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Warhammer Fantasy: Divided Loyalties - an Advisor's Quest

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Alliterate said:
I think we'd have more (any?) success working on a 'Fog of War' related spell, given we explicitly have a trait for that, and thus explicitly not for other battlemagics like such shadow transformation.

'Suddenly, Dragon' indeed.

But if we wanted to create our own Battlemagic, there would probably be benefits to Learning A Proper BM Spell first (the Mystifying Miasma ties with our own foggy interpretation of Ulgu, and 'confusion on the battlefield' ties tangentially with Fog of War) and before we do that, Get A Staff for Magic 9.
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Don't hush my buzz, you. I just want Matty to get some dragon sized cuddles.

But yes, if we want to go that direction, it'll take a fair bit more work. I don't expect it'll be any time soon. Probably after the elfcation.
Alliterate said:
* He, or his lawfully delegated representative, for the other 5/8th.
More morosely, the second biggest hold is just as oversized and empty of life as Karaz-a-Karak.
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Don't forget Kragg and his disapproval either.

It gets very lively with the Umgi and the halflings and the spiders and wolfrats and giant fuckoff dragons and wizards and Mathildes. Much less depressing too, though the rulers can both be such grumps.
ChronOblivion said:
Oh god, oh fuck, we fucked up, when you regularly deliver superweapons, soon people expect you to do that on demand.
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People will pay us to make them superweapons. How is that a bad thing? Even more, we're the Highly Paid Consultant/Overseer. We outsource the explodey bits, and get to tell Lord Magister and such what to do, and then claim credit for their work.
 
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Alliterate said:
* He, or his lawfully delegated representative, for the other 5/8th.
More morosely, the second biggest hold is just as oversized and empty of life as Karaz-a-Karak.
Reconnecting K8P to the Rune of Azamar might have staved off the most immediate failure end state of the Dwarven Empire, but they're still facing demographic oblivion.

(New Great Work of Bokkul required!)
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Don't worry, the dragon altar should help with that. After all, why bleed your armies retaking Karaks and avenging grudges when you can send a giant fuck-off lizard to do it for you?
 
Alliterate said:
Find joy in eighteen inch tall halfling children playing sportsball against a team of five foot long canine/rats.
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The only thing missing is a giant fuckoff dragon snoozing in the background. During a short summer rain, they shelter under his wing.
In the evening, everybody gathers around a bonfire to listen to the longbeards grumble stories and eat pies.
 
Clearly we should teach the dragon Khazalid, that way it can complain about Elves in the proper manner. It pretty much thinks like a Dwarf already anyhow, with its disdain for Elgi, long-lasting grudges, hatred for Skaven, and fondness for a rigid, orderly existence.
 
BurnNote said:
Huh, looking at the plan, the next turn will be full of cool stuff. The dragon of course, and that's overshadowed the rest, but there's a ton of neat stuff there.

A couple of papers on fucking with Skaven that will likely be well received. Especially in light of dropping the fucking bombshell that is the dictionary. That'll turn a lot of thoughts towards "Fuck the Skaven", and drum up interest in anything related.

And we'll finally try to pull in Kragg to help with our research on the juice. That can only end amazing.
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I'm really looking forward to the part of the turn that is Nerd Club. We're writing a paper. We're dictating two papers to Max. Johann is writing a paper on the thing we worked on with him. I foresee a large portion of the next few months spent in the Room of Serenity with the golden boys, hanging out and kicking ideas back and forth and consulting on each other's work. Just a fun little academic symposium with participants M. Grey, M. Gold, and J. Gold (along with Wolf and assorted wolfrats, if they decide to lounge around and snooze adorably while their humans do boring shit).

