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Warhammer Fantasy: Divided Loyalties - an Advisor's Quest

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[X] King Belegar, to try to get some idea of where he's at with his crisis of faith.
[X] Algard, reporting the Skaven Civil War in person instead of in writing.
[X] Empress 'Heidi', to be present for the birth of her child
[X] Check in on your fief in Stirland.
[X] The Amber College, to see how your donation of Lustrian eggs is going.
 
Mopman43 said:
Honestly, I'm becoming tempted to try to write an Omake from the perspective of Man-With-Slightly-Larger-Herd.

It would either be utterly banal or secretly very exciting.
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Him and his secret wars against the Vampire Goats and the Dread Power of the Chaos Geese.

(May or may not be POV swaps on Goat Simulator and Untitled Goose Game, respectively)
 
[X] King Belegar, to try to get some idea of where he's at with his crisis of faith.
[X] Algard, reporting the Skaven Civil War in person instead of in writing.
[X] Empress 'Heidi', to be present for the birth of her child
[X] Check in on your fief in Stirland.
[X] The Amber College, to see how your donation of Lustrian eggs is going.
 
Neshuakadal said:
20% of a persons Steam library gets 80% of the play time.
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[laughs in Paradox fan]
(literally 1% of my games have >95% of my play time)
Neshuakadal said:
Then fight it. You will be fighting the Pareto distribution which means you will need to work really really hard to change who has screen time. You need to get their names talked about constantly. You need to create compelling arguments and then never let anyone forget those arguments. The problem is not something that will be solved passively.
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The thing is that I can't argue anything but my true motivation, which is "I want to prioritize screentime on the characters who haven't had proper scenes." To use the framework I proposed before, I am very interested in Discovery: I want to talk to the Undumgi leaders, and to Sir Ruprecht, and to our fellow council members, and to the two Halfling leaders, not because I have reason to believe that any one of them in particular will be as interesting as e.g. Heidi, but because I am pretty sure we'll strike gold on at least one of them and have one or two characters who lives nearby that we think is really cool and can hang out with without it being super fraught all the time because we're their boss or they're our boss or they're Kragg the Grim or they very clearly don't want to talk about themself.

People have, justifiably, said that they don't want the criterion for getting a social scene to be "exists near Mathilde." That's fair. But it makes it hard for me to say "hey, let's cast a wide net" when, no, I don't have a compelling argument for hanging out with these people because they haven't had screen time off of which such an argument might be based.
 
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I'm seriously confused that goats are some how winning against Battlewizards and Roswita, its honestly the least interesting option on the list in my opinion.

What's the point? We're just going to find out how much cheese they've been selling and potentially get Abelheim's hat eaten.
 
Speaking of our fief; I'm currently re-reading the quest and reached the point of where the Haunted Hills are being purged. The mention of various rather nasty and thorny plants, coupled with us visiting the (rough) area anyway, makes me kinda wonder whether we shouldn't snatch some samples, and suggest that Panoramia could use them to grow a sort of natural razor wire barriers for K8Ps defenses.

I'm also kinda curious how some of the ideas we implemented, such a the forms for undead identification are doing; whether the idea is still used, and maybe even adapted outside of Stirland for example.
 
Abhorsen said:
From the Dwarves perspective, we would be the shadow from the west, however.
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It's a watchacallit, Metonymy 'figure of speech using the name of one thing in reference to a different thing to which the first is associated'.

So it's the 'shadow of the east mountain' being associated with Mathilde, so it makes sense. To everyone. Ok, except dwarves, who don't do that kind of 'lying' analogy, i forgot about that.


But ignore that! That rule excludes almost all the good stuff.
 
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NavySeel said:
I'm seriously confused that goats are some how winning against Battlewizards and Roswita, its honestly the least interesting option on the list in my opinion.

