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Warhammer Fantasy: Divided Loyalties - an Advisor's Quest

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Alectai said:
I still consider my greatest strength to be setting a character's foundation.

Her starting traits were my work, weren't they?
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Alectai said:
[[*] Plan: Cute is Justice!
-[*] Snakehunted
-[*] College Debt
-[*] Enchanter:
-[*] Brave
-[*] Townsfolk:
-[*] College

We're well liked, courageous (If only because it's a necessary survival tactic when there's a snake anytime you're on a plane), and can put useful trinkets together if we have to! We'll basically be Batman! Bringing justice with a sword! Moving quickly because we have a magic super fast horse that we can summon to get places!

Well, and spooky scary mind magic, but who's counting?
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Ranald carried the vote instead of your preference of Verena, though.

Sinsystems said:
Alright, also what is the policy when it comes to adopting someone into a house and also the policy of Counts having mistresses?
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If they're not of a noble house, or if the head of the noble house they're originally from agrees, anyone can be adopted into any noble family. Legal children have precedence over adoptees in inheritance, though.

And mistresses are a time-honoured tradition of nobility, though frowned upon by the pious.
 
BoneyM said:
Divine casters don't grow on trees. Those you recruited to perform religious services in the army do exactly that, but they don't channel the power of their gods. If you want someone to pray for Van Hal to get better, you're well equipped, but Kasmir's the only one who can provide something more substantial.
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I kinda like the idea of trying to become a priest of Ranald by pure determination, so we can give our re-rolls to Van Hal.

[X] By Van Hal's side. Whatever happens.

Pray really, really hard. That's probably not the traditional way to get Ranald to notice you, but it's what we're good at.
 
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BoneyM said:
If they're not of a noble house, or if the head of the noble house they're originally from agrees, anyone can be adopted into any noble family. Legal children have precedence over adoptees in inheritance, though.

And mistresses are a time-honoured tradition of nobility, though frowned upon by the pious.
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Alright then plan "Adopt Orphans and raise them into Smoke Knights" is a go for our dynasty. Also I have to ask, how insanely difficult is it to get anything from Nippon.
 
BoneyM said:
Ranald carried the vote instead of your preference of Verena, though.
If they're not of a noble house, or if the head of the noble house they're originally from agrees, anyone can be adopted into any noble family. Legal children have precedence over adoptees in inheritance, though.
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bye the way i think her character sheet need to be updated as the titles she has earned have not been added
 
Sinsystems said:
Also I have to ask, how insanely difficult is it to get anything from Nippon.
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Utterly. It's a rumour of a legend you might have heard about once on the other side of the world. Whatever idea you have is not going to work.

Warlord D Thoran said:
bye the way i think her character sheet need to be updated as the titles she has earned have not been added
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Titles: Journeyman of the Grey Order, Spymaster of Stirland, Knight of Stirland, The Dämmerlichtreiter, Sängerkritisch.
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BoneyM said:
Utterly. It's a rumour of a legend you might have heard about once on the other side of the world. Whatever idea you have is not going to work.
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Oh I expected it not to work, I mean the only way I can conceive of getting Nippon techniques is for us to somehow capture an Eshin assassin and torture the information out of him then somehow avoid the relatiation....basically not going to happen.

My rough plan is something more like this
  1. Develop a training regime for our more elite agents.
  2. Create a more refined version of the regime, designed to be done over the course of many years.
  3. Use our contacts, most likely through the thieves guild, to locate young children that show promise.
  4. Adopt a couple of those children, raise/condition them to be loyal to Stirland.
  5. Give them the training regime as they grow up.
  6. Assign them where they are the most useful.
 
Yun said:
This has Mathilde standing watch over Van Hal, and is the type of loyalty that'd see her take on whatever dammed souls emerge from the shadows of Sylvania for small kindness of allowing her liege to die as he lived a man. It might give her a trait that provides bonuses to fighting alongside those of the Van Hal bloodline, and/or undertaking personal missions in their name.
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point of order: he may yet live
 
DocMatoi said:
point of order: he may yet live
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Well, yeah. If the Bright Wizard and/or Kasmir survive the battle, presumably they can work their magic well before any stomach wound can claim him.

Unless vampires and necromancers can remotely worsen wounds, and we have three Amethysts on the lookout for stuff like that.
 
Guile said:
I kinda like the idea of trying to become a priest of Ranald by pure determination, so we can give our re-rolls to Van Hal.

[X] By Van Hal's side. Whatever happens.
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I'm down for becoming a priest (sorceress?) of Ranald. He's one of the good guys, and anything he asks us to do we'd probably have wanted to do anyways, or are already doing.
 
DocMatoi said:
point of order: he may yet live
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I suppose an alternative illustration for such a deep loyalty would be a willingness on the part of Mathilde to cut her way through the gauntlet of motley mockeries of the living that show up to kill, enslave, and/or turn Van Hal while he is down for the count. Because he is an Elector Count of Stirland attempting to establish a certain level of control over Sylvania, and that traditionally ends poorly for any of them who try to do so alongside all of their kin.
 
Guile said:
Well, yeah. If the Bright Wizard and/or Kasmir survive the battle, presumably they can work their magic well before any stomach wound can claim him.
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I assume you mean "Light Wizard" here.

