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...It's a minor thing, but it occurs to me that between talking with Max about the Toolmakers Guild and tools in general, and Marienburg cleaning up their own house, Boney has a perfect segue for Mathilde going to negotiate with Nuln to trade the Metalsmithing guild's favor for BOOKs.
 
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...It's a minor thing, but it occurs to me that between talking with Max about the Toolmakers Guild and tools in general, and Marienburg cleaning up their own house, Boney has a perfect segue for Mathilde going to negotiate with Nuln to trade the Metalsmithing guild's favor for BOOKs.
Oh yeah, I forgot we had a plan about that.

…anything else we were talking about doing?
 
...It's a minor thing, but it occurs to me that between talking with Max about the Toolmakers Guild and tools in general, and Marienburg cleaning up their own house, Boney has a perfect segue for Mathilde going to negotiate with Nuln to trade the Metalsmithing guild's favor for BOOKs.
Christ, I'd forgotten we were thinking of doing that. I'm gonna have to look over a bunch of old posts to remember what ideas were for next turn... though now that Pan's a Magister I really want to celebrate by studying the Ghyran seed with her and fitting that in is going to be tricky, ugh.
…anything else we were talking about doing?
Continuing Branarhune and codifying Rite of Way with the Gambler were some of the things being bandied about. I forget what the actual Waystone actions under consideration were, maybe @mathymancer remembers.

EDIT: I found an old post of mine about contenders for the Library action, using Barak Varr on the following:
Metallurgy, Bretonnia, and ???, where candidates for ??? have included Athel Loren, Nehekhara, Strygos, and my new candidate Ulthuan. But Metallurgy is the main one, to boost the Capstone action. It was a serious contender last turn's purchase round (along with Cooking and Fungi to rock the windshroom book), but lost.
 
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I think that Teclis is a Prince as a courtesy title (and that gets overridden by High Loremaster), as Tyrion inherited their father's lands (such as they are). And Tyrion tends to stay out of politics, and just stabs things that need stabbing.
I don't know about Elven politics, but usually you fully stay a Prince even when your older sibling inherits everything.
I think there's room for Slaaneshi tendencies in Orcish culture by way of adding sadomasochism to the violence. It's not Proppa Orky behaviour to get off on murdering rivals to that extent, but it's not so far beyond the pale that it would get you booted out on sight. Just looked at as a weirdo.
That's probably how a secret Pleasure Cult starts among Orcs. I was trying to imagine the equivalent of Slaanesh-dedicated Marauder tribes. Or the Orc version of whatever we thought lived in Vlag after we saw the Slaaneshi Slayers but before we found out that uncorrupted Dwarves managed to hold the fort.

But yeah. Overly obsessive planning for the sake of it, artful murder, body paint and decoration taken to extremes, non-sexual sadomasochism, trying to copy and adapt unorcish methods of combat and warfare, loud screeching matches and music that makes your ears bleed, elaborate punishments instead of krumping, attempts at actual architecture and obsessive appreciation of food, including the purposeful and deliberate consumption of sentient food. A whole tribe of Slaaneshi Orcs is feasible enough after all.

On the flip side I wonder what kinds of Slaaneshi Daemons would enjoy corrupting Orcs.
 
Continuing Branarhune and codifying Rite of Way with the Gambler were some of the things being bandied about. I forget what the actual Waystone actions under consideration were, maybe @mathymancer remembers.
The actions that I remember being under consideration were:
foundation, capstone, mapping (I'm leaning Tilea and Eastlia, the alternative is one of those two and Bretonnia), Bugman's Nexus, and some sort of action rolling out our new tributaries but we'll need to wait for next turn to see what that looks like.

My turn plans have Bugman's Nexus and Capstone, with one variant doing mapping as the third action and another variant doing some tributary thing to be determined once we see what new actions we have.
Also investigating Iron Orcs came up, that's kind of a Waystone action if you squint.
 
The actions that I remember being under consideration were:
foundation, capstone, mapping (I'm leaning Tilea and Eastlia, the alternative is one of those two and Bretonnia), Bugman's Nexus, and some sort of action rolling out our new tributaries but we'll need to wait for next turn to see what that looks like.

My turn plans have Bugman's Nexus and Capstone, with one variant doing mapping as the third action and another variant doing some tributary thing to be determined once we see what new actions we have.
Also investigating Iron Orcs came up, that's kind of a Waystone action if you squint.
Probably better to wait on Bretonnia until we know if we can get a Damsel?

(For the political allowance to be going around mapping their magical architecture, at the very least. And it'll probably open doors- literally- into the places many of the Waystones will be positioned- castles and the like)
 
...It's a minor thing, but it occurs to me that between talking with Max about the Toolmakers Guild and tools in general, and Marienburg cleaning up their own house, Boney has a perfect segue for Mathilde going to negotiate with Nuln to trade the Metalsmithing guild's favor for BOOKs.
If we go to Nuln for books, I hope we will get a chance to learn more about Sangster. It's unlikely we will be able to talk to him, but it would be fun.
 
While the image is hilarious, there is already a Chaos Dragon in Altdorf. We can always ask him.
God every time I hear about the Egrimm novel it seems more stupid. So apparently Teclis decided to leave a chaos dragon lyring around with 'its main defense being rhat no mortal knew where it was', in a world where demons can and will give forbidden knowledge out like candy. Fun. I wonder if this one had a bunch of light wizard guards watch gormlessly as he strolled in and stole a dragon like with the evil skull? I guess the important thing is that the author's super special OC got a dragon mount even teclis couldn't kill.
I don't know about Elven politics, but usually you fully stay a Prince even when your older sibling inherits everything
Pretty sure Prince is their actual ruling title, not just a signifier of them being heir to a throne. Like all the caledorian dragon princes. Not sure what the geir gets addressed as in that case.
 
