Warhammer Fantasy: Divided Loyalties - an Advisor's Quest
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chocolote12
A Penguin Flailing Against The Keyboard Of Life.
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- Virginia
I'm seeing the sheath idea slowly gaining traction and all I can think of is Nooo! My Gandalf checkbox! 😭
I imagine he's taking about King Arthur who's known as the Once and Future King
Ignore me Alratan probably has the right of it.
Ignore me Alratan probably has the right of it.
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Well, we probably want a study/library to write papers in. If we take apprentices we'll want a classroom. If we want to learn more weapons we might want a sparring room/target range. Then people will want an experimental shrine...
The prophesied champion of the greenskins that Wurrzag is looking for.
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- United States of America
I don't believe they've said exactly what we can do, but we can infer quite a lot from what we've been able to get through college favors and what we've done with enchanting so far.
Basically, if we know a spell, we can figure out a way to bind the spell into an item so that it (1) can be used through an activation sequence and (2) can recharge with set conditions.
That means, currently, that we could likely figure out, after some serious research and work, bind our different spells into objects. Like Dread Aspect onto a ring, or Shadowsteed on a saddle.
And it's possible that from there we could do even cooler things with enchantment, should we pursue it.
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That makes much more sense then King Arthur showing up
I can't agree to any plan that doesn't put the coin on the snake juice. Otherwise it looks great!
We'd need to upgrade our enchantment a lot. I think that Lesser Spells are the best that Mathilde can manage at the moment.
We know that at higher levels of enchantment (and difficulty), adding Mastery effects to items and making them last indefinitely are all possible.
...you forgot the word "glorious" between violent and revolution.
Also I like, that you plan would include long term financial good for the empire. We've let that one slide for far to long
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- Location
- New Brunswick, NJ
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Since we proposed using them as military allies against the skaven, the Citadel option got momentum as a good place to give them snacks.
Waystones and Henges. Kharak eight peaks is apparently a huge locus for them and hooking up our tower to that has the potential to be a massive boon. But we will need to do some investigation first.
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- Vancouver
The prophesied leader of Orks who head butted Archaon so hard his third eye broke.
The dude is such a beast that even the Brown Wind decided to bind with him.
I don't think we want to lock in what we're doing with too much specificity We have the personal goals of swording and snaking, but we need to look at how everything else works together with the job Belegar asks of Mathilde.
We also don't know what other options will open up as a result of this turn's actions, such as with Ranald'd shrine.
Agreed, but, they're one of those unknown unknowns at the moment, I think, where Mathilde doesn't know they're there to learn about. We do have Reginald's hint though.
We also don't know what other options will open up as a result of this turn's actions, such as with Ranald'd shrine.
Agreed, but, they're one of those unknown unknowns at the moment, I think, where Mathilde doesn't know they're there to learn about. We do have Reginald's hint though.
Lealope
Not yet invincible
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That's the main thing I was considering. On the one hand, we're gonna be taking a snakejuice action for every turn until we've thoroughly squeezed out any and all value from it. We can't spend the Gambler on it all the time, no matter how much fun that might be. On the other hand, it would be very nice to start off as we mean to go on and an initial crit might make things a lot smoother.
On a related note, what kinds of books do you think we could pick up to max out our juice research bonuses? Maybe some stuff on High Magic? They aren't the same obviously but perhaps there's some inspiration we could derive from there. A better idea is probably books on the Realm of Chaos, if those even exist, since that's basically what our liquid snek is made up of.
Yeah, there's always been something more urgent come up. I think between instilling the principle, setting up a robust informant network and maybe striking a few deals, we'll be good to take our hands off for a hot minute and only check in on occasion.
That's what the do job actions are for. As for new opportunities, we could probably swap learning spells for that if necessary, since we don't really get the full benefit if we're not using the Gambler.
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chocolote12
A Penguin Flailing Against The Keyboard Of Life.
My suggestion was for both. As long as we can hold it like a staff (it's thin enough for our hand to easily close around) it'd count for the Gandalf-ness, and there are definitely wooden sheath designs running around that we might be able to adapt.
