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Warhammer Fantasy: Divided Loyalties - an Advisor's Quest

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Glau said:
But there's also the work of finding a good location and moving there, which eats hours. So they are getting this done almost as fast as theoretically possible, which I think deserves headpats.

Also, I wonder who Teclis is pissing off on our behalf?
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That part might be easier than you think (not that it isn't still laudable!)

Remember when Abelhelm shot down Mathilde's undead research proposal way back when?

-Turn 9 Results - 2474
But you and I both know that this is so terribly far from a perfect world, and we need to work with what we have. And what we have is barely-trained peasants." He waves an arm towards a window. "Look out there, the 2nd and 3rd. Ten thousand peasants with spears. Five thousand with swords. Five thousand with crossbows made of wood and scrap iron. One thousand horsemen with pistols. How many cannon? Ten. That's the kind of ratio we can sustain." He points at you. "You are our cannon. Now figure out how to make things work with thousands of peasants
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The Jade Trio are working with explicit state support, so Roswita (and Nycklaus too!) probably arranged to have a small regiment of surveyors and caravanners running around supporting the journeymen.
 
If the recipients of Teclis's letters were going to be mad at what he has to write, some of them are going to be even more mad when they get the actual details from the Empire. Dwarves resurgent, Marienburg in peril, Druchii making diplomatic overtures to the Eonir and the Empire, and at the center of it all is Asarnil's scribe!
 
fictionfan said:
Although he seems to think that we are putting up stones.
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Technically the tributaries do use stones, not as part of the ritual but as a sort of target to aim at existing waystones:

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mathymancer said:
The first ritual mentions a standing stone in its ingredients, but the others don't. The second ritual does mention the standing stone in its description, though.
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It requires a specially-prepared standing stone with carvings dedicating it to Haletha. The other two could just be done on any ol' rock, so it's not so much an ingredient as it is a target.
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If Teclis does come back, which he might not, it would be funny if it ends up similarly to Thorgrim, where Mathilde waltzes off to Naggarythe just as Teclis is asking which one of his kids deserves a gold star.
 
On another note, this update really drives home just how much of an impact the curse has on Teclis, even though he's clearly aware of exactly what his limits are, knows better than to push past them, and has figured out ways to work around them in a lot of situations. Which, in turn, drives home just how much he did in coming to the Old World.
 
That was amazing.

@Boney I really love these short looks at big shots in the world, like this and the Thorgrim interlude after the reconquest. These moments are always amazing. Guess we need to figure out who to pleasantly surprise next. Maybe Kroak?
 
NuclearConsensus said:
If Teclis does come back, which he might not, it would be funny if it ends up similarly to Thorgrim, where Mathilde waltzes off to Naggarythe just as Teclis is asking which one of his kids deserves a gold star.
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I'm about 85% convinced that's what is going to happen if he does come back. Beyond the hilarity involved, it'll given Boney more time to work out what the effects of Teclis returning to the Colleges (and presumably updating/adding to the curriculum) would be. I doubt every College is suddenly going to get a dozen spells added to their spellbooks, but presumably he'll be able to look at how the Colleges have grown in the two centuries since he was last here and smooth out any misunderstandings or critical flaws.

Maybe he'll finally be able to explain the Divine Magic thing, given that we know it's BS.
 
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Boney said:
With close examination of the minute-to-minute data the pattern becomes clear: about once a day, the inflow of magic swells an almost imperceptible, but discrete and seemingly permanent, amount. And this pattern, it seems, has been recurring day after day for months now. This is no swelling of magical energies in the area, no happenstance reconnection of a temporarily disconnected branch of the network. The only possible explanation is that bit by bit, stone by stone, the network is expanding. More than that - it is being expanded.
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There's something satisfying about a twist that nobody saw coming, and yet makes perfect sense in retrospect. Of course the Asur have detailed reports on incoming magic, when their entire country literally relies on it to not sink. Of course, the reports on it would pass through the White Tower. Of course Teclis would immediately clock it within hours of seeing the data needed to distinguish between branches of the network upstream.
 
fictionfan said:
That is actually our lyeline research. There is a difference.
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I'm not sure what you're trying to say here, because all I was saying is that we are in fact putting up stones as part of the tributaries. They're not obligatory, but they're there. This doesn't appear to be related to that bit where we turned one on and off and then realized it's probably Caledor in the Vortex.

NuclearConsensus said:
If Teclis does come back, which he might not, it would be funny if it ends up similarly to Thorgrim, where Mathilde waltzes off to Naggarythe just as Teclis is asking which one of his kids deserves a gold star.
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God. Now we have to seriously consider postponing the Elfcation for just a bit. We cannot fucking miss the possibility of Teclis coming back. I refuse. If dad is coming back, I'm absolutely going to push to replicate our workaholism days from back in Stirland, maybe do 4 Waystone actions a turn for at least a bit.
 
Jyn Ryvia said:
Again, people, it didn't actally say he will be the one coming to check the empire, just that he is sending letters.

hope, but don't assume.
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Well yes, but people are hoping. The current mood seems to be "The elves noticed, but Teclis thinks well of us! Hooray!". We're just speculating on if Teclis will be able to eventually wriggle free and come visit.

The update even mentions it'll be some time before he recovers enough to take any medication strong enough to do anything strenuous (like, say, taking a trip across the world).
 
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Yeah, Teclis would watch those energy flows for slight distortions, wouldn't he? In practice it's the same idea as what Mathilde had for the auditory seviroscope, something that when tuned properly and observed just right will give an early warning of the winds acting in dangerously abnormal ways. What he did is an impressive amount of sorting through the noise and point-by-point comparison to work out what it has to be.
 
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