Remove ads

Warhammer Fantasy: Divided Loyalties - an Advisor's Quest

Voted best in category in the Users' Choice awards.
Voting is open
Reader mode
Floom said:
Hate having to ask this, but anyone mind filling me in on just what was happening here? I don't usually follow the discussion, but I definitely missed something big here.
Click to expand...
Click to shrink...
First we wrote Waaagh and Peace, which codified our understanding of greenskin magic and how to dispel it. This was knowledge stolen directly from the greenskin gods, compared to previous convention which was basically "throw more power at it". To say the least, it completely revolutionizes the world's approach to one of their major enemies.

Then we personally killed around 500000 greenskins and repelled their waaagh through magical means. Everybody heard about this and linked it to our lectures. Lots of hype was built in-universe.

It occurs to me that most of this is explained in the previous snippet, which Boney posted last night and you might have missed. I quoted it a few posts up.
Redshirt Army said:
using our favor to secure a back-up for the Colleges should hammer that impression home.
Click to expand...
Click to shrink...
I am very much against this. They'll just have to settle for us just revolutionizing greenskin warfare, skaven warfare, technology, studies of the warp and studies of divinity.
 
BoneyM said:
That explained the woman with the very odd combination of magics intertwined inside her and an outfit barely within the constraints of decency. "Kislev or Bretonnia?" you ask, nodding in her direction.
Click to expand...
Click to shrink...
It should have been obvious that the woman was from Bretonnia. No mention of fur whatsoever means she couldn't possibly be from Kislev.
 
ninjafish said:
We miscast and violently explode, killing everyone in the room and start a multiway war over the attempted assassination of foreign officials.

the empire and other forces of order are destroyed and chaos wins everything forever.
Click to expand...
Click to shrink...
Maybe instead of whining about a vote several weeks past you could just resolve to argue better for your position next time? Because it is way too late to be acting as if we made the wrong decision when you don't even have the full benefit of hindsight.
 
So the question I want to be answered is this. Does Matilda present this in a solid respectable way or does she go full melodramatic HAM on the whole thing?
 
BoneyM said:
Altdorf is practically tropical to a Kislevite.
Click to expand...
Click to shrink...
Aren't they preternaturally cold or something? I thought it'd be a case of "I'm not wearing this fur coat to protect myself from cold, I'm wearing it to protect you from my cold!" followed by a dramatic shrugging off of the coat and the unleashing of winter.

prince84 said:
So the question I want to be answered is this. Does Matilda present this in a solid respectable way or does she go full melodramatic HAM on the whole thing?
Click to expand...
Click to shrink...
Going HAM is probably not a good idea.
 
ninjafish said:
You... did you not realize that this was part of a gag?

Like it stopped being serious when i talked about puppies holding the secrets of everything.

Being overly dramatic is kinda my thing.
Click to expand...
Click to shrink...
Your problem is that others have set a standard, when using similar humor, of including smileys such as this ( :V ) or this ( :p ) in order to more effectively color their tone. As those have become a sort of standard flag for something that would otherwise be indistinguishable from somebody being serious but very unreasonable, and text isn't capable of carrying the non-verbal indicators that you could express for the same effect, not including them could be seen as tantamount to not saying it as a joke.

It's an issue of interpretation, but if you want people to actually understand you you do sort of need to accommodate their expectations.
 
Last edited:
prince84 said:
So the question I want to be answered is this. Does Matilda present this in a solid respectable way or does she go full melodramatic HAM on the whole thing?
Click to expand...
Click to shrink...
Is it just me or is Mathilde way more willing to go full ham/casual on dwarves and Elector Counts than she is towards elves and the colleges?
 
I want to fail the first lecture roll.

Picture it. Mathilde is on stage, trying to give her lecture. An absolute nervous wreck, she keeps dropping her notes, forgetting things she just said. How could the Grey College have prepared her for this? Their presentations aren't this big; there aren't even this many Grey Wizards in the world.

The stress becomes too much. The massive vaulted room is spinning. The magic sticks to everything. She exits stage right, breathing hard, trying to get her bearings, away from the enormous audience.

Regimand is back stage (always was, the Regimand in the audience is an illusion). He offers a supportive word. Yes, Greys aren't really made for the spotlight. But you can fake it til you make it, pretend to be someone else.

Ranald could do that. So can she.

Mathilde walks back out on stage, face a mask of composure. She can do this, it's just like a play. An illusion. The audience isn't looking at you, they see someone other than you. Be that someone. Not yourself.

