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During the previous mini turns they still took place over a period of 3 months.

The Blessing hadn't recharged yet.

There is a point at which, as a Q/GM, you have to say "nah fuck it thats stupid" and fudge a roll.
because otherwise, you ruin everything you were doing and everything stops being fun
I say this as a GM myself
Then your a real shit QM and I'm glad I've never read any of your quests.

Dice happened, he's dead, quit bitching at Boney for the way the dice landed.
 
And then there's the questions of "If the Knights of Morr, and then a Throng of Dwarves, and then a whole bunch of greatswords all went through that gate before us, how was there a wave of skeletons for us to run into? Where did they come from? Where did everybody else go?" That's not how towns are assaulted, nor how nobles fight. No noble fights without their body guards, specifically because that negates the point of bodyguards.
We'll find out in the literal post mortem. Currently its under Fog of War.
It's been the most appalling number of nat 1s(seriously, we rolled more nat 1s here than in the entire rest of the quest combined), but this sort of thing happens all the time in armies.
I mean, being the advisor to this guy kind of was the focus of the quest, though.
Not quite. The focus was being the advisor to an elector. As long as we stay as Spymistress, the quest goes on. Electors come and go, heck, given our relative ages, barring death by violence or magic accident, Abelheim was always going to die before we did.

Wizards who Made It can live pretty long.
 
I have bitched every day of my life and im not stopping because some rando insulted me
*Shrug* That's fine, I admit that as a 'rando' I cant make you stop acting like a child, but I'm sure a Mod/Staff could if you keep this up.

And in case a mod does read this, no I'm not making a threat or anything, I'm just predicting someone is going to get sick of Doc sooner or later and report him.
 
Anton's plans have succeeded we are doomed.


But seriously that fucking sucked we didn't even reach the castle yet.

At least he can rest in peace in Morr's Garden.
 
It is okay to be upset at the death of a major character, but everyone trying to argue for the retconning of these events, please don't. It won't succeed and only drags down the thread.
 
Not how the blessing works.

I can buy "didn't recharge yet", but "works during the course of months" looks false, even though it is WoG. There were several times when Ranald saved our bacon pretty much on the spot - the latest example is miscast last turn, so blessing can have an immediate and obvious effect and not a subtle and prolonged one.

Edit: Also, blessing looks pretty much like Mathilde's fate point. Maybe it is even possible that in the future it can be "burned" to escape death once. But sadly it is impossible to save others by burning your fate points, so even if blessing works like that, Van Hal is out of luck.
 
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Let's not harangue the quest author. I'm sure it was at least as emotionally laden for them as it is for the readers.

To avoid confusion, my 'arguments' for such retconning are just comments made in jest, please take them as such, attempting gallows humour.
 
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If only there was someone who had experience reverse-engineering necromantic spells into Ulgu-safe alternatives! If only someone in this tent had that experience...
One is a reapplying a theoretical concept observed while witnessing the effects of a spell, and translating that principal to Ulgu, which was noted to be sufficiently universal it works with all 8 winds. The other is trying to use a wind thematically tied with illusions to animate the the dead whereas even the wind associated with death runs into power uses compared to what necromancy can achieve.
Its known to be studied for fighting necromancy. Knowing how spells are built helps with detecting and taking them apart.

The important part is not using necromancy itself...but as we've shown, you can steal good ideas from necromancers without actually using dhar.

It just takes a lot more work
It was penned by a mad genius using various translations of the Book of Nagash who himself was an asshole so I'd expect hidden rolls to determining whether, or not the simple act of reading the Liber Mortis adversely influenced Mathilde. Like I'm not saying something bad is guaranteed to occur, but expecting it to be like reading a normal magical tome seems an unwise presumption.
It wouldn't be using necromancy, any more than studying than Dhar matrix was using Dhar, though. The entire idea revolves around reverse-engineering the useful concepts in the book to be powered by Ulgu.
That seems like it would be trying to perform Shyish spells with Ulgu imo. Like if we want spells to be made using the principals of a cold hearted individual who was obsessed with avoiding death give it to the Patriarch of the Amethyst Order.
 
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So who's going to break the news to the steward? She won't take the news well and death of count will loosen control over EIC.
 
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I have bitched every day of my life and im not stopping because some rando insulted me
*Shrug* That's fine, I admit that as a 'rando' I cant make you stop acting like a child, but I'm sure a Mod/Staff could if you keep this up.

And in case a mod does read this, no I'm not making a threat or anything, I'm just predicting someone is going to get sick of Doc sooner or later and report him.

This conversation is going nowhere fun and it is now at an end.
 
One is a reapplying a theoretical concept observed while witnessing the effects of a spell, and translating that principal to Ulgu, which was noted to be sufficiently universal to be workable with all 8 winds. The other is trying to use a wind thematically tied with illusions to animate the the dead whereas even the wind associated with death runs into power uses compared to what necromancy can achieve.
It was penned by a mad genius using various translations of the Book of Nagash who himself was an asshole so I'd expect hidden rolls to determining whether, or not the simple act of reading the Liber Mortis adversely influenced Mathilde. Like I'm not saying something bad is guaranteed to occur, but expecting it to be like reading a normal magical tome seems like it would be an unwise presumption.
That seems like it would be trying to perform Shyish spells with Ulgu imo. Like if we want spells to be made using the principals of a cold hearted individual who was obsessed with avoiding death give it to the Patriarch of the Amethyst Order.
What? No, I didn't say necromantic concepts, I said grab everything applicable. The book is made of solid magical gold (that would be Chamon, actually, I guess, but you get the idea), but even just prying the emeralds off the cover could make us stupendously rich.
So who's going to break the news to the steward? She won't take the news well and death of count will loosen control over EIC.
It won't. Two thirds of the shares are still held by representatives of Stirland.
I hope people don't blame the good gods for bad luck.
If they can't help when the chips are down they're not exactly to be relied upon. I get that they're not all-powerful, and that they try, but this was a cavalcade of failures and they're not exempt.
 
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It won't. Two thirds of the shares are still held by representatives of Stirland.

She might retire though. The amount of stress she's been under lately combined with losing Van Hal might make it unappealing to continue being the steward, she's not exactly young.

.....Stormwhite is a mod now. I need a freaking drink.

Storm's been a mod for a while now. I do kinda get where you're coming from though, was a bit surprised myself when it happened.
 
Honestly, one Nat 1 probably shouldn't have been a fatal wound, not against ordinary skeletons, considering that they're not super strong, and a Paranoid Elector Count should have at least been wearing a chain shirt, but what's done is done.

The real pain is going to be seeing how the plot unfolds from here, given how the whole game premise just caught fire.
 
Honestly, one Nat 1 probably shouldn't have been a fatal wound, not against ordinary skeletons, considering that they're not super strong, and a Paranoid Elector Count should have at least been wearing a chain shirt, but what's done is done.

The real pain is going to be seeing how the plot unfolds from here, given how the whole game premise just caught fire.

But has it really? The way I see it we can salvage our skilled agents and ask for reassignment. Maybe that will be stirland and maybe it will be somewhere else. This could be a good excuse to finally rank up as a wizard.
 
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