Warhammer Fantasy: Divided Loyalties - an Advisor's Quest
- Thread starter Boney
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- Location
- Before the Ninth Gate
That was against a chaos warband, which is very different than a kinda chaos aligned fishing village.
Yup. Of course, the Kul are probably larger than the Baersonlings (seeing as how they are the top dog as far as Kurgan tribes go) and being much further north are likely to have proportionally more of their population have an aptitude for magic.
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Not A Nice Person At All
- Location
- Jerkville
And out of nowhere it's Snorri with a gromril folding chair. Deathfang has eaten the ref, there's no one who can stop this!Okay folk, now that the Asarnil vs. Vindslaktare steel cage match is coming up, remember to maintain kayfabe, we don't want the Norscans to catch on that the game was rigged from the start
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- USA
"Asarnil is totally manhandling the Champion! The Champion, empowered by Khorne, is being thrown around like a ragdoll, like a small child! Oh my gawd, I can't believe my eyes!!!!"
tapkomet
Senātus Populusque Rōmānus
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- Ukraine
"As Grungni is my witness that umgi is broken in half!"
Kidnapping a mammoth from its family in order to save it from theoretical chaos mutations is a bit... eh.
And considering how smart elephants are, I'm not sure it's exaggerating to put it that way.
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- Wherever I feel like being
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- He/Him
I honestly tried singing it to "Be Prepared" at first...
- Location
- Before the Ninth Gate
I mean it's not theoretical chaos, that's literally what the Norscans do. They want the Mammoth to get more mutated, just like they want to get more mutated.
- Location
- Manchester, UK
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- He/They
Yeah, but they generally fail on mutating themselves, so it's far from guaranteed that they'll do better with the mammoth.
I have to agree with this. Before we started the trip I thought we'd be fighting using the shadowsteed all the time, when could be more suitable then when traveling through dangerous steppe territory after all?
Turned out we never even used it in combat. Like you say, between starting to spend time filling a ranged caster niche, and having the ability to teleport when rapid battlefield movement is necessary, it's just not a big thing for her. So if we don't even find it valuable enough in many battles to be using something that's literally only a cast away, then that really bodes poorly for the return on investment for something that requires personal attention as upkeep.
Asarnil's Other Hype Ballad
consequences
Not A Nice Person At All
- Location
- Jerkville
Well if that's your idiom:
When you attend a funeral
It is sad to think that sooner o'
Later those you love will do the same for you
And you may have thought it tragic
Not to mention other adjec-
Tives, to think of all the weeping they will do
But don't you worry
All now ashes, no more sackcloth
And an armband made of black cloth
Will some day never more adorn a sleeve
For if the Dragon that drops on you
Gets your friends and neighbors too
There'll be nobody left behind to grieve
And you will all go together when you go
What a comforting fact that is to know
Universal bereavement
An inspiring achievement
Yes, you all will go together when you go
You will all go together when you go
All suffuse with an incandescent glow
No one will have the endurance
To collect on his insurance
Nurgle's halls will be loaded when you go
Oh, you will all fry together when you fry
You'll be elf fried potatoes by and by
There will be no more misery
When the world is your rotisserie
Yes, you will all fry together when you fry
Down by the old maelstrom
There'll be a storm before the calm
And you will all bake together when you bake
There'll be nobody present at the wake
With complete participation
In that grand incineration
Nearly three thousand hunks of well-done steak
Oh, you will all char together when you char
And let there be no moaning of the bar
Just sing out a Te Deum
When you see that I.C.D.M.*
And the party will be come-as-you-are
Oh, you will all burn together when you burn
There'll be no need to stand and wait your turn
When it's time for the fallout
And the Four gods call you all out
You'll just drop your agendas and adjourn
You will all go directly to your respective Chaos Hells
Go directly, do not pass go, do not collect a worthy tale to tell
And you will all go together when you go
Every Baersonling and every Kurgan lo
When the air becomes aqshyous
And you will all go simultaneous
Yes you all will go together
When you all go together
Yes, you all will go together when you go
*Incoming Complete Dragon Massacre
Tom Lehrer. We will all go together when we go. New heights of lazy ass word swapping.
