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Warhammer Fantasy: Divided Loyalties - an Advisor's Quest

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KingCrimson1081 said:
We might start running out of things to spend money on at this rate how will we ever uphold Mathilde's oath of poverty.
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Böök.
Alliterate said:
Let's ask number one We-Silk customer and fan, Dame Weber:
(Mathilde, who had been rolling around in silk sheets, jumps up):
"I wrote a book! About the We! Who make silk! We! A book! Silk!"
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+1 College favour for drawing attention to Araneae Sapiens. :V
SaltyWaffles said:
While silk-for-clothing would be a non-product for Cathay, the two other kinds of silk would be extremely valuable. Silk armor is the kind of thing that can provide an entire layer of protection against physical attacks and fire, while fitting under other forms of existing armor (or over it), making it highly desirable for elite warriors and VIPs.
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IIRC historically silk shirts were a popular form of clothing to be worn under armor by those who could afford it, because arrows that get through armor tended to push silk into the wound intact instead of puncturing it, thus allowing much easier extraction of the arrowhead. Take this with a pinch of salt, though, random thing I saw on the internet once.
NuclearConsensus said:
Fake? Pretty sure Mathilde with all her secrets and connections counts as half a dozen shadowy conspiracies in her own right.
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Which is actually a very small number for a Grey Wizard Lord, but, hey, nobody's perfect.:V
vsh said:
Only for the fifth place. First four will be locked in.
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Which is exactly the situation when the fights are at the most desperate.
 
Dark as Silver said:
RIP Mathilde: Burned at the stake, we don't know what she was up to but she wouldn't stop cackling as she introduced a text that was uncomfortably close to daemonology, so it was pretty bad whatever it was.

At least she died brave.
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Mathilde (thanks to a particular belt) can technically be burned at stake but that'd mostly just increase the theatrical effect of cackling. So it's definitely not the RIP variety of burning.
 
Boney said:
[Enchantment, Learning, 59+16+7=82.]
[Rolling...]

As for her forays into enchantment, you've decided to allow her the freedom to learn whatever works best for her, and it seems that means that she's further exploring the possibilities in different types of magically-attuned materials. It makes perfect sense for her, both in that it's a very direct and effective application of her intuitive Magesight to enhance her enchanting, and as someone who can reasonably assume that their enchantment projects will be taking place in well-stocked laboratories. Perhaps not the most exotic way for her to develop her abilities, but your own first steps were very often shockingly prosaic, and if there's one thing you've learned from the Dwarves, it's the importance of having a solid foundation beneath your feet.
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Best outcome by far, imo. The Tool-Free Enchanting is kind of superflous to someone with Eike's means, and Windherder is quite possibly Mathilde's least useful trait. I guess it would be cool if Eike manages to surpass her Master's skills in one of her own techniques, but that's a pretty advanced thing which can happen sometime in the far future. In the here and now, advancing her Materials skills is absolutely great.
Boney said:
Silence Mastery: Neither Seen Nor Heard. Target is unable to deliberately draw attention to themselves.
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I suppose after all the trouble she had with Sounds, a Silence mastery makes a lot of sense. It bookends her troubles with Sounds nicely, with her managing to overcome her weakness (by learning Sounds) while turning it into a strength (her mastery uses her predilection to make herself unassuming but doesn't actually fall prey to it, since it's someone else that becomes unnoticable). It's also a pretty decent Mastery, as
far as Simple Spells go.

Boney said:
"If you're in the forest, you can be of the forest. If you're of the forest, it's your soul," Tochter says. "At that point, as the Lady Magister pointed out, we should be in well-mapped territory."

"In an entirely natural forest with an unoccupied Dreaming Wood, perhaps," Hatalath says, "but it stands to reason, and perhaps should have been foreseen, that one that has its loyalties firmly established would not be so easily suborned."

You look to Cadaeth, who is biting her lip, to Aksel, who's rolling his eyes, to Tochter, who has the look of someone who's trying very hard to find a reason why what she's just been told isn't the stupidest thing she's heard all week. "I believe that to be the case on the larger scale," you say diplomatically, "but we're talking about strictly local transmission of energies that the oversoul would already be permeable to. The difference between being possessed and merely having a few parasites."

"I suppose that there might be some give to be found on the outskirts," Hatalath murmurs, his brow furrowing as he considers the matter.
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I'm not sure I entirely followed what happend here. Is Hatalath so caught up in high-minded theorizing that he misses the actual practical details of the matter being discussed?
Boney said:
As such, what could very easily have been something the Eonir did in their half of the province and could have been argued was an entirely Eonir innovation, became something impossible to describe as anything but a partnership between College Wizards and Eonir Mages, as Jade Wizards walk Mages five times their age through how not to treat each tree as an individual to be scrupulously catered to. The opportunity to work with the Eonir Mages as equals means that this is something the Jade Order becomes very interested in pursuing themselves, rather than something you need to organize through them, and so you simply hand the matter over to their custody and let them flood the province with every Jade Wizard that can shake free a month or two to explore Laurelorn and glean whatever insight they can.
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This is an absolute win for us. The cooperation between Eonir and Empire becomes ever harder to oppose. Total Queen victory, Isolationist bloc in shambles.

