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If I was a imperial holy knight? From that cultural and historical predict?

Yes, that is a very real response to a wizard saying something like the 'the greatest Beastmen (In A bad, murder, rape and pillage way) Apex Beastmen In history don't like that bad' in the middle of the wastes...
I don't think we're going to be saying Mondegreen 'doesn't look that bad'. At most, 'there's a lot less dhar than there should be, and he doesn't seem to be corrupting things the way he's supposed to'.
 
THEORY: The Dwarves of Karag Dum did something to burn away the taint of Chaos, much as your Belt of the Unshackled Mountain does, but on a far grander scale. Perhaps it had an effect on the Beastmen here, Cor-Dum included.
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Shhhh, ouches. Making the claim that Cor-Dum of all Beastmen might have been Cleaned of chaos in front of 2 holy knights and dwarfs in the middle of the wastes...

Ya, I hope mathy is smart enough to keep that part of the theory to herself until she has proof. Because that's the type of claim that gets your allies wondering if your compromised In this situation.
To be fair "an effect" is a perfectly reasonable suggestion, far short of "completely cleansed of chaos". Cor-Dum is clearly not throwing off the level of taint he should be, so if that's the real Cor-Dum something is weakening his corruptive power.

Even without speculating on him having changed sides simply burning off his corruption the moment it tries to leave his body could have that effect.
 
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If I was a imperial holy knight? From that cultural and historical predict?

Yes, that is a very real response to a wizard saying something like the 'the greatest Beastmen (In A bad, murder, rape and pillage way) Apex Beastmen In history don't like that bad' in the middle of the wastes...
Yeah that doesn't check out. These Knights in particular know us to an extent, and they know our reputation, and they know and like wizards in general, since some hang out with them on a permanent basis (Hubert and the Ambers). I can see them going "well, maybe this is a very good trick that even you can't see through", but to instantly assume we're compromised with no evidence whatsoever?
 
If I was a imperial holy knight? From that cultural and historical predict?

Yes, that is a very real response to a wizard saying something like the 'the greatest Beastmen (In A bad, murder, rape and pillage way) Apex Beastmen In history don't like that bad' in the middle of the wastes...
Jeorg and Rupricht won't do this. It would A) be incredibly unfun from a player perspective and B) they know that we stand a very good chance of killing the entire rest of the expidition if the Wizards side with us in a fight so if they try to kill us it will be an assasination not a straight fight.
 
We spent the majority of our actions on social, as I recall. We just went wide rather than deep as we were trying to hit up all the 'big' names on the expedition.

As opposed to, say, the K8P expedition where we hammered the Belegar button pretty much every time it popped up, which had its own benefits and drawbacks.
We spent time on social, but I distinctly recall certain arguments that it was a waste of time because social wouldn't accomplish anything. I don't remember how I voted on those votes, but those arguments were clearly bullshit.
 
We spent time on social, but I distinctly recall certain arguments that it was a waste of time because social wouldn't accomplish anything. I don't remember how I voted on those votes, but those arguments were clearly bullshit.

True enough, but in a thread this size there's arguments every which way for everything. There were also arguments that social was the 'practical' option due to the circumstances- though that was mostly in the 'what if mutiny' vein, surprisingly enough the idea that socialing Borek would lead to getting more info from him before he walked off to get headpat by Cor-Dum never came up. :V
 
True enough, but in a thread this size there's arguments every which way for everything. There were also arguments that social was the 'practical' option due to the circumstances- though that was mostly in the 'what if mutiny' vein, surprisingly enough the idea that socialing Borek would lead to getting more info from him before he walked off to get headpat by Cor-Dum never came up. :V
And yet we call ourselves a properly paranoid Grey Wizard. Shame.
 
I want her to use mapp to unfold a fog scroll about 50 feet long and go "these are all of my current theories."

I'm starting to feel like this whole situation is basically the wizard equivalent of getting nerd-sniped.

Turns out the entirety of their anti-magic defense is just 'any wizard worth calling such is going to drive themselves mad trying to figure out what the fuck.'
 
There is a possibility Gotrek is still alive, and has access to food stores , seeing as he is missing and we can't recover food supplies, so we should search for him if given the chance.
 
A random thought: if our Knights were any other Knights, we could probably expect at least a few University-educated folks among them, and generally a pretty high standard of education, which might lead them to have meaningful input into all sorts of weird topics. But these particular Knights are a bunch of Ulricans and Taalites >_<
At least the Taalites know their Beastmen.
 
True enough, but in a thread this size there's arguments every which way for everything. There were also arguments that social was the 'practical' option due to the circumstances- though that was mostly in the 'what if mutiny' vein, surprisingly enough the idea that socialing Borek would lead to getting more info from him before he walked off to get headpat by Cor-Dum never came up. :V
And I for one was a bit disappointed by BoneyM's choices untill I thought about it for another five seconds or so:

"Forsaken Dwarven Hold with Reincarnating Demigod Beastman acting weird to the Returning King at the head of an Expedition that travels through the boundaries of Literal Hell and the Demigod does not kill the Epidetion or warp them into Chaos Beasts" is one of the most common and overdone tropes there is, from romance to sci-fi to alt-history. It just so played out and... tired.

I suppose we just didn't expect BoneyM choosing to go along with it directly, he's usually much better at providing surprise and subversion of expectations.


Except; it's a double subversion! We expected to not be presented with a trope as old as the Epic of Gilgamesh and then BAM! RIGHT OUT NOWHERE! There it is, the good old "Forsaken Dwarven Hold with Reincarnating Demigod Beastman acting weird to the Returning King at the head of an Expedition that travels through the boundaries of Literal Hell and the Demigod does not kill the Epidetion or warp them into Chaos Beasts"

Well played BoneyM, well played.
 
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Fairly decisive. Time to flex that Brave trait again.

Gain More Information definitely pulled out ahead at least 2-to-1, but you can't just add all the variations on 'investigate' together because a lot of people voted for multiple versions of the 'investigate' vote.

It's actually very impressive that "Turn Back" got 72 votes given that everyone naturally wants to know what's up! Lots of players genuinely worried about pushing ahead.
 
@BoneyM please?

It's just to good a way to get the rest of the group an insight into the 28 learning but crazy mind of a grey ML.
Write it yourself. And then make it better by showing the other characters doing something funny too. The Ambers suddenly pull out a zoo of talking animals, each one of which recites one of their many theories. The Knights begin reciting a list of named beastman champions that are not confirmed dead that could be checked for here, or something. :V
 
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