Meanwhile, in Belegar Quest...
"… How much material have you had sitting there, waiting for this to come up, Money?"
MoneyB said:
Mathilde's relationships:
…
> You kill a lot of Grobi and Thaggoraki. Dreng approves.
< His name is one letter from meaning 'Slayer'. He's impulsive, hot-tempered and uncouth. But he has a century of experience across the entire Old World, and his tactical acumen is formidable.
Intrigue quester, /smirk: "Dreng is a simple soul, isn't he."
Stewardship quester: "Maybe not our best pick ever for Marshal."
Martial quester, /stoutly: "He's doing fine, minus a hangar fire or two!"
Intrigue quester, /diffidently: "I'm kind of loving the Mathilde Weber Intel Files, tbh"
MoneyB said:
> Karak Azul has been isolated since before the birth of Sigmar. To Prince Kazrik, humans are a strange and exotic species that he never expected to actually meet. And Wizards are the most exotic of all.
Piety quester: "Should we be chaperoning these two?"
Diplomacy quester, /not today, Kazrik: "He'll have to get in line!"
< Prince Kazrik has blossomed as the Diplomat of Karak Eight Peaks, and has shown an ability to persuade men and Dwarves alike.
Martial quester, /hear ye hear ye: "All hail the God of Crit Rolls, and Kazrik his prophet!"
Learning quester, /philosophically: "Our Karak is so friggin' weird, what's a new manling engineering campus?"
MoneyB said:
< Prince Gotri Stoneheart is older than you but seems a teenager. He's overdramatic, his grasp of politics wouldn't be out of place among the student radicals of the University of Altdorf, and his main priority in life seems to be infuriating his father and the Zhufbar Guild of Engineers, despite them being a thousand miles away. But he's an amazing pilot, a skilled engineer, and he doesn't give a damn about conventions.
Stewardship quester, /smirk: "She's got him pegged, all right."
Intrigue quester: "This manling University sounds… interesting. Is this the one that Kazrik-"
Diplomacy quester: "Different school."
Stewardship quester, /alarmed: "A whole campus of Gotris? Ancestor Gods save us!"
> He's yet to form much of an opinion of you as a person, but he definitely approves of you as a symbol of iconoclastic progress.
Piety quester, /smirk: "Our poor, poor Traditionalist bloc."
Learning quester: "In fairness to our Radicals, Thorgrim is being a bit of an ass right now."
MoneyB said:
> You're very helpful, very good at your job, and a little bit frightening. Princess Edda doesn't understand you, but as you're a wizard she never expected to. She likes you.
Stewardship quester, /gushy: "It's cute that Edda has a friend."
Intrigue quester: "Probably a good thing that our Steward is friends with our Secret Police."
Learning quester, /ackshually: "Loremaster."
Intrigue quester: "That too."
< She is a formidable expert in the field of organizing Dwarves, but though she can get on fine with humans, when she manages them her eye for minor details becomes a weakness as she tries and fails to account for every possibility.
Piety quester: "Something to keep in mind, but since she told us herself…"
Stewardship quester, /stoutly: "She'll figure something out."
Learning quester: "Or if it gets bad, we can put Mathilde on it."
Martial quester, /smirk: "Sure, that always works. Too well. Death Fortress eyeing us forbiddingly from the mountaintops says 'hi'."
Learning quester: "You say that like we wouldn't build a battle mountain, if we could."
Stewardship quester: "We did: the manlings just did the fiddly bits. Money is the best superpower."
MoneyB said:
> He sees you as a Master of a vital responsibility that comes with the burden of being shunned by those that fear it or do not understand it. Just like he is.
< For some reason, you find yourself thinking of Gunnars as youthful despite being about four times your age. He is full of intensity and focus, and seems to have some very esoteric insights.
Learning quester: "Gunnars is kind of a downer."
Martial quester, /philsophically: "That's Gazul for you."