Boney said:
The transformation of the substance of the Aethyr into the Winds is a poorly understood process, but one thing that all accounts agree upon is that it is a turbulent process, with the Aethyric energy being subject to a harsh impact with the jagged edges of reality that are inevitably caused by the rifts that allow such energies into our world. However, if one is able to avoid the jagged edges to immerse the substance of the Aethyr into the depths of well-established and unfrayed reality, the transformation it undergoes is not into the energies with which we are so familiar, but to a gleaming liquid that has been given the name Aethyric Vitae. The main property of this liquid is that its ultimate transformation into Winds is frozen in time and waiting for some impact or contact with magical energies to unravel it, making it a reasonably safe and portable storage medium for large amounts of Winds. They also allow for easy access to Winds at the moment of their creation, Primordial Winds, which have interesting properties that can be put to at least one very interesting use...
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One of our oldest chickens, finally coming home to roost.
Boney said:
[ ] Silk (NEW)
At long, long, long last, Francesco has finally figured out how to weave the We-silk into something that can be worn. Be there for its debuts into the various markets it is destined to disrupt, and make sure that one of the first pieces off the loom - or whatever it is they use - will be your silk sheets.
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Speaking of old chickens...
 
mathymancer said:
I'm not sure I entirely followed what happend here. Is Hatalath so caught up in high-minded theorizing that he misses the actual practical details of the matter being discussed?
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Hatalath claimed that a tributary couldn't be formed in Laurelorn because the forest is "owned" by the Grey Lords. Cadaeth (who's part dryad), Aksel (the priest of a forest goddess), and Tocther (who has a soul made of Jade wind) all immediately caught Hatalath's claim as completely incorrect because they understand forest souls better, but didn't want to publicly humiliated the thousands of years old Archmage by telling him exactly how wrong he was.

They didn't do a very good job of hiding it (probably because they don't have Grey Wizard training).
 
Techmarine said:
Hmmm I really want to know what they concluded from the skull river ambush

But looking at the thread I find it unlikely to win :(
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Such is the fate of the Skull River Ambush lobby. Hope springs eternal, comrade.
Nimbus said:
This is a very good point. Do those familiar with lore know whether the Fire Spire was using Reikspiel/Eltharin/Classical/another language as a lingua franca? We could, of course, rely on any number of others to translate...
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From the update where we got those books we know it's mostly Reikspiel:
Boney said:
Concealed among those shipments is a few shelves worth of books for you to sort through at your leisure, mostly in Reikspiel with a minority in Kislevarin dialects. The distress the Vlagians referred to seems to not be any physical damage - they're actually shockingly well-preserved for their age - but a great deal of Khazalid notes in the margins that, from the brief skims you've been able to give them, would raise a great deal of questions that it is now your responsibility to not answer. You look forward to being able to carve out enough time to sort through them.
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And the Vlagian margins - which imo are the part that'll make that social turn option the most interesting - are in Khazalid.
 
Nerdasaurus Rex said:
Hatalath claimed that a tributary couldn't be formed in Laurelorn because the forest is "owned" by the Grey Lords. Cadaeth (who's part dryad), Aksel (the priest of a forest goddess), and Tocther (who has a soul made of Jade wind) all immediately caught Hatalath's claim as completely incorrect because they understand forest souls better, but didn't want to publicly humiliated the thousands of years old Archmage by telling him exactly how wrong he was.
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That makes more sense than my own thought, which threw up Drycha and Coeddil as examples of being suborned.
Nerdasaurus Rex said:
They didn't do a very good job of hiding it (probably because they don't have Grey Wizard training).
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Maybe they did do a good job of hiding it, just not Grey-good, which is why Mathilde caught on and Hatalath didn't?
 
One of the most fun things about Eike's magical skills is that she could get to magic 5 in a turn with fair though not extraordinary rolls
  1. Four more Lesser spells +1 Magic
  2. Advanced Enchanting 2/2 +1 Magic
She could get to the magical level of an experienced journeyman/new magister before she learned her first true Colored Spell.

Heck is you really want to get silly turn her a staff out of Drycha wood and get her to Magic 6 on that same turn potentially. :V
 
ReImagined said:
For the Perpetual Apprentice she hired to maintain appearances in a decidedly much less hectic political and economic landscape, well.

You, 'Eike Hochschild,' have big shoes to fill.

Good luck.

You'll need it.
Objective revealed: Preserve your cover as Eike Hochschild.
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And then Mathild shows up.

'Wait, does she know? She must know, she's a Grey Magister and the Dämmerlichtreiter, of course she knows. But wait, I just assumed she'd know because she's the Dämmerlichtreiter, Lady Eike never actually said that. Oh no, if she doesn't know, she'll absolutely find me out - some illusions are not going to fool the Dämmerlichtreiter. If she doesn't know I'm supposed to be assuming Lady Ekie's identity, she'll naturally assume something malicious - Oh Shallya, Sigmar, and Ulric, she's going to kill me!'
 
BeepSmile said:
The Bursar chooses to retroactively be part of that meeting.
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I think the Orbs are the sort of thing that'd get the Bursar off Mathilde's back.

If Mathilde needs to sleep on a giant pile of gold in a palace raised by the finest dwarf masons and eat food prepared by the finest Eonir chefs in order to find the inspiration for Orb level goodies then Algard and Dragomas will immediately sign the expenses off as being of immediate and practical use - and anyone who wants to challenge that better bring some Orbs of their own.
 
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