[X] Plan Hugs Are For Afterwards
NorseQuest (A Norse Xianxia)
- Thread starter I.F. Ister
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- Original Fantasy Action
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- norse mythology (mythology) original xianxia cultivation western cultivation ask sirihand did your mother tell you anything? discussion pleases yggdrasil farming gloating gets people killed granary management hubris is a coward's word you will die norsemen do not die when they are killed the qm has a bad memory the qm is bad at math viking courtroom drama (legal drama) vikings
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- India
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Also, @Imperial Fister, our list of foes still lists the Witch, and doesnt mention she is dead, though the completed journal entry mentions that. Should the Witch be still there under Foes, or at least mention that she is dead.
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- In the oldest city on the oldest land
Cat Blades Rebirth
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We should feed Sagaseeker the hearts of our enemies.
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Specifically the ones killed by it, but yes we should.
Shard
One and Many
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- Malaysia
Man. This one threw me in for a loop, because tabled.
Tabled, like sanctioned, is one of those aggravating words that have two meanings, opposite of each other:
Tabled means a rejected idea. Tabled also means a proposed idea.
English, why.
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- California
By the way, is there a specific reason we never did anything with the seeds we got out of the meteor? You all spent a lot of time and actions working on the project and then just... didn't find out what the seeds actually did. Sure they're cursed or whatever, but I figure we should at least test them and find out what the reward actually was.
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It's one of a number of projects that have hit the wall of 'Wait, how many Research Actions do we have?' That said, I see no reason we can't plant one in the real world right now. I'll add it to next turn's plan, along with a consultation with Steinarr on the subject.
i mean, we could also (or ask Asva to) weave us thight sheets in the size of pages we will use from a durable fiber.
Hm.... So Hugreida based Styles are a thing, good to know.
Just as much as concept based, i assume, because Steinar isn't a Berserk so he has no Frenzy, but he probably meant the middle of the battle here. So, yeah, its either the concept of burning bright and going all out for a better battle or its the warband's personal style, anchored to the warband/Ironjaw.
hm... probably just stealth then, not shadow travel... kinda sad, because this would be great for a stealth fighter but that type just don't mesh with the Norse system well.
i am echoing the others. What?
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As I've mentioned before, stealth is actually still fine in Norse combat with a few specific exceptions. Like, if he can challenge a guy to a fight, vanish, and then grab him from behind while he's confused, that's fine. He just needs to do the challenge part. Stalking people until they are alone before challenging them is also acceptable, as is scouting enemy camps and similar things.
Stealth is still very useful for the Norse, they just aren't allowed to actually stab people who don't know they're there.
IF has admitted it was just an error on his part.
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For skills, he did not specify that, no. Which doesn't mean there isn't something, just not necessarily anything obvious he could easily describe. It might also kick in at level 6 for skills, depending, since they start at level 0 rather than level 1 like stats do.
For Styles, if they mostly work like Stoker State, every odd level provides escalating bonuses, which are likely worth the price of admission for the most part, at least through level 7 in the long term. That's not true of Glima, but Glima has been noted as a weak style, as styles go (Styles being significantly stronger than skills, pound for pound, this still makes Glima pretty great).
Shard
One and Many
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- Malaysia
Could we use Fireside Barrage here?
Also, should we consider attacking in a form of escalatingly harder attacks so Abjorn will adapt?
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We could potentially, yeah. I'd probably only replace the first one, but it's not a bad idea and would show us how Fireside Barrage actually works, which is good info to have, as well as burning through some defenses.
Yeah, okay, I'll throw one of those in.
I feel like he probably won't have time? Either he can take the attacks or he can't (I suspect he can). That said, if we go Fireside Barrage, the first attack will likely wind up down a few dice.
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Unless you're on a raid. Christians aren't People and are not owed honourable combat.
Hm... You know, with Halla in a mood....
Will we get a stun effect on us when the fire burns down the shirt from Abjorn?
I know we are fighting, but that's both a funny and something that might happen, what with Halla freezing up when seeing someone beautiful....
Hopefully, she can concentrate on the fight though.
Will we get a stun effect on us when the fire burns down the shirt from Abjorn?
I know we are fighting, but that's both a funny and something that might happen, what with Halla freezing up when seeing someone beautiful....
Hopefully, she can concentrate on the fight though.
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Fireside Barrage edited in. Didn't wind up down any dice as I just upped Orthstirr use very slightly to compensate for Emberwind adding less dice than Ignition.
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- In the oldest city on the oldest land
He's Steinarr
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From description, he was winning. By a lot (well, he did almost die so maybe not, a lot, but by enough). So he just fought defensively and talked them down. This seems pretty plausible given what we know of Steinarr. It also puts Halla's own feats of diplomacy in a bit more perspective...she apparently came by her willingness to talk violent people around honestly.
I would maybe stick a Spark-Bomb into our Contested Movement, although I can see the logic of creating distance, and either layer in a Sword Guard or take the opportunity for some simultaneous Sword Strikes (with Orthstirr behind them so they actually count for something) to apply pressure... but this seems broadly pretty good!
Oh, another random thought; Forceful Lever would be another move to consider if we want to create distance.
[X] Plan Hugs Are For Afterwards
Welcome to the madness. 😅
It was fun seeing your progress through the thread by seeing you rating my posts.
Congrats on catching up man, and welcome!
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For Sparkbomb, as you say the advantage there is the forced movement...a Sparkbomb could win things right there, but it could also get stopped by a shield and not get him away from us at which point we could get grappled, which would be very bad. He might be able to resiste the forced movement as well, but it seems worth the somewhat lower damage to at least try and move him.
For Sword Guard, I was honestly thinking we maybe layer that in next turn, but with one attack potentially breaking both, the utility of multiple guards is lower than it might be. Like, one is excellent...a second is very likely to get broken by any attack that breaks the first. It's not useless because it gives you two chances to roll better against equal attacks, but it's not anywhere near twice as good and yet costs basically twice as much (ie: most of our dice pool).
And I'm not clear on the range of Sword Strikes. I know it's better than melee, but I was under the impression they can't go as far as Kindle Spinners. I think based on previous usages that they also take dice which means that using them is a speed boost rather than an actual 'more attacks' situation (and our speed is already boosted, making that less needed). That said, both of those impressions could be wrong, so we should probably ask.
@Imperial Fister how exactly do Sword Strikes really work? What's their range limitations, if any, and do you need to assign dice even to the double cost ones used as a follow-up to another attack?
Forceful Lever is possible, if mutually exclusive with Atgeir Bodyguard, we could in that case do Sword Guard instead but then we can't use Sword Strikes. That might be a better option, though I admit Abjorn seems likely to be very difficult to move due to Leverage. Making it part of an attack is a better investment because he's likely easier to damage than to move, so he hopefully still takes damage even if the forced movement fails (and the Skewer Flicks in the plan do 7 damage, almost enough to win the spar on their own), I worry forced movement alone achieves nothing same as I worry damage alone achieves nothing with Sparkbomb above...combining the two gives better odds of something working there.
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