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Omegahugger.
Omegahugger.
Omegahugger.
In what universe would Mathilde, when claiming for all the world to see that a dealer of books is her favorite shop in the Karaz Ankor, be lying?
Warhammer Fantasy: Divided Loyalties - an Advisor's Quest
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Omegahugger.
Omegahugger.
In what universe would Mathilde, when claiming for all the world to see that a dealer of books is her favorite shop in the Karaz Ankor, be lying?
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Mathilde has a Poison Ivy, isn't that enough?
Ericwinter
Definitely not a Skaven Infiltrator
- Location
- America
Why would we need it? This is Mathilde we're talking about. Book shop is her favorite shop in the entire Karaz Ankor.
...God, those guys will freak out if the Book Boon goes through, because you just know Mathilde will point Belegar their way first.
I mean, for dating, sure. But a rival would be nice too. It's almost a shame Eshin friend never showed up again. The animal themes aren't quite the same, but a cat/rat combo is cool too, right?
Omegahugger
Inattentive Idiot
A universe where a different bookstore sold the Books of Nagash and the Liber Mortis.
You know, the actually good books.
Ericwinter
Definitely not a Skaven Infiltrator
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- America
Sadly, Abelhelm had a different calling.
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- The Surface Of A Hostile Planet
Ranald, picking up his Batman and Catwoman action figures: "Now kiss!"
Mathilde is not cmdr Shepard.
She would rob every piece of metal, silver, jewel and gold from her enemies then.
Mat also does not string along a line of potential lovers like the fckboy/girl that is Shepard.
So assuming we don't find anything earth-shattering in the Norse Dwarf hold who do we socialize with next turn? I'm thinking press on Horstman and then see if we can recruit him for K8P. He has proven himself pretty on the level on the expedition and I think we could use a good light mage. Just imagine what he could learn from the resident dragon and who knows maybe he has some tricks to teach in exchange.
Mathilde: I should go...
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SuperSonicSound
Shadowmancer of the Shadow Cabal
Continue on Egrim, Ice witch and maybe the light choir if Barbitus turns out to be fine.
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I think people have been thinking along the lines that a) every time a traditionalist Grandmaster dies there's more knowledge lost than new innovations being invented and shared (Engineers being the exception) and b) every Karak's branch Guild has secrets not shared with other branches of other Karaks.
This could be a legitimate part of our job if we switch from general Loremaster to dedicated Waystone researcher (with or without the official title of Archmage).
Yeah... I thought it was "eventually become aware through mundane looking means that allow for plausible deniability..."
If you mean the infection of Karak Vlag Dwarves with the "Zhufokri are actually neat" meme, then yes.
We didn't really save many Dwarven lives in K8P of you discount the lives that wouldn't have come there in the first place if Mathilde hadn't ever helped the expedition.
Is "killing" a Daemon in the material realm even enough to strike off the Grudges it caused? All that's done to them is banish them home and causing them some pain that a majority of them might well enjoy or ignore.
And more generally, if a single villain torture-humiliate-desecrate-kills scores of Dawi, is giving them a swift and final death enough to satisfy the Grudge? If not, what happens if the villain in question doesn't have superiors to be made even tangentially responsible or family capable of inheriting their legacy?
Mathilde and Belegar are currently speculating that Thorgrim collects the magic to do something. And since the Kings and Queens of the Karaz Ankor apparently don't know about this and their Runelords at the very least aren't telling them either, there are evidently secrets related to the Waystone Network exist.
So you want to do to Vampirism what Mathilde did to the Dhar delayed transformation matrix?
Vanhel didn't have the knowledge needed for Lichdom or the Elixir of Life.
Is it really? I mean many here want to switch jobs from Loremaster to Waystone researcher. And Mathilde and Belegar are currently suspecting that Thorgrim knows that the Dwarf Network's energy gets fed into something that he considers useful enough to play softball with Belegar during negotiations to aid K8P after the Waaagh. So it follows that he knows something about its functioning that anyone else on this continent doesn't.
