Warhammer Fantasy: Divided Loyalties - an Advisor's Quest
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Look at it from the bright side.
Now the Hivemind lobby basically has to back any scheme to become Nagash 2.0, because that's the only way to either conquer Altdorf or become Supreme Matriarch, so that we can crack open the vaults and get our cloning vat back.
[X] [COLLEGE] Powerstone (5 Favour)
Yes. Our tower can do it - that's what caused the whole "reality is twanging" thing that got taken advantage of. It's probably not a problem for the Colleges, because occasions where a bunch of battlemagic is getting used all at once in close proximity are very rare outside of even rarer magical superweapons.
- Location
- New Brunswick, NJ
- Pronouns
- He/Him/His
So it seems like, on the heels of this social turn, a lot of people want to take the final We research action. I think that makes a lot of character sense, since the We spokesspider did tell her that she was the most Echo of the not-We, and so investigating "hey so what does that mean exactly" is a reasonable thing for Mathilde to want to do. That leaves a rough outline for next turn as something like this:
- Mathilde 1: Dictate lexicon 1 to Max
- Mathilde 2: Study We communication
- Mathilde 3: AV research action?
- Mathilde 4: College class -- Practical diplo? Powerstones?
- Serenity: Write half of Lexicon 2
- Max: Take dictation
- Johann: get some rest and feel better bb
- Ducks: TBD
- EIC: Recruit a perpetual apprentice to have as an aide for the EIC intel networks we want to establish? Or we could make do without one -- we don't need one.
- Penthouse: Build a tower? We've still got the Room of Oh Dear to build, and new options might have shown up as well.
I don't actually know. I was basing this off of the info threadmark:
I got the impression from how Algard treated them that powerstones were fairly generic and interchangeable. Is that not true?
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- Location
- Toronto, Ontario(occasionally)
This must get genuinely scary for the Orcs. This tunnel smells of death, spawns stealth spiders, and I'd bet the spiders ambush any survivors from attacks, so I don't think anyone is coming back out of it when they go down on an attack.
Also looking back
I really want to figure out indirect Qhaysh. More Aetheric Vitae experiments I guess.
- Location
- Mexico
I'll be dead in the cold cold ground before I waste an opportunity for research, we are going to find out what happened to his magesight, I mean, he will probably have to rest on his main work, so he will appreciate not being treated as a cripple and have something useful to do.
So, we don't know? Should we discuss an specific color then? Ulgu in case we need it later? Or something else so we have 2 sources of magic for experiments? Red should be ok I think, or maybe Amethyst so @Omegahugger can plan.
Quest
The Great One
- Location
- Everywhere
I mean, different winds would create different power stones?
- Location
- The Surface Of A Hostile Planet
Power stones are specific to each wind - they're not generic. The ones in our tower are Ulgu Power Stones, and presumably that's the kind Mathilde would purchase for AV experiments, since it's the wind she's best able to sense and manipulate?
- Location
- New Brunswick, NJ
- Pronouns
- He/Him/His
...I did not realize this, lol.
I suspect we want to stick with an Ulgu stone to maintain compatibility with our own magic in case we want to use it in an eventual enchanting project where an external power source is necessary (like a MAP table or Seviroscope), but I don't know if we'll get an Ulgu by default or if we need to specify.
@BoneyM, when you have the chance: given the current purchase vote for "[ ] [COLLEGE] Powerstone (5 Favour)", if the vote doesn't change to specify anything, would Mathilde get an Ulgu stone or just the first thing she can? I don't know how large the College supply is, whether they have stuff in inventory or whether each request is a custom job.
prince84
In central Dogma flirting with Lilith.
- Location
- The Madness Place
[X] [LIBRARY] Rune Magic (Imperial Extensive), Powerstones (Imperial Extensive), Waystones and Henges (Dwarf Antiquarian)
[X] [COLLEGE] Powerstone (5 Favour)
[X] [DWARF] Establish a factory to turn saltpetre into gunpowder (5 favour)
[X] [PURCHASE] We Silk Battle-robe (however much gold this costs)
I think we should get Matilda a We silk-battle robe because it would be light and yet provide the same protection as chainmail. I always feel like our girl is a bit of a glass cannon and this would help protect her without weakening any of her other skills.
[X] [COLLEGE] Powerstone (5 Favour)
[X] [DWARF] Establish a factory to turn saltpetre into gunpowder (5 favour)
[X] [PURCHASE] We Silk Battle-robe (however much gold this costs)
I think we should get Matilda a We silk-battle robe because it would be light and yet provide the same protection as chainmail. I always feel like our girl is a bit of a glass cannon and this would help protect her without weakening any of her other skills.
- Location
- Earth
I want to get Advanced Assassination.