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Mopman43
Mountain-Hermit of Nitpeak
- Location
- Vermont
I don't really see the connection between a rousing, uplifting tune about nuclear annihilation and the Lion King.
Be Prepared may refer to:
- "Be Prepared", the Scout Motto of the Scouting movement
- "Be Prepared", a song originally on his studio album Songs by Tom Lehrer parodying the Scouts
- "Be Prepared" (song), a song from the 1994 Disney film and 1997 Broadway musical versions of The Lion King
Not Tom's best-known work, admittedly.
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Not A Nice Person At All
- Location
- Jerkville
The wasteland post Scar's ascension, technically.
Also I mostly forgot that that song even existed and went from the Be Prepared I actually remembered and took a step to the left.
Mopman43
Mountain-Hermit of Nitpeak
- Location
- Vermont
Now, see, I've actually heard that one before, but for some reason I was stuck on "Send the Marines" and it wouldn't come to mind.
Fayhem
Definitely not an escaped SCP
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- At large
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- He/Him
You're assuming they are down with letting their mammoth wander around randomly without any of them controlling it, which would be a weird policy for people who want to keep their mammoth in a raider culture.
The mammoth moves at 6 mph. You're thinking of Mathilde's shadowhorse. You're also assuming that there's nothing the mammoth can't just walk straight through, including the gate, which will most certainly be closed. Friendly reminder that while this settlement is populated by Norscans, it was built by dwarfs.
We aren't likely to get a chance to examine the Mammoth before conducting the raid. Nor does Mathilde have any grasp, whatsoever, on what normal elephant morphology - or normal elephant anything - is supposed to be for a baseline. The Ambers might? But it's not like elephants are normally found anywhere the Empire regularly interacts with besides Norsca, and the Ambers don't typically do a whole lot of that book learnin'.
Also, you're fundamentally banking on the assumption that they will have no counters prepared for magical theft. Again, this is a raider culture that has zero compunction against raiding other members of that same culture, that very much unlike the Empire has been more than a-okay with magic for their entire history. The likelihood that their culture has not developed and internalized the need for measures to protect against magical raiding is going to be approaching nil.
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Not A Nice Person At All
- Location
- Jerkville
Couldn't really make Fight Fiercely Harvard work in context here. Saving it now for if we ever meet Teclis.
Mopman43
Mountain-Hermit of Nitpeak
- Location
- Vermont
The Gold College, of course, sings The Elements every day.
- Location
- New Brunswick, NJ
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- He/Him/His
My new headcanon is that when Mathilde gets really drunk she starts singing The Sigmarite Rag, a song which she composed but which everyone who frequents her temple to the Gambler knows by heart by now.
Valarauko
Demon of Power
- Location
- Angband
Poisoning Skaven in the Dark is too perfect but alas counterfactual.
- Location
- Before the Ninth Gate
Mammoths go where they want to, just like they sleep where ever they want to. As long as it doesn't run away, I doubt they care. It likely grazes without being told to.
No, the Mammoth moves at 6mph when it's going for a long distance. You'll note it lists human's speed as 3 mph, and listing horses at 8mph. Both can move much faster for short periods.
Elephants can run at about 25 mph.
As for visible chaos mutations, the ones I'm thinking about are the obvious ones: crab claws not on crab-like things, random eyes where they're not supposed to be, huge tumors, infected pustules, etc. Mathilde took a class on chaos, and would notice most signs of clear chaos corruptions.
This is a fishing village. I don't think people think about this closely enough. Yes, they have defenses against raids, it's being in stone houses (thanks dwarves), calling on the shaman to deal with opposing magic, and guards to stop people from sneaking on them. And most of the time this works, but not always. We rob from much more secretive skaven that are next door to Eshin safely, and people are worried about a fishing village. We can do this.
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No, the person you quoted was correct. Boney is basing mammoth speed on real-life elephants, which can travel up to 120 miles in a day, and sprint at speeds of 25mph.
