Warhammer Fantasy: Divided Loyalties - an Advisor's Quest
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Somic
It's meow or never
- Pronouns
- She/Her
She knew horse body language well enough to be worried about the Shadowsteed because it was standing so still.
That's adorable. Unless you mean worried about in the sense she thought it was a zombie, which is still adorable, but also understandably concerning.
Isn't he supposed to be from the ZL team? I guess he ended up fleeing to Bretonnia, which is right next to where we think CD was? Hm.
One of the 'of's in that list is misspelled as 'off'. Settra's glorious armies will be with you shortly.Settra would have become a God, if it were not a demotion to his status, for Settra is clearly above the Gods. It's right there in his titles
As if Kragg would not make his good boots immune to troll acid in case he gets the opportunity to stomp a troll to death.
- Location
- Somewhere on Earth
Nah, the Empire isn't quite so fucked that it needs to train its children to fear zombies at every corner- mostly -, she was just worried it was tense.
The side story shows Cd-3 attempting to use a Qt deific interface, so it's possible that Old Ones associated with one city had deific interfaces associated with other cities. Maybe Qt is an exception in this regard because of their secondary pantheon, but if not maybe Morghur is an Old One from Zl who had a deific interface from Cd (or an echo of an Old One or a fragment of the deific interface etc).
Also note that Morghur didn't just go to Bretonnia, he is noted as having a consistent tendency to wander in the direction in Athel Loren, which is canonically where Radixashen (the dragon associated with Cd) is located. There's also the question of who actually named Cor-Dum, and I can't help but notice that the Hold that's most likely to take note of him is Karak Norn due to their proximity to Athel Loren, and the side story gave us reason to believe that Karak Norn might be built on/near the location of Cd.
Which is why I think we should go poke Karak Norn about their nexus at some point soon. Maybe with the Gambler on?
Stressed horses either run or freeze, any more and they flip out, especially if theres nowhere to run
When pressed in such circumstances it could easily kick a child to death, so if she's trusted by herself around horses, the lesson should be well ingrained.
Mathilde on the other hand is just too poor to actually interact with a live horse until she got her own magic horse
- Location
- Utrecht
The outside, sure. The inside, probably not
NuclearConsensus
Herald of the Thorned One
- Location
- the Philippines
It's a copypasta, so I'm sure the one who typed it down originally is to blame, that being me. Sorry Settra, I had a problematic keyboard at the time, please don't take my head for my insolence.
Unless those demons are at least at a Herald level, they would not be able approach the boots through Kragg's aura of sheer Disapproval.
- Location
- Australia
Alas, they are but a trio of silly little guys.
- Location
- Romania
[X] [RIDER] The Dämmerlichtreiter
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King Arthur
The Once and Future King
Once we finish up on the current stage of the project .... do we have any plans to grab any Religious Cults religious cults (not counting the Damsels, which we've been arguing about forever) for the Waystone project? In my reread I noticed Mattie explicitly said she was open to bringing priests in on the project without prompting, and it honestly seems likely that some of the Taalites might have pieces of the puzzle.
Ulric I'm less sure about having pieces of the puzzle, but his faith is old enough that it's certainly possible, and considering his new coverts I don't think we'd even really have to do anything to get some good support from that corner.
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Ulric I'm less sure about having pieces of the puzzle, but his faith is old enough that it's certainly possible, and considering his new coverts I don't think we'd even really have to do anything to get some good support from that corner.
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- Location
- Australia
There's three diminutive marionette daemons of Tzeentch called Pumpf, Dappz, and Schnäker who make shoes that eat their wearers.
King Arthur
The Once and Future King
I love it, what adorable evil and unfair murderdaemons.
- Location
- Before the Ninth Gate
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I've just had a thought, and I don't think I've seen anyone talk about this yet: after we construct a waystone prototype, assuming it works, there's probably going to be a stretch goal—waystone nexuses nexi? nexopodes?
It's something we haven't looked into yet, and by all accounts it sounds more complicated than a waystone is. Boney even said Kislev won't even let us near their nexuses until we've got a normal waystone up and running:
Therefore, I propose that when we start this second round of R&D we expand recruitment and pull in more people. A quick shortlist:
- Damsels. We know they have some trick for manipulating several winds in concert, that could be useful for a nexus.
- Karak Norn runesmiths guild. They sit on one of the most important nexuses in the Old World, and evidence suggests that they built their own on the site that became Bugmans Brewery.
- The Taalites. They control several nexuses in the Empire, and they probably know how to use them.
