Warhammer Fantasy: Divided Loyalties - an Advisor's Quest
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Thank you! That's perfectly understandable considering what it does, and has fun implications if Windsage is ever advance-able.
Given that Belegar wants to turn silk production into a big earner for K8P, getting the We to be better weavers isn't really a good idea. Mostly because if the We are the ones weaving, then the dwarfs would just be acting as middlemen who paid the We for woven goods in food and took a chunk of the profits of their labor - whereas if the people Belegar is getting funded by are making money by doing a more honest job of turning raw silk from the We into useful goods it's much more palatable and profitable for the Karak.
If it makes you feel better, the sentiment that we'd need to try a couple times with different approaches implies that successive rolls get a bonii due to having lowered the possibility space wherein the solution lies. (Dawi education mentality being that there is one valid solution and they just need to find it, because Dawi.)
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[ ] Try to see through Pall of Darkness with your improved magical senses.
This might help with advancing Windsage.
Because it's trying to train the sense.
While Schrodinger's Correct Answer does exist at times, it still factors in the reasoning you could use to identify a likely answer. If there's a reasonable set of logic behind a potential answer you apply to an unusual problem, it's going to have a higher chance of success than if you YOLO it and throw whatever at it. This isn't a mechanic to take into account to increase the odds of success, this is a trick to reduce the amount of behind-the-scenes work it takes to keep the quest going, and if you approach it as if there is one correct answer that can be found by logic and debate, you'll not be lead astray.
How does said poker face fare when the other person has Windsage and you don't know it? 'specially if Mathilde looks like she's not trying to get a reaction from her Patriarch, perhaps because she doesn't think she'd get one.
Then again, when you get to that level, you probably have more than mere normal ways to maintain a poker face. Then again, do you really even need to hide the reaction of being happy about getting to do something you enjoy. Then again...
deathofrats0808
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Today, on 'How to be a Grey Patriarch' we got a whole minute into the show before rampant paranoia spirals began.How does said poker face fare when the other person has Windsage and you don't know it? 'specially if Mathilde looks like she's not trying to get a reaction from her Patriarch, perhaps because she doesn't think she'd get one.
Then again, when you get to that level, you probably have more than mere normal ways to maintain a poker face. Then again, do you really even need to hide the reaction of being happy about getting to do something you enjoy. Then again...
That's a new record!
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Oh thank you, as someone who spent a ton of time and posts this weekend on logically debating this (I drew up a table of our options and the pros and cons for each!) I was having a crisis of faith.
[Pickle has lost Trait: Doubt In Bayes]
It's entirely the Master's decision, though it's not unknown or looked down upon to call in colleagues to consider the matter with.
Not simultaneously, as far as you know, though it would be possible albeit hideously complicated to build one that can alternate between individual ones.
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I should point out that Algard has been pretending to be dead for years, which should make this trip of his even more amusing.
chocolote12
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What if we made them triangular (with acute angles) and stuck them together like the wedges of an orange? I'd imagine the inter-sections would need to be really magically dampening (which sounds like a job for runes), but otherwise the theory seems sound.
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Wait, what? Has this come up in the quest?I should point out that Algard has been pretending to be dead for years, which should make this trip of his even more amusing.
Dhar city, population you.
NeonLights
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In canon he "mysteriously disappeared".
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We literally have to. The Ambassador told us to go to Lothern and present the token there.
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Lothern is the greatest city of Ulthuan, the island-continent of the High Elves. Situated within the kingdom of Eataine, Lothern is the capital city of both said-kingdom and the island-continent itself. Human merchants are allowed to trade here, and the city has been a busy centre of...warhammerfantasy.fandom.com
@BoneyM, could we stop by Lothern before proceeding to Nagarythe to buy some books?
SuperSonicSound
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Seems simple enough to me, we go to shadow elves, end up assassinating Malekith and then get the Saphery mages to teach us how.
Obviously with the coin set to protector.
BungieONI
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Pretty much, part of my post up the way is basically trying to describe that in order for me to think a choice in general is valid factors need to be smudged across a decision space such that logic and debate using your approach can be entertaining. You are exceptionally good at this. An obvious crystal clear vote choice can't be provided and maintain this smudging, (though in some cases such can be entertaining for entirely different reasons, but that's another topic).
Another factor is that I don't really connect correctness and inherent betterness in writing stories, because incorrect choices can work out for the extreme betterment of a story. Because its dramatic, fun or flavorful! This applies equally to correct choices for the exact same reason and this similarity smudges the difference between the two while allowing debate to reach the correct answer to still exist.
In all of this though it does indicate that I need to adjust my value judgement to more fit in line with yours a bit because of the implication this carries that it was just a straight roll and that my judgement on it defeating the point of the vote was jumping the shark a bit. Sorry about that. And after writing up my post I did actually start to reconsider as I convinced myself away from my initial point. Funny how that can happen
I seem to recall that during our time learning Dread Aspect it came up in her internal monologue.
Thirty plus years in a future that will never happe
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It's the basis of the whole "Screaming Towers" scam.
The officially published story is that he "vanished" years ago, that the Grey College currently has no Patriarch, and that with his death, the colleges lost the controls to his towers, which now randomly come into existence when and where the Winds blow strongly - and contain a shitload of Chaos artifacts and goodies ripe for the claiming.
In actuality he's still alive and well and serving as the Patriarch, and the towers show up wherever he wants, with a bunch of imperial wizards and soldiers ready to smack whoever takes the bait.
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It seems like there's just not a lot of interest in "Skaven item research," eh?
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Instead its probably him rotating his vacation home and Tower Defense map out of unreality into the real whenever he gets a hankerin to sit down.
A part of me honestly wonders if he does this as an expression of the Eccentric Entertainment Schemes common to wizards.