deathofrats0808
Don’t think of it as dying; just as leaving early
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- Earth
From Thorgrim's little interlude, I'm pretty sure that's a no go. The whole place is filled with toxic gases.
Warhammer Fantasy: Divided Loyalties - an Advisor's Quest
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That i what gas masks are for, we stole them from the skaven, not to mention light magic. We have resources that Karaz Ankor alone can't match.
Omegahugger
Inattentive Idiot
I can't think of a single time someone has eaten a Chaos Spawn and it didn't turn out well.
Yep, still open. Any points you want to make for why not to buy food? With all these monstrous cavalry we recruited, the supply situation is going to get super constrained. Isn't it our responsibility to fix it?
We've been told grumbling for passage and grumbling for buying food will be about the same. So what's the argument to keep it passage only?
- Location
- Mid-Atlantic
I'm sorry, you're right, that's quite fair.
I do think it's going to require some specific remarks to individuals who are conducting themselves according to the Lore of Bitterness to get there from here, though, as a practical matter.
Since we're not going to stop talking about it, it will likely become necessary to inform people when they have overstepped, or to remove them when they become tiresome and refuse to take a hint.
That's my prediction, anyway.
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- Earth
We had a single gas mask, which is now in the possession of the Gold College. And while they can attempt to duplicate it, there is no known source of rubber in the Old World. Not that we know what rubber is, of course.
I imagine that gas masks are pretty high on the list of things to try and recreate for the Gold College.
We have literally magic, including the magic of purification. I think that can replace rubber enough for us to have a look at Thunder Mountain. I don't want to recover the place, I want to loot it for lore and artifacts.
The Gold College is likely to try to reverse engineer the gas mask instead of hoarding it.
If they don't we've got quite a few levers for applying pressure.
Ericwinter
Definitely not a Skaven Infiltrator
- Location
- America
...Hmm. I did say I wanted to take a look at Runesmith notes at some point, and Thunder Mountain was where they made the Anvils...
Enthusiast#117
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- Location
- United States
Mostly about consorting with the enemy as little as possible.
They're pretty explicitly a chaos faction, and that right there ought to be enough reason.
Paying them off to avoid a fight is one thing, but eating their food carries more risks. Even just from the symbolism of it.
Not even just regular corruption risks, but reputation based ones too. We don't want to become known for this kind of thing, and we don't want to give anyone the idea that trading with chaos factions is okay.
In might be a neccessary evil this time, but we should still minimize it. Do we need the food? Or can we do without?
- Location
- New Brunswick, NJ
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We don't know.
We're in the position of reasoning under uncertainty. I voted for supplies on the grounds that "if we need them, we'll really need them, and if we don't need them, we can just make the minimum deal necessary to not start a fight." But I don't think it's unreasonable to just want to completely avoid trading with a nominally Chaotic faction.
Yes. My feeling is, if we need the supplies we better have the option to buy them, and if we don't need them we can always keep the deal to a few token sheep.
deathofrats0808
Don’t think of it as dying; just as leaving early
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So far as I can tell, the only way to get that to work would either to be constantly activating a cleansing item Mathilde has, or to have a Light Wizard come along and continually cast it on both themself and Mathilde. There doesn't appear to be an AoE anti-poison spell.
They're pretty likely to want to make more, but there's not telling how long that'll take, or even if they'll succeed.
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Enthusiast#117
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Hmm.
On the march is a bad time for spell research, isn't it.
Otherwise we could work on a fog spell to shield the caravan from the sun as we travel.
Nice, cool, shadows.
On the march is a bad time for spell research, isn't it.
Otherwise we could work on a fog spell to shield the caravan from the sun as we travel.
Nice, cool, shadows.
Is that even remotely needed?
Like if this was an army travelling through Araby then there'd be a point in a keeping things cool spell but the southernmost point of this expedition is going to be Kislev.
The Runelord of disapproval looks in your direction.
One experiment I want to run is to design an array consisting of vials of AV on strings in order to quantify the vector/magnitude of Kragg's disapproval. It would need to be calibrated to deal with Kragg's disapproval of it in itself of course, but it could be a useful metric to acquire.
On a less jokey note, the ability to quantify a runelord's ability to tell the winds to fuck off could be useful.
- Location
- Greece
I like how you don't specify which, implying there is only one Kragg Reaction Face and presumably it's "Disapprove".
The Runelord of disapproval looks in your direction.
I was actually imagining that one One Piece recurring reaction face. Everyone who reads one piece should know the one, the one characters make when something inconceivable happens. May be too undignified for Kragg tho.
About the 'is the food actually demon meat' dilemma just Sauté it in AV before serving. If the meat evaporates and dhar forms, it's demonic sheep and you can go place a complaint to the seller sword point, if dhar doesn't form it was a magical creature and you should be concerned about preservation and ask questions.
If it's stupid and it works, it's something stupid that works, much like the above.
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"perfection"..."dhar"... I do not think these words belong in the same sentence.
No, eating Chaos Spawn is pessimal.
As regards Karak Drazh... an extended assassination campaign could well be be useful. As has been mentioned before, a very useful magic item for that would be an Invisibility item... perhaps a ring... and perhaps we could use it as a Windherder experiment, so that when heated, it uses the Aqshy to form glowing words around the band...
...What?
SaltyWaffles
I am dissapoint, son
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Honestly, I think the romance has actually added a lot to the quest, both for Mathilde's character and the character of others. Even for the characters that may end up not being picked, there've still been some great moments (like with Johann, Panoramia, and Cython).
chocolote12
A Penguin Flailing Against The Keyboard Of Life.
Revealing text in certain circumstances is actually a function of a Gold Spell:As regards Karak Drazh... an extended assassination campaign could well be be useful. As has been mentioned before, a very useful magic item for that would be an Invisibility item... perhaps a ring... and perhaps we could use it as a Windherder experiment, so that when heated, it uses the Aqshy to form glowing words around the band...
...What?
Has anyone yet suggested just straight up asking Cython to come along? No quid pro quo, no dangling of potential rewards, just flat out "Hey, we're doing a thing - wanna come?"
It's not a thing that's guaranteed to get it to come along, but we should probably do Cython the courtesy of asking before we tie ourselves up in knots thinking up ways to manipulate it into doing what we want.
Neither - both wine/booze in general and books would get false positives from other segments of the population (drunkards, nerds, and so on) that aren't philosophers but do like wine/books. To properly sort people into philosophers/not philosophers you'd need something more specific, that only a philosopher would respond to.
Obviously, the bait would be to shout a profound question (what's the sound of one hand clapping is a classic) into a crowd and then pick out the ones who stopped to think.
If you're the sort who defines a steak being 'cooked to perfection' as 'seared on the outside near to the point of charring while the inside is completely raw' or 'cooked from the inside out to the consistency of an old boot heel', then yes.
Otherwise, you'd probably need to figure out a cooking method that has greater control over the intensity and duration of the heat.