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NorseQuest (A Norse Xianxia)

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uri said:
Dos he? Can that effect not be from something else? can it not be that he has some awakened/dormant piece of heller spirit and its just like calling to like?Or some kind of trick to help with negotiation?Can you say so with absolute certainty?
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I'm positive it's the spotlight effect, yes. It's arguable that being a little more circumspect on Odr is correct even so, but I'm skeptical. I'll add a conditional for it to only be after we feel him out, though, as that was always the intent.
 
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Don't really have a better idea here, if there's some clever 1000% strategy or Pro Gamer Move to be made then I'm not really seeing it, and this looks fine to me, perfectly reasonable an nonconfrontational.

wrecksalot said:
This guy seems to have no idea about his family, so he's probably our uncle.
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DeadmanwalkingXI said:
Nah, he's only a few years older than us, so he's more likely to be a generation further from Hallr than we are. Steinarr was Hallr's youngest child, some of his other children may well have grandchildren or even great-grandhildren at this point. Like, he was something like 50 when Steinarr was born, or more, the oldest of his kids, were they alive, might be around 80 years old by now.
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All of Steinarr's brothers get murdered by Horra, right? Do we know if he had any sisters?

It's possible this guy is a more distant relation, actually descending from one of Blackhand's siblings. (Did Blackhand have siblings? But he seems to have a lot of Blackhandy-traits, which given the weirdly epigenetic way that Norse Cultivator stuff is passed down, probably implies direct descent.

Anyway, if one of Steinarr's brothers survived and had a son, or more likely in my view, had an orphaned son who Steinarr did not know about... that revelation would mean a lot to Steinarr. The deaths of his brothers really hit him hard.
 
Skippy said:
All of Steinarr's brothers get murdered by Horra, right? Do we know if he had any sisters?
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Actually, no. Hallr had a bunch of kids, and only the two he had with the Seeress were killed by Horra. However, as my math indicates with his eldest likely being 30 years older than Steinarr, most were full adults and not living nearby during Steinarr's childhood. So the only two brothers he was raised with were killed by Horra. The others are still blood relations, but do not (or did not) have a real sibling bond with him.

Skippy said:
It's possible this guy is a more distant relation, actually descending from one of Blackhand's siblings, but he seems to have a lot of Blackhandy-traits, which given the weirdly epigenetic way that Norse Cultivator stuff is passed down, probably implies direct descent.

Anyway, if one of Steinarr's brothers survived and had a son, or more likely in my view, had an orphaned son who Steinarr did not know about... that revelation would mean a lot to Steinarr. The deaths of his brothers really hit him hard.
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It's the name. If he just looked like us he could be a more distant relation, but with a name of Hal, he's probably directly descended from Blackhand.
 
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Didn't someone offer to spend Reward Dice to see if we could figure out what the most obvious Instant Battle thing to say would be?
 
The Lone badger said:
Hopefully he doesn't decide to murder us in order to absorb our fragment of Blackhand and make his fragment more complete.
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I mean, we're not actually telling him we have one. Not until we have a better read on him. Maybe not even then.

Alectai said:
Didn't someone offer to spend Reward Dice to see if we could figure out what the most obvious Instant Battle thing to say would be?
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Rah13 suggested it, but doesn't have a Reward Die, so it hasn't been done yet.
 
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Imperial Fister said:
I'll allow it

Will it work like you hope? Maybe.

Will it result in a cool-ass scene? You can bet your tuchus on it
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So looking back at this...

...if we'd opened with the Flame-Tending Blade, then Hal would have responded with his own Flame-Tending Blade to counter it, wouldn't he?

And that's how we'd have found out that he was our cousin?
 
Ah! I've figured out the thing we can't talk about, I think.

Haldan and the whole thing with the Skyrsvikingar, including Reidar Swordfury. Because these people being affiliated with them is very possible. I'm gonna add a specification to not talk about that, I think.
 
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For the record we can introduce Jordan to avoid appearing rude if the conversation takes that turn...we almost certainly will introduce Eric, our brother, because yeah...we just don't mention Jordan's father's name.
 
Could I spend a Reward Dice on a Green-Red indicator on the winning plan to chat with our cousin?
 
My dumb head fanon is imagining the Norns not liking people who use Finales by twinging the targets who are in the crossfire to use their own for mutual self destruction.

It probably doesn't work that way but that's just what keeps worming into my head.
 
Man, I'm curious to find out why is it so important that we meet Hal Wolfhound that Odin/The Seer went out of his way to drag Hal over here, then tell the king to tell us to go meet him here?
 
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