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NorseQuest (A Norse Xianxia)

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Alectai said:
The issue is that our Soul is apparently Empty, outside of whatever the fuck is behind the Gate.

Unless...

Unless the issue is that we need to fill that space first...

Shit, that might be it too. The Gate will open on it's own once we've filled the empty space that is Halla's apparent Soul with a Story, or something.
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MAybe we are overthinking and it is just that we haven't done all 3 at the same time. Or 2 until we meet the door and then the third.
We could try imagining a recreation of the grove of sacred treesfrom the marriage post.
Or a cultural practice that could have to do is raising runestones? Could relate to filling that place based on stories about us. (Following the themes of stories/reputation in norse cultivation observed so far)
 
Alectai said:
The issue is that our Soul is apparently Empty, outside of whatever the fuck is behind the Gate.

Unless...

Unless the issue is that we need to fill that space first...

Shit, that might be it too. The Gate will open on it's own once we've filled the empty space that is Halla's apparent Soul with a Story, or something.
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Absolute genius idea. The first step of refinement in every Xianxia novel is like filling a Qi Sea or Dantian or whatever term ends being used. Norse do not do stuff like this but should, we have to find something to fill with orthstirr before we can refine it!
 
Hmm. If the Sea Peoples were tools of the Enemy, there's a good chance that the Norse, raiders and destroyers that we are, are also tools of the Enemy.

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KreenWarrior said:
Hmm. If the Sea Peoples were tools of the enemy, there's a good chance that the Norse, raiders and destroyers that we are, are also tools of the Enemy.

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Is "the Enemy" controlling the Norse, with some other "the Enemy" like entity controlling Christianity (ditto for all other cultivating cultures we may encounter)?
Are humans just pawns in the game of some uncaring creatures?
 
KreenWarrior said:
Hmm. If the Sea Peoples were tools of the enemy, there's a good chance that the Norse, raiders and destroyers that we are, are also tools of the Enemy.

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Nonsense we cannot be the baddies if we are unwitting puppets of the anti (humanity?) but what could it be? They are widely successful if we decide timeline stretching is not real but instead they work to stagnate and slow human progression in all forms (could be an interpretation of the anti Christ ... if the concept wasn't an inherently impossibility before the first coming) What we are dealing with is some anti-civilization, humanity, progress, ascension, cultivation, or future entity. Anti-future and anti-progress would seek to extend the human timeline perhaps to delay prophecy of their defeat. Anti-civilization and anti-humanity promote conflict wherever they can, focusing on senseless violence across a wide area (raids and sea people). Anti-ascension and anti-cultivation are a more aggressive take on the a 'will of the heavens'-esque entity that gives trials and tribulations to cultivators, instead of giving deadly trials to aspiring cultivators they actively suppress cultivation advances and keep humans from becoming immortals. The last 2 groups cause timeline strech as a side effects not intentionally.

It to me is likely the middle group, the first is too flimsy of a concept to me and the 3rd seems to have failed based on what is said about Charlemagne.

Anti anti civilization entities could be some sort of primordial belief entity worshiped in masse before proper civilization, then ousted from power and memory by the first religions.
 
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That being said are we keeping a lot of meat keeping sticks around as part of our out and about kit? Or have we taught other people how to craft those things? Since they seem pretty important to have around.
 
KaldorDraigo said:
That curse thing gives me the jeebeeheebees. Good writing, Fister.

Poor Steinarr. i suspect we won't have him around for much longer…..
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He's already massively beaten the odds, but this looks like he's on the way out now, unfortunately.

Bass11 said:
That being said are we keeping a lot of meat keeping sticks around as part of our out and about kit? Or have we taught other people how to craft those things? Since they seem pretty important to have around.
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It's honestly probably best handled as a reason why our storage is so good, but Runes need to be at least somewhat mysterious or they stop working well apparently.

[X] Muna: The Return of Stigr (Gives Twist: Hidden in Rags)

[X] Plan Dealing With The Curse
 
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Alectai said:
It's honestly probably best handled as a reason why our storage is so good, but Runes need to be at least somewhat mysterious or they stop working well apparently.
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Nah i don't see that in the rules for Runes info post, they work best based on the surface they are made on, what seeps in, and most importnatly the wording, conciseness = potency but a longer rune needs a bigger surface and more seeping liquid and coud runt he risk of ovrcomplexity limiting it or causing contradictions.

