NorseQuest (A Norse Xianxia)
- Thread starter I.F. Ister
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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
Alectai
Speaks Words of Wisdom... On occasion
If there's more than one, we are fucked, no two ways about it.
One is bad enough.
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I doubt it. We had a bad roll but not 'well, you die now' bad, which is what that would be. This isn't actually even as bad a roll as Halfdan's farm...of course, that was pretty bad and we had backup, but this should be less bad than that encounter, taken as a whole.
Also, speaking as a nearsighted person, it actually stops mattering pretty much completely at night. Nobody can see far enough away in the dark for the level of nearsightedness described to matter.
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Alectai
Speaks Words of Wisdom... On occasion
The good news? Draugr are hurt by iron, and we have a chopping weapon made of quality iron. It's not going to be immune to our weapons. And a Draugr can be killed by decapitation, followed ideally by immolation and scattering the ashes into the sea.
Better news, our family has a knack for Fire based Muna and our ancestor is actively exerting what power heh as to shield us from the "Fuck You" aura. I think this is a good impetus to awaken the Bloodline Talent myself, if we can win the fight.
So yeah, it's merely a very difficult battle, not a guaranteed loss. But we can't afford to fuck around either.
Better news, our family has a knack for Fire based Muna and our ancestor is actively exerting what power heh as to shield us from the "Fuck You" aura. I think this is a good impetus to awaken the Bloodline Talent myself, if we can win the fight.
So yeah, it's merely a very difficult battle, not a guaranteed loss. But we can't afford to fuck around either.
Not necessarily but even so, we shouldn't outright discount the chance there is more then because we think it's unlikely.
This shouldn't change our approach too much, we should just try to not spend our entire energy supply and maybe put a few more dice to defense.
It also doesn't have a shield, which means it should be vulnerable to trick-based attacks, or at least can't sacrifice a shield to save itself from one. It might be able to make an ice shield, but the fact it's dual-wielding right now makes me think it's not it's forte.
I.F. Ister
Fortifying The Thread
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I was intending to have a normal-length voting period, but since it's looking rather unanimous I think I'll cut it a bit short, so as to let the proper combat planning begin. That sound good?
30 minutes to closing.
30 minutes to closing.
- Location
- Earth
[X] Stand and Fight (Begins Combat Encounter: An Evening Stroll Gone Terribly Wrong)
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Sounds good to me, yeah.
Questions to whoever might know about the myths:
What does the carved wood mean? Is it a weakpoint?
And is the thing intelligent? Can we goad it with words?
Based on nothing, I thought about pretending to be too scared to move, let it approach us, drop its guard and them we timefreeze the carved wood.
Does any of this sound useful?
What does the carved wood mean? Is it a weakpoint?
And is the thing intelligent? Can we goad it with words?
Based on nothing, I thought about pretending to be too scared to move, let it approach us, drop its guard and them we timefreeze the carved wood.
Does any of this sound useful?
[X] Stand and Fight (Begins Combat Encounter: An Evening Stroll Gone Terribly Wrong)
If we run we would have some sort of nightmare issues until we defeat it.
That could cause us more issues when we need to prepare for 16th birthday issues.
Adding to this:
If we run we would have some sort of nightmare issues until we defeat it.
That could cause us more issues when we need to prepare for 16th birthday issues.
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In context it's likely some sort of necromancy stuff either animating or controlling it. And it probably is a weak point, yeah.
Maybe, but I'm not sure what good it would do. It's already targeting us, after all.
We'd need to freeze its whole head and likely torso...inertia-arresting throw is like throwing a blanket, remember. That's not a non-starter, but it would actually make separating it from the talisman even harder so it's not my first inclination. I'm leaning towards maybe trying to freeze its weapons in response to an attack, but we'll have to see what the actual combat start post says about its likely tactics and capabilities.
Eternal_0bserver
(Unverified Bookworm)
- Location
- Earth, Northern Europe
[X] Stand and Fight (Begins Combat Encounter: An Evening Stroll Gone Terribly Wrong)
If we do happen to hit it like that it could be a good opportunity to try to cut of its limbs.
- Location
- some computer lab
Hmm, would draug have Orthstirr? On the one hand, this one has a hugareida it is using, but that might be a mastered trick. It would emulate the tireless nature of undead if they had no Orthstirr but still had the skills and mastered tricks it had in life, possibly with extra body stat.
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I suspect they do, yes, if somewhat decayed from what they had while alive. We don't actually have any way of gauging how much though, so we might as well assume it won't run out. Which means our focus needs to be on destroying it before we run out ourselves.
I.F. Ister
Fortifying The Thread
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Voting is now closed
Heh, Elephant.
So, a Daurg appeared, huh?
I do agree its better we face it now than hunt it later. but the vote already closed
I do agree we should try to make it speak, perhaps it will drop the stick in its mouth.
Falling that, its a good target, either that or the Rune on its head.
if we get through this without using the exploding sphere, we must always have a dozen ready with us after learning how to make more.
Hallr said Ice Hugreida.... we should look out for ice suddenly appearing all around as well as not slipping on anything.
Also, keep an eye on Recall. Its smart enough to feign weakness, its probably smart enough to use recall as well, if it knows it.
way instead of why
Who is Glam? the one we heard from the random pov interlude?
No way... at least, i don't think so.the horrasons at the lake would have been better equipped if he had that kinda money.
So, a Daurg appeared, huh?
I do agree its better we face it now than hunt it later. but the vote already closed
I do agree we should try to make it speak, perhaps it will drop the stick in its mouth.
Falling that, its a good target, either that or the Rune on its head.
if we get through this without using the exploding sphere, we must always have a dozen ready with us after learning how to make more.
Hallr said Ice Hugreida.... we should look out for ice suddenly appearing all around as well as not slipping on anything.
Also, keep an eye on Recall. Its smart enough to feign weakness, its probably smart enough to use recall as well, if it knows it.
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- Location
- Bretonnia
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Eh, supposing that he has a lot of children, only the strongest/eldest of his children may actually receive his support. I agree that it's unlikely though, I was just throwing out potential situations.
Also, I forgot to vote... again. I would've voted for stand and fight anyway, so it doesn't really matter.
Wait, what the fuck is up with the Witch? Like, Aki said that he talked about no Witch, yet he explicitly said there's a Witch in the Hading - and we never questioned why or how we ended up hearing this?
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- Space between realms
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Can't we do a fighting retreat?
Alectai
Speaks Words of Wisdom... On occasion
To a better battlefield, yeah, the issue is that Draugr get to haunt your dreams if you encounter them and you leave without defeating them. Again, actual power they have.
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We could in theory, but that would sort of be the worst of both worlds. We'd get the chance of it killing us and get cursed, so why would we? Like, we can go for a better tactical location if needed (as Alectai suggests), but full retreat is a bad idea.