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Warhammer Fantasy: Divided Loyalties - an Advisor's Quest

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Horium said:
@BoneyM
A bit of a digression, it's something that Mathilde should/could reasonably know but it might clash with your "bazaar" style of quest management, in which case forget that I asked, I am *not* trying to put you on the spot or anything, just curious.

Does Mathilde know if anything notable is happening in other Karaks, like Karak Zilfin or Karak Hirn?
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Nothing that's not already on-screen. Karak Hirn has heir drama, Karak Kadrin is about to send out an expedition, Barak Varr and Zhufbar are working on a canal megaproject, Karaz-a-Karak has sent a massive building party to Karak Eight Peaks, Karak Azul is going through culture shock, Karak Izor is still recovering from sending out a significant fraction of their population as settlers... the only Karak who is business-as-usual right now is Karak Norn.

(Karak Zilfin is below my admittedly arbitrary cut-off for major hold status, so it gets folded in to Karak Norn for world affairs)

Rafin said:
Another idea would be asking him about the Kurgan practices of worshipping Winds and celestial orbs. Cython acknowledges the power of gods and how they can be both fluid and physically affected by beliefs. Is he at all interested in how Kurgans have made his own power source an anthropomorphic entity?
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It's a topic for discussion that could yield interesting results, but the problem with trying to entice an Emperor Dragon is if you do manage to hook it, it's fully capable of going up there on his own and terrorizing a tribe into giving it the answers it wants.

(there's probably a lot of cultural baggage to be read into how 'dragon' seems to be inherently male when I'm not paying attention to pronouns)
 
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BoneyM said:
It's a topic for discussion that could yield interesting results, but the problem with trying to entice an Emperor Dragon is if you do manage to hook him, he's fully capable of going up there on his own and terrorizing a tribe into giving him the answers he wants.
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Well, it would certainly be a distraction if we time telling him right...

Of the nominal month we're spending scouting, I wonder if it would it be worth spending more of it with the Dolgan to learn more about them in general, if we've time left. Both to predict their future actions better and to get an idea of the lay of the land through their territory.
 
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Alratan said:
Well, it would certainly be a distraction if we time telling him right...

Of the nominal month we're spending scouting, I wonder if it would it be worth spending more of it with the Dolgan to learn more about them in general, if we've time left. Both to predict their future actions better and to get an idea of the lay of the land through their territory.
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They'd be delighted to welcome her to the tribe, and feed her the best Chaos Spawn meat, and introduce her to their Gods, and give her the honour of receiving exciting new tattoos and scars...
 
BoneyM said:
It's a topic for discussion that could yield interesting results, but the problem with trying to entice an Emperor Dragon is if you do manage to hook it, it's fully capable of going up there on his own and terrorizing a tribe into giving it the answers it wants.
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Well, if timed right, this would certainly ensure Expedition is not assaulted, as tribes are a bit too busy with Big Fucking Dragon.
 
Wouldnt our anti dhar thingy-mahjong burn up the Chaos meats and purge the tattoos?

Or am I confused on what they are made off... Anyhow, neat party trick to spew fire after taking a bite! :V
 
Fehu said:
Wouldnt our anti dhar thingy-mahjong burn up the Chaos meats and purge the tattoos?

Or am I confused on what they are made off... Anyhow, neat party trick to spew fire after taking a bite! :V
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I Imagine yes, but if the sacred meat burst into flame as Mathilde tried to eat it they would get a might suspicious about her nature. If we want to talk metaphysics with a Kurgan shaman we would have to find and actual defector and I imagine those are vanishingly rare, especially when accounting for all the Tzeenchians only pretending to defect.
 
DragonParadox said:
I Imagine yes, but if the sacred meat burst into flame as Mathilde tried to eat it they would get a might suspicious about her nature. If we want to talk metaphysics with a Kurgan shaman we would have to find and actual defector and I imagine those are vanishingly rare, especially when accounting for all the Tzeenchians only pretending to defect.
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This is a chaos worshipping tribe that assumes we worship chaos too, food bursting into flames when eaten is not actually weird enough that we cannot talk past that, considering how weird chaos can get.
 
DragonParadox said:
I Imagine yes, but if the sacred meat burst into flame as Mathilde tried to eat it they would get a might suspicious about her nature. If we want to talk metaphysics with a Kurgan shaman we would have to find and actual defector and I imagine those are vanishingly rare, especially when accounting for all the Tzeenchians only pretending to defect.
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I think they'd assume that she had a particularly amusing mutation.
 
Shovern said:
Gretel will... Dramatically lounge over furniture?(IDK what she does)(That's a joke).
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Hey! That's a full time jo-well.... not job, but a vocation. Gretel lounges for purpose of increasing the amount of high-utility experience of conscious existence![1]. Are you trying to imply that's not worthwhile!?!? Gretel doesn't just dramatically lounge, she dramatically lounges for free!

[1] Specifically, the conscious existence referred to here as 'Gretel', but I think one can get over-specific when looking at utilitarian outcomes, as in "who is that is made happier by these choices"

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DragonParadox said:
Violently murder people for money with her mercenary buddies.
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Well, maybe murdering people for money is a tragic cost that she must pay in order to avoid being beholden to the whims of hypothetical patrons with regard to her, uh... art. Yes. Art. I for one respect her dedication and sense of integrity.
 
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I'll have you people know the dramatic lounging is hard work. :V
Any idiot can just slouch on a sofa, but lounging takes skill and dedication, and doing so dramatically just makes it all the more challenging.
 
BoneyM said:
It's a topic for discussion that could yield interesting results, but the problem with trying to entice an Emperor Dragon is if you do manage to hook it, it's fully capable of going up there on his own and terrorizing a tribe into giving it the answers it wants.
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And now I can't get Cython fishing for philosophers with a net out of my head...
 
But, on the subject of rations and such, we might want to send a message to Borek about us finding... more troops than he might have expected. It's going to take a while to organize a proper wagon trail for us.
 
Chlof said:
I have to ask, is this an opinion you've formed from actually reading romance? Cause of these three, the only one that's really valid is the glorification of abuse and that's not a problem you run into often in most romance fiction that gain any relevance in the mainstream.
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I could be wrong, but I don't think they're referring to Romance as a genre, but romances when they show up in other works with a different main focus. Where it's like, 8 seasons of will-they, won't-they, then they have The Kiss, and then the authors run out of ideas and don't know where to go with the relationship from there.

This video, basically.

 
DragonParadox said:
Yeah but it's only the sacred meat. That's enough to get a right-thinking Chaos worshiper thinking.
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One of the only sure fire ways of curing chaos mutations is a sword that the Chaos gods bestow on their champions for the lulz.

Making a champion unable to consume sacred meat as an ironic 'blessing' is completely in theme.
 
I just figured an interesting boon Mathilde could ask for. To support the formation of a stable realm worshipping order gods, from the Border Princes!
 
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