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Warhammer Fantasy: Divided Loyalties - an Advisor's Quest

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Hm, that makes it more likely to me that they were there just to pick off survivors from a cargo ship, a problem occurred when it was a significant slice of the Okral and then it took care of itself when the mine was super effective, but then the 'copter accompanying the boats went brrr on them until they ran away, so they didn't finish the few who made it out of the ship.
 
TotallyNotEvil said:
But if there were humans behind it, then I'm guessing they got way too lucky. Hell, even for more technologically inclined forces, it seems it sunk a tad too fast. Why?

Those ground forces make a whole lot of sense when you expect the passengers to come paddling out to the shore on emergency rowboats. Then the muskets would be able to slaughter the survivors with impunity.

But that 12 more or less meant that the bomb crit and hit just the right thing, just the right way that it sunk in probably less than a minute, and the survivors in the cargo hold had someone realize they would never make it out and instead sealed the hatches.
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Makes sense. They were there to shoot anybody evacuating from the boat, but then (almost) nobody evacuated from the boat so they went 'Job done, I guess?' and just left. There wasn't anything left for them to do, and they weren't going to pointlessly and fruitlessly shoot at monitors with muskets, so they left.
 
And the Okral contingent would be going through Barak Varr -a major cosmopiltan tradehub- as well so any non-dawi important enough can easily find out or deduce when they would be passing through that part of the river. I guess that line of thought tdoesn't narrow down the suspects.
 
defenestrator said:
And the Okral contingent would be going through Barak Varr -a major cosmopiltan tradehub- as well so any non-dawi important enough can easily find out or deduce when they would be passing through that part of the river. I guess that line of thought tdoesn't narrow down the suspects.
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Would it be going through Barak Varr or just down the Blood River and then up the Skull River?

Going all the way to Barak Varr is a bit of a detour.
 
BoneyM said:
Not really. Marching order would be loaded with status malarkey, but on ships they're just cargo.
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Huh. Someone, (presumably the ship captains from Barak Varr) must still have decided who gets aboard which ship. And even if the simplest method of First Come First Serve was employed, well, they still had to march to the docks, given that K8P doesn't actually have a harbor directly attached to a Karag. If status is really not reflected, I guess they must have had a last gathering or party at the docks and then just organized by Guild and each taken the closest unoccupied Monitor.

Or if they embarked directly after marching there another option could be that, due to how the Monitors were parked, the highest status Guild embarked into the middle Monitor, making the Metalworkers either the last or second to last Guild in the Okral marching order.

Third option is that while they exited the gates of KaK proudly marching and singing, leaving was made a non-event by King Belegar and Council on purpose (as an almost-snub) meaning that each subsection of the Okral marched to the docks as soon as they collected their members and tools and from whichever Karag they happened to be at, without gathering all together at Karag Lhune one last time, and then waited for the rest of the Okral from within each Monitor. Though to be honest, if after working in K8P for multiple years all they got at the end was a "time's up, you can go now" then that's something they will definitely remember, even if you take into account that they were here to discharge a major debt of honor that KaK accrued towards K8P.
 
It would have been interesting if Mathilde find out that one of her younger siblings ends up in one of the Colleges instead of seeing her birth family, makes me wonder how what would her parents do if her younger siblings manifest their own magic since it could run in other parts of the family considering how big they are.
 
Jrin said:
It would have been interesting if Mathilde find out that one of her younger siblings ends up in one of the Colleges instead of seeing her birth family, makes me wonder how what would her parents do if her younger siblings manifest their own magic since it could run in other parts of the family considering how big they are.
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Exactly the same... it's rural Stirland which is about as backwards as the Empire gets. Those attitudes take centuries to shift.
 
Lupercal said:
I don't see why Matty needs to meat her birth family when we have a perfectly good found family right here in K8P.
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We can go one step further! Clearly, the solution to all this "family" stuff is to go full Science Babies, investigate what potential Aetheric Vitae has in creating artificial beings, and make a spirit daughteru :V

This poster is not responsible for any strange magical phases, teenage national rebellion, or inciting of the apocalypse that may occur as a result of poor parenting.
 
DragonParadox said:
Exactly the same... it's rural Stirland which is about as backwards as the Empire gets. Those attitudes take centuries to shift.
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Those attitudes take centuries to shift by liberal means. The Allied occupation of Germany after WW2 demonstrates that you can very quickly shift population attitudes by illiberal means. (Collective punishment, ethnic cleansing, forced labor, etc.) I appreciate SV's general commitment to liberalism, but assumptions should be made explicit sometimes.
 
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