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Warhammer Fantasy: Divided Loyalties - an Advisor's Quest

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Simon_Jester said:
I'm honestly surprised that any Gray Order journeyman would leave the Colleges without being 'read in' on the skaven's existence.
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In addition to the responses re; grey wizards and catnip secrets, there's also the post immediately above yours mentioning how the Underempire hadn't really penetrated Wurtbad as of then. So while the whole thing might not be as robust as just straight up roping Mathilde in, it also doesn't need to be as robust, because Mathilde was going to be living and working somewhere that doesn't really have a Skaven problem.

Maybe if she'd been doing the advisory thing in Nuln instead...
 
You know what I just realised?

When Kislev finishes its canal, Old World will become an island. Let that sink in for a moment, we are turning an entire continent in to an island. And we are doing it to spite Marienburg.

That is dedication.
 
Now this talking Ranaldian divine magic is making me want to run some smuggling operation to cripple the dawizharr.

I want to go back to Uzukulak to bad. All that loot.

Economic wasteland warfare.
 
Technically, we saw Cadaeth carry along a small glade of forests and stuff along with her soul when we first met her, which was part of the impetus behind 'oh wow i wonder whether we can make a pocket dimension of our own', but with the new information we have on hand, that's proooobably a Laurelorn Dryad/Elf thing, something inherent to how she was born (or an extension of such), rather than something we can do for ourselves.

IIRC Boney has previously said that a Liminal Realm is a bit like a basement (beneath/parallel to reality, stationary), and that a soul is a bit like a car (able to freely move through one layer of reality) - it is a struggle to imagine how you'd add a basement to a car, and even if you could somehow, moving that new car-with-basement around would do ruinous things to reality.

I think at one point he said one possible result of successfully putting a liminal realm in your soul would be that you permanently become stationary? That'd be awful! Mathilde Weber, known traveler and curious individual who likes examining everything around her, confined to a single place in reality.

Nerdasaurus Rex said:
Don't be too jealous—if you put something really interesting into that space, Ranald might just decide to keep it for Himself.
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This is canon to the spell, for anyone wondering. Ranald can quite literally keep anything he thinks is more interesting for him than for you.
 
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Glau said:
I'm looking forward to the new city quarter in Laurelorn. Hopefully we'll have the fogway up and running by the time then import demand shift from marble to fittings.
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Ehh considering how in quest Mathilde had to spend AP to recruit Cadaeth/Frost Ward even though the Vicereine lady literally invited Mathilde for the Waystone project due to elf lifespans and social mores trending towards "slooowwwww" I don't expect city expansion to feasibly happen with in the span of this quest even if everyone is 100% on board.
 
A_Somebody said:
Ehh considering how in quest Mathilde had to spend AP to recruit Cadaeth/Frost Ward even though the Vicereine lady literally invited Mathilde for the Waystone project due to elf lifespans and social mores trending towards "slooowwwww" I don't expect city expansion to feasibly happen with in the span of this quest even if everyone is 100% on board.
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That's not a reflection of time spent, though, that's a reflection of the quest structure and Boney prioritizing quester agency. Even though the Vicereine had invited us, it was our choice whether or not to accept her aid specifically and thereby assume responsibility for spending her time productively and risk annoying her if we managed her badly.

I suspect that by the time Laurelorn is done expanding, Mathilde's focus will be elsewhere so we won't see a ton of it, but maybe in 2495 or somewhere around there we can get a cool social action out of it.
 
Even if it takes a while to construct, the fact that the citizens of the city know that there is a big opportunity to actually be successful coming will have big social ramifications. Even if it's not here yet it gives them a reason to tolerate the current conditions and not leave for the forest.
 
dinomannitro6 said:
Even if it takes a while to construct, the fact that the citizens of the city know that there is a big opportunity to actually be successful coming will have big social ramifications. Even if it's not here yet it gives them a reason to tolerate the current conditions and not leave for the forest.
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Also all project delays will be looked on with deep suspicion.
 
dinomannitro6 said:
Even if it takes a while to construct, the fact that the citizens of the city know that there is a big opportunity to actually be successful coming will have big social ramifications. Even if it's not here yet it gives them a reason to tolerate the current conditions and not leave for the forest.
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Isn't Queen Marisit is pushing for people to leave the city by formenting jealousy of Forestborn? She has been refusing to give diplomatic tours nobles and is letting things simmer as forestborn tells the stories about the Empire.

If not I don't see the point of doing that.
 
Wait, did we send any elves to Kislev for the rollout of the waystone? Kislev think that project is Empire project so bringing an elf might have broken that impresion somewhat.

If not it is a missed oppurtunity I think.
 
You know, another thing occured to me;

You know how we have reputation/favors with Collages and Dwarves? Should we have a numerical reputation/favors counter for Empire nobility as well?

I feel like we should but there might be reason for why we don't. Like the fact that we have not engaged with the nobility a lot. But with the Black Water Canal party where we are told that we are a mover and shaker now it might be a good idea to see how that reflects in mechanical terms.

Not that I have any reason to ask for it tough, I am just curious.
 
Boney said:
you simply glare at the person in front of you - well, not so much 'glare' as no longer masking the expression of annoyance that all this has given you - and wait until they either make the problem go away or escalate the matter to whoever it is that gives them orders. In your experience, if it's a sufficiently important person doing the glaring, there's very few problems that this process can't punch through.
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"My advice is to simply glower at the political functionary until they make the problem go away, in the hopes that I go away. That works for me, so that's my advice."
 
Tasoli said:
You know, another thing occured to me;

You know how we have reputation/favors with Collages and Dwarves? Should we have a numerical reputation/favors counter for Empire nobility as well?

I feel like we should but there might be reason for why we don't. Like the fact that we have not engaged with the nobility a lot. But with the Black Water Canal party where we are told that we are a mover and shaker now it might be a good idea to see how that reflects in mechanical terms.

Not that I have any reason to ask for it tough, I am just curious.
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I think it's partly because the favors wouldn't be easily transferred across the entire empire. Probably wouldn't be larger than favors for each province's nobility
 
Tasoli said:
You know, another thing occured to me;

You know how we have reputation/favors with Collages and Dwarves? Should we have a numerical reputation/favors counter for Empire nobility as well?

I feel like we should but there might be reason for why we don't. Like the fact that we have not engaged with the nobility a lot. But with the Black Water Canal party where we are told that we are a mover and shaker now it might be a good idea to see how that reflects in mechanical terms.

Not that I have any reason to ask for it tough, I am just curious.
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The Empire's nobility is not in any way a united bloc with untied values and opinions. If an arc focused on them I'd probably try to break them down into a single digit number of interest groups
 
Boney said:
The Empire's nobility is not in any way a united bloc with untied values and opinions. If an arc focused on them I'd probably try to break them down into a single digit number of interest groups
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I honestly loved the Ulrican faction breakdown you did and remain hopeful that it will eventually be used in the quest.
 
Boney said:
The Empire's nobility is not in any way a united bloc with untied values and opinions. If an arc focused on them I'd probably try to break them down into a single digit number of interest groups
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For most Empire wide issues just putting everyone who has a electoral vote seems like a good shorthand. Most other groups don't seem to be united Empire wide.

Besides the Colleges of Magic, but we already have them represented.
 
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