His name is Ranald.
Belegar, Kragg and Gunnars already know. As does every Dwarf that's a drinking buddy with an Undumgi. And probably also Princess Edda, since she was the bookkeeper during our enormous pre-battle Ranaldian gambling party and might have done some inquiries to learn what that was all about.
I once wrote down a whole and detailed list for my personal preferences regarding who inherits each and every one of Mathilde's valuable assets (except the trophy room content which I forgot about), down to splitting our EIC shares three ways.
It got deleted by mistake...
To be honest, we'd be deserving of all that even without the Protector. It would just take a bit longer. And they didn't actually tell Thorgrim about the cognitohazard, just about the info they gained from it.
I mean it's neither in a mountain, nor did prospecting reveal anything of value. It's literally just space that nobody other than Umgi and Rangers would care to look twice at.
Here's an idea for what to write in our will regarding the Coin: Belegar should add it to the historical coin collection and send the whole thing as as posthumous gift from Aunt Mathilde to Mandred. If he's worthy he'll notice it, if not then someone who is worthy will heist it from whatever museum or gallery the royal family decides lend it to for exhibition.
Mushrooms need their own food source. And no, the fact that said source can be manure doesn't make mushrooms that one weird trick for infinite energy that nutritionists hate.
I don't think so. They opened the gates mostly due to the Damaz Krohn.
Again, I'm pretty sure that even Greenskin growth areas still need some form of nutrient source.
Also the idea that Karag Vlag had a Greenskin farm in their Hold in case of a siege seems unlikely to me.
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The Great One
- Location
- Everywhere
Definitely looking forward to more Ice Witch. She could be a source of divine magic theory if we get her to open up enough.
I'm more worried about the Grudge against Ranald and if it means we're about to enter a political shitstorm trying to deal with the Dwarves laying an unearned Grudge against one of the officially acknowledged gods of the Empire, who also happens to be our personal god and annoying best friend.
SuperSonicSound
Shadowmancer of the Shadow Cabal
Part of that post was that the Grudge may have already been paid off.
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- Utrecht
The announcement says that no action will be taken until it's properly evaulated, presumably until after our death.
I wonder if they will want to Give us the Rites of Gazul after we die...
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- Earth
You know the best/worst part? The Empire's chief diplomat(Seneshal I think) is going to be calling Mat in to advise him on why the fuck the Dwarven High King is Grudging one of the Gods of the Empire! What do we tell him?
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Will he?
IIRC only the begrudged one gets informed aka Ranald (or a Priest of His as representative).
Who Ranald can easily tell to shut up.
Snorri, Ljiljana, Asarnil. Ljiljana for ice magic and gods and Ranald and so on.
Maybe Joerg -- because I want to see if he or the Knights of Taal's Fury know anything about Kislevite customs, and why they're so friendly to Ljiljana. And also because they've fought Beastmen. They know a bit about what Beastmen are like, to compare to Morghur, so I want to hear more about them. Also, we can talk to Joerg about what it's been like working alongside Esbern and Seija.
Maybe one of the wizards like Michel Solmann -- we can tell him about the Baricane experience.
Snorri because he's the last remaining major leader of the Dwarfs here, and will probably be one of the main faces of the expedition to the Karaz Ankor. i.e. The one they'll be talking to about Karag Dum and grudges and such. Him and Mathilde probably, since she's a Loremaster and also the hero of the hour with Vlag. Also, Snorri could be a contact for Karak Vlag.
Asarnil, I don't want him going back to Marienburg (he probably won't but eh it's not sure) and also because... this is a damn-rare chance to spend social actions on a Dragonlord. If we can actually befriend Asarnil, that could be quite useful. He's an experienced and expensive mercenary, and a Dragonrider, and a hero to his homeland of Caledor.
