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Warhammer Fantasy: Divided Loyalties - an Advisor's Quest

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Trickster314 said:
We're purchasing it personally as Mathilde Weber, not as the Loremaster of 8 Peaks and I doubt it would actually start a war between the Elves and Drawfs (again).
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Not even that, we're purchasing it as Gabriella von Ernachthafen.

So worst case scenario Mathilde clearly liberated it from that dastardly necromancer (probably the same Gabriella that was active in Sylvania years ago) and seeks to return it.
 
Trickster314 said:
I would actually like to buy the seed, if it turns out to be from the Oak of ages we can always just return it for a reward on our vacation.

We're purchasing it personally as Mathilde Weber, not as the Loremaster of 8 Peaks and I doubt it would actually start a war between the Elves and Drawfs (again).
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Wrong Elves. If it is actually from Athel Loren they'll murder us horribly if they even get an inkling that we have it before we can even open our mouth.
 
Could the Daemons have planned for us to buy tainted food by destroying food stores?
Or cause some other trouble that way?

The odds are low, then again it is the Plotter.

btw, Mathilde used the Name of the Plotter in the update.
 
pucflek said:
No, we can't do shit and it would traumatize Tilde. Why would you make Mathilde traumatized for absolutely nothing?
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someone already quoted me about the potential for psychological trauma which definitely make me lean toward not going but to say absolutely nothing is wrong for their is a chance for some very valuable VIP in their that we could buy/free or just some greenskin and some non valuable non combant that we would feel really bad about leaving, we don't know
 
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CuttleFish2.0 said:
Yeah. That said, buying could actually (assuming it really is an Old One artifact and not something else) be the single best resource for picking up some very advanced magical tips and tricks. Again, assuming speculationa bout it's origins is correct 800 gold is actually an incredibly cheap price, but then again if speculation is correct a chance encounter with Lizardmen rises dramatically (to be clear, it rises from 'hahahahaha, no' to 'huh, that's an unlikely set of rolls') so you know... choices.
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Or its secretly smuggled in arm of Tomb Kings and within three days of returning to K8P, pissed off Settra will be banging on our gates. I would rather not.
 
Rafin said:
Oh darn. I never understood how Dwarves could be read as a caricature of a certain minority, but now it makes much more sense.
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I don't get it. Which minority is this about, and how are Warhammer Dawi a caricature of them?

Ericwinter said:
Kinda surprised Example Bloodthirster was never called Basic Bloodthirster, actually.
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When Example "Examplarius" Bloodthirster first came up, there was no plan of making a whole series - it wasn't until someone talked about a "hypothetical Bloodthirster" and someone else said "Hypothetical" seemed more appropriate as a Lord of Change (the Coke to Example Bloodthirster's Pepsi) that the rest were introduced.

BoneyM said:
The first piece that causes your eyebrows to rise is an arm made of solid gold and covered in sigils you don't recognize. You can sense dormant power within it, and a lot of it. The fingers are razor-sharp talons and the palm has a raised circle you're sure is where that power you sense is output.
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This sounds a lot like Kroq-Gar's Hand of Gods...


Tentative opinion on the voting options:

[ ] HALL: No
Let's not borrow trouble and/or trauma.

[ ] MEAT: Yes
We have a Jade wizard and a handful of Light wizards - if there's anything wrong with it, they can probably do something about that.

[ ] ARM: Yes
[ ] ARM: No
One of our gold wizards might be able to learn something from it, but it's pricy. I don't have a strong opinion here - I'm leaning no, but could be convinced otherwise.

[ ] NUT: Yes
[ ] NUT: No
It's even pricier than the arm, but it'd be an amazing souvenir for our girlfriend. No strong opinion here either - I'm leaning yes, but could be convinced not to go for it.

[ ] PAPERS: Yes
They're... well, "cheap" is probably the wrong word, but they're reasonably priced compared to everything else, and if we can't make heads or tails of them, we can send them on to the colleges and/or Ulthuan. Or, if we choose Book Boon when we get back, stick them in the new Great Library.
 
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[ ] HALL: No
[ ] MEAT: Yes
-[ ] use it for animal feed only
[ ] ARM: No
[ ] NUT: Yes
[ ] PAPERS: Yes

just my thoughts. We could also roll the dice and mention the DE we turned over the HE to the seed merchant. I figure it's a toss up on weather it makes the price go up, down, or stay the same.
 
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Consider: if we don't buy the acorn here, someone else will, including the possibility that it ends up in either Chaos Dwarf, Skaven or Dark Elf hands. I don't know about you guys, but I'm very much not comfortable with the idea of leaving such a potent artefact in the hands of any of those factions.

What we do with it after we can think about later; study it, return it, whatever. That's a problem for a time that isn't now.
 
@BoneyM I assume that Mathilde Mathilde has checked that the Magic Arm is neither chaotic nor Dark Magic,no?

pucflek said:
Or its secretly smuggled in arm of Tomb Kings and within three days of returning to K8P, pissed off Settra will be banging on our gates. I would rather not.
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Even if the tomb kings are normally flanderized like that, they are far from irrational, If it ends up being a Nekhaharan artifact we can always give it back.

And that is fairly unlikely, entirely made of gold, with claws and with a mysterious Magic, it sounds somfrom Lustria...
 
pucflek said:
Or its secretly smuggled in arm of Tomb Kings and within three days of returning to K8P, pissed off Settra will be banging on our gates. I would rather not.
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I mean, I imagine Empire Wizards are well trained to recognize Nehekharan script (if not to read it) for exactly such reasons. The sigils on the arm are specifically called out as being unrecognized by Mathilde, which means a civilization which the Empire is largely unfamiliar with; Lizardmen fit the bill, but If it's not Lizardman in origin then it's more likely to be from... say ind or Khuresh than Nehekhara. Which does not necessarily mean its safe to buy.
 
If we take the nut to K8P, it might as well still be in Uzkular as far as the Asrai are concerned. Both in how angry they'll be about it, which is very, and in their ability to try to recover it, which is none. Asrai do not break Karaks.
 
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I mean think about it, going on an adventure into the forest of murder trees and elves in search of the wild hunt to return an acorn seems exactly like the kind of date Mathilde would set up with Pan. :V
 
REAPER35 said:
-[ ] use it for animal feed only
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Doesn't need to be specified, the animals do at least two thirds of the eating on the Expedition so it would be trivial to point the suspect meat their way.

Captainwolf said:
@BoneyM is the arm shaped like a human arm, and is it possible to tell what winds of magic the arm uses/has?
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It's too blocky to pin a species on it. It's only got four fingers instead of five, though it's about the size of a human arm. She can't tell exactly what sort of magic it is until she figures out how to turn it on, but she can tell that it's not tainted.

Fanhunter696 said:
@BoneyM I assume that Mathilde Mathilde has checked that the Magic Arm is neither chaotic nor Dark Magic,no?
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She has, it's not.
 
I think all the continent-spanning events Mathilde has dealt in have colored people's opinion of things if they're thinking everything they get at an evil bazaar is the same level of importance. Didn't see people acting like that in Barak Var near the start of the K8P expedition.
 
BoneyM said:
The first piece that causes your eyebrows to rise is an arm made of solid gold and covered in sigils you don't recognize. You can sense dormant power within it, and a lot of it. The fingers are razor-sharp talons and the palm has a raised circle you're sure is where that power you sense is output.
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Looked, totally Lizardman:
Really curious about how this ended up with a Norscan.
 
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