Ehhhh, Trevor actually killed death.
Warhammer Fantasy: Divided Loyalties - an Advisor's Quest
- Thread starter Boney
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Ericwinter
Definitely not a Skaven Infiltrator
- Location
- America
...So we just need to invade Morr's garden and murder him. Got it.
That or Gazul. Then again, we've had the guy riding alongside in our soul, it would be kind of rude to turn around and kill him after that.
- Location
- Earth
Incomplete list, so some of them are still out there.
- Location
- Europa, Jupiter Orbit
The - dash is just convention. You can leave it out and just write WEB MAT or even Webmat and we'll still get what you mean.
It irks me a little that we never got him—or even found out who he was—but not enough to actually spend AP chasing it up.
- Location
- New Brunswick, NJ
- Pronouns
- He/Him/His
We found out who he was. On the first turn, in fact:
We just never tracked him down because we had other priorities and the trail was cold by the time we had our plate clear. We proposed it to Abelhelm a couple of times, but he never went for it. "Getting the tax records of Stirland back" and "dismantling the rent-seekers that had Stirland's trade by the throat" came first.
- Location
- Outside the Box
- Pronouns
- She/Her
Just call it the WEB.
broke
Woke
Bespoke.
Ah, I must have missed that. Thanks for the correction.
also, I don't think we have really leveraged that since, so the hype has probably died down or is about to.
Rebuttal
- Location
- Earth
Rebuttal
The tavern was rowdy and celebrating when he got back. Ernst was a soldier of Stirland, he'd stood his watch even with the explosion of noise behind him, but that didn't mean he wasn't mighty curious. The bastard who'd come to relieve him hadn't said anything, so he'd just have to look up what the commotion was himself.
Behind him, the celebration were spreading, in their traditional, subdued Stirlander way. Would be stupid to waste too much time or food celebrating, when the next nasty would be upon them the following morn.
He crossed the tavern floor, filled with tables occupied by the army, before making it to Kine. Kine was the finest rumormonger in the troop and their bookkeeper. Ernst didn't like the look of the man. He was too cheerful. Nothing good came from a cheerful bookie, not when you're a gambling man. And what solider isn't?
Resigned, Ernst sat at the table with a number of other poor souls, most of whom were drowning their losses and sorrows in cheap ale, with a few celebrating their gains with something with a bit more punch.
"Let me have it Kine, how bad is it?"
Kine looked at him over the rim of his spectacles and started leafing through his booklet. "Ernst, wasn't it? From the 4th?"
Ernst nodded, readying himself for the news. In a world filled with monsters, Ernst was something rare, at least in this gambling: an optimist.
"Now let's see here. You're aware of your previous record." Kine spoke, making Ernst wince. Gambling that they'd have taken Teufelheim within three weeks of the battle of Grim Wood was, looking back, foolish. Nor was it the first such gamble he'd made, but a man could dream?
"Well, it seems it's your luck day, Ernst from the 4th!" Kine yelled. Ernst blinked. The news caught him flat footed, and as it settled into his belly the relief of it helped him forgive Kine for yelling out his fortune. Now the other boys and girls would demand he share it around. At least the ale here was cheap.
"Which one was it?" Ernst asked, leaning forward on the table.
"Well first, your classic. Our glorious Elector Countess survived another month. Not many bet on that, but she keeps proving them wrong." Kine said with a proud smile. The bookie might not have been born a Stirlander, but he'd made himself one, though blood and guts. That standard bet had kept Ernst afloat through many a foolish one and a small bag of coin appeared on the table.
"Second, the infamous Dämmerlichtreiter did make another appearance before the Countess, re-appearing from the mists she'd disappeared to before disappearing right back." Ernst kept himself from snorting. Now he was just playing it up for the audience. A second bag joined the first, slightly larger.
"AND!" Kine shouted, reaching down and pulling to the table a massive bag of coin, almost as large as his head. So big, that it partially overturned, spilling silver onto the table.
"AND! LESS THAN A MONTH LATER THE SÄNGERKRITISCH SILENCED ANOTHER BLOODSUCKER! THE SORCERER IS DEAD!"
The entire tavern erupted: "DEATH TO THE SUCKERS! DEATH TO SORCERY!"
