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Warhammer Fantasy: Divided Loyalties - an Advisor's Quest

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Oh and there's a debatable advantage of making a familiar child, because you can give it flight-capable (or hover-capable) wings! Natural flight like an angel! Granted a lot of people would think 'mutant' at that and others will think 'divine being' and such, which is why it's debatable if it's an advantage, but the people of Karak Eight Peaks would be cool with it (whether they like it or not).
 
Andres110 said:
Oh and there's a debatable advantage of making a familiar child, because you can give it flight-capable (or hover-capable) wings! Natural flight like an angel! Granted a lot of people would think 'mutant' at that and others will think 'divine being' and such, which is why it's debatable if it's an advantage, but the people of Karak Eight Peaks would be cool with it (whether they like it or not).
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You could build in cannons. Flying toddlers love cannons.
 
[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] Kasmir, to see if he rejoined the Council of Stirland.
[x] Algard, reporting the Skaven Civil War in person instead of in writing.
[x] The Amber College, to see how your donation of Lustrian eggs is going.
[x] Check in on your fief in Stirland.

[x] No. Mathilde's dragon skull chair belongs only to Mathilde.
 
Andres110 said:
Oh and there's a debatable advantage of making a familiar child, because you can give it flight-capable (or hover-capable) wings! Natural flight like an angel! Granted a lot of people would think 'mutant' at that and others will think 'divine being' and such, which is why it's debatable if it's an advantage, but the people of Karak Eight Peaks would be cool with it (whether they like it or not).
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You're on the wrong side of the warp for that.
 
Andres110 said:
Updated list of books to buy.

Extensive Dwarven Enchantment
Extensive Bretonnian Ranald
Extensive Bretonnian Arthropods
Esoteric Imperial The Karaz Ankor
Extensive Bretonnian The Karaz Ankor
Extensive Esoteric Imperial Geography
Extensive Bretonnian Geography
Extensive Esoteric Imperial Mutants
Extensive Dwarven Mutants
Extensive Bretonnian Mutants
Extensive Esoteric Imperial Guns
Extensive Dwarven Guns
Extensive Bretonnian Guns
Extensive Bretonnian Canines

I'll explain the new additions I've written up here.

Karaz Ankor: BoneyM said that for psychological stuff, you get books of that race. For interrogating skaven prisoners, you get Skaven books, so for helping a dwarf out of his funk you get Karaz Ankor books.
Geography: One of the options we presented last turn is to scout out and map the entirety of Karak Eight Peaks. The geography books will let us make a better map.
Mutants: One of the things we plan to do is study the effects of the Vitae on living beings, and I'm willing to bet quite a bit that mutation is one of those effects.
Guns: Study of the ratling gun and the jezzails would benefit from books on guns.
Canines: For training Wolf.
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Hm........Yeah no. Thats not gunna get my vote. Ever. Have fun convincing people of that.
 
not a fan of just making a kid. A fling with a mysterious stranger... fine. But I'm not feeling franksteining a kid.
 
BoneyM said:
It's also directly under the tower, measured to within a hair, and over the course of weeks a steel beam is built from the tower to the Rune, displacing several rooms in the process and leaving a rather forbidding steel pillar glowing with a faint blue light in the center of your entrance hall.
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Just thought of something. What sort of security measures do we have against Skaven sabotaging this rune by digging to it or similar? How much trouble would they have?
 
Robotninja said:
Just thought of something. What sort of security measures do we have against Skaven sabotaging this rune by digging to it or similar? How much trouble would they have?
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We control Karag Nar's underway accesses. Do you mean tunneling through the rock to get to it? That seems... nontrivial, since for starters, they wouldn't know where it is, or even that it exists.

Also I suspect that if an enemy of Gazul touches it without precautions they're in for a bad time.
 
Huh. Reporting the civil war directly is winning. I certainly didn't expect that.
 
[X] Algard, reporting the Skaven Civil War in person instead of in writing.
[X] Kasmir, to see if he rejoined the Council of Stirland.
[X] Wilhelmina, to see how she's going when she's not a terrifying financial juggernaut.
[X] Empress 'Heidi', to be present for the birth of her child
[X] Check in on your fief in Stirland.

[X] No. Mathilde's dragon skull chair belongs only to Mathilde.

I've made my final (?) decision. Socials Ho! Seems this War for Socials is gonna be a regular thing huh?

*sigh* I really absolutely hate the Roswita vote winning.
 
