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
Aren't there 27 descendants named after him?
Assuming that naming multiple of your kids after the same person Is weird and not done, that puts it at at least 27 families descending from him.
Subtract from that the times he had more than one kid with the same woman (unknown number) add the times he had an affair without making kids (unknown number) and the times all kids he had with a woman were murdered (unknown, we know about Solrun) and I think we get a big number.
If Blackhand tried to pull that shit without being "many Steelfathers needed to attack me while I was distracted" level of overpowered and "I stuck my Hand into a gods forge" level famous he could well have earned a kenning like Seedspreader. If he survived long enough.
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You might see more or less intact forms of it in monasteries.
Gerasmus doesn't seem to need a congregation, and he certainly doesn't need noble titled lands, to sustain his cultivation.
do we know where he went actually? if he went back to Wessex, perhaps we can meet him and get some advice.
if not, its good to know. at the very least he is useful.
I.F. Ister
Fortifying The Thread
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Perhaps ;P
Halle the Hairless is the common denominator
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- Mid-Atlantic
It seems unlikely that Gerasmus went to Wessex in particular. The last time we talked to him, it sounded like he was basically taking advantage of his extreme lifespan and (apparent) strong sense of his own personal safety to sort of wander around, walking the Earth, maybe converting a few people if he could or just learning about what was going on.
Given that that was only, oh, 3-5 years ago or so, I very much doubt he's settled down in the same place he was grabbed from.
Shard
One and Many
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- Malaysia
Honestly we probably should have seen this coming.
So do we remove Halle the Hairless?
Well, this is Halle description:
So they are either a woman in disguise who will cause trouples because of her secret identity (maybe a rebellious daughter or a wanted outlaw) or an androginus or gender non-conforming man who will be bullied by the most rowdy members of our crew and start a brawl.
The "Troublemaler" vs "cause of Trouble" distinction and "cause of trouble -> Common denominator: Halle" sounds like most trouble would be because of discrimination against Halle.
And in that case i would prefer to tell the troublemakers to go and fuck themselves.
Right there with you, if somebody start harrassing or bullying another member of the crew, we should send them first at the frontline during the next battle.
Halla: Stop that or you are walking home.
Random Crewmember: But we are in the middle of the sea between Norway and England!
Halla: Then they either stop it or they'll find out how good their flying/swimming/running-on-water tricks are!
Shard
One and Many
- Location
- Malaysia
I suspect it would be a lot of the troublemakers in this case. Large portions of the crew troublemakers. We would not be able to just tell them to fuck off.
Like personally I'd rather just not deal with the drama in the background. Halle's a Lower-Middle combatant.
Going to the frontline is kind of natural for the Norse so that would not be a punishment.
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Yhea, i was thinking like this was a normal crew. Not one composed of super vikings.
Or there are 2 people that would cause trouble with Halle while everyone else only causes trouble with one partner.
Yeah, but giving in on that feels Odreng (even if it isntmechanically)
Cool cool thank you
@DeadmanwalkingXI would you mind removing Halle from the list so we can get ahead of any trouble
Shard
One and Many
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- Malaysia
On a practical level, drama on the high seas when we are getting lost and shit is a fast way to terrible outcomes for everyone on board. So I just don't want to deal with it, especially when the character in question is only known to us in a single line and isn't powerful enough to warrant just eating the issue on the chin.
Shard
One and Many
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- Malaysia
-[X] Everyone except for:
--[X] Sverre Glebsson (Generally Competent, but may cause friction with Abjorn),
--[X] Egil Slaughtershark (A newcomer to the Valley, you don't know much about him)
--[X] Rollo Sunesson (Spear Hugareida, bit of a show off),
--[X] Age Seedsower (An exceptionally handsome man who will not be returning to Asvir, or Norway at all)
--[X] Eindride Laststanding (An older warrior with a haunted look in his eyes. Very recent arrival, just came in from the Danelaw, in fact.)
--[X] Halle the Hairless (A man... at least, you think they're a man. Has an unusually feminine face and overall slender appearance.)
[X] Buy up all the pelts, try to negotiate a bulk discount given it's a buyer's market.
-[X] Use Silver-Tongued.
Basically a mod of the Eliminating Problems plan to remove the next biggest confirmed source of issues, in case @DeadmanwalkingXI is asleep (he should be at this time).
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that would be giving in to bullying and assholes. I am against that. that just lets the people wanting to harm him win. keeping him away at the first place
giving in to that sort of pressure might be an easy decision, but its not the sort of decision I want to see Halla make as a leader. we might lead more then just a trade mission later, and I don't want her to be this kind of leader. it makes her more like the Jarl of Jurgdby.
there are more of them, but we will also have Eric, who is upper middle, and ourselves and Nokvir firmly on our side(Eric is our brother, and Nokvir his close friend). given how frightening fire Hugareida is on a ship, and that Halla is on the least trouble if fighting erupts(wind Hugareida +clearwater and campfire, and Fylgja capable of being ridden. she would survive a sinking ship). I don't expect any disobedience
CedeTheBees
Probably high right now
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Fuck that. If anyone shittalks Halle for being beardless, they're shittalking Halla too. We will punish them accordingly.
Shard
One and Many
- Location
- Malaysia
I think it is, bluntly, not a good idea to assemble a crew that won't work well together. Like, whoever assembled the Felag that included Sten, Sterki and Horra fucked up majorly and had a failed raid. We're responsible for the success of this mission, and the well-being of the people on-board. It sounds extremely exhausting already just thinking of entire updates full of dealing with this instead of anything else, and terrifying thinking that this kind of drama might metaphorically or literally sink the ship because we didn't have time to mediate another grudge or some shit.
Hell, if it was basically anyone else who was named as the biggest cause of trouble, we'd already evict them*. We're evicting people because 'They're from the Danelaw, might have made enemies', 'They have the Slaughtershark Kenning, might cause trouble', 'They're kind of a show-off so might cause friction in the crew'.
I don't think it's the beardless thing. Barki's right here, just as an example. It's probably something like actually an outlaw or somesuch.
*Unless it was like, someone we knew. If it was like Aki or Asva was on this ship and were the biggest causes of trouble, then I'd go 'my ship, my laws' and evict the people causing them trouble.
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because its their fault! if we are evicting someone because others don't like them coming, rather than because they themselves don't fit? then we fall prey to the worst of easy decisions we can make when leading the mission. we have no indication they are outlaws, just feminine. so all we are evicting them for is that they don't fit other's image of a norse warriors(same others who might have taken issue with us before). thats deserting all our principles because people won't like them. I'd rather not do that.
if those people have a problem with Halle, they have a problem with us. and if they wanna start trouble, then its their funeral.
if anything, we will need to evict those who make trouble with Halle. what if they reach english lands and decide they don't like the local traditions and behavior? do you think they will limit asshole behavior to Halle alone?
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CedeTheBees
Probably high right now
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@Imperial Fister Can I spend my reward die to find out who the biggest troublemaker the leading plan is recruiting is?