K von Carstein
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Indeed, we sure dodged a bullet by choosing Laurelorn as home base of the Project.
Warhammer Fantasy: Divided Loyalties - an Advisor's Quest
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We gave them the most difficult component to make, and even on a low roll, they still managed to create it. Sarvoi is already looking at ways to improve it, too. "Iterative Improvements - Storage Mechanism"
His personal assistance is technically what we paid for. Tindomiel making some components is what they asked for.
IIRC, Mordheim got recently purged? Gonna want a couple of waystone over there for it to stay purged, tho.
'Recently' in dwarf years maybe, it was at the same time as the Purge of the Haunted Hills.
There was a discussion in the thread about how Mordheim isn't really ever fully purged given how much stuff it has buried and underground. So having some troops around would still be nice.
Moreover, if there was no permanent garrison there or at least minimal army supervision, a new army of ghouls may have appeared there over the years.
[x] Karak to Karak
[x] Okri to Okri
[x] Okri to Okri
Mopman43
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Mathilde's House Words should have been "Tiny but Fierce"
But you are indeed correct, Wizards do pack a lot of punch for a small footprint.
You know... if the reason new Karak Waystones to not work is that they cannot work in changing conditions and they erode faster than they can pick up speed... what if you made the conditions more stable artificially? Rockfalls would be pretty hard to deal with, but rain or snow, you could use Azyr, specifically an enchantment to just keep the skies clear around the mountain. Assuming rockfalls and other geological shifts were not able to outpace the natural attuning process of the stone you might be able to creep forward the construction at significant cost.
[X] Empire to Empire
Because it's an official demand between Treaty signatories but has no negative consequence if it's not answer (just everyone keeping their state secret like authorized in the Treaty).
And even if not answer officialy now the mere fact it was ask can be use later on to justify re-asking if a new circumstances (elfs needing more power for keeping themself floating for example) mandate it.
Because it's an official demand between Treaty signatories but has no negative consequence if it's not answer (just everyone keeping their state secret like authorized in the Treaty).
And even if not answer officialy now the mere fact it was ask can be use later on to justify re-asking if a new circumstances (elfs needing more power for keeping themself floating for example) mandate it.
Thinking about where to put the prototype Waystone, on pragmatic grounds it would make sense to put it in Laurelorn where it can be closely monitored by project members to analyse its performance under load over time.
There are lots of things that seem to work just fine when freshly made that slowly degrade or even encounter unanticipated failure modes when deployed for real.
We don't want to find out later that, day, the Light Colleges modifications mean that their enchantment gradually wears out by Waystone starting to go pop in the field a few years down the line. This is something we want to thoroughly test.
For rockfalls, and geological shifts, perhaps bound earth elementals? Or stone manipulating Light magic.
There are lots of things that seem to work just fine when freshly made that slowly degrade or even encounter unanticipated failure modes when deployed for real.
We don't want to find out later that, day, the Light Colleges modifications mean that their enchantment gradually wears out by Waystone starting to go pop in the field a few years down the line. This is something we want to thoroughly test.
For rockfalls, and geological shifts, perhaps bound earth elementals? Or stone manipulating Light magic.
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Sinsystems
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Side note this must look really nice from the High Elven perspective, they show up and the product is basically already done.
That would make it even more expensive though. I'm not even sure just the Azyr tower is economical. @Boney what are Mathilde's thoughts on the matter? Could one just keep the environment stable long enough for a Karak Rune to pick up steam, at least in principle?
I'm not sure if this is the best, but they would be interesting to read no matter how it goes.
[X] Karak to Karak
[X] Runesmith to Runesmith
We have not given Laurelorn any deliverables. A big part of being the host on the Project is that you get the most goodies. No one really expected to get waystones out of this, except perhaps Bretonnia. But now that we do have results, the host should be the one who gets priority. As far as I can tell that's what everyone expected going into the Project: that the host got dibs on the results.
Anyways Drakenhof is certainly disconnected from the network at this point. In that there probably aren't any waystones between it and the network. So we would need to make more waystones to fill the points in between.
[X] Karak to Karak
[X] Runesmith to Runesmith
No, House Tindomiel has the right of first refusal for all the lands of the Reik Basin (except Kislev), which is to say the Empire, the Wasteland, and Laurelorn. Each of the options for the scope included the previous, smaller option. It would also match Boney saying that tributaries are deployed to Laurelorn by means of deploying Dreaming Wood Tributaries to Nordland, rather than through the international action.
We have not given Laurelorn any deliverables. A big part of being the host on the Project is that you get the most goodies. No one really expected to get waystones out of this, except perhaps Bretonnia. But now that we do have results, the host should be the one who gets priority. As far as I can tell that's what everyone expected going into the Project: that the host got dibs on the results.
It would be a good idea not to snub Laurelorn when they haven't even gotten any waystone-related benefits from the Project yet.
Anyways Drakenhof is certainly disconnected from the network at this point. In that there probably aren't any waystones between it and the network. So we would need to make more waystones to fill the points in between.
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He problem I see is that you are trying to put an enchantment on a truly massive waystone... Which I think puts the life of that enchantment on a timer.
I would expect part of the Finding Out will be the fact that Praag will the place Chaos can most easily contest during the construction.
Lots of cultists, weird shit happing regularly, and on the (is) the border of the wastes.
Mopman43
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It's also the only very-corrupted location that the Old World can easily defend, though.
There is an army and defenses already there, rather than some place like Mordheim where you have to move the army in and manage the support for it.
Theoretically, but on any mortal timescale, 'long enough' would be indefinitely. At that point it makes more sense to use any other method of transmitting energy and just have a permanent guard on it.
I mean you would think so but the Eye of Gazul is sitting on Waystones orders of magnitude larger.
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