I think it's doable, but at the same time it's Paths of the Old Ones from Wish.com. There would be risks involved.
Warhammer Fantasy: Divided Loyalties - an Advisor's Quest
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I think it's doable, but at the same time it's Paths of the Old Ones from Wish.com. There would be risks involved.
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- Utrecht
The tower is just the next step of Mathilde's quest to match the ancient prodigies and turn it into institutional knowledge.
Next on her list: Fozzrik.
Next on her list: Fozzrik.
I do like the idea of a boarding action, flying tower to flying fortress.
Armor of von Tarnus would stack with Aethyric Armour.
"Hey mystery cult, stop being a mystery cult and be a sharing cult instead."
No.
No.
If they held it back, they did so for a reason, and that reason would still exist.
There are Battle Wizards that are dead because of it, if that's what you mean.
You're naming two things that are currently extremely undefined and asking me to compare hard details about them.
"They have to do bad writing because if they didn't, they would have to do good writing instead" is not actually that great a defence.
Yes.
The ithilmar armour you'd be comparing it to doesn't currently exist. It measures up pretty well against literally nothing.
It stacks with casting. Considering its entire purpose is redundant unless the wearer is capable of casting, I don't see an actual practical difference between the two.
You would need a way to transform someone into Winds, and then to transform them back into their original form. Developing this seems fraught.
NuclearConsensus
Herald of the Thorned One
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- the Philippines
Something about the update came to me just now. Feldmann must be wondering a little just how much that deal with Mathilde regarding apparition spells may have contributed to the study of Aethyric Vitae. No wonder she was so willing to give up so many skaven study materials, she had something better in the background being worked on.
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Et Sic Incipit
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- Planet Earth, North America
I was thinking more of the winds being a power source for the teleporter, and the actual teleporting would be through liminal realms essentially stretching between each of the sites. Would that be possible, or am I misunderstanding how little realms work and the capabilities?
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- Actually pretty lost
That's fair.
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- Utrecht
Fozzrik also had alliteration in his tower... Fozzrik's Flying Fortress.
So... we need to think of something really clever. Mathilde's Marvelous Migrating Minaret
(to muddy the waters)
deathofrats0808
Don’t think of it as dying; just as leaving early
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- Earth
Mathilde's Mobile MonolithFozzrik also had alliteration in his tower... Fozzrik's Flying Fortress.
So... we need to think of something really clever. Mathilde's Marvelous Migrating Minaret
- Location
- New Brunswick, NJ
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- He/Him/His
Jesus fucking Christ you people talk a lot (he says, hypocritically).
Of the "cash this in for one big favor" options, I think I like the Armor of von Tarnus the best, since it saves us the effort of figuring out how to improve on our robes and stacks with our Aethyric Armour. Plus, the mental image of us rolling up to Nagarythe in armor and a greatsword, being perceived as a pure warrior, and then casually tossing out high-level Ulgu is a great one.
I am deeply uninterested in a flying base of any kind and will actively vote against it. "Support in dispatching battle wizards to one major conflict of Mathilde's choice" also sounds good -- we can use that for either Nexus reclamation or to assist the dwarves (though I suspect the dwarves would not be super thrilled about their propensity to cause high-octane magical weirdness even when they aren't blowing up).
I intend to sit down today and figure out if there is a line-item request that would be good instead of one big favor.
Of the "cash this in for one big favor" options, I think I like the Armor of von Tarnus the best, since it saves us the effort of figuring out how to improve on our robes and stacks with our Aethyric Armour. Plus, the mental image of us rolling up to Nagarythe in armor and a greatsword, being perceived as a pure warrior, and then casually tossing out high-level Ulgu is a great one.
I am deeply uninterested in a flying base of any kind and will actively vote against it. "Support in dispatching battle wizards to one major conflict of Mathilde's choice" also sounds good -- we can use that for either Nexus reclamation or to assist the dwarves (though I suspect the dwarves would not be super thrilled about their propensity to cause high-octane magical weirdness even when they aren't blowing up).
I intend to sit down today and figure out if there is a line-item request that would be good instead of one big favor.
Feldmann must be nerdraging hard, I think. He has no reason to believe we were interested in Apparitions before he told us about them -- we didn't know the Hounds were Apparitions, after all. But then the Golds sold the secret to us, and it looks an awful lot from his perspective like we then started investigating it, got curious about the properties of Apparition blood, and casually solved two major secrets of the Colleges using an insight the Golds already had. Incredible levels of malding.
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- Belfast
Feels like they'd have runes on stuff like the boiler powering it, the Hull or frame itself, and maybe woven into the hot air balloons... and of course applied to every piece of the artillery it carries
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- A Pit Of My Own Making
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- He/Him
How have I misses this before, it's great! Damm threadmark shifting
It's funny, because they could
I misread "throng" and my mind went way off tangent
Be an intresting twist on one of my MAGDA WESSEN stories, we're not Teclis' bride-price, he is our!
Laughs
There are so many beasties that can fly, and would attack a floating anything on sight, it's not funny.
The equivalent of driving your new ride by your rival's house so they get jealous, except we're flying a magical and armed ship over their city.
Böök is eternal, but... we can always do with shiny stuff.
My suggestion is a magical tower... that can transform into an airship... or a giant mammoth mech.
