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NorseQuest (A Norse Xianxia)

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It seems that the dwarves are much more comfortable and familiar with total war than Halla has even heard of.

Sorry, Halla. It gets worse.

[X] Go to one of the other teams
-[X] Lignite, in the foreman's suite, where Oinn is

Let's not stick around.
 
Huh. Well, I can understand Halla finding that unpleasant, but it's unsurprising given what we know of the dwarves.

[X] Go to one of the other teams
-[X] Shale, in the warehouses

Let's see if there's more loot to be had.

Alectai said:
Welp, that should about cover Abjorn 's armor needs
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Nah, we need 500 for Abjorn. 400 even for short mail. Double the normal amount. 60 dwarven coins might make up the difference but I wouldn't count on it.

It'd be enough to satisfy all our other Forged Iron needs for some time, but not that.
 
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Imperial Fister said:
This... this isn't combat. This isn't war, not what it should be.
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It only gets worse from here, Halla.

Much worse.

You've said it yourself. What war should be.

But that is not what war is. Deceit, trickery, carnage, horror. Never letting your enemies have a fair play. All that matters is that your enemy is dead and you are not, all the better if they never got to fight.


...Having said that the Lukarlings were literally using The Desire (Sunlight) against the Ducklings, soooooo I have to ask - Where would you be if you had once been on the other side of this?
 
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Really solidifying my view of Dwarves as computerized corporations, lol. I guess as far as Dwarves are concerned a bodily dwarf is more like a finger, or maybe a hand.

They're basically ants, huh? Chemical warfare and all sorts of craziness abound there.
 
I don't regret going on this expedition. The rewards seem very nice, the difficulty has so far been manageable, and the Ducklings are in the right inasmuch as they are defending their existing territory which they have held for generations from invaders and have peaceful trade with the existing human denizens of the area. The potential for ongoing trade with the Ducklings, hopefully including the ability to examine their grove and trade food for iron with them, also remains excellent. And we've learned a lot about what dwarves are actually like to boot, which is no small thing and likely to be useful in the future.

But I also don't blame Halla for never wanting to do this again. All that's a lot easier to say when you aren't actually watching your allies massacre their opponents and prepare to eat them.
 
[X] Go to one of the other teams
-[X] Dolomite, in the barracks

...Man if the Dwarves knew Halla had the Unending Time in the Sunlight spell.. would they have asked...
 
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Shard said:
Really solidifying my view of Dwarves as computerized corporations, lol. I guess as far as Dwarves are concerned a bodily dwarf is more like a finger, or maybe a hand.

They're basically ants, huh? Chemical warfare and all sorts of craziness abound there.
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It's called Cannibalization.
 
What sort of armour is the dwarven light armour?
If it's mail then we don't really need to reforge anything to make a hauberk for Abjorn, we can disassemble it into sheets of mail and reassemble them into one big suit.
 
The Lone badger said:
What sort of armour is the dwarven light armour?
If it's mail then we don't really need to reforge anything to make a hauberk for Abjorn, we can disassemble it into sheets of mail and reassemble them into one big suit.
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It's lighter than mail, or at least smaller (these are dwarves we're talking about) since one suit of it is apparently only 120 oz. of iron and mail is 250 oz. for a normal sized person. We've been told we need 500 oz. for Abjorn.

I suspect it's probably their equivalent of 'short mail' which is only 200 oz. for people our size.
 
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As an aside, does anyone think it's hilarious or ironic that we started Dwarven Realpolitik right as the Sun Rating got introduced?

really good metatiming on our part
 
[X] Go to one of the other teams
-[X] Shale, in the warehouses

Let's find some good stuff then get out of this Helheim-hole.
 
Imperial Fister said:
(How Effective are the Weapons? 99)
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Oooh, this will be interesting.
Imperial Fister said:
Toki laughs and slaps you on the shoulder. "Hah! Would you look at that!" He shouts with glee as he waves a hand at the charge-turned-carrion field. "Looks like Lurkalings make good tinder!"
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Coaldwarves!
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You offer a shallow nod, slowly realizing that Sagaseeker had fallen from your grip. The smile had fallen into an open-mouth gasp as the onset of horror stokes a sickness in your stomach.

This... this isn't combat. This isn't war, not what it should be.

This is a slaughter, nothing more and nothing less.

No Norseman would think this good, yet the dwarves laugh and jeer at the piles of burning bodies as the stench of burning flesh fills the chamber.
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Imperial Fister said:
After this is said and done, you're not sure you want to do mercenary work for dwarves again. It's just not right, how dwarves fight. There is no honor here, no drengskapr at all.
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Halla, this is a form of combat, just without the pretentiousness.


Shard said:
Alectai said:
It's called Cannibalization.
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I prefer phrasing it as 'hostile takeover'.
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Humanitarian diet! (Mh, doesn't quite Work for dwarves)

@Imperial Fister
I'll guess that with her reaction the topic of dwarven boneash is of the table?
[X] Stomach it out anyways (A very hard Composure check, one that can't be solved with calm charges)
 
DeadmanwalkingXI said:
It's lighter than mail, or at least smaller (these are dwarves we're talking about) since one suit of it is apparently only 120 oz. of iron and mail is 250 oz. for a normal sized person. We've been told we need 500 oz. for Abjorn.

I suspect it's probably their equivalent of 'short mail' which is only 200 oz. for people our size.
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It doesn't matter what size and shape it currently is, as long as it is made of joined rings it can be reassembled into any form we want. It's the same thing you do when you repair damaged mail by splitting a section out and patching a new one in, except you're doing it to the whole thing.

...or half the whole thing I suppose, we'll still need a whole lot more links for someone Abjorn's size.
 
The Lone badger said:
It doesn't matter what size and shape it currently is, as long as it is made of joined rings it can be reassembled into any form we want. It's the same thing you do when you repair damaged mail by splitting a section out and patching a new one in, except you're doing it to the whole thing.

...or half the whole thing I suppose, we'll still need a whole lot more links for someone Abjorn's size.
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I was mostly talking about the latter point (ie: we don't have near enough of it), but based on Norse custom that the armor or weapons of fallen enemies are unlucky, we need to melt it down and reforge it even if that's not physically required. Giving Abjorn unlucky armor would be bad.
 
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