Do you have anything positive to add?
Like, fine, you want Mathilde to romance the dragon, we get that.
Can you please make arguments for why people should vote for the dragon, instead of shitting on everyone elses votes?
The Dragon has Vast amounts of magical knowledge, is a deep font of wisdom the world has forgotten, it would certainly be an interesting romance, and the dragon someone who cam emphasize with our scholarly pursuits and ambitions.
Also They are a fucking dragon and that just puts every other option to shame by default.
The Dragon has Vast amounts of magical knowledge, is a deep font of wisdom the world has forgotten, it would certainly be an interesting romance, and the dragon someone who cam emphasize with our scholarly pursuits and ambitions.
Also They are a fucking dragon and that just puts every other option to shame by default.
Alright, I'll bite. There are two forms of voting, voting for something, and voting against something. Both are valid. In a preferential-voting setup like this, the way that you vote against something is to vote for everything else. The way that you vote for something is to vote for a subset of things, and just those things.
My original comment was that your vote, being for literally everything except one item, is a vote against, not a vote for, and that you don't have to do that if you don't want to. (You can, and it's fine, but that's not what it seemed you were doing).
Your reply as I understand it was that, no, it's not a vote against, it's a vote for.
Could you clarify, then, what it is you are voting for, rather than against?
Person A: Votes.
Person B: Hey, you don't have to vote like that if you don't want to.
Person A: That is what I want to vote for.
Person B: No, it isn't.
Person B is in the wrong. Please don't single people out for their votes. It's one thing to engage in a discussion if they provide reasoning, but it's quite another to go up to somebody with the equivalent of "Hey, your voting is weird. You should consider changing it."
... does not display the same properties when exposed to magic that has a divine component. When exposed to mixed energies, such as the Waaagh, we see that...
You've followed Weber's career for some time now - her name came up during the deliberations surrounding your appointment, tied as she was to your predecessor's retirement, and she solidified your interest with her dissertation about the magics of the Brother Gods. Since then, she's made several contributions to the combined Lores of the Colleges, and received some renown with her uncharacteristically swift promotion among the Shadowmancers. And so, when she called for assistance in investigating a peculiar substance she had obtained, not quite of the winds and not quite of the warp, your interest was piqued.
Still, that alone would not have been sufficient to send you on this journey to the far reaches of the Old World - rather, that would be the several unlikely coincidences in a row causing your schedule to become uncharacteristically empty. You've killed a god before, but there were significant mitigating circumstances - you doubt you'd be so lucky against the God of Chance. And so, you, Magister Matriarch Elspeth Von Draken, have sighed, packed your bags, and decided to end this swiftly.
The weather throughout the flight was calm and clear, which unfortunately has left Lavrai plenty of time to pester you, her thoughts smoothly sliding across yours. << It was known that this fledgling had some skill with the shadows, but to attract the Dancers attention is more rare. I am curious how her intersection with your path shall terminate. >>
You sigh. << I'm not going to kill her. >>
Lavrai snorts and dips in the air, making her thoughts clear. << As I recall, you have said these words before, and yet what followed was not in concordance. >>
You make to retort, but cut yourself off as you sense something in the distance. It's not quite the same as the other great battlefields you've visited - you can feel the Waystones pushing the Winds towards harmony, obscuring it - but the behavior of Shyish would make it clear even if the divine echoes didn't. You approach a place of tremendous death, a place where hundreds of thousands of lives were snuffed in an instant. The journey is nearly concluded.
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...deeply aggravating to translate - so much is reminiscent of the proper Draconic Tongue, and yet the glyphs have been mangled and the grammar mutilated. Note: Hire dedicated Cathayan translator, divest self of said duty...
You gaze up at the ceiling of the massive hall, still somewhat basking in the glory of the Library. Your library. It's still more dream than reality, at this point, riddled with empty spaces not yet filled with books, still awaiting negotiations and translations and any number of bits of minutiae. That said, this hall won't ever be filled to the brim with books. This part of Karak Kron is, after all, the Dragon hall, and having a secure place for a dragon to enter rather requires a lot of empty space.
You pause in your reminiscence as Cython stirs, your comfortable position sitting back against him turning stiff as tension runs through his muscles, kaleidoscopes of light cascading across the ground as he moves. "What's happening?"
He exhales deeply, a foggy plume as the air around him condenses, ruffling the library paperwork in front of him. "Another dragon approaches. A greeting will be required."
You start. "She's already here? Right, right." You've been filled in on the particulars already, of course - Dragons are intensely proud and territorial creatures. For one to encroach on anothers territory... even with forewarning, even without any real threat or danger, certain norms simply need to be observed. Really, it's not that different from the delicate social dance when one academic intrudes on anothers hallowed domain.
