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Warhammer Fantasy: Divided Loyalties - an Advisor's Quest

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@BoneyM is there an etiquette among wizards about how human-like such Familiars can be? I want Mathilde to create something in the Uncanny Valley, like a Working Joe from Alien: Isolation. A perfectly polite and terrifying servant, perfect for the Spymistress.
 
It would be possible, yes, though creating a familiar based on a specific form is much, much more difficult than just working with the components you have and seeing what form arises from them.
 
HanEmpire said:
@BoneyM is there an etiquette among wizards about how human-like such Familiars can be? I want Mathilde to create something in the Uncanny Valley, like a Working Joe from Alien: Isolation. A perfectly polite and terrifying servant, perfect for the Spymistress.
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I see a lot of disadvantages and very few advantages for that. I mean, being a terrifying wizard overlord has only limited usefulness when you have to interact with people frequently.
 
Or we could let ourselves be owned by a black cat and pet it while embracing our inner supervillainess (and secretly go full crazy cat lady and have like a dozen identical others spying for us)

Edit: Either that or it can just be in multiple places at once because it's Ranald's chosen or something.
 
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BoneyM said:
It would be possible, yes, though creating a familiar based on a specific form is much, much more difficult than just working with the components you have and seeing what form arises from them.
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Or... Enchant it with some illusion to give it the appearance we wanted?

Anyway. We are clearly a Crazy Cat Lady Familar wizard. I mean. We already live with about twenty coming and going from our palace as they please, as far as I can tell.
 
Just put a giant duster/cloak over the golem if derpwizard made it human-like.

Or we can find time to visit Egypt and get one of their giant snake. They eat large rat yeah? :V
 
It's the perfect crime. You see, normally if you take their artefacts, the giant statues come after you to retrieve it. If you take the giant statues, there's nothing they can do about it.

Note: not actually the perfect crime​
 
No see what we do is steal the statues, leave the crest of the Von Carstein in the necropolis, and then drop them in Drakenhof after we disassembled and blueprinted the parts.

*warning may result in giving Sylvania free undead legions
 
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Alliterate said:
We already live with about twenty coming and going from our palace as they please, as far as I can tell.
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They mostly hang around in the alley and the surface building of the Palace-Shrine, but as the cat that interrupted you while studying the Shyish-blades has demonstrated, they can find their way into the rest of the Palace when they want to.
 
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BoneyM said:
They mostly hang around in the alley and the surface building of the Palace-Shrine, but as the cat that interrupted you while studying the Shyish-blades has demonstrated, they can find their way into the rest of the Palace when they want to.
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Hmm, lots of cats, relatively safe sewers.....

Guess there's no weird "Beastmen" in the sewers?
 
Ian Drash said:
I see a lot of disadvantages and very few advantages for that. I mean, being a terrifying wizard overlord has only limited usefulness when you have to interact with people frequently.
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I think it'd be useful for intimidating people and beating off threats. Mathilde is becoming a better interrogator and fighter, but at the end of the day she's still a ditzy little slip of a woman. A perfectly polite masked "gentleman" who escorts her at all times would be dead useful for protection & cockblocking everyone not Van Hal, and if situation demands it he can reveal his uncanny face and scare everyone.

"How may I help you?"
"You are becoming amorous."
"Please, calm down."
"Why not ask me about Wurtbad's safety bylaws?"
 
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BoneyM said:
They mostly hang around in the alley and the surface building of the Palace-Shrine, but as the cat that interrupted you while studying the Shyish-blades has demonstrated, they can find their way into the rest of the Palace when they want to.
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That's not quite as bad. Still, I wonder if Ranald might not look askance at us binding any other animal.

And making one- per the rule book, it might cost 500-1500 gold for components. Cheaper to just inspect our alleyfull of cats. Hmm. Is 'alleyfull' the proper collective term for multiple cats?

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I normally don't show the rolls that the other characters make, but

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Gulp.
 
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Maybe it is the Count's hunting sense roll? Remind ppl what he accomplished to be landed the job.
 
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