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Warhammer Fantasy: Divided Loyalties - an Advisor's Quest

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LockedMind said:
@Glau, you constantly write "Karagil" instead of "Karagril" (Silver Horn). Is this Soizic's persistent mistake or yours?
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Ahhh, that is mine. Will correct.

ichypa said:
So, uh.

No mention of the arrival of the ducklings, or about Hubert sparring with Soizic in preparation for Karagil?
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The ducklings arrival was mentioned tangentially with the sword-gifting ceremony, but... Yeah. Jeeze- I had been doing re-reading but somehow had it in my head that duckling prep happened after Karagril.

Ugh- no wonder this fought me. Will do re-writes today.
 
Alliterate said:
Methinks I recall a long-ago comment (possibly even in an update) from Boney to the effect that when we wrote to them we did a very poor job of keeping the gloating tone out of our letters at being a Journeymanling Spymaster to an Elector Count, while enquiring how their Apprentice drudge work and chores were going.
Mathildes excellent diplomacy and ability to observe social niceties in action, presumably.

Despite that, our College Contacts has seemingly been in action for us throughout.
I can only assume from this Mathilde was a bit of a teachers pet and a swot, thus popular with the faculty, rather than the most popular apprentice among the other apprentices.
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The Hermione rather than the Akko, despite appearances.
 
Guile said:
The Hermione rather than the Akko, despite appearances.
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I think the Akko impression is mostly driven by...Mathilde is USED to being the know it all back in class and thus has entire suites of social interaction driven by "I know facts you don't", but outside of that kind of advantage, she falls back to following the lead of authority(Abelhelm, Marcus, Kragg) very often, and beyond THAT...she looks Akko-y because she's STILL running "I know facts you don't".exe when she has no idea whats going on and definitely could use some help.

When in her element she's the Hermione, but a Hermione who doesn't actually know it all is an Akko.
 
Jyn Ryvia said:
Glau has not lost hope that we will be the ones to suduces the lady knight I see.
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:p

More content added to part 16! I still can't believe I had forgotten about Hubert.

Any feedback on the added sections would be welcome, I've kinda lost perspective on it for the moment.
 
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veekie said:
I think the Akko impression is mostly driven by...Mathilde is USED to being the know it all back in class and thus has entire suites of social interaction driven by "I know facts you don't", but outside of that kind of advantage, she falls back to following the lead of authority(Abelhelm, Marcus, Kragg) very often, and beyond THAT...she looks Akko-y because she's STILL running "I know facts you don't".exe when she has no idea whats going on and definitely could use some help.

When in her element she's the Hermione, but a Hermione who doesn't actually know it all is an Akko.
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She doesn't fit either of those archetypes tbh and the attempt to slot her into them cleaves off a lot of her personality in the process.
 
Yeah, it's obviously not like that's the sum total of all Mathilde is. There are superficial similarities between Younger Mathilde and Akko that appeal- wizard school, dark-haired, ambitious, earnest- but both could appear a bit of a goof at times, causing unintentional comedy even as she lucks into success.

My impression of that aspect of Mathilde was formed in some very early updates- pulling off the wall sconce looking for secret doors while hunting gribblies in Eagle Castle, or indeed knocking out the Sigmarite knight in the courtyard with Magic Dart. Incidents like tugging hard enough on the torch bracket to break it showed she had an instinct to preserve that prized Grey Wizard know-it-all-ness. There was after all a reason a certain overused d-adjective Wizard term overran the thread before becoming unwelcome.

So Akko is convenient, memeable if you wish, and suits my sensibilities when elements of that side surface even in the more mature Mathilde we see today.

Edit: Oh, Merry Christmas or other seasonal greeting of choice to the thread.
 
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Hmm. There's a trait idea.

Ambitious. You've commanded armies, destroyed castles, ambushed gods, slain vampires, socialised with Empresses, destroyed Skaven clans, retaken Dwarfholds and enacted divine judgment to lay waste to Waaaghs. It's a good start, but you have plans to really change the world we live in.
 
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Alliterate said:
Ambitious. You've commanded armies, destroyed castles, ambushed gods, slain vampires, socialised with Empresses, destroyed Skaven clans, retaken Dwarfholds and enacted divine judgment to lay waste to Waaaghs. It's a good start, but you have plans to really change the world we live in.
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It looks more like direction thread may take quest into, or part of personality rather than trait. I don't really see what effect such trait could have. And if it was chosen, I can see it being coutnerproductive. Mathilde is ambitious enough.
 
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DiceOfStupidity said:
It looks more like direction thread may take quest into, or part of personality rather than trait. I don't really see what effect such trait could have. And if it was chosen, I can see it being coutnerproductive. Mathilde is ambitious enough.
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Well I mean this is still CK2 based, ambitious is a generic boost to stats in CK2 but also comes with the person being a bit of a social climber and willing to do rather unsavory things to advance their agenda which honestly isn't that sort of Mathilde already? Given the reading of the libre mortis and the other stuff we've been up to she's certainly willing to push the envelope.
 
DiceOfStupidity said:
It looks more like direction thread may take quest into, or part of personality rather than trait. I don't really see what effect such trait could have. And if it was chosen, I can see it being coutnerproductive. Mathilde is ambitious enough.
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It's a base CK2 trait (a powerful one, adding +2 to each stat, though toned down to +1 in quests I think) that exists in this quest too- Julia has it, for example. And yes, of course powerful ambition can be a double-edged sword. Two ambitious rulers won't like each other, and they make unreliable vassals.
SuperSonicSound said:
Well I mean this is still CK2 based, ambitious is a generic boost to stats in CK2 but also comes with the person being a bit of a social climber and willing to do rather unsavory things to advance their agenda which honestly isn't that sort of Mathilde already? Given the reading of the libre mortis and the other stuff we've been up to she's certainly willing to push the envelope.
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Yeah, that's what I'm getting at. We've demonstrated great ambition in the course of events, and aren't traits meant to be a reflection of that? Plus the thread does debate a variety of ambitious plans.

Of course, Mathilde has frequently required exceptional luck to carry out a lot of these things. And occasionally exceptionally terrible luck was required to create the opportunities. Adding an Ambitious trait would not make for a quiet or easy life. (Not that we've sought one so far.)
 
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Huh, forgot that polyglot gave +1 to diplomacy.

[ ] Polyglot: You easily pick up new languages. +1 Diplomacy

It was a trait we could have taken at char generation.

@BoneyM

Is that still the case now?
 
veekie said:
I think the Akko impression is mostly driven by...Mathilde is USED to being the know it all back in class and thus has entire suites of social interaction driven by "I know facts you don't", but outside of that kind of advantage, she falls back to following the lead of authority(Abelhelm, Marcus, Kragg) very often, and beyond THAT...she looks Akko-y because she's STILL running "I know facts you don't".exe when she has no idea whats going on and definitely could use some help.
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I'd like to argue that the Akko impression is instead mostly driven by @13th Fleet. :V
 
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Yama0 said:
Absolutely no one asked for this but I was bored and it's that time of the year again so...

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And it is said that every year Mathilde Klaus will go around the world, bringing gifts of revanchism and the heads of slain enemies to all the good little Dwarf Kings, while those who have been bad only get piles of Greenskin ashes left on their doorstep.
 
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