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Should be the end of Winter Turn 2 at the earliest if the babies are slightly premature (as triplets tend to be). Could be Winter Turn 3 instead, depending.
NorseQuest (A Norse Xianxia)
- Thread starter I.F. Ister
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Should be the end of Winter Turn 2 at the earliest if the babies are slightly premature (as triplets tend to be). Could be Winter Turn 3 instead, depending.
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Then we should find a midwife of some kind and maybe ask Jeremus to stick around to help with the birth.
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We ideally want a midwife, yes. I'm not sure we know any, though, which might be an issue...maybe the seeress, but we still don't know where she goes for the winter. I'm not sure Jerasmus quite qualifies, but I'll add talking to him about sticking around until we give birth since we're already talking to him this turn anyway, just in case.
We can keep from bleeding out with Stabilizing Palm as long as we stay conscious. But yes, experienced midwifery help would be great. Randi might know something about that, or Haydis, our new employee...
I assume anyone nearby with midwife experience (maybe Randi or Haydis, Jerasmus if he's around) would help out as a 'common sense' thing. I dunno if calling in unknown help from further away falls under that, though.
That's basically why 11d6 is in it this turn. We'll see how far that gets us and how long Halla thinks she still has...if it gets us anywhere close, then we go for Hamr 6...if not, it depends whether we'll be giving birth in Turn 2 or Turn 3.
We've been told this doesn't work with Reinforce Shield, and that's the HP buff...Reinforce might help, I guess? We can try, anyway.
If we can get one, sure.
@Imperial Fister is there a midwife around to our knowledge? Who helped mom through the two births we're old enough to remember? Or Minna through her most recent one?
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As in trying to create something?
You don't need to, there is a default, but you can if you so desire.
He still has 2 shapeshifting slots available to him. He can get exceptionally goofy already.
for reference, these are gonna be 15–20 pound babies at minimum.
Also, with all the talk about murderkittens floating around, I feel I must make something abundantly clear;
Catgirl Halla is Certified Good Civilization.
Fairhair's going to start his shenanigans soon-ish. I can't recall off the top of my head the details about Oslo's founding, but Fairhair had something to do with it, yes?
Yep, I believe I mentioned her way back when I was talking about medicine the first time. Nothing by name.
She's one of the strongest people in Asvir and the surrounding regions. Lotta people singing her praises, lotta people owe her their lives.
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Somebody asked what the most populated town was in Norseland? That'll be Hedeby, in Denmark, with a population of around 1,500 Norse people.
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Awesome. Do we need to invest an action into contacting her, or is that sort of assumed?
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She just kinda shows up when she's needed. If she's not needed, she doesn't arrive.
Very old lady, the Midwife.
...she's not human, is she...
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Hmmm. I think I'm removing asking Jerasmus to stay then, seems like Halla would have more faith in the Midwife than that. If he stays on his own that's fine, but an entirely separate matter.
Alectai
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Good to know! Is it worthwhile putting my Bonus Die there then as added insurance or is it mostly covered by the current Research plan? Doing the Triple Weaving and poking around the Empty Space if the gate is too tough?
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We did! It's listed in our inventory at the moment. I'm not sure what we need to do to give it to him. I'll add offering it to him as part of our action talking to him, I guess?
EDIT: Added offering to give it back to him prior to asking for help. We're not making it conditional, but can't hurt to butter him up a bit.
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Alectai
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It's in our Inventory, so yes.
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We could just give it to him.
"Here, your armor."
Gabriel: Somewhat more dumbfounded.
Clearing/Seeding/Tending Fields: Can we use Fire Hugareida speed up the clearing process? Like, use Campfire to burn everything down to fertile ash.
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I feel like that's rude? I mean offering is the same as that only less rude, I suspect.
This is an interesting idea. I dunno if it's worth a Trick, and we don't need it during winter, but Clearing stuff faster would be good for when we start on our second crop in the Summer (we need 9 fields worth of grain for our animals every year...so one crop from every field is not quite sufficient).
