I.F. Ister
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I'll allow it
Will it work like you hope? Maybe.
Will it result in a cool-ass scene? You can bet your tuchus on it
NorseQuest (A Norse Xianxia)
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Will it work like you hope? Maybe.
Will it result in a cool-ass scene? You can bet your tuchus on it
I mean, each to their own, I think leading our men brandishing a fifty-feet tall sword of flame and then bringing it down on their camp with the force of a thermobaric bomb would be really cool, honestly! Great way for us to show that we're worthy of being the leader here, and a pretty potent alpha strike.
I'm sure that the big baddie and all the dudes outside of Ground Zero will survive and counterattack, and that's fine, but it's a great way to introduce ourselves with a (literal) bang.
Honestly all I'm really wanting here for is the latter, so sounds good to me!
[X] Shock and Awesome
-[X[ Hit the enemy camp in a sudden assault.
-[X] Leading from the front, we charge the Flame-Tending Blade like a battle-brand to inspire our men.
-[X] Bring it down on their camp like Thor's hammer to start the fight, killing or wounding some, disorienting and disheartening the rest, and announcing our presence.
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I suspect that Finales are obvious enough when charging that the enemy being targeted by them will always get a full turn to respond at a minimum. Hence 'cool scene' with a full turn of our troops spent defending us from the enemies desperate attacks while we charge up. Or, of course, the enemy responds with a finale of their own.
I mean, I could be wrong, but I don't think us choosing to do this will be a sort of retcon magic which introduces the concept of being able to do this into the setting. I think if Fister is saying "yes" to this at all, it's probably an indication that this sort of thing has always been something powerful fighters can do, at a cost, to make a really showy opening to a fight and inspire your allies. It's not actually that different to lobbing a bunch of Spark-Bombs at once, except it looks way cooler.
Objectively it might be better to keep our cards closer to our chest and not show off our big gun, but... we've had the big gun for ages now and never actually gotten to shoot it. Also more pertinently, we're leading a bunch of guys who are older than us, some of whom probably think they're better qualified than us to lead this expedition, so I think a big showy display is a good idea here.
I don't actually expect it will kill more than a handful of them, TBH, but that's fine, it's about presentation.
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I'm actually potentially in for initiating combat with a finisher given IF's approval, but I want to scout them out first to know what the hell is going on. Plus to know where best to deploy it.
[X] Scout it First (v2)
Hmmm, fair enough, I can get behind scouting now if we're going to do the big showy opening afterwards.
Plus it's actually letting Halla do even more Protagonist Shenanigans at risk to herself, and showing her men that she leads from the front and is daring and courageous (but also shrewd) so... yeah, fair enough.
[X] Scout it First (v2)
[X] Shock and Awesome
EDIT: Voting for both, as it was my plan and now someone else has voted for it, but happy to swap over later.
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...in before it's just Jerasmus and his flock 
@Imperial Fister who is good at scouting from our fellag?
Also, what happened with the bone throne of the fenriskin?
@Imperial Fister who is good at scouting from our fellag?
Also, what happened with the bone throne of the fenriskin?
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[X] Shock and Awesome
-[X[ Hit the enemy camp in a sudden assault.
-[X] Leading from the front, we charge the Flame-Tending Blade like a battle-brand to inspire our men.
-[X] Bring it down on their camp like Thor's hammer to start the fight, killing or wounding some, disorienting and disheartening the rest, and announcing our presence.
-[X[ Hit the enemy camp in a sudden assault.
-[X] Leading from the front, we charge the Flame-Tending Blade like a battle-brand to inspire our men.
-[X] Bring it down on their camp like Thor's hammer to start the fight, killing or wounding some, disorienting and disheartening the rest, and announcing our presence.
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Seemed to have 15 based on his attack roll, though he might've had less and another bonus on that roll. Like, if he had something that multiplied it by 1.5 like we would've had if we picked Frenzy Owl, then he might've only had 10. But he definitely had a bunch.
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I'm dubious. Because the people here implied this group has been here for a while, and it's not been that long since we saw Skoll. It's not completely impossible, but it's unlikely.
Seems like it, doesn't it?
Is he nudging things so two storylines resolve themselves together?
Is he getting involved because he likes us and thinks us succeeding here helps in the war against the enemy?
Is he the monster we need to remove, and if we do it right we can just say "Yo, make like a tree and leaf!"?
Is the monster someone we can learn from?
Needs to be scouted.
[X] Scout it First (v2)
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He said we can do it, he didn't say it was a good idea. That's not approval. We can do a lot of things, and a lot of them are not great or good ideas to execute.
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He said it'd be a cool scene, so I'm pretty sure the Nornir don't object and it won't be us just losing instantly. It might be a bad idea, but it's approval in the sense that it's not a bad idea for any meta or story reasons, only tactical ones.
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Could you add on using Magnify-Sight Trick as needed to stretch our Owl's vision further? Since, if we're using magnify-sight and we're caught, we're caught further away, and have a better chance at escaping.
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Owls have absurd eyesight already, but sure. I'm not sure if it works like that, but no reason not to give it a shot. EDIT: And added.
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This stinks of Odin. Wonder why he would go out of his way to do something like this for us, though. Enemy shenanigans, perhaps?
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So, analysis of the final crew we brought, in terms of, like, power level and available stuff (I posted a previous analysis, but that didn't include us, Abjorn, or our various other friends, just the list of recruits...that was more useful demographically, but less so tactically):
By the Valley Power Rankings, in our group, we have 1 person at Top, 5 at Lower Top, 14 at Upper Middle, 9 at Middle, 5 at Lower Middle, and 4 at Upper Bottom, for a total of 38 Norse warriors. For details, see Wavedancer's entry on the character sheet, which now has a 'Crew' listing.
