[WFRP] The Bloody Crown OOC XV

[-Sentinel-]

The test is one per fragment of hillchat, not one test and you figure out the whole dialect.

Ah, thanks. I'll spend no more Fortune Points trying to understand it.

The Vrani look like an interesting people, and seem to be the only true natives of the Broken Reaches... the only ones with an ancient culture of their own rather than a hodgepodge of foreign cultures. Looking back at the early game, I wonder how things would have turned out if I'd had Elsa seek out employment in Morr's Seat after her first encounter with Kelda. I have a feeling she would have thrived among the Norscans and Vrani. (Although of course, the other PCs had their own preferences and motivations to take into account.)

I'm going to be away for the next 2-3 days and most likely unable to post, so happy new year in advance, everyone!

Happy new year!

[rax]

I'm going to be away for the next 2-3 days and most likely unable to post, so happy new year in advance, everyone!

And the same to you!

[RossN]

Don't have time for an IC post this evening but wanted to say Happy New Year guys!

[LeSwordfish]

Ludo's lived on the other side of the desert from the hill folk all his life - might he know a very little of the dialect? I'm thinking of, like, traditional greeting, thank you, that kind of thing. Not actually speaking the language but enough to be polite.

Here's a SL:Reikspiel test if you want a roll: (1d100)[48] vs 18 - unless bonjour/merci etc is a -0 test, that fails.

[-Sentinel-]

Don't have time for an IC post this evening but wanted to say Happy New Year guys!

Happy 2023!


@ TheSummoner: I'm sorry to ask again, but have you done any bookkeeping for the money we gave Gina? We agreed it would come out of the gold from the sale of the warehouse, which you are in charge of.

[LeSwordfish]

@ TheSummoner: I'm sorry to ask again, but have you done any bookkeeping for the money we gave Gina? We agreed it would come out of the gold from the sale of the warehouse, which you are in charge of.

I handled the warehouse money and paid Gina - see posts OOC 57ish-60. Filomena gave us a cashbox of dough which Ludo is storing at the Castle. I've already claimed my share, I don't see why Elsa shouldn't take her share as well (127GC).

[-Sentinel-]

I've already claimed my share, I don't see why Elsa shouldn't take her share as well (127GC).

Oh, thanks!

I should try spending it sometime.

[TheSummoner]

If I didn't say so before, yeah, I'm fine with the suggestion of evenly splitting the money from the warehouse sale. Use it as you see fit.

[LCP]

The Vrani look like an interesting people, and seem to be the only true natives of the Broken Reaches... the only ones with an ancient culture of their own rather than a hodgepodge of foreign cultures.

It depends what you call 'foreign' and 'ancient'. The northern Old Worlders arrived in the Reaches about as long ago as the Normans arrived in England.

[Thragka]

Yeah, and England has no detectable culture.

[rax]

Yeah, and England has no detectable culture.

This is true. I've been there.

[-Sentinel-]

It depends what you call 'foreign' and 'ancient'. The northern Old Worlders arrived in the Reaches about as long ago as the Normans arrived in England.

Ah. I was under the impression that it was more of a constant trickle of migration (with each generation getting an injection of new migrants) than a big wave a long time ago.

[LCP]

It's both.

I'm properly back now - am sure everyone else is also filtering back from the hols, but just wanted to put a quick post here to say the ball's in you guys' court - I'm leaving it to Bardhyl both to introduce the rest of his gang and to outline any details of what the plan is from here. It's up to you guys how much timesplitting etc. you want to do.

If there are any OOC questions I should answer let me know here or by PM.

[rax]

@LCP
Apologies for not posting IC today to move things along, we've been busy fixing up our apartment. I'll get on it first thing in the morning.

Regarding the plan to find Wadim, my understanding from our PM conversations is that Bardhyl doesn't have a solid lead on where Wadim might be. He's just heard rumours that Wadim has been seen with the goblins and it's unclear whether he's accompanying them voluntarily or if he's being forced to go with them. Is that about right?

[LCP]

That sounds right to me. We can say he left his followers back here to investigate the rumours while he was away - if you ask Grim for a report I can write something up IC with a few more specifics.

[rax]

A request for an update from Grim has now been edited into Bardhyl's latest IC post.

[LeSwordfish]

I had somehow missed until recently that Wadim had been seen with the goblins, I'm very excited to spend more time with da gobbos. I was assuming we were all going to get et by Dire Wolves again.

[rax]

And it gives Ludo a chance to pick on someone his own size.

[-Sentinel-]

I think we've got a consensus to go out there and see for ourselves. Not much else we can do, really.