Seriously, Asarnil is a rare figure to get to know and befriend, and if our social actions can do that? Well then, that's certainly worth it.
Also, I want to get his perspective on what his opinion on what the Expedition has been like. Has he been displeased with the journey, has he been pleased, did he feel like he had enough good work, was it boring, what? Does he feel like the only high point of the expedition was Karak Vlag and the battle there, and that the rest was "soldier's boredom"? Is he disappointed about how a journey into the Chaos Wastes went? And so on.
We're already socialing Egrimm this turn too. I kind of figure this probably enough, y'know?
Asarnil, as a mercenary riding a dragon, is in some way rarer or harder to get ahold of or befriend. I want to if not fully befriend then at least make a good enough impression on him and leave him as (even more of) a contact.
Maybe Joerg -- because I want to see if he or the Knights of Taal's Fury know anything about Kislevite customs, and why they're so friendly to Ljiljana. And also because they've fought Beastmen. They know a bit about what Beastmen are like, to compare to Morghur, so I want to hear more about them. Also, we can talk to Joerg about what it's been like working alongside Esbern and Seija.
Maybe one of the wizards like Michel Solmann -- we can tell him about the Baricane experience.
Snorri because he's the last remaining major leader of the Dwarfs here, and will probably be one of the main faces of the expedition to the Karaz Ankor. i.e. The one they'll be talking to about Karag Dum and grudges and such. Him and Mathilde probably, since she's a Loremaster and also the hero of the hour with Vlag. Also, Snorri could be a contact for Karak Vlag.
Asarnil, I don't want him going back to Marienburg (he probably won't but eh it's not sure) and also because... this is a damn-rare chance to spend social actions on a Dragonlord. If we can actually befriend Asarnil, that could be quite useful. He's an experienced and expensive mercenary, and a Dragonrider, and a hero to his homeland of Caledor.
Seriously, Asarnil is a rare figure to get to know and befriend, and if our social actions can do that? Well then, that's certainly worth it.
Also, I want to get his perspective on what his opinion on what the Expedition has been like. Has he been displeased with the journey, has he been pleased, did he feel like he had enough good work, was it boring, what? Does he feel like the only high point of the expedition was Karak Vlag and the battle there, and that the rest was "soldier's boredom"? Is he disappointed about how a journey into the Chaos Wastes went? And so on.
We're already socialing Egrimm this turn too. I kind of figure this probably enough, y'know?
Asarnil, as a mercenary riding a dragon, is in some way rarer or harder to get ahold of or befriend. I want to if not fully befriend then at least make a good enough impression on him and leave him as (even more of) a contact.
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Should do that in the Temple of the Gambler to make certain.
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The warhammer world is rather magical - Stone trolls literally live on rock, that's the only thing they need to eat. And said trolls are edible to dwarves.
Mushrooms that use stone as their food source are rather more plausible than trolls that do so.
They opened the gates to the Damaz Krohn due to already knowing that they were in the real world (through Ranald's influence).
If they hadn't already known they were in reality, with a divine certainty that forced back their paranoia, they might well not have opened the gates, just in case.
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King Arthur
The Once and Future King
Honestly, I'd strongly consider giving the sword to Mandred as well. Having the closest thing to a runesword as something you can hand out to a follower or a political ally is a pretty solid way to strengthen his circle.
A third swordsman to fit alongside Ludwig and Kurt would do a lot of good.
Plus, if he has multiple kids, decent for cutting down on in-fighting. One gets the runebladw growing up, one gets our sword.
.......
I'm not tied to this idea, id also be down with a few others, such as giving it to the Grey Order for use by the best swordsman there, but I thought it worth proposing.
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Ericwinter
Definitely not a Skaven Infiltrator
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- America
Ranald thought it would be funny. That's pretty much all the answer needed, and probably the truth, too.
despite some people for some strange reason are adamant in saying, even though it is literally Hidi's end game to change it : Ranald is not an official god of the empire.