Yet they are unlikely to want to rejoin the Karaz Ankor. If we have an alternative that lets them thumb their noses at all the other Runesmiths, will they take it?
Really? I though that the Battle of Arden was a Wood Elf only fight, and the High Elves and Wood Elves didn't work together until six years later, and the Slaughter at Bleak Meadow.
Thorek doesn't live in K8P. Or even, I think, spend most of his time there. Mathilde just catches him when he's there. Or goes to wherever he is (which is probably usually Azul).
Taking Melkoth was called out as a bad idea by Boney a while back. He'd be totally down but he's more than a hundred years old.
Duckling action is used for recruitment.
No no, not take him. I mean inform him of the potential of such a plan and let him make the decision to maybe burn his own College Favour to make it a reality. Hell, even the remote possibility of getting Runesmiths on side might interest Dragomas.
We address the head of the EIC as "Elector Count", just like all the other assholes making a profit off people by use of arms. Where do you think hereditary aristocracy comes from? There's nothing the EIC can do with money that an Elector Count can't also do with money. The worst case for the EIC is that it becomes exactly the same as the aristocrats that currently rule.
my plan is not taking Thorek and not spending CF.
The literally impossible thing. Yes, it is recalled.Fuck this would be so much easier if we could just float fucking Karag Dum all the way to Altdorf. It's not like anyone suggested that did they?
I was thinking more just a bunch of Runesmiths living in a 'Karag' that is just a fancy name and formal fiction for Altdorf's basement.
By formal fiction I meant the same sort of thing that qualifies Mathilde as a 'Loremaster', but if that's a no, that's a no.
For reference, how does the difficulty of using this in close combat compare to the difficulty of casting the oft-mentioned invisibility+Smoke and Mirrors?
I don't think any of the plans spend College Favour, so I'm confused about that objection. Could you clarify what you mean?
This is a good idea, if we manage to rescue survivors and they are pissed, but it requires everyone involved being willing to play ball. Belegar was willing to play ball with Thorgrim, and we were willing to go along with it, and everyone else who knew was a dwarf subordinate who could be ordered to keep their mouths shut. I would certainly like it if that deal were workable, but it would involve a lot of things going right.
This is a really cool application that I had not previously considered and has made me go from "eh, I don't really care about the Penthouse action" to "hell yes, full steam ahead on the SS BeepSmile."