- The Amber Order. Pulling in the Shamans will strengthen the ties between the Orders and Laurelorn, Dragomas is already fully on board with the project, and will give us some extra firepower when it comes to reclaiming the nexuses of the Forest of Shadows. Their experiences with Drycha could also be useful when dealing with the Asrai.
- Athel Loren. Both of the Empire's emergency run-off channels runs through their forest. Lets make sure they're in friendly hands. Might be tricky if we have Karak Norn on the project.
- The Ulricans. They are undergoing a bit of a split at the moment. Inviting the traditionalists could help strengthen their position, whilst extending an olive branch to the radicals could sway them onto our side and help defuse tensions in Nordland. Hopefully that's not an either/or.
It's something we haven't looked into yet, and by all accounts it sounds more complicated than a waystone is. Boney even said Kislev won't even let us near their nexuses until we've got a normal waystone up and running:
Therefore, I propose that when we start this second round of R&D we expand recruitment and pull in more people. A quick shortlist:
- Damsels. We know they have some trick for manipulating several winds in concert, that could be useful for a nexus.
- Karak Norn runesmiths guild. They sit on one of the most important nexuses in the Old World, and evidence suggests that they built their own on the site that became Bugmans Brewery.
- The Taalites. They control several nexuses in the Empire, and they probably know how to use them.
- The Amber Order. Pulling in the Shamans will strengthen the ties between the Orders and Laurelorn, Dragomas is already fully on board with the project, and will give us some extra firepower when it comes to reclaiming the nexuses of the Forest of Shadows. Their experiences with Drycha could also be useful when dealing with the Asrai.
- Athel Loren. Both of the Empire's emergency run-off channels runs through their forest. Lets make sure they're in friendly hands. Might be tricky if we have Karak Norn on the project.
- The Ulricans. They are undergoing a bit of a split at the moment. Inviting the traditionalists could help strengthen their position, whilst extending an olive branch to the radicals could sway them onto our side and help defuse tensions in Nordland. Hopefully that's not an either/or.
Uhhhh, what connection do the ambers have to the nice wood elves? Because this is news to me...
None, yet. The College's only connection with the Eonir is Mathilde's project, which has representatives from the Grey, Light, Jade, and Gold orders. Adding the Ambers with add another representative, and strenghten those bonds—especially since the Amber Order is the SP's Order.
Ah, it's a goal. I thought you were saying there's a prior connection.
It came up, but got a bit sidetracked with speculation on the project imploding into chaos and violence over the pluralization of nexus.
King Arthur
The Once and Future King
For sure we're gonna attempt that, and there's also gonna be the goal of "use the Waystone network to power X", which is explicitly what the Wood Elves contacted us for in the first place.
Also, I'd be in favor of "construct a land prototype" due to this quote from Boney on page 13685
As it stands, just the river leylines will do a lot to help Kislev, but I'd love to get full coverage there.
Don't get me wrong, I think starting with the river prototype was a good idea, as I think it's inherently safer and harder for bad guy's to mess with, and I think the river prototype should be used whenever possible even if we also construct a land prototype .... but I think that if we can spend an extra year or so to get full coverage (or even close to full) in Kislev, we should. Let alone the fact that this might lead to better coverage everywhere, haven't studied the maps enough to say for sure whether there'd be any missing coverage in any of the other nations.
If we are going to due the land prototype as well, it might make sense to do that next, to give our group (especially any potential new recruits who would need time to catch up to the people who have been here since day one) more experience with Waystones and the Waystone Network before we tackle the harder problems of creating Nexuses and figuring out how to use the Waystone Network to power stuff.
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Parabola
Divided Loyalties Librarian
- Location
- The Destination of Fate
- Pronouns
- She/Her
Nexus should be both the singular and plural form.
I think it's quite likely we'll try to make a second version of the waystone with different prototypes, though. There's the general goal of getting the passphrases out of Ulthuan, but we also have three capstone prototypes, it's possible we could get more than one working Foundation prototype, and we have been presented with several new actions this very turn: trying to come up with alternatives to the rune prototype, trying to obtain titan-metal via the Ogres or Cathay, and even the possibility of road leylines.
Some options might be more easy to scale up and mass-produce than others, and that could smoothen the eventual deployment of the waystones throughout the continent.
Boney noted that the original waystones made by the elves and dwarves were taken because they were presumably the best options available to them, but for us, for a joint project that involves not just elves and dwarves but also several human magic disciplines, there might be some better options.
- Location
- North Wales
- Pronouns
- He/Him/His
I get "Pumps" and "Sneakers" as shoe puns. Dappz?
Shoes are sometimes called "daps" or "dappers" in parts of the UK. Not a word I personally use, but I've heard it around.