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Warhammer Fantasy: Divided Loyalties - an Advisor's Quest

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Also possible:
[X] Make the Sorcerer "bungle" his ambush attempt by e. g. Bewilder-ing one of the guards.
 
[X] Both must die.
- [X] Let the Sorcerer's attack play out, then finish off whoever survives.

[X] Both should die (write in)
-[X] If the Sorcerer attacks, let the Sorcerer's attack play out, then finish off whoever survives. Otherwise, just observe and leave.


Well, if nothing else, a Council Agent dying on Clan Eshin's watch will probably cause issues for the Clan on that alone.

Sure, Eshin would deny having anything to do with it (and indeed, this Sorcerer maybe/probably isn't betraying on the Clan's orders), but if you were the Council of Thirteen and the agent you have corresponding with or monitoring the Clan of assassins mysteriously dies, would you believe them?

Evenstar said:
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[X] Make the Sorcerer "bungle" his ambush attempt by e. g. Bewilder-ing one of the guards.
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Not very comfortable with casting. Shouldn't the Sorcerer be able to detect spells being actively cast so close?
 
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ichypa said:
Hmm...You know, Mathilde is a magic ninja with a giant sword and strong mist/fog associations... :thonk:
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But we don't have a Haku!

... The ice dragon is not our Haku!
Redshirt Army said:
A distant rumbling shook the mountain, and the young assassins knew that it must have been caused by the Ice-Covered Beast - but fighting such a foe was far beyond mere apprentices. At least it was far away.
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Much more applicable to what's actually happening, dragon as Haku would probably be a little too crack-ish. :V
 
It occurs to me that it would have been really funny if we had Ranald's Coin set to The Protector right about now.

"Lord-Rat in charge-charge of Mors! I am pleased-pleased to report that one of our-our manling agents has succeeded in assassin-killing the Eshin-Sorcerer!"

"Excellent news! Wait, how long-time have we had-owned manling agent-pawns?"

"Uh, it was all part-parcel of my cunning-promotion-worthy plot-scheme, yes!"

[X] Both must die.
-[X] Let the Sorcerer's attack play out, then finish off whoever survives.
 
Deathbybunnies said:
We have absolutely no desire to see Clan Mors survive another day.
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Varano said:
Why would we ever do such a thing?
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Katahiraga feels that destroying Mors would be genocide. He's posted about this a fair amount.

Anyway, Mors's terrible roll makes it likelier that at least some of Eshin will get away, which is not what we wanted -- the point of putting our thumb on the scale against Eshin was "make their fight more even, so they slaughter each other and we can mop up the survivors ezpz."

Oh well. Maybe Sparklebutt will come through for us.
 
[X] Both must die.
- [X] Let the Sorcerer's attack play out, then finish off whoever survives.
 
[X] Make the Sorcerer "bungle" his ambush attempt by e. g. Bewilder-ing one of the guards.
[X] Both must die.
- [X] Let the Sorcerer's attack play out, then finish off whoever survives.
 
If we're turning quest characters into Naruto characters, does that make Johann Guy or Rock Lee?
 
[X] Both should die (write in)
-[X] Let the Sorcerer's attack play out, then finish off whoever survives.
-[X] If the attack proves not to be physical, let the Sorcerer leave, and attack the Council member alone. While doing our best to implicated Eshin. The documents must not make it out.
 
There's all sorts of fuckery we could do here, honestly. Make the Councillor Drop the fragile globe of unrefined Warpstone at both their feet, that sure won't cause problems. Move to snatch the document in the middle of the Sorcerer's attack. Pall of Darkness or Bewilder or Illusion to make the Agent think the Sorcerer is trying something. Sounds to startle or scare. We're a Grey Wizard, use the toolkit.
 
Alratan said:
I do wonder what we'd have done if we'd rolled a six on the last roll...
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Probably the same thing we're doing now; "let them fight, then murder the winner."
Mopman43 said:
If we're turning quest characters into Naruto characters, does that make Johann Guy or Rock Lee?
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So the thing about Narutoifying Johann is that what makes Johann ridiculous is that he's a wizard who punches -- we could pick a punchy ninja, but that's not that special because all ninjas punch.