It really depends on the shape of Bar Rikkaz, I guess. If Way Opener is as over-the-top thick as most other things dwarves make it'd be no good, but if it's only a thumb's-width or two it'd be much more reasonable.
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It's possible that more books on divine magic might helps, which is why I suggesting seeing if the dwarves had any books on the divine magic of their human neighbours in the same way they had about their inhuman ones, as the snake is basically made of divine magic, the same as gods and other warp entities, chaos aligned or not.
The other thing that I think would massively help is Arabyan books on binding djinn and on making items using djinn or bits of djinn. The All Knowing Serpent is essentially a djinn, being a non-chaos aligned warp entity, and the Magicians of Araby are probably the best informed on this subject, with the possible exception of the chaos dwarves. The Crusades were a long time ago, but there may still be books that were captured from the Arabyans back then hanging around, and Barak Varr is one of the major interchange points for the trade with Araby. Our exceptional book seller may have the contacts we need for this.
We'd probably need to hire a dwarf from Barak Varr as a translator though, although it might be worth it if it doesn't require an action. Our bookseller might be able to arrange that as well. For less dangerous texts, we could ask him to hire bilingual human warriors as translators for things like sword manuals.
You can do interesting things with an indestructible material to make a blade from, particularly if you're designed for a petite woman like Mathilde - and you have a rune which makes the wielder's physical strength irrelevant.
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It's in the character sheet, under the Karak Eight Peaks home library spoiler.
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My concern is mostly that a bad initial roll on the juice will be written up as the juice being narratively less useful. I would be less concerned about taking it off for later actions.
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- Australia
If you're able to apply poison at all, in melee combat or running through silent assassinating, then you're not using a gun, you're using a sword, and poison would let you sword better.
Apparently those kind of rolls are all unmodified.
The risk is probably more like the Shyish swords where a poor roll for Mathilde to think of applications means that she dismisses them IC, quite possibly incorrectly, simply because she hasn't thought of anything. As a result I do agree with putting the Gambler on the roll immediately.
Because of this, I think that in the turn after next, we may want to avoid scouting, if possible, and perhaps focus on domestic concerns. I'm uncomfortable with that choice though, as I generally think that we should be scouting or similar every turn.
chocolote12
A Penguin Flailing Against The Keyboard Of Life.
Alternatively, Repeating Rifle-Staff. It's about the same size as a staff, and not in any other way magical.
Valarauko
Demon of Power
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- Angband
Indeed. Alas that they may not occur to Kragg give the lack of institutional sword knowledge.
I would really like to do the information network actions soon: Instil corporate policy: information gathering (news) and; Settlers, traders, and prospective wives are arriving. Start building an information network amongst them.
The ex-spymistress in me demands it. The first should get us an Empire rumour mill. Unfortunately the second would require actions to manage. If we want our worldwide spy network we need to hire a grey journeyman intrigue advisor! Or better yet, get the external marshal or the chief diplomat to hire them but have Mathilde copied in to anything juicy.
The next scouting action should be: Greenskins currently occupy Karagril. Find out what tribe they are and who rules them. Karagil is the most likely place to send an army straight at us. It is also a place where Mathilde can lurk in the middle of the settlement and walk among the inhabitants and get a really good picture of their capabilities and intentions and anything special they might have brewing. That would require us to set the coin to Night Prowler so we'd want to do another scout the same turn.
The ex-spymistress in me demands it. The first should get us an Empire rumour mill. Unfortunately the second would require actions to manage. If we want our worldwide spy network we need to hire a grey journeyman intrigue advisor! Or better yet, get the external marshal or the chief diplomat to hire them but have Mathilde copied in to anything juicy.
The next scouting action should be: Greenskins currently occupy Karagril. Find out what tribe they are and who rules them. Karagil is the most likely place to send an army straight at us. It is also a place where Mathilde can lurk in the middle of the settlement and walk among the inhabitants and get a really good picture of their capabilities and intentions and anything special they might have brewing. That would require us to set the coin to Night Prowler so we'd want to do another scout the same turn.