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That's… reasonable.

Also somewhat concerning. A vast amount of effort has been expended to remove the worst darknesses from Sylvania. The fact it is still so cursed is disquieting.
It's not that surprising, really. The place has been marinating in dhar and ruled by vampires/necromancers/gribblies for centuries at this point, while only about a decade or so has been spent on cleaning it. It's going to take a long time to bring the place back to even a semblance of not-cursed.
 
Voting those two, no real preference because my real goal is to empty the mountain of anything useful for the next time a big vampire wakes and starts the next vampire war. Non of the cut and run options do that.

[x] Raise
[x] Cheat
 
'Featherless biped' or 'miserable pile of secrets' doesn't cut it.
A secret chamber under Drakenhof containing Diogenes and Dracula having a philosophical argument on the nature of a human was not on my mental bingo list today.

[x] Raise
[x] Cheat

We should have Ranald's Gambler on, feels appropriate to use either of those two, and they are also seem the most sound one tactically.
 
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We should have Ranald's Gambler on, feels appropriate to use either of those two, and they are also seem the most sound one tactically.
About that: what's the over/under that the Gambler bonus was already expended on picking the correct point of entry? To my understanding, Ranald picks the most important roll of the turn action to put a thumb on the scales, but we don't always recognize it when it happens.
 
About that: what's the over/under that the Gambler bonus was already expended on picking the correct point of entry? To my understanding, Ranald picks the most important roll of the turn action to put a thumb on the scales, but we don't always recognize it when it happens.
I think the Lady Magister Celestial is the Thumb.
 
It would be interesting if BoneyM goes back and rewrites / edits the earlier posts to reflect the way that Ulgu / Ranald / Dwarf-soul may have influenced or downright scrambled Mathilde's memories.
Looking through posts that quoted threadmarks to reconstruct the original represents Grey Collage techniques for overcoming mental influences.

'Featherless biped' or 'miserable pile of secrets' doesn't cut it.
What about 'Featherless biped' and 'miserable pile of secrets' :thonk::thonk::thonk:

[x] Raise
 
About that: what's the over/under that the Gambler bonus was already expended on picking the correct point of entry? To my understanding, Ranald picks the most important roll of the turn action to put a thumb on the scales, but we don't always recognize it when it happens.
I think the Lady Magister Celestial is the Thumb.

I'd say likely not to both of these. There's a small chance the gambler boon has already expired, IMO, but given how much is based in visible and unmodified dice rolls thus far, I'm much more assuming that the Lady Magister Celestial didn't so much get drawn as a result, as she had the metaphysical vantage point to witness the intervention coming down the pipe.
 
I think the Lady Magister Celestial is the Thumb.

I think she was an option because the thumb was placed on the scale, but her presence isn't a direct response to it.

The Night Prowler might be a subtle god, but the Gambler very much isn't, and any who are attuned to fate, destiny, and chance are going to notice when He intervenes.

Ranald's power is like a flame to a moth for people like Goendul, and she was drawn to us not because she was sent, but because she could observe the ripples He left behind. She might not realise it's divine intervention, or even that it's Ranald, but she knows that something is taking an interest here.
 
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