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Warhammer Fantasy: Divided Loyalties - an Advisor's Quest

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EVA-Saiyajin said:
Please, please, PLEASE tell me you have good logic behind Ranald people. I'm as much for an awesome accomplishment as anyone else but I don't want to needlessly die for it.
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Backing Ranald is sooo bad in so many level its like a master degree electrician takes a risk on somehing so basic that electricity will turn him into the Flash instead of flashfrying him.

The audience here in a show of genre savyness basically hope that the GM throw of the dice would favor a gambling God.

And we'll be seven kind of fools not to gamble.

Steal the energy, give it to Ranald.
 
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Meanwhile, back at the ranch
  • Apocrypha
    • MEANWHILE, BACK AT THE RANCH​

    Heideck dealt some cards for a game of Solitaire as he sat in Mathilde's shrine. She'd been gone for a while now, off on some long-shot with Dwarfs. As a favor to her (And as apparently the only person who knew it existed), Heideck had agreed to come down here every few weeks and collect the... liquid that was oozing out of the box labeled DO NOT OPEN EVER. It was simple, if tedious waiting for the jars to fill all the way up. Whatever it was, it felt important to that part of Heideck that told him to lurk in sewers and scrawl crosses on things.
    As he mused, he looked at his cards... and did a double take. Four aces, in a row, all showing. What? But I shuffled these just fine... And that squirrelly part of Heideck poked at him again. So he drew the first three cards from the deck, and up came The Magister, The Greenskin Reversed, and The Priest, when he knew he'd taken the Arcana out.

    BoneyM said:
    "Because it's an omen, you goddamn idiots!"
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    "... Heh. Well, lass, hope you know what you're doing."

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    Roswita van Hal had HAD it with nobody telling her what had happened to the East Wing. Either they were ignorant, and therefore useless, or they were hiding it from her, and were treating her like a child. AGAIN. She had dismissed her Templar minder for the day, and, wonder of wonders, he had obeyed.
    So she was going to take the chance to investigate this mystery while she had it. She stalked across the now-expanded Eagle Castle, and reached for the door handle...
    When she felt a sharp pain through her breeches. Roswita cursed as a grey cat ran out from under her legs. Where had that even come from? And why in Sigmar's name had it decided to scratch her on its way by? She turned around, searching for it, and as she turned back to the East Wing door, she found it... and four others, sitting in front of the door, in an X-pattern. She took a step towards the door and the cats hissed in unison.
    Roswita was raised with a Witch Hunter's suspicion, but even a Sigmarite such as herself could not deny a clear sign of the least-endorsed god of the Empire. So she turned around and resolved to challenge Gustav to a dice game instead.

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    Far below Roswita's feet, in a certain catacomb of Eagle Castle, behind a certain tomb, slept a mother cat and her litter.

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    Note: wanted to get this out before I leave for work, so only a few bits. If the ranald option works, and Catboy gets a boost of stolen power, maybe he can move in ways that are a little less mysterious.
     
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  • Apocrypha
    • Iz time for dis 'umie ta serve da biggah dan 'er 'ead waagh field tah cunnin' umie god!

    [X] You are a faithful of Ranald, being in the right place at the right time to unbalance the scales. Try to steal the energies.
    [X] You are Dwarf-friend and you bear upon your person a masterpiece developed by the oldest and wisest Runepriest of the Karaz Ankor. Try to destroy the energies.
     
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    [X] You are a faithful of Ranald, being in the right place at the right time to unbalance the scales. Try to steal the energies.
    [X] You are a Magister of the Grey Order, and follow the traditions laid down by Teclis and Magnus the Pious. Try to ground the energies.


    These two seem like the only good options. Only human is basically an extra option and it very much doesn't favor a proactive wizard, relying on dwarves is also not a proactive option since Mathilde is supposed to be the best person to poke at this stuff and the Mork option is well... more than a bit crazy. Now I don't mind crazy but this isn't even the sort of measured 'Try to become a Nagash tier necromancer' type of crazy but just rather random crazy.
     
    BurnNote said:
    Wait what? I don't remember anything about the Empress. Was that WoG, cause I thought she just died from an illness or something
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    The empire mourning the death of pregnant empress at the time the grey order was sweeping a conspiracy could be a coincidence, but lets be honest grey wizards know better than to believe in those. Then again, I recall somebody saying we could not have killed of Karl Franz as he should have been born already, beats me who is right.
     
    [X] You are a faithful of Ranald, being in the right place at the right time to unbalance the scales. Try to steal the energies.

