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Warhammer Fantasy: Divided Loyalties - an Advisor's Quest

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I wonder if Ranald could steal the power of the goblet. It seems like an item of Chaos Undivided, not something belonging to any particular god, which might well make it easier to do so.
 
BoneyM said:
"A message, then. Tell Him that the Widow may be willing to forgive, and that He should send a representative to discuss."

You feel a sliver of wary attention to turn your way. "I take it He'll know how to go about that?"

"Yha. Friends in common, you could say."

"I'll pass it along." No need to tell her that He already heard.
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I just love how this entire little bit feels as if Ranald is hiding behind a counter from people who know he's hiding behind the counter.
 
Wow transporting something like this seems like it could be very dangerous. Thank God we have a Light wizard like Egrimm around to help contain this dangerous artifact as well! Can you imagine what it would be like if we couldn't trust him?
 
Well, that sounds like a job for Heidi, she's got the mystical, political and diplomatic chops to make things happen.

Which makes me think: Ranald recently got his hands on an imperial heir. They could be after an alliance.
Mind, it would work a whole lot better if Katarina had already been born. She becomes Tzar in 2517, so if she ascends around 30, then she could've been recently born. Given that she's also a powerful Ice Witch, it would also make a theological connection. However, according to the wiki, she was born after her father became Tzar (because she was crowned as an infant when he went missing for a while), and he doesn't become Tzar until 2492, so six more years.
Ithuriel said:
It says a lot about warhammer that they would have to ask which one. There is also the blood grail after all.
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The original grail is a blood grail.
 
BoneyM said:
It's possible, but enchanting a Mastery is very difficult and often only partially succeeds.
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Understandable. That just means we have to get good at it, then.

Hmm. Is it possible to put a password or other activation requirement on an item? Make it much harder to seal it or fall into enemy hands and be used by them.
guyfromtheplace1 said:
Part of the advantage is that Mathilde merges into the horse and thus doesn't doesn't suffer from riding pains.

It'd also probably be more useful for messengers, or maybe scouts, just because those can have more impact with fewer horses, and don't require a team of horses to pull anything.
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Yeah, that is a major edge. Having vital news/reports/agents able to move at extreme speeds is helpful. Plus they can do it anywhere, so they can scout rough terrain.
 
Robotninja said:
Yeah, that is a major edge. Having vital news/reports/agents able to move at extreme speeds is helpful. Plus they can do it anywhere, so they can scout rough terrain.
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Yes, but.... it's hard to see how to make that work in the context of the game, other than by someone coming up and spending College Favor to make Mathilde create it for them. (Which BoneyM has said they don't want to do.)

Are we going to spend 1+ AP to create this enchantment so "SomeGuy" of the Umdumgi can be a better scout? Mathilde could in theory spend a lot of her time cranking out magical items, including more standard Shadowsteed castings, for use by the Empire and other forces of Order, but in practice it's hard to see how we would do that in a way that would be entertaining with the game as played.

Mind you, I do think that if BoneyM ever has a good idea for how to make it work gameplay-wise, having an open "Enchanted Item requests by other parties" listing on the AP menu would be an interesting competitor for Actions. All RHUNRIKKI STROLLAR style, you know? But absent that I don't really see it happening.
 
storryeater said:
Honestly, with how fast slang progresses and is codified, it makes sense that language and idioms change so fast. I Imagine that each village would have some words like "yeet" pop up and enter common usage, replacing older words, within every few years, so within a few generation, every word is replaced.

Thanks to this kind of human behaviour and replacement speed, I imagine that in 500 years we'll have perfectly respectable sentences like "Tah! Sardines are an illussion you gret" that will have everyone in the room nod sagely.
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I on the other hand don't think that will happen. Atleast not thanks to slang on the account slang being a bubble that expands fast only to replaced with new slang bubble but almost never really changing the underlying language.
 
Tasoli said:
I on the other hand don't think that will happen. Atleast not thanks to slang on the account slang being a bubble that expands fast only to replaced with new slang bubble but almost never really changing the underlying language.
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OK, but it's cool how sometimes slang words stick around anyway. Also slang coming back is pretty rad.
 
BoneyM said:
"A message, then. Tell Him that the Widow may be willing to forgive, and that He should send a representative to discuss."
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huh, this implies that there might actually be something to the Ulric historical myth passed the blatant wolf propaganda

e.g Randld was originally a northern god, and Ulric's buddy/brother/side-kick/Loki before running away from chaos in the first invasion and being kicked out of the 'north' club because of it.

give me a bit and I'll try to find the paragraph.
 
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BoneyM said:
That and it splits the community. The second 'as discussed on the Discord' enters common parlance, it gives the impression that being there is required to seriously contribute to the thread, because otherwise you're not a part of those discussions. I try to keep the barrier to entry as low as possible, because it's already a pretty big effort just to read through the story so far.
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I've seen many quests suffer heavily from discord community splitting, very glad that you have put your foot down.
 
Actually, I have to wonder. If the Widow has reason to hold a grudge against Ranald, what has changed that she would be willing to forgive him? It probably depends on what the grudge is in the first place—though people seem to have some idea—but still.
 
Ericwinter said:
Actually, I have to wonder. If the Widow has reason to hold a grudge against Ranald, what has changed that she would be willing to forgive him? It probably depends on what the grudge is in the first place—though people seem to have some idea—but still.
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a couple of his agents have been doing Good Deeds and got his sentence reduced to a fine, a lecture, and time served
 
Ericwinter said:
Actually, I have to wonder. If the Widow has reason to hold a grudge against Ranald, what has changed that she would be willing to forgive him? It probably depends on what the grudge is in the first place—though people seem to have some idea—but still.
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One of the Ancestor-Gods of the dawi had an extended debate with her on the nature of Grudges and convinced her that giving the Grudged terms by which they can provide recompense is a necessary component for anything other than mortal, eternal grudges.

They had this debate because Ranald convinced that Ancestor God to talk to the Window on his behalf after they met in the portion of the Warp near K8P.
 
Tomcost said:
Okay, we don't need to tell Heidi anything, because Ranald already knows. At least this doesn't consume AP.

On the other hand, I feel insulted at her knowing we worship Ranald. Not that we keep him secret, but it feels bad.
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Ericwinter said:
Huh. Wonder if we'll end up as the representative, since we're already around and helping the Ice Witches anyway. We also have a decent track record of dealing with divine conflicts already.
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It honestly wouldn't shock me if all of a sudden the Empress decided she wanted to do a diplomatic visit to Kislev.
 
We need another Borek Negaverse with a ranger having overheard that line or something, or it being some alternate POV interlude in that quest or something.
 
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One of the Ancestor-Gods of the dawi had an extended debate with her on the nature of Grudges and convinced her that giving the Grudged terms by which they can provide recompense is a necessary component for anything other than mortal, eternal grudges.

They had this debate because Ranald convinced that Ancestor God to talk to the Window on his behalf after they met in the portion of the Warp near K8P.
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I mean, he seemed surprised when it was mentioned, but I could totally see one of the dwarves going out of their way to repay some of the debt they owe him. After all, he probably earned some fair amount of goodwill by mugging Gork and Mork.
Actually, speaking of, wasn't there an omake a while ago about Ranald using some of his gains from that to pay off debts or something? Maybe the Widow's wanting a cut or something.
 
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