight power stones plus eight gallons of Vitae should result in something the Colleges thought impossible: the creation of entirely new Orbs of Sorcery.
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Okay, I think we just broke College Favour forever the way we broke Dwarf Favour. As soon as we can, lets make as many as possible and donate them to the Colleges (and maybe keep some for ourselves). I anticipate absolutely zero problems with this plan. Also, did we ever take the powerstone creation lessons? If not, lets do that.

Also I did consider that this would result in Orb of Sorcery creation, but I thought that was a magical dreamland scenario, not like, an actual thing that would happen.

And we've been sat on this for years.

Boney said:
[ ] The We
Spider Librarians.
[ ] Cython
Dragon Librarian.
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Haha oh no. I don't know what I want more.
 
@Boney, does this means "spend CF to buy 8 power stones, turn them into Orbs of Sorcery and smugly give them to each college with no explanation as to our methods" is a possible action?
If so, I love it so much and want to do it next turn.

Also, so many of the library options are excellent. Orphans? Dwarves ? Locals ? Making us choose between the We and Cython ?!?
So evil. Hard to decide...
 
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I don't think dragon is a good idea. Having access to your library restricted because the dragon does not like you seems like a bad strategy. Not saying he wouldn't make a great librarian but if we pick him, he stays and we can not control him.
 
Execute/Dumbo said:
Meant to ask, actually, how big of a deal is this? The Orbs are irreplaceable, I get that, but how much oomph can you get out of one? Would Mathilde even need to stop at the size of Teclis' versions? How much more practical oomph could Mathilde make with this?
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A luminark of Hysh can be powered by an orb of Sorcery.
I wonder what the corresponding weapons for the other winds would be.
 
Mopman43 said:
The High Elves never got far into Lustria, they've never been farther east into the supercontinent than the Old World, I doubt the Dragon Emperor let them build some in Cathay.
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Depends on if Cathay at that point even existed as unified entity tbh.

There is also the question of whetever they only build waystone network in places where they had permanent settlement, because there shouldn't be the one in Praag if they did so for example.

Either way, it has to span the world, otherwise the parts that are not covered would be chaos infested madness already.
 
Boney said:
Normally there's a lot of resistance to any sort of currency that isn't made of precious metals, but gold being guarded by a Dragon is considered by many to be less likely to disappear overnight than gold secured in a more traditional vault.
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Yes, although a bit of a sticky issue for someone who actually wants to cash in their promissory notes.
Boney said:
[ ] The We
Spider Librarians.
[ ] Cython
Dragon Librarian.
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Compelling arguments.
I don't suppose all of the above is a valid choice?
Or are Vernanish, Runescribe Halflings too small a demographic to pull on? :V:V:V
 
I have one word - Awesomeness AKA Dragon-Librarian-with-Spider-Employees.
 
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