NorseQuest (A Norse Xianxia)
- Thread starter I.F. Ister
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- Asia
[X] Plan Raid The Town
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- Bretonnia
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There's a mechanics infopost that goes through the intricacies of combat. I'm not actually sure if it's up to date - I think it is? - but it doesn't include the wrap-around rule for Hone and Reinforce.
Here.
Huh. We know someone called 'Sverre Glebsson' who's listed as our enemy, and yet we've never actually met the guy. I wonder if we ever will.
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Eternal_0bserver
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- Earth, Northern Europe
[X] Plan Raid The Manor
[X] Plan Raid The Manor, but with poetry
[X] Plan Raid The Manor, but with poetry
[X] Plan Raid The Manor
I reckon the timidity might be from all the babymaking.
Needs more training
[X] Plan Raid The Town
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My guess would be that it's more they can only grant it for specific acts, or even that they don't technically grant it at at all, they just act as a multiplier for those near them or serving them. But it is only a guess.
I mean, Halla's met him, just pre-Quest. And he's kind of a petty childhood enemy. He probably just doesn't care that much about us (and vice versa) unless he's really been nursing a grudge.
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I meant 'we' as in us, the questers. Wouldn't make much sense for Halla to have an enemy if she hasn't interacted with them in some sort of fashion after all.
And the reason why I'm calling it out is because of the fact that he's just some random schmuck we didn't like as a kid - I don't see why he'd be listed as a foe unless he was secretly important or something. Like, Halla doesn't regularly interact with him - if at all - and he hasn't done anything of note that'd justify Halla listing him as a foe.
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Our childhood enemies mostly hadn't actually done anything important...we were all children. Like, prior to the lake incident we called Osborn Burisson out on a lie once. That's it. For that (and some sexism on their part), he and his brothers attacked us with lethal force and we killed one of them. That was a pretty childish fight for someone to die over, and didn't mean they were important in any grand sense.
By similar token, Sverre tried to kiss Halla and got tossed in a lake by Abjorn. He's honestly probably mostly over it by now, but if Abjorn in particular had run into him when we were 12-13 and the memory was fresh, things might've gone similarly. He was listed as a foe because he might well be one. And heck, he probably still doesn't like Abjorn much. If we ever interact with him we could maybe get him off the enemy list and get him into the 'just a neighbor' category, but we haven't actually done that so there he sits.
I.F. Ister
Fortifying The Thread
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Egil Skallagrimason was five when he put an axe through another boy's teeth — killing him — over a ball. I may be misremembering names and ages.
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Oh, absolutely. Even these days a lot of people have killed someone over extremely petty reasons, and I'll bet a number of murders have occurred for less reason than 'she called me a liar' this year alone. I was just noting that someone being on the Enemy List doesn't mean there's some importance there beyond 'they have a grudge, and any grudge might escalate and end badly'.
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The weirdest part is that he has been there since Winter 1, as someone noted that abjorn threw someone into a pond on February 13th. We would meet him by visiting the glebbson farm obviously. I rather not
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Oh, fair point.
Damn. Life sounds like it sucked back then.
I forgot that we could even visit his farm, tbh. I still don't have much inclination to do so.
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We might want to bury the hatchet at some point to cut down on how many of our neighbors have some sort of grudge, but I'm not feeling a pressing need to do so any time soon, no.
Horra is one of neighbors, and we have the Osborn's farm as well. There is a good chance the Horra vengeance thing might lead to a larger fued within the valley. We should smooth over and visit a few neighbors before going for the confrontation with Horra to be safe.
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We should honestly take care of either the Burissons or Horra's ilk soon. I remember a comment Halla made during the lake battle that the Burissons could start some shit if they had an ally, on account of their large size. From what I remember, Horra's family was also rather large, and I could definitely see him forming an alliance with Burissons to get more power, if only so that he'd have a better chance of killing us. And the Burissons would definitely retaliate if they ever had the power to do so - not against us necessarily, but the Valley, since they're disliked by pretty much everyone.
Maybe preparing a few gifts to give our allied neighbours, like Meat-Keeping Sticks?
Those do sound like life-savers (both in regard to keeping food and warding off infections).
Those do sound like life-savers (both in regard to keeping food and warding off infections).
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The Burissons are greedy and unprincipled rather than enemies per se. They're thieves and opportunists. We don't need to deal with them before dealing with Horra because going after people who've just won a battle is risky as hell and they won't be seeking vengeance even if they are allies because there's no percentage in it. We may well not even need to kill them as there's no feud with the family as a whole only one junior member.
They're disliked and we want to make sure they aren't, like, visiting Horra when we attack, but I think they're not a problem that necessarily needs a murderous solution. I mean, we probably will need to kill Osborn specifically at some point, but I'm getting the vibe that if we then pay weregild we're fine with the family as a whole thereafter...there's not much internal loyalty there from what we've heard.
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Shard
One and Many
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- Malaysia
Interesting note here. Our brother declined to come along. Doesn't want to compete with his sister?
Hopefully that didn't result in lots of - Relations with Flakmarr. That would be complicating.
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This isn't Sten's first raid, I don't think, he may have had a prior commitment of some sort. And I doubt Folkmarr is gonna bear a grudge over being politely turned down...he probably won't care about Sten one way or the other (meaning, I suspect, that he couldn't care less if he lives or dies), but I doubt he's upset or holding a grudge or anything.
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