14 have Hugareida noted for them. 15 if you assume Heima Smiles has one. This assumes Gordon Wiggles ability to make things bouncy is a Hugareida, which seems likely.
A total of 5 are Berserks (Us, Heima Smiles, Vagn Wheel-Drifter, Gorm Bloodlsick, and Bjorn Bjornsson)
4 are known to be dedicated archers (Alfe Arrow-Catcher, Stigr, Skalde Sharpshooter, and Ivor Thinbow)
4 have revealed Fylgja (Us, Abjorn, Barki and Randolf Well-Named)
4 are Giant-Blooded (Abjorn, Nokkvi, Tryggr, and Trausti), though there could be a couple more in theory, as Nokkvi being one wasn't mentioned in his crew entry
3 have more than one Hugareida listed (Us and our laundry list, plus Roar Shiningspear who has Fleinn and Light Hugareida, and Abjorn who has Leverage and Silhouette). If Eric has a second one other than Gale, he'd also qualify.
The following Hugareida are available in the group (not counting Halla for this...we know what she has):
2 are objects (Oar, Wheel)
2 are weapons (Fleinn, Shield)
2 are animals (Wolf, Deer)
5 are elemental (Gale x2, Ice, Light, Silhouette)
4 are conceptual (Leverage, Sleep, 'Walking', 'Bounciness')
1 is unknown (Whatever Heima Smiles has)
By the Valley Power Rankings, in our group, we have 1 person at Top, 5 at Lower Top, 14 at Upper Middle, 9 at Middle, 5 at Lower Middle, and 4 at Upper Bottom, for a total of 38 Norse warriors. For details, see Wavedancer's entry on the character sheet, which now has a 'Crew' listing.
14 have Hugareida noted for them. 15 if you assume Heima Smiles has one. This assumes Gordon Wiggles ability to make things bouncy is a Hugareida, which seems likely.
A total of 5 are Berserks (Us, Heima Smiles, Vagn Wheel-Drifter, Gorm Bloodlsick, and Bjorn Bjornsson)
4 are known to be dedicated archers (Alfe Arrow-Catcher, Stigr, Skalde Sharpshooter, and Ivor Thinbow)
4 have revealed Fylgja (Us, Abjorn, Barki and Randolf Well-Named)
4 are Giant-Blooded (Abjorn, Nokkvi, Tryggr, and Trausti), though there could be a couple more in theory, as Nokkvi being one wasn't mentioned in his crew entry
3 have more than one Hugareida listed (Us and our laundry list, plus Roar Shiningspear who has Fleinn and Light Hugareida, and Abjorn who has Leverage and Silhouette). If Eric has a second one other than Gale, he'd also qualify.
The following Hugareida are available in the group (not counting Halla for this...we know what she has):
2 are objects (Oar, Wheel)
2 are weapons (Fleinn, Shield)
2 are animals (Wolf, Deer)
5 are elemental (Gale x2, Ice, Light, Silhouette)
4 are conceptual (Leverage, Sleep, 'Walking', 'Bounciness')
1 is unknown (Whatever Heima Smiles has)
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after seeing the average Norseman's Hugareida, Halla's list of like 7 Hugareida seems even more absurd. not even Steinarr has so many, as far as we know
a fitting heir to Hallr Blackhand!
hmm, about that...
hey Blackhand, do you remember how many Hugareida did you have in life? how many are common among powerful norse warriors, lets say Ironbrother tier
There is the Crew entry from the character sheet.
Some of the people i think we should investigate during the journey: Audman Audsson (i want to know more abaout Audrik family), Selby Terrysson (he probably has some very esoteric Hugareida who makes him look "normal" to everyone else), Gordon Wiggles (i want to know more abaout his Hugareida), Arnfinn Heavystep (i want to know what his deal his, is he unusually powerful or just unusualy big?), Bo Burisson (want to know more abaout him and his family), Bjorn Bjornsson (i want to know what his deal is), Hakon Thunderclap (i want to know how his family is doing).
There are also a couple of people i think could be good to make connections and maybe turn in long term allies like Kare Ulfsson, Oscar Sharphone and Skarde Sharpshooter. They look like they have potential, and maybe if we play our cards right they could swear themselves to us.
I mean, it would be easier to try and have the youngest members of the crew swear to us. They are inexperienced and probably reckless, so we could use that. But i don't think manipulating teenagers in joining our retinue its a very Dreng thing to do.
Unrelated, but when we return we should dedicate a couple of social actions to Stigmar, Tryggr and Trausti. They are our retainers and i feel like we know too little abaout them. Maybe we could spar with them and get their character sheets?
Some of the people i think we should investigate during the journey: Audman Audsson (i want to know more abaout Audrik family), Selby Terrysson (he probably has some very esoteric Hugareida who makes him look "normal" to everyone else), Gordon Wiggles (i want to know more abaout his Hugareida), Arnfinn Heavystep (i want to know what his deal his, is he unusually powerful or just unusualy big?), Bo Burisson (want to know more abaout him and his family), Bjorn Bjornsson (i want to know what his deal is), Hakon Thunderclap (i want to know how his family is doing).
There are also a couple of people i think could be good to make connections and maybe turn in long term allies like Kare Ulfsson, Oscar Sharphone and Skarde Sharpshooter. They look like they have potential, and maybe if we play our cards right they could swear themselves to us.
I mean, it would be easier to try and have the youngest members of the crew swear to us. They are inexperienced and probably reckless, so we could use that. But i don't think manipulating teenagers in joining our retinue its a very Dreng thing to do.
Unrelated, but when we return we should dedicate a couple of social actions to Stigmar, Tryggr and Trausti. They are our retainers and i feel like we know too little abaout them. Maybe we could spar with them and get their character sheets?
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