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Warhammer Fantasy: Divided Loyalties - an Advisor's Quest

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[X] Use Doppelganger to take on the appearance of the watchgoblin, and use that and Take No Heed to slip through.

Seems obvious to me.
 
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Bewilder notes that it causes targets to react unpredictably. Given greenskins are known for fighting at the drop of a hat could we try and use that to start a distraction whilst we use doppelganger?

Could also be a nice present on the way out if our forces are getting close.
 
@BoneyM, would Doppelganger (to look like sentry) + Take No Heed work? Goblin would not be suspicious and Take No Heed prevents questions like "why are you here and not on your post"?
 
[X] Try to peek into the gates without being seen, then use Doppelganger to take on the appearance of someone on the other side, and use that and Take No Heed to slip through.

I bet that if the watchgoblin walks in while he's meant to be on shift, people will angrily take notice and Take No Heed will fail.
 
About the discussion about Stirland 'revenge', to be honest, i don't care about Stirland. I'd be fine with voting for more adventure, collegial stuff, or advising dwarf holds. Or conquering Sylvania.
 
[x] Climb from the King's Gates to the landing pad, kill or evade the solitary guard, and infiltrate through there.

A bit of siege engine sabotage wouldn't go amiss, either.
 
[X] Try to peek into the gates without being seen, and use Bewilder to try to start enough chaos inside that you'd be able to slip through easily with Doppelganger and Take No Heed.

Causing a little chaos on our way in can only benefit our forces and is unlikley to really develop into anything really dangerous to us.
 
Well. I dont think Dopelganner would work, since that would mean interacting with someone. A Pall of Darkness might work but its blatant initial use would mean chaos inside.

Well, fires are supposed to dim at our precence right? Its one of our Marks. Maybe we can just Stealth in and hope for the best?

Another thing about No Disguise is our Shadow. We definately will need Take No Heed if we want peeps to ignore our Shadow waltzing around or something.
 
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[X] Try to peek into the gates without being seen, then use Doppelganger to take on the appearance of someone on the other side, and use that and Take No Heed to slip through.
[X] Try to peek into the gates without being seen, and use Bewilder to try to start enough chaos inside that you'd be able to slip through easily with Doppelganger and Take No Heed.

Either of these is fine with me. Sneaky sneaky no attention!
 
TalonofAnathrax said:
[X] Try to peek into the gates without being seen, then use Doppelganger to take on the appearance of someone on the other side, and use that and Take No Heed to slip through.

I bet that if the watchgoblin walks in while he's meant to be on shift, people will angrily take notice and Take No Heed will fail.
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Those are Greenskins we are talking about, not dwarfs. Their discipline is pretty lax. I think it's pretty normal for a goblin sentry to temporarily leave his post to drink some mushroom brew or whatever.
 
I would be... intensely amused if Mathilde was able to cause such an uproar with Bewilder so that the Greenskin forces are still fighting each other when the Dwarven army arrives. As such, I think I'll be voting for

[X] Try to peek into the gates without being seen, and use Bewilder to try to start enough chaos inside that you'd be able to slip through easily with Doppelganger and Take No Heed.
 
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    We came up the hill, in lines by squads, hiding from the beastmen. Before us went one of the Empire's tame witches. A Magister they call them, but we knew the old ways. Blessed be Magnus the Pious, such was his piety that he could even take such unnatural and evil beings, and wed them to the proper service and might of the Empire, like a smith forging a blade from scrap. But it was still such a new thing, barely older than my great grandmother's grandmother mother.

    But even with all the work of the priests, to bring the glory of Sigmar to these lost souls, magic was an unnatural thing. Who had not seen the The Dämmerlichtreiter? All of Stirland knew of the shadowy rider, and many merchants had fled the road at her coming and torches wavered at her passing. For all that she had commanded us when the Count fell, no right thinking man was comfortable in service to one such as it, even if it was also a Knight. How can a Witch be a Knight? Not for simple folk like us, to meddle in the affairs of the noble and powerful. I pity the poor fools who have to serve on the lands cursed to be the holdings of Dame Weber, who knows what unnatural things beset them?

    Ah but other's would say, whatever thing her cursed magic might bring, she'll cut them out and melt it away in her shadow. For we were there, when that abomination died. We saw it silenced, dead and decaying meat and bone melting in deepest dusk. So when told she'd take the gates alone, we nodded, and followed.

    Trained woodsmen we are, a lifetime among the hills and gullies, but she went up that climb like a ghost, like morning fog. And then walked right on the air across the walls. Chilled the bones it did. But it was nothing to what came after. With a loud clang, the door opened, and we ran, stealth forgotten. The beasts no doubt heard it, and she was but one. Fools, we. The screaming started long before we got there.

    What we saw upon that hill was a scene from hell, one I'll never forget. A thing stood in a butchers yard, a thing of shadow and death, horrid tendrils reaching, always reaching to strangle, rend, kill. Smashed, cut apart and destroyed beastmen filled the courtyard, and it was worst at the door. As we marched into the gloom, lost to the light of the sun, we found dozens, hundreds of bodies, that had rend each other apart, mad from fear, running from it.

    Drive's a man to drink, it does, sleeping in camp near something like that. By Sigmar, at least she's on our side!
     
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    • [X] Try to peek into the gates without being seen, then use Doppelganger to take on the appearance of someone on the other side, and use that and Take No Heed to slip through.
    I think this is more useful than taking the guise of a watchgoblin, given that goblin are prone to be picked up and/or thrown if an orc thinks they look at the funny, which will break our cover once our rune returns the favour twicefold.

    [X] Disregard stealth entirely and gallop through the gates, streaking through whatever is on the other side on Shadowsteed before any of the greenskins can react.
    Defense through sheer audacity. They can't stop us if they can't catch us.

    LockedMind said:
    Those are Greenskins we are talking about, not dwarfs. Their discipline is pretty lax. I think it's pretty normal for a goblin sentry to temporarily leave his post to drink some mushroom brew or whatever.
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    It is probably pretty normal, yes, but it's probably also normal to punch said goblin and take his teeth if you catch him not doing what he should.

    I like our teeth.
     
    What if we used doppelganger on the sentry and take no heed, then poked our head in and cast Bewilder? Or is three spells at once too much?
     
    Query: Can we use that lense spell cantrip to peek around corners? Effectively making a periscope.
     
    [X] Try to peek into the gates without being seen, and use Bewilder to try to start enough chaos inside that you'd be able to slip through easily with Doppelganger and Take No Heed.
     
    The Meddler said:
    What if we used doppelganger on the sentry and take no heed, then poked our head in and cast Bewilder? Or is three spells at once too much?
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    Trying to cause chaos with Bewilder alone will take a lot of rapid casting, and adding in maintaining and recasting Take No Heed on top of that would compound the difficulty. But there'd be no reason not to use Doppelganger while peaking if you're going to be at the door for a while, since it lasts a good deal longer than Take No Heed.

    Asheram said:
    Query: Can we use that lense spell cantrip to peek around corners? Effectively making a periscope.
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    This is possible, but in most circumstances a magical mirror floating in mid-air is about as alarming as a human head peeking around the corner.
     
    [X] Try to peek into the gates without being seen, and use Bewilder to try to start enough chaos inside that you'd be able to slip through easily with Doppelganger and Take No Heed.
     
    Are there enough shadows in the hall that we could just cast Substance of Shadows and slip around the edges. Illumination by firelight suggests there are lots of shadows.
     
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