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Warhammer Fantasy: Divided Loyalties - an Advisor's Quest

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BeepSmile said:
Ohhh. Can you please link or tell me some words to search?
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Fam.

Fam.

Now, as ever, I got you.
TempestK said:
Belegar gets a missive from Mathilde. Reads the first sentence, and then immediately stumps over to a keg and pours himself several drinks. Kragg raises one brow a micrometer.

"Mathilde did something unexpected again?"

Belegar downs his fifth tankard, sucks the foam out of his beard, and then grunts. "Karak Vlag is back."

Kragg stares at Belegar, then shakes his head as he moves to the keg, tips it on one end, and bashes out the top. He then proceeds to drain the entire barrel, before looking at Belegar seriously. "We need more ale."
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picklepikkl said:
You don't have to explain why dragging Karak Vlag out of hell protected the dwarves there, but everything else is too indirect to benefit from Ranald's blessing.
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Opinions may vary and Boney's the final judge but "stood between Kislev and demon horde even when we could just get on with our lives instead" seems pretty direct to me.
 
TempestK said:
Belegar gets a missive from Mathilde. Reads the first sentence, and then immediately stumps over to a keg and pours himself several drinks. Kragg raises one brow a micrometer.

"Mathilde did something unexpected again?"

Belegar downs his fifth tankard, sucks the foam out of his beard, and then grunts. "Karak Vlag is back."

Kragg stares at Belegar, then shakes his head as he moves to the keg, tips it on one end, and bashes out the top. He then proceeds to drain the entire barrel, before looking at Belegar seriously. "We need more ale."
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picklepikkl said:
Fam.

Fam.

Now, as ever, I got you.
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Honestly, I agree that its funny, but if feels so... flanderising. Belegar would most likely be ecstatic and proud rather than annoyed at our feat.
 
it wasn't even meant as an omake. It was a funny scene that I came up with off the cuff. And less annoyed and more "Oh gods I need all the drinks."
 
storryeater said:
Honestly, I agree that its funny, but if feels so... flanderising. Belegar would most likely be ecstatic and proud rather than annoyed at our feat.
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Eh, I read it as less annoying, and just more utterly shocked and disbelieving. Like, imagine your kid went out to pick up the newspaper, and brings back a million dollars they just found lying on the ground. Sure, it would be absolutely awesome... but most people would have no fucking clue what to do with it. At least for a few moments.
 
storryeater said:
Honestly, I agree that its funny, but if feels so... flanderising. Belegar would most likely be ecstatic and proud rather than annoyed at our feat.
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It could potentially serve as a lead-in to a bit where they are ecstatic and proud, and presumably with more then just the two of them.

Like, this is such huge and emotionally shocking news that they need to emotionally prepare themselves for the sheer amount of "this is great" emotions. I agree that while fun it doesn't work too well as a whole omake on it's own, but as a stunned/shocked "this is so good and so out of nowhere that I need to recover before I can celebrate" thing it could work.

TempestK said:
it wasn't even meant as an omake. It was a funny scene that I came up with off the cuff. And less annoyed and more "Oh gods I need all the drinks."
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I enjoyed it.
 
So, how would mathilde introduce herself to a ogre? would she list all of her (Great names) Titles since that's more likely to demand respect from them?
 
Or the "I must be really drunk. I need more beer so i can go completely round the twist and back to sobriety"

All jokes aside, the only thing Belegar would be feeling at hearing news of Vlag is vindication:
BoneyM said:
"If all I had at my disposal were Dwarves, I'd do the same," Belegar says frankly. "But for all the bravery and artifice of the Dwarves, it was men that held the line at the Battle of Karag Nar and the Battle of the Citadel, it is men that hold Death Pass and keep us connected to the Karaz Ankor, and it was a joint project between the Runesmiths and the Colleges that shattered Waaagh Birdmuncha. If the Karaz Ankor has a future, it is alongside the men of the Empire, as High King Kurgan Ironbeard decreed so long ago. So I sent you."
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emberwing said:
So, how would mathilde introduce herself to a ogre? would she list all of her (Great names) Titles since that's more likely to demand respect from them?
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I presume it depends on the nature of the interaction, but that's definitely something I would vote for if it fit the moment.

