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So I'd imagine that in terms of Borek Quest this must be the mother of all random events and the playerbase is simultaneously excited and fearful about how this might go.
Warhammer Fantasy: Divided Loyalties - an Advisor's Quest
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"I call bait-and-switch, QM. After 190 turns, you finally said that the Expediton would be attempting to retake a lost Dwarven Karak, for sure this time!!!"
Ericwinter
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Nah, they're probably just outright panicking about how we managed to find this stolen hold when Teclis himself couldn't, and how it's obviously a sign of our Tzeentchian plot to fuck over Slannesh.
I wonder if while we clog the Waystone exit route south, we can have some of the wizards with the Expedition use the oncoming magic from the north to either erect defences or smite any attackers.
Extra points if Mathilde can use exigent circumstances as an excuse to get them to teach her how to do it...
No one else (friendly) here can use the Ulgu flowing through the Waystone after all.
Extra points if Mathilde can use exigent circumstances as an excuse to get them to teach her how to do it...
No one else (friendly) here can use the Ulgu flowing through the Waystone after all.
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Still over 25 pages behind, commenting as I go.
If we don't solve this here and now, it could be a good test case for cooperation with the forest elves?
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Probably would of had them confident that their demons could murder this random squishy wizard and the rangers with her, assuming that since Mathilde is a wizard that means in melee she would get slaughtered. Only for Mathilde to hold up pretty well surprising them ("Why is the wizard a master Swordsman and WTF is that sword!") followed quickly by the surprise dragon and resulting panic.
That as well, especially if they saw the rolls and the "Avatar" trait. On top of that if they figure out the Waystone plan they would be panicking even more.
Ericwinter
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Actually, I wonder if they would notice we're definitely human or not. As I recall Elven Loremaster are also master swordsmen who wield magical Greatswords—though probably not runic ones, if that bit is obvious—and there's already a dragon prince involved. Hell, the players would probably be thinking their GM was playing massive silly buggers with the setting and the elves and dwarves never went to war or something. That, or peace had been forged at some point when they weren't looking.
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No, probably not that confident. Remember the roll was for
They know that whoever spotted it was a good enough mage to spot a very well-hidden magical phenoma, and if you live long enough to get that level of power you are not defenseless. Being able to survive a single unit of Daemonettes is not out of the question for a Wizard Lord, especially with meatshields around.
They definitely didn't expect the dragon, though.
What are the chances that if we cut off the waystone, it will weaken whatever Dawi defenses inside? Perhaps the rune of Valaya?
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Probably non-zero, but we believe the Waystone magic is being used to power the effect that keeps Vlag in the warp.
The Valaya runes in Vlag, if they worked like those elsewhere, were seemingly powered by power coming back out of Karaz-a-Karak (not that Mathilde knows this)- so either they're running on an internal reserve, or maybe ambient warp magic, or... they aren't (anymore).
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As has been said before Runes do not run on Waysone power alone, they also run on ambient magic. Being in the Realm of Chaos provides a lot of ambient magic. Moreover Mathilde saw the Northern connection between the Waystone and whatever is in Vlag as 'a star of magic' and said connection was linked to a cognition hazard. That Waystone magic isn't going to any dwarfs is what I'm saying.
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"I put the shotgun in an Adidas bag and padded it out with four pairs of tennis socks, not my style at all, but that was what I was aiming for: If they think you're crude, go technical; if they think you're technical, go crude. I'm a very technical boy. So I decided to get as crude as possible. "
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I'd imagine that initially they had very little information but I don't imagine that the fact that Mathilde is a human would be something that can easily be hidden after the initial confrontation. Also I think that if it was an Elven Loremaster that they'd have a different escort, like an elven escort instead of a bunch of Dwarves.
True they probably were a little nervous, but I'm assuming they went with a boldness strategy assuming that they had a good chance of murdering the witnesses before anyone else arrived.
Also it's not that Mathilde was able to survive the Daemonettes that would surprise them, it's that she was able to basically match them with her sword skills and had such large bonuses to straight up melee combat.
But yeah regardless the Dragon was most definitely a surprise they were not expecting.
Ericwinter
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That's what makes it so weird. We've got a dragon prince, a human wizard—which shouldn't be very common considering the last they saw of the outside world was during the Great War against Chaos—and a bunch of dwarf rangers. Getting even two of those three together is pretty dang hard—as I recall, Mathilde's pretty much the first Wizard to be semi-accepted by most dwarves—but all of them? Even as a player with outside knowledge of the setting, I'd probably be wondering how the fuck that happened.
Actually something I don't think has been noted yet, but is it possible the daemonette's +30 bonus was so large because there were multiple of them? Like, I'm pretty sure we were outnumbered there, so it makes sense that they would be rolling high, right?
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Remember the law of conservation of ninjutsu.
Ericwinter
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I'm pretty sure Boney doesn't subscribe to that, or at least not completely given his stated willingness to kill us if we do something stupid. Hell, every time we've gotten into big fights we usually only escape death by the skin of our teeth, and more often than not by running away until we can force the effective numbers down by a lot. That, or we cheat by having extremely powerful magic items.
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True they probably did get a bonus for numbers I think.
Mathilde in terms of combat is a Caster/Duelist hero. She is designed to either use her magic or focus on murder-death-killing a single target with her monster of a sword or assassination. We got her some gear for dealing with hordes but that is more like an emergency weapon rather than something she can pull out at the drop of a hat.
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In this case, We are the ninja
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Specifically we are a Naruto Ninja who actually remembers to use stealth sometimes.In this case, We are the ninja
Ericwinter
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...Yes? The ninja is supposed to win, because they're one against many and so end up more powerful than any of the enemies due to narrative casualty. That's how that rule works. But Mathilde could, if she rolled badly, be killed by hordes of enemies and nearly has been on several occasions. Even here we only got out unscathed due to their rolls being even worse than ours. Conservation of Ninjutsu has nothing to do with it, only luck and good foresight in stacking bonuses to combat and the martial stat before this point.In this case, We are the ninja
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This kind of implies that he's been going around retaking all kinds of other things instead in a comedy of errors. Like, someone's holding a map upside down, so Borek and his crew storm a Tomb-King's pyramid.