What's the point? We're just going to find out how much cheese they've been selling and potentially get Abelheim's hat eaten.
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Do you intend to respond in a substantive way to the last three pages of people talking about this exact thing, or did you just want to express contempt for a thing people think is interesting?
 
noliar said:
If the QM considers it worthwhile feedback it still won't affect how they judge the current vote. This turn will go by this turn's rules.

In subsequent turns, constraints make for better questing IMO. That's why I'm arguing for them.
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I'm not saying he can't do that he's the QM, I would contest that limiting voter options that had preciously been free for the sake of realism without a consensus of the thread but at player suggestion is unlikely to engender a pleasant atmosphere. I could of course be wrong, just trying to give a warning to what I consider a posibile issue.
 
BoneyM said:
Then, to your surprise, Algard approaches you. "So," he says, seemingly confused. "The problem is that the sun is in the wrong place some of the time, right?"

You blink at him. "Yes?"

"Why don't you just move it, then?"

What. "What?"

"Well, not move it, move it. But just, you know. Swap two parts of the sky for a bit."

What. "What?"

"So the sun can shine the shadow wherever you want it to."

You try to find thoughts. "That... would help, yes. Is that feasible?"

He shrugs. "With three, four power stones? Sure. Can't have a proper Tower without power stones. I'll rustle them up."

You stare after the Magister Patriarch as he bustles off, cheerfully humming.
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:o
10 college favour well spent.
I don't wanna bother Boney with this since I'm certain its already been answered but for someone who is way behind, what does this tower, with Algard and Kraggs changes mean for the defense of K8P.
BoneyM said:
Though Dwarves that spend time in Karag Nar give them a lot of dubious looks and keep their distance, the humans and Halflings alike quickly adapt to Wolf's new entourage.
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Good Boy, already taking after Mathilde. He's got his own group of ugly ducklings.
 
Kelenas said:
Speaking of our fief; I'm currently re-reading the quest and reached the point of where the Haunted Hills are being purged. The mention of various rather nasty and thorny plants, coupled with us visiting the (rough) area anyway, makes me kinda wonder whether we shouldn't snatch some samples, and suggest that Panoramia could use them to grow a sort of natural razor wire barriers for K8Ps defenses.

I'm also kinda curious how some of the ideas we implemented, such a the forms for undead identification are doing; whether the idea is still used, and maybe even adapted outside of Stirland for example.
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The most important question is what's happening in the Stirlanian watch with the doggos that Mathilde tried to integrate.
 
BoneyM said:
[The Properties Of and Countermeasures To an Observed Suite of Necrarch Control and Enhancement Spells, 2481. Subject: Rare, +1. Insight: Confirming, +1. Delivery: Compelling, +1. Precious, +1. Thorough, +1. Tactically Relevant, +1. Total: 6.]
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BoneyM said:
He smiles. "I'm a Vampire. Sure, you'll keep a close eye on my remains. Will your children? Your children's children? For me, tomorrow will be a new world, full of new beasts and new magics and people that have forgotten what I can do."
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I love how petty Mathilde can be :p
 
[X] King Belegar, to try to get some idea of where he's at with his crisis of faith.
[X] Algard, reporting the Skaven Civil War in person instead of in writing.
[X] Empress 'Heidi', to be present for the birth of her child
[X] Princess Edda, on a hunt for weavers across the Empire.
[X] Roswita, as she rides out the chaos of the influx of Battle Wizards.
 
Dark as Silver said:
I don't wanna bother Boney with this since I'm certain its already been answered but for someone who is way behind, what does this tower, with Algard and Kraggs changes mean for the defense of K8P.
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It means that K8P has a reusable tactical nuke that respects friendly fire and can be deployed anywhere in a fairly wide range ~16 hours a day, or in other words "winning all the surface battles, forever."
Next turn people are angling to fix the "16 hours a day" part of that sentence.
Dark as Silver said:
Good Boy, already taking after Mathilde. He's got his own group of ugly ducklings.
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they're good dogs dirk
 
Not that I'm particularly eager for husbando wars but if you think that Mathilde might be, spending time with dudes who don't work for her is a step on the way. She does have a whole bookshelf of romance.
 
