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Warhammer Fantasy: Divided Loyalties - an Advisor's Quest

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Wiggy said:
On that note, what *does* typically happen to an apprentice when their master gets eaten by gribblies or something?
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Sometimes a friend or former apprentice of the deceased will pick up the training, sometimes the College will find another master for them. If they're close enough to ready they might just be given a bit of extra training by whoever's available and then sent on their journeying.
 
LawsOfRobotics said:
Max is good to dictate to and research with, but he wants to be able to work on his magically enhanced smithing and his work for us is just his job to pay the bills. I don't think he would volunteer for a long sea voyage where he doesn't have his workshop so he would probably only come if we ordered him to do so.
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I mean, he might be interested in a chance to poke some mage-smiths that are a bit less completely isolated than the ones in Laurelorn.
 
I won't be surprised or too stressed if the Elfcation ends up happening next turn, but I'd really rather confirm the success of our first prototype waystone (our biggest and most important milestone) before traipsing off to another continent because we're getting a bit twitchy. We are the one person upon which the Waystone Project revolves. Everyone is here on the table because they wanted to deal with Mathilde Weber specifically, not the Grey Order or the Empire, and without her things can't move forward.

It's not that I'm scared of Mathilde's odds of coming back alive and in one piece from Nagarythe, but it is "a half-drowned, half-ruined land of ghosts and blood and ashes". It may not be more dangerous than the Chaos Wastes, but unlike the Chaos Wastes we would be going in solo, and would have to make new friends on the spot rather than bring along any of our existing ones.

The other biggest reason: I wanna give Eike at least one dedicated training action before we go on a deadly vacation without her.
 
Parabola said:
The other biggest reason: I wanna give Eike at least one dedicated training action before we go on a deadly vacation without her.
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We have trained her directly, when she breezed through an assignment that was supposed to take us a half-action. We have also sent her to classes in the College. The point of senior apprenticeship is to save as much time helping as they take getting up to speed, so that them tagging along is informative for them without being detrimental to us. That, and her already being ahead of the curve, are the reasons I'm entirely against spending AP on giving her undivided attention unless it's something she really gotta learn, no College classes exist on, and we would not do by ourselves giving her an opportunity to learn by participating. (I can't think of any such skill.)
 
[] Train Eike's diplomacy by disguising her as yourself and sending her to negotiate waystone roleout in another country (specify)
-[] Cathay
-[] Nehekhara
-[] the french one? idk
-[] Lustria
-[] Ind lmao
 
I'm not entirely convinced by the Lothern Eikation idea: I'm a bit worried about Eike spending 3 months in a foreign city with no support, and I don't know if it'll be that good for her anyway. I'm also kind of concerned about Eike going on a boat trip with us while we have a grudge against Stromfels, though on the other hand if we do get attacked by pirates that'll really play into Eike's interest in naval tactics...

There's the self-study idea of having Eike join Kazador's throng while they go hunting Greenskins, maybe we can do that during Elfcation. That way Eike will intern with dwarves while Mathidle interns with elves, preserving the cosmic balance (also the name of the guy who invited us to elfcation is also the Eltharin world for dwarf, that retroactively makes it foreshadowing). Or I suppose if people really want to take Eike to Lothern we can do both at the same turn, with Eike spending the Elfcation half of the turn with elves and the none Elfcation half of the turn with Kazador. Let her try and deal with two very different cultures in two very different contexts in a short span of time, it's very Ulgu.
 
Somic said:
[X] Yes
-[X] Find a way to subtly honor Ranald and Halétha in the final copy of the Accords.

I really don't like how unspecific this option looks, but since it wasn't shot down and there has been discussion about actual ways to accomplish this, it will have to do.
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Heh, Fair. In the heat of the moment it was a choice between that or overly long-winded, but it definitely suffers more than one issue from being written late at night. As in "minutes before falling asleep."
 
mathymancer said:
I'm not entirely convinced by the Lothern Eikation idea: I'm a bit worried about Eike spending 3 months in a foreign city with no support
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If the general plan of doing Elfcation the turn after next goes through, Eike will be nearly eighteen years old when it happens. Like that's "leaving home for college" age here in the modern world. She is not the little girl she was when Wilhelmina introduced us. Eike will be absolutely fine for twelve weeks in Ulthuan, one of the safest bastions of Order in the world, without someone helicoptering over her.
 
Eike will do worse off walking the roads of the Empire than spending a season in Lothern. She's a brilliant young woman who's better at economics, fighting, intrigue, magic, and diplomacy than everyone posting in this thread.
 
Isn´t Eike like, reasonably close to adult now anyway? Like 15 to 16 or something? I think original plan is to do it split turn 44-45 to use overwork action so that we only use maximum of two actions per one turn and have one full turn, she will probably be old enough by then to take care of herself or something.

There is worse things to do to spend three months in a beautiful city with enough stipend to get by for young adult, regardless of profession.
 
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Somic said:
Aren't we talking about sending Johann with her? Y'know, the mature, gregarious wizard with metal skin who can run alongside a Shadowsteed and punch out a Rider in Red no problem? That sounds pretty supportive, and I think he won't mind going new places again.
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I don't know, are we? I'm not sure how Johann would spend three months in Lothern. For that matter I'm not sure how Eike will spend three months in Lothern. Do we just want her to, like, have fun? Get us some book contracts? I'm not entirely sure what people are going for with this idea.
 
I don't think Eike would be in any danger spending a few months in an elven port unsupervised.

But I can't help but imagine returning to find out that she has gone through a whirlwind romance with a young merchant prince and remains in contact with them afterwards.
 
mathymancer said:
I don't know, are we? I'm not sure how Johann would spend three months in Lothern. For that matter I'm not sure how Eike will spend three months in Lothern. Do we just want her to, like, have fun? Get us some book contracts? I'm not entirely sure what people are going for with this idea.
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All of those are things she can do, and there's more. Lothern is a place where she can do a lot of stuff and would likely enjoy hanging out in for three months without us more than in the Empire, at least for the novelty and boats. We'll get to concrete orders when we get to the Elfcation itself.

(Maybe the markets have exciting new materials that she'll know how to make use of. Maybe there are books to plunder. Maybe she'll make contacts for the EIC or collect international rumors for us. I don't know yet and I'm excited to get to it!)

Edit: hey, maybe we'd be able to say "find something to occupy yourself with that interests you" and Boney would roll a d6 for it. Not counting on it, but it's a possibility, especially if there's a multitude of viable ideas floating around.
 
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Only thing I want to do before sending Eike to Lothern is to give her one AP training on Intrigue. After all Lothern is safe from gribblies but there might be people that want to take advantage of her. So I feel it is good idea to get her trained up a bit so she is not easy mark.

Also we probably should do Ithilmar action so we have money to buy from the markets. I mean we did buy everything that was offered from the fire dwarves so I don't think it will be any different. And we haven't even did research on all of them yet.
 
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mathymancer said:
I don't know, are we? I'm not sure how Johann would spend three months in Lothern. For that matter I'm not sure how Eike will spend three months in Lothern. Do we just want her to, like, have fun? Get us some book contracts? I'm not entirely sure what people are going for with this idea.
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I'm in favor of book contacts.

I think the general thrust is that we're going to be passing through a foreign, fantastical city and if we're already going, it'd be a shame if Eike didn't get a chance to experience it herself.
 
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