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Sweet. I'll add it to this roll:
[X] "Yes, yes I am."
[X] "I feel like I've been waiting for this moment my entire life."
Hope your appointment goes well.
NorseQuest (A Norse Xianxia)
- Thread starter I.F. Ister
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- Original Fantasy Action
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- norse mythology (mythology) original xianxia cultivation western cultivation ask sirihand did your mother tell you anything? discussion pleases yggdrasil farming gloating gets people killed granary management hubris is a coward's word you will die norsemen do not die when they are killed the qm has a bad memory the qm is bad at math viking courtroom drama (legal drama) vikings
Sweet. I'll add it to this roll:
[X] "Yes, yes I am."
[X] "I feel like I've been waiting for this moment my entire life."
Hope your appointment goes well.
I.F. Ister
Fortifying The Thread
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Steel gray, like the rest of her red-headed family.
I like to imagine her hairstyle as reminiscent of Guilty Gear's Baiken
Not particularly. An anime-esque one is probably the best fit given the nature of the quest
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Alectai
Speaks Words of Wisdom... On occasion
I.F. Ister
Fortifying The Thread
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Way less 'generously proportioned' and also definitely sporting muscle. But other than that, yeah.
Alectai
Speaks Words of Wisdom... On occasion
Let me see if I can tune that then, if it's pretty close
Alectai
Speaks Words of Wisdom... On occasion
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[X] "Of course!"
Sirrocco
Pedantic
In turn, I'd been thinking about a guy who wanders the earth and winds up doing the Hallr thing and sexing up a wide variety of willing women - ideally including a fair number of sapient magical beasties with interesting bloodlines. Give us some options to work with when it comes time to pick the character after that, and ones that have some interesting heritable traits.
These two, they go together pretty well.
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For the runes... there's an only vaguely trustworthy wiki that suggests that some versions of Surtr's tale have him injured by Freyr's replacement weapon (fashioned of antlers).
More generally, though, his end would have been throwing out so much fire (to destroy the world) that it killed him too - a fitting metaphor for ur little clay piece, which does essentially the same thing - destroying itself to bring forth fire..
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[X] "I feel like I've been waiting for this moment my entire life."
I.F. Ister
Fortifying The Thread
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Hey look, it's Halla!
I'll throw a reward dice your way, but don't expect me to reward ai generated art in the future. I think it's really fascinating in how it works, but there's just a little too much shady stuff going on for me to endorse it right now.
Alectai
Speaks Words of Wisdom... On occasion
It's fine, it's intended as a placeholder, pending someone actually talented. That's how I like using them, because my aphantasia means everyone is an arbitrary blob of ideas if I don't have something to anchor it down with.
I'd still prefer a professional commission artist, but I'm not as wealthy as I used to be since I lost my job
Anyway, put that bonus die on the Muna Check. Wanna get that Magic.
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@Imperial Fister
So, the research roll and the rune don't have a progress counter...we did roll 2 successes and the Rune does have new info, so it seems to have done something. Can we get some idea of how productive assigning training dice is to rune stuff? Not necessarily precise numbers or anything, but it'd be nice to be able to properly compare putting dice into that with dice into other training options.
So, the research roll and the rune don't have a progress counter...we did roll 2 successes and the Rune does have new info, so it seems to have done something. Can we get some idea of how productive assigning training dice is to rune stuff? Not necessarily precise numbers or anything, but it'd be nice to be able to properly compare putting dice into that with dice into other training options.
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How does First Impressions actually work? Does it add dice or something?
I.F. Ister
Fortifying The Thread
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Having hypophantasia myself (the one that's almost aphantasia but not quite), I feel you there.
I'm currently trying something rather experimental with figuring out runes. Essentially, it's up to you, the players, to decode the runes and, upon doing so, you unlock the ability to use them to their fullest extent.
Known runes are stored in training and stats, on your character sheet
If it doesn't work out, we'll swap back to an abstracted rolling method. In which case, I'll count the dice rolled for it this turn.
Adds 1 success.
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Cool. That's fine, we just won't assign dice to it while doing that then.
I'm...not personally great at this kind of puzzle solving, but other people in the thread seem to have some solid ideas!
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Oh, okay. Yeah, I still think I'll keep my reward die on First Impressions with the Jarl. There's enough on the muna rn, imo, plus the fact that we're going to be rolling 7d6 anyway.
Alectai
Speaks Words of Wisdom... On occasion
Incidentlaly, Low-Tide's Gift is absolutely Salt. No questions asked. When the tide goes out, whatever's trapped behind evaporates and leaves salt behind. Which is a absolutely one of the most valuable things that exist in an ancient to middle-aged society, given how it's critical in food preservation.
So, given that, here's what we know.
(Hardened Soft)Pottery meets (Black Man's End), (Force of Fire)Explosion is (Low-Tide's Gift) Salt
Could (Black Man's End) be referring to Pitch by any chance? (Also referring to as Tar), it's a fairly common thing that both catches fire and would probably drag you in and drown you if you fell into it. It's also a fairly common siege weapon used, since burning pitch poured over the wall is one of the famous ways to make problems go away.
Remember, the Rune has to be inked, if that's the case, the first phrase is telling you the Material (Pottery) and the Ink (Pitch), then the second half describes what it actually does. (Explodes)
Actually, given that, the whole phrase honestly describes the entire process of evaporating salt in the first place. You contain it within ceramic bowls, fuel it with peat (Which is one of the precursors to pitch), and burn it, evaporating the impurities and leaving you with salt in the end.
So, given that, here's what we know.
(Hardened Soft)Pottery meets (Black Man's End), (Force of Fire)Explosion is (Low-Tide's Gift) Salt
Could (Black Man's End) be referring to Pitch by any chance? (Also referring to as Tar), it's a fairly common thing that both catches fire and would probably drag you in and drown you if you fell into it. It's also a fairly common siege weapon used, since burning pitch poured over the wall is one of the famous ways to make problems go away.
Remember, the Rune has to be inked, if that's the case, the first phrase is telling you the Material (Pottery) and the Ink (Pitch), then the second half describes what it actually does. (Explodes)
Actually, given that, the whole phrase honestly describes the entire process of evaporating salt in the first place. You contain it within ceramic bowls, fuel it with peat (Which is one of the precursors to pitch), and burn it, evaporating the impurities and leaving you with salt in the end.
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For low-tide's gift, another option is whales. Dead whales washing up on shore are a major find in Norse culture - literal tons of meat, fat and bone. Feuds have been started over claims to a washed up whale. Now, it took me a while to think of how that might relate to fire, but then I realized - whale-oil.
[x] "Yes, yes I am."
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Could 'Black-Man's End' be ash?
Alectai
Speaks Words of Wisdom... On occasion
Whale-Oil would do it, it's one of the best fuels there, and it would stand-in for Black Man's End as well, which makes the phrase balanced. "An Explosion from Pottery, Fuel from Whales"
Or something along those lines.
Thanks. Peat is a great idea for "black man's end" actually - it makes a lot more sense for it to be a peat bog, where bog bodies were thrown, than my half-baked sulfur idea.