NorseQuest (A Norse Xianxia)

Hunter531 · Jul 16, 2023

w4terghost said:
I think Gabriel might actually be in a similar situation.
It sounds like him telling us too much might have Repercussions.

Or he might incorrectly think that there would be Repercussions based on Halla's vague warnings.

Shard · Jul 16, 2023

Hunter531 said:
Or he might incorrectly think that there would be Repercussions based on Halla's vague warnings.

The most annoying thing about wordplay is that sometimes people can misunderstand you.

I.F. Ister · Jul 16, 2023

Shard said:
Should be 2 less, since I used one each on the runework results.

Fixed. I praise your integrity!

Shard said:
1) When you use Seidr to open someone's gate as part of healing them (ex: Stabilizing Hand), is it part of the spell to close the gate immediately after, or does the gate simply 'close by itself'?
2) For spells like Time Heals All Wounds, is the person's Gate constantly open and you manage their Odr, or is the healing effect entirely mediated by your Orthsirr?
a) With Gabriel specifically, did you open his Gate, then supplied your Odr through his Gate, or did you provide your Odr in a way to entirely bypass the 'Open the Gate' mechanism/requirement?
3) Does Eyetalking involve The Gate at all?

1) Both, in a way
2) The former
2A) You used your own odr
3) It does not

Skippy said:
Maybe make this + (Hamr) successes? Would make the scaling less punishing until you get to higher levels, and actually make it quite a useful item for "Steady Ranks Ups" kinda training, whilst the "double dice" items are good if you're throwing a lot of dice at a Stat to train it quickly. Happy to spend reward dice here if it helps.

I suppose, but I dunno.

As for your other question, it works, but may not be exactly as you intend

As for the atgeir question, it is a sword on a stick. The axe-like design as pictured in Cede's art is, as far as I am aware, not quite accurate.

DeadmanwalkingXI said:
I dunno if we can do all that as part of one action, though. @Imperial Fister, in addition to Skippy's questions above (which are relevant), how many runes can we actually do as part of the action to reforge Sagaseeker?

All part of the same action

TheCount · Jul 16, 2023

Ah, slice of life. i like it.

5 pages to go... i see a lot of discussion happened.

Imperial Fister said:
Gabriel's Demons
-Gabriel's hiding something, maybe even some*things*. He even lied about them. You have your suspicions, but they're not certain.

Yeeeeep. we will definitely pry. later, but pry we will!

Imperial Fister said:
Norsely Armor? Nordic Armor? Hmm...
-You know... If Knightly Armor is a shell, then what happens if *you* try and fill it? The first step is acquiring a set of Knightly Armor. While you're sure that Gabriel would be rather hesitant to give you his armor — if he even considered it — he might know who or where to point you to get one.

Makes sense. We either pay for one or get one, that was not in use at the time, as a raid loot.
Now, if only we could also get someone to teach us Latin...

Imperial Fister said:
As you raise it to your lips, your eyes trace the bear's open maw serving as a golden mouth for the drinking horn.

Swallowing a small mouthful of sweet mead, you already feel the effects of the bone ash as you pass it on to the next person in line. Strength fills your limbs like fire takes to dry wood as your stamina is increased threefold.

Bear?
Ah, the carving of the horn, i see! Nice touch.

Imperial Fister said:
Minna talk (Hugr (Silver-Tongue): 6x2, 3x3, 2x5, 1x2) 0=1 Success

oof.

Imperial Fister said:
"I was the only girl in the village who would give him the time of day. All the rest refused as he was a foreigner." She smiles, a flash of vindication in her eyes, "I bet they wish they had now, though, as I'm alive and they're not."

'Gods damn.'

You couldn't have said it better yourself.

...
Okay, i love her. We should try this again later!

Imperial Fister said:
Searching for heart of the Hading (Autofail)
No matter how hard you try, your fylgja seems to fail to fly any deeper into the Hading than the Witch's old hut. Every attempt you make, your fylgja gets confused and turned around or a gust of wind drives it back, amongst other things.

