Warhammer Fantasy: Divided Loyalties - an Advisor's Quest
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Oh god Belebro knows just enough to misinterpret it in the worst way and we got no idea of the truth to correct him
NeonLights
Formerly Reliable_2IC
- Location
- In shambles
I find it hilarious that Mathilde, in a sense, is indirectly responsible for all her troubles.
IIRC that was the original plan, but this ended up being a good point to do the retrospective.
- Location
- some computer lab
[] Battle: General of Fog
[] Karak: Windherder
[] Personal: Mountain Mystic
[] Karak: Windherder
[] Personal: Mountain Mystic
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- He/Him
[ ] Karak: Windherder
How can I possibly not want to take another step in our ability with the Winds?
Especially with the risk of our AP being taken away further for this Waystone thing.
How can I possibly not want to take another step in our ability with the Winds?
Especially with the risk of our AP being taken away further for this Waystone thing.
Moratorium.
- Location
- Finland
So, what lessons to pick.
There's lot of good ones, both from practical and narrative perspective.
For battle, i think i'd prefer
[ ] Battle: Surreptitious Intervention
Or perhaps you should focus not on when you lead the battles, but when you turned them more personally. Eyes and blades in the right places can make all the difference.
It is not only practical, but i like the sneakiness of it for the narrative.
As for Karak
[ ] Karak: Surveillance
A careful eye upon those that don't know about said eye can reveal all sorts of information, more than making up for how difficult it might be to get that eye into place.
[ ] Karak: Windherder
It's said the High Elves can achieve miracles by using the Winds in parallel. You'll have to make do with using them in series, having other people handle the other Winds, and making sure they keep a safe distance from each other. But cultivating this ability expands the possibilities exactly eightfold.
Not fully certain, surveilance would be really benefit the surreptitious intervention. But windherder seems fun as well, though kinda leaning on surveilance, i fear the windherder would get ignored far too much in favor of other things.
Personal? Oh Ranald i have no firm pick for personal.
[ ] Personal: Mountain Mystic
Your unconventional relationship with an unconventional God has so far gone mostly unnoticed. Perhaps word might begin to spread amongst the faithful that far from the sects, orders and brotherhoods of the Empire, one walks with only Ranald for company.
[ ] Personal: Poker Face
Acting like you always know what's going on has gone from a source of personal amusement to a vital diplomatic first line of defence. Perhaps this should be cultivated into a deeper understanding of the art of bluffing with no cards.
[ ] Personal: Unphased
You've seen a lot of terrible things. You were responsible for some of them. It is necessary to grow at least a little numb to the horrors of the world, so that one can continue to combat them.
[ ] Personal: The Mom Friend
As a friend, you have something of an interventionist streak. Perhaps you should embrace this, and make it your mission to ensure that those closest to you live their best lives.
Poker Faced and Unphased seem useful. I really want the Mom Friend. But Mountain Mystic is so cool.
There's lot of good ones, both from practical and narrative perspective.
For battle, i think i'd prefer
[ ] Battle: Surreptitious Intervention
Or perhaps you should focus not on when you lead the battles, but when you turned them more personally. Eyes and blades in the right places can make all the difference.
It is not only practical, but i like the sneakiness of it for the narrative.
As for Karak
[ ] Karak: Surveillance
A careful eye upon those that don't know about said eye can reveal all sorts of information, more than making up for how difficult it might be to get that eye into place.
[ ] Karak: Windherder
It's said the High Elves can achieve miracles by using the Winds in parallel. You'll have to make do with using them in series, having other people handle the other Winds, and making sure they keep a safe distance from each other. But cultivating this ability expands the possibilities exactly eightfold.
Not fully certain, surveilance would be really benefit the surreptitious intervention. But windherder seems fun as well, though kinda leaning on surveilance, i fear the windherder would get ignored far too much in favor of other things.
Personal? Oh Ranald i have no firm pick for personal.
[ ] Personal: Mountain Mystic
Your unconventional relationship with an unconventional God has so far gone mostly unnoticed. Perhaps word might begin to spread amongst the faithful that far from the sects, orders and brotherhoods of the Empire, one walks with only Ranald for company.
[ ] Personal: Poker Face
Acting like you always know what's going on has gone from a source of personal amusement to a vital diplomatic first line of defence. Perhaps this should be cultivated into a deeper understanding of the art of bluffing with no cards.
[ ] Personal: Unphased
You've seen a lot of terrible things. You were responsible for some of them. It is necessary to grow at least a little numb to the horrors of the world, so that one can continue to combat them.
[ ] Personal: The Mom Friend
As a friend, you have something of an interventionist streak. Perhaps you should embrace this, and make it your mission to ensure that those closest to you live their best lives.
Poker Faced and Unphased seem useful. I really want the Mom Friend. But Mountain Mystic is so cool.
two hour moratorium
Dammit, Belegar. That jaded cynicism of yours is going to bite everyone of us in the butt.
