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Warhammer Fantasy: Divided Loyalties - an Advisor's Quest

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@Exmorri So you would personally say that the first one is more legible to you than the second one? Because I read English pretty much as well as German but I could read the second one as if it was normal text written by a grammatically incompetent person while I honestly could only understand half of the sentences from the first one due to the context of the rest. Because out thrown is grammatically incorrect but still two English words merely in the wrong order, and disturben/watchen are English verbs with an -en at the end to make them sound more German (as opposed to a German trying to make English sounding words). But I genuinely have no clue what, say, any if the words with more than two syllables in the following mean.
"Ist easy schnappen der springenwerk, blowenfusen und poppencorken"
mit spitzensparken.
It simply seems as if both were crafted by someone who is better at English than German.
But maybe that really is a mother tongue divide which I simply cannot see from my side.
Would you be willing to PM me either or both notices in their clean English? I'd love to try my own hands at crafting a pseudo-English "translation". Just for fun.
 
Rafin said:
"Ist easy schnappen der springenwerk, blowenfusen und poppencorken"
mit spitzensparken.
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It's easy to snap the spring-work, blow fuses, and... Pop corks? Followed by something to do with sparks?

Dear god. This isn't even Google-translate tier German. This is an English speaking actor, playing a German speaking character for an English speaking audience.
 
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I'm normally okay with tangents, but there's absolutely no relation between Warhammer Fantasy and a 60-year-old sysadmin meme. Please take the conversation to PMs.

Voting closed; writing has begun.

Edit: Sorry to prolong the cliffhanger, but it turns out it's too late in the day for creativity. I'll resume writing in the morning with a night's sleep under my belt.
 
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Aaaaaaaaaaahhhh!

I just marathoned this thread and it ended in the worst sort of cliffhanger! Jfc that was a rollercoaster of an update.

Good job, @BoneyM, this quest is incredible. I'm so glad to have found it.

Btw, in regards to the good boys who will be joining the Guard, could we have an option to have a terrier of our own; or would that clash too much with the spymistress/Catlady shtick Mathilde has going on?
 
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We will be siting on our ass because were are sneak-ghoul assassins going to come from, the gate we have taken, the army that we are in the middle of because no one who is not wearing the colors of Stirland and is not a dwarf or a Halfling is getting to the count. The vampire is distracted commanding the fight so she will not be sending anything because it would have to cut thought the fight to get to the count. How would she even know the count is down because Witch Hunters tend to look similar when it comes to their getup. Gustav is stuck in the middle of the fight so how the hell would we be stealing his glory when he is not even in over all command at the moment.

Jovi Sunscryer is a member of the Light College and he specializes in philosophy and inventing so his likely ability to heal the count's mortal wound is low. Also if we were cut open we would be dying like the count, the cut is bad going by the trait we picked up but it is not close to killing us so we can still play a role in this fight. Mathilde is not going to be able to get her mind in order watching Van Hal as he dies.

PS. Took to long to write the post and missed QM's last post so what is done is done. Does anyone know why neither of my vote or the change I made would show up in the vote tally when I checked it because I made sure to put the [x] in front of my vote.
 
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Stewart9 said:
We will be siting on our ass because
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...because we are Badly Wounded, so one more failed combat roll might see us down and dying, we are disarmed, we are in no fit frame of mind to take command (we dropped Orc Hewer in exhaustion and were threatening the sawbones with death unless they bandaged his cuts??). Staying by Van Hal's side in completely in character in general and now in particular, having fought so hard to keep him alive.
 
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Stewart9 said:
Jovi Sunscryer is a member of the Light College and he specializes in philosophy and inventing so his likely ability to heal the count's mortal wound is low.
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He's a prominent Magister of the White Wind. A Magister, not a journeyman. Healing is a thing Hysh can do. He can heal; even if he's never studied healing before, which is highly unlikely, he can still make the attempt at all, which is more than can be said for us.
 
chocolote12 said:
He's a prominent Magister of the White Wind. A Magister, not a journeyman. Healing is a thing Hysh can do. He can heal; even if he's never studied healing before, which is highly unlikely, he can still make the attempt at all, which is more than can be said for us.
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We could have made the attempt, it just came with certain undesireable side-effects.
 