We might presumably want to fly under the radar at the moment though, and of course there's our typical intrigue stuff, but if we were actually doing diplomacy/introducing ourselves in full faith and wanted to seem legit ... yeah, probably, makes sense to me.
 
IronFist said:
Or the "I must be really drunk. I need more beer so i can go completely round the twist and back to sobriety"

All jokes aside, the only thing Belegar would be feeling at hearing news of Vlag is vindication:
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I really love that paragraph. By the time it hits "So I sent you" I feel like Belegar is being voiced by Marlon Brando and this is a really weird take on a Superman story. My mind immediately plays back the message from the 1978 movie.
 
Let's wait to see how things go with Dum before we break out the champagne and chocolates. Things can still go horribly wrong at frightening speeds - for one thing, Mathilde probably has a personal grudge from Slannesh at this point, and is about to head into the Chaos Wastes.
 
Redshirt Army said:
Let's wait to see how things go with Dum before we break out the champagne and chocolates. Things can still go horribly wrong at frightening speeds - for one thing, Mathilde probably has a personal grudge from Slannesh at this point, and is about to head into the Chaos Wastes.
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Sure Mathilde could still die horribly, but that does not detract from the fact that she recovered her second Old Hold (this one with population included) in the span of I think less than a decade. As long as she doesn't fall to Chaos or something this will cause a significant political shift in the Karaz Ankor.
 
IronFist said:
I am Mathilde Weber, The Dämmerlichtreiter, Sängerkritisch, Dawongr, Azrildrekked, the Silver Savage, Dawizhufokri, Knight of Stirland, Thane of Karak Eight Peaks, Loremaster of Karak Eight Peaks, Court Wizard of Karak Eight Peaks and Lady Magister of the Grey Order and Purveyor of FINE PIES
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We need to buy a brewery or two so we can also provide drinks.
 
DragonParadox said:
Sure Mathilde could still die horribly, but that does not detract from the fact that she recovered her second Old Hold (this one with population included) in the span of I think less than a decade. As long as she doesn't fall to Chaos or something this will cause a significant political shift in the Karaz Ankor.
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I wonder how they'd feel if Mathilde became a necromancer for purposes of vengence. It has been discussed before, but the only way the thread has mostly agreed to go with Necromancy is if the skaven assasinate belegar then we could go necromancer so we can burn down skavenblight.

Especially if we empty Karak Drazh to get the initial army of undead, the dawi might have mixed feelings.

Obviously us being too shoddy to properly hold our vengence. But I imagine there would be some sympathy, at least at first.
 
Redshirt Army said:
Let's wait to see how things go with Dum before we break out the champagne and chocolates. Things can still go horribly wrong at frightening speeds - for one thing, Mathilde probably has a personal grudge from Slannesh at this point, and is about to head into the Chaos Wastes.
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And, as at least a subset of the thread has surmised, Mathilde's perfectionism, skillfullness and general theatricality means Slaanesh is probably the Chaos God with most possible hooks in her.

She's even an art patron to boot.
 
Aranfan said:
I wonder how they'd feel if Mathilde became a necromancer for purposes of vengence. It has been discussed before, but the only way the thread has mostly agreed to go with Necromancy is if the skaven assasinate belegar then we could go necromancer so we can burn down skavenblight.

Especially if we empty Karak Drazh to get the initial army of undead, the dawi might have mixed feelings.

Obviously us being too shoddy to properly hold our vengence. But I imagine there would be some sympathy, at least at first.
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I suspect that if we shaved our head before going on a suicidal necromancy revenge quest they would be able to slot it into their view of the world. We would have "gone emo".
 
Aranfan said:
I wonder how they'd feel if Mathilde became a necromancer for purposes of vengence. It has been discussed before, but the only way the thread has mostly agreed to go with Necromancy is if the skaven assasinate belegar then we could go necromancer so we can burn down skavenblight.

Especially if we empty Karak Drazh to get the initial army of undead, the dawi might have mixed feelings.

Obviously us being too shoddy to properly hold our vengence. But I imagine there would be some sympathy, at least at first.
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If we actually burn down Skavenblight, tear the heart out of the Underempire and then die heroically in the process there would probably be tragic sagas about it. Anything less probably would not cut it. The dawi really hate people disturbing the dead.
 
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