At least talk to Kragg, for Ancestors' sake, before you do something unfortunate.
That power Karaz-a-Karak is siphoning is keeping both the Dwarfs and rune magic itself alive.
It's not actually being gathered for KaK's sole benefit.
And you, Thorgrim. Do you want a civil war? Do you? Maybe you can't tell others exactly what's happening, but you can damn well imply that things are turning for the better because K8P got restored.
Ugh.
- Location
- France
[ ] Personal: Poker Face
Acting like you always know what's going on has gone from a source of personal amusement to a vital diplomatic first line of defence. Perhaps this should be cultivated into a deeper understanding of the art of bluffing with no cards.
This is what we need. One because it's useful, two because it's funny, three because it's really Ranaldian and that can synergyse well thematically with Mathilde.
[ ] Karak: Polyglot
Between Khazalid and Queekish, you've found there's a great deal of benefits to expanding your linguistic lexicon.
All the books, all the languages! Recently we met too many languages that Mathilde has trouble understanding. This trait allow us to economize AP on languages and finish the Queekish project much faster.
[ ] Battle: Trucemaker
You may not have the diplomatic chops to make lasting peace, but 'if we fight each other now, we both die' is much easier to sell, and can radically shift the balance of a conflict.
More diplomacy is always good
Acting like you always know what's going on has gone from a source of personal amusement to a vital diplomatic first line of defence. Perhaps this should be cultivated into a deeper understanding of the art of bluffing with no cards.
This is what we need. One because it's useful, two because it's funny, three because it's really Ranaldian and that can synergyse well thematically with Mathilde.
[ ] Karak: Polyglot
Between Khazalid and Queekish, you've found there's a great deal of benefits to expanding your linguistic lexicon.
All the books, all the languages! Recently we met too many languages that Mathilde has trouble understanding. This trait allow us to economize AP on languages and finish the Queekish project much faster.
[ ] Battle: Trucemaker
You may not have the diplomatic chops to make lasting peace, but 'if we fight each other now, we both die' is much easier to sell, and can radically shift the balance of a conflict.
More diplomacy is always good
- Location
- Finland
Like, i am almost as obsessed with Heidi and the god baby as Omegahugger is with that one dead guy.
Ok, i am nowhere near as obsessed.
But still somewhat obsessed.
And The Mom Friend would really work with that.
Like, we are literally the friend of the mom of the (probable) next emperor.
We could constantly get involved with the poor boys personal life to make sure he is making the right choices.
Ok, i am nowhere near as obsessed.
But still somewhat obsessed.
And The Mom Friend would really work with that.
Like, we are literally the friend of the mom of the (probable) next emperor.
We could constantly get involved with the poor boys personal life to make sure he is making the right choices.
NeonLights
Formerly Reliable_2IC
- Location
- In shambles
I doubt we'll be let in, much less invited. State secrets and all that.
Omegahugger
Inattentive Idiot
... Why do I for some reason feel like Algard is calling me out personally.
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One language project we're on the verge of completing with or without any additional boosts does not make a polyglot required.
- Location
- California
I strongly suspect that the high elves had the exact same reaction as Algard, but with 'human mage' instead of journeyman when contemplating what could he done with waystones.
These traits both seem like the contribute to our magic growth.
General of Fog builds on our most prominent spell-crafting trait, and frankly designing spells that interact with the fog of war is something I find very appealing.
Windherder is all about collaborative efforts, and that's something that also interests me. I just hope that people don't vote for it because they think it will help with Ulgu tongs.
I really enjoy Math's interactions with her fellow Ranaldites.
Omegahugger
Inattentive Idiot
Speaking elfish would be useful though. Plus, anything that helps communication with
- Location
- New Brunswick, NJ
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- He/Him/His
While I love Digger, I chose my mining metaphor with an eye to Dawi culture. I mean what I said: Thogrim's leadership style is manifesting as shoddy tunnel bracing. He isn't protecting Belegar or the well-being of his people. Like, even without Mathilde breezing in with a message from the elves, which nobody could have expected, did he think that Belegar just wouldn't notice the magical power flowing through his realm, when he's got the two greatest Runesmiths in the Karaz Ankor and a whole passel of Umgi wizards as permanent residents? That's just reckless of Thorgrim, and if it blows up in his face he deserves every bit of the blame for that.
- Location
- Wherever I feel like being
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God damnit Thorgrim. Just... god damnit. So much for the hopes of healing the schism. Belegar still doesn't know what the rune itself powers. So of course he'd assume that it's soley for the benefit of Karaz-a-Karak.
- Location
- some computer lab
Mountain Mystic is my pick for personal, because we are basically obligated to troll them in harmless ways,
want windherder trait because research and human high magic possibility
want windherder trait because research and human high magic possibility
we know elfish already.
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Even if Belegar got the conclusion wrong, he still cottoned onto the basic facts at least.