Warhammer Fantasy: Divided Loyalties - an Advisor's Quest
- Thread starter Boney
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- Location
- Academy City
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- They
[X] Use Rite of Way for the worst patches of rough terrain
[X] Use Rite of Way for the moderately difficult ground
[X] Attempt to make contact with the Dolgan
[X] Ranging far ahead of the convoy
[X] Use Rite of Way for the moderately difficult ground
[X] Attempt to make contact with the Dolgan
[X] Ranging far ahead of the convoy
Brilliant, even if we end up helping another tribe instead, so long as we don't cause the conflict it's bound to mess up with their heads.
Steal the Steppes from Chaos. It's our holy duty.
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King Arthur
The Once and Future King
It'd also just be a nifty idea in general for when we are working with Dawi.
Imagine starting off, say, the invasion of Karak Drazh, by sneaking explosives into a ton of key positions beforehand.
[X] Use Rite of Way for the worst patches of rough terrain
[X] Attempt to make contact with the Dolgan
[X] Attempt to make contact with the Yusak
Tentatively voting for these three for now. Not sure what else to vote on. Or if the Yusak are an overreach (in the sense of "going too far ahead of the expedition") or not. Or maybe they're a potentially very full of critical information... Or... Yeah. I think I want information. I just hope it turns out well.
Also: 'Mookery of Death, dammit, stop thinking about that' made it into the update. I can't believe it, haha.
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Tempting to pick up. Unfortunately, I'm more tempted by Gazul Secrets or Cult of Thungni information/secrets/etc, picked up during the -10 from Overwork period.
[X] Attempt to make contact with the Dolgan
[X] Attempt to make contact with the Yusak
Tentatively voting for these three for now. Not sure what else to vote on. Or if the Yusak are an overreach (in the sense of "going too far ahead of the expedition") or not. Or maybe they're a potentially very full of critical information... Or... Yeah. I think I want information. I just hope it turns out well.
Also: 'Mookery of Death, dammit, stop thinking about that' made it into the update. I can't believe it, haha.
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Tempting. Would this be a Learning skill or an Intrigue skill? Wait, no... If it's "Sabotage" it'd be Intrigue. If it's "Demolitions" it'd be Learning. Hrm.
Tempting to pick up. Unfortunately, I'm more tempted by Gazul Secrets or Cult of Thungni information/secrets/etc, picked up during the -10 from Overwork period.
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- Location
- Washington
Really... not that likely. Even the southern steppes are far enough north that living there while not having a relationship with the chaos gods is not really an option. If I recall correctly Boney has strongly implied that the Gospodar probably were at the very least propitiating the chaos gods alongside other gods while they were living in the Steppes, and that the way they stopped dealing with chaos was in part by Not Living In The Steppes Anymore. *IF* the Yusak are inclined to ditch chaos (and there's a not insignificant chance they're instead looking for some way to double down to regain the chaos gods' favor), more likely than not they need to find somewhere else to live, not steal the steppes from chaos.
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- He/Him
Don't overestimate us. Our big diplomatic waves have come from being a trusted advisor and confidant of powerful people. We don't have that with the Yusak. We don't even have the "they believe every not-lie you say" side of the coin active.
- Location
- MS, USA
[x] Ranging far ahead of the convoy
[x] Use Rite of Way for the worst patches of rough terrain
[x] Use Rite of Way for the moderately difficult ground
[x] Attempt to make contact with the Dolgan
[x] Use Rite of Way for the worst patches of rough terrain
[x] Use Rite of Way for the moderately difficult ground
[x] Attempt to make contact with the Dolgan
- Location
- Earth
When we first met the Dolgan, rolls were made on whether who we met served the Four or the Eight. I'm not keen on repeating that roll more than necessary.
- Location
- being near locations is my passion.
