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Warhammer Fantasy: Divided Loyalties - an Advisor's Quest

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Man, I miss Penetrator Quest...having a dragon mount was just too awesome, and literally giving someone an Emperor Dragon as a gift was priceless.

That the person receiving said gift was the greatest Blood Dragon vampire since Abhorash (and actually a pretty decent guy) whose bad luck when it came to actually getting a fight with a dragon (the dream of every Blood Dragon vampire, since Abhorash fighting a Star Dragon solo and defeating it/drinking its blood and forever quenching his thirst for blood is the most central part of Blood Dragon history) was legendary, made it all the better. (For what it's worth, said Emperor Dragon was a dick that tried to kill the people that freed it, even after trying to reason with it).
 
Hmm, random idea. If Cadeath does, in fact, end up being a tree lady instead of an elf, how unlikely would it be to go for a three-way with her and Panoramia? Hell, we might even have plenty of chances to see them interact if we bring Pan-Pan in on the Waystone project. As I recall the Jade College have always been the most knowledgeable about stuff involving let-lines and the network, plus she's been taking care of the land in the Karak for years, if anyone could point us in the right direction to start it would probably be her.
 
Ericwinter said:
Hmm, random idea. If Cadeath does, in fact, end up being a tree lady instead of an elf, how unlikely would it be to go for a three-way with her and Panoramia? Hell, we might even have plenty of chances to see them interact if we bring Pan-Pan in on the Waystone project. As I recall the Jade College have always been the most knowledgeable about stuff involving let-lines and the network, plus she's been taking care of the land in the Karak for years, if anyone could point us in the right direction to start it would probably be her.
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I mean, it does rely on both Panpan and Cadeath to be into trees, women and polyamorous relationships. Not impossible, but also not something we can take for granted.

Also, you need to convince the thread to vote in favour of Cadeath, which I suspect is even more difficult considering she only got 20% of an approval-based vote.
 
Omegahugger said:
I mean, it does rely on both Panpan and Cadeath to be into trees, women and polyamorous relationships. Not impossible, but also not something we can take for granted.

Also, you need to convince the thread to vote in favour of Cadeath, which I suspect is even more difficult considering she only got 20% of an approval-based vote.
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Hey, twenty percent isn't that bad a shot for someone who has thus far had only a single scene, especially when we are almost certain to end up in contact with her during the very large and very long Waystone project. Considering that the next two strongest options—the dragon and Oswald—generally require us going out of our way to interact with them again, it shouldn't be too hard to overcome that barrier. The Roswita/Anton barrier might be a bit harder with their much higher levels of support, but they're even harder to interact with, being in Stirland and having little direct connection to our job.
Basically, Ceadeath had a major limitation in screen-time, and still garnered a substantial number of votes. Depending on how soon the Waystone project starts and how involved she actually is, that weakness could be removed and then some. I'm holding out hope, at least.
You do have a point about preferences though. I mean, presumably a tree lady would also be into trees and plant people, while a Jade wizard is probably the most likely person to have a tree fetish, but neither of those are garunteed, let alone polyamory. Panoramia is probably at least a little into women though, given her previous fan-crush on us.
 
Ericwinter said:
the very large and very long Waystone project
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The Azrildrekked and the Very Large and Very Long Waystone Project is literally the title of the fanfiction our dwarf book exchange group is going to write about it.

@BoneyM ever since you gave the suggestion for that one dwarf romance novel back in November this is what I imagine contantly. Everything is Dwarf-Smut @picklepikkl tiny nuggets of gold.
 
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The Azrildrekked and the Very Large and Very Long Waystone Project is literally the title of the fanfiction our dwarf book exchange group is going to write about it.
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I mean, I would read it. :D
on a completely unrelated note, I had a much more random and crazier thought as well. Remember how Mathilde likes to collect Wizards to boss around and show off? Imagine if she started doing that with dragons instead because, well, they're technically Wizards too. We even have eight mountains, one for each Wind... assuming we can ever find the Ulgu dragon. Or maybe it's already there, just waiting for us to notice.
 
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The Azrildrekked and the Very Large and Very Long Waystone Project
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    • The Azrildrekked and the Very Large and Very Long Waystone Project

    The shaft the magister walked out of was a good fifteen and three tenths paces across, twice that high, and with the characteristic cornicing and chisel marks that identify a large transit oriented not-orebearing tunnel, rather than the more common transit-oriented trunk tunnels following ore veins. (Although some of the side passages barely in view did suggest a transition to that pattern, and the 5/8 co-axial tooth-and-ramp up the main staircase rising in the dimness certainly implied that good metal had been taken out along the path the magister walked now, though no gleanings of iron dust remained.) She had just gotten final signatures from the King, the council, the Thanes, the guildmasters, and all clergies on a document allowing one elf for one day (defined as noon to noon) to come and study the mountains.

    It was a good start.


    Edit: additionally!
    She sighed as she walked across the valley, for she knew her hosts were rightfully suspicious of elves. But the waystones called to her, and for the stones she would persuade them. She walked to the first of them now, seeking comfort in the grain of the rock and it's dimensions. There were many stones and rocks in the world, many inspiring beyond compare, but she was magic and so were these, so she was interested in them beyond all others.

