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Warhammer Fantasy: Divided Loyalties - an Advisor's Quest

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Katarsiis said:
Or maybe all remaining ones decided to fuck with Cathay.
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Naggaroth is also connected to the North Pole by land, IIRC. I'm pretty sure the amount of effort the Asur would put into fighting off an Everchosen bearing down on the Drucchi would be either zero (rest and recover while they're distracted) or less than that (press Malekith's lot from behind in a pincer).
 
ChronOblivion said:
Huh, so the Favor calculations work identically to paper writing? I'd have thought that it gets a boost, since you're distilling several papers into a single publication, but I assume we at least get some nice profits from book sales.
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The Thorough and Varied additions are practically guaranteed by writing the book, but yes, you'll often get more favour from the same data by slicing it into minimum publishable units. But that's only really worth it if you don't have much to write about.

picklepikkl said:
You may have changed your mind since the last time this was discussed, but:


T33 is the first half of 2486, T34 is the second half.
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I think I meant second half of the turn. Either that or hemisphere confusion. It'll start in Spring 86, so the second half of the first turn of that year.

PseudoLurker said:
He's been around enough to have actually known them before the hold was lost. @BoneyM has he been there before or just worked for them?
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He didn't say.

me.me.here said:
Naggaroth is also connected to the North Pole by land, IIRC. I'm pretty sure the amount of effort the Asur would put into fighting off an Everchosen bearing down on the Drucchi would be either zero (rest and recover while they're distracted) or less than that (press Malekith's lot from behind in a pincer).
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The Drucchi do have a string of city-sized watchtowers to defend against the forces of Chaos, seems likely they would have had at least one Everchosen show up on their doorstep to justify that expense.
 
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SpaceSloth said:
It would be pretty cool if we could learn dragon language from our local dragon.
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I like that it sounds like gargling. It's just a funny image.

Like, we're on our elfcation (version two maybe), and one of the dragon princes starts being a dick to our elf friends. And they're snobbing/stoicing at each other. Mathilde meanwhile goes to the dragon and starts gargling at it. After a minute (it was some intense snobbing/stoicing) the others notice the ongoing conversation. The shadow elfs are like 'WTF?'. The dragon elf is also like 'WTF?', except more arrogant, and then also starts gargling.

And so you have Mathilde, Dragon Elf and Dragon just gargling away. And I can't (and don't want to) shake the mental image of them standing their with their mouth wide open and head tipped back, like you'd do it when gargling water.

Gargling.
 
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picklepikkl said:
Got it. So we have less time than we thought we did. Good to know now!
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Well, at least I think that means we can do the coins action after we come back in the second half of the year.

T31 - 4 actions
T32 - 4 actions
T33 - 2 actions + 1 overwork (and I think it's quite appropriate to be desperately overworking to polish things up before we go!); "2 actions" on the expedition (which is supposed to last a mere 3 months).

...wow, the expedition is moving fast.
 
Briefvoice said:
Well, at least I think that means we can do the coins action after we come back in the second half of the year.

T31 - 4 actions
T32 - 4 actions
T33 - 2 actions + 1 overwork (and I think it's quite appropriate to be desperately overworking to polish things up before we go!); "2 actions" on the expedition (which is supposed to last a mere 3 months).

...wow, the expedition is moving fast.
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Nope. The vault coins are getting melted down end of T32. It's next two turns to deal with them or never. If we'd chosen to leave in 2485, we'd have been able to do them after we got back.

Overwork without penalty becomes available again on T32.
 
Considering Ironclad guns could probably bring down dragons, even if angle of elevation is an issue, it's not quite the accidental coup as the Gasmask of K8P, but it's a good runner up.
 
Well this is a bit of a kick in the balls. We only have two solid turns to prep.

Guess those coins will have to get melted down with out an action going on them if we hope to actually be properly ready for this now.
 
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Moratorium's up. First, the easy stuff:

[X] Agree

Next, the social turn. I am going to repost what I said earlier:
picklepikkl said:
I would like to request that people seriously consider approval voting all four as-yet-unpicked [ROMANCE] options this social turn, even if they do not favor actually romancing those characters.

My primary reason is this: the first scene that's on the table for them is not explicitly romantic. It's a getting-to-know-you scene. And the getting-to-know-you scenes for Johann and Panoramia have been amazing. Like, to the point where I, despite not favoring a romance with either character, really enjoyed them and am glad they won, and am now way more okay with the prospect of either of them winning in the end. A bunch of other people said similar things. Boney wrote really awesome, in-depth scenes that helped us get a sense of them as characters, understanding more of what makes them tick, and I'd really like to see that for all six of the candidates, even the ones I don't want to be in a romance with.

