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NorseQuest (A Norse Xianxia)

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[X] Wizard-Owl
[X] If he hit you... then you want to hit him back. (Spar with Gabriel)

Step One of Befriending: Body Language Taken to the Extreme

EDIT: Oh yeah @Imperial Fister , are the Fylgja Flaws mitigatable at all? Like, if we were to somehow get our hands on a set of spectacles, would it mitigate Shortsightedness?
 
[x] If he hit you... then you want to hit him back. (Spar with Gabriel)
[x] Wizard-Owl

The nearsightedness hurts, for sure, but we're not a ranged combatant, we can still use the owl's senses, and it means we don't have to kill a very powerful warrior to start learning magic.
 
Okay, so here's what I'm thinking:

[ ] Learning-Owl
[X] Shield-Owl

These seem the best, but the downside on Learning Owl is rough, and the upside being random makes it a lot less useful than if we picked it. It's still good, but not as. Shield Owl, meanwhile, is actually all upside if we only use intercept on people we care about. Like, I'd rather get hit than have a failed intercept mean someone we love dies, y'know?

[X] Wizard-Owl

Wizard is defensible but that downside is also rough, albeit in a different way. (EDIT: But upon reflection, I definitely prefer its down side to Learning-Owl's)

[X] If he hit you... then you want to hit him back. (Spar with Gabriel)

This seems like a no-brainer. We wanted to do this anyway.

[X] Plan Family And Shopping

-[X] (Personal) Spend time with...(Write in)
--[X] Drifa
-[X] (Personal) Spend time with...(Write in)
--[X] Asva
-[X] (Visit) Go visit...
--[X] Asvir!
--[X] Visit the seeress and go shopping

Training:
-[X] (Blackhand's Training) Try to develop old/train new hugareida tricks (Write in)
--[X] Train Halting-Vortex 1d6
--[X] Train Imaging Skill-Trick 4d6
-[X] (Steinarr's Training) Ask Steinarr to teach you a trick/some tricks (Write in)
--[X] Train Leaping-Cleave Trick 1d6
-[X] (Training) Hamr (8 successes to rank up)
--[X] Train Hamr Itself 4d6
--[X] Train Bash 1d6
--[X] Train Dodge 1d6
-[X] (Training) Hugr (31 successes to rank up)
--[X] Train Composure 1d6
--[X] Train Management 1d6
--[X] Train Scouting 1d6

Orthstirr:
-[X] (Orthstirr Usage)
--[X] 4 Hamr
--[X] 6 Hugr
--[X] 4 Fylgja
--[X] 3 Silver-Tongue
--[X] 1 First Impression
--[X] 18 free for tricks

So, I'm totally down with spending time with family, so let's do that now. Plus shopping (and hopefully talking to the seeress). We are in terms of training, running out of time on getting our Artcraft trick completed and Hugr up, so there's some focus there this turn. Maybe a little overfocused on the Imaging, but we do need it up and overflow successes go to Artcraft so they aren't a complete waste or anything.
 
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[] Learning-Owl
[X] Wizard-Owl

Both of them are probably fine, and myopia is not really a noticeable problem in close combat - I've never had a problem with it while doing martial arts, even if my eyesight is really bad. In addition, there are certainly ways to mitigate or completely eliminate the problem.

[X] If he hit you... then you want to hit him back. (Spar with Gabriel)
 
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I mean, it's a pain in the ass, but it's a Problem that can be solved--or at least sharply mitigated--with Money, and we've still got an owl on overwatch in the meantime (A creature that has notoriously good vision) which covers the main flaw of being shortsighted in a fight.

We're not a ranged fighter to begin with, we're a Dragoon, short-sightedness isn't too bad when that's still good enough for combat-range. None of these options make Halla worse at what she's already good at doing, they put flavorful quirks in her character. Her Fylgja is never going to make her worse at what she likes doing.

Keep in mind, a skilled sorceress who's willing to go on raids and can take care of herself in a pinch? They're going to be able to make all the money given how the usual archetype for a Sorceress is to be someone who has people come to them.
 
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Actually @Imperial Fister can a normal fylgja use a normal shield themselves? Or is that exclusive to the Shield-Owl? and, if they can, do we still have a shield around we could give our fylgja?

Alectai said:
Wait a sec, did we actually fail to get the Imaging Skill trick?

Was that literally three failures on three dice there?
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Yep. We did need two successes, so one success would also not quite have done it, but it would've been a lot closer and a lot more likely.