Their stares bear down on her from around the theater-

WHOMP, a door is roughly shoved open at the back of the hall. Magic flows forward across the stage, not because it's coming from something, it just wants to be anywhere else at all.

The audience stares in confusion, consternation, horror, and in one case awed reverence.

Kragg the Grim stomps down the aisle, and takes a hastily vacated seat in the front row.

"Harrumph," he grumbles, "Let's hear this nonsense. Can't be any more ridiculous than seeing it happen in person."

Up on stage, Mathilde-

-grins.

...

Feel-good family movie of the year! :V :V :V
 
BoneyM said:
Daroir of Nagarythe, with a fully battle-ready Shadow Warrior on one side as a bodyguard or a date or both, and on the other an Elf that bears the universal expression of a harried bureaucrat, a stack of note paper, and a midnight-black feather quill.
Click to expand...
Click to shrink...

...can you imagine the poor scribe who has to take notes in Eltharin from someone speaking Reikspiel? You're going to need multithreaded thoughts to work out your sentences while listening and translating.
Mopman43 said:
There was a Tilean.

At least, I assume "Mercenary wizard of Tilea" would probably be natural-born Tilean.
Click to expand...
Click to shrink...
Ah, good catch.
Thomasfoolery said:
We put it on AV testing.
Click to expand...
Click to shrink...
You know, I keep reading the abbreviation as Adult Video before the rest of my brain catches up >.>
Karugus said:
This is an intimidating venue, but you know what any good presentation needs? Props and diagrams, thankfully Mathilde's Patented MMAP provides! I sincerely hope that we can leverage that, and maybe even illusion into the lecture.
Click to expand...
Click to shrink...
defenestrator said:
Law of Powerpoint Presentations means this huge august crowd is the perfect venue for the MAPP presentation to go haywire in the most annoying ways.

Edit: Like there's a sorta-legit reason, what with the rainbow vomit of magic winds trapped inside a closed room is bound to make something act wonky.
Click to expand...
Click to shrink...
MAPP is a Petty magic, so I can just see the priests in attendance filing a feature request to their gods after seeing it used in presentations.

Certainly it'd help liven up a sermon!
BoneyM said:
Altdorf is practically tropical to a Kislevite.
Click to expand...
Click to shrink...
While the cold never bothered them anyway, the heat does, so they should dress minimally all the time.

...wonder if this explains Druchii sorceress wear.
 
MooseHowl said:
I want to fail the first lecture roll.

Picture it. Mathilde is on stage, trying to give her lecture. An absolute nervous wreck, she keeps dropping her notes, forgetting things she just said. How could the Grey College have prepared her for this? Their presentations aren't this big; there aren't even this many Grey Wizards in the world.

The stress becomes too much. The massive vaulted room is spinning. The magic sticks to everything. She exits stage right, breathing hard, trying to get her bearings, away from the enormous audience.

Regimand is back stage (always was, the Regimand in the audience is an illusion). He offers a supportive word. Yes, Greys aren't really made for the spotlight. But you can fake it til you make it, pretend to be someone else.

Ranald could do that. So can she.

Mathilde walks back out on stage, face a mask of composure. She can do this, it's just like a play. An illusion. The audience isn't looking at you, they see someone other than you. Be that someone. Not yourself.

Their stares bear down on her from around the theater-

WHOMP, a door is roughly shoved open at the back of the hall. Magic flows forward across the stage, not because it's coming from something, it just wants to be anywhere else at all.

The audience stares in confusion, consternation, horror, and in one case awed reverence.

Kragg the Grim stomps down the aisle, and takes a hastily vacated seat in the front row.

"Harrumph," he grumbles, "Let's hear this nonsense. Can't be any more ridiculous than seeing it happen in person."

Up on stage, Mathilde-

-grins.

...

Feel-good family movie of the year! :V :V :V
Click to expand...
Click to shrink...
If Kragg shows up, the Runesmith from Norn might get a heart attack from fanboying.
 
Actually instead of Mathilde screwing up, it would be the audience ending it with a brawl over something trivial like the spelling of Waaagh or the dwarf, he might go play it safe by knocking out the nearest pinpoints of magic to create a gap between him and the magic users.
 
Matilda: This is not the course on how to kill orks with mountains. If you want those lessons you have to talk to the Patriarch of the Grey College and Rune Lord Kragg
 
Remove ads
Reader mode
You must login or register to reply here.
Voting is open
Remove ads
Back
Top