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Warhammer Fantasy: Divided Loyalties - an Advisor's Quest

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[X] [ROMANCE] Seek a romantic relationship with a second partner.

[X] [ROMANCE] The Ice Dragon of Karag Zilfin
[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] The Dolgan, to get to know the people of the western Steppes who will hopefully be feeding the Expedition.
 
You know, I almost feel sorry for the Dolgan. Like, the way Mathilde worded her proposal they're probably going to expect a few hundred maurauders, some Chaos Knights, and maybe even a few Chaos Spawn for good measure. Instead, we're going to roll into town on multiple giant fucking steam-tanks runed to the gills, accompanied by a couple hundred monstrous cavalry, at least half a dozen "shamans" of various Winds--plus however many our general call managed to pick up--and at least one dragon ridden by apparently the killiest motherfucker alive. That's assuming Cython isn't both interested enough in their culture to take a visit and willing to accompany us on the ride up, or at least notices us in the area while we're both there and comes to say hi. There's going to be a whole lot of pants-shitting at that point, and that nice shaman is either going to get a massive promotion, or a demotion, depending on how they choose to interpret his deal.
 
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BoneyM said:
Days turn to weeks as you painstakingly construct this identification framework and make sure it stands up to any imaginable scenario. You visit Gotri and ask him and his Engineers of every obstacle they've ever encountered in getting a siege weapon from point A to point B. You visit Kragg and Thorek and ask if they've ever encountered any particularly difficult obstructions when it comes to getting their Anvils to commanding positions. Francesco contributes stories of wagon break-downs, Oswald his father's adventures with Steam Tanks, Soizic every hazard she has ever encountered or heard of that could lame a horse. At each stage you make tweaks to the design to cover more and more obscure edge cases.
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I would just like to comment for a moment on this little snippet here.

Cause Mathilda just went to a group of dwarves and asked them to grumble. Not just that she is asking Engineers to grumble about everything they have ever found in their lives to be shoddy. Then she has the raw balls to go and do the same to Kragg the Grim and Thorek Ironbow! The two most cantankerous dwarves in the whole of the damn Karaz Ankor whose grumblings are noted to be able to shun dwarves back into the mines and she not only walks up to them but ask them to grumble about literally everything they have ever found shoddy, which you can damn well be sure they remember!

And Mathilda's response to all this? "A little louder please I'm taking notes." Notes she is using to build something to solve them all for her! This is a feat worth a goddamn title just for happening, how many people could even get to talk to this many dwarves just to hear them grumble? I choose to believe that all of the people she spoke to she left in silent approval for how great a friend she is for letting them do that while silently walking away none the wiser.
 
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picklepikkl said:
Want to get people thinking about the purchase round. We can't afford anything from the Colleges, but is there anything mundane or Dwarven that we need? Also, @ me if there's anything Librarywise we should pick up: current plan is to get to Extensive Imperial/Extensive & Antiquarian Dwarven in Chaos Dwarves and Extensive/Extensive on Chaos Sorcery.
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The robes seem good enough I don't have much interest in replacing them anytime soon. We could put out a bounty for more scales though, so we don't have to break this one down if we ever do want to try again sometime.

In regards to the library, we are pretty low on college favor, but iirc without the upcoming trip to justify our interest we'll no longer be able to purchase things like deeper levels of warp sorcery. So if we ever do want to pick up things in those categories further than extensive it'll have to be now (Or until another reasonable excuse comes along, which will probably happen eventually, but it'll be a while likely.).
 
[X] [ROMANCE] Continue a monogamous relationship with Panoramia.

[X] Eike Hochschild, to get to know your future business partner.
[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] The Gold College, to see what's become of their research into Skaven technology.
 
And so, Branulhune (at one point in the text described as Branarhune, mistake or one of the alternate names?) becomes a lightsaber proper, at last.

And I see the parry-bypassing fanon combat style is on the technique list! Nice.


[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] Magister Johann
[X] [ROMANCE] The Ice Dragon of Karag Zilfin
 
NexusEye said:
You forgot: Imagine the looks on Heide's and Ranald's faces.
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... Wait a second, what kind of look would Ranald have? The guy's most famous for seducing a Goddess and taking her divinity, there would be approzimately zero surprise from him that a human decided to smooch a dragon. Maybe a bit of dissappointment that we as of yet have no material plans to use this opportunity to become a dragon.

Similarly, Heidi( Gabriella) is consistently updated on our -and presumeably other prominent Ranaldites'- shenanigans by Ranald, so if she gets a surprised face we probably won't see it ourselves. And again, I kinda doubt that we will, as getting into a polyamorous relationship with a wizard and a dragon is still significantly less audacious than somehow convincing the entirety of Sylvania that you are actually a vampire and keeping up the act for like at least a decade.

NexusEye said:
And the best reason: the look on Roswita's face.
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Note: The above argument might have reduced effectiveness on RoswiThilde supporters

At the very least I don't think the face my Van Hal-shipping heart conjured is supposed to convince anyone...
 
masterofmadness said:
I would just like to comment for a moment on this little snippet here.

Cause Mathilda just went to a group of dwarves and asked them to grumble. Not just that she is asking Engineers to grumble about everything they have ever found in their perfect to be shoddy. Then she has the raw balls to go and do the same to Kragg the Grim and Thorek Ironbow! The two most cantankerous dwarves in the whole of the damn Karaz Ankor whose grumbling are noted to be able to shun dwarves back into the mines and she not only walks up to them but ask them to grumble about literally everything they have ever found shoddy, which you can damn well be sure they remember!