We should leave the horses in the care of Bardhyl's merry band. Goblins would just see them as fresh meat, and there's no telling how horses might react to the wyvern.

[LCP]

If that's the plan, I think I just need to know who Bardhyl's bringing from Team Legitimate Business Enterprises.

[LeSwordfish]

From here, he could get a better look at the huge paintings that covered the cavern walls. Directly above the entrance behind him, daubings of orcs and goblins cavorted atop a pile of dead - or at least very miserable - dwarfs and humans. To his right, an enormous black wolf reared up many times the size of the painted greenskins, frightened-looking goblins fleeing across the cavern wall from its snapping jaws. To the left, a similar rabble of lantern-jawed orcs retreated from columns of men, dwarfs, and what looked like children's drawings of skeletons, leaving the goblins cowering in holes beneath the earth.

At the very back of the cavern was the largest painting of all - a huge, goblin-faced crescent moon, a jagged crack splitting the crescent like a toothy grin. The black wolf rose up beneath it, jaws agape - but where it tried to bite the moon, its fangs had broken. Beneath it, countless painted goblins raised their stick-figure arms as if to cheer. The flickering light from the fires made the whole tableaux seem to shift and dance, casting long shadows over the uneven walls.

From the TavernKeeper thread, the description of the goblin history of beating Nahorek. I'm not sure we should read too much into this, seems equally feasible that the goblins are just attributing Nahorek's defeat by the humans to the Bad Moon but worth bearing in mind in case they actually did achieve something.

[-Sentinel-]

From the TavernKeeper thread, the description of the goblin history of beating Nahorek. I'm not sure we should read too much into this, seems equally feasible that the goblins are just attributing Nahorek's defeat by the humans to the Bad Moon but worth bearing in mind in case they actually did achieve something.

Oh, that's interesting. I completely forgot about that.

I believe the symbolism here is more "the wolf failed to defeat us" than "we defeated the wolf". Still, the fact that goblins have their own folklore about Nahorek is tremendously interesting. I maintain we should attempt diplomacy, unless they attack us first.

I can think of one thing they might want from us - to rid them of "Da Big Wun".

[rax]

If that's the plan, I think I just need to know who Bardhyl's bringing from Team Legitimate Business Enterprises.

Let's say Bardhyl brings Afrim, Damjan and Ortwin. That gives us two guys with Follow Trail and Navigation.

[LeSwordfish]

I can think of one thing they might want from us - to rid them of "Da Big Wun".

They tried to feed Tatiana to the wyvern. I think they either worship it or at least are pals.

[rax]

It's possible that they did that because the alternative is to be eaten themselves.

Of course it's equally plausible that they think the wyvern is awesome and don't want to be rid of it even if it does mean some of them get eaten every so often.

[-Sentinel-]

So I have to roll WP vs. gaining an Insanity Point because of that double 1. Better now than in a life or death situation, I suppose.

Target 83: (d100)[34] - Oh, good. But there's still Tzeentch's Curse to worry about.
Fortune: (d100)[56]

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It's possible that they did that because the alternative is to be eaten themselves.

That's what I think. IMO, the goblins only keep the wyvern fed with livestock to keep it from feeding upon them. If they do worship it, it's a worship driven by fear, like the cliché of indigenous tribes dropping captives into a volcano to keep it from erupting.

[RossN]

Sorry for the absence guys, I'm till here but I'm fighting off a nasty and lingering cold that has left me with no creative oomph. I'll try and catch up over the next few days.

[LeSwordfish]

That's what I think. IMO, the goblins only keep the wyvern fed with livestock to keep it from feeding upon them. If they do worship it, it's a worship driven by fear, like the cliché of indigenous tribes dropping captives into a volcano to keep it from erupting.

Sure, but lets perhaps express caution when going up to somebody and saying "hey, we can kill your god if you'd like?"

[LCP]

Sorry to hear that RossN - hope you feel better soon.

I'll wait for rax to confirm whether or not Bardhyl actually asks Elsa for the spell before resolving Tzeentch's curse - there are some good reasons I can think of why this bunch might want their fire to remain extinguishable.

[rax]

IC reply to Elsa is up.

Sure, but lets perhaps express caution when going up to somebody and saying "hey, we can kill your god if you'd like?"

Not to mention that they're goblins. I don't know how closely LCP is hewing to Warhammer lore, but going by the old wargame, greenskins aren't just another kind of human. They really don't value each others lives to any great extent and feeding other goblins to a cool wyvern would be just as funny as giving it livestock or humans to snack on. The common view among humanity is that greenskins are very dangerous vermin, and they're not actually all that wrong about that.