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Warhammer Fantasy: Divided Loyalties - an Advisor's Quest

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KingCrimson1081 said:
I take back what I said about Dragon!Mathilde we need to make this happen instead.
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Good news! We can do this.

Mathilde just has to have a Cataclysmic Miscast, roll between 81 and 83 on that table ("Mutating Wind"), then roll somewhere between 51 and 150 on the d1000 Mutations list (Bestial Appearance), then roll between 31 and 35 on a d100 ("Cat"), and instead of getting the associated Night Vision Talent (cat eyes) pray that Boney decides entirely of his own free will to give her cat ears (presumably represented as the Acute Hearing Talent). She also has to not roll a 1/10 chance of getting a full-on cat's head in the process, merely the ears.

So just a... (checks math) 3/20000 chance of it happening to get cat ears, plus GM fiat.

The tail is either a cosmetic addition that comes with the ears and doesn't do much, or it's her gaining yet another mutation, Prehensile Tail (681-685 on the Mutations table). That's also a 3/20000 chance of it happening from a Catastrophic Miscast, but the exact nature of the tail is undetermined - it might not end up as a cat's tail, just a regular hairless tail of some other animal, or just a blob of flesh that ends up looking tail-like.

Totally doable, we just have to intentionally miscast over and over without either dying, wishing we'd died, or rolling on any of other incredibly uncomfortable and horrifying results available to us, mutation or otherwise. And all it'd cost her would be the trust of most people around her and the terror of how mutants are in fact more susceptible to getting further mutations. A susceptibility that doesn't go away until you either die, collapse into a Chaos Spawn, or ascend to Chaos Daemonhood!

Totally doable.
 
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pucflek said:
Because different use cases benefit from different adjustments in design.

EDIT: Perhaps the best example is Mathilde´s custom gyrobomber. We had it built the way we did for a reason. Different purpose, different design.
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true, but I'm not aware of any transport use case where short range is better if long range is possible under the same constraints. Arguably speed I suppose, but you're not generally looking for high speed from airships.

That's a little different. That was changed from a military use to a pure transport use.
 
deathofrats0808 said:
true, but I'm not aware of any transport use case where short range is better if long range is possible under the same constraints. Arguably speed I suppose, but you're not generally looking for high speed from airships.

That's a little different. That was changed from a military use to a pure transport use.
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Whats the difference between traincarts in a subway and vagons in a cross european rail special vagon?

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What i am trying to say, zeppelins are not very fast, unlike gyrocopters. They have to fight wind far more etc etc. So long range treks? They need amenities, they need cargo space to supply them from, they need to be larger to transport the same amount of people etcetera. With short range, all you really need is space for people to safely sit. The considerations that have to go in a design for virtually everything else adjacent to a week long air trip of several dozen to hundreds of people are something you don´t need to solve a vehicle that does a round trip around a circle with diametre of 5 miles. Considering what long range airship has to have on top of what short ranged needs to have means its a much larger vessel with more specific maintenance requirements, and therefore more expensive and inefficient for that purpose.
 
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KingCrimson1081 said:
Are you sure we can't just ask for a favor or two from Ranald?
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Wobbles hand

Ranald's not actually a god of cats or has miracles that involve cats the same way Ulric is associated with wolves, he's just associated with them in the same way Shallya's associated with doves. That is a good enough connection for him to intervene from time to time through cats (he did so a couple of time in Stirland), but I'm not sure there's any actual connection there for him to work anything bigger.

I could see him granting a favored champion of his the capacity to turn back and forth from human to regular cat, but only because that'd make total sense for the Night Prowler (the guards find you and go 'oh it was just a cat'). And even then it may or may not be applicable to Mathilde, who of course is a being of Ulgu and cannot use Ranald's energies directly and on command.
 
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Parabola said:
Good news! We can do this.

Mathilde just has to have a Cataclysmic Miscast, roll between 81 and 83 on that table ("Mutating Wind"), then roll somewhere between 51 and 150 on the d1000 Mutations list (Bestial Appearance), then roll between 31 and 35 on a d100 ("Cat"), and instead of getting the associated Night Vision Talent (cat eyes) pray that Boney decides entirely of his own free will to give her cat ears (presumably represented as the Acute Hearing Talent). She also has to not roll a 1/10 chance of getting a full-on cat's head in the process, merely the ears.

So just a... (checks math) 3/20000 chance of it happening to get cat ears, plus GM fiat.

The tail is either a cosmetic addition that comes with the ears and doesn't do much, or it's her gaining yet another mutation, Prehensile Tail (681-685 on the Mutations table). That's also a 3/20000 chance of it happening from a Catastrophic Miscast, but the exact nature of the tail is undetermined - it might not end up as a cat's tail, just a regular hairless tail of some other animal, or just a blob of flesh that ends up looking tail-like.

Totally doable, we just have to intentionally miscast over and over without either dying, wishing we'd died, or rolling on any of other incredibly uncomfortable and horrifying results available to us, mutation or otherwise. And all it'd cost her would be the trust of most people around her and the terror of how mutants are in fact more susceptible to getting further mutations. A susceptibility that doesn't go away until you either die, collapse into a Chaos Spawn, or ascend to Chaos Daemonhood!

Totally doable.
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Aside from the mutation thing, intentional miscasts seem like it would breach the No Dhar rule of the articles, so that's something else this would cost Mathilde.

Also sounds like a good way to become a catgirl Daemon Prince of Slaanesh, given all the excess and perfectionism this process has all over it.
 
The chances go way up if you're actually shooting for it intentionally, presumably.

Chaos is nothing if not attentive to one's desires.
 
I suppose we could also try to figure out a ritual to intentionally and permanently turn Mathilde into a catgirl, but rituals are dangerous and difficult.

2e WHFRP has a ritual, The Beastly Transformation of the Omnipotent Tchar, that lets you transform weak-willed individuals within a mile of you into Beastmen. It is extremely finnicky, though - the transformation only lasts for 24 hours, you need to speak Daemonic/the DarkTongue, you need some warpstone, the freshly severed head of a Beastman shaman, and two human sacrifices.

All that, and for a purely temporary effect (albeit one that causes a lot of disorder). Trying to adapt that to a specific form of beastman (cat), trying to specifically get only partial traits, and extending the duration to permanent would be a lot of work and trial-and-error which could at any point end terribly in the process of adaptation.

Angelform said:
…alternately she could cast Illusion. Not quite the full effect but several magnitudes easier and almost infinitely safer.
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I mean, yeah, but one of the best forms of humor (and by extension, thread madness) is to take an absurd idea and see how far you can run with it before someone stops you.
 
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The easiest way is probably skip that and just acquire every known ulgu mark for miscasting and then some. Doing so should make us more shadow than flesh. If Cython can change sex at will, we can get goddamn cat ears.
 
Okay, but consider also that Mathilde is the sort to use non magical means as often as magical: Some fur (real or imitation,) some wire, a good seamstress, a bit of dwarven craftsmanship, and perhaps maybe a bit of the Move lesser magic where appropriate.

It's not like cosplayer methods of catification are unavailable to wizards too~ :p
 
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