    Has Ranald even let us down before?
    i'm actually kinda scared that this would be the one time he does for the lulz
     
    zup said:
    Then again, I recall somebody saying we could not have killed of Karl Franz as he should have been born already, beats me who is right.
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    That chapter did state that the emperor had no male heirs. So Karl Franz has not been born at the time of that death. However we still have like 2 years for Karl Franz to be born.
     
    Zero Gravitas said:
    [X] You are a faithful of Ranald, being in the right place at the right time to unbalance the scales. Try to steal the energies.
    [X] You are a Magister of the Grey Order, and follow the traditions laid down by Teclis and Magnus the Pious. Try to ground the energies.


    These two seem like the only good options. Only human is basically an extra option and it very much doesn't favor a proactive wizard, relying on dwarves is also not a proactive option since Mathilde is supposed to be the best person to poke at this stuff and the Mork option is well... more than a bit crazy. Now I don't mind crazy but this isn't even the sort of measured 'Try to become a Nagash tier necromancer' type of crazy but just rather random crazy.
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    Point of order: while we might be best to poke this kind of thing, Kragg is by far the best here in punting this kind of thing in the gonads.
     
    veekie said:
    Yes.

    I reckon the plan to attack the mountain would be a little thrown off by fire exploding out of every hole tho
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    Surely the dwarves can improvise.

    It's just a tiny bit of fire, I hear there are mountains who spit out that stuff regularly. When has a few burns hurt anyone anyways.
    natruska said:
    ABELHELM snatches the LIBER MORTIS from MATHILDE and runs out of the room to go ignore his children who've been placing flowers on his grave for their entire lives. MATHILDE looks up at the still blinding lights and stomps petulantly.

    MATHILDE
    This is horseshit. All my work, just for you to snatch it away! I've spent half my life working to fix this, and...Gah, you...you!

    SIGMAR (V.O.)
    Don't you ever try to steal one of my boys again. You think this is petty? You've got NO IDEA.
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    See, this is precisely why we need to learn how to destroy divine energy. I want to be petty in return.

    Zero Gravitas said:
    and the Mork option is well... more than a bit crazy. Now I don't mind crazy but this isn't even the sort of measured 'Try to become a Nagash tier necromancer' type of crazy but just rather random crazy.
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    It is in fact orc crazy. Which, mind you, can be a very useful type of crazy something, but it isn't particularly beneficial to our current situation nor our ambitions.

    ... Okay, it is useful for our ambitions of becoming an absolute murderblender, but there are other ways
    TimEd said:
    [X] You are a faithful of Ranald, being in the right place at the right time to unbalance the scales. Try to steal the energies.

    Has Ranald even let us down before?
    i'm actually kinda scared that this would be the one time he does for the lulz
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    Yes
    BoneyM said:
    [Last, Desperate Attempt: Piety, Req 80, 58+18=76]
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    Let's set God Magic on fire
    [X] You are Dwarf-friend and you bear upon your person a masterpiece developed by the oldest and wisest Runepriest of the Karaz Ankor. Try to destroy the energies.
     
    DragonParadox said:
    1. Teclis did not help humanity for its own sake but to stop Chaos, that is why he showed up on the eve of a Chaos invasion, taught primarily battle spells and then left to serve Ulthuan and do his owns studies again
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    He left because the High Loremaster died and he was needed to replace him, Ulthuan had it's own severe problems like not getting murdered and enslaved by Malekith and his mommy.

    And you make it sound like he and Magnus didn't succesfully undo millennia of partially justified inbred fear of magic and turn a bunch of persecuted hedge wizards into one of the Empire's foremost institutions in only a few years. Most people may not be fond of them but they sure appreciate their abilities both in civilian life and in combat, thanks to Teclis.



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    Gul Damar said:
    He left because the High Loremaster died and he was needed to replace him, Ulthuan had it's own severe problems like not getting murdered and enslaved by Malekith and his mommy.

    And you make it sound like he and Magnus didn't succesfully undo millennia of partially justified inbred fear of magic and turn a bunch of persecuted hedge wizards into one of the Empire's foremost institutions in only a few years. Most people may not be fond of them but they sure appreciate their abilities both in civilian life and in combat, thanks to Teclis.
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    Sure they did, but not because they cared about the mage-touched humans past or future, both of them were in the buisness of making weapons to fight chaos with, no more no less. That a few of those magic touched people would live instead of being burned at the stake was irrelevant before the greater goal. The system set in place is one that discriminates and isolates mages and the uses that isolkation to foster loyalty to the Colleges and through them the Empire.
     
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