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God every time I hear about the Egrimm novel it seems more stupid. So apparently Teclis decided to leave a chaos dragon lyring around with 'its main defense being rhat no mortal knew where it was', in a world where demons can and will give forbidden knowledge out like candy. Fun. I wonder if this one had a bunch of light wizard guards watch gormlessly as he strolled in and stole a dragon like with the evil skull?
Baudros being a Chaos dragon locked up in the Order of Light is long-standing canon (getting him out being part of Egrimm's backstory in his army book entries).
 
Probably better to wait on Bretonnia until we know if we can get a Damsel?

(For the political allowance to be going around mapping their magical architecture, at the very least. And it'll probably open doors- literally- into the places many of the Waystones will be positioned- castles and the like)
I agree, that's mostly why I want to map Tilea and Estalia first, otherwise I would say that Bretonnia should be mapped first as it's directly connected to the Empire's network. I'm also hoping that the Damsels just tell us how their part of the network looks, kind of like recruiting a Hag Witch gave us the shape of the Kislev network for free.
 
Huh. So does his statblock reflect him being an apparently unkillable dragon?
Well, this was his 6th edition statblock (from Citadel Journal #50)


Not sure how that compares to dragons in the same edition, but certainly pretty beefy. And he has 2 breath weapons.

Egrimm on Baudros was the most expensive character in the game in 4th and 5th, is my understanding (and he was competing with Nagash for that)
 
I agree, that's mostly why I want to map Tilea and Estalia first, otherwise I would say that Bretonnia should be mapped first as it's directly connected to the Empire's network. I'm also hoping that the Damsels just tell us how their part of the network looks, kind of like recruiting a Hag Witch gave us the shape of the Kislev network for free.
It *would* be nice to confirm that bit about a single Estalian city being the exit point for the whole continent.
 
I agree, that's mostly why I want to map Tilea and Estalia first, otherwise I would say that Bretonnia should be mapped first as it's directly connected to the Empire's network. I'm also hoping that the Damsels just tell us how their part of the network looks, kind of like recruiting a Hag Witch gave us the shape of the Kislev network for free.
Hunh. I... hadn't actually considered that had maybe been a reward for recruiting the Witches, because we recruited them before starting the Project and so never got to see a Mapping action without them, and Kislev still shows up as an Other Networks possibility like the Karaz Ankor and Laurelorn. So I'm not sure this is true. Boney, if you can weigh in on this: if we didn't have the Witches, would Kislev have shown up as a Waystone: Mapping action? Or would it not have, because it falls under Other Networks?
 
Oh yeah, I forgot we had a plan about that.

…anything else we were talking about doing?
There was a possibility of a push to learning Nehekharan after the haul from Castle Drakenhof, but it would be competing with all the other demands on AP in the run-up to the big orb dunk and I think any sense of immediacy about it has been lost by now.
 
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Hunh. I... hadn't actually considered that had maybe been a reward for recruiting the Witches, because we recruited them before starting the Project and so never got to see a Mapping action without them, and Kislev still shows up as an Other Networks possibility like the Karaz Ankor and Laurelorn. So I'm not sure this is true. Boney, if you can weigh in on this: if we didn't have the Witches, would Kislev have shown up as a Waystone: Mapping action? Or would it not have, because it falls under Other Networks?

If you didn't have the witches you wouldn't know it was a separate network, so it would probably be available for a mapping action. That would have revealed that it's all going around in a circle which would have put it in Other Networks, though probably with a warning from me that the Ice Witches get really touchy about outsiders poking at their magic.
 
I'd like to finally get around to poking at our arcane marks personally, but finding time for that is gonna be a nightmare, even if I expect it'll be a useful experience. And apparition hunting is still right there. I know more combat power isn't *that* critical for mathilde, but it would still be really cool.
 
If we're talking turn plans again, I like my "fast and hasty" plan:

Plan: Fast and Hasty
WEB Max->Waystone Gold
WEB Johann-> Kurgan Weapons
Free WEB Max-> Lustria Rubbings
High Nehekaran OR Sword
Rite of Way (gambler)
Tributary (rune, druid, ice witch, Teclisian) Thorek, Tochter, Cadaeth, Zlata, Aksel, Max, Egrimm
Foundation Sarvoi, Hatalath, Elrisse, Thorek, Cadaeth, Niedzwenka, Egrimm, Zlata, Aksel, Tochter
EIC-> Charcoal
Library-> Nuln foundry deal
Serenity-> Windfall (w/egrimm?)
Eike->study magic, martial, accompany windfall?, rubbings?

That said, I'm thinking of jettisoning the web-mat efficiency bonus (because none of those actions are super urgent), so we can do a sword action, learn nehekaran, and then either the final sword action or deal with the iron orcs (or maybe both? I don't know, I need to sit down and draft it out properly).
 
I know more combat power isn't *that* critical for mathilde, but it would still be really cool.
It is not time critical but still pretty critical for the future because even an avarage Demonettes have 30 martial while we have 23. Considering Chaos seem to gearing up for war, it might life and death isssue when it actually happens.
 
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