fictionfan
Please sir, may I have some Meows?
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- Tempe, AZ
It's useful knowledge even if we don't work with the Eonir.
Warhammer Fantasy: Divided Loyalties - an Advisor's Quest
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- warhammer warhammer fantasy fantasy be gay do crimes (gay) female protagonist pansexual protagonist ck2 quest divided loyalties mountain vietnam ranald is real this is a dwarf quest (dwarfs) this is maybe an elf quest this is not a vampire quest this is not an empire quest try it and find out open voting
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- Singapore
Its abit of a tongue in cheek remark about how Mathilde's loyalties to the Grey College remain strong. She is quick to obey the suggestions of her Patriach.
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if the head of the CIA or KGB gave me a suggestion I would be quick to respond too.
fictionfan
Please sir, may I have some Meows?
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- Tempe, AZ
It's a good suggestion. I think that we would have likely done it even if he had not given it.
I figure we'd just sneak the Grey Perpetual into a useful high level secretary or clerk position and let their skills do the rest.
The best Grey Perpetual apprentice is one they don't know is there...and Perpetuals are exceedingly unlikely to have noticable Arcane Marks so a long term deep cover position is well secured.
I'm kind of scratching my head at the chain of logic that led to Gretel being nominated:
1) People are concerned that the EIC may do anything for money in the future, misusing its control of the economy and/or its armed escorts against the founding principles we instilled.
2) Therefore we should get a trustworthy agent in place as a secret auditor.
3) Therefore we should get Gretel, who is very skilled at intrigue and is motivated by wealth.
Why WOULD Gretel ever WANT to stop the EIC from making more money at the expense of others when she can get extremely wealthy by doing so?
Its not a Power thing, strictly speaking. If you just wanted raw dakka True Dhar is where its at.
Each Wind of magic has strictly delineated things which it can do, which it can do poorly, and which it cannot do at all.
High Magic, as a balanced and harmonized form of all eight Winds can essentially do anything. Thats ultimately the true reason to want it.
The still open questions I can think of immediately are "what rules govern the transformation", "what if multiple factors known to cause transformation at a higher power are applied simultaneously at low power", "how fast is the transformation and can the rate be modified", "are there intermediate states in the transformation" and "do different transformations produce different results"
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- Singapore
I wonder what rolling a 1 would look like, since I have no doubt we have priority access to this class, so scheduling problems cannot be an issue.
Waystones is something that interested us a long time ago, but we always lacked the time to dedicate actions to it.
Once we became the K8P loremaster, actually once we decided to stay a while with Belegar, we knew we would study them, even before all the failing dwarf personal network and Eonir shenanigans entered the picture.
Also, thread forgets, but Mathilde is both legally and by her own personal preferences as a character bound to follow Algard's orders, even when they are cloaked as suggestions.
Anyway, I hope fellow voters start taking our backlog seriously. Yes, we will always have it, and we should always have it, but there's backlog and backlog.
NexusEye
Aspiring God
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- She/Her
So I decided to compile a list of all the Skaven secrets we have stolen or will probably steal relatively soon. The list is:
Note that this list does not include anything that might be learned from the following items as we don't know enough about them to predict if the information learned from them would be useful:
- Written Queekish
- Spoken Queekish
- Insight into Skaven psychology/game theory
- Confirmation of Eshin sorcerers
- Knowledge of a Skaven civil war
- Eshin internal intelligence
- Skaven knowledge of Chaos Dwarf anatomy
- Knowledge of skaven strategy and tactics(technically from Liber Mortis)
- Schematics for pretty much all of their technology
- Skaven food ooze
- Ability to make gas masks, countering Skaven chemical weapons
- Fluorescent lighting
- Adorable Rat-puppies
- Newton's cradles
Note that this list does not include anything that might be learned from the following items as we don't know enough about them to predict if the information learned from them would be useful:
- Black Gem
- Cathayan books
- Clan Moulder books
- Preserved Rat-mother bodies
- Eshin throwing star
- Eshin sorcerer crystal sword
- Eshin sorcerer amulet
- Electric whip
- Moulder vials
- Captured Moulder devices
- Warptech Lightning cannon
- Brass orb
- Organ vat
chocolote12
A Penguin Flailing Against The Keyboard Of Life.
Well, the dice do tend to represent luck rather than actual skill in such situations, for which I am thankful (people are far more skillful than a 1/100 chance of automatic failure per action represents), so the Waystone teacher might get taken out by a rampaging clown after taunting the Azyr college too much, or something.
Ericwinter
Definitely not a Skaven Infiltrator
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- America
The best proof of being a badass is by making your name itself a curse used by your enemies.
this makes me wonder how in the college holds the title for most ridiculous petty revenge prank.
Ericwinter
Definitely not a Skaven Infiltrator
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- America
I don't know about petty revenge, but I'd call tricking half a million Greenskins into marching to their death pretty ridiculous. Or snatching a god's power out from underneath them when they carelessly left it lying around. Or setting off a massive thunder dome brawl that emptied a Karak of enemies by knocking over some glass vials. And nobody can prove that Mathilde didn't plan every last one of those.
Emperor Wilhelm III.
Usually about six hours if I'm uninterrupted.
I wish I had a reliable solution, back when I regularly wrote prose it often got the best of me. The quest format actually bypasses a lot of it. I set up the world like a pinball machine, and the thread fires Mathilde off towards the ramps and bumpers. From there, all I have to do is map the trajectory, and I very rarely have to stop and wonder what happens next because it's all cause and effect.
Aranfan
Team Plasma Grunt
And any other loyalties they may have.
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- Earth
Wealthy enough to what, buy a 99 year lease on a mountaintop? She's already done that. She's settling in. Presumably, she'll be living here long enough to gain our blend of dwarven ideals through sheer osmosis if nothing else, and I'm sure we'd put additional emphasis if we go through with it.
What we want from a EIC 2IC is competence and loyalty. At 21 Intrigue and 17 Learning, competence is more or less a given for what we want to achieve with the EIC, since we're not actively going after money-generation. As for loyalty, we've given her both magical and religious advice. We saved her from a miscast and snuffed out a giant Waaagh in front of her eyes. It doesn't really get much better than that.
What we want and what she wants are not mutually exclusive. In fact, when we were instilling those aforementioned values to the EIC, the entire point was that the Empire was necessary for wealth to be a thing. If anything, supporting EIC values in Gretel, who likes wealth and is already going to be around, is a good thing. Certainly less risky than hiring a thief to manage the Watch.
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- Aotearoa
That wasn't a taking risk, though, to Mathilde. Aside from the 'set a thief to catch a thief' adage, she was far more focused on other threats to the people of Wurtbad and Stirland, specifically Vampiric infiltration.
"Ah, yes, of course, the 'War Below'" bluffed the Dämmerlichtreiter.
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This kind of thinking is quite optimistic, it's extremely variable how much expats take in of ethos of other cultures they live in.
Hiring a Perpetual apprentice to place in the EIC to build up an intel network inside it and whatnot seems like a decent investment to me.
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- Spain
What would have happened if we rolled a nat 100, we would have discovered that he was a friend of Gotrek Starbreaker or something like that?
Forget about it, @chocolote12 is probably right.
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chocolote12
A Penguin Flailing Against The Keyboard Of Life.
Let's not talk about what-ifs. They're either boring, or would make us envious. We don't win either way.
minimap_op
plsnerf
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- Lower Lefthand Corner
[X] Plan: Spoken Queekish v4 with Better Max
[X] Plan: Spoken Queekish v4 with Better Max and Better Paper
[X] Plan: Spoken Queekish v4 with Better Max and Better Paper
