- Location
- Poland
- Pronouns
- He/Him
[X] DIPLO: Polyglot
Yeah, Trucemaker isn't going to win, and I like playing with languages.
Yeah, Trucemaker isn't going to win, and I like playing with languages.
Warhammer Fantasy: Divided Loyalties - an Advisor's Quest
- Thread starter Boney
- Start date
- Fantasy Users' Choice!
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- Tags
- warhammer warhammer fantasy fantasy be gay do crimes (gay) female protagonist pansexual protagonist ck2 quest divided loyalties mountain vietnam ranald is real this is a dwarf quest (dwarfs) this is maybe an elf quest this is not a vampire quest this is not an empire quest try it and find out open voting
Voted best in category in the Users' Choice awards.
- Location
- Greece
I am complaining that it does not fit the real world because people keep using it as if it applies in the real world. My position that it is an absolute that does not apply in the real world is consistent with me saying it doesn't apply to the real world. My position that it doesn't apply to the real world, logically, is not consistent with other people's positions that it does apply on the real world.
And I have clarified, twice now, that I have examples both real and fictional. I do not understand the overfixation on the "and fictional" part. For one, this quote is often used to analyse fiction just as much as it is used to analyze reality, (I disagree on both cases), an in fact, the quote that prompted this discussion was an analysis of the fictional dhar. So I have to cover all bases because, in a public forum, I am talking to more than one person, even if I am replying to one. For another, I never said I had ONLY fictional examples, so even if we agree that fictional examples are all invalid to this discussion, this does not at all invalidate any of my points, nor does it really matter to the point of the discussion that this kind of binary is, overall, either a pithy way to say someting obvious in a cynical way, or completely silly.
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- Location
- Earth
I know it's easy to get used to talking about a wide variety of things here when thread madness takes hold, but the vote's still close, and it's hard enough to follow the discussion without adding off-topic debates. Could you please shelve it, or take it to its own topic/PMs?
neutronium95
Mad Rocketeer
- Location
- The test site
- Pronouns
- She/Her
I was really tempted by Polyglot the last time it was an option, so I'm voting for it now.
[x] DIPLO: Polyglot
[x] DIPLO: Polyglot
- Location
- Somewhere.
[x] LESSON: Dhar Insight
[x] DIPLO: Collegiate
[x] DIPLO: Collegiate
- Location
- New Brunswick, NJ
- Pronouns
- He/Him/His
Righto, I'm getting my next vaccine shot tomorrow morning, so I'm getting in a batch of typo-hunting before that knocks me on my ass, assuming my reaction to the first dose is anything to judge by. This goes up until the Battle of the Caldera.
Turn Twenty-Three Results Part One
Turn Twenty-Three Results Part Two
Turn Twenty-Three Social
Turn Twenty-Four Results Part One
Turn Twenty-Four Results Part Two
flickers -> flicker
Turn Twenty-Four Social
Turn Twenty-Five Results Part One
emanates -> emanate
altered -> is altered
Turn Twenty-Three Results Part Two
ends -> end
Priests -> Priest
Turn Twenty-Three Social
Repetition of "solemn"
Pronoun inconsistency: "they" for most of the sentence, "he" at the end.
Similar to above, here we say "lad," but then use the gender-agnostic "they" rather than "he".
puncture -> punctures
yourself -> yourselves
Orks -> Orcs
Turn Twenty-Four Results Part One
joints -> jaunts
curiousities -> curiosities
sound -> sounds
he just become -> "he just became" or "he has just become"
Turn Twenty-Four Results Part Two
Mors -> Mors'
beginnings -> beginning (or starts -> start)
flog -> fog
flickers -> flicker
Turn Twenty-Four Social
a no -> no
begun -> began
father -> Father
to you -> you to
dead -> Dead
as -> at
Turn Twenty-Five Results Part One
reveals -> reveal
taking -> take
are -> is (or source -> sources)
fills -> fill
spreads -> spread
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Further Pedantry only because I respect the artform that is Pedantry and your skilled use of it: I partially recognized my mistake and made an edit to ask if it was Fan or Yen Eltharin.
Okay my mistake but I am still maintaining my position on the academic value of chickens! I am telling you somewhere in the damn forest their is a chicken viewing area the Amber brotherhood keeps secret so nobody laughs at them for being uncivilized even harder then they already do!