Stewardship quester, /singing: "Every party needs a pooper, that's why they invited you~"
MoneyB said:
> King Belegar believes that without you, Karak Eight Peaks would be a pyrrhic symbol of vengeance instead of a reborn home for his people.
Learning quester: "Best 100 we ever rolled, that's for sure."
Piety quester: "Gives us gray hairs, though."
MoneyB said:
< He embodies everything you like about the Dwarves and very little of what infuriates you about them.
Stewardship quester, /cooing: "Aw, that's sweet."
Martial quester: "Am I the only one that thinks that sounds vaguely ominous? What infuriates her about dwarves?"
MoneyB said:
< King Kazador Thunderhorn has decades of experience in combat and warfare, and so efficiently purged the mountains near Karak Azul that the greenskins learned to climb mountains. And then he made his Throng learn too so they could follow them. Don't underestimate him.
Intrigue quester, /sagely: "A timely reminder not to underestimate our Brother-King."
Martial quester: "Plus he's a hoot"
Piety quester: "The memes are strong with him."
> Hmm. Kazok, kazgal and Kazgrom like tall women. I wonder if she likes bearded lads? Sure, they say that manlings and Dwarves can't have children, but have any of them actually tried?
Martial quester: "U wot m8"
Diplomacy quester, /not today, Kazador: "
Get in line, I said!"
Stewardship quester: "Chaperones! All the chaperones!"
MoneyB said:
> Panoramia is thoroughly impressed and a little terrified of you.
< She is sweet, but coddled and naïve. It's clear her natural home is fields and forests, not battlefields.
Stewardship quester: "This is significantly less sweet than I was expecting, seeing this relationship from the outside."
Intrigue quester: "When you're Secret Police…"
Diplomacy quester: "Does she have a friend that
isn't a little terrified of her?"
Learning quester: "Yeah. Us."
MoneyB said:
> Every time Johann thinks he's got something by you, it's come back to bite him later. He's accepted that it will be easier for him to be your employee than your problem.
< His natural glibness sets off every suspicious bone in your body, which is all of them, but you're pretty sure you've got a good read on him.
Diplomacy quester: "Seriously, how many of her friendships are like this?"
Stewardship quester: "Do we need to hold an intervention?"
Martial quester: "I'm more concerned about the wizard shadow war that may or may not be happening when we're not looking."
MoneyB said:
> Wilhelmina Hochschild has reached the impression that you're going to bend the world to your will and wants to be in a position to benefit from that as much as possible.
< She is a good person at heart, but worryingly intense about trade. You don't know how much further she'd go if she didn't have you watching over her shoulder.
Stewardship quester, /srs: "Who?"
Piety quester, /not srs: "Oh Mathilde, why are you like this"
Stewardship quester: "No, seriously, who???"
MoneyB said:
> Baron Anton Kiesinger trusts you implicitly and has pretty much adopted you as his little sister.
Diplomacy quester: "Who???"
MoneyB said:
>So that's why Magnus the Pious thought it was worth the risk. No wonder Da spoke so highly of her.
< Elector Countess Roswita Van Hal fired you. You've learned why and don't like it, but do understand it. She's the daughter of the man you… cared for. She's doing the best she can. It's complicated.
Stewardship quester, /smirk: "Complicated sounds about right. And we gave her a runefang?"
Intrigue quester, /ackshually: "We gave Stirland a runefang."
Diplomacy quester, /NOT TODAY, ROSWITA: "More importantly: GET IN LINE, I SAID"
Piety quester, /George Takei: "Oh my. Well, at least she doesn't mind older men-"
Learning quester: "You shut your mouth, Mathilde is a precious cinnamon roll too good for this base earth! Also: a child"
Piety quester: "30's legally an adult, though!"
Learning quester: "Pervert!"
Piety quester: "Prude!"
Martial quester: "And the balance has been restored."
Diplomacy quester: "At least we ended these on a high note."