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picklepikkl said:
We control Karag Nar's underway accesses. Do you mean tunneling through the rock to get to it? That seems... nontrivial, since for starters, they wouldn't know where it is, or even that it exists.
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Non trivial, yeah. But I figure if the Skaven are making a genuine effort to wreck us, they will want overland Greenskin patsies as much as they will attack underground.
 
[X] Check in on your fief in Stirland.
[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] Empress 'Heidi', to be present for the birth of her child
[X] Roswita, as she rides out the chaos of the influx of Battle Wizards.
 
Logos said:
Huh. Reporting the civil war directly is winning. I certainly didn't expect that.
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I suspect the quest really likes headpats. Also, it's a limited-time offer, since he's going back to Altdorf.
Robotninja said:
Non trivial, yeah. But I figure if the Skaven are making a genuine effort to wreck us, they will want overland Greenskin patsies as much as they will attack underground.
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If the Skaven start making a genuine effort to wreck us, we're in for a bad time. The entire plan has thus far been "fight greenskins, not skaven, so as to delay the point of them unifying against the outside threat as long as possible."
 
Our potential spell to disguise something's significance and danger would go well with the Tower of Burning Death. We'd get enemy commanders saying things like: "I'm not wasting time with a mountain top until we've taken that gate!", "So what if the shadow looks too blue? It can't hurt you and it's not blocking the pass. Now march!"
 
...I just realized something terrible.

We need to figure out how to arrange for Malekith's death, stat.

How are we supposed to show our face to Algard after this turn otherwise?
 
picklepikkl said:
I suspect the quest really likes headpats. Also, it's a limited-time offer, since he's going back to Altdorf.
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It's less about the headpat itself and more about the sheer quality of it for me. Marching into the Patriarch's office/quarters and being like "Yo whatup boss! Here's that unbelievable info you joked about last time we had a report for you, but now it's actually a real thing!" is Very Good to me. Likewise with the whole vampire grudge. An afterthought footnote at the end of the post that's just like "Yerp here's 4 dwarf favour for that man-monster what you killed" is no where near as satisfying as trekking out to witness a degrudging, which we were denied previously, for the first time. I don't really care about social actions that are gonna be like "Good Job Mathilde, you murdered some orcs for the hundreth time! Keep it up."

I was voting for the Edda option not for the headpat of helping out another councilor, but to explore her whole traditionalist values brushing up against being forced to deal with non-dwarves. If the Roswita option starts to fall behind the fief by a good chunk, I'm just as likely to re-add Edda to my pile!
 
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Close vote between the 4, 5, & 6th place in the votes. come on people, lets at least touch base with our fief. We are responsible for the people there after all. We have a responsibility to Stirland and the Empire to take care of them and to get them more productive so they produce more taxes.
 
picklepikkl said:
I suspect the quest really likes headpats.
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At least I can corroborate this hypothesis. You might say that it's a great portion of my overall desire for most forms of fame and recognition.

Become celebrated by the populace? Headpats from the people of the empire. Be acknowledged by the emperor? Headpats from the nobility. Have everybody in the Gray college treating us nicely and clearing us for battle magic because they like us so much? Scholarly headpats from our friends and equals. Have King Belegar offer us a home in Angrund halls, or Kragg the Grimm listen when we start talking and call it good work? Proper dwarven headpatting techniques, honed for centuries. When we do something we think somebody would like, we come back around to them to show off, not to rub it in their face, but so that maybe they acknowledge their gratefulness and indicate that they like us: Headpats from those we assist.

If you'd like to put it in IC terms, I'd say it might have had something to do with Mathilde getting told all through her apprenticeship that Grey Wizards almost never got the credit for stuff. That it was a thankless job and the only satisfaction we'd get from most of it was a job well done, because the vast majority of the time nobody would ever know what we'd done. And then we went to Stirland, and got to have a taste of that not being the case. As the spymaster most of what we did was surreptitious, but we still got to have a reputation, complete with fancy title. Mathilde learned the truth; it was perfectly possible to be a grey wizard and get the headpats too. Maybe not in the moment, but afterwards, when everything's been hashed out, the people who are nice to us might still give us the credit. My tenses fluctuated a little there.
 
REAPER35 said:
Close vote between the 4, 5, & 6th place in the votes. come on people, lets at least touch base with our fief. We are responsible for the people there after all. We have a responsibility to Stirland and the Empire to take care of them and to get them more productive so they produce more taxes.
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The fief was explicitly given to us so that we didn't have to worry about it tho. We bought all the infrastructure improvements the land could support, and leaving it in a state of benign neglect is perfectly fine.
 
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