I think it's most likely that either Johann or Panoramia will eventually win. The base of support for them is just so much meaningfully larger than it is for the rest. But I think it would be a shame to skip that incredibly delightful getting-to-know-you scene that they've gotten. All six of these characters deserve a day in the spotlight so that we, the thread, can see them put their best foot forward and figure out where we want to go from there.
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And I will put my money where my mouth is:

[X] [ROMANCE] Elector Countess Roswita van Hal
[X] [ROMANCE] Baron Anton Kiesinger II
[X] [ROMANCE] The Ice Dragon of Karag Zilfin
[X] [ROMANCE] Chief Bombardier Oswald Oswaldson
 
BoneyM said:
When you send off the manuscript and get a properly bound hardcover copy back a few weeks later, you don't hesitate for a moment before sliding it into the Civilized Realms section of your library.

[Araneae Sapiens, 2484. Subject: Unique, +3. Insight: Revolutionary, +2. Delivery: Compelling, +1. Thorough, +1. Exotic, +1. Varied, +1. Shared Credit, -1. Total: +8.]
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Good stuff, and a lot of coauthors.
BoneyM said:
Aranaea Sapiens, By M. Mathilde Weber (Grey), We (Karak Eight Peaks), M. Esber (Amber) & M. Seija (Amber), M. Johann (Gold), M. Maximilian de Gaynesford (Gold), Priestess Fidelia (Esmerelda), Loremaster ɧæð (Karak Hirn), 2484.
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While it might not be recorded at this bookkeeping fidelity, do the other wizards listed on our papers effectively get their part? So 6 CF I think (Contributor -3) from this too? Max and Johann and the Ambers?

(...is Mathilde hyperinflating the College Favour system? This could be at least 32CF. Hmm, maybe there's a paper on that. Collaboration with thr We, perhaps? :V )
 
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[X] Agree

[X] [ROMANCE] Elector Countess Roswita van Hal
[X] [ROMANCE] Baron Anton Kiesinger II
[X] [ROMANCE] The Ice Dragon of Karag Zilfin
[X] [ROMANCE] Chief Bombardier Oswald Oswaldson

I'll again bring up that this isn't 'rushing'; six months is a lot of time to interact with four beings. That's less than once per month.
 
[X] Agree

[X] King Belegar
[X] Thorek
[X] Prince Kazrik
[X] Dreng
[X] Barak Varr, to watch the progress of the canal.
[X] The Amber College, to check in on the salamanders.
[X] Follow up on your donation of the Skaven organ-vat, and see what has been made of it.
[X] [ROMANCE] Magister Johann
 
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BoneyM said:
He looks up in surprise, and a smile spreads across his face as he leaps effortlessly to his feet. "The silver savage from Sylvania!" You almost take offence to that, before realizing that it's what Ma-thil would translate closest to in Eltharin. "What offer brings you to this swamp village? One from your Emperor?"
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Eeeee, he remembers us! And we made him smile just by showing up!
Best day ever since Kragg approved of us!
 
[X] Agree
[X] [ROMANCE] Elector Countess Roswita van Hal
[X] [ROMANCE] Baron Anton Kiesinger II
[X] [ROMANCE] The Ice Dragon of Karag Zilfin
[X] [ROMANCE] Chief Bombardier Oswald Oswaldson
 
[X] [ROMANCE] Elector Countess Roswita van Hal
[X] [ROMANCE] Baron Anton Kiesinger II
[X] [ROMANCE] The Ice Dragon of Karag Zilfin
[X] [ROMANCE] Chief Bombardier Oswald Oswaldson
 
[X] Agree

[X] [ROMANCE] Elector Countess Roswita van Hal
[X] [ROMANCE] Baron Anton Kiesinger II
[X] [ROMANCE] The Ice Dragon of Karag Zilfin
[X] [ROMANCE] Chief Bombardier Oswald Oswaldson
 
[X] Agree

[X] [ROMANCE] Elector Countess Roswita van Hal
[X] [ROMANCE] Baron Anton Kiesinger II
[X] [ROMANCE] The Ice Dragon of Karag Zilfin
[X] [ROMANCE] Chief Bombardier Oswald Oswaldson

C'mon, let's get all the niceties out of the way so we can finally waifu Panoramia without feeling bad for neglecting all the runners up.
 
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