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Warhammer Fantasy: Divided Loyalties - an Advisor's Quest
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I really don't want to know what the 'visceral' sensation of demons was like to experience.
Pretty sure the Winds Of Magic had no place in the blueprints.
My dream of a Move-powered spaceship lives!
Plot hook alert.
…fuck.
Ranald giveth. And Ranald screweth.
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God that hurt to read. It was so incredibly easy to put myself in Mathilde's headspace for this unexpected and senseless death. That said I'm in favor of pushing forward.
It's possible, but Mathilde is fairly well-respected and her words will carry a lot of weight.
Or you can go back the way the canon Expedition tried to reach Karag Dum, through the mountains and over the pack ice.
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Just to confirm, Mathilde didnt actually find the body? Or was his corpse just initially unrecognisable?
Damn.....I mean, yeah, this is the Pre-Slayer Gotrek, but it still someone who would have survived everything, even the End Times, and ended up in the Age of Simgar era, and he here is, killed by a avalanche.
RIP Gotrek.
A big part of me is kinda wanting to head back, but I do think we should push ahead to Karak Dum.
RIP Gotrek.
A big part of me is kinda wanting to head back, but I do think we should push ahead to Karak Dum.
Who's to say it's an accident though. For all we know it's sabotage, already Mathilde is wary of chaos infiltration, it seems that such a huge loss is awefully convenient for chaos...
EDIT : Well, OOC the rolls point to an accident but in character Mathilde doesn't know.
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Ericwinter
Definitely not a Skaven Infiltrator
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So... question. Just how likely do we think it is we'll find something at Dum? Because for all people are saying it's closer than going back would be... if there's nothing there, we just added two weeks. That's five weeks total we need to supply, compared to the three of just going straight back.
Mopman43
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In theory, on the return we could send Dwarfs ahead to clear the rock slide.
I think it's more of a question of if the Dolgan keep to the deal. If they do, we should be supplied the whole time until we leave their territory.
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She didn't find it. Unknown whether it's one of the unrecognizable bodies or if it fell elsewhere.
Yes. They'll also remember to breathe while doing so.
Depends who you send back. The bulk of the food requirements are the Knights and Winter Wolves, if you sent them home you'd have enough capacity for the full round trip. Sending anyone else home would mean you'd be losing more capacity than you would mouths to feed, so you'd be worse off for it.
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We didn't give up when our Count died. We shouldn't give up here.
Given we will need to forage either way and we haven't actually lost any combat power I say we press on.
Also it occurs that if the Slayers hadn't been slaughtered at Vlag they would have died in the fall.
Also also, we may well have another Slayer or two given what just happened.
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Is whoever is left in charge of the engineers radical enough to tell Johann to put on his rail grinding boots?
They'd be very uninclined to take risks with the steam-wagons with the Dwarf who knew them best gone.
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That means foraging the same barren land twice over, as I think we'd need to be foraging constantly with our two-week-max reserves. Nomads would relocate their herds, might we possibly depopulate local huntable animals?
But that's a slow death sentence, the knights can't carry nearly enough food to make it back.
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Judging by the map it looks like Kislev is approximately three weeks away from Dum, rather than four - Dum and back being four weeks total.
The expedition would be doing two sides of an equilateral triangle going there then returning, but assuming we can get food from Dum it's a three week journey back regardless.
The expedition would be doing two sides of an equilateral triangle going there then returning, but assuming we can get food from Dum it's a three week journey back regardless.
Mopman43
Mountain-Hermit of Nitpeak
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Is there any possibility of having (some of) the knights keep up with the 3 until we hit Dolgan territory, than go back and rejoin the 2?
The update states Kislev is 3 weeks away from where we are right now.
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tapkomet
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As abruptly horrific as this was, I am going to vote for pushing on:
For one, we're not super likely to find more food on the way back, whereas going forward we have the Dolgan. With any luck, by the time we head back there will be more food to buy at Uzkulak.
For two, Borek is almost certainly going to push on regardless, so it would suck to doom him to that.
For three, OOC, it would be extremely narratively unsatisfying to turn back because of an avalanche.
For one, we're not super likely to find more food on the way back, whereas going forward we have the Dolgan. With any luck, by the time we head back there will be more food to buy at Uzkulak.
For two, Borek is almost certainly going to push on regardless, so it would suck to doom him to that.
For three, OOC, it would be extremely narratively unsatisfying to turn back because of an avalanche.
No, it's four weeks from Dum to Kislev. Steppes, descent, Zorn Uzkul, High Pass. From here to Dum and back to Kislev would be five weeks, assuming no time is spent at Dum.
It would mean leaving those two steam-wagons pretty much unprotected for several days, but it's possible.
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It's always sad when characters you care about die but it feels even worse when you do everything you can to prepare and fate still decides to kick you in the nuts. Sad times.
Not sure about where to take the expedition from here. It seems like we're teetering on the edge of disaster regardless of what we do but I'm leaning towards continuing and figuring out if we can make a deal with the Dolgan that'll let us restock our food supplies continuously rather than just once.
Not sure about where to take the expedition from here. It seems like we're teetering on the edge of disaster regardless of what we do but I'm leaning towards continuing and figuring out if we can make a deal with the Dolgan that'll let us restock our food supplies continuously rather than just once.