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Hmm, if we get a +15 for a teacher, it might be better to just build our Favor back up and buy a powerstone for study in our +20 bonus Tower of Doom instead of going to the College for instruction in the art.
We got +15 because we rolled slightly above average for "Teacher Quality," but yeah, I am pretty sure that our tower is the best place to study at this point. Like, next turn we should use the "get a scroll of Invisibility and study it at home" option rather than pay a teacher.

That said... I'm not sure we can make powerstones without the class. Study them, sure, but we'd need someone to teach us how to make it.
 
Hmm, if we get a +15 for a teacher, it might be better to just build our Favor back up and buy a powerstone for study in our +20 bonus Tower of Doom instead of going to the College for instruction in the art.
Narratively it means we don't have to reinvent the wheel, though. A smaller bonus, but we probably get a lot further.
 
Hmm what about using power stones?
Which would be hard to make.

They'd allow for producing Ulgu but releasing it in the form of poison gas isn't something that a spell exists for, and even if it did, it'd make the people living under the poison death vents pretty uncomfortable.

Speaking of, did we learn anything from listening to Algarf and Kragg furiously debating? :V

In twenty years or so you might have learned enough to comprehend it.

@BoneyM

Since the way the Rune works to amplify the tower is tied to conceptually pairing the whole mountain with the Blade of Gazul, part of the firing sequence is definitely going to be slotting Branulhune into a matching receptacle, right? :V

It's tempting, but there's too many scenarios where the tower might need firing while the sword is being used elsewhere.

So @BoneyM? What happens with negative favours? is it a case of we can't use any more until we are back in the black or do we now own a favour and have to spend an action on something for someone else if they ask for a 1 point worth of favour themselves.

Get back in the black within a few turns or start losing rep, but you do have a pending paper.

How do they even know where she is?

Scrying.

@BoneyM

I guess higher Magic ratings would reduce the DC of successfully casting Battle Magic?

Up to a limit, yes.
 
[X] DUCK: Work with Panoramia for her to finally get around to investigating the greenskin mushrooms she found.

Fingers cross that we finally talk to her in detail like a nature lover.

[X] ENTRANCE: Pleasant foyer
[X] Bedroom
[X] Library
[X] Sitting Room
[X] Vault
 
Everyone needs to vote to have An Escherian Nightmare for an entrance.


That's right and proper ulgu there!
 
For the Vaults vs Baths: remember that Belegar is letting us use the King's Armory for our stuff.

Aka, the vault that has stood Goblins, Orcs and Skaven trying to pry it open for the last three thousand years. They very likely even had Great Shamans and the like throw Battle Magic at it, and only scuffed the paint.

The Vault isn't really a matter of security as much as convenience, and I feel Mathilde deserves luxurious hot baths after all this work.
 

Yeah, that's reasonable, casting Battle Magic should never be completely safe, but a Lord Magister at the height of their career, rocking good magical items and Traits that mitigate Miscasts, is probably capable of reliably using it without an exceptionally high chance of dying or being horribly mutated, huh?

I imagine in the event that you pick up Battle Magic Masteries, that this specific one also gets much safer to use, at the caveat of "Getting one of these is already a small miracle", huh?
 
So... remember those jokes about the Eye of Sauron.

1) Basically an entire mountain as a tower. Check.

2) Can look everywhere in the vicinity, including outside the mountains surrounding the K8P. Check.

3) The land is surrounded by mountains. Check.

4) Is incredibly difficult to reach, due to the easiest way being through a GIANT GATE FORTRESS. Check.

And last but not least: 5) Everything caught in it's gaze is turbo fucked.

Ladies and Gentlemen, we have actually created Barad-dûr.
 
I was really tempted to reward Hubert with a duckling action, for his noble sacrifice that let us dunk super hard on multiple celestials, but ultimately I cannot deny the power of many rat-dogs.
 
So... remember those jokes about the Eye of Sauron.

1) Basically an entire mountain as a tower. Check.

2) Can look everywhere in the vicinity, including outside the mountains surrounding the K8P. Check.

3) The land is surrounded by mountains. Check.

4) Is incredibly difficult to reach, due to the easiest way being through a GIANT GATE FORTRESS. Check.

And last but not least: 5) Everything caught in it's gaze is turbo fucked.

Ladies and Gentlemen, we have actually created Barad-dûr.
And its wonderful.

 
Having a place to invite a guest to come and spend time chatting/eating snacks facilitates that sort of scene.
Nonsense, it's a conversation starter! I mean the conversation would probably start with 'and please don't touch the hell rod' but still, it counts!

Easy peasy:
1) Build a coffee table around the giant hellfire-conducting metal beam so it looks like it's impaling the table.
2) Arrange seats around the table.
3) Skillfully interrupt and deflect every single question about the metal beam, and act like the metal beam either doesn't exist or is as mundane as the tea you're serving.

