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Warhammer Fantasy: Divided Loyalties - an Advisor's Quest

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DragonParadox said:
The Eonir are not wood elves
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They are different polities but Eonir would be able to shield its use from political backlash from Athel Loren.
DragonParadox said:
The only safe thing to do with that acorn is return it to Athel Loren.
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I don't belive this is the case. IF nothing else we can keep it secret but more likley we can get agreement from them to use it for a benign purpose. Trading it back to Athel Loren is the worst case.
 
I'm curious what the people so afraid of the wood elves think we're going to do with the nut, do the expect us to walk through every town on the way back to 8 Peaks announcing that we have it?

If it is from the oak of ages we return it.
And have it out of the hands of chaos who could do who knows how many terrible things with it.
 
Why on Earth would the items being sold here be traps? The paranoia here is pretty incredible...

Both the arm and the acorn are probably things that are much better in our possession than in the assorted bad guys that are around here. That alone is enough reason to buy them. The arm in particular could be very interesting for someone with Mathilde's skills and traits.
 
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SuperSonicSound said:
1000 gold is not a rounding error. That description is farcically wrong. Buying the acorn as a gift is a really dumb idea. Theres a reason the cdwarfs didnt want to trade in wood elf items. Buying the acorn basically paints a target on Pan for no real benefit.

Lastly spending a third of our money the first chance we get to give as a gift isn't just wasteful its kind of nuts, lets not be a simp eh? Thoughtful gifts are one thing but this is just silly.
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Here's a nice gift idea: Pan mentiones a few books she wants to be able to refer to and cite when doing her paper about her Mastery project, so Mathilde uses her wages from her job to purchase them out of pocket.
 
ReImagined said:
Again, I am not thinking about this in terms of reputation. I mean, Mathilde being the kind of person who burns people at the stake for X, and then doing X herself. I can't support that decision. If you want to think purely mechanically, we can agree to disagree here.
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We burn people at the stake for making gold trading with vampires for their own petty gains. If a vampire were to show up and offer to sell us say the sellbook of Xerus or something we would sensibly buy it and and give it to the Amethyst College. We are a trusted official of the Empire and Karaz Ankor, we get to do this shit other people don't because they have not earned our position. It's like trading in enriched uranium.
 
Ekzentric Lohner said:
The way the protector works, any slaves she freed would know that "Gabriella von Ernachthafen" selflessly rescued them. The Chaos Dwarfs would not get a Ranald-o-gram informing them of this sent to their brains, and would probably deduce the most likely source of a do-gooder around here.
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You're probably right? I guess it would only make a pseudonym for people we rescued/helped and not anyone else. Ugh. S'what I get for going all-in sometimes.
 
I would vote to visit the Hall of Slaves purely because I feel like Mathilde would face it rather than avoiding it. If nothing else, it's a chance to scope it out and intel that she otherwise wouldn't have. It's dangerous, yeah, and afterwards I'd vote for any options that pursue settling herself spiritually, but Greys don't exactly shy away from harsh realities.
 
EVA-Saiyajin said:
People are used to dealing with setting-affecting stuff and it's coloring their views.
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Plus plenty of voters are not familiar with the setting aside from this quest and even the ones familiar with it get 40k memes colored view of it.

TheWiseTomato said:
I would vote to visit the Hall of Slaves purely because I feel like Mathilde would face it rather than avoiding it.
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Time and place man. A high stake operation is not the time to mess with your psyche.
 
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Dain II Ironfoot said:
might i inquire what is meant with brass orbs and why are we required to mention them at the gate?
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Skaven superweapon. We looted one earlier, before trading it to the Golds.

BoneyM said:
Infighting and the stench of chemicals spreads from the Grand Forge at a roughly equal rate, and amidst the sheer chaos of it all it's impossible to go completely unseen, but very easy to simply stab or punch unconscious anyone who does see you. You put your faith in Ranald and target the currently unreadable contents of a Warlock-Engineer's personal library while Johann had his eye on the same poor Skaven's workshop, and while you both emerge with all the reading material you can dream of - and carry for that matter, necessitating multiple trips - and have an enormous amount of accumulated correspondence, orders, ledgers and notes, you also come away with a completely unexpected prize: a small but oddly heavy orb of interlocking brass cogs. Unless you're very much mistaken, this is one of the horrifying but intriguing Brass Orbs, a thrown weapon which forcibly tears open reality to suck in anyone unfortunate enough to be nearby.
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Frankly, i find the idea of going to the slave market so we can "save" some VIP pretty horrible.
Yeah, sure, great, we saved a VIP, and left hundreds, if not thousands, of innocents to suffer because they were the "poors".
Pretty sure Ranald would have, words, to say about that.
I know i do.
And i doubt Mathilde would feel very accomplished or satisfied with the excuse.
 
[X] HALL: No
[X] MEAT: Yes
[X] ARM: Yes
[X] NUT: Yes
[X] PAPERS: Yes

Am conflicted about the arm. Might change vote later.
 
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Valmond said:
Frankly, i find the idea of going to the slave market so we can "save" some VIP pretty horrible.
Yeah, sure, great, we saved a VIP, and left hundreds, if not thousands, of innocents to suffer because they were the "poors".
Pretty sure Ranald would have, words, to say about that.
I know i do.
And i doubt Mathilde would feel very accomplished or satisfied with the excuse.
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More like we saved the VIP because anyone who isn't a hero is probably better off in these slave markets than the Chaos Wastes. Here there is at least the chance of a quick death.
 
Does Mathilde visit the Hall of Slaves?
[X] HALL: No

Does Mathilde buy the barrels of salted meat using Borek's money?
[X] MEAT: Yes

Does Mathilde purchase the golden arm for 800 gold coins?
[X] ARM: No

Does Mathilde purchase the Ghyran nut for 1000 gold coins?
[X] NUT: No

Does Mathilde purchase the explorer's writings for 200 gold coins?
[X] PAPERS: Yes
 
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