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Warhammer Fantasy: Divided Loyalties - an Advisor's Quest

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picklepikkl said:
We actually issued a general invitation a year ago, in the same turn that we invited Max and Johann:
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picklepikkl said:
Boney has been cagey about how exactly "whether the Karak Eight Peaks wizards come along even if we don't spend AP to invite them" works, presumably to avoid us gaming it, but within the fiction of the setting, some may already have been intending to come, or at least strongly thinking about it. I agree that "little time to prep" is a concern, though.
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Thank you for the reminder. In that case I'm even less willing to spend AP asking them. Even if we'd be more likely to have them say yes if we spend an action double checking, I feel we'd get more out of doing something else if we chose to.

edit: I'll admit to also being mildly worried about having a touch too many wizards in the chaos wastes and preferring to minimize that wherever possible. Either way I'm comfortable with our current wizard contingent.
 
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Axel Fones said:
edit: I'll admit to also being mildly worried about having a touch too many wizards in the chaos wastes and preferring to minimize that wherever possible. Either way I'm comfortable with our current wizard contingent.
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There was some talk about making sure every Journeymanling gets a Grounding Rod.
(If any Magister asks for one Mathilde can tell them that as a Magister they surely are responsible enough to procure their own if needed :p)
 
Since the aromantic vote will not work i want to see this disaster.


[X] [ROMANCE] Seek a romantic relationship with a second partner.
[X] [ROMANCE] The Ice Dragon of Karag Zilfin
 
[X] [ROMANCE] Continue a monogamous relationship with Panoramia.
[X] Cython, to discuss the Gods of Kislev and the Kurgan.

I don't really have many strong thoughts here, so I'm just voting for the stuff that really interests me.
 
[X] [ROMANCE] Seek a romantic relationship with a second partner.
[X] [ROMANCE] The Ice Dragon of Karag Zilfin

I want to see Cython and Panoramia interacting. I have a feeling that Cython's interest in religion might actually be nice for Panoramia; she left the colleges to get away from a religion debate, but Cython's interest would be much less personally-invested and as a result much less acrimonious.

[X] Qrech, to discuss his newly-acquired diploma from the University of Altdorf.
[X] Elder Hluodwica, High Priestess of Esmerelda and civilian leader of the Eight Peaks Halflings.
[X] Cython, to discuss the Gods of Kislev and the Kurgan.

Obviously Qrech's degree. I want to see what he's going to get up to next.

Time to social Elder Hluodwica, if only because I want to hear her commentary on Panthilde. :p

Even a 1% chance of pointing Cython at the Chaos Wastes will be hilarious. Also, MOAR WORLDBUILDING YES.
 
[X] [ROMANCE] Seek a romantic relationship with a second partner.
[X] [ROMANCE] The Ice Dragon of Karag Zilfin
[X] Cython, to discuss the Gods of Kislev and the Kurgan.
 
[X] [ROMANCE] Continue a monogamous relationship with Panoramia.

[X] Elder Hluodwica, High Priestess of Esmerelda and civilian leader of the Eight Peaks Halflings.
[X] Sir Ruprecht Wulfhart, leader of the frontier town of Ulrikadrin.
[X] Cython, to discuss the Gods of Kislev and the Kurgan.
[X] Qrech, to discuss his newly-acquired diploma from the University of Altdorf.

[X] Eike Hochschild, to get to know your future business partner.
 
[X] [ROMANCE] Seek a romantic relationship with a second partner.
[X] [ROMANCE] Break up with Panoramia in favour of seeking a relationship with a new partner.
[X] [ROMANCE] Break up with Panoramia in favour of remaining single.
[X] [ROMANCE] Baron Anton Kiesinger II
[X] [ROMANCE] The Ice Dragon of Karag Zilfin

[X] Cython, to discuss the Gods of Kislev and the Kurgan.
[X] Qrech, to discuss his newly-acquired diploma from the University of Altdorf.
[X] The Dolgan, to get to know the people of the western Steppes who will hopefully be feeding the Expedition.
[X] Pay a visit to your fief, to see if anything has changed. It probably hasn't.
 