While Ernst was left totally shocked and frozen in place, his eyes glued to the river of silver spilling all over the table.
"EXCEPT THE GOOD ONES! HOUSE WEBER AND THE COLLEGES!"
Some cries of "HOUSE WEBER" went up, but the response to the rest was a lot more lukewarm and murmured, the zeal doused when speaking of good sorcery. That still didn't still right with most.
"Eh." Kine shrugged. "They can't all be great. So what do you plan to do with your winnings Ernst?" Kine asked. Before he could think of something two different arms clasped his shoulders, as an entire line from his unit lined up behind him, mugs in hand.
"Yes Ernst, what will you do with all that silver?"
As the party really got going, little did they all know that the colleges were coming much sooner and much closer than most of the crowd ever wanted to be to a wizard.
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- Location
- Europa, Jupiter Orbit
How come this doesn't cost any CF? Can Mathilde and Dwarves do this on their own just based on the books they have access to? No Light Wizard needed?
This means that a decently sized mono-wind house can also be constructed for 300gc, making the concentration of apprentices in very specific Colleges seem much less necessary and the creation of less prestigious and lower standard mono-wind magic academies in foreign countries much more viable than I thought. I.e. an exiled Magister could set up shop in a Tilean city state and actually open a school with government patronage that may very well avoid any serious Dhar problems.
Mopman43
Mountain-Hermit of Nitpeak
- Location
- Vermont
Well, the only time I can remember it being described in detail for the Ulgu tower, it was mostly about getting the right materials that only allowed the right wind in, and then a bit of runework.
- Location
- England, unfortunately.
- Pronouns
- She/They
Ernst never got to say "I'm going to Dwarfneyland" ;_;
- Location
- Europa, Jupiter Orbit
That one is based on Mathilde's expertise though.
Mopman43
Mountain-Hermit of Nitpeak
- Location
- Vermont
Dwarfen expertise and Mathilde's books, I'm pretty sure. I doubt Mathilde personally knew about an Arabyan wood that was Ulgu-aligned, for example.
- Location
- New Brunswick, NJ
- Pronouns
- He/Him/His
Based on Boney's comments, the four towers we're building are basically the Battery towers:
Which as we can see just cost gold and can be built for any color. Rafin is right that the enhancement tower, of the sort we built for Ulgu, costs favours:
But the straightforward "be a battery for a single Wind" option is much easier. Don't read too much into the Penthouse option, we aren't casually building something comparable to the Collegiate environments on the cheap.
- Location
- Europa, Jupiter Orbit
I would have thought that creating a mono-wind environment might have been harder than creating a battery. In a battery only the ultimate storage device needs to be insulated grom other winds. In a mono-wind environment all living space has to be while still not sealed to air and people, which means that it also needs a way to filter out wind contaminants from the wrong winds, at least to the level where said contaminants drop to earthbound levels of concentration.
- Location
- Manchester, UK
- Pronouns
- He/They
Sure, but to take a real world example doing that for Water just requires digging a pit and lining it with something waterproof.
It's more complicated with the winds, but ultimately the principle is the same: make it so the wind can get in, but can't get out, and the concentration will gradually rise.
- Location
- Finland
Not necessarily.
Winds could also just, not go in past specific concentration because it is easier to go around than keep coming in.
To create a monowind environment you only need to block 7 out of 8 winds.
For a battery, you need to block 7 winds from coming in, and somehow keep 1 wind form leaving, which i suspect is lot harder than just blocking it entirely.
There may also be a need to compress the wind inside the tower so there is more room for power than a space the size of a tower would normally hold.
- Location
- Manchester, UK
- Pronouns
- He/They
Do you, are the batteries all monowind environments? I thought they were just heavy on the wind they focus on.
- Location
- Finland
To store one specific wind at great quantities i would assume you need to block the area from having other winds, but i guess winds repelling each other would do it naturally once you start having large concentration of a specirfic wind.
Though if not, then that does not really change much, because blocking winds is the easy part.
- Location
- Chicago
- Pronouns
- She/They
That was an excellent little omake @primemountain ! I appreciated it.
Something that is achievable at a reasonable price for Mathilde in Karak Eight Peaks is not necessarily achievable for the same price everywhere else for everyone else.