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NorseQuest (A Norse Xianxia)

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Lunoros said:
Er wasn't it that as we grew older that it actually started getting activated? Being fully activated at 16? I might be remembering that wrong tho
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No, I mean it's literally Enforced By Magic in the setting, I suspect. But also because that kind of thing is against board rules.

Don't think about it too hard.

Joking aside, seems I was right though that we were massively outclassed for that competition, and did well exclusively due to the dice gods coming in clutch at a critical moment. Let's not do this kind of thing again until we've got more skills backing up.

Oh hey, @Imperial Fister , does upgrading a Hamingja improve the scope of what we can do with it? Or is it a pure dice upgrade when we're using it?
 
[X] Go Shopping (Hugr (Silver-Tongue))
-[X] Buy a Good Gambeson, look at Mail as well

By the way, if the gambeson hits 0 endurance, will it break? Can we repair it?
 
Lunoros said:
You know this just occurred to me but why exactly was it a good idea for a girl with beautiful as a modifier to be in a wrestling competition. I'm honestly amazed none of them well tried anything considering that trait. But the rewards from this were great admittedly.
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1) It is inactive (i think until 16?)
Imperial Fister said:
-Beautiful - Unlocks certain events and makes it easier to charm others. (Currently Inactive as you are 12)
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2) It would probably be extremely shameful (nid).
3) It could (most likely would) lead to repercussions for the one who "tried something".
If not by the organizers then by Hallas family.
 
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Actually...

We've got 7 just by trading our excess knives, as long as the extra toolset we made is worth at least one ounce, that gives us enough. And Decent quality being worth at least one ounce seems like a fair guess to make.

So yeah, we could afford a Good Gambeson, if barely.
 
Yeah, like Alectai says, by selling all of our knives bar the fine one we just got, we reach 7 silver, and I think if we sell our toolsets we could probably afford it.
 
The real problem is that Mail is hilariously out of our league. Even a cheap mail shirt is 150 ounces.

No, Mail would have to be something we make personally, or find somehow. It's too much of a time and money sink to just buy at our current level of income.
 
Alectai said:
The real problem is that Mail is hilariously out of our league. Even a cheap mail shirt is 150 ounces.

No, Mail would have to be something we make personally, or find somehow. It's too much of a time and money sink to just buy at our current level of income.
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Mmm, a good incentive to learn to forge it ourselves, though the iron would still be expensive on its own.
 
Anyway, If I were to hazard a guess. I'd say Gambesons raise your Endurance, but Mail gives you damage reduction.

Plate probably gives you a chance to just straight up ignore an incoming hit.

KreenWarrior said:
Mmm, a good incentive to learn to forge it ourselves, though the iron would still be expensive on its own.
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It's a good thing we've got a big source of skymetal we're trying to figure out how to extract safely, don't you think?
 
I wonder if Sten can craft mail? He's good enough to make a sword. He'd probably have us gather the material ourself, though...
 
Constenanto said:
I wonder if Sten can craft mail? He's good enough to make a sword. He'd probably have us gather the material ourself, though...
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Mail isn't hard to make, it's just super labor intensive and tedious.

But that's still within the game's level of abstraction. With solid Hamr and Hugr and the neccessary Trick for it? Yeah, I could see crafting mail to be mostly a problem of acquiring the materials and spending time on it. The markup is because you need a lot of solid metal and labor to make it. And also probably prestige to a point.
 
Alectai said:
Anyway, If I were to hazard a guess. I'd say Gambesons raise your Endurance, but Mail gives you damage reduction.

Plate probably gives you a chance to just straight up ignore an incoming hit.
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Plausible, but I feel like looking at some might actually tell us for sure, which would be good.

Alectai said:
It's a good thing we've got a big source of skymetal we're trying to figure out how to extract safely, don't you think?
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As I understand it, the object itself is some sort of pottery chucked our way by a cultivator in China, and we don't know what's inside. It could be skymetal, but I wouldn't count on it. It's definitely valuable, whatever it is.
 
Alectai said:
Mail isn't hard to make, it's just super labor intensive and tedious.
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Huh. I would've thought making a bunch of small interlocking rings would be pretty hard, but I honestly don't know much about blacksmithing, so I'll take your word for it. Also, this is a magical xianxia land, so I imagine it'd be easier to smith things here than in real life.
 
Constenanto said:
Huh. I would've thought making a bunch of small interlocking rings would be pretty hard, but I honestly don't know much about blacksmithing, so I'll take your word for it. Also, this is a magical xianxia land, so I imagine it'd be easier to smith things here than in real life.
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Mail is low-skill and high labor, which is why it was the dominant armor design for most of the time between the fall of Rome and the proliferation of articulate plate armor in the 14th century. The infrastructure to make plate just didn't exist after the fall of Rome and took the better part of a millennia to get back to a point where you'd start seeing it show up.
 
Alectai said:
Mail is low-skill and high labor, which is why it was the dominant armor design for most of the time between the fall of Rome and the proliferation of articulate plate armor in the 14th century. The infrastructure to make plate just didn't exist after the fall of Rome and took the better part of a millennia to get back to a point where you'd start seeing it show up.
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Uh, yeah, that makes sense. I somehow completely forgot that mail was used a lot back then.
 
Constenanto said:
Uh, yeah, that makes sense. I somehow completely forgot that mail was used a lot back then.
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Yeah, at the end of the day, any village blacksmith can forge mail as long as they know the trick to it, plate requires specialized infrastructure to produce if it's not going to be a liability.

But we're in Xianxia Europe here, which suggests to me that there is plate-and-mail on the table to Norse, it's just probably something exclusive to the proper Kings and major Jarls instead of something you can get in a small farming community, because you need a lot more quality iron to add plate segments onto your hauberk.

Hell, even Full Plate Harness is probably possible, it's just not something you'd likely see because as I said, you need a lot of infrastructure to make it, and the Norse cultivation system isn't very good at establishing permanent infrastructure and rewarding craftsmen for doing things that they can't just do from raw skill alone--which is probably why you need to go to the Dwarves to get the Best Toys, I'd say you could buy or get it from Christians too but they seem to DRM plate harness, which is a bummer.
 
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It was a mistype, sorry about that.

So yeah, our Hugareida in general are better now because Standstill has improved? Beyond just the dice bonuses, stuff like Inertia Arresting now covers a larger area, so we could theoretically capture multiple targets?

Be nice to fully explore what our upgrades will do to our toolkit. Standstill was great even when it was entry level, Tier II should be significantly better.
 
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