That rarely comes with forewarning if it's needed and continues to be one of the most dangerous things Mathilde does.
Getting better at it should reduce her odds of death.
- Location
- The Surface Of A Hostile Planet
To be specific: Each Wind's Power Stone has a unique name, description, and behaviour.
Chamon: Goldstone - used to be called Philosopher's Stone, but the College decided that name was misleading. The first College to learn how to condense their wind into a solid brick.
Azyr: True Sapphires
Shyish: Endstones
Ghur: Ghost Amber
Hysh: Lumen Stones
Aqshy: Fire Rubies
Ghyran: Vitaellum
Ulgu: Crystal Mist
Chamon: Goldstone - used to be called Philosopher's Stone, but the College decided that name was misleading. The first College to learn how to condense their wind into a solid brick.
Azyr: True Sapphires
Shyish: Endstones
Ghur: Ghost Amber
Hysh: Lumen Stones
Aqshy: Fire Rubies
Ghyran: Vitaellum
Ulgu: Crystal Mist
kfrar
Aspiring Encyclopedia
We can always just try fixing the vote. There's still plenty of time, after all.
[X] [COLLEGE] Power Stone (Ulgu) (5 Favour)
[X] [DWARF] No Purchase
Not sure what we would use a non-Ulgu Power Stone for at this juncture, so we might as well make sure we actually get an Ulgu Stone.
[X] [COLLEGE] Power Stone (Ulgu) (5 Favour)
[X] [DWARF] No Purchase
Not sure what we would use a non-Ulgu Power Stone for at this juncture, so we might as well make sure we actually get an Ulgu Stone.
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- New Brunswick, NJ
- Pronouns
- He/Him/His
Our Aethyric Armor is at the level of giving us fullplate-level protection, isn't it? Plus it comes with our "immune to physical exhaustion" Mastery effect. I am pretty sure mundane protection isn't that useful at this point; one of our long-term goals is creating enchanted robes that incorporate our Aethyric Armor and hopefully its Mastery as well, for which a We-silk-made robe is probably an excellent base component, but I don't think the robe by itself is useful to us at this point.
Hrm. It's true that we didn't know about the Battle for the Caldera, in which we did a bit of assassination, but we did know about Karagril before it happened, and we had enough warning about Alka-Seltzer that we were able to get training (in Greatswording) before we went to introduce him to the business end of Branulhune. I see your point about it being an inherently high-stakes activity, but I think that with opportunity cost as a factor, I would rather increase her skills in things she doesn't yet have competence at but which we know we want to do relatively soon (diplomacy, powerstone creation) rather than something she's already very good at and which we don't have on the horizon at the moment.
- Location
- Earth
How about this one?
[ ] JOHANN: Have him teach Adela what he knows of engineering.
It gives Adela something to do while she's barred from working directly with Gotri's people, and it gives Johann something that's less intensive while still being useful. Plus, if we actually want her to read her into the Skaven techtree, this seems like a bit of a prerequisite.
Quest
The Great One
- Location
- Everywhere
I wonder if we can get like a set of 8 tiny stones. Not big enough to use to power anything, but enough to potentially expose it to something.
[X] [LIBRARY] Rune Magic (Imperial Extensive), Powerstones (Imperial Extensive), Waystones and Henges (Dwarf Antiquarian)
[X] [COLLEGE] Power Stone (Ulgu) (5 Favour)
[X] [COLLEGE] Power Stone (Ulgu) (5 Favour)
Night_stalker
Slava Ukraini!
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- He/Him
As is Panoramia.
That is a legit valid question, and probably true.
On the upside, you'll never have to worry about thieves.
Huh, a spider librarian.... Never need fear overdue books, or people spilling food, that's for sure.
Didn't see that coming, did ya?
- Location
- The Surface Of A Hostile Planet
I'm not sure "tiny Power Stones" are really a thing - to my understanding, when you crack a Power Stone in half, the whole thing evaporates into a huge burst of its component winds, rather than leaving you with two smaller stones.
Still, it would be kind of funny if it was possible - Teclis himself embedded eight Power Stones, one of each wind, into his sword, so it would be Mathilde emulating someone she looks up to.
HanEmpire
Delicious
She's already read in, IIRC. We took her hunting Skaven for our first action with them. Anyways that's a good idea since Johann really needs a lab assistant right now.
- Location
- United States of America, Michigan
[X] [DWARF] No purchase.
I really dislike using our dwarf favor for civ stuff that doesn't directly involve us
I really dislike using our dwarf favor for civ stuff that doesn't directly involve us
- Location
- Earth
That applies to their existence, not the tech tree or reverse engineering projects. We didn't discuss Queekish or the ratling guns in the last ducklilng club social, we just said it was all classified.