Mathilde kills the tzar while wearing a fursuit huh? They wouldn't expect it.
Warhammer Fantasy: Divided Loyalties - an Advisor's Quest
- Thread starter Boney
- Start date
- Fantasy Users' Choice!
Voted best in category in the Users' Choice awards.
- Location
- Seattle
Permanent Elfcation. Or back to 8 peaks.
Hey Boss, turns out Kislev owes me their continued existence. Anything you want to capitalize on there? Cause I want them to ship all their magically capable boys south instead of killing them.
- Location
- New Brunswick, NJ
- Pronouns
- He/Him/His
God, I wish we had based the Waystone Project in Kislev and it had never come to this.
There is nothing he would not do if it meant more Kislev and less Za, he said. It breaks my heart that he meant it.
There is nothing he would not do if it meant more Kislev and less Za, he said. It breaks my heart that he meant it.
- Location
- Omniverse #1345
I suspect that if that had been the case we still would have been asked this, just for different reasons.
This is a case where… well, the assassination needs to happen not because of the tributaries, which are frankly relatively minor, but because the Tzar is just going to keep getting in the way of preparations, and the project being based in Kislev would not have actually changed that.
Last edited:
But also very identifiably an assassination. The best bet it to use magic to interfere with a fight he's in- he has no friendly magic users with him most of the time, so they won't be actively able to detect it as it happens, and as long as we aren't too overt, it shouldn't leave much of a trace.
Mopman43
Mountain-Hermit of Nitpeak
- Location
- Vermont
Likely we could have avoided it if we had, though Boris would likely still have been chafing at Vladimir not taking it seriously.
But then again, maybe we'd have just put him and Johann in the same room for long periods of time and trusted him to work his magic?
Breaks his heart too.
Mathilde about to earn her true Assassin stripes, just like her mentor.
- Location
- Omniverse #1345
Have our shadow trip him right into a trolls mouth?
Push them off a balcony. We did that to Petr von Stolpe.
- Location
- North Wales
- Pronouns
- He/Him/His
One thing we should probably not ask for as a boon if we do this is MAXIMUM BOOK. The new Tsar immediately giving the Grey Wizard most known for international wheeling-and-dealing for their pet library that specific kind of carte blanche immediately after the suspicious death of the previous Tzar is, admittedly, the kind of anecdote that historians find very funny.
Not a good idea, though.
Not a good idea, though.
Yeah, I mean, we could miasma his whole unit while they're fighting something and get them all killed with out a trace. But that's pretty tragic in its own way.
fictionfan
Please sir, may I have some Meows?
- Location
- Tempe, AZ
Maybe a sleep spell at the right moment? Mathilde is the expert and has lots of options. We can certainly 47 him.
Last edited:
Have we met Tsar Vladimir Bokha before?
- Location
- Seattle
Easy now friend. You know we are gonna have to vanish him for a little bit when the magic thing becomes an issue.
Goshbedarnit, I meant Vladimir.
I do think we'll probably escape on the grounds we're just faster-but we might have to deal with a blizzard or whatever the Ice/Hag(Would they be around to mess with our escape?) Witches can cook up if we get caught.
They'd probably not know it was us, just that a magic user has shot the Tzar and figure they ought to do something about that.
If we do get caught then the Empire will probably banish, expel us from the college, remove us from the rolls of knighthood, and possibly blacklist the Waystone Project. It might also be good of us to ensure that Eike is visiting her grandmother so she doesn't get caught in the crossfire if things go south?
- Location
- Earth
How about formalization of the practice of sending their male magic users to the Colleges, or otherwise re-establishing the Fire Spire as a branch of or sister institution to the Colleges of Magic? That latter bit would be a plausible excuse to move some books around.
- Location
- Omniverse #1345
That runs the risk of a magic user saying something prior to him being cremated.
Better if we have that kind of access to just quietly suffocate him.
Perhaps not personally, but she was close enough to get a good look at the man during the throwdown with Drycha.
He is saying that he thinks things are bad enough and this is important enough that he is thinking of removing his father in a public way and that would lead to conflict and death even if he has most of the country on his side and if someone not of Kislev is behind the Tsar's death he can become Tsar with out the Title of disloyal son hanging over him making everything harder to accomplish. Plus I don't think he wants to kill his dad himself even if he thinks he has to be removed as Tsar.
No we have not and if we say yes we will in a way meet the Man.
- Location
- Earth
Besides, kind of inappropriate. All of this is about the sacrifices and dirty business done for the greater good, and while the library is definitely going to benefit quite a few people, it's still too personal to fit here.
- Location
- Canada
Thing is, it's not really about the Project
It's about the Everchosen Bowl
Signs have begun showing in the north that Chaos is spooling up for another invasion, and Boris's assessment is that Kislev needs to start preparing for it right now and preferably yesterday if they're going to survive
And his father won't
He's tried talking and convincing but his father will not stir the Boyars into action in preparation of the coming storm
It's why saying something like "well if you hold off for another year I might have actual Waystones ready and then it'll almost certainly get support" is not an option
Boris can't wait another year, and Waystone rollout isn't even the primary concern
Us coming here to talk about the tributary rollout is just a convenient spark
Last edited:
Mopman43
Mountain-Hermit of Nitpeak
- Location
- Vermont
Kislev funeral tradition (well, the kind for the actually-dead, not the ones they hold for people who are alive) for warriors is for them to be sent out into the Oblast on their horse.
But Mockery of Death only lasts for a few days (a Tsar's funeral would certainly be a whole event into itself), and he'd still be physically breathing while under the spell.
Too risky imo.
Last edited: