Warhammer Fantasy: Divided Loyalties - an Advisor's Quest
- Thread starter Boney
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Voted best in category in the Users' Choice awards.
Seems likely to yield a number of wizards that falls within comfortable narrative focus. That is, enough to be a reasonable result but few enough that voters could at least keep them all in our heads.
consequences
Not A Nice Person At All
- Location
- Jerkville
I think you're possibly being a little unduly pessimistic. While the low end would indeed likely be no one as they remember the singing combustograms that accompanied our Sylvanian promenade, our dwarf related activities have been pretty nucking futz in the payout to our hangers on. Particularly for having zero fatalities to multiple Magister promotions, and the rumblings in the college political circuit that could probably be mistaken for the Slann getting crotchety about Altdorf's Feng Shui.
- Location
- Europa, Jupiter Orbit
I'm not just asking regarding this narrow topic. Nor am I trying to power game. At some point "fishing expeditions", though probably unrelated to College spells, might well fall into our interests. And a blanket statement that, say, BoneyM considers them unfun both to read and write, is a completely valid answer. As is "I allow them as write-ins but there won't be any no trap options protection for them because leaving empty handed more often than not is in the very nature of fishing expeditions".
I like this answer. It means that, were we to become an old LM with strong influence in our College and several apprentices, we might well revolutionize a thing or two without that meaning that Mathilde is somehow an exceptional genius.
I honestly forgot that ot was so much. And the idea that we never taught it to anyone and some Magister of a different Color pretty much reinvented it in a much better form after having seen our proof of concept is completely valid.
Does your version of the Negaverse pretend that the game is being played by modern age Dwarf beardlings in the very distant future where internet forums have become a traditional and respected passtime?
- Location
- The Surface Of A Hostile Planet
- DollaryDoo = MoneyB, a common Negaverse QM = BoneyM, correct.
- oliveolave, Intrigue, Onyon, ShortSpeak, all correct
- Mooks = RedshirtArmy. They exist to die en masse. Edit: a specific reference to their response to the IRL Empress Heidi reveal here.
- LethargicPossum - Honestly don't know, IIRC I copy-pasted it off one of @Redshirt Army's negaverses.
- Kranm is me. The GURPS character that originally bore this name had a surname and that was it. Can't remember if I've populated it on my SV profile, though. It was 3 AM when I wrote BorekQuest 1 and chose the username, don't judge me.
edit: Actually, no, past-me stayed up at 3 AM which is stupid, judge him hard.
- SightCentral = @NexusEye. Edit: a specific reference to their response to the IRL Horstmann-roll here.
For the sake of completion, here's the full list I've used in my Negaverses:
stronkie = veekie
Ranalta = Alratan
SkydiveTENGU = BungieONI
FasterThanLight = SuperSonicSound
oliveolave = picklepikkl
PromisedGood = TotallyNotEvil
Away Team = Redshirt Army
Consonance = Alliterate
fudge13 = chocolote12
Cunning = Guile
Onyon = Garlak
AlphaHugged = Omegahugger
farain = BoneyM (Frank Farian is the lead singer of Boney M.)
hsv = vsh
Irolinft = Vebyast (don't actually remember why)
Lectalai = Alectai
Shalot = Garlak , again
Arantal = Alratan, again
chocolote12
A Penguin Flailing Against The Keyboard Of Life.
My only appearance is getting ninja'd, but at least you spelled my username right.
- Location
- Chicago
- Pronouns
- She/They
Lol- if I ever show up in a negaverse, go with Nyx.
(Oh! We have greek speakers in the thread! I wanted to ask: I grabbed my name as a contraction of Glaukopis, from athena, with the understanding that it meant bright-eyed or flashing-eyed. Is Glau=bright even a recognizable butchering of that?)
Also, if we really do end up with more than a dozen magisters and journeymanlings, wind herder is going to get a WORKOUT.
(Oh! We have greek speakers in the thread! I wanted to ask: I grabbed my name as a contraction of Glaukopis, from athena, with the understanding that it meant bright-eyed or flashing-eyed. Is Glau=bright even a recognizable butchering of that?)
Also, if we really do end up with more than a dozen magisters and journeymanlings, wind herder is going to get a WORKOUT.
Thebigpieman
I've got this, I think.