Alectai said:
I mean, it's a pain in the ass, but it's a Problem that can be solved--or at least sharply mitigated--with Money, and we've still got an owl on overwatch in the meantime (A creature that has notoriously good vision) which covers the main flaw of being shortsighted in a fight.
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Uh...glasses almost certainly don't exist in this era. I'm very skeptical there's a solution that costs money to the myopia.

Alectai said:
We're not a ranged fighter to begin with, we're a Dragoon, short-sightedness isn't too bad when that's still good enough for combat-range. None of these options make Halla worse at what she's already good at doing, they put flavorful quirks in her character. Her Fylgja is never going to make her worse at what she likes doing.
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The big issue is basically that we need to have our owl out regularly in order to see things coming from far away. That's a risk and point of vulnerability we otherwise don't need. Also, a lot of combat magic is ranged, so there's an anti-synergy there.

She'll still be fine at close combat, sure, but giving up even the possibility of long range combat personally and the ability to not risk our fylgja while scouting isn't nothing.
 
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DeadmanwalkingXI said:
Actually @Imperial Fister can a normal fylgja use a normal shield themselves? Or is that exclusive ton the Shield-Owl? and, if they can, do we still have a shield around we could give our fylgja?
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Glasses very much did exist Back In The Day, and that even eliminates the whole Xianxia magitech stuff being a thing. It's just that they were expensive as fuck and not as effective as the ones that exist today.

But I mean, the QM literally just said "Yep, that's a viable solution", I don't think relatively low-tier Fylgja stuff is going to produce gigantic penalties that will haunt us for the rest of the game. This is taking a minor physical impairment that can--in the long run--be mitigated in exchange for opening up magic early. It's a good deal I feel, and might pick up some neat tricks that aren't necessarily on the ordinary curriculum, since it's apparently plucking them out of the fucking Shadow Realm or something when we're not looking.
 
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Alectai said:
Glasses very much did exist Back In The Day, and that even eliminates the whole Xianxia magitech stuff being a thing. It's just that they were expensive as fuck and not as effective as the ones that exist today.
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Glasses were invented in the 1200s at the earliest (there's some dispute, but definitely not before that). Individual lenses ala a magnifying glass for reading have existed much longer, but not actual glasses you wear on your face, which is what we'd need.

Alectai said:
But I mean, the QM literally just said "Yep, that's a viable solution", I don't think relatively low-tier Fylgja stuff is going to produce gigantic penalties that will haunt us for the rest of the game. This is taking a minor physical impairment that can--in the long run--be mitigated in exchange for opening up magic early. It's a good deal I feel.
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He said if we get some they'd work. I would actually assume that, with xianxia magitech stuff, something like that can probably be acquired...but I'm pretty sure there aren't any of those anywhere close and we very possibly cannot get them for mere money. I think we're basically talking magic item territory here.
 
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Glasses were invented in the 1200s at the earliest (there's some dispute, but definitely not before that). Individual lenses ala a magnifying glass for reading have existed much longer, but not actual glasses you wear on your face, which is what we'd need.



He said if we get some. I would actually assume that, with xianxia magitech stuff, something like that can probably be acquired...but not anywhere close and very possibly not for mere money. I think we're basically talking magic item territory here.
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It is very nearly the year nine thousand A.D. , just because society never culturally left the middle ages doesn't mean it didn't advance.
 
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It is very nearly the year nine thousand A.D. , just because society never culturally left the middle ages doesn't mean it didn't advance.
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It pretty explicitly does? Like, the QM has said repeatedly that for the most part the tech is based on the late 800s. An exception was made for plate armor but it was very explicitly an exception. Another exception for glasses is possible, but seems like a big assumption.
 
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It pretty explicitly does? Like, the QM has said repeatedly that for the most part the tech is based on the late 800s. An exception was made for plate armor but it was very explicitly an exception. Another exception for glasses is possible, but seems like a big assumption.
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I don't see why he'd have answered in the affirmative if the difficulty of acquiring vision correction was utterly prohibitive. He'd have given it a caveat if that was the acse.
 
So yeah, it's a headache, but it's not some insurmountable obstacle that will Ruin Things Forever. And it opens up our access to Magic, which is one of the things our build requires to really pop off given our Hugr specialty.
 
More importantly, I'd prefer to have a quantifiable Problem that we can work around in advance with a number of reasonable Solutions than a general Bad Idea Compel like Learning-Owl is.

There are, in fact, things that are Best Left Unpoked.
 
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