Though I suppose a living flamethrower wouldn't be amiss in this situation. Even if we do already have Deathfang.
 
It's not possible to go from Wizard to Priest. The way they cast is super different, and if you tried with lessons from the other method hanging around in your mind, you'd probably kill yourself right quick.

EDIT: Also you're not allowed to "retire" from the colleges, and good luck convincing the Witch Hunters that what you're doing isn't heresy.
 
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Guile said:
Well, yeah. If the Bright Wizard and/or Kasmir survive the battle, presumably they can work their magic well before any stomach wound can claim him.

Unless vampires and necromancers can remotely worsen wounds, and we have three Amethysts on the lookout for stuff like that.
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If he survives that long hopefully he does.
 
Empire nobles being able to adopt heirs plays rather oddly with how frequently succession crisises due to them having no legitimate male heirs crops up in the flufff.

If they could adopt this just wouldn't happen, as they could adopt a bastard, nephew, or cousin. Van Hal would be pretty unlikely to be the Elector Count I'd this could happen, as the previous family wouldn't die out.

The Empire is strongly based on the HRE, where adoption basically wasn't allowed.
 
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Alratan said:
Empire nobles being able to adopt heirs plays rather oddly with how frequently succession crisises due to them having no legitimate male heirs crops up in the flufff.

If they could adopt this just wouldn't happen, as they could adopt a bastard, nephew, or cousin. Van Hal would be pretty unlikely to be the Elector Count I'd this could happen, as the previous family wouldn't die out.

The Empire is strongly based on the HRE, where adoption basically wasn't allowed.
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It's important to note that the higher up the totem pole you go, the more illegitimate your adopted heir becomes (unless also from the upper class)

A landed knight who never married can adopt without many people complaining. Especially one that is estranged from their family.

A Count with a well established bloodline adopting would be accused of undermining his own family, and unite all the pretenders against his adopted heir.
 
Let's chill with the major plans for the future. There's still a battle to be survived so let's focus on the now for this coming update.
 
[X] A battle still rages. Throw yourself into it.

Somehow I feel like Van Hal is the kind of person who would be pissed at us for staying at his side when we could have still fought. Especially if the assault fails in some way while we sit at his side.
 
We are a wizard not a general so what the hell would we accomplish trying to take command. The count is dying people and the only person we know for sure can save him is embroiled in the middle of the fight and you think a runner will find him in time with out getting killed trying. We also have no guarantee the light wizard will know anything about healing, he could and do we want to risk the chance that he does not. We took a cut that is not major and while it might be a hindrance we have gotten it looked at and we can still fight as shown by the options we have right now. Kasmir is in the middle of the fighting and going ourselves is to make sure he is okay and that he is informed the count needs him immediately. If we take command their is no guarantee that when Kasmir is found he will be in a state were he can heal the count. Can we please not just sit on our ass while the count is dying in front of us. I say we summon our shadowsteed and go find the warrior priest who will be leaving a trail of divine magic that we can track with our magesight. Finding him will not be hard so trust in Sigmar and lets go save our boss.

[x] Somewhere in that town-turned-battlefield is Brother Kasmir. Leave Van Hal's side. Find him. Sigmar will heal Van Hal.
 
Bilbo Baggins said:
[X] A battle still rages. Throw yourself into it.

Somehow I feel like Van Hal is the kind of person who would be pissed at us for staying at his side when we could have still fought. Especially if the assault fails in some way while we sit at his side.
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But... we can't still fight. That's the argument. If we could, we'd be bolting for Kasmir. We are wounded.
Stewart9 said:
We also have no guarantee the light wizard will know anything about healing, he could and do we want to risk the chance that he does not.
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Light magic is the magic of healing, not Jade. That's like saying we wouldn't necessarily have magic hiding powers.
Stewart9 said:
We took a cut that is not major
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BoneyM said:
[Trait gained: Badly Wounded]
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:l
 
[X] Somewhere in that town-turned-battlefield is Brother Kasmir. Leave Van Hal's side. Find him. Sigmar will heal Van Hal.
 
Warlord D Thoran said:
ok but for The Dämmerlichtreiter and Sängerkritisch i don't remember what they mean or how we got them
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Here you go. The first was for our shadowsteed use. The second was for taking down a singing vampire.

BoneyM said:
"The Dämmerlichtreiter," the man breathes.

You blink in surprise at him. "The what now?" You had been prepared for all sorts of reactions, but not calling you that.

He stares, wild-eyed, pointing accusingly. "You! The Rider of Dusk! The woman who rides the coming of night across Stirland, bringing ruin to the enemies of the Hunter-Count!"

You stare back, and a delighted smile spreads across your face. "I mean... gosh. I hadn't realized people had been noticing. The Rider of Dusk? That's... wow." You bask for a moment, but duty calls. "Anyway. Not why I'm here."
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BoneyM said:
The terrible cries of the Singing King are nothing compared to the hundreds of agonized screeches torn from the throats of those between you and the King, and the air is filled with their cries and the smell of boiling flesh and a horrible fog of vapourized skin. In instants the creatures have either literally or figuratively melted away and there's nothing between you and the Strigoi
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[Title gained: Sängerkritisch]
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