Yay! It's back!
Ok so my first thought is that the sudden influx of wizard characters is both fertile ground for recruitment to K8P longer term, (both demonstrating to the dwarves that they are willing to put life on the line for dwarves and building some direct relationships with Mathilde) and serious omake fodder. Who are these people? What are their background? We are likely to get sentences or indirect hints, but fleshing that out and then seeing them become a recurring character? It's like the expedition all over again, where we took turns on turns just helping people to learn about them!
Also, I think this is where windherder is going to really start to shine. Integrating multiple area of effect spells from many different winds is kinda the best way to practice the skills described by it's plain text, and I think learning to blend effects without blending winds into dhar is a much more promising route than enchanting or tongs.
I'm really looking forward to it. And we've got a good cast, it seems. Fourteen magic users, four(?) dwarves, two(?) knights, an elf and a dragon as our named characters, a tangle of motivations and obscured objectives and unknown conditions, and an omipresent threat of enemy armies far outnumbering us if luck breaks wrong.
Onwards!
urge to poach duckings rising
*futilely throws pokeball at other trainers pokemon*
Ok! Let's lay out a plan here. Who are the best prospects for us to persuade to come stay at K8P after this, and what do we tempt them with?
The bright I think we tempt with attention and friendliness from the lady magister- she'd fit in well joining our deathly duckling with the Besiegers as a longer term job, at first pass, and would add some nice firepower to the Karak. Assuming she isn't actually bitter/jealous towards us...
I don't know if the Jade would fit. I think he's likely to be our first named character to go east from K8P, but my money is that he does appear again to do that.
The celestial, I think, could go either way. If he and Hubert bond, and he supports Hubert through the magister trials while buying into the dream Hubert is selling of what it means to be a wizard of Karak Eightpeaks, then this could be an amazing bromance waiting to happen. And we'd end up basically with a thick as theives pair of anti-sterotype celestials; brothels and sword duels and blasting foes on the battlefield. On the other hand, if he and Hubert run eachother the wrong way, this might spiral downwards very quickly.
The lights I am unsure about. It would be kinda poetic if the magister is still very against chaos, gets in spats with us about how we tend to do things like with with the locals and help enemies if it is against another enemy, sees us succeed brilliantly, stealing away his ducklings and most of the credit due to how public the disagreements were, and decides that if working a little bit on line is what everyone praises, then maybe he should just step over it completely.
Ie, Horstmann turns to evil BECAUSE of Mathilde appeals greatly to me.
Divided Loyalty: Actually Two Goblins In A Robe
FINALLY, sum proppa cunnin'.