I'm just so disappointed in Panoramia here. Sure, it might sound intimidating, but aren't some of her worst agricultural problems with orc spores? You know who probably hates orc spores and would be totally into purging them in their entirety from this Karak? That's right, it's Gazul. Not only does Mathilde want to help out with her problems, Mathilde has gotten a god to come help with her problems. Just incinerate the most problematic fields with light-devouring divine shadowflames, and then crop yields will be way better after replanting. Everyone is pitching in to make this work.

And she says no. Such timidity. Such rudeness. She brings shame upon her College.
To be fair, I'd be a little concerned too if someone walked up to me and offered to make every weeding basically sound like this:

 
[x] DUCK: Johann's investigation into the ratling gun has hit a wall. See if you can help.
[x] DUCK: Adela's interested in mechanics, see if anyone you can introduce her to would be willing to teach her.
[x] DUCK: Hubert wants glory. Take him on a sorty against whoever Dreng says it would be most useful to raid.
[x] DUCK: Gretel's motivated by wealth. Take her on a raid against whoever might have something worth stealing.

[x] ENTRANCE: Checkpoint
[x] ENTRANCE: Trophy room

[X] Bedroom
[X] Library
[X] Vault
[x] Bath Room
 
Yeah; we have to spend our own Favour on it, but honestly? I love the notion of an elegant, tastefully decorated beautiful foyer. There's a mural on the wall, there's a balcony with a beautiful view, there's a steel pillar radiating the nega-fire of Hell itself that has a small silver railing and a demure sign saying DO NOT TOUCH.

A checkpoint bristling with security is so... Hysh. We're of the Grey College. It's the stuff that you don't see that you should be scared of. Yeah, I'll shell out Dwarf Favour for that.
That's so Hysh.
 
Yeah, that's reasonable, casting Battle Magic should never be completely safe, but a Lord Magister at the height of their career, rocking good magical items and Traits that mitigate Miscasts, is probably capable of reliably using it without an exceptionally high chance of dying or being horribly mutated, huh?

I imagine in the event that you pick up Battle Magic Masteries, that this specific one also gets much safer to use, at the caveat of "Getting one of these is already a small miracle", huh?

Yeah, you can make it safer but outside of damn rare situations, never completely safe. There's exactly one person who can cast Melkoth's Mystifying Miasma casually, and it's Melkoth.
 
Everyone needs to vote to have An Escherian Nightmare for an entrance.


That's right and proper ulgu there!
It's actually not.
Contact with the Hierophants is a lot more difficult than ringing a bell. It takes you some time to track down even a trace of an idea of where to find them, and you're eventually directed to a maze of cities in the poorer part of town. The tale you were told speaks of standing at a certain point on a street corner and turning ninety degrees in six different ways; you opt for standing near that certain point and grabbing the first person that's glowing. That person, a young lad with a stutter, is told to bring his Master out to have a chat, he agrees nervously and scampers off into the bizarre dimensional knot on the street corner. You scowl at it.
Bending space into a pretzel to fuck with people is Hysh, not Ulgu.
 
Yeah, you can make it safer but outside of damn rare situations, never completely safe. There's exactly one person who can cast Melkoth's Mystifying Miasma casually, and it's Melkoth.

...

That's normal isn't it?

Like, anyone who's Invented a piece of Battle Magic, has obviously beaten their Wind of Magic into a particular shape, and just told other people how to do it, huh?

That's the biggest holy grail of Magic isn't it? Anyone who Invents a Battle Magic Spell can cast that Battle Magic Spell Freely, huh? The whole "Magic remembers where it came from" is a double edged sword. Makes it vastly more deadly, but anyone who outright bests it gets to wring a trophy from the primordial chaos, huh? Gain some small measure of its fealty.
 
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Anyway, I think that the pretty foyer option is going to be undercut a little by the MASSIVE STEEL BEAM EMANATING THE ENERGIES OF DWARF HELL rising up through it, so maybe we should lean into the intimidation factor and just go for Checkpoint.
Undercut? Or improved?

Mathilde, /serene: "You haven't touched your tea."
Guest, /...sip.
*OMINOUS HUMMING*
Mathilde: "Try the cookies. Hluodwica has a real gift."
*DOOM DOOM DOOOMMMM*
 
Huh. You would think Ulgu would have ways to evade that.

Yeah, but it's hard to live a life when you're constantly on battle stations to prevent being found by sorcery. Eventually it's easier to just retire and invite the Hobgoblins to wander into the entry of the Grey College and see how well that works out for them.

I thought the inventor of a spell couldn't master it?

They can't. This isn't mastery. This is being so skilled at battle magic you can invent new battle magic.
 
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Undercut? Or improved?

Mathilde, /serene: "You haven't touched your tea."
Guest, /...sip.
*OMINOUS HUMMING*
Mathilde: "Try the cookies. Hluodwica has a real gift."
*DOOM DOOM DOOOMMMM*
If you check my vote you'll see I came around to it :p
[X] ENTRANCE: Pleasant foyer
I really hope there is a small, tasteful railing around the STEEL BEAM RADIATING THE ENERGIES OF HELL. You know. Take the sword of Gazul and make it fashion.
 
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