So we must ask ourselves: what is the weird, completely unique, anti-ninja combat style that other characters in Naruto look at someone and go "that's fucking absurd," but they make it work?

...I know that sounds like I'm leading up to a really clever insight, like that time when I pointed out that if Grey Wizards are Sidereals then the Solars are the Skaven, but no, really, it's not a rhetorical question. I'm not that familiar with the subject material. Maybe Killer B's eight-sword-style?
 
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Evenstar said:
There's all sorts of fuckery we could do here, honestly. Make the Councillor Drop the fragile globe of unrefined Warpstone at both their feet, that sure won't cause problems. Move to snatch the document in the middle of the Sorcerer's attack. Pall of Darkness or Bewilder or Illusion to make the Agent think the Sorcerer is trying something. Sounds to startle or scare. We're a Grey Wizard, use the toolkit.
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The problem is that active casting raises the chance that one of the parties will notice Mathilde (Mostly the sorcerer, though the priest(?) could also possibly see the winds in a limited way).

The Eshin sorcerer is already looking like they plot a betrayal, why should Mathilde reveal herself prematurely?
 
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primemountain said:
Crematorium
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Dear Anyone In The Bright College.

DON'T piss off Dame Matilda. In the time I have been under her she has arranged genocidal warfare among her enemies, killed more enemy heroes than I have fingers, indirectly killed uncountable numbers (literally uncountable) of her enemies, and arranged for an ENTIRE MOUNTAIN to slay her enemies with dwarven hellfire. Despite all of that I have learned that she considers all that to be secondary to her research and making friends. Yes, she considers making friends more important than killing her enemies. I can not say she is wrong as I have seen her actually TALKING with Kragg The Grim on a number of occasions. Also, I think she wears more of Kraggs personal rune work than most dwarven Kings.

In conclusion, Matilda is a good friend and if you become her enemy you better have your affairs in order because you are going to die soon.

Signed
Adela Burgstaller, Journeywoman of the Bright Order
 
picklepikkl said:
Probably the same thing we're doing now; "let them fight, then murder the winner."

So the thing about Narutoifying Johann is that what makes Johann ridiculous is that he's a wizard who punches -- we could pick a punchy ninja, but that's not that special because all ninjas punch.

So we must ask ourselves: what is the weird, completely unique, anti-ninja combat style that other characters in Naruto look at someone and go "that's fucking absurd," but they make it work?

...I know that sounds like I'm leading up to a really clever insight, like that time when I pointed out that if Grey Wizards are Sidereals then the Solars are the Skaven, but no, really, it's not a rhetorical question. I'm not that familiar with the subject material. Maybe Killer B's eight-sword-style?
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'Strong, but punchy instead of magic' is Guy's thing, though. All wizards have high martial, but Johann's is punch focused, just like ninja are good in melee, but use knives instead of just punching people.
 
Chimeraguard said:
[X] Both must die.
- [X] Let the Sorcerer's attack play out, then finish off whoever survives.

Well, if nothing else, a Council Agent dying on Clan Eshin's watch will probably cause issues for the Clan on that alone.

Sure, Eshin would deny having anything to do with it (and indeed, this Sorcerer maybe/probably isn't betraying on the Clan's orders), but if you were the Council of Thirteen and the agent you have corresponding with or monitoring the Clan of assassins mysteriously dies, would you believe them?


Not very comfortable with casting. Shouldn't the Sorcerer be able to detect spells being actively cast so close?
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Perhaps, yes, but can the Agent? The Sorceror is likely to have bigger problems given that he'd then be within stabbing range of a high-ranking skaven who thinks he's trying to kill him. Which happens to be true. Once suspicion is aroused, the Sorcerer's first resort is probably going to be "stick with the plan", given that if searched or interrogated his planned betrayal is likely to come to light.

(The reason why I'm not super advocating for this is because I'm worried the Agent might have high enough intrigue to hesitate long enough for the Sorcerer to blow our cover. I think it's less risky to just set up the scene so that it implicates the Sorcerer.)
 
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