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Warhammer Fantasy: Divided Loyalties - an Advisor's Quest

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Deathbybunnies said:
To move Thread Madness in a slightly more productive direction, for the next 2 turns Mathilde will be working under a -10 Overwork Malus. What are some good actions she can take, where failure isn't especially risky?

I'm thinking "learn to swim" - assuming we have someone there to teach her that is, learning on her own would be pretty risky. But it's an important life skill!
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Only 1 turn of -10, thankfully.

My thoughts on the subject had been something like this:
  • Bring Eike to K8P using a personal AP, leaving the EIC free to do a spy mission
  • Dictate some papers to Max
  • Do some research on one of the lower-priority items on the list, unless people are willing to take a stab at tongs or Divine magic/AV with the Coin boosting it
  • If Belegar gives us a light task to do in the second half of the year, we should do it, but otherwise this slot can be more research or something like diplomacy class.
 
NuclearConsensus said:
I think the best way is to kill Malekith. The most realistic way is to become a Shadow Warrior, like in my negaverse omake, that way Nagarythe can say it's still theirs despite it being in Mathilde's hands.
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By emergency proclamation of his Majesty, the Phoenix King Finubar of Ulthuan, the Elves demand immediate restitution from the being, trickster or entity known as Ranald for the egregious crime of mutilating an elf soul of the highest caliber and then confusing her into believing herself to be a being of inferior quality.
 
picklepikkl said:
Only 1 turn of -10, thankfully.

My thoughts on the subject had been something like this:
  • Bring Eike to K8P using a personal AP, leaving the EIC free to do a spy mission
  • Dictate some papers to Max
  • Do some research on one of the lower-priority items on the list, unless people are willing to take a stab at tongs or Divine magic/AV with the Coin boosting it
  • If Belegar gives us a light task to do in the second half of the year, we should do it, but otherwise this slot can be more research or something like diplomacy class.
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  • Work Further on unique Branulhune fighting style.
 
das_slash said:
By emergency proclamation of his Majesty, the Phoenix King Finubar of Ulthuan, the Elves demand immediate restitution from the being, trickster or entity known as Ranald for the egregious crime of mutilating an elf soul of the highest caliber and then confusing her into believing herself to be a being of inferior quality.
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It's all fun and games with dwarves and elves but just wait until Mazdumundi decides to take action against Ranald for stealing a Slann soul.
 
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You know what might be fun to do, on the way back from Dum? If we and Max got together and used the Lustrian papers to write up a paper, before we got back. We could release it in Altdorf on the way home, and leave people wondering how the hell we got so much information on Lustria whilst on the other side of the planet.

Alas, academic integrity would probably compel us to attribute credit to the unfortunate elf.

SuperSonicSound said:
I believe entry level Ulgu tongs wont be subject to a roll. So id be happy to do it with the -10 and gambler just in case.
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I can't quite decide if I agree or not. If the answer is immediately obvious enough from just a little poking then it's possible, but if it involves actual experimentation then I can't help but feel that regardless of whether it's possible, we'd be rolling to see if we got Dhar exploding in our faces.

For the most part, I think the safest options would be learning actions without practical elements than can go too catastrophically, i.e. most magic. We might be able to take the class on Powerstone creation, if it doesn't involve us actually making one? Ditto Rituals.

EDIT: The College classes on Diplomacy might be a good choice, actually.
 
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Dhar exploding in our faces is unlikely tobe an issue if ulgu 'tongs' isnt viable at low power its unlikely to be easier when scaling up, the belt can handle low power experiments with no problem tbh.

Still id be up putting actions into grabbing learning based skills it feels like we dont really have many to leverage considering our stats.
 
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personally i would like to get back into the Vitae research. Lasti recalled it didn't have rolls for it so i'm game for it.

Also perhaps making an enchantment for Kragg to see the winds of magic although that would probably require rolls sadly.

[ ] Attempt to enchant an object to translate Windsight into a visual image.

BoneyM said:
[ ] Attempt to enchant an object to translate Windsight into a visual image.
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Deathbybunnies said:
AoS isn't the worst thing, but I'm told it took a while to get there and it still lacks a fraction of the depth of WHF.

More to the point, it's so different in so many ways that it's not relevant enough for us to draw anything from it.


We stopped getting tithed at all, though Mathilde's first instinct to particularly large windfalls will probably still be "should I send this to the Bursar".
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to be fair WHF has the depth it does because its been around for something like 30-40 years.

Can't really Expect AOS, less than a decade old, to match a setting with decades of writing behind it now can you?
 
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A Grey Wizard Dawi sits inside a METAL BAWKS. Is she an Umgi with a Dwarf soul? Or a Dwarf with an Umgi soul? She screams [internally, while outwardly presenting a picture of complete confidence], for she does not know.
 
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SuperSonicSound said:
Were not talking about spell casting though just bare remote wind manipulation at low energy intensity. There shouldnt be a miscast chance because there is no casting. At worst just dhar being made from winds coagulating together. The belt will absolutely take care of that.
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I don't know. You might be right! On the other hand, Mathilde manipulating other winds via Ulgu use might involve contorting Ulgu enough that it's not happy with the user at all.
 
picklepikkl said:
Only 1 turn of -10, thankfully.

My thoughts on the subject had been something like this:
  • Bring Eike to K8P using a personal AP, leaving the EIC free to do a spy mission
  • Dictate some papers to Max
  • Do some research on one of the lower-priority items on the list, unless people are willing to take a stab at tongs or Divine magic/AV with the Coin boosting it
  • If Belegar gives us a light task to do in the second half of the year, we should do it, but otherwise this slot can be more research or something like diplomacy class.
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Another thing that we can do is take one or two College Courses, we need to learn how to make power stones for the AV research, and IIRC the creation of artificial familiars can help with the whole apparition binding thing.
 
Jreengus said:
It's all fun and games with dwarves and elves but just wait until Mazdumundi decides to take action against Ranald for stealing a Slann soul.
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It really does say everything you need to know about the Slann that where you can laugh off the idea of the high elves making demands of gods the idea of a Slann doing it actually makes me nervous for a few seconds...
 
fictionfan said:
If we want to up our diplomacy then what about this class?
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...Do you actually believe this to be more suitable than Practical Diplomacy or The Allies of Man, or one of the other more obvious diplomacy-focused classes?

On an entirely unrelated note, and not accusing you of an incredibly transparent ploy, I believe most of the thread doesn't want an apprentice.
 
Deathbybunnies said:
...Do you actually believe this to be more suitable than Practical Diplomacy or The Allies of Man, or one of the other more obvious diplomacy-focused classes?

On an entirely unrelated note, and not accusing you of an incredibly transparent ploy, I believe most of the thread doesn't want an apprentice.
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I do think it is likely to have an easier DC then a more advanced class. And yes I rather would like to get an apprentice. We need more slots to put equipment into.
 
There is three points of diplo to be had from standard diplo classes involving the Elves, Kislev and Bretonnia if we want to go that route.


Those diplo classes are the basic ones. We also have a trait making those classes more efective/cheaper. Requiring 2 ticks of success instead of 3. The apprentice class almost certainly has no impact on diplo because that isnt what its for.
 
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