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Warhammer Fantasy: Divided Loyalties - an Advisor's Quest

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CrimsonOddball said:
I won't dismiss the possibility that he swings both ways, but uh


Well see...


Erm
I don't know how to tell you this Omegahugger, but I think Kazrik might just maybe be attracted women somehow
And maybe, it's possible that he might be having a thing with Edda
... Just a possibility
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... Goddamn NPC prosopagnosia.

Look, all NPC's should come with unique hats so I can tell apart!
 
Mopman43 said:
Rolf, the son of a shepherd.
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...I don't get it?
Fanhunter696 said:
Well, I still think that given how much college favour we are gaining each turn spending 4 favours there is extremely affordable....

And regarding Emperor Dragons, better Safe than sorry...
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I do agree that College Favour is pretty easy to acquire, but people are also talking about acquiring magic items to protect us from being poisoned by Clan Skryre. I still don't think it's worthwhile to include.

If you really want, I can propose it as a plan when voting opens, but I will not vote for it myself.
Angelazreal1 said:
Then having someone from the Grey College test it should confirm that.
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If you want to marshal support for a [][COLLEGE] Grey Magister to pentest our home and towers (5 College Favour), be my guest, but I don't think it's a good use of our resources and I don't think you will be able to convince people either.
 
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We could set coin to Deceiver and lie to Kragg that we know a mage in the Empire who knows a spell that can figure out where the thing was made, and nothing else. But I am not sure it's worth the effort.
 
LightLan said:
From puppet to puppetmaster. It's nice to see progress :V
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Former humble shadowrunner sellsword mercenary Francesco Carawello made his way out wizards' tower and into the bustling tunnels of the nightly Karak Nar under the neon light of the MMAPS arcane street signs* and uncaring drizzle of rain**, and suddenly realized that name of the game is Shadowrun Divided Loyalties, the genre of his life is actually cybersteampunk, and he made a deal with a Dragon Wizard.

*Materializing out of thin air decades early, uncaring of logic
**Genre cliches do not care about time and space, you gotta have it rain during the night, it's in the rules
 
Any Skaven option would be good but I think We could do Dragon and actually get away with it if we dedicate time and money to getting Asarnil here to kill it with us ir talk to it first.

@BoneyM Won't ask if this will work cause that's info we don't know ic. But do we have any idea what Asarnil is up to?
 
agumentic said:
We could set coin to Deceiver and lie to Kragg that we know a mage in the Empire who knows a spell that can figure out where the thing was made, and nothing else. But I am not sure it's worth the effort.
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Kragg trusts us.
BoneyM said:
At first, he trusted you when for the foreseeable future you'd be in convenient strength-10 hammer range.

Now, he trusts you.
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I'm not gonna use the sacred gift of our god to lie to his face. Never.
Mopman43 said:
Ever heard of a show called Ed, Edd, and Eddy?
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Heard of, never watched. I didn't have Nickelodeon growing up.
 
Has Johann used the spell for anything he shouldn't? We did warn him when we arrived that abusing our allies would end poorly, it's not like he has been conducting corporate espionage. Kragg might not like it but we can make it clear that abusing the spelk in any way is a good way for a magister to wake up with a grey college assassin putting a blade through his neck.
 
Candesce said:
The reasons for not bringing up are because for all the meme-ing we're not actually certain AV will pay out, and making it a project without checking for the obvious pitfalls first is asking for it.
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If it doesnt work out then it doesnt work out Belegar wouldnt begrudge us suggesting something in good faith and then it not working out.
 
BoneyM said:
There might be a way, but if you're going to be betting the entire trade relationship between the Karaz Ankor and humanity in general, you'll want there to be more in the pot than a single mystery rune.
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This is one of those polite secrets, isn't it? Like the smiths of the Empire don't know how to make dwarven class stuff, but the Golds do, and have known for centuries. They just keep pretending not to, and use them only in making their own magic items where it can be explained away by manling magic. As long as the stolen secrets are only used secretly, and only by magic users, they remain secret from the dwarves, and thus, not-stolen.
 