...You reckon that you're going to have to do this in person, if you want to do it at all.

Yeah, this was expected, still, at least we know there is something big there.

Imperial Fister said:
The Witch... even though she's dead

looting her house for whatever her killer and Hikir left behind, huh?
Reminds me, do we have her skeleton still?
Because if we do.... i wanna try to talk with her spirit.
With Solrun's support, mind you, but i am interested still.

Toboe said:
Also: We need to make one for ourselves to keep.

One for abjorn, yeah....
And one for Halla, with cow bone ash. Because this one only provides the free trait for man, due to bull ash.

Alectai said:
Hrm, maybe it's that he genuinely can't train his Hamr properly? Because training your Hamr requires you to do things with your body, but he struggles with that because he's in the hole to begin with and there's a risk of Accidents if he tries training it?

Most likely this, if he has the opposite of Giant's Blood:

Imperial Fister said:
[ ] The child has a great deal of natural strength and sense of body. They already stand head and shoulders over their peers and certainly will be of prodigious size should they live to adulthood.
-Gain Boon: Giant's Blood - +1 to starting hamr and makes it easier to raise.

Then he has a harder time training Hamr to begin with.... probably double costs or something?

DeadmanwalkingXI · Jul 16, 2023

Imperial Fister said:
As for your other question, it works, but may not be exactly as you intend

I'm inclined to go with the original wording in that case

Imperial Fister said:
As for the atgeir question, it is a sword on a stick. The axe-like design as pictured in Cede's art is, as far as I am aware, not quite accurate.

So, to be 100% clear, the spirit of a Realized atgeir isn't gonna have problems if you repurpose their blade into a sword @Imperial Fister?

Imperial Fister said:
All part of the same action

Cool. We're definitely doing that, then.

wabbitking · Jul 16, 2023

Hey @Imperial Fister did a new Nisse ever move into the farm?

Shard · Jul 16, 2023

Did people roll for increased Hugr capacity gains from last turn's Tafl Board?

DeadmanwalkingXI · Jul 16, 2023

Alright, so, for the rune sequences on Sagaseeker I'm thinking the following:

On one side of the blade, the current rune-sequence, on the other: "I strike as Sky-Flame, none but the messengers of Yggr shall slow me." (the latter being a kenning for the Gods I found) to hopefully resist effects that slow us, like the spell Sten used during our spar or someone else using a Mire Ward style effect.

Then, on a Socket Stone, we put Crowfeeder's Runes.

Then, on the haft, we could in theory put another set of runes...but maybe we'd be better off sticking with 3? I dunno, 3 is an important number in Norse stuff...

What do people think? Are those good? Should we add a fourth set of runes?

Shard · Jul 16, 2023

DeadmanwalkingXI said:
Alright, so, for the rune sequences on Sagaseeker I'm thinking the following:

On one side of the blade, the current rune-sequence, on the other: "I strike as Sky-Flame, none but the messengers of Yggr shall slow me." (the latter being a kenning for the Gods I found) to hopefully resist effects that slow us, like the spell Sten used during our spar or someone else using a Mire Ward style effect.

Then, on a Socket Stone, we put Crowfeeder's Runes.

Then, on the haft, we could in theory put another set of runes...but maybe we'd be better off sticking with 3? I dunno, 3 is an important number in Norse stuff...

What do people think? Are those good? Should we add a fourth set of runes?

We should put Crowfeeder's runes on the other side of Sagaseeker, so we can abuse Sharpen nonstop.

We should also think carefully about the exact Bone Ash we put into Sagaseeker so that we don't get another Pot Debacle.

DeadmanwalkingXI · Jul 16, 2023

Shard said:
We should put Crowfeeder's runes on the other side of Sagaseeker, so we can abuse Sharpen nonstop.

The whole point of Socket Stones is to apply their runes to the item they're attached to. So...that's part of the plan, yeah.

Shard said:
We should also think carefully about the exact Bone Ash we put into Sagaseeker so that we don't get another Pot Debacle.

I agree. Do you have a suggestion other than 'the most badass cat we can arrange' (which is the current idea)?