I'm sitting here musing on who else might show up for the Expedition to Karag Dum, in much the same way the Ducklings showed up to Karak Eight Peaks, without Mathilde doing direct recruitment or even knowing about it beforehand.

Ambitious Journeyman Wizards are the obvious speculation. It will very much be a journey, it'll be with at least two Magisters so there's someone to ask about weird stuff, it'll be with hundreds of Knights and Dwarfs so it's respectable and also there's armored people for the squishy wizard to stand behind. It's dangerous, true, but there's a wide range in Journeymen between the ones who journey to the next town and the ones who journey to Cathay. Besides, being a wizard is dangerous, and this is the kind of dangerous likely to get you a good reputation.

Another Magister is a possibility. Wanting to keep an eye on all the journeymen, wanting to earn Dwarf Favor, or wanting to see the Chaos Wastes under relatively safe conditions of hundreds of armed friendlies. You can get a couple of papers out of that, right? :D And maybe another paper from observing Deathfang!

Lord/Hero character from another Dwarfhold would be my third guess. Success breeds success, as we've seen, and while this expedition is smaller and more cramped than Belegar's Expedition, I don't think they'd turn down one dwarf with cool gadgets.

Getting into increasingly unlikely territory, Lord/Hero character from somewhere else. Sigmarite Priest wanting to make his name as a Dwarf-friend, perhaps. Marienburger spy/infiltrator with some useful skills being inserted as a deep cover agent. Halfling sniper looking to bag a legend. Kislevite author looking to start a new line of guidebooks to unlikely travel destinations. Elf journeyman wizard who lost a bet, or wants to prove some kind of point out of spite - complicated elf reasons, you wouldn't understand.
dril said:
me and a bunch of stupid assholes are going to start a community in the middle of the desert to either die or prove a very important point
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Lastly and least likely, maybe a Skaven infiltrator posing as one of the above. :V
 
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I've actually been going through the thread trying to get proper numbers on who's in the expedition for a possible omake, and so far I've got this:
  • Borek Forkbeard - Nominal Leader
  • Snorri Farstrider - Ranger/Military Commander
  • Gotrek Gurnisson - Engineer/Logistics Commander
  • 50 Dwarven Engineers
  • 50 Dwarven Slayers
  • 150 Dwarven Rangers (mostly Redbeards)
  • 5 Monitor-sized Steam-Wagons (equipped with dual Swivel-Cannons)
  • Mathilde (Ulgu)
  • Max & Johann (Chamon)
  • Hubert (Azyr)
  • Esbern & Seija (Ghur)
  • Unknown person assigned by Ice Witches of Kislev to represent their interests
  • Magister Egrimm Van Horstmann (Hysh)
  • Asarnil & Deathfang
  • Unknown large number of Winter Wolves (w/ or w/o their commander?)
  • 2 Wings of Demigryph-mounted Knights of Taal's Fury (100 Humans)
  • *Aid of Thorek's "apprentice-swarm" in outfitting everyone
So that's 253 Dwarves, 5 Steam-Wagons, 7 College Wizards (inc. Mathilde), 1 Dragon (w/ Elf), ??? Winter Wolves (w/ ??? Humans), 100 Demigryphs (w/ 100 Humans), and 1 Random Human(?) from Ice Witches.

Dwarves: 3MPH for 10 hours. 30 miles/day.
Steam-Wagons: 3-6MPH for 12-16 hours. 50-100 miles/day.
Winter Wolves: 5MPH for 16 hours. 80 miles/day.
Demigryphs: 10MPH for 8 hours. 80 miles/day.
Mathilde: 25MPH for 10 hours. 250 miles/day.
Dragon: "Yes" for "as long as he wants".

