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Warhammer Fantasy: Divided Loyalties - an Advisor's Quest

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These has turned out really well and we have not even got tot he foundation yet. Like helping Kragg is an accomplishment and if we can get the colleges to make them that is a huge effort of collaboration between the colleges and the runesmith guild. Also little Eike becoming a magical researcher would be interesting. Poor elf researcher who could have been friends with Mathilde. I wonder if we can publish her work and send it to Hoeth.
 
I wonder if you could daisy-chain connected things with runes on them? A loop of objects, each with 2 connector runes and one functional rune. If it were stable, there'd theoretically be no limit on the number of runes the composite object would have applied to it.

Ah well, this isn't a runesmith quest.
 
Deathbybunnies said:
I wonder if you could daisy-chain connected things with runes on them? A loop of objects, each with 2 connector runes and one functional rune. If it were stable, there'd theoretically be no limit on the number of runes the composite object would have applied to it.

Ah well, this isn't a runesmith quest.
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That's presumably how the mentioned shieldwall worked.

Not sure about more esoteric applications.
Boney said:
A Linking Rune, has to be. Used to be that the standard Apprentice practice work would be a Linking Rune and a Rune of Stone on a shield, so that an entire shieldwall would link together into one impenetrable barrier - back when we ruled the underground, we only met enemies in open fields. Useless for tunnel fighting, that's why we lost it.
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Boney said:
Thane: You have lead Dwarves into battle without bring shame to them or yourself, so will forever retain the title of Thane.
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I know this one has been there for a while, but these should be "led" and "bringing" respectively, I think.

Boney said:
Egrimm, can you find a source for non-insulative glass?" He nods. "I'll get some samples of insulative glasses
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There seems to be some inconsistency here, with Mathilde asking for non-insulative glass and Egrimm saying he's going to look for insulative glass.

Andres said:
Is "non-" right?
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I think so. Insulative on the back, non-insulative on the front.
 
Boney said:
"If I were everything I should be, this would still be a road of a hundred years," he says, his voice intense. "But it is a road now, rather than a wall." He gives you a nod of approval - not grudging approval, not good-enough-for-a-human approval, but the unreserved approval of a job done as well as could be done - and turns his full attention to his slate, lips moving as he mumbles through technical jargon it would take you a century of learning to even begin to grasp how beyond you it is.
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I
SQUEAL
FOR
HEADPAT
I
BLUSH
YOU
APPLAUD

Ahem...

Absolutely excellent update as usual Boney.
 
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Boney said:
During her second set of adventures, she discovers that adorning herself with a specific species of grub apparently confused whatever sense the Lizardmen used to tell each other apart from outsiders. After 'grooming' the grubs from her they did not prevent her from moving throughout the outskirts of their hives, though they still reacted with alarm and aggression if she attempted to move further in, towards where she theorized the spawning chambers were located.
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Skink Chief Skep'tic: This warmblood covered themself in Itxi grubs and appears to be trying to enter the city.
Skink Priest De'la'gator: So they are mad?
Skep'tic: That's the only thing I could think of. Possibly touched by the Enemy?
De'la'gator: Lord Snoz'but'tin remains asleep, let them wander the city without harm until he wakes up, just keep them outside the main temples. I will let him decide matters.
 
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Huh. Well, whichever posters had guessed "Maybe it's not 5 runes on one object; maybe it's 2 objects, with 3 runes each?" were basically right.

And of course, an Elemental is much easier to move than a robot that needs hardcoded instructions for everything.