Bass11 · Jul 16, 2023

Shard said:
We should also think carefully about the exact Bone Ash we put into Sagaseeker so that we don't get another Pot Debacle.

To be fair the pot debacle was cause of the fact we added a qualifier to the bones, which I think we also did here with the drinking horn.

DeadmanwalkingXI · Jul 16, 2023

Bass11 said:
To be fair the pot debacle was cause of the fact we added a qualifier to the bones, which I think we also did here with the drinking horn.

We did, yeah. 'Strongest bull' had an unexpected but entirely fine effect (the bonus lock-in on conception).

Bass11 · Jul 16, 2023

DeadmanwalkingXI said:
We did, yeah. 'Strongest bull' had an unexpected but entirely fine effect (the bonus lock-in on conception).

Although it also might have been due to the bull bones rather ox bones.
Edit: Are we realizing Sagaseeker next turn? I feel to get quality bones for sagaseeker we'll have to go on a extended hunt.

DeadmanwalkingXI · Jul 16, 2023

Bass11 said:
Although it also might have been due to the bull bones rather ox bones.
Edit: Are we realizing Sagaseeker next turn? I feel to get quality bones for sagaseeker we'll have to go on a extended hunt.

The current plan is to Realize it this turn. Trying to get perfect bone-ash seems like it might take us years and we don't want to wait that long. And remember, Realized items can consume materials to upgrade, so if we get better bone-ash later we can give it to Sagaseeker then.

I.F. Ister · Jul 16, 2023

DeadmanwalkingXI said:
So, to be 100% clear, the spirit of a Realized atgeir isn't gonna have problems if you repurpose their blade into a sword @Imperial Fister?

Depends entirely on the spirit's disposition.

wabbitking said:
Hey @Imperial Fister did a new Nisse ever move into the farm?

You're not sure. Maybe?

Shard said:
Did people roll for increased Hugr capacity gains from last turn's Tafl Board?

Sigurdr got a 6, Abjorn got a 5

DeadmanwalkingXI said:
We did, yeah. 'Strongest bull' had an unexpected but entirely fine effect (the bonus lock-in on conception).

I will say, if you want to add qualifiers like 'strongest' or 'tastiest' and have it do what you want, you're gonna have to make sacrifices in the form of your animal stats.

Mystic Pentagram · Jul 16, 2023

DeadmanwalkingXI said:
Then, on the haft, we could in theory put another set of runes...but maybe we'd be better off sticking with 3? I dunno, 3 is an important number in Norse stuff...

What do people think? Are those good? Should we add a fourth set of runes?

We still need to decode the runes of the Alarm Charm. Maybe we could do something with those?

Or maybe use runes with another effect?

Maybe something related to Wind Hugareida? Since Sagaseeker already has a "storm" theme as a weapon and cultivation is based on creating s story?

Or maybe something on Ategir Hugareida to make Sagaseeker even more powerful?

DeadmanwalkingXI · Jul 16, 2023

Imperial Fister said:
Depends entirely on the spirit's disposition.

Do we have any insight into whether Sagaseeker would be okay with that?

Imperial Fister said:
I will say, if you want to add qualifiers like 'strongest' or 'tastiest' and have it do what you want, you're gonna have to make sacrifices in the form of your animal stats.

Fair. Removed descriptor from the current plan.

Bass11 · Jul 16, 2023

Why not just leave it up to the purview of sagaseeker. I'm not saying we should try to reforge sagaseeker while in a trance but I'm not saying we shouldn't.
Side Note: Couldn't we commune with Sagaseeker if we use heat hold and then do a trance for the duration?

DeadmanwalkingXI · Jul 16, 2023

Bass11 said:
Side Note: Couldn't we commune with Sagaseeker if we use heat hold and then do a trance for the duration?

Maybe? The issue is that Sagaseeker is not fully cognizant yet until the process is done, which makes it a bit tricky to communicate with them.

Bass11 · Jul 16, 2023

DeadmanwalkingXI said:
Maybe? The issue is that Sagaseeker is not fully cognizant yet until the process is done, which makes it a bit tricky to communicate with them.

