That was always going to be a problem, Gotrek is here. Maybe I'm an optimist, but I think the thread can handle it.
Warhammer Fantasy: Divided Loyalties - an Advisor's Quest
- Thread starter Boney
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chocolote12
A Penguin Flailing Against The Keyboard Of Life.
Expedition Divination Collection:
@Xon, your dice are haunted.
Hmmm. All the way back...
Yeah, at this point it's just divination. We can just actually learn things by throwing dice at them.
@Xon, your dice are haunted.
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chocolote12
A Penguin Flailing Against The Keyboard Of Life.
It is one hundred kittybirds. One wing is fifty kittybirds.
Well, the roll thing BoneyM used said two wings was 100 people, so I guess its different in this quest?
E: Mathilted
Omegahugger
Inattentive Idiot
Which makes me wonder how large a kittybird litter is, considering that they tend to have two wings each.
Sir_Travelsalot
Never wakes up tired.
- Location
- At Home
No they're not. We got two wings totaling at 100 kittybird riders. The Order of them is very small compared to other knight orders in the Empuire because five wings, 250 knights and their kittybirds, is the entirety of their numbers. Whereas the typical horse-mounted order is at one or two thousand plus their squires.
Sir_Travelsalot
Never wakes up tired.
- Location
- At Home
That's Griffons you're thinking of, the Knights of Taal's Fury ride demigryphs, which don't have wings.
- Location
- Europa, Jupiter Orbit
Pre-chapter post:
Because as far as I am concerned, the little piece of Mathilde's soul that I represent just got an infatuation at first sight with this van Horstmann guy, which will of course be influenced by, but predates anything we learn about his personality. Because sometimes romance just works that way.
@BoneyM are they famous enough for Mathilde to know about them even if they aren't signing up with her?
Known and inhabited, as in canon? Care to name a few so I can look up their lore?
Huh. I thought Mathilde's traits and stats would directly matter when it comes to recruitment through AP expenditure, making these more like cut-off points with more gradient (as in how much prep or how big a swarm), with Thorek being one or multiple options on a d6 that only gets rolled if we crit.
@BoneyM is there any possibility (vote-mediated or otherwise) for Mathilde to fall in love or at least become interested in someone new during this expedition?
Because as far as I am concerned, the little piece of Mathilde's soul that I represent just got an infatuation at first sight with this van Horstmann guy, which will of course be influenced by, but predates anything we learn about his personality. Because sometimes romance just works that way.
I have to admit that I am kind of curious about the Lady Magister and regular Magister that apparently come as a package deal.
@BoneyM are they famous enough for Mathilde to know about them even if they aren't signing up with her?
Wrong Order. Taal's Fury didn't stay.
The what?
The sad thing is that there plain and simply exist more Wizards than Runesmiths, despite Runesmithing needing no supernaturally special soul, existing for many thousands of years and not having a history of hate and prejudice against them.
So tempted. Like ridiculous and surprising will be this interaction.
[ ] Make contact with the Kurgan
[ ] Make contact with the Kurgan
Traits, stats, standing and reputation is what determined the initial d6 array.
Probably not, but if someone ends up having chemistry with Mathilde and the thread is into them I might have a vote on the topic.
No, but they're on the shortlist if I ever need to introduce a Light Wizard for some other purpose.
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- She/Her
The time to argue against this option was *before* the vote closed.
That is kind of boring though, I would rather he be a intriguing and clever magister who has doubts about the Empire and/or is Chaos curious.
- Location
- Denmark
Gehenna vote when?
- Location
- Outside the Box
- Pronouns
- She/Her
You rolled a d6, not a d7 here. I'm afraid you'll have to reroll.
It's how the Ciaphas Cain novels are written. Cain is entirely too self-centered a character to examine the wider worlds and conflicts he finds himself in, so the author has his memoirs annotated by the Inquisitor Amberley Vail. (She's the one publishing the books in-universe.)
TIL Omegahugger was one of the scriptwriters for Road to El Dorado. I can't say I remember how good the (20 years old) movie was, but I do remember enjoying it when I saw it, so thanks for your work!
I'm looking forward to finding out What Went Down years later after it's all settled, like we did with the Sigmarite vs. Ulrican split.
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tapkomet
Senātus Populusque Rōmānus
- Location
- Ukraine
I'm not arguing, just musing, and wondering if that's going to be a problem on the Expedition itself. Perhaps the knights and the dwarfs figure out a good solution for it, perhaps we'll have to make side-trips for hunting. Maybe Boney just doesn't want to think about logistics too much.
Or the opposite, he's charming and wonderfully easy to work with, but not that loyal.
The Inevitable City and Zanbaijin.
- Location
- Alaska
Contacting them seems too dangerous. Best case scenario, Mathilde might be able to bribe them to look the other way, but worst case scenarios involve them getting greedy and calling in friends to set up an ambush ,or maybe even passing info on to the chaos dwarves.
Should that be cantrip instead of caltrop? Cantrips are a low level wizard trick, Caltrops are the spikes that you throw on the ground.
Should that be cantrip instead of caltrop? Cantrips are a low level wizard trick, Caltrops are the spikes that you throw on the ground.
As has been speculated, it would not be surprising if it's just a passive field that makes people think "This is an impressive building", and the rest is Mathilde's mind running away with things.
We have WoG on this: canon may be out the window, to the point that there is no guarantee of anything, regarding his allegiance to Chaos. So any thread paranoia and use of OOC knowledge is already baseless.
tapkomet
Senātus Populusque Rōmānus
- Location
- Ukraine
Or maybe he's secretly loyal to someone else entirely. Not Chaos, but - may Ptra forgive me for uttering this word - the elves!
- Location
- Somewhere in the area
- Pronouns
- He/She/They
So what these dice are saying, the Skull of Katam told Van Horstmann one of the Truths of the world, specifically that everything in the world is decided by the rolls of dice.
Van Horstmann then took the only logical option and became a devout Ranald cultist to improve his chances of survival. (Or make it so if he died, at least it would be funny)
And now, in the Karak closest to the realm of chaos, where the divine/magical is the strongest, Ranald is gonna attempt history's greatest Heist. One Mathilde will only realize she's a part of halfway through when everything's gone to shit as a part of the set up.
NuclearConsensus
Herald of the Thorned One
- Location
- the Philippines
I really want to add one I rolled that said all the Dwarfs in Dum were dead, but I can't find it. Wish there was a way to search for stuff you've rolled.