And then, when we fly out to ask the Ambers for some consultants to help with a weird project for Belegar, we drop the following package on Algard's in-tray:
  • Details on the Operation of the Ratling Gun, and Assorted Countermeasures
  • The Unique Magical Practices of Eshin-Clan Sorcerers
  • The Art-Techniques of War-Combat: Martial Doctrines of the Skaven
  • Queekish
(titles not final)
 
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Rafin said:
Does this mean that Francesco's position of Viceroy and his technically completely separate from his position as leader (or quartermaster?) of the Undumgi? That at least on paper he's some human that King Belegar chose to administrate Karag Nar (and all the umgi within) for him that also happens to be the head of the prestigious "Undumgi" roadwarden and military guild in service of Karak Eight Peaks?
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In its current form, Karag Nar exists primarily as a home base to the Undumgi, so the two roles are linked.
 
picklepikkl said:
I'm really looking forward to the part of the turn that is Nerd Club. We're writing a paper. We're dictating two papers to Max. Johann is writing a paper on the thing we worked on with him. I foresee a large portion of the next few months spent in the Room of Serenity with the golden boys, hanging out and kicking ideas back and forth and consulting on each other's work. Just a fun little academic symposium with participants M. Grey, M. Gold, and J. Gold (along with Wolf and assorted wolfrats, if they decide to lounge around and snooze adorably while their humans do boring shit).

And then, when we fly out to ask the Ambers for some consultants to help with a weird project for Belegar, we drop the following package on Algard's in-tray:
  • Details on the Operation of the Ratling Gun, and Assorted Countermeasures
  • The Unique Magical Practices of Eshin-Clan Sorcerers
  • The Art-Techniques of War-Combat: Martial Doctrines of the Skaven
  • Queekish
(titles not final)
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Also, you know, the tech library. Maybe. Hopefully.
 
I still think the best way to make friends with the nerd dragon is to offer to read him academic books from our library whenever he is not sleeping.

also @BoneyM
I'm sad that we didn't get any narrative on the big book of big* or has it not arrived yet?
 
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Jyn Ryvia said:
completely off-topic, but I found this bit of art for best boi when we finally get around to getting him rune armour.

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Now that is a proper imperial mustache! Wolf is a very dashing boy!

Ericwinter said:
I remember asking the guy who did the math comparing stats with the Ice Dragon what the best ways to buff with runic items was, but can't remember their name. I think it was like a triple Rune of Warding, something with the Rune of Adamantine—not sure if that's correct—for toughness ten, and claw sheathes with like triple Runes of Striking For attack. That Iron runes sounds cool too though. Maybe put a couple of them with the Rune of Adamantine item? I don't really know how all the time things work, so sorry if that's nonsensical.
Still, can you imagine throwing what's essentially a slightly more powerful Ice Dragon minus magic but plus warding at, say, Karak Drazh? Because I remember the damage it did to the Skaven without even taking a scratch. Sure, Drazh's bigger and probably has more troops, but a whole lot of zero damage is just as useless as a little bit of zero damage. Plus most of their population is snotlings, as I recall, which is even worse for them.
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*cough* Girl.

I was very tired when I wrote that. I don't know if that is the best Rune layout, it certainly breaks the price limits from the tabletop, but it was what I came up with off the top of my head.
 
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Ericwinter said:
Sorry about that. I generally use male pronouns for people on the internet unless they've specifically stated otherwise to me, mainly because I'm a guy so that's where my brain goes. I'll try to remember for the future.
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Thank you, apology excepted. I, and others on this site, have our pronouns displayed below our user names. I find it to be a big help.
 
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picklepikkl said:
Queekish
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I wonder if that falls under the best kind of news. Not knowing your enemies language is a terrible problem, and now she's taken care of it.
Man, I'm actually super hype about this.
Lupercal said:
Thank you, apology excepted. I, and others on this site, have our promouns displayed below our user names. I find it to be a big help.
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You know, I never noticed that's a thing. Neat. I generally just go with they, since I cannot for the live of me remember, but that is helpful.
 
BoneyM said:
Voting closed, writing will begin after I finish waking up.
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Well now that it's confirmed...
"And then she threw a dragon at it!"
Lupercal said:
Thank you, apology excepted. I, and others on this site, have our promouns displayed below our user names. I find it to be a big help.
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I will admit I have never noticed that, mostly because I use a phone a lot—such as right now—and half the things on the screen, like that and sigs, don't actually appear unless I turn it sideways, which can be awkward.
 
picklepikkl said:
And then, when we fly out to ask the Ambers for some consultants to help with a weird project for Belegar, we drop the following package on Algard's in-tray:
  • Details on the Operation of the Ratling Gun, and Assorted Countermeasures
  • The Unique Magical Practices of Eshin-Clan Sorcerers
  • The Art-Techniques of War-Combat: Martial Doctrines of the Skaven
  • Queekish
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"Trouble with the Dragon Altar?" he asks distractedly, squinting at a parchment covered in numbers.