* There is a possibility that much like Skywalk boosting a character's speed by 3, that walking on our Fog Path could increase these speeds.

There's actually such a small amount of humans who aren't coming with mounts that their speeds don't really matter, presumably absorbed in some way as they're all wizards and can probably hitch a ride or make their own.

Not sure if any more Dwarves have joined since we last got figures, never got firm figures on Winter Wolves I believe, and a random selection of further wizards could potentially join.

P.S. Deeply sorry if this post is too large.
 
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picklepikkl said:
I agree that "little time to prep" is a concern, though.
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If we do a blanket invitation for the Ducklings, I would also strongly favor spending the action to help train all our Ducklings in melee, which is an option that's been sitting there for a while now. They may have been doing some prep on their own already - certainly I would expect that they haven't been idle in improving themselves in general through all the time they've been at K8P - but if we're inviting them last minute I still feel like it would be appropriate to spend one of our own AP on actively helping get them ready.
LightLan said:
There was some talk about making sure every Journeymanling gets a Grounding Rod.
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Similarly, I would strongly support specifying this.
 
[x] [ROMANCE] Seek a romantic relationship with a second partner.
[x] [ROMANCE] Break up with Panoramia in favour of seeking a relationship with a new partner.
[x] [ROMANCE] Break up with Panoramia in favour of remaining single.
 
[X] [ROMANCE] Break up with Panoramia in favour of seeking a relationship with a new partner.
[X] [ROMANCE] Break up with Panoramia in favour of remaining single.
[X] [ROMANCE] Magister Johann
[X] [ROMANCE] Baron Anton Kiesinger II
[X] [ROMANCE] Chief Bombardier Oswald Oswaldson
[X] Stirland, to see for yourself how the war against Sylvania is progressing.
[X] Eike Hochschild, to get to know your future business partner.
[X] The Gold College, to see what's become of their research into Skaven technology.
[X] Follow up on your donation of the Skaven organ-vat, and see what has been made of it.
[X] Pay a visit to your fief, to see if anything has changed. It probably hasn't.
 
Angelform said:
…so, why do we want Hubert to bring a familiar to the Chaos Wastes when we are leaving Wolf back home?
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As a wizard tool familiars are crazy powerful.

Like, 'which is stronger, a semi-divine daemonic titan billowing with the foul flames of the Changer of Ways, or an old casty boi in his bathrobe with his pet dog' powerful.
 
[X] Elder Hluodwica, High Priestess of Esmerelda and civilian leader of the Eight Peaks Halflings.
[X] Cython, to discuss the Gods of Kislev and the Kurgan.
[X] Qrech, to discuss his newly-acquired diploma from the University of Altdorf.
[X] Eike Hochschild, to get to know your future business partner.
[X] [ROMANCE] Continue a monogamous relationship with Panoramia.
[X] [ROMANCE] Magister Johann
 
Well, slightly below average rolls, but giving our bonuses nothing crippling happened. I was worried the Fog Path spell may take another turn, and It looks like we'll have to spend an AP on it next turn. Otherwise the AP would be wasted up to now.

I'm hoping some of those aspects of the sword style with be easier to develop with more experience in the field. So taking the first step before we get in combat makes a lot of sense and I'm satisfied that there's a road of progression that Mathilde has plotted out already.

I'm staying out of the romance vote, as I've never really cared too much myself. I'm with Paradox though, I'm curious how the little lady of the EIC is growing up. She's probably going to be the future CEO given medieval tendencies, so it'd be nice if she wasnt a tool like Wilhelmina's other children.
 
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[X] Elder Hluodwica, High Priestess of Esmerelda and civilian leader of the Eight Peaks Halflings.
[X] Cython, to discuss the Gods of Kislev and the Kurgan.
[X] Qrech, to discuss his newly-acquired diploma from the University of Altdorf.
[X] Eike Hochschild, to get to know your future business partner.

[X] [ROMANCE] Magister Johann
 
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