[X] Attempt to make contact with the Dolgan
[X] Attempt to make contact with the Yusak
[X] Use Rite of Way for the worst patches of rough terrain
[X] Use Rite of Way for the moderately difficult ground
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I'm genuinely not sure how Mathilde going to meet the Dolgan is going to help make them more likely to stick to their deal, I would expect that if they were going to break the deal their choice would have been made earlier, but I don't think that her going to check on them is going to make food less likely, and the food is so vital that I think that any possibility of ensuring it should be considered.
[X] Attempt to make contact with the Yusak
[X] Use Rite of Way for the worst patches of rough terrain
[X] Use Rite of Way for the moderately difficult ground
I just want to add my voice to the signal-boost Wold-Slayer's reasoning: A second Rite of Way action slot is well worth it imo, and I advocate for it.
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I'm genuinely not sure how Mathilde going to meet the Dolgan is going to help make them more likely to stick to their deal, I would expect that if they were going to break the deal their choice would have been made earlier, but I don't think that her going to check on them is going to make food less likely, and the food is so vital that I think that any possibility of ensuring it should be considered.
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Ekzentric Lohner
I miss Wildstar...
My guess is that it's from the main page sidebar with the recently gilded posts. Four of them are from this thread, which is a pretty good advertisement.
[x] Attempt to make contact with the Dolgan
Mandatory. We need the food deal to go well.
[x] Journeywoman Alexandra Kohler
I know this one won't win, but getting a look at the baseline personality of the last of our direct subordinates before we hit the vicinity of Dum, where we don't know what to expect, is important.
[x] Use Rite of Way for the worst patches of rough terrain
[x] Use Rite of Way for the moderately difficult ground
Common sense. Risk to the wagons must be reduced whenever the way is risky.
[x] Use Rite of Way nearly constantly
Might not be strictly necessary, but I think it'd be more useful than adding one more scout. And I'd rather not poke at a tribe we haven't previously negotiated a deal with - as ReImagined said:
Edit: Since it doesn't look like Alexandra or using RoW constantly can make it, approval voting for the option most likely to bump talking to the Yusak out of the top four:
[x] Ranging far ahead of the convoy
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I feel that if we go meet the Dolgan and the Yusak, it might be good to bring Johann with us. He's as fast as us and his stats make him an asset in both potential talks or fights. If we mess things up, it be good to have competent back up.
Sir_Travelsalot
Never wakes up tired.
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- At Home
Does he speak the language, though? Because without that, I don't know how much of a help he would be in diplomacy.
I figured it's just the 'This is a familiar face' factor.
i.e. The Dolgan know that this is the person who asked for food. Whereas if some Knights show up talking about food, well, they'll still sell but this would be easier.
In other words, the Dolgan know that Mathilde is here to buy food. Because she was the one who first contacted them.
If we leave it to the Knights to make first contact -- actually...
Wait.
Do any of the Knights of Taal's Fury even speak Khazalid?
Khazalid was the language we spoke to them in, right?
Did the Dolgan also speak Kislevarin, I forget?
- Location
- Toronto, Ontario(occasionally)
The road situation is still worse than Mathilde not being there while the expedition is within any held portions of Karag Dum, within the territory of anyone we've bargained for safety from, or directly between the territories of two groups that we've bargained for safety from.
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- He/Him
I trust Mathilde to utilize her skills efficiently if she goes with any of the knights, as opposed to being just one more fast moving scout.
- Location
- Earth
Mathilde was the one who made the deal. If she's not there, then everything becomes more suspicious from their point of view. Her being there makes the deal not falling apart more likely.
The height difference is something like a mile. The trigonometry escapes me at this time of
A tunnel would be better, but still far beyond our ability to do in anything resembling a viable time frame.
Lazy git. Did Borek not feel like paying for aerial recon?
The reason we can't use Rite of Way to cover the gap is because there's no surface there to cast it on, right? If the engineers knock together a scaffold on the gap and lay down some planking, could we then use Rite of Way to keep the actual weight off of it so it doesn't collapse? Shouldn't be any harder than the "walk on water" application mentioned in the Approved Spells threadmark, but I'm not sure if that made it into the final spell.