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Warhammer Fantasy: Divided Loyalties - an Advisor's Quest

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BoneyM said:
Her acceptance means you only spend most of the rest of the day hiding in the privacy of your dragon chair as you wait for your nervousness and embarrassment to abate. It's so much easier in the books.
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Well, one good thing that came from this, I haven't seen Mathilde be adorable in quite a while.

And that's just... so... perfect...
 
Briefvoice said:
I am still not convinced that a 20 favor fire item is what we need or want. So let me offer an alternative.

[ ] [COLLEGE] Item duplicating Light's Demand: (Holds in place all Chaos creatures caught in a cone of light for several rounds. This spell is particularly hard to resist.) - 5 favor

Is this going to permanently occupy our enchanted item slot? Probably not. Will it be extremely useful in the Chaos Waste in particular? Hella yes! Get it for the upcoming mission, use it, and replace it with some item we enchant for ourselves using WIndherder down the road when we have the AP to do so.
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Hmmm. I've soured a bit on the "big explosion" item idea, so this is actually a pretty compelling argument. It'll probably be useful in the Chaos Wastes, and in the long run we can just keep it in our desk and lob it at someone if we feel the need to daemoncheck them, so it's not a waste even if it's no longer part of our main kit. If it's good enough for Algard, it's good enough for us...
 
BoneyM said:
the date
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I'm not one for romance, as I believe I have made quite clear. Nonetheless there is a pleasant adorkableness to Mathilde's stumbling attempts. And it is nice to see her relax and stop putting on a show with someone.

"Something like that. It runs in the family, being hardy in the summer and very not in the winter. Handy for working the fields, not so much the rest of the time. I'm just glad the Expedition succeeded before it got too far into autumn."

You nod. "That's why you holiday through winter."

"If you're not going to be productive anyway, might as well enjoy it. The College just about shuts down during winter. Drives some of the new blood spare, at least until they delve deep enough that they start feeling the rhythm too." She prods at your shadow with her staff, which sways to the side to avoid it. "I suppose you wouldn't have anything like that, with Ulgu."
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On the one hand, inconvenient. On the other, being vastly stronger for half the year would also be exceedingly useful if you can set your own schedule.

Ducklings
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Not often journeymen and young magisters get to flex on council-rank lords.
Shame no one else had news but I guess things have been very quiet lately.

EIC
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Well at least it is out of the way.
The Hochlander must be rather confused as to our priorities.
 
Cute.

With regard to the earlier discussion, I figured we'd transition to a Tomb Raider style where we start exploring old Dawi karaks and human ruins from our base in K8P and assisting with mapping and scouting in preparation for the Skaven's return.

Where else would we go as an advisor at this time?
 
BoneyM said:
Of anyone is intimidated
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BoneyM said:
I'm happy with nonagression and loaning it the occassional book."
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nonaggression, occasional
BoneyM said:
the Marienburg situation looks like it'll drag on for the foreseeable if it doesn't come to a head.
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If it's not a colloquialism, 'foreseeable future'
BoneyM said:
every Dwarvens shipwright is already spoken for
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Dwarven
BoneyM said:
attemptes at banditry
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attempts
 
Right, OK, shit's on fire at work at the same time as this is out, but I can at least discharge my library duties. Here's a list of a bunch of stuff I think we want over the next two turns:
  • Dark Lands: Extensive + Esoteric Imperial (200gc)
    • Current: Imperial / Extensive Dwarven
  • Marauder Tribes: Extensive Imperial+Extensive Dwarven (200gc)
  • Chaos Dwarves: Extensive Imperial+Extensive and Antiquarian Dwarven (250gc, 2DF)
    • Current: Imperial / Skaven (Only Esoteric)
  • Karaz Ankor: Antiquarian Dwarven (100gc, 2DF)
    • Current: Extensive and Esoteric Imperial / Extensive Bretonnian / Extensive Dwarven
  • Chaos Sorcery: Extensive Imperial+Extensive Dwarven (200gc)
    • Thanks @Garlak for the suggestion
And here's some reach topics that I think are worth picking up on top of that:
  • Enchanting: Esoteric Imperial (50gc, 2CF)
    • Current: Antiquarian Imperial
  • Karaz Ankor: Esoteric Dwarven (50gc, 2DF)
    • Thanks @Glau for the suggestion that this would be useful for knowing about weird shit that's up with Karag Dum specifically
I think it is very likely that we scout the Steppes next turn. We might also scout the Dark Lands. So with that in mind, here is a proposed plan for this turn:

