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NorseQuest: Collective Edition (Group-Based Xianxia Settlement-Builder)

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That's also assuming we could even chart a course back. I think you need to be approaching the level of the late king to start travelling the branches of yggdrasill and it sure seems like we aren't on Midgard anymore
 
theknightofiron said:
That's also assuming we could even chart a course back. I think you need to be approaching the level of the late king to start travelling the branches of yggdrasill and it sure seems like we aren't on Midgard anymore
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Why do you think we aren't on Midgard? Nothing we've seen is actually weirder than the stuff that already exists in the Norse's backyard. Sure, it doesn't play by the Norse's rules, but then, neither does a lot of the stuff you find outside NorseQuest's equivalent of Scandinavia.
 
Simon_Jester said:
Why do you think we aren't on Midgard? Nothing we've seen is actually weirder than the stuff that already exists in the Norse's backyard. Sure, it doesn't play by the Norse's rules, but then, neither does a lot of the stuff you find outside NorseQuest's equivalent of Scandinavia.
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Mostly that we found out that Thor showed up for a few years a long time ago, killed all the overlords and then left. The onigar are set up in a place where his hammer struck the ground and now seems to have some sort of natural lightning magic going. Which Anja is not happy about a group of unfaithful giants squatting on holy sight for thor
 
Simon_Jester said:
Why do you think we aren't on Midgard? Nothing we've seen is actually weirder than the stuff that already exists in the Norse's backyard. Sure, it doesn't play by the Norse's rules, but then, neither does a lot of the stuff you find outside NorseQuest's equivalent of Scandinavia.
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It's the...disconnectedness of it, I think. The creatures, cultures, and monsters here don't actually synch up with any specific real world place, it's too much of a grab bag, and a combination of things the Norse would have heard and things that are completely unknown.

OOC we seemingly have Japanese Oni, Mesoamerican Mortals, Egyptian Cultivators/Creatures of some sort, and what seem to be actual demons ala pop culture with red skin and pitchforks, to say nothing of the dinosaurs, or the Greek trireme. The pieces don't fit. That's even more true OOC than IC, but even IC parts of it are possible to know (a well traveled Norseman might well have heard stories of the Egyptian gods being animal headed, for instance).

Thor having been here a while ago in person and killed a bunch of rulers is also relevant. If that happened on Midgard, we would've heard about it.
 
mythfan12 said:
Wait, when did Thor show up?
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So, I mentioned it in my Expedition Summary. But according to the local mortal humans, a while back (several generations ago) a guy who looked like us but with storms in his eyes and a hammer showed up (with his retainers) and killed a bunch of the more unpleasant local bigwigs (and defended the mortals, while he was around), then eventually left. That sure sounds like Thor.
 
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DeadmanwalkingXI said:
So, I mentioned it in my Expedition Summary. But according to the local mortal humans, a while back (several generations ago) a guy who looked like us but with storms in his eyes and a hammer showed up and killed a bunch of the more unpleasant local bigwigs, then eventually left. That sure sounds like Thor.
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Damn, must have missed that. Yeah a god casually showing up to Midgard without any tricks is almost never done.
 
mythfan12 said:
Wait, when did Thor show up?
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The leader of the native village told us about men like us that arrived a long time ago. As in a story long time ago. They were led by a man with stormy eyes and a hammer. He killed all the overlords of the land and then left. The hammer was potent enough that it struck the ground a days sail up the coast and it's still a site of powerful magic. Sounds like Thor to me
 
Hopefully this will be the last time I update my passive actions for this season.

Just a bit of character writing, Grid really isn't doing any of the physical work that's been listed, she's having her Ice Golem's do all of that for her, making her house, setting up the farm and such.

[X] Grid Frostdottir Passive Actions
-[X] Attend Moli's party
-[X] Hang the Void Eagle Skull in her house.
-[X] Set up farms on both of my cleared lands
-[X] Take some of the communal bonemeal to use on her farmlands
-[X] Use my Mushling Spawnbag to grow a Mushling and have it set to work on my farms growing Golden Grass, specifically growing that grass in sheltered locations
-[X] Continue learning the natives language
-[X] Work on building defenses around her home, including runework and the like.
-[X] Grid has been busy establishing a place in this lands and has not spent a lot of time with her younger brother Vlos, spend some time with him.
-[X] Ask the seeress to take a look at the Black Communication Orb Grid got from the Necromouser and ask what it does and how to use it
-[X] Since Grid has the ability to go the to Spirit World now with Void-Step, ask the seeress what to expect in the spirit world and what important information she is aware of, also if Grid should bring anything for an adventure to the spirit world
-[X] Hunt minor beasts and store their blood as blocks in my flygja to use to power my rune items
-[X] Create a Rune Compass with wood and blood/paint to locate the Void Eagle
--[X] Craft a wooden circle and a wooden arrow and use a wooden stake to place the wooden arrow onto the wooden circle. Write the Rune's on the wooden arrow. Attach some of the Void Eagle's skin to the circle and arrow.
--[X] The inscription will be "Will point in the direction to the closest alive beast that is the same race as the beast's skin that is attached to this compass"
-[X] Create a Rune Flashbang by taking a piece of wood and fashioning it into a small board that can fit in one's palm. On it inscribe the rune's "When this wood board breaks, 1 second later a big flash of light will come out of it". Use paint to activate the runes.
-[X] Create a Rune Necklace with a brass necklace that Skuli Draugrhater created and gave to Grid in return for a Rune Item that he wants. If the brass necklace could not be made then make it with wood. Inscribe onto the Necklace the runes "The person wearing this necklace, will transfer all damage they receive from an individual back to the individual that inflicted that damage upon the necklace wearer", use animal blood If I have it, if I didn't get any then use paint
-[X] Create a Rune Ring with wood and if there is blood then that, if not then paint. The rune's inscribed on it are "Any Ice generated by the wielder of this ring, their form cannot be changed by external forces, only by the wielder of this ring".
 