"Not at all, Lord Patriarch. I bring the best kind of good news."

A small smile twitches in the corner of his mouth. "You've discovered that the Naggarythe Shadow Warriors are set to take a swing at Malekith, perhaps?"

"Don't know where you'd get that idea." You place your stack of papers, and one sizeable book on his desk and take a seat across from him. "I speak, of course, of how we uncover the next full-blown Skaven civil war in time to act."

After a further moment of thought, he sets the parchment down, and the dimensions of the desk wrinkle for a heartbeat as the other parchments slide in the opposite direction of reality and out of sight. "Once more, you have my attention."
 
This was actually the first long form style plan of mine that ever won in a quest.

BoneyM said:
In its current form, Karag Nar exists primarily as a home base to the Undumgi, so the two roles are linked.
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Haven't women, tradesmen and non-Undumgi mercenaries already moved in, at least on a semi-temporary basis?
Speaking of K8P race relations, does King Belegar actually claim the valleys between the mountains as an official part of his kingdom or does he also do the free but heavily patrolled real estate thing that some other Dwarf holds seem to do with non-mountains? And related to that, are the local Halflings his official vassal or more of a client state/junior partner? I know that if we had chosen Steward we would have had the option to manage them more directly, so I assume vassal.

Ericwinter said:
Sorry about that. I generally use male pronouns for people on the internet unless they've specifically stated otherwise to me, mainly because I'm a guy so that's where my brain goes. I'll try to remember for the future.
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I used to do the same. But I retrained myself to now habitually use "they" instead when I don't know. Now it sometimes even slips out when I do know the gender.
Jyn Ryvia said:
I'm sad that we didn't get any narrative on the big book of big* or has it not arrived yet?
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The what?
 
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BurnNote said:
I wonder if that falls under the best kind of news. Not knowing your enemies language is a terrible problem, and now she's taken care of it.
Man, I'm actually super hype about this.
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I figure that for that book, and for how huge of a deal that knowledge is, understatement fits Mathilde's style. "What's the title of your publication?" "Nothing much. Just Queekish."
Rafin said:
What's that?
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In thread canon, Bokkul is a Khazalid euphemism for having sex. @Alliterate was joking that we'd need to make "encourage dwarves to reproduce more" a project.
Rafin said:
The what?
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Esoteric Imperial Sevir is the famous book A Modest Treatise On The Nature Of Magic, which is about the size of a horse. @Jyn Ryvia has been after us to purchase it for a while because it's a status symbol to own a copy yourself, and we finally purchased it in the last library vote.
Rafin said:
This was actually the first long form style plan of mine that ever won in a quest.
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CONGRATULATIONS! 🥳
 
Rafin said:
What's that?
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BoneyM said:
"Grungen? Developing bokkul? Adgalazgandit?" Though Khazalid doesn't have Reikspiel's breadth of creative euphemisms, it does have a lot of abusable mining terminology, and Edda blushes deeply. And that only worsens as you exercise your grasp of the language.
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picklepikkl said:
Developing bokkul: mastering the art of banging your head against a low ceiling, like, say, over a bed
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Alliterate said:
So you're saying we need to reclaim and power Valaya's Bokkul Bedroom Bedrune and Barry Whitedwarf's Bloomin' Boomrune.
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Just a joke, with a kernel of hope.
But, if we involve Cadaeth in the joint Waystone project, she does seem to have a keen interest in fertilising the marsh...
picklepikkl said:
In thread canon, Bokkul is a Khazalid euphemism for having sex. @Alliterate was joking that we'd need to make "encourage dwarves to reproduce more" a project.
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(Edit- to be clear, I was indeed 'joking' that some some future magical megaproject could indeed be something along those lines, yes, especially with the K8P Waystone Project.)
 
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picklepikkl said:
I figure that for that book, and for how huge of a deal that knowledge is, understatement fits Mathilde's style. "What's the title of your publication?" "Nothing much. Just Queekish."
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It's not a spell, so tasteful understatement works.

Though lets be honest here. The true reason it gets called this is that Queekish is a super hard acronym, and we're publishing anonymously, so titling it after her name wouldn't work either.
 
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