You approach the locking mechanism, and feed it Ulgu in the appropriate patterns to start the mechanism, feeling the counterpart Hysh structure respond to your changes. With shocking smoothness, the runic defenses release, and the entire back wall opens outward, revealing a view of the Caldera beyond - and a purplish-black speck in the distance.
Cython lopes forward to the newly revealed opening, and perches on it. For a moment, he simply gazes out, and then he stretches his wings outward, and roars.
The last time you heard a dragon's cry, it was from the opposite side of the Karak. Now, you're right at the epicenter. It's an impossibly deep noise - the mountain itself reverberates with it, and you can feel the rattling in your bones. And yet, thanks to a shimmering web of Hysh that deftly folded into existence around you, you're entirely untouched, instead of permanently deafened from mere proximity.
Cython turns back to you once more, the air buffeting you as his wing descends right beside you. "Come. I will need to show all my treasures."
You smile, and jump aboard.
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Person A: Votes.
Person B: Hey, you don't have to vote like that if you don't want to.
Person A: That is what I want to vote for.
Person B: No, it isn't.
Person B is in the wrong. Please don't single people out for their votes. It's one thing to engage in a discussion if they provide reasoning, but it's quite another to go up to somebody with the equivalent of "Hey, your voting is weird. You should consider changing it."
This is everything i hoped a romance vote would not be, and everything i expected it would be...
I really wish we had just voted for no romance and stuck to it.
And constantly going on about how everyone elses picks are stoopid is not?
Like, seriously, Boney asked us to provide positive arguments, not shit on other votes.
If you can't do the former, please atleast stop doing the later.
This is everything i hoped a romance vote would not be, and everything i expected it would be...
I really wish we had just voted for no romance and stuck to it.
The only skin i have in this race is the novelty of romancing a dragon, but right now it looks like any romance plots that go up are gonna be the normal boring stuff.
MathildeXUnlimited Cosmic Power is the only valid OTP anyway.
And constantly going on about how everyone elses picks are stoopid is not?
Like, seriously, Boney asked us to provide positive arguments, not shit on other votes.
If you can't do the former, please atleast stop doing the later.
This is everything i hoped a romance vote would not be, and everything i expected it would be...
I really wish we had just voted for no romance and stuck to it.
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And constantly going on about how everyone elses picks are stoopid is not? Like, seriously, Boney asked us to provide positive arguments, not shit on other votes.
If you can't do the former, please atleast stop doing the later.
The only skin i have in this race is the novelty of romancing a dragon, but right now it looks like any romance plots that go up are gonna be the normal boring stuff.
MathildeXUnlimited Cosmic Power is the only valid OTP anyway.
[X] Barak Varr, to watch the progress of the canal.
[X] [ROMANCE] Journeywoman Panoramia
[X] [ROMANCE] Magister Johann
[X] [ROMANCE] Elector Countess Roswita van Hal
I'd prefer checking the canal over meeting Eike, at least this turn.
I wanted to give Elspeth some appropriately bullshit feats in the past, just to really help sell her as a Big Deal even by future!Mathilde standards.
So (slightly inspired by Professor Tellwyrn from TGaB), I decided to toy around with Death's Timekeeper. Hence: How did Elspeth get the ashes of a dead god, anyway? Deicide.
To be fair, though, I was imagining it as a very minor deity, and with a lot of extenuating circumstances - think Mathilde-tier shenanigans.
Mathilde did have a chance at doing that herself if the Mork roll went sideways. One of the dice options was something like 'One Less God', if I remember.
Mathilde did have a chance at doing that herself if the Mork roll went sideways. One of the dice options was something like 'One Less God', if I remember.
[X] [ROMANCE] The Ice Dragon of Karag Zilfin
[X] [ROMANCE] Magister Johann
[X] Belegar, to discuss the northern Karaks and the Expedition.
[X] Francesco Caravello, proud Viceroy of the Undumgi.
[X] Sir Ruprecht Wulfhart, leader of the frontier town of Ulrikadrin.
[X] Barak Varr, to watch the progress of the canal.
[X] Kasmir, to see how he's keeping himself busy in Sylvania.
[X] Eike Hochschild, to get to know your future business partner.
[X] The Amber College, to check in on the salamanders.
[X] The Gold College, to see what's become of their research into Skaven technology.
[X] Follow up on your donation of the Skaven organ-vat, and see what has been made of it
What can i say... i'm a meme voter, and asexual relationship seems to fit Webber. Just like it does Kakashi, another notorious literature smut ninja reader.