DeadmanwalkingXI said:
He did, but he implied his ability to act and do things like kill people was extremely limited on Midgard and we saw other evidence of the Gods being limited there as well. It's the 'killed a bunch of rulers' part that makes it unlikely to be Midgard.
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Also IIRC, he showed up in the time between moments, so it seemed like he had limited ability to act across a good amount of time.
 
DeadmanwalkingXI said:
Thor having been here a while ago in person and killed a bunch of rulers is also relevant. If that happened on Midgard, we would've heard about it.
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Would we, though? Like, if it had happened anywhere within a reasonable sailing distance of Norse lands, yes. But if Thor got up to some shenanigans in the equivalent of North America, I dunno.

DeadmanwalkingXI said:
OOC we seemingly have Japanese Oni, Mesoamerican Mortals, Egyptian Cultivators/Creatures of some sort, and what seem to be actual demons ala pop culture with red skin and pitchforks, to say nothing of the dinosaurs, or the Greek trireme. The pieces don't fit. That's even more true OOC than IC, but even IC parts of it are possible to know (a well traveled Norseman might well have heard stories of the Egyptian gods being animal headed, for instance).
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To be fair, animal-headed beings aren't necessarily from Egyptian mythology; there are a LOT of cultures that imagine people with animal heads. But I get what you're saying. We COULD be in some kind of weird alternate realm that just isekei's shit at random from all over the cultivating world into itself.

mythfan12 said:
Also IIRC, he showed up in the time between moments, so it seemed like he had limited ability to act across a good amount of time.
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Huh?

Jaguar2234 said:
"When this wood board breaks, 1 second later a big flash of light will come out of it". Use paint to activate the runes.
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Do we have a runic word for "a second?" I don't think the Norse are all that big on precision timekeeping.
 
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Simon_Jester said:
Huh?
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Found the post in question thanks to @Oshha giving me it.

I.F. Ister said:
As he releases your hand and twirls his hammer through the air, you notice that time seems to have stopped around you. Or, more specifically, it's as if it's at a Standstill.

He winks as he waves goodbye, disappearing in a flash of multicolored, rainbow light.

Halfdan coughs as the flow of time resumes.
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This is what made me think he stopped time.
 
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Moli's Prose for the Quarry Expedition (Shard)
  • Apocrypha
    • Moli's Prose for the Quarry Expedition

    Three of the two trees, mused Moli, was good. Putting a story in poetry was made easy. But so many, for any to shine, all others put down for one to be tall. Such a shame was much. Better more word for the ore-story, make different poetry.

    "Weighty day made, to eight today,
    Ware upon stone-ponder owners.

    Stonelicker, stone-flicker stoning,
    Sky now stone falling down-tumbling.

    Bring living axe, wring stride aside,
    Bright shield lashes, buys life in flash.

    Twisting world-space, twinned sword and sax,
    Thunder trembles, sunder troubles.

    Moment between, Bjorn be seen,
    Movement returned, now head be turned.

    Floating seeds fly, blooding shield breaks,
    Flatfooted, twist, twirl, heads now mist.

    Arrow shatters, narrow path seen;
    Akali offers, life for life.

    Price now he paid, sacrifice made
    Poppy now blooms, from horned story."

    AN: I made this format up because there are too many characters so I need to extend things.

    It should be 8x twinned alliterating lines with internal rhyme for 8 syllables each.
     
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  • Apocrypha
    • Hey so I know I died but one of my passives was to send Akali's siblings to any house that'll take them to help farm golden grass, does anyone wanna take them since we can assume IC his death prob wasn't immediate?
     
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    Abensur said:
    Hey so I know I died but one of my passives was to send Akali's siblings to any house that'll take them to help farm golden grass, does anyone wanna take them since we can assume IC his death prob wasn't immediate?
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    Absolutely.

    Kids shouldn't be left alone, especially in these lands. Bjarneson's family (his mom and younger siblings) would absolutely be willing to watch your siblings.
     
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