hi there,

a Taal Priest may stumble upon a bit of warpstone in his favourite forest, tormenting the surrounding plant and animals. What can he do to deal with it ? He can't just throw it somewhere else, as somewhere else is as much Taal's domain as there.

Find some bottomless crack in the earth to throw it away ? Carrying it around may prove being quite unhealthy.. Leave it where it lies and build some sort of taal sigil to prevent corruption around ? call in a few skaven pals who could be interested ? your thoughts ?

Skaven as well as Undead might be very interested in this. However, I don't see a Taal priest getting along with either of them, they're interests lie not exactly in the perservation of nature.

I would assume they recognise it as something wholly alien, corrupting, and would look into getting assistance from more knowledgeable people. And in the meantime, perhaps ward off the area,and try to undo any suffering/corruption the stone has caused to the immediate vicinity.

If they don't recognise it, maybe they could pick it up, put it in their pouch and begin a trek to some town where they intend to ask somebody about this stone. No telling in what sort of state they'll arrive though.

On several occasions it's sealed with a box/chest made of lead. It could also be given to priests of Sigmar or possibly to one of the wizard colleges.

In one occasion in our campaign a knight errant threw the stones into a river. Naturally some flesh eating fishmen were created and they build a shrine for their creator!

Depending upon the convictions of the priest he could easily find someone within the Gold Order to unload that warpstone on...the things they could do with a hunk of weapon grade plutonium! (just advertise "no delivery" in his WFRP craig's list add so he doesn't mutate himself or passersby in trekking it to Altdorf). But if he is just into sealing it away and taking matters into his own hands he needs to get a lead box made and then put it someplace that he can get back to regularly to ensure that it hasn't been stolen by the curious or ill intentioned (essentially keep slapping the GM's hands out of that juicy plot device box).

doc_cthulhu said:

It was inevitable *nods*

What NOT to do with warpstone:

• make a wish and throw it in the well
• wear it as a necklace
• keep it in a lead box under your bed "just in case"
• post it to craig's-list under the heading "Skaven be idiots! I dare thou to cometh and taketh it'eth!"
• Use it to keep babies warm at the local orphanage
• powder it into your tea/wig/toast
• mix it with a little ear-wax and rub it on your carbuncle
• use it for glow paint on your bedside clock or wristwatch
• Keep some in your mouth for that glowy effect at the local Reikland Rave

Since Edge of Night has a fair bit of it, and my heroes just winding it up - having stopped consumption of warpstone-laced ale for one thing, here's my take:

- The educated thing to do with it is put it in lead (which will contain it for a while, gets eaten away eventuall) and have it sent to Altdorf's College of Light, which contains such things in its "corruption containment" program. Sigmarites, Witch Hunters and Wizards of Light are favoured couriers for this purpose but others may have to do.

- Basic checks will tell you not to keep it around, unlike much chaos-stuff not to burn it (you're just sending up fumes of corruption to be breathed in by things, settle on crops etc.), and not to "throw it away", though a failure and some banes or chaos star might have you thinking it's really just "wyrdstone" and can be useful.

Failing that, say in Bretonnia and elsewhere, not sure what the Educated thing to do is (lots of lead and a secret vault far away from anyone like at a mountain top?)

Have no idea what tUlthuan elves (as the most advanced anti-chaos sort) would do with it. Just possibly, they have rituals to unravel it and render it harmless or return its energies back into the Realm of Chaos- though likely challenging ones with very nasty side effects on banes and catastrophic ones on chaos stars (effectively making the operation so risky that the idea of actually destroying all warpstone is impractical, one runs out of elven mages first).

Emirikol said:

Now I know how the party is going down in Ubersreik!

My Players favorite way to get rid of warpstone has been to make warpstone cocktails out of the stuff and use it as weaponry... needless to say yes it does get rid of the warpstone but consequences.... ahh they are are pain

If only Warhammer had Keith Richards...he'd just snort it all and come out no more mutated than he already is.

Emirikol said:

My players found a warpstone necklace that someone was trying to use to make wargors (not very successfuly). After picking up a couple points of Corruption they heated up a forge and tossed it in. Nice way to get rid of the necklace. The warpstone, however, is now just cooling off...