And Mathilda's response to all this? "A little louder please I'm taking notes." Notes she is using to build something to solve them all for her! This is a feat worth a goddamn title just for happening, how many people could even get to talk to this many dwarves just to hear them grumble? I choose to believe that all of the people she spoke to she left in silent approval for how great a friend she is for letting the, do that while silently walking away none the wiser.
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Mathilde's notes there are all by themselves probably worth publishing. A comprehensive enumeration of different ways terrain can cause trouble? That's shockingly useful for civil engineers who need to know how ground can degrade, siege engineers and military commanders scouting ground for troop and siege engine movements, armies preparing defensive positions...

Would also even further confuse the people who're trying to figure out WTF our specialty is. :p
 
[X] [ROMANCE] Continue a monogamous relationship with Panoramia.

[X] The Dolgan, to get to know the people of the western Steppes who will hopefully be feeding the Expedition.
 
Vebyast said:
Mathilde's notes there are all by themselves probably worth publishing. A comprehensive enumeration of different ways terrain can cause trouble? That's shockingly useful for civil engineers who need to know how ground can degrade, siege engineers and military commanders scouting ground for troop and siege engine movements, armies preparing defensive positions...

Would also even further confuse the people who're trying to figure out WTF our specialty is. :p
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I am 100% down to publish a paper on this lol. i don't even care if we can't submit it to the Colleges because it's not magic-relevant. Well, unless we write a paper explaining wtf we did to create the spell, but in that case we're probably better off starting with making a mass user-friendly version instead of Mathilde-specific. Otherwise it's just self-aggrandizement.
 
Axel Fones said:
I am 100% down to publish a paper on this lol. i don't even care if we can't submit it to the Colleges because it's not magic-relevant. Well, unless we write a paper explaining wtf we did to create the spell, but in that case we're probably better off starting with making a mass user-friendly version instead of Mathilde-specific. Otherwise it's just self-aggrandizement.
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Our notes could be used by others to make their own versions even if we can't make a more public friendly one.
 
[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.
 
Rafin said:
@BoneyM Is that an option? Because if so, I'm insta-switching my vote.
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It will be spaced out if I decide that's the best way to make it happen.

NexusEye said:
@BoneyM, my reading of Fog Path is that it works by detecting variation, it can travel over a ditch by looking at the center(air) and then looking around it (dirt) and by detecting the difference it knows to activate Skywalk. My question is how big of a gap does this apply to? At what span does a gap need to be for Fog Path perceive center(air) surrounded by air as opposed to center(air) surrounded by dirt?
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If you try to fog path over a cliff you're not gonna be able to Wile E Coyote out into thin air, you're going right down. It does require some thought from the caster to determine an appropriate course.

NexusEye said:
Second question, what would Fog Path look like? Would it be literally standing on fog or would travellers be standing on the ground/air/water/whatever with a layer of fog obscuring their ground and feet?
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Depends on the yet-to-be-created delivery mechanism.

Tomcost said:
Also he is not in Dramatis Personae for some reason?
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Giving WoG about him like that would give certainty where none should exist.

Andres110 said:
How do you pronounce Soizic?
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Swah-zeek, I believe. It's a diminutive of Francoise.
 
BoneyM said:
If you try to fog path over a cliff you're not gonna be able to Wile E Coyote out into thin air, you're going right down. It does require some thought from the caster to determine an appropriate course.
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My main question is how big of a gap can it cross, say if travelling over trenches. Half a meter? 1 meter? 2 meters? 5 meters?
 
BoneyM said:
[Writing a paper on Waaagh: 37-20=17.]
Writing a paper on Dragon Ogres: 82+15=97.]
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Minor OCD error: missing the bracket for [Writing a paper on Dragon Ogres]
BoneyM said:
"Stirland thanks the Grey College for it's intervention in this matter."
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BoneyM said:
"Stirland thanks Karak Eight Peaks for it's intervention in this matter."
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Typo: it's -> its

Social Votes:
[X] [ROMANCE] Continue a monogamous relationship with Panoramia.
[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.

Let me just say I am beyond relieved to see the options for Social Votes this Turn didn't turn out to be too varied, like I was initially dreading, because I feared seeing Eike and Hluodwica lose out again on our last chance before the Chaos Waste expedition.
I really want to take care of any loose ends before the upcoming trip in case of - Ranald forbid - anything happening to Mathilde, and those two have been neglected since they were introduced as options.
 
BoneyM said:
It sets 'difficult terrain' to 'no'. Asking for hard numbers makes me worry you're planning some Evel Knievel shenanigans.
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During the Drakenhof campaign we had to cross a river and it took forever.
BoneyM said:
The river, which eventually turns into the Stir but here is called the Draken because of course it is, flows worryingly swiftly, but scouts have found a point where it widens and flows no more than thigh-deep. So on an uncharacteristically clear morning, the combined forces set off not for a day of marching, but for a day of battle.

You had no trouble crossing the river, nor did anyone else with a horse, but the bulk of the army are not so fortunate. Progress across the river is agonizingly slow, as it seems the best that Stirland, Zhufbar and Karak Kadrin have to offer have forgotten how to stand upright - the halflings having already swum across and left to scout the terrain. Ropes are strung across the river for those crossing to steady themselves upon, but so many end up drenched that Van Hal is forced to allow for fires to be lit to let the men dry out. There's no possibility of getting the artillery over - not and have them dry enough to fire.

It's nearing noon when enough of the army has crossed, and a team of dwarves set to work on erecting a permanent bridge as the army prepares to march to battle. The halfling scouts haven't seen any sign of sentries that could have spotted you, but that's of little comfort to Van Hal. But though the men are soggy, the knights remain undaunted and the dwarves refuse to show weakness. If there was any time to march on the town of Drakenhof, it is now.
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I suspect it would be quite useful for that.
And how useful exactly likely depends on the next action to make the spell.
 
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