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If Dum was sending magic to Vlag a few weeks ago, has it only just been converted? Is there still time to reverse the process, like the way Mathilde unstoppered her blockage of Vlag's incoming magic?
 
Morghur is easily the scariest thing in Warhammer, but there is cause for hope. He's tough, and nothing should get close to him if they can at all avoid it, but he dies to cannonballs and dragonfire... eventually. He's not an apocalyptic threat so long as he doesn't eat Ariel and corrupt the Oak of Ages. He can be beaten back by guns, steel, faith, and magic. Additionally, if he'd fully taken Dum it wouldn't be sending magic down the pipe to Vlag, so there's hope for reinforcements from survivors.
 
ninjafish said:
The mountains become a herdstone, there are no survivors, even if there are any a herd stone of Morghur the size of a mountain would be so fucking corrupt that theres not a chance that they've been unchanged by it
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It's weird though, we were receiving power from Dum at Vlag, so the Waystone can't have been totally corrupted. Also, why are the Beastmen and the Yusak/Kul/etc fighting? What are they fighting over? Something's going on, and I'd rather we not leave before finding out.

EDIT: Boney said there are human and horse bones in the crater next to the Herdstone, so the Kul are definitely fighting here. Either they are fighting against the Beastmen, for some reasons, or they are fighting a third party together, who might be the Dwarfs.
 
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will408914 said:
Uh oh.

What exactly does it mean that the mountain has become his Herdstone?
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So, yanno how some say Herdstones are corrupted Waystones?

Karag Dum is now a city of beastmen, neutral ground and a gathering place of many herds, held sacred before the Chaos Gods.

I've never heard of a Karak turned into a Herdstone, so I don't know where it is on the scale of 'Valaya's hearth is holding' to 'horrible mutations for everyone.' It's not.... guaranteed doomed? But it's probably doomed.
 
Deathbybunnies said:
It's a good thing there's no vote here, because I have absolutely no idea what to even do. I'm not super familiar with Morghur - could Deathwing feasibly fight him at all, or is our only real option to flee?
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I assume you mean Deathfang, the dragon we hired, not Deathwing, the dragon demigod and cataclysmic raid boss from World of Warcraft. But we'd probably need Deathwing to feasibly fight Morghur yes.

You read that sentence right.
PurposefulZephyr said:
Good thing we are so far up north, then! Nothing to weep about as we make Magical Charnobyl a thing. It's all chaos anyway.
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Mallus is the name of the planet. Not the continent. A mountain sized waystone turned herdstone would have enough dhar in it to make the Great Maw look small if we tried the second secret.
Pempelune said:
Also, why are the Beastmen and the Yusak/Kul/etc fighting? What are they fighting over? Something's going on, and I'd rather we not leave before finding out.
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Beastmen hate humans, even ones affiliated with Chaos, since the Chaos gods like the humans more than the beastmen.
 
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Oh my god.

Oh my god, what the fuck? This is WORSE than any Bloodthirster!

Holy shit, Morghur? ... I think somebody made a joke about Cor-Dum being at Karag Dum at some point.
BoneyM said:
"All are welcome against the Dum," he says. "The Kul and the Kvellige are there now, but the southern front is available to you."
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You know, when I saw this bit, I wondered to myself "Huh, I wonder if Karag Dum is trying to break out or something?" A more active encirclement thing. And, well... I was right, I guess.

Okay, so -- from what we can see, is Karag Dum totally fucked? The mountain hold has been destroyed and turned into just one mountain, and corrupted into a giant fuckoff Herdstone for Morghur himself? (Also, holy moly is that a terrifying thing to think about! A Herdstone made from the Karak-runes of one of the ancient Old Holds? Used to empower Cor-Dum? Holy shit this is serious, this is bad.)

Is Morghur resurrecting/reincarnating nearly instantly if defeated, due to having the Waystone of Karag Dum to draw on?

... But. But. But, where was the energy coming to Karak Vlag from then?! It can't have been Morghur sending it on, so...? So what gives?


Okay, now I want to make contact with the Yusak again, (and the Kvellige and maybe even Kul) and start learning more about what the fuck is going on. Contact the Yusak again, and talk to them for real, and just... Wow. Wow, this is one hell of a "The enemy of my enemy..." scenario, because wow. If this leads to Marauder Tribes and us being willing to team up or not-kill-each-other in favor of killing Cor-Dum instead, then...
 
Hey, anyone remember this?
BoneyM said:
"You know what Herdstones are?" Lord Magister Luuk says after you enter the tower, not looking up from the battered kettle he was patiently watching.

"Gathering points for the Beastmen," you say. They'd come up a time or two in Regimand's travels.

"They're also the complete opposite of Waystones, which scares the shit out of anyone with sense."
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I believe we are now suitably scared.
 
Theoretically, if this idiot dies, we get 0 reputation gain from the protector right? Because he can respawn.

Whereas if he's captured, or its practical immortality sabotaged somehow, that works?
 
Man if we didn't have our belt we would be so fucked right now.

As is, we might sort of stand a chance, if we double-team the bastard with Deathfang and assassinate him while he's fending off the Star Dragon. Maybe. Or we could all get mutated by the monster that considers Athel Loren his stomping grooooo-Oh fuck we still have the nut.
 
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@BoneyM, after reading torroar's quest updates before Christmas, I'm really displeased to see the same motherfucker pop up here. We are so fucked if his prep has been anything like DoDA...and he's had plenty of time to prep if he turned a Dawi Hold into a Herdstone.
 
So. We have to fight then?

One part of my brain is just crossing names on a list, right now. Including Mathilde. I... Seriously can't see how the fuck we'll even stand a chance, but weirder things have happened before...

...granted, they weren't as hopeless as this one, but still. Maybe we can pull something.
 
Guys I'm pretty sure we can't do this.

We don't have anywhere near enough dudes.

Unless we do necromancy maybe.

Like all the necromancy. Just jack ourselves up on dhar.

All the dhar.
 
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One thing I find slightly odd is that no scouts reported what was going on before we crested the hill. Has the territory become too hazardous for the Knights to safely go out without steam-wagon backup? @BoneyM?
 
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Garlak said:
... But. But. But, where was the energy coming to Karak Vlag from then?! It can't have been Morghur sending it on, so...? So what gives?
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I'd imagine we'll get more info of various kinds when the next update drops so it's probably too early to speculate honestly. But if we're just placing bets, my money is on Karag Dum being besieged like never before but still holding under all of that. Because if it had fallen, the flow of energy south would have automatically stopped, like what happened with K8P until the hold was rightfully reclaimed in full by the dawi.
SCO said:
Theoretically, if this idiot dies, we get 0 reputation gain from the protector right? Because he can respawn.
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The protector doesn't award kill points, it lets people know when you save them from a danger you didn't create. Not sure if that would apply for anyone other than Karag Dum (if intact) and possibly the Kurgan tribes fighting him right now, though, which latter one would be kinda weird tbh.
 
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