Sinsystems said:
No Omegahugger! Winners don't do Dhar!
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Well. Certainly not for anything as... quotidian as emulating a simple, low-challenge Light spell.

BoneyM said:
Contempt rises in you, contempt for the wizard who crafted these abominations - they fell to the temptations of dark magic for this? They succumb to the lure of Dhar and this is the best they can do with it? Ulgu envelops Orc Hewer, and though it can do nothing to add to the ancient power of the blade, you need your magic to be tearing through that of the so-called Elector Countess who can manage no better than these pathetic, mindless automatons. Blasphemy twice: once for falling to temptation, and once for doing so little with it.
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You know when it comes to shadow magic I wonder if we can't make a spell to pull off a Fullmetal Alchemist Pride style cutting shadows.
 
Artemis1992 said:
That's a good point.

If we do Dhar we make a grand work of wielding it through Ulgu and create a whole new subschool of magic thereby, a brilliant new approach based on the ideas of the Great Necromancer himself with a different base.
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We do have precedent in adapting the work of Necromancers to work with Ulgu.
 
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Sinsystems said:
You know when it comes to shadow magic I wonder if we can't make a spell to pull off a Fullmetal Alchemist Pride style cutting shadows.
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There are spells that are simillar, so likely yes. It may be not very efficient, though. Likely high-level spell, while far slower and less efficient than actual sword.

The better approach may be to try to create cutting shadow extending length of greatsword. Mathilde is already channeling Ulgu through weapom. Keeping such spell in battle should not be impossible.

Extending sword by even something like 40 centimeters would be deadly in battle. Any longer beside that would be a masacre for an opponent - especially if spell was modeled after Shadow Knives - passing through armor.


Wizard-Knight sounds nice :)
 
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I think the QM is rather merciful for not getting Van Hal decapitated after that horrific "1" roll.

Or maybe hesitant to change the quest's second most important character mid-arc.

Either way, I'm not complaining :D
 
Martenzo said:
The "catlady shtick" is because Ranald, Mathilde's God, is associated with Cats and their presence is a sign of his attention.
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Dude, I know. It's not like Ranald has been subtle about the fact either. I just made a bad joke about Mathilde living in a house alone except for copious amounts of cats.
 
Oksbad said:
I think the QM is rather merciful for not getting Van Hal decapitated after that horrific "1" roll.

Or maybe hesitant to change the quest's second most important character mid-arc.

Either way, I'm not complaining :D
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Ooor he saw more drama potential by having Van Hal die slowly while we can't do anything (except grabbing Dhar, going insane and getting a flaming result, which IS NOT AN OPTION). And at least make the players think that they could have saved him...

No, I won't trust @BoneyM completely to not farm this for drama. Not until Kasmir or the Light Wizard gets here and heals Van. (Though going by our current look, we might be looking at the third critfail in a very short time :confused:)
 
Sinsystems said:
Speaking of which does that mean we should write a manual on how a Wizard can become a dangerous melee combatant using a combination of training and magic?
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"Many months of intensive personal training from a Elector Counts Champion who takes you under his wing" isn't really Miyamoto Musashi level insight.
:)

Oksbad said:
I think the QM is rather merciful for not getting Van Hal decapitated after that horrific "1" roll.
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Well, stomach wounds are either slowly, painfully fatal, or you slowly get better. Nothing else to be done, barring magic. So... considering the 1, I'd not be surprised to find out that Van Hal's survival is dependant on future rolls, to locate healers and their attempt to heal him.
 
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Sinsystems said:
Speaking of which does that mean we should write a manual on how a Wizard can become a dangerous melee combatant using a combination of training and magic?
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Nah.
There are many people who can do that better than we, though many of those are Chaos-aligned or Vampires, and even if we were actually an authority on the topic it's different for each wind of magic and difficult to apply lessons from one to the other.
 
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