[ ] [LIBRARY] Dark Lands: Extensive + Esoteric Imperial (200gc), Marauder Tribes: Extensive Imperial + Extensive Dwarven (200gc), Karaz Ankor: Esoteric Dwarven (150gc, 4DF), Enchanting: Esoteric Imperial (50gc, 2CF)

This has an out-of-pocket cost of 300gc, 2DF, and 2CF. Next turn we can pick up the Chaos Dwarves and Chaos Sorcery books, as well as anything else we think of for a last-minute cram session. We won't be able to reference our library on the expedition for mechanical bonuses to our rolls, but doing our reading will help us with background knowledge and understanding of stuff that we might run across.

As ever, feel free to ping me with questions about the library plan or requests for alternate plans.
 
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Valmond said:
And i guess we now know what gender Cython is. :V
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Cython rejects the concept of gender identity entirely, PUNY MORTAL! Flesh is mere clothing, to be doffed and donned at will!

Disclaimer: (Opinions of magical non-human dragons in a FICTIONAL, magical, world should not be considered relevant to the human condition in real life and are not worth celebrating or decrying. Any resemblance to any persons living or dead is purely coincidental.)

Redshirt Army said:
in the long run we can just keep it in our desk and lob it at someone if we feel the need to daemoncheck them
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We did think of buying a daemoncheck item earlier, so two birds with one stone.
 
Mopman43 said:
You're in Virginia, are they really calling you in at 10:30?

I hope you can get some sleep soon.
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We do releases at 9 PM on Thursday. The new shit started throwing a ton of errors and after consulting with the various folks on call, we're rolling it back. Such is software engineer life.

Also, @Garlak made the suggestion, which Boney approved and I endorse, of doing this:
Garlak said:
... Hm. Wait. I wonder if we can use Aethyric Vitae-granted Dwarf Favor, to buy Karaz Ankor Runesmith expertise on telling us stuff about Karag Dum?

Effectively this would be something like..., using AV to buy specialized hero-level instruction on what is up with Karag Dum, I think. Basically, use AV Favor to get the Runesmiths to start talking about. Is that a viable option, @BoneyM?
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BoneyM said:
As long as it's paid for in AV, yes.
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BoneyM said:
Do it in a purchase round for just the information, doing it as part of a turn to also get a Piety skill for Thungni lore.
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So that would be:

[ ] [DWARF] Runesmith briefing on Karag Dum (2 gallons AV)

I think this is worth doing: hero-level instruction is 6 DF/2 gallons AV, which is pricey, but we're going into a thorny situation and we should find out what's up, especially if we want to maybe recruit Runesmiths from Karak Azul this coming turn. We should find out what the hell we're asking them to get involved with.
 
chocolote12 said:
Now we just need five sidekicks, one for each of our assorted professions, so that we can have trained witnesses to observe how cool we are.
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we have them. The ducklings make a good portion of other wizard multiclasses, we have a cleric(of ranald) who is a thief.
Klaus said:
Cython rejects the concept of gender identity entirely, PUNY MORTAL! Flesh is mere clothing, to be doffed and donned at will
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Are you saying he can polymorph human to give Mathild some human/Dragon babies?
 
picklepikkl said:
This is cute as shit.

Aw.

MATHILDE HAS BEEN CAUGHT OFF-BALANCE, ALERT THE PRESS.

༼ つ ◕_◕ ༽つ omake writers, take my energy ༼ つ ◕_◕ ༽つ

I will post library stuff when I can stop going awwwwwww at Mathilde Weber: Disaster Lesbian Bisexual Pansexual.
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Not exactly a fiery romance for the ages, but meet-cute is cute.
Ericwinter said:
You know, this almost makes me wonder if we just missed Regimand's own private freak out due to us changing subjects immediately after. Not only are Mathilde and her Ducklings totally nonchalant about the Emperor Dragon that comes over for tea and library visits, but it's a hysh dragon too.
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Reggie, /sniff: "I'd be a piss-poor Magister if I couldn't hide my internal freak-out over something as minor as a Hysh-using Emperor Dragon. Do we get to meet the Dragon? I'm ready for tea and crumpets with the best of 'em."
 
