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the difference between the skald staying at the kings court all year round and writing about a single event is pretty big but fair enough.
NorseQuest (A Norse Xianxia)
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[X] Plan Hugs Are For Afterwards
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I was more referring to them being hired by kings to watch big battles. But yeah, I'm sure the price is much lower for a day of work than a year...we just haven't heard about anyone below Jarls hiring them which implies even the low end prices there are pretty high.
Honestly, we have focus too much on single hit, big damage attacks.
Smoulder sword is not really relevant for us, due to armory pocket(s), I agree.
But Tinder Blades? Its something we lack, attack wise.
And it's not a single hit but many.
So this would be great to pick up. It's one trick, so the dice used for them should be the same, as they are cast together. But the defender needs to defend against them separately.
This would be great for shredding or softening up defenses, like reinforce shield.
Although... @Imperial Fister , does TB uses one dice pool for all attacks or each have separate ones?
On a related note, wind blades were on the docket too, but we instead grabbed gale spear...
Which we never used.
Even though wind blades have a longe range and fly straigh, allowing for greater battlefield controll.
Huh... I must have missed this, when was this revealed?
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We, uh, pretty much literally just got Fireside Barrage at Refined. Which is already exactly this. Some duplication is good, don't get me wrong, but we already have a fire-based flurry attack which makes getting the second one a lower priority.
Wind Blades are also a 1 damage attack, which is less appealing than it might be. Gale Spear, at this point, is useful in two circumstances:
1. We need an attack at better range (or with greater precision) than Kindle Spinner can manage.
2. We need to attack something immune or highly resistant to fire (or vulnerable to wind).
When we actually decided to learn it, its damage was also superior to Kindle Spinner, which would've resulted in a lot more use cases but with the hugareida rules changes, that has changed. We were far enough into training that getting it to Refined for the two listed uses was definitely still worth it, but it's gonna see a lot less use due to that rule change.
When we Infused it. It wasn't a big announcement, just quietly added to the character sheet under Fylgja.
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Ah my mistake.
thinking about it skald services are likely a pretty low demand and low supply thing and thus subject to high amount of variation in pricing and availability. probably gonna be out of hallas league to hire one for now but it would probably be viable to hire one for the biggest things soon enough.
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Still though, yeah, a few Infusions into Command and a few good Command tricks, and we can actually potentially risk having our Fylgja actively support us in combat. What amounts to being a magical VTOL that can take care of itself and play overwatch is very useful.
I.F. Ister
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I'll call voting in an hour, what questions did everyone have for me?
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My questions were as follows:
1. How exactly do Sword Strikes really work? What are 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?
2. Can we set up multiple Guard effects (ie: Sword Guard and Atgeir Bodyguard) and then assign one to basically sit around doing nothing until the attack after the other is broken? Like, say someone attacks and breaks our Sword Guard, can we have an Atgeir Bodyguard set up that will not do anything about that specific attack, but start defending us from all attacks thereafter? This would allow us to have a second Guard effect as a contingency rather than a single big attack breaking both.
3. For a Glima Trick for grappling, would we need two separate Tricks to effectively takedown/grapple someone and escape grapples, or would one Trick be usable for both purposes?
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[X] Plan Hugs Are For Afterwards
I.F. Ister
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A sword slash that can be done in melee to close range (close range meaning that you're near, but not within striking distance.) You don't need to assign dice to it, otherwise I default to 4d6 or something along those lines
Sure, that works for me. You could also stick one in a Fast and then whip it out when in trouble.
Glima tricks are based off real-life glima moves. So, yes and no
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Check. That makes sense. Probably don't fit with our plans this turn, then, given we don't intend to be quite that close.
Okay, cool. We want to do that fairly regularly going forward...upon reflection, I don't think it's needed this turn since he's explicitly going too easy on us, though.
Check again.
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We are gonna keep putting dice towards some stuff at 1d per turn for the foreseeable future. However, we're very much in the 'push for high stats' phase going forward...my tentative plan for next turn involves a total of 32d6 in Fylgja, followed by 52d6 the turn after (and likely around 40d6 the turn after that, though it depends heavily on how those first two rolls go). That is after doubling, of course, but it's the plan.
Once we hit Fylgja 7 we do the same on Hamr until it hits 8, then Hugr until it does the same.
I.F. Ister
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Alright, voting is now closed
I.F. Ister
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Welcome to the party and thank you very much! I'd like to second you on the discussion elevating this quest considerably. Without you folks, I highly doubt this quest would be what it is today.
I need to fix that
You could if you wanted to
One dice pool
I should've made it clearer, just forgot
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Is this before or after the dice doubling.
Edit: Ignore, missed the last couple words in the post
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We still have a bunch of crafting skill-tricks to go through if we want to get everything, and at only 3d to complete those Sten can instruct us on, but only able to work on 2 at a time, there's a lot of incentive to keep going every turn until we've rounded out our Weaponcraft Tricks at the very least (which is only 2d out of 58d anyway, for the next few turns). We do complete various projects in the next couple of turns (next turn specifically we complete Overland, Barb-Tongue, Slipstream, and our current crop of seidr, though the seidr likely gets replaced immediately...we may complete Dead Air's needed training for the moment as well if we only want it at Rough).
Mostly, the wealth of dice could've started this turn, but were instead used to get Stoker State to 5 and Clearwater almost completed (which both seemed good and necessary). With those done or almost done we can put those dice towards other stuff next turn (mostly Fylgja plus a bit of Glima...getting it to 4, and even 5, is really worth it, dice-wise, we're not going that far but a bit of a head start before going to only 1d a turn seems valid), and then get focused hard on Fylgja until it's at 7, followed by focused hard on Hamr until it hits 8, and then Hugr to 8 as well (Hugr is actually the cheapest of these, but also the one we'd least mind missing out on for the Vestfold trip, which is why it's third in line). After that we'll need to analyze what's best, though Hugr 9 is a fairly likely big project, as is Stoker State 7.
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Is it at Fylgja 7 our owl becomes supernatural, or is that Fylgja 10?
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Looking back at Steinarr's explanation, I'm actually not sure...I suspect 10 based on Aki's still being a Raven, even though we know he's hit Fylgja 7. On the other hand, when it's a 'mundane' animal that can lift humans, carve runes, and do assorted other weirdness, it's already pretty supernatural.
Alectai
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Aki's birb is literally made of sharp, that's firmly supernatural, if not massively so.