Infact acts of magic are called spelled because literacy is the most important aspect
 
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Alectai said:
It's honestly probably best handled as a reason why our storage is so good, but Runes need to be at least somewhat mysterious or they stop working well apparently.
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Actually, we were told how Meat-Keeping Sticks work on storing food. Each expands our storage by 1 (as we presumably stick it in a big wheel of cheese or something) or preserves one entire animal corpse (so if we slaughtered a bull, we could use one stick for 12 Food). So it works to expand storage, but only expands it a lot if we slaughter some animals.

So if we start making them (and we probably will next turn) they are pretty useful en masse.
 
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Imperial Fister said:
He breathed in and Fervor flowed like water down his throat.

It washed through his Temple, coating each nook and cranny with divine light. Waves of power soaked the tapestries and splashed against the stained glass. It pooled beneath the tabernacle, the few motes of Holy Spirit he had contained inside.

He breathed out and Fervor poured like steam from his mouth.

It retreated down the halls and side-passageways. It pulled away from the tapestries and left the glass windows sparkling, twinkling in the midday light. All was gone but the pool before the tabernacle. Shining with Heavenly splendor, the pool of divine Fervor began to sink into the marble floors.

His shackles clanked and Fervor evaporated. It turned to dust and ash in an instant, dirtying his Temple and leaving the taste of salt in his mouth.
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Thought this might be a useful bit to remember, from Gabriel's cultivation. He pulls in and releases a sort of gaseous qi, and the process of pulling it in and releasing it does good things for him, and slowly he uses it to refine something more stable and permanent.

Vikings don't do any of that. Instead, they apparently have some sort of weird cheat that lets their fame just tell a bunch of gaseous qi to hang around and do what they tell it to, so they don't have to do any fo that complicated "cultivation" stuff... and so they never try, because there's no reason to, and so they don't accumulate the liquid qi that's the necessary next step for going any further. They just get way more gaseous qi at their beck and call than is in any way reasonable.

Now... Halla does have some of this liquid. It is "one part of singed feathers, the other of flaming iron (unless that's referring to or part of her virthing and saemd? Maybe even if it is?) She just doesn't have nearly enough.
 
I don't want to do anything especially crazy here, especially given the likelyhood we'll have to fuck off after the Horra arc is resolved, because even if we can do it legally, there's going to be Bad Blood.

Yeah though, I'm looking at this and I'm going "It really does look like Orthstirr in it's "Raw' State is basically akin to ink, or pigment." It's described as viscous and oily in texture, and it's also very colorful too. The use of words are also "Coated" "Drenched", just generally what you'd expect from someone flinging paints around.

While Aspects are Threads, which can be Woven together and then painted on. Hrm, in light of that, I suspect we might actually have to fill the inner Soul-Space before we can open the Gate. Fortunately, we have a pretty good idea that we can start by trying to weave our Saga in the empty space. That might very well be the "Enduring" construct that's required to open it up.

But we'll know more after we do a triple-Aspect Weaving I suspect. Enough to confirm if we need to work in the Empty Space or if we have to work on the Gate.
 
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Alectai said:
I don't want to do anything especially crazy here, especially given the likelyhood we'll have to fuck off after the Horra arc is resolved, because even if we can do it legally, there's going to be Bad Blood.
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Making meat-keeping sticks is a pretty low resource investment. And if we take him out by having him declared an outlaw only his kids are likely to be any problem at all...that's not a major issue, or not major enough to move anyway.
 
DeadmanwalkingXI said:
Making meat-keeping sticks is a pretty low resource investment. And if we take him out by having him declared an outlaw only his kids are likely to be any problem at all...that's not a major issue, or not major enough to move anyway.
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Yeah, fair enough, something to eat Management Dice when we're not otherwise working on the Farm I guess.

By the way, since Wording apparently is important, do you want to add in a clause within our Research to see if we can establish anything inside the Empty Space while we're using our Aspects together? See if it sticks around or if it gets slurped out like everything else does? Like "If it looks like it's putting up resistance, don't force it, try pivoting instead to doing something inside the Empty Space?"
 
Alectai said:
Yeah, fair enough, something to eat Management Dice when we're not otherwise working on the Farm I guess.
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Yeah, that's mostly what I was thinking of. We're gonna have a lot of spare dice over the winter going forward. Even starting as early as next turn we'll have plenty of dice for that.

Alectai said:
By the way, since Wording apparently is important, do you want to add in a clause within our Research to see if we can establish anything inside the Empty Space while we're using our Aspects together? See if it sticks around or if it gets slurped out like everything else does? Like "If it looks like it's putting up resistance, don't force it, try pivoting instead to doing something inside the Empty Space?"
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Sure. I'll toss it in. EDIT: And done.
 
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