Mopman43 said:
Honestly, I'm becoming tempted to try to write an Omake from the perspective of Man-With-Slightly-Larger-Herd.

It would either be utterly banal or secretly very exciting.
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I know people like him. Their lives are really utterly banal, but they focus on one tiny piece of drama and think they're super exciting.
I'm one
So write something humdum and mundane as if it was incredibly exciting.
Think of Downton Abbey's "plot" and start from there.
 
[x] King Belegar, to try to get some idea of where he's at with his crisis of faith.
[x] Princess Edda, on a hunt for weavers across the Empire.
[x] Algard, reporting the Skaven Civil War in person instead of in writing.
[X] Check in on your fief in Stirland.
[X] Kasmir, to see if he rejoined the Council of Stirland.
[X] Roswita, as she rides out the chaos of the influx of Battle Wizards.
[X] Sir Ruprecht Wulfhart, as the new home of the Winter Wolves takes shape.
 
Mopman43 said:
Honestly, I'm becoming tempted to try to write an Omake from the perspective of Man-With-Slightly-Larger-Herd.

It would either be utterly banal or secretly very exciting.
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Banal, but with a richness of emotion and meaning that would leave us feeling fulfilled and more self actualised than we were before reading it please. The kind of story that leaves you as more than you were before reading.

No pressure.
 
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[x] King Belegar, to try to get some idea of where he's at with his crisis of faith.
[x] Empress 'Heidi', to be present for the birth of her child
[x] Princess Edda, on a hunt for weavers across the Empire.
[x] Algard, reporting the Skaven Civil War in person instead of in writing.
[x] Francesco Caravello, proud leader of the Undumgi
[x] Oswald Oswaldson, newly-minted Chief Bombardier of the Undumgi
[X] Check in on your fief in Stirland.

[X] No. Mathilde's dragon skull chair belongs only to Mathilde.
 
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noliar said:
Not that I'm particularly eager for husbando wars but if you think that Mathilde might be, spending time with dudes who don't work for her is a step on the way. She does have a whole bookshelf of romance.
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Hey I'm eager for husbando wars, it why I voted for Heidi.

I'm hoping seeing her baby will either make Mathilde want one enough to start looking for one or lead to Heidi noticing and decide helping us find a boy is a great way to help/troll her fellow ranald worshipper.
 
picklepikkl said:
Do you intend to respond in a substantive way to the last three pages of people talking about this exact thing, or did you just want to express contempt for a thing people think is interesting?
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I fail to see how disinterest and confusion are the same as contempt which is a very strong emotion, but sure since you asked.

Our fief was given to us because it was minimal effort, every attempt to find something to use it for failed, I really can't see how it could have changed in any meaningful way other than maybe a couple of new cottages, and a small cheese industry that we already know about.

I also saw someone saying that Mathilde growing up in a village similar to this is a reason to visit.
It really seems like the opposite to me, Mathilde as we know her has never shown any interest in exploring that part of her past.
In one update she visited her old village and purposefully chose to turn away from from the house she'd been raised in for those first few years.
 
He attempts to convince his son to marry the daughter of the-man-with-the-median-sized herd, with the aim of becoming a man-with-a-significantly-larger-herd.

His son, meanwhile, is interested in the cheesemaker's daughter and shockingly, doesn't want to herd goats at all.

It's all very surprising and intense.
 
People that get to middle age and think they have serious problems now tend to develop nostalgia disease unless their life when young was pretty horrid because of the environment.

I'm 100% with forgetting about Stirland, the empire, the college and embracing pure immortality research, but some planmaking questers and many voters apparently want mushy stuff. It's the whole reason there are social turns.

Fortunately the romantic faction was defeated twice before, first by dice roll then by narrow victory. Resist! Or we're never going to Lustria to apprentice to a frog.
 
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