Then I suppose we'll have to aim for a total trance during the entire forging sequence.

wrecksalot · Jul 16, 2023

Bass11 said:
Then I suppose we'll have to aim for a total trance during the entire forging sequence.

We have a good rune set already, Why would opting to instead totally zone out result in a better effect?

Heck, we kknow that the whole strange mood style stuff is how Infused crafting skills work, and those are dangerous.

TheCount · Jul 16, 2023

Imperial Fister said:
Tinder Blades: A short-to-medium range Stoker State trick that unleashes a flurry of hardened fire knives at an enemy. Does little damage on its own, but is great for area denial. (Rough: 0/3)

Hm... is it just one attack or more? Because it says flurry.... if its more, this would be great for stripping defenses passive defenses like Reinforce shield.

Alectai said:
spending dice on figuring out how to copy the parchment and what we should use to write with.

We do have the (assumed to be infinite) Magic pencil....
We could get homework for identifying stuff from Solrun? Not this turn though.

DeadmanwalkingXI said:
[X] Plan Saying Goodbye To Aki And Hello To Sagaseeker

[Insert iamge of friendship is over with Aki, Sageseeker is my new best friend]
Funny name, thats all.

DeadmanwalkingXI said:
What would you like to do for it?
--[X] Aki
--[X] Basically use Yule as his going away party (among other things)

pff.
Sorry, just, find this funny. Exact wording and all that entails....

DeadmanwalkingXI said:
-[X] (Empty Sack) ...Maybe you should try stuffing that empty sack full of straw?

OOOOOOOHHHH!!!!!!!!
ITS HAPPENING!
OUR NEW FARMHAND/TRAINING PARTNER IS AWAKENING!!!

DeadmanwalkingXI said:
--[X] Try and train a Gale Trick for manipulating sound in an area...keeping the wind from carrying sound making absolute silence, words whispered on the winds as messages, all that kind of thing 1d6

Ah, finally, the battlecom or the stealth field.... very nice.

DeadmanwalkingXI said:
What do people think? Are those good? Should we add a fourth set of runes?

I agree with Shard. the socket stone can be switched out, better we put Crowfeeder's on the blade. also, less of our blood needed to keep it colored that way.
As for other ideas for the socket stone...
How about a double tap effect? Something like... "As the smith strikes many times with his hammer at work, so does my wound-limb strikes at you"
yeah, not that great wording... but i couldn't think a good kenning for the follow up after the wound limb...

Edit: Damn, got so distracted by looking for kennings that i forgot to vote, thanks for the reminder Pentagram!
[X] Plan Saying Goodbye To Aki And Hello To Sagaseeker

Mystic Pentagram · Jul 16, 2023

[X] Plan Saying Goodbye To Aki And Hello To Sagaseeker

I forgot to vote. There it is.

DeadmanwalkingXI · Jul 16, 2023

TheCount said:
I agree with Shard. the socket stone can be switched out, better we put Crowfeeder's on the blade. also, less of our blood needed to keep it colored that way.
As for other ideas for the socket stone...
How about a double tap effect? Something like... "As the smith strikes many times with his hammer at work, so does my wound-limb strikes at you"
yeah, not that great wording... but i couldn't think a good kenning for the follow up after the wound limb...

I do think that even if we put Crowfeeder's runes on the blade, the 'anti-slowing' runes would be useful...but we do have room for four Rune sequences in total, at least in theory (one on each side of the blade, the Socket Stone, and the haft). We could add something aiming for double tap as well...though I agree we need better wording. Hmmm.

But with multiple people requesting it, I'll swap Crowfeeder's runes to the blade and the 'anti-slow' to the Socket Stone for now.

DeadmanwalkingXI · Jul 16, 2023

So, going with the smith thing, I found 'iron-tree' as a Kenning for smith, which would lead to this:

"As the iron-tree strikes many times at their work, so does my wound-limb strike at the foe."

I'm still not sure if that quite works, though. Maybe?

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