Warhammer Fantasy: Divided Loyalties - an Advisor's Quest
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We don't need to fish when enemies keep jumping up on our deck holding the tartar sauce.
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The Great One
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Ranald giveth, Ranald giveth.
Doomed Wombat
Let's go Darling!
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- Dancing on wires!
Ranald ain't the kinda god who believes in taking away from his followers to teach them lessons
Z000
If this is trash, then find me in the dumpster
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insert Sponge Meme
have you accept the Cat into your heart yet Mr Bone, or does it need to throw more dice
Alectai
Speaks Words of Wisdom... On occasion
Welp.
I, uh.
I guess we win Eight Peaks?
Dragon's done dunking on Skyre and looks like they're moving on to Yar to make absolutely sure there won't be further Rat Problems. and the Trolls dunked on Rhyn but got savaged badly enough we could mop them up in the aftermath.
Aside from the dragon and the Mhonar Mystery, there's just... No organized resistance left in Eight Peaks.
And almost all of the visual damage was done by resident hazards.
Good gravy.
I, uh.
I guess we win Eight Peaks?
Dragon's done dunking on Skyre and looks like they're moving on to Yar to make absolutely sure there won't be further Rat Problems. and the Trolls dunked on Rhyn but got savaged badly enough we could mop them up in the aftermath.
Aside from the dragon and the Mhonar Mystery, there's just... No organized resistance left in Eight Peaks.
And almost all of the visual damage was done by resident hazards.
Good gravy.
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Asheram
Not quite altogether
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I'd put money on Eshin and Mors. This is so beautiful. I'm literally laughing so hard I'm crying.
EternalObserver
eYe Gaze baCk
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- The Void
Hey, Belegar? Where have you been? We just retook Karag Peaks while you were gone.
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- The Star Kingdom of Manticore
It would also mean we might be able to claim the city of pillars in Karag Zilfen. Think of the treasures and prestige! Mostly the prestige! The city of pillars is the big deal of K8P. Just image getting it without having to fight for it.
Now we have to hope the dragon is at least open to selling his peak. We could likely afford it with all the treasure we just unlocked for belegar.
Now we have to hope the dragon is at least open to selling his peak. We could likely afford it with all the treasure we just unlocked for belegar.
Asheram
Not quite altogether
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- Δ Hidden Forbidden Holy Ground
We are still rather buggered depending on how that Red fang Waagh will go, but as it looks? We... Hm... I wonder if the Red Fang will go after the dragon? Can we go for a hattrick?
Doomed Wombat
Let's go Darling!
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Hopefully, we can move fast enough to capitalise on this...probably.
Other than that hopefully the Dragon left enough Skyre or Esshin shit that we can salvage some stuff.
Super tower of super doom + two anvils of doom wielded by the two best rune lords of the Karaz Ankor.
That kinda fire power wins battles.
That would require you to be sane to begin with, so I'm sorry to say that means no glory for you.
Alectai
Speaks Words of Wisdom... On occasion
I'm more baffled at all of this.
Ranald is Real, and apparently believes in compound interest in the field of "All the evil factions are allegedly fighting each other, but that just prevents them from sweeping the good ones and never actually hurts them in individual campaigns".
Or more likely, this kind of shit happens all the time but there's almost never anybody to take advantage of these moments because they tend to happen out of easy acting distance.
So.... We are making a cathedral now right?
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I bet this is very true. I wonder how many orc tribes barely get wiped out by a skaven clan. Or how many skaven clans accidentally open a tunnel to a troll hangout and all get eaten. The forces of evil are constantly fighting each other but so few order forces can move fast enough or the fights are in areas that the order forces could care less about. Like the dark lands.
They can't keep getting away with it!
Doomed Wombat
Let's go Darling!
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I think the majority of Clan Angrund will be OK with us.
That being said I think Belegar may start having coniptions, cause I do not think we've got enough dwarves to hold all the eight peeks. I dont think we've got enough dwarves, humans, halflings and we combined.
Hopefully, we'll get more immigrants.
I've said it before, and I'll say it again: I for one look forward to our promotion from umgi status.
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Now that I've caught up. We have Aethyric Vitae which represents a unique opportunity to develop a better means of controlled magical evolution. Humans mutate in the presence of magic. When that magic is Dhar the mutations are largely negative and self-destructive in nature. Yet humans will mutate in the presence of Ulgu too. When they do the mutations are related to Ulgu.
It is not a large jump to suspect that humans can mutate in the presence of Vitae. What we know of Vitae is that it changes in the presence of a strong enough magical influence. Thus the Vitae could act as a magnifier to the human trait to mutate. Unguided this could be quite dangerous and certainly something to be wary of.
The gilding of Gold magic is an example of a magical ritual to enact guided mutation of a human. It is entirely possible that Aethyric Vitae in some form would lower the danger involved in that ritual. Perhaps you soak it into the gold before performing the ritual for example.
Ulgu being the wind of confusion has a bunch of undesirable mutations, yet it is likely that with the aid of the right magical ritual a grey wizard could guide their own evolution in a beneficial manner. Likewise as this guided mutation process is a property of humans rather than wizards, it is reasonable to believe that a non-wizard could undergo such a process as well.
For example if we achieved the least interesting option in the possibility space: to create a ritual that reliably gave a human a known existing mutation of Ulgu such as the Mark of Ulgu, we might well have found a way to create artificial grey wizards. Turning a non-wizard into a wizard. We'd probably need to carefully vet and train the volunteers for such a process and it might necessitate the formation of a college branch devoted to it. It might even be wise to maintain a certain amount of distance and exclusivity to limit the intake to the truly committed but the benefits to the empire of an increase in the number of wizards would certainly be a boon.
That remains a less interesting option though than focusing on the shadow aspect of Ulgu to develop a guided mutation ritual that turns a human into a shadow being that can shrug off non-magical weapons and disappear into the shadows to invisibly stab enemies to death.
Alectai
Speaks Words of Wisdom... On occasion
Dragon's apparently moving into Yar to remove Skaven is my reading (Yar is adjacent to Zilfin and the only other target that has Skaven inside it), but Eshin has got a lot of toys for killing single figure units if I'm not mistaken.
It'll win almost certainly, but it's liable to wipe out both of the fighting clans because they're too invested, and it might get hurt trying.
Doomed Wombat
Let's go Darling!
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- Dancing on wires!
Nah that's the trolls.
Dragon seems to have won and continued its rampage on someone else