It is, to clarify further. It's a reference to Terry Prachett's Discworld series where the subject of Dwarven Bread has come up multiple times.
NorseQuest (A Norse Xianxia)
- Thread starter I.F. Ister
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- Original Fantasy Action
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Here's an idea inspired by the legendary Peasant Railgun.
Halla flies really high up and throws her fylgja, which unstores and throws Abjorn's fylgja, which unstores the Sunstone (patent pending) and throws Abjorn so he can slamdunk an explosive boulder onto whichever clueless fool pissed off the Owl Witch and the Papa Bear.
To the best of our current knowledge, you can't Fylgja store living beings. Probably includes living Fylgjas.
Then just have Abjorn ride the Owl.
he would feed him to the Vikings' young instead
"long ago in a distant land I Aku shapeshifting master of darkness unleashed an unspeakable evil but a foolish Viking warrior wilding a magical atgeir steeped forth to oppose me… before the final blow was struck I tore open a portal in time and flung her into the future where my evil is law, now the fool seeks to return to the past and undo the future that is Aku."
🎶 got to get back, back to the past Viking hella 🎶
I don't think we want to get Aku loyalty he seems more like the evil we need to stop Afterall.
Yeah, my bad on the wording, but it does not overcome, it sidesteps.
At least, the Family Bloodline does not protect from every heat source. Hence the idea to use boiling liquids against fire resistant enemies.
Now, that i checked the charsheet though (discord had no WoG on it), i can agree we have a better chances against the oil... and we will also know just how hot it will be, at least.
It is an important difference though, that the owl specifically called out heat separately in its boon.
while Born of fire only mentions fire.
So, yes, the oil sidestepped our resistance, not overcame it.
Guess that's one of the benefits of apprenticeships.
After all, it IS memorable when your teacher/master praises your works for the first time. not to mention fulfilling challenges that just so happen to grant a boon, like learning how to make forged iron, i guess.
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This seems semantic? Well, that's what I can tell at the very least, given that in previous updates Halla has mentioned resistance to the Summer heat, and the oil was mentioned to overcome our fire resistance, not bypass it.
Although, it could be flavour text. Don't see why flavour text like that would exist if she didn't have resistance to heat, though.
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Oh wait, I originally took 'turns out your fire resistance cant protect you from sticking your finger into a pot of stupidly hot oil' to mean that it was so hot it overcame our FR, but I see what Count means when they say our FR doesn't extend to other forms of heat that aren't fire. Huh. I'm not so sure now.
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@Imperial Fister
Can we get a Word of God in this:
Does this part mean the oil sidestepped the fire resistance (resistance does nothing) or did it overcome it (the resistance works against hot oil, this hot oil just was so extremely hot that it still hurt)?
I.F. Ister
Fortifying The Thread
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It's just really stupidly hot. Your hand is hundreds of degrees cooler. When your hand breaches the surface, all that heat comes rushing in all at once
I.F. Ister
Fortifying The Thread
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I'll call the voting in an hour and a half
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Nice to know that our FR extends to all forms of heat.
AeonIlluminate
The power of friendship and aggressive landscaping
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Idea for a speed boost runework that we could throw on the Helm
"Skyfire flies as fast as the Skyflame's sight travels"
Halla flies as fast as the Sun's Light travels
Thinking this as light is bloody fast, and its connected Kennings
Yeah it buggers up passing it to kids when we kick the bucket, but its not a massive metal investment and they can just carve a different set of runes in it
If we wanted to go with a Helm that fixes our Near-sighted thingy, then we could do
"Forge-owl sees as night-hawk does"
Halla sees as an owl [owls have frankly terrifyingly good vision]
Wording feels clunky, and some help with improving both/whichever buff we wanted from the helm wouldn't hurt. Also, the second one would go really nice if we went with an owl warmask on the Helm as was suggested earlier
"Skyfire flies as fast as the Skyflame's sight travels"
Halla flies as fast as the Sun's Light travels
Thinking this as light is bloody fast, and its connected Kennings
Yeah it buggers up passing it to kids when we kick the bucket, but its not a massive metal investment and they can just carve a different set of runes in it
If we wanted to go with a Helm that fixes our Near-sighted thingy, then we could do
"Forge-owl sees as night-hawk does"
Halla sees as an owl [owls have frankly terrifyingly good vision]
Wording feels clunky, and some help with improving both/whichever buff we wanted from the helm wouldn't hurt. Also, the second one would go really nice if we went with an owl warmask on the Helm as was suggested earlier
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I mean, it likely will be. But we can do that and other stuff.
I've been trying hard to keep that from happening on stuff like this, but some is inevitable.
Maybe. Depends heavily on how the war goes, if we save some people's lives, things like that. We're not 100% clear on the latter.
IF noted (again on Discord) that we might want to redo some experiments now that our fylgja was at 7. He did not specify which, but this one seems like a good candidate.
Speed on the helmet is maybe a good idea, though I'd need to think about the wording...and a helm is 45 oz. of Forged Iron which is kind of a lot.
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AeonIlluminate
The power of friendship and aggressive landscaping
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Christ, my memory is bad.
Also, ideas on the second bit i edited in?
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It's easy to forget since we haven't actually made one, and it is cheap compared to mail it's just that's a very low bar. Everything is cheap compared to mail.
If doing sense-boosting, I'd try and aim for the equivalent of the full Shapeshift, which would be trying for at least sight and hearing.
Alectai
Speaks Words of Wisdom... On occasion
Just worked out the numbers, and with Good Quality Fields in our Soulscape, we can hypothetically generate 23 Food per turn if we commit our entire Odr income to it.
Which means we've hit Food Security as long as we're willing to stop our cultivation for it. Now, that's not ideal, but in terms of keeping our people alive, that's fantastic.
Which means we've hit Food Security as long as we're willing to stop our cultivation for it. Now, that's not ideal, but in terms of keeping our people alive, that's fantastic.
AeonIlluminate
The power of friendship and aggressive landscaping
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"Forge-owl senses as Night-Hawk does"
Owls do also have just amazing senses in general, so it should cover all the bits except taste
I.F. Ister
Fortifying The Thread
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I'll add a forum channel for things, which should help out a little bit
and it is done
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we might finish talking with the seeress about it first. might provide us with better direction
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Oh certainly, no more experiments until next turn, probably. Just noting.
Et cetera censeo, we should try setting up one field of perennial food plants (berry bushes, fruit trees) in our soul.
We also should plant the fireberry and the glue tree seeds in our soul, to see if they respawn.