Now, I wonder if we can still help Kragg with Bok even more, by trying the "Maybe the king's crown can command Bok, or can assign Kragg as the Runelord of Karak Eight Peaks?" thing, too.
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Finally, after all of the plates are slid into place, one can either look through the Seviroscope from the back to see the different colours overlaid onto whatever is being observed, or a bright light can be placed at the front to project out the back the composite image of the Winds present. That should have been the end of it, but finding a light both sufficiently bright and not only mundane in origin but also not attractive to either Hysh or Aqshy proves another difficult puzzle, and once more you're happy to relegate it to Eike, who experiments with a range of tallows and oils before suggesting an oil-lamp fuelled by the bodily oils of some sort of behemoth of the Sea of Claws and behind lead glass, which burns with a surprisingly intense white light that you spend some time suspiciously scrutinizing for any trace of Dhar.
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Shame that the Skaven-researched electric lightbulb experiment uses, or at least attracts, a Wind of magic itself too. If it were just the problem of "It can't be Hysh or Aqshy", then it would have meant "What about using Azyr instead?" could be a solution. ... Also, I can't recall if that Skaven mechanism had created Dhar as well too. I don't think it did.

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fictionfan said:
It would seem really weird if Kragg doesn't make an improved version for his own use. It would seem to be the obvious next step for his research. If nothing else making a bright light that doesn't react to the winds is trivial for rune craft.
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Oh right, runic light. That too could work.

That could make the Seviroscope more useful for us too. At the cost of, well, needing to pay Runesmiths to make each Seviroscope; something Mathilde, and the Colleges of Magic in aggregate, could do but general wizards or nobles might have troubles with. Still, somebody like the Emperor or Elector Counts might be able to get those. Or might get those by asking the Colleges of Magic to do the haggling with the Runesmiths.
 
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I'd imagine that getting genuine approval from Kragg would be the kind of thing Dwarven runesmiths would kill for.

In fact the next time we go to a Dwarven Bar or engage in boasts with a bunch of Dwarves we should pull that out as our trump card.
 
It's funny how the lizardmen being some hive species with various castes laid by a queen makes more sense than their real origin being printed out by a pool of water. So, with the grubs, did the lizardmen just see an elf covered in bugs and assume she was some harmless loony that they'd just let wander around as long as she didn't break anything?

That crit for Eike is great. I wonder if that trait would make her better at making ulgu spells with physical effects since it's all about the winds interacting with matter.

So glad we could help Kragg. Just, this whole update was lovely.
 
Boney said:
The first demonstration of the finished product is, of course, for the benefit of Kragg, who's been glaring fruitlessly at Bok for far too long. He watches with deep suspicion as you wheel in what looks like an obsidian coffin with eight glass plates protruding out the size, and as you open both ends of it, line it up with the obedient Bok, and begin carefully sliding the plates into place one by one. When you light the lamp, put it into place and close the forward end of the Seviroscope, and project the captured image onto the chamber wall opposite Bok, the image isn't quite as impressive as you hoped - the Elemental shows up to the Seviroscope as a sort of muddy, blotchy brown as it doesn't resonate with any one Wind. But within that blotch are darker areas where the Runes within draw upon magical energies to fuel themselves, and Kragg is staring intently at them, one finger lifted to sketch out what he's seeing onto the air.
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Let him cook! Let him cook!

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"That's not five Runes on one soul," Kragg says with a glower of concentration after he finally finds the perfect angle, any matter but understanding the Runes before him completely forgotten. "That's two Runes on the soul, two on the material, and one on both simultaneously. A Linking Rune, has to be.
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Yessss knew it! And the explanation/examination just keeps going on!

And then the Nod Of Approval* is just so good.
*except it's a Kragg Nod of Approval**
**except it isn't, it's just straight up a Normal Nod Of Approval, but from Kragg! How many years since such last graced this Earth? Beautiful.

Boney said:
[Eike learning from this: Learning, 100+13=113.]
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Best Apprentice continues winning, love to see. She's gonna have a wild build by the end of this apprenticeship lmao.

The Lizardmen stuff was great, but it was also nice seeing the Undumgi getting recognised as a solid culture by others. Makes me wonder what sort of crazy rumours popped up about them as a result. Half-dwarves who worship mountains with giant spider pets they steal from goblins?
 
mmgaballah said:
pretty sure Kragg would do that for free as long as he got to keep a copy for his own use the device having proved its worthiness and usefulness to research conclusively
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Kragg's next version of the Seviroscope is likely to be a full enclosure that he can fit Bok into in order to approximate 3D vision by doing all angles at the same time.
 
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