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Warhammer Fantasy: Divided Loyalties - an Advisor's Quest

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Rtyu said:
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Books stolen from Clan Eshin, in what you guess to be Cathayan.
Inter-Eshin correspondence detailing the Civil War.
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We literally have a smoking artillery barrage on the Skaven Civil War, as opposed to merely word of mouth information extracted from our interrogations. Imagine if we were to literally drag in an entire cartload of correspondence on the Skaven Civil War into Algard's office, from Clan Eshin themselves, along with translations. This is intel that isn't just of pertinent interest to Karak Eight Peaks - but to all of Karaz Ankor and Imperial Intelligence.
 
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Alectai said:
Haha, nice.

We can probably talk to Dragomas for a primer at least, worst comes to worst. He's been there, he clearly has to know the language.

The Civil War books are probably the most immediately valuable for us though in terms of Favor generation. Not much immediate utility, but would probably let us gauge what the overall timeline on our campaign should be--if it's on the cusp of being won, it means we need to be extremely aggressive in this campaign because it means the Horned Rat is about to call it off, and we need to do our best to try and clear out the Skaven from Eight Peaks now, even at cost.

Basically, it tells us what the timeline is before the Skaven unite up again and it becomes one super faction fighting us instead of three or more fighting each other the most.
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Possible, though it's also an option that the books are Nipponese and Dragomas only knows Cathay.

Not like we could seperate those at a glance.
We don't even know for sure if they are different languages.
 
Oof, that first roll had so so much potential, 3 of the options were part of my "best case scenarios", now the chance is gone and I am sad.
The Eastern books are ok, the spell book would have been amazing.
But well, by this time last night I was resigned to getting nothing, so at least we got a peek at what Eshin has to offer.
 
Considering Algard felt confident enough to push several city-to-elector county sized campaigns into motion based on just the generalities of a civil war, explicit details along with a translator is probably gonna see him setting up an organization dedicated to keeping the Skaven killing each other.
 
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HeWhoAdds said:
Honestly, I'll be thrilled if we could steal some of whatever weird martial arts Eshin uses.
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Mathilde puts her pen down. After three hard years of study and negotiating with Marienburg for rare books, she finally has a Nipponese lexicon. The Eshin books, written in a strange combination of the two languages, will yield her secrets to her at last. She turns to the first page and looks up the characters.

"All right, let's see here... 影分身の術... need to remember to read it right-to-left... 'art' or maybe 'technique', good start... 'of'... hrm, this is complicated, but I think it's something like capturing the essence of a person, so 'avatar' or 'embodiment' or maybe 'clone'? and finally... 'shadow.' 'Shadow Clone Technique'?"
 
Chimeraguard said:
Huh. That's a new one. Means "Library Science." Rather appropriate for Mathilde these days.



And here's the books themselves.
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Ahh library science. Truly one of the greatest inventions in existence. Allow me to extol the virtues of library Science.
Oh Library science you are so good to me.
It truly is the key.
To finding out everything one ever needs.
Else one would look for books among the weeds.
Rows and rows of books arranged so elegantly.
So that information can flow from generation to generation.
Truly library science allows me to prance delicately
Among the rows and rows of dictation.
 
Nix's Warden said:
Compared to what else was on the table? Yes it was. Information on the skaven civil war is useless, because it only happened because the Horned Rat went silent, and its already ended saved for the clean up. We can't make the Horned Rat fuck off, and we can't influence skaven to start another war, so the information isn't worth anything. Eastern Books 'could' be good depending what they actually involve, but with spell books being on the table they are second place at best, if not third.
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So what you're saying is "What we got is good, but not the best. So it's fucking worthless"?
 
Shouldnt figuring out which language the book is in and learning it be pretty easy beyond the raw time commitment? Mathilde chose what will become an important piece of the silk road as her home and she has tons of contacts at its end station.
Like, I would not be surprised if we could simply skip any search by spending Dwarf Favour. Varr has been trading with the east for a long as time.
 
picklepikkl said:
Mathilde puts her pen down. After three hard years of study and negotiating with Marienburg for rare books, she finally has a Nipponese lexicon. The Eshin books, written in a strange combination of the two languages, will yield her secrets to her at last. She turns to the first page and looks up the characters.

"All right, let's see here... 影分身の術... need to remember to read it right-to-left... 'art' or maybe 'technique', good start... 'of'... hrm, this is complicated, but I think it's something like capturing the essence of a person, so 'avatar' or 'embodiment' or maybe 'clone'? and finally... 'shadow.' 'Shadow Clone Technique'?"
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Skaven-Bunshin-no-jutsu, you disappear and another Skaven takes the hit for you.

Obviously, only taught to the highest tier of Skaven.

Thanquol actually has a ward save that works like that. :V
 
picklepikkl said:
Mathilde puts her pen down. After three hard years of study and negotiating with Marienburg for rare books, she finally has a Nipponese lexicon. The Eshin books, written in a strange combination of the two languages, will yield her secrets to her at last. She turns to the first page and looks up the characters.

"All right, let's see here... 影分身の術... need to remember to read it right-to-left... 'art' or maybe 'technique', good start... 'of'... hrm, this is complicated, but I think it's something like capturing the essence of a person, so 'avatar' or 'embodiment' or maybe 'clone'? and finally... 'shadow.' 'Shadow Clone Technique'?"
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This is the only way we'd get though our whole research backlog.

Although, now that I think about it we'd probably just devote more time and energy to stealing stuff and end up with an even bigger backlog than before :V
 
SITB said:
Skaven-Bunshin-no-jutsu, you disappear and another Skaven takes the hit for you.

Obviously, only taught to the highest tier of Skaven.

Thanquol actually has a ward save that works like that. :V
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I am going to solidify my title as No Fun Guy and point out that what you're describing is actually 変わり身の術, the Body Replacement Technique, Kawarimi no Jutsu.
HeWhoAdds said:
This is the only way we'd get though our whole research backlog.
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Truer words have never been said. Believe it.
 
Now that I think about it, perhaps Dragomas came across evidence of the sheer size of the Under-empire reaching the east and/or of some degree of cooperation with humanity. I felt it slightly surprising that he specifically would be at Ubersreik, he's got to be busy. But if he comprehended the Skaven threat more than most...

That or he can comprehend their sheer scale via the vermin themselves. It's gotta suck when every city in the Empire is squeaking to you of the threat beneath you via their rodent populations.
 
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soul ice said:
there language is supposed to be the cypher they dedicate a lot to keeping it secret we just bypassed it through divine magic of a thief god who seems very opposed to the Skaven by pure thematic nature.
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Which means they will cipher their communications once they realize that Queekish is known. Its also funny that even though skaven usually backstab one another, they don't practice much document security, probably due to the fact that most skaven ate illiterate.
 
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