- Location
- United States
People appear in negaverses?
NexusEye
Aspiring God
- Pronouns
- She/Her
And sometimes they disappear, never to be found...
Ericwinter
Definitely not a Skaven Infiltrator
- Location
- America
Mine would probably be SummerChris. Eric's my biological father's name, while Chris is the dad who raised me.
- Location
- North Wales
- Pronouns
- He/Him/His
Vebyast + ROT13 = Irolnfg would probably be my first connection, though why the t was kept is anyone's guess.
- Location
- Chicago
- Pronouns
- She/They
PickUpTheGauntlet? Like, as in accepting a duel, to pun off of throwing a slipper as an insult?
- Location
- Australia
Would get us an extra point of diplomacy, which is broadly applicable.
- Location
- New Brunswick, NJ
- Pronouns
- He/Him/His
I'm sorry to say that it's not. Glaukopis comes from glaukos, which describes light-colored eyes (blue, green, or grey). From this we derive the English word "glaucous" (used to describe colors in zoology and botany) and the medical condition "glaucoma."
Sure, but if that's our primary motivation, there's the Human Nations of the Old World class, which might finish both our Bretonnia and Kislev skills and get us 2 points of Diplo in 1 AP, instead of 1 point in 2 AP.
Vebyast
Nascent Transhuman
Also note
lnf -> linf. Honestly, ROT13ing my username and then tweaking it to be pronounceable is exactly the kind of thing I'd do, given that it's close to how this username was conceived in the first place.Sir_Travelsalot
Never wakes up tired.
- Location
- At Home
If we're talking negaverse usernames, I'll go with Sedentary-Knave.
- Location
- Australia
It's secondary to learning to talk with the guys we'll be working with, just saying that it's got some form of use outside of this story arc.
HORSTMANN: I fully support Magister Weber's decision and back her 100% on this.
- Location
- North Wales
- Pronouns
- He/Him/His
Kinda funny looking back at this post made literally *one hour* before the option was presented to solve both problems with a single vote.
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The Phoenixian
The Glacier Witch
- Location
- My own little world
Yeah, it is a funny and convenient thing, innit?
Although, if the vote swings and the supplies fall through, it occurs to me that we could probably spend an AP arranging to have a caravan leave at the same time as the expedition as a supply convoy/first stage rocket engine. Because "Oh yeah, there's heavily armed guards for half the road this time" feels like it could draw some more help in.
(Or maybe just pay to fund a caravan and/or to keep supplies alongside itself? But I'm not sure whether that would work.)
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- Location
- Europa, Jupiter Orbit
I've been thinking about it and despite my many observations and arguments I am pretty much okay with any option other than the mercenary one. They all lead to interesting results and have pros and cons that are neither clear cut nor important enough for me to clearly think that they will result in a significantly easier or harder expedition. Some have higher risk/reward variance, some are a bigger danger to our reputation and morale than directly risking lives, some allow us to have a potentially cool meeting with the Yasuk while others give us a chance to not have to deal with them at all, but in the end all of them end with us having to fight a large amount of Kurgan on a failed roll which, quote frankly, was something we expected to have to do anyway when we embarked on this expedition.
So while I do have slight preferences, they are all based on what would be interesting to see as opposed to what I think the smartest option would be. And since I think that BoneyM can make all options result in am interesting read with fun implications and consequences that depend heavily on dice results, I literally don't care enough to cast my vote.
I've honestly never heard the term glaukopis (γλαυκώπις) before. According to Wiktionary the root word is γλαυκός (glaukos) and means either bright/gleaming or blue-grey and is mostly used to describe eyes. Thus also the glaukoma.
So while I do have slight preferences, they are all based on what would be interesting to see as opposed to what I think the smartest option would be. And since I think that BoneyM can make all options result in am interesting read with fun implications and consequences that depend heavily on dice results, I literally don't care enough to cast my vote.
I've honestly never heard the term glaukopis (γλαυκώπις) before. According to Wiktionary the root word is γλαυκός (glaukos) and means either bright/gleaming or blue-grey and is mostly used to describe eyes. Thus also the glaukoma.
- Location
- The Surface Of A Hostile Planet
Yeah, that sounds vaguely correct to me - Vebyast is "the coding guy" for me, so something along those lines is probably what happened.