Warhammer Fantasy: Divided Loyalties - an Advisor's Quest
- Thread starter Boney
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Personally I am surprised by how small support it has, especially since last turn it ended up in sixth place only at 5~6 votes of getting into top5.
It'd be a hike into the archives to try to find out so can anyone remember if we ever looked into Eike's mom?
Mopman43
Mountain-Hermit of Nitpeak
- Location
- Vermont
fictionfan
Please sir, may I have some Meows?
- Location
- Tempe, AZ
[X] Elementalism
[X] Gold College
[x] Gretel
[x] The Black Water Canal
[X] Gold College
[x] Gretel
[x] The Black Water Canal
Aranfan
Team Plasma Grunt
"Likes the Dawi more than the Empire"
I suspect this will require us to actually copy the books first.
Sinsystems
Patron Librarian
Random thought on the Rune of Unknown, it would actually be a great thing to attach to some kind of special rune crafted ammo for a projectile weapon. Like imagine putting it on a special ultra-killy ballista bolt and then allowing the loader to summon the bolt back after firing the thing.
Mopman43
Mountain-Hermit of Nitpeak
- Location
- Vermont
It's a melee weapon rune. It can be put on melee weapons.
Sinsystems
Patron Librarian
Ahh my mistake, pity though because that would be rather useful. Best you can do is throwing axes or javelins then.
Mopman43
Mountain-Hermit of Nitpeak
- Location
- Vermont
The Rune of Flight already exists.
NexusEye
Aspiring God
- Pronouns
- She/Her
For melee weapons there's already the Master Rune of Flight which returns thrown weapons to the wielded and we don't know if the Rune of the Unknown can even be used to desummon a weapon you aren't touching. The only advantage the Rune of the Unknown would have is the reduced of risk of being bonked on the head by your returning weapon since the vanilla Master Rune of Flight doesn't return the weapon to the wielder's hand, just the wielder. This has apparently resulted in many Dwarves unfamiliar with this limitation accidentally knocking themselves unconscious.
Mopman43
Mountain-Hermit of Nitpeak
- Location
- Vermont
We're pretty confident on that one- Mathilde remotely retrieved it during the Al-Kharid fight.
It's basically a Warlock Pact Weapon from D&D.
- Location
- Aotearoa
Indeed, why should any sufficiently ambitious Lord Magister stop at one?
Regarding Eikes' education, what's the protocol around the 'Standard Curriculum' of the Grey College?
Would it be entirely down to us as her Master at this point, to have her take the 'have someone study something, you may pay for a tutor' action? Are there correspondence course she's already taking part in, or are the classroom lessons done? Not all these are probably suitable for Apprentices, but a few such courses have improved our own skills over the years.
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Yes, that's up to Mathilde. The Colleges believe that the best teacher is a Master, classroom lessons are only for filling in gaps that the Masters can't or for when the Master is doing something too sensitive or dangerous for the Apprentice to tag along and learn from.
- Pronouns
- He
[X] Sofia
[X] Gold College
[X] Gretel
[X] Gold College
[X] Gretel
Okay, now that we know this was a recruitment roll for the tributaries, I'm really concerned by what the "fun" could have been.
My guess for the Canal taking longer is that it's the same as in the Real World for similar great civil engineering projects :
It's a nice job for the workers so they're dragging their feets in order for the project (and their jobs) to last longer.
It's a nice job for the workers so they're dragging their feets in order for the project (and their jobs) to last longer.
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- Location
- Aotearoa
"I took you to Laurelorn and Karak Eight Peaks already, why are you so worried about Nagarythe?"
Dwarven vittles and dwarven silver, maybe a good guess.
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Parabola
Divided Loyalties Librarian
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- The Destination of Fate
- Pronouns
- She/Her
I'm not sure if I've asked before, so I'll do so now: would Egrimm be willing to help co-teach Eike on Enchanting in general as a WEB-MAT action?
It would either go very well or very badly. Mathilde's read on him is that if he sees Eike as worth the effort he'll give it his all, but if he doesn't it'll rankle him.
- Location
- New Brunswick, NJ
- Pronouns
- He/Him/His
This is my feeling -- I think we should let Panoramia work out an equilibrium with this new fraught relationship before we go sticking our oar in -- but I certainly can't argue against the fact that it's super in character for Mathilde to be unable to resist nosing around, so I will just shrug ruefully and accept it.
Interesting. In that case, I would say that we should include them on a different action (like the Windfall paper) and use that to get a sense of whether he thinks well of her.
Thebigpieman
I've got this, I think.
- Location
- United States
[X] Gretel
Lets do it.
Lets do it.
Dermonster
The Shittiest Wizard
[X] Gold College
[X] Gretel
[X] Gretel
The Phoenixian
The Glacier Witch
- Location
- My own little world
Honestly, for the real world problems option it doesn't even have to be corruption or laziness.
Taking on a big project with a crew and company that doesn't do that regularly often leads to overruns because everyone has to figure out what they're doing or make new tools they've never needed before. Shows up a lot of times with big infrastructure projects like rail lines, subways, or nuclear power plants.
As long as work remains constant, the first big project on that scale of the Black Water has major overruns, but by the tenth or hundredth it's not only cheaper, but in extreme cases the crews have grown experienced enough for the savings in later projects to offset the costs and delays of the original.
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