Yeah I figure they will be in favors, which is why I'm thinking about approaching the K8P base from the perspective of using the favors to build it and get it nice and shiny, then use the gold to buy extra ontop so that we do it right the first time.
I am once more reminded by that one post early on in the quest about her becoming a ranaldite to circumvent magister property laws... and it ironically being one of the purest forms of ranaldian worship
There is a lot of push to buy better swording gear I know that much, given the access to gromril and dwarven rune craft.
We are using Substance of Shadow to make him intangible, invisible and soundless. Then we're going to sneak him through the citadel or over it, depending on the easiest path.
I did mean externally, yes; the Underway would be much too reckless. We've had scouts and sentries crawling over all the areas that we control for a couple days now keeping an eye out for any possible incoming enemies and familiarizing themselves with the terrain; I would hope that they can already recommend a good location. Even if they can't, they can at least point us to a mediocre one, greenskins don't have telescopes, it's a large enough distance that only someone keen-eyed and looking would have a chance to notice us, and we've got several types of stealth spells. Seems less risky than braving a direct path through an entire fortress overall.
This can't really be a problem because if we can walk from Karag Lhune to the Citadel in a reasonable timeframe then we can also walk from Karag Lhune to the city next to the Citadel in a similar or identical timeframe. It only matters if we're on a really tight schedule such that a slight diversion in route would cost us time we can't afford and I think we've got a bit of slack here.
Can't he move on his own under the spell?
The quirk in this case is it makes him weightless and able to move but him being able to move is not important, since if he's weightles Mathilde can pull him behind her. She's used Substance of Shadow on herself before and ran around pretty freely.
Sometimes you just need the Keen Flaming Holy +5 Greatsword to get the job done.
If that's her call as the experienced infiltrator here I guess I'll trust her judgement over mine. I would have called the Citadel suicide and the Caldera a relatively safe approach.
This passed without significant notice earlier but I am appalled that dwarf society has so little respect for the necessity of protecting their dead that they would consider it acceptable to give their religious order of guardians manling weapons. And so little respect for their ancestor god that they'd put up with such an awful situation as to have even their master smiths unable to properly equip his servants in his image rather than spending a couple decades relearning how to make decent swords.
They are capable of forging greatswords, but their is greater institutional knowledge for the strong preference of axes and other weapons.
With them being an ancestor worshiping culture down to the earliest days, them not respecting the dead is probably an incorrect conclusion. One that makes more sense to me is that most of the greatsword forging institutional knowledge is found in Gazul's worshipers.
