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Warhammer Fantasy: Divided Loyalties - an Advisor's Quest
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Guile
Having a really great time right now
... So?
- Location
- Australia
So saving more people than just ourselves is an IC goal, especially when they're powerful and friendly.
- Location
- Earth
This seem like the kind of thing the LBM might help develop. A sentient, mobile, living,dangerous, shadow monster riding skirt. Because, remember, our shadow horse engulfs Mathilde from the waist down.
Really, if we every try to develop new Battle Magic, it will be purely because the LBM gives us a shot at it. And even then, it is likely to end in death/power loss/ disfigurement/mutation.
But yeah. If we do develop new Battle Magic, expect to be subjected to the Battle Wizard treatment. If we ever go down this route, we need incredible connections or leverage to stay relatively free.
It's the kind of thing that might have the College decide that we really need to be tested for Wizard Lord status. Unsaid of course what happens if you fail a test that important. The Empire does not give free rein to walking WMDs that have not been proven above and beyond any reproach. The Wizards Lords are exempt since they literally represent the college they come from, like a High Noble represents his province. The only person above them is a Patriarch, who is the equivalent of an Elector Count, in the parallel structure.
EDIT: Like Warrior of Fog would let us develop lesser spells, but I really think we need the LBM for Battle Magic to even stand a chance.
By the time Brave Sir Weber is inclined to retreat I don't expect many of her companions to still be alive. On the other hand between the seed, the belt and shadow magic we have fairly decent odds of surviving catastrophe.
- Location
- Earth
by the way, while the Dread Aspect mastery is nice, two things:
-Since our shadow now has a mind of it's own, it could be possible for it to be tempted on it's own, or to use the LBM, maybe.
- We live in Stirland, or we did. That is where we have a noble title. Those folks are superstitious. And superstitious folk now think we are a daemon. If we ever to go back home, expect to need a permanent Witch Hunter Escort, if only so the locals don't try to banish us back into the Warp.
-Since our shadow now has a mind of it's own, it could be possible for it to be tempted on it's own, or to use the LBM, maybe.
- We live in Stirland, or we did. That is where we have a noble title. Those folks are superstitious. And superstitious folk now think we are a daemon. If we ever to go back home, expect to need a permanent Witch Hunter Escort, if only so the locals don't try to banish us back into the Warp.
- Location
- Australia
And those people would need a way to retreat, while Mathilde holds back the enemy or is elsewhere. Ergo, use the place with gyrocopter support.
DocMatoi
Theoretical Lover of Girls
- Location
- within 2 hours of the White House
- Pronouns
- They/Them
Shit we're gonna pull a Noble 6, aren't we?
"Your majesty, get to the airpad! I'll hold them off from here!"
"It's a horde, Weber! You'll die out there!"
"That's what they'd like to think."
Grey Wizards are pretty much as well suited to last stands as anything can get. They're pretty good at disengaging.
- Location
- Germany
Metal, Life and Beast can hold out longer in a last stand.
Fire, Sky and Death can make a bigger mess before going out.
But Shadow can keep the record for the most last stands per person.
And Light doesn't seem too good at it at all.
DocMatoi
Theoretical Lover of Girls
- Location
- within 2 hours of the White House
- Pronouns
- They/Them
Looking at you, SUNSCRYER
Sinsystems
Patron Librarian
Plus in our case our healing artifact can recharge by draining the live out of our enemies, so when coupled with our belt we become a one wizard roadblock.
chocolote12
A Penguin Flailing Against The Keyboard Of Life.
We can also recharge from bunches of dead enemies, which Skaven seem to leave lying around in convenient heaps everywhere.
- Location
- Memphis, TN
I'm imagining having a tug of war match with our shadow who wants to keep the corpses for its collection.
DocMatoi
Theoretical Lover of Girls
- Location
- within 2 hours of the White House
- Pronouns
- They/Them
It'd be like a cat.
"Shadow, what's that in your mouth?"
*Shadow tries to hide*
"Hey! Drop it! No!"
Why would you deny the cat/shadow its meal?
Nix's Warden
Welcome to Hades
- Location
- United States
I mean his light fires probably killed alot of undead when he decided to go Nova. So he was atleast somewhat useful in death.
Better than even chance he blew up just as many of our guys on that. Wizards don't tend to charge headlong into massed enemy ranks. That would be weird.
PsyFarrow
Verified Necrodancer
- Location
- Space
Yes, that'd be very strange wouldn't it? A Wizard charging the enemy formation...
*Flashbacks to Assault On Drakenhof 2*
Well, maybe an Amber wizard. Y'know, someone completely lacking in subtlety. They'd probably doing it half naked too. No wizardly dignity.
Just to get it out of the way right from the start: this isn't an announcement that I'm abandoning the quest or even putting it on hiatus.
I usually prefer to keep my private life private, but at the same time I don't want to be a contributor to the culture of silence, so I'm going to put one card on the table. I suffer from an aggravatingly treatment-resistant form of depression, and for the past few months have been going on a decidedly unmerry romp through various medications to try to find one that works after my previous one fell to tachyphylaxis. The latest stop on this tour is, to put it plainly, kicking my arse. Updates may be slightly more staggered than usual until things settle down, but they won't stop entirely. I will be writing in the upswings when they come, as writing is an important source of self-actualization for me.
I usually prefer to keep my private life private, but at the same time I don't want to be a contributor to the culture of silence, so I'm going to put one card on the table. I suffer from an aggravatingly treatment-resistant form of depression, and for the past few months have been going on a decidedly unmerry romp through various medications to try to find one that works after my previous one fell to tachyphylaxis. The latest stop on this tour is, to put it plainly, kicking my arse. Updates may be slightly more staggered than usual until things settle down, but they won't stop entirely. I will be writing in the upswings when they come, as writing is an important source of self-actualization for me.
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- He/Him
Understood.