Pleases the largest number of people.
Godwinson
"Well, I've got nothing."
Obvious fallback option is just to convert to ordinary College Favor, but that's boring as hell.
Has anyone compiled a list of potentially worthwhile magical secrets to ask for?
Possibly ask for someone to go handle the Iron Orcs problem so we can bring a Damsel in, but all that's doing is saving an AP and removing an adventure arc, so I'm not sure that'd be worthwhile.
Could look to convert into political favors with groups each college has influence with? Pop open a new Favor Economy section?
Has anyone compiled a list of potentially worthwhile magical secrets to ask for?
Possibly ask for someone to go handle the Iron Orcs problem so we can bring a Damsel in, but all that's doing is saving an AP and removing an adventure arc, so I'm not sure that'd be worthwhile.
Could look to convert into political favors with groups each college has influence with? Pop open a new Favor Economy section?
@Boney , did you see my ideas? Are they viable?
-Assistance with windherder research
-collaborate on extracting non-dhar knowledge from the skaven(engineering, medicinal, strategic about shared enemies, etc)
-collaboration with cython on researching a way to achieve their "next step" of attunement to a wind. I.e. becoming more magical and less material
-Assistance with windherder research
-collaborate on extracting non-dhar knowledge from the skaven(engineering, medicinal, strategic about shared enemies, etc)
-collaboration with cython on researching a way to achieve their "next step" of attunement to a wind. I.e. becoming more magical and less material
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- Utrecht
Can we ask for a peek into the book of Volans?
Somic
It's meow or never
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- She/Her
Boney said we can. But why
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- France
The Book of Volan would be available to us as boon ( Boney confirmed it)
If people are interested in secret lore and grinding our wizardness, the Book of Volan is where it's at.
Can be done with CF, we even have the rates.
Is already being done by the Gold College.
This has been asked before and the answer was that while study into the precise mechanisms to soul transformation would likely be worthwhile there really aren't any ethical paths open to do the testing. Not a lot of people cuing up to let you violently poke their souls in the name of science.
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- Actually pretty lost
I think I'm currently leaning towards Flying Tower over Von Tarnus' armour, but one benefit of the latter is that if we have it on us, we also have the opportunity to examine it and see if we can figure out how the enchantment works.
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- Utrecht
We are a connoisseur of rare and restricted books.
This is one we can brag about
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- Norway
Ehhhhh... I think that's too narrow an origin you're attributing there.
Sometimes unique loot from a lost age happens for narrative constraint reasons that loot, of many kinds, can be viewed as a sort of timeskip-in-a-box.
You could show a protagonist working for years to get rich, or have him find a chest of coins or an ancient inheritance. You could show a protagonist working for years to get swole, or have him find a super soldier serum that buffs him over night. You could show a protagonist working for years to study a topic, or have him find a memory crystal that dumps its knowledge into his brain. And so on.
These are useful storytelling tools because they allow an author to level up one character without progressing the whole setting, keeping time-sensitive things fresh and working elsewhere. Xianxia stories in particular have a tendency to shower the protagonist with timeskip-in-a-box pills, to compress the centuries of training allegedly needed to become a Spirit-Severing Sword Saint or whatever, into the timespan of building a relationship with the love interest.
But in order to level up one character (or a small handful) rather than the whole setting, the loot has to be limited in quantity and near irreproducible to avoid a plothole. Maybe the super soldier serum kills most people who take it, or the memory crystal has burned out after use, or there's just one of the thing in existence for other reasons.
Sometimes authors just move on and disregard the plothole (cough, superhero comics, far too many things should be distributed and aren't), sometimes a flavor of 'lost golden age' is used as the explanation for the loot, sometimes there's other explanations like 'crashed alien ship' which it's reasonable for Earth to only have one of. This isn't all inherited from the myth of the Golden Age, it has its own reasons to exist.
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A note here, we do not really know high level Ulgu by elf standards, we know two low battle magic spells which is respectable, but not pinnacle of the art or anything.
Honestly with the talk of getting out of the Vow of Poverty and the Airship/Tower vote I just want this scene.
"It's a flying death library! How is that obeying the Vow of Poverty?!"
"It is of immediate and practical use."
"How?"
"I understand it is very good for say... sleeping in?"
"That's what Inns are for."
"Transport?"
"God invented Horses for a reason. Anyway don't you have some magic horse spell?"
"And of course immediate access to reseach materials is always useful to a Lady Magister."
"Poor people do not own flying death fortresses."
"I think it might technically belong to the EIC? They just loaned it to Lady Magister Weber. Permenently."
"AARGH!"
"It's a flying death library! How is that obeying the Vow of Poverty?!"
"It is of immediate and practical use."
"How?"
"I understand it is very good for say... sleeping in?"
"That's what Inns are for."
"Transport?"
"God invented Horses for a reason. Anyway don't you have some magic horse spell?"
"And of course immediate access to reseach materials is always useful to a Lady Magister."
"Poor people do not own flying death fortresses."
"I think it might technically belong to the EIC? They just loaned it to Lady Magister Weber. Permenently."
"AARGH!"
Used for the good of the Empire. Do you know anyone who would use the giant death library better for the good of the Empire?
...
Thought not.
