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Knight of Wessex (A Written World Quest)

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Alectai said:
A strange feeling starts to twist in the pit of Audrey's stomach as she watches the large, half-naked, and very-much muscle-bound Norsemen grapple with each other. Why would they do that? She supposed that it made sense because you were going to get your clothes dirty and all that but it's just.

Coughing and shaking her head to rid herself of- of whatever that was,
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Audrey...Girl...

Anyway, An opportunity to go full dynasty warriors for a minute huh?
 
Alectai said:
One Norseman starts showing off their Revelations—or, as the Norse call them, 'kunna'—by blasting the sea with bolts of lighting while a second Norseman joins with a display of flame. Another starts summoning spectral horses to gallop across the waves while yet another conjures images of ghostly swords to stab at the waters.
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'...bolts of lightning* while...'
 
AeonIlluminate said:
My plan so far, these guys aren't really able to do much to us beyond attack more times than we can block, Crowley can cover the field in blinding effects to mostly solve that, and we can then chop everyone to bits. Plus, we have a solid kit to deal with whoever turns up to try and kill us afterwards. Any suggestions?
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Bouncing leap might circumstantially boost Bradamante's charge and would make pinning us down in the second round even harder. Maybe even set us up to cycle charge them while the fog and mist is still disrupting them, and using bouncing leap to temporarily break contact could be really strong with cloak of invisibility.

As for slotting it in? I think we could afford to set aside the stamina prayer, this is explicitly going to be a pretty short fight where the enemy will probably start trying to break contact if they can't win before they start taking stamina penalties, we've got enough stamina for four rounds, and even if we eat minor penalties the Norse are going to substantially more tapped out while our baseline is significantly higher than Aldwin's was during the tournament.
 
Alectai said:
A strange feeling starts to twist in the pit of Audrey's stomach as she watches the large, half-naked, and very-much muscle-bound Norsemen grapple with each other. Why would they do that? She supposed that it made sense because you were going to get your clothes dirty and all that but it's just.

Coughing and shaking her head to rid herself of- of whatever that was, Audrey instead turns her mind from people just stripping down this close to the sea when it's not that warm and towards what they're actually doing. Or, at least, what it appears like they're doing.
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we should email our parent about this lol.

Time for the birds and the bees, i want to feel the uncomfortable feeling from her parents.
 
Oh ye, quick question that isn't immediately relevant. With Reaper's March:
Alectai said:
Reaper's March: A Meditation intended for use when outnumbered, the Reaper's March is a special combat stance that allows for striking at multiple targets with a single blow. Reinald doesn't recommend you study it until you can sort out your cost overrun, but when you're fighting Norsemen in the battle line–this is an excellent technique to have on hand.
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Are we paying like tons of Fervour per turn for effectively doubling every attack, or are we paying a bit to be able to do each attack twice per speed, including paying for them twice?
 
It adds more valid targets, this means something like Sweeping Strikes will hit more than three targets, and basic attacks will hit at least one more.
 
Karugus said:
Bouncing leap might circumstantially boost Bradamante's charge and would make pinning us down in the second round even harder. Maybe even set us up to cycle charge them while the fog and mist is still disrupting them, and using bouncing leap to temporarily break contact could be really strong with cloak of invisibility.
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I thought about this a bunch, but I think Bradamante has it covered well enough already with her "Swift Steed" ability:
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-Swift Steed - As part of defending or attacking, Bradamante can move a fair distance, further than most random opponents anyway, and her land speed in combat is generally increased.
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@DeadmanwalkingXI

Could Bradamante flood the battlefield with water from the ocean, like an inch of water, and then have Crowley use Thunderbolt to stun all the norsemen within that area by striking the water.
 
Alectai said:
She's more confused than anything, Audrey just doesn't care a bout that kind of thing, she's more wondering why they're making things more unpleasant by stripping down when it's really cold.
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Yeah. Audrey is just confused.

Jaguar2234 said:
@DeadmanwalkingXI

Could Bradamante flood the battlefield with water from the ocean, like an inch of water, and then have Crowley use Thunderbolt to stun all the norsemen within that area by striking the water.
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Probably not, no. His lightning bolts aren't super powerful, you could likely hit a couple of people by getting them in the water, but more than two or three and it'd be way too little charge per person.
 
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I made a change to my plan, I added more stuff into tactics about what our Companions should do, since they have a lot of AOE Prone attacks, I took Horde-Breaking Charge out and put back in Perfect Footing.
 
Jaguar2234 said:
I made a change to my plan, I added more stuff into tactics about what our Companions should do, since they have a lot of AOE Prone attacks, I took Horde-Breaking Charge out and put back in Perfect Footing.
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I have one suggestion, and that's to add Crowley stunlocking with his lighting attacks while playing overwatch to prioritize anyone that might be able to interrupt Audrey's aura farming exercise
 
Why I like Army Killer I think it should specify the Martial Style being used in the plan. While I feel that Hordebreaker is likely considered the default, an argument could be made for Hard-Fall+Severance just for the extra damage & not having to switch styles in combat.
 
ThreeThird said:
Why I like Army Killer I think it should specify the Martial Style being used in the plan. While I feel that Hordebreaker is likely considered the default, an argument could be made for Hard-Fall+Severance just for the extra damage & not having to switch styles in combat.
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To be clear, Severance only does extra damage to magical field effects (like Hama), as a rule, which most Norsemen do not have. I won't comment on the plan idea itself, but that seems worth noting.
 
TehChron said:
Uhhh, no there isn't

This is a situation where Audrey is massively outnumbered.
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As I said, an argument, Audrey is outnumbered, but we also have a peer to fight later & quickly taking him out with Hard-Fall+Severence would let us get back to killing the horde sooner.

DeadmanwalkingXI said:
To be clear, Severance only does extra damage to magical field effects (like Hama), as a rule, which most Norsemen do not have. I won't comment on the plan idea itself, but that seems worth noting.
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Noted my mistake.
 
Not relevant, but, I just got the rundown of the the Netflix show 'Twilight of the Gods' and thought it would be really cool if Audrey would be able to get something like the 'God Slaying Iron' for a sword, being capable of killing Norsemen more easily because of the property of severing their fate. Without the curse of course.
 
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