I can just feel the glee. It's never going to get resolved, isn't it?
Rescued perhaps.We should probably use the word rediscovered. Saying we reclaimed it disrespects the dwarfs who held it for 200 years.
unless someday we get an interrupt that there was a dragon in altdorf breaking out of a pyramid, it won'tI can just feel the glee. It's never going to get resolved, isn't it?
"Are you okay?" you ask in Eltharin.
"I should be asking you that question," Asarnil says with a laugh. "If that had worked, the poets would be fighting each other for the honour of putting that maneuver of yours into verse."
You grimace. "I'm aware. But my ego will heal."
"It'd be underappreciated too. Everyone thinks Bloodthirsters are the pinnacle of Daemonic opponent, they don't appreciate how fast a Keeper of Secrets is, or how tough a Great Unclean One is, or how hard it is to get a Lord of Change into actual battle." Asarnil shakes his head. "There's an elegance to getting your appreciation in coins and ingots and gemstones. If someone doesn't pay what you're owed, it's a lot easier to burn their house down and loot the ruins than it is to pin them down and demand accolades."
You laugh, and thank Asarnil for his time and his insight.
Plan B it is, then: reconnaissance in force, with a line of shotcannon and rifles in defilade to retreat to. You're the natural choice for such a project, but your recommendation that you go in alone and invisible is rejected for Dwarven reasons. First contact with the lost Hold must be made by a Dwarf, so that they can either be welcomed back properly or the Grudge for whatever has happened to them can be properly witnessed and later recorded. You grumble, but by now know which battles can be won and can't be when it comes to Dwarves, so you simply add Johann. If the group can't have stealth, it should have firepower.
"Let's go," you say to the group as you rejoin them.
"What, all that talk and then you're giving up?" Snorri asks.
"I'm not giving up, I'm changing the engagement. They're not going to trust anything we say. You know how you befriend a paranoid stray? You don't grab it by the scruff of the neck, you just leave some food out and leave it to it. Eventually it realizes that you're not out to hurt it."
"So we leave?"
"We leave. Send word to Praag for them to send word to Karaz-a-Karak, and they'll have a gyrocopter full of Longbeards trying to coax them out by the time we get back. Best we can do. Look, I won't pretend that I know the inside of a Dwarven head better than you, but I do know how to manage paranoia. I grew up in a College dedicated to it."
"She's right," Johann says. "Like long-tailed cats in a room full of rocking chairs, the lot of them."
Remember when Clan Moulder contributed more to the reclamation of Eight Peaks? That was fun.Mathilde Weber: Did more for dwarves than you, Thorgrim. Ain't that a furuncle on your high ass?
Become involved with:
[ ] Ranging far ahead of the convoy
- With the Knights of Taal's Fury
[ ] Scouting near the convoy
- With the Winter Wolves
Other:
[ ] Visit Uzkulak, the Chaos Dwarf equivalent to Barak Varr
[ ] Visit the combes that Qrech told you about
"Here, I think I've got an idea. Budge over." A moment later, a much louder voice asks, "what about the Elgi? They turn up for this Great War of yours?"
You smile. "They sent three people and they still act smug about it."
Mathilde poking a waystone and bringing back the karak does give her some good street cred.
Can we try to aim for specifically looking for Trade Caravans that are on the road at the moment.
Don't need to convince the Dawi to send people to the city to pick up food if we manage to find a trade caravan full of food instead.
I don't want to sound ungrateful because holy fuck what a feather to our cap but in all the excitement, we didn't get to have a chat with Gotrek yet, @BoneyM.
Also the one thing that intrigued me and I didn't voice is thus: Did the Slaaneshi Slayers have any part of their limbs turned to stone? It's not textbook whether pledging alliance to a Dark God and gaining their blessings starts the stonification, I think.
to be fair, the Dark Elves were at the time ravaging the inner kingdoms with the Everqueen driven out of AvalonCan we try to aim for specifically looking for Trade Caravans that are on the road at the moment.
Don't need to convince the Dawi to send people to the city to pick up food if we manage to find a trade caravan full of food instead.
It's honestly even worse then that, because it implies that that was, like, their official decision, on a government level.
Nope.
Teclis just decided to come on his own and dragged two people with him. The collective response from the rest of Ulthuan, as a whole, was "no, we aren't doing anything."
The dwarves gave it 3/10. The highest a manling has ever scored, and not entirely unacceptable score for a beardling of less than 40 years.
If Dum is lost Borek wouldn't care if Vlag came back converted into solid gromril with rediscovered Golden Age Runelore, he'd still despair and go Slayer....holy shit, this is a big deal. I'm surprised Borek isn't overjoyed. Even if Karak Dum is nothing but a tomb, his expedition will be regarded as stupendously successful because it rediscovered/broke the siege on Karak Vlag, which seems intact enough and still populous enough to still hold its own against anything short of an army. It's a weird case of a Karak being thought lost entirely and permanently suddenly being back again--something alien to the dwarves, no doubt, but in a very good way.
Did the Slaaneshi Slayers have any part of their limbs turned to stone? It's not textbook whether pledging alliance to a Dark God and gaining their blessings starts the stonification, I think.
People aren't trading food between Kislev and Cathay. What food they would have would be only enough for themselves to get to the next place they could buy more.
to be fair, the Dark Elves were at the time ravaging the inner kingdoms with the Everqueen driven out of Avalon
sending to much help could have resulted in said help returning to find Ulathan conquered
which would have been worse then he Empire falling.
"So are you sure she isn't secretly a Khornite?"Alexandra is the other unaccompanied Journeymanling and thus your second stop on the circuit, and in contrast to Cyrston's calmness she's very clearly still riding an adrenaline high. As she enthusiastically gives you a blow-by-blow account of the various forms of fire she threw at Daemonettes, you carefully examine her under your Magesight to make sure it's nothing untoward, and you can't see anything but roiling Aqshy. Just high spirits, then, probably reinforced by the influence of her Wind. All in all it's probably a good thing that their first taste for battle made her eager for more instead of the opposite, considering it's very unlikely to be the last time the Expedition encounters hostile forces. You congratulate her and have a quiet word with the Rangers that would have been nearby, and confirm that while her recollections of mowing down waves of Daemonettes with fire don't quite match reality, she definitely accounted for some of them.
Rcovering a lost Karak is a nice consolation prize, but Borek has not been secret about the fact that what he wants is not to rescue lost Karaks, but Karak Dun....holy shit, this is a big deal. I'm surprised Borek isn't overjoyed. Even if Karak Dum is nothing but a tomb, his expedition will be regarded as stupendously successful because it rediscovered/broke the siege on Karak Vlag, which seems intact enough and still populous enough to still hold its own against anything short of an army. It's a weird case of a Karak being thought lost entirely and permanently suddenly being back again--something alien to the dwarves, no doubt, but in a very good way.
@BoneyM can Mathilde tell if the Vlag Waystone is working again and sending energy down the line? Or is there too much magic in the air to be certain?
Say about this, is 30,000 is average size population for a Karak or this is larger than expected?"A few score of them," you reply. "What was Karak Vlag's population?"
"About thirty thousand," Borek says.
can Mathilde tell if the Vlag Waystone is working again and sending energy down the line? Or is there too much magic in the air to be certain?
Power from Vlag's waystone network gets added to the greater one and Thorgrimm gets the notification.
Que much happiness and confusion on his part.
No need to send a runner to the South, he will be sending scouts within hours of seeing the added flow of power.