Fallout-Steampunk Mathilda.
Which is pretty damned cool, as she got all the techo-weapon and the magic-aether down pat. All she need is a cool round black shades.
Speaking of which, in the events of her demise is there a default will to whom her effects, secret and top secret will be granted? She manage to amass a great deal of wealth, which will and can be contested by the lawyers, but there's no doubt that her magical effects will be taken by the Greys.
If it's our old master, we can relly on him to be discreet about our top secret book, but if it's any other Magister ( or even lord magister), it's a 50-50 if the book will be use (good or bad) or get burned for good
- Pronouns
- He/Him
[x] LESSON: Dhar Insight
[x] DIPLO: Collegiate
[x] DIPLO: Collegiate
- Location
- Earth
The thread decides who gets what. I'd assume that even if something can't be listed openly on a document, things can be arranged discretely.
I'm avoiding giving details about the next quest. 'I want this quest to end so we can play the next one because that one sounds better to me' is a thought I don't want anyone to be able to have, and a suspicion I don't want anyone to be able to have of others.
A few times. It doesn't always carry the same tone, it can just mean 'the result can't be known in advance, so the way to get an answer to this question is to do it'.
Real life does not have anything like clear cut heroes, because it is messy like that. You are as likely to find that the 'hero' you are talking about was made a dead martyr after the fact to support some cause. So the question of can you die a hero of old age is answered 'who is writing the story and what is in it for them'. Also even if one posits that heroism fades with time that does not make you a villain it just makes you 'not a hero' . It is not a dual thing.
Ok, fair enough it is pretty off topic, especially to Mathilde who does not seen to have much of an opinion on her own heroism other than instrumental. Actually that is an interesting point, for someone with as many accolades as she has gathered Mathy does not seem to grave approval of many so much as that of those closest to her. It is about headpats not cheers, she does not even know what to do with her newfound fame in Vlag for instance. Part of me wonders what this mix of modesty and desire for recognition looks like from the outside.
- Location
- Sweden
Dangit now that would be a cool post-End Times quest!
To the town of Nachthafen
Rode a witch one fine day
Hardly spoke to folk around her
Didn't have too much to say
No one dared to ask her business
No one dared to make a slip
'fore the stranger there among them
Had a staff of mistery on her hip [Alternatively dawi iron
]Staff of misteryyyy on her hip!
...
It was early in the morning
When she rode into the town
Came riding from the twillight
Slowly looking all 'round
"She's a warlock loose and running"
Came the whisper from each lip
"And she's here to do some business
with the staff of mistery on her hip"
Staff of misteryyyy on her hip!
In this town there lived a countess
By the name of Gabriell'
Many men had tried to take her
and that many men were dead
...
Or something. 😅
- Location
- Utrecht
I think one of our later chats with Horstmann gave us a pretty good look at what Mathilde's modesty looks like from the outside:
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Eh... Horstman was trying to be complementary there, that is not I think the best objective perspective.
- Location
- Utrecht
It's not about how Horstmann sees Mathilde, but how Horstmann thinks the world is going to see Mathilde's actions.
She talks about making the world better for Dwarfs as if it's a small thing. But if she succeeds and does make the world better (which admittedly, she already did), the dwarfs might see it as "The Mathilde Age".
Maybe tongue in cheek. But if we look at Vlag, I don't think it's so far out there as to be implausible.
It's how Horstman thinks he should say the world sees Mathy's actions in order to get on her good side. He was trying to be flattering so not really even a wholly trustworthy measure of what he thinks, never mind the rest of the world. The only true outside pespective we had of Mathy ws her scarring the daylights out of that noble envoy after the hiatus without meaning to.
- Pronouns
- He/Him
[x] DIPLO: Collegiate
[x] LESSON: Dhar Insight
[x] LESSON: Dhar Insight
Mathilde never really gets to make a first impression in a vacuum. People that don't know Wizards are comparing her to what they think they know about Wizards, and people that do know Wizards are comparing her to stereotypes about Grey Wizards. That's probably at least part of why she values the opinion of people who already know her a lot more than she does the opinions of strangers.
That said, she was rather chuffed about the Dammerlichtreiter thing.
That said, she was rather chuffed about the Dammerlichtreiter thing.
- Location
- The Void
[X] LESSON: Dhar Insight
[X] DIPLO: Collegiate
[X] DIPLO: Collegiate