Cheap Orange Knofe said:
Are you saying he can polymorph human to give Mathild some human/Dragon babies?
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No real evidence of that.
picklepikkl said:
[ ] [DWARF] Runesmith briefing on Karag Dum (2 gallons AV)

I think this is worth doing: hero-level instruction is 6 DF/2 gallons AV, which is pricey, but we're going into a thorny situation and we should find out what's up, especially if we want to maybe recruit Runesmiths from Karak Azul this coming turn. We should find out what the hell we're asking them to get involved with.
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And, counterpoint, this is rather a waste as it won't affect our preparations in regards that Runesmiths recruitment.
1. We'll want to recruit an Azul Runesmith anyway.
2. As for the precise nature of the transgessions- information that would be what, nearly two centuries out of date- as old as the Colleges- we'll find out for free when we get there. With that Runesmith.
 
Klaus said:
Cython rejects the concept of gender identity entirely, PUNY MORTAL! Flesh is mere clothing, to be doffed and donned at will!

Disclaimer: (Opinions of magical non-human dragons in a FICTIONAL, magical, world should not be considered relevant to the human condition in real life and are not worth celebrating or decrying. Any resemblance to any persons living or dead is purely coincidental.)
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Cythons gender is Yes, except also No, and occasionally Maybe.
 
Here's my "plan" for voting, even though this isn't really a "by plan" vote:

[ ] [LIBRARY] Dark Lands: Extensive + Esoteric Imperial (200gc), Marauder Tribes: Extensive Imperial + Extensive Dwarven (200gc), Karaz Ankor: Esoteric Dwarven (150gc, 4DF), Enchanting: Esoteric Imperial (50gc, 2CF)
[ ] [DWARF] Runesmith Briefing on Karag Dum: 2 Gallons AV
[ ] [COLLEGE] Item of Light's Demand: 5 Favor

I trust pickle's take on the library. As has been pointed out, we really need info on those deep dark Mount Doom secrets that everyone keeps ominously hinting at. And while a Light's Demand item might "harsh Mathilde's Chill", as Boney put it, it would still give us an effective anti-shenanigans item in the Chaos Wastes, let us make sure Max didn't get possessed by a daemon or something, and would still be useful to keep on our shelf even when it's not part of our general loadout.
 
picklepikkl said:
I think this is worth doing: hero-level instruction is 6 DF/2 gallons AV, which is pricey, but we're going into a thorny situation and we should find out what's up, especially if we want to maybe recruit Runesmiths from Karak Azul this coming turn. We should find out what the hell we're asking them to get involved with.
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I don't think the answers we get would actually change anything though. BoneyM's answers so far have made it clear my worries about a conflict are unfounded since the Azul runesmiths are already aware of what Karag Dum has done, they just don't care as much because it wasn't current events to them. This seems more curiosity that constructive.
 
Redshirt Army said:
And while a Light's Demand item might "harsh Mathilde's Chill", as Boney put it, it would still give us an effective anti-shenanigans item in the Chaos Wastes, let us make sure Max didn't get possessed by a daemon or something
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Is it the right Light anti-daemon item?
Banish works on possessions.
Lights Demand seems much more broad in-quest than in RoS, but even then I'm not sure it works om the possessed, only to stop actual chaos creatures moving for a round or two.
Daemonbane is the group banish, but not for possession.
 
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While Panoramia was cute, and the kind of thing that gives warm feelings... it was mundane. I mean, I do think that Mathilde needs more interactions like that for her mental health, but I'm not totally interested in seeing more of it.

So I'll go full dragon now.
 
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BoneyM said:
You do, however, have the pleasure of reading that attempts at banditry on the Moot's portion of the Aver had a swift and brutal response, including a written apology to the town of Scheibbs for the Halflings not being able to fish all the corpses out of the river before they bobbed downstream.
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The Halflings are, no joke, one of my favorite background parts of this quest.
 
Tomcost said:
While Panoramia was cute, and the kind of thing that gives warm feelings... it was mundane. I mean, I do think that Mathilde needs more interactions like that for her mental health, but I'm not totally interested in seeing more of it.

So I'll go full dragon now.
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Mathilde needs more of this, let's not have more of this. :V
It's a second (or first) date, not a grand adventure.
Vote as you want, but i do find the reasoning kinda funny.
 
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