    The stone stood 9 and 5/8ths meters above the mountainside at its highest point, stretching 3 and 2/5 meters across at it's widest, and 2 and 3/4 meters deep as measured on a line perpendicular to that used to measure the breadth while at the same vertical height equal to the greatest girth.

    It was a magnificent erect boulder of granite, the white and red of quatrzite and oxidized iron in high contrast to the dull basalt it rested upon, though a close eye could make out the characteristic pecked texture of the basalt left by dwarfs working with stone tools, to sculpt it to perfectly hold the base of raw, hard rock pillar.

    The Azrildrekked sighed and leaned against it, her slim figure almost lost against it's hulking mass. She trailed her fingers across the well-formed quartzite inclusions (indicating a cooling velocity at the extreme low end of what the molten mixture may tolerate and still become granite) with grains of almost 15 decimeters across with their characteristic tendency towards hexagonal forms, and found the 60 degree edges friendly to the touch.

    She sighed, thinking about magic things.
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    • Ericwinter said:
    I mean, I would read it. :D
    on a completely unrelated note, I had a much more random and crazier thought as well. Remember how Mathilde likes to collect Wizards to boss around and show off? Imagine if she started doing that with dragons instead because, well, they're technically Wizards too. We even have eight mountains, one for each Wind... assuming we can ever find the Ulgu dragon. Or maybe it's already there, just waiting for us to notice.
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    In the mountain already named "shadow mountain" that we have never once visited?
     
    Glau said:
    The Azrildrekked and the Very Large and Very Long Waystone Project

    The shaft the magister walked out of was a good fifteen and three tenths paces across, twice that high, and with the characteristic cornicing and chisel marks that identify a large transit oriented not-orebearing tunnel, rather than the more common transit-oriented trunk tunnels following ore veins. (Although some of the side passages barely in view did suggest a transition to that pattern, and the 5/8 co-axial tooth-and-ramp up the main staircase rising in the dimness certainly implied that good metal had been taken out along the path the magister walked now, though no gleanings of iron dust remained.) She had just gotten final signatures from the King, the council, the Thanes, the guildmasters, and all clergies on a document allowing one elf for one day (defined as noon to noon) to come and study the mountains.

    It was a good start.
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    Give that dirty dirty (actually rather well tended and with excellent ventilation) technical mining jargon double-entandre. Tooth and Ramp me daddy.
     
    Huh. You know, the dragon is now less than fifteen votes behind Anton. Come on guys, there's still time! We can do it!
     
    So I have a theory why Kragg likes us so much:

    Simply put, Runesmiths are artists. Like the Runesmith Quest on here put it best

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    Runesmiths were ill at ease with continuously making the same array of runes over and over again, it went against a literal rule of the guild but did so grudgingly for the benefit of dwarfkind. A runesmith prided themself in making something unique, something that no one else could rival in terms of craftsmanship and skill.

    Engineers on the other hand you found, sought uniformity and ever greater standardization. To be sure there was some young firebrand making some innovation, or an individual customizing or adding modifications to their tools but their end goal was to implement their change wholesale and make it the standard that all other engineers followed and saw as good sense.
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    Simply put, he's been in a rut. Yeah, he's a good Runesmith, but given his fame, he probably gets a limited amount of requests for items, so well, he's bored.

    And then we come along, he gets a chance to flex his artistic muscles, making both a sword and a belt. And then we return the favor via bringing him that Elemental.
     
    Night_stalker said:
    So I have a theory why Kragg likes us so much:

    Simply put, Runesmiths are artists. Like the Runesmith Quest on here put it best



    Simply put, he's been in a rut. Yeah, he's a good Runesmith, but given his fame, he probably gets a limited amount of requests for items, so well, he's bored.

    And then we come along, he gets a chance to flex his artistic muscles, making both a sword and a belt. And then we return the favor via bringing him that Elemental.
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    Historians will call it Kraggs Gromril period. Just before the peak of his craft followed by his sudden, glorious and tragic demise.
     
    Kragg is also the oldest Runesmith and probably the oldest dwarf (other than Ancestor Gods like Grombrindal) - so he's bound to have a greater sense of perspective over how much has been lost.

    Getting the chance to kick start a new renaissance for the Karaz Ankor is bound to improve Kragg's mood. Since Mathilde is the main reason things went so smoothly and she's constantly providing interesting projects she's bound to be in Kragg's good books.
     
    Given the complexity of rune creation, and the legends, they had to be a way to discover runes that is not trial and error. I wonder how one would go about recreating that- the runes were 'found' in the glittering realms, right?
     
    Could the "Glittering Realm" be something that the Old Ones created with the intention of having Dwarfs access the knowledge stored therein to maintain the Warp barriers? Like an ethereal database for runelore that the Dwarfs lost the admin access code for.
     
    Speaking about pretty decent vampire guys, is there any chance of some Strigoi managing to keep their sanity and dreams of peaceful coexistence? I feel really bad about what happened to those guys.
     
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