BoneyM said:
There might be a way, but if you're going to be betting the entire trade relationship between the Karaz Ankor and humanity in general, you'll want there to be more in the pot than a single mystery rune.
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True. And more than that, Kragg knows perfectly well that
  1. The elves can just divine this kind of thing, because elf magics
  2. The Colleges are basically throwing around elf magics
  3. Thus, there's a good chance that if he wants to find the answer with magic instead of sealing the thing away, Mathilde could make it happen given a discreet request, either by getting an appropriate wizard or even getting a magic item which would let her get answers without involving any other wizard.
And he's not asked. So whether for secrecy or for pride, he's basically made his decision, and it was an informed one unless we don't believe his Learning is Yes.

The idea "we can't let them know we can do this, they'd turn hostile" might be true on a dwarf-on-the-street basis, but their leaders know perfectly well what Golds can pull, just like the average human-on-the-street would panic over all sorts of things their leaders know.
 
Random aside from the current topic! When reading this part of the update:
"Good of you to be here," Algard says, without looking up from the MAP he's working on, showing the town and the tunnels below and delighting the part of you that isn't preoccupied with how the attack went. "Can't always see the entire thing through - not enough hours in the day and all that - but you should at least see some of the aftermath. Reminds you of the stakes."

You take a moment to look out over a field of gore and corpses. Priests of Morr pick their way through dead Skaven by the dozen, extricating as many of the human dead as they can. There must be thousands of Skaven in this battlefield alone, stabbed or speared or shot with bolt or bullet, and some peppered with amber shards you've never seen before. "Did we find success here?"
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Was anybody else reminded of this scene with Abel, way back?
"To your first kill," he notes, toasting you.

"You mean-"

"I wouldn't have investigated him if you had not tipped me off. The blood is on my hands, but on yours as well." He doesn't sound condemning. In fact, he sounds almost gentle, and a little proud.

"What did he do?" you can't keep yourself from asking.

"He was to fill fifteen thousand vacant positions. He filled four in every five of them, and filled the leadership of the new regiments with men chosen for their willingness to split the wages of the missing men." He scowls. "Not only would he have left the ranks of the Army of Stirland full of holes, but he invited corruption into some of it's highest ranks."

"Oh," you note. You try to picture a regiment missing a fifth of it's men and led by the corrupt facing a horde of skeletons in battle. You wince.

"It is a heavy weight to carry, to take the life of your fellow man," he says softly, watching your expression. "But we deal death to the corrupt to prevent the suffering of the innocent. Never forget that."
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In both cases she's being faced with the weight and consequences of her actions, of the impact she's had with just a few words to a mentor/leader figure, and that same mentor/leader is offering her advice about how to think and feel about it. I'm not sure if this is deliberate or not, but if so, the differences between the two events (their scale, her reaction, etc) do a very nice job of showing of how Mathilde's grown.
 
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BoneyM said:
With Karag Nar now able to function no matter the time or the weather, you might be quite happy to call the project done and suggest new ones. However, it might be possible to further perfect the cluster of towers if you had a little more time.
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The tower is good, but is it good enough?

Any Dwarf will know the correct answer is not until its got a proven track record a millenia long.

[Q] [TOWER] Ongoing
-[Q] And stop asking.
 
How would Johann even be able to tell if it was Norsca Dwarf or Chaos Dwarf rune. Like, don ´t you have to know what you are seeing first to be able to tell something about it? Johann has had zero experience with Chaos Dwarf runes and not even Kragg remembers what rune this could be in his own lore. Well he does, but not for sure. I feel that magic is not enough here.
 
Folks, let's seriously consider throwing max or ducklings at the Ratling gun next turn.

Johann has been stuck on that for ages, and it's a really big deal if we were to figure it out.
 
Don't forget the cartographer project. Dreng has been going around K8P with his rangers and an enchanted map from the gathered intel of the place would be a godsend for any general, either for defending or for attacking.

Moreover, Gotri has been making those oversized shotguns, knowing where to put them and where to precisely move them in a moving front would help immensely, either to plan a retreating defense or to secure an advancing underground campaign.

The only problem with that is that we would likely be on the nightprowler for the whole project as gaps in the map are filled with Mat scouting, so actions would need to be planned accordingly.
 
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