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Let's look at our journal. My annotations in Red.
People who could help with The Curse:
The Seeress (except she's out of town)
The Hading Witch (desperate times.. desperate measures)
Aki's unknown Witch (whom we don't know)
Jerasmus the Medicament (if Steinarr doesn't kill him)
---Negligble/Less Likely---
Aki Runson's Raven Fylgja (Even vague prophecies can help)
Hallr Blackhand (even though his knowledge base is very fragmented)
Halla's Wizard Owl (MAX SUCCESS ON HAMINGJA during Owl Gacha ... could happen.)
Gabriel (there might be a prayer somewhere that can do things. Unlikely though.)
You know what our lingering problems have in common? Magic. Magic people help them a ton. Fight-y people don't help at all. Going forward we should try to recruit more magic and misc people into our home.
I don't think the Meteorite will help with the Curse. In my opinion it is much more likely to be a major combat boost of some kind, or esoteric understanding about cultivation instead.
People who could help with The Curse:
The Seeress (except she's out of town)
The Hading Witch (desperate times.. desperate measures)
Jerasmus the Medicament (if Steinarr doesn't kill him)
---Negligble/Less Likely---
Aki Runson's Raven Fylgja (Even vague prophecies can help)
Hallr Blackhand (even though his knowledge base is very fragmented)
Halla's Wizard Owl (MAX SUCCESS ON HAMINGJA during Owl Gacha ... could happen.)
Gabriel (there might be a prayer somewhere that can do things. Unlikely though.)
You know what our lingering problems have in common? Magic. Magic people help them a ton. Fight-y people don't help at all. Going forward we should try to recruit more magic and misc people into our home.
I don't think the Meteorite will help with the Curse. In my opinion it is much more likely to be a major combat boost of some kind, or esoteric understanding about cultivation instead.
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The passage about Aki and the witch was about him first incorrectly directing us towards the Hading Witch and then correctly towards the Seeress. There is no other Witch, just the one we've met.
Oh, and pedantic note, but I'm not sure the Enemy kept Aki from telling us anything. He might just sincerely not have known why bringing Steinarr was bad, only that it was (presumably from a vision)...he was like 10 years old at the time, I think. Him not knowing something adults don't like to talk about is super plausible. The only one we know the Enemy interfered with is the Seeress.
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So that just leaves Hading Witch, Seeress and Jerasmus as the big magical users we have available to us.
On Horra: Could we try having our Owl track Horra down instead of trying to hunt down where he hid his things from Seergaze? This would be faster than trying to scout all possible Seergaze-blocked location. But more dangerous. If we do this, some way to cloak our Fylgja would be helpful.
Looking at you, Dressed in Rags. And possible stuffing our Fylgja with tricks to keep it from dying if someone tries to kill it (Reinforce-Shield, looking at you).
Oh, also, Aki has Seeing Eyes. he might see more of the Curse, which might be helpful.
We've speculated about it, but this *is* confirmation than Christian people who swear to us don't count for Jarlsoul.
I wonder if they also don't count for the various infocurses aimed at us. It would be an annoying pipeline to manage, but we might be able to get out censored information via a Halla -> Gabriel -> Whoever we want to tell, and vice-versa pipeline. Obviously this doesn't work if we want to make a good impression personally.. But it can be useful if we want to tell Abjorn stuff, for example.
Fister iirc mentioned the Whale Oil as even more clever than intended. What I wonder is if, would we write a new riddle, or re-interpret the existing riddle to allow, ex, Whale Oil?
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Nah, he was at 4/10 before we freed him, he's accurately listed as 7/10 after that.
It isn't. He didn't swear to serve us, just help us with a specific task.
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Oops.
Well, if we can get him to swear to us later, which would admittedly be a tough ask, we can then see if it works.