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NorseQuest (A Norse Xianxia)

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We could also trade some of the produce from our soulscape if we want to. Sealwood Sap and Hearthroot berry juice. It's not much but it might get us a little bit more.
 
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I think sending assassins is the Noble equivalent of a sternly-worded letter. It's part of proper procedure and something you're Supposed To Do, even if you don't actually expect it to accomplish anything
 
ArcanaVitae said:
WTF he has multiple cultivations!?!!?!? I thought that wasn't possible?
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I suspect it's like Sten's Finnish Cultivation where he mostly has Anglo-Saxon but has some Christian stuff as well.

wabbitking said:
Are thanes non cultivators or is it just that their combat skills are inferior to knights?
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They're cultivators, just not as combat focused as Knights.

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[X] Plan: Lay the Cards Out

This seems fine though I'm very unwilling to sell the Fenriskin Pelt. They'd need to make a hell of an offer.
 
DeadmanwalkingXI said:
I suspect it's like Sten's Finnish Cultivation where he mostly has Anglo-Saxon but has some Christian stuff as well.



They're cultivators, just not as combat focused as Knights.

Vote wise:
[X] Plan: Lay the Cards Out

This seems fine though I'm very unwilling to sell the Fenriskin Pelt. They'd need to make a hell of an offer.
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He's a King, he has the capital to make a Hell of an Offer.
 
Shouldn't we ask the men first before throwing them into mercenary work, because this is ostensibly a trade mission, and while they are undoubtedly expecting everything to go to shit, purposely seeking out the shit is different from happening upon it.
 
Alectai said:
He's a King, he has the capital to make a Hell of an Offer.
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Sure. I'm not objecting to mentioning it, I'm just noting that I suspect my willingness to sell it is a lot lower than yours might be and the offer would need to be something magical and powerful, not mere money or food.

UnbegottenProxy said:
Shouldn't we ask the men first before throwing them into mercenary work, because this is ostensibly a trade mission, and while they are undoubtedly expecting everything to go to shit, purposely seeking out the shit is different from happening upon it.
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It was always part of the plan to do mercenary work. Besides which, anyone who isn't in can stay with the ship...someone would need to anyway, we aren't leaving it unguarded.
 
DeadmanwalkingXI said:
Sure. I'm not objecting to mentioning it, I'm just noting that I suspect my willingness to sell it is a lot lower than yours might be and the offer would need to be something magical and powerful, not mere money or food.



It was always part of the plan to do mercenary work. Besides which, anyone who isn't in can stay with the ship...someone would need to anyway, we aren't leaving it unguarded.
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Yeah, "A spot of freelance fighting" was always listed as a possible path we take, just not the point of the expedition.

And yeah, I'm fine with mentioning it, it's just he'd need a hell of an offer to justify it. But there are offers he can make that would justify it is the point.
 
Gabriel is going to flip when he hears that the first thing Halla did upon making it to Winchester was wait in line for the King's court, refer to him as "just Alfred", and immediately start haggling over her single boatload of trade goods.
 
I mean, fair is fair, a lot of them are high value trade goods. The water wolf pelts in particular are the kinds of things a king who likes naval stuff might be very interested in. (Waterproofing is just the basic effect, they might be able to use them to make cloaks that let you have amphibious heavy infantry)
 
Silverking said:
Gabriel is going to flip when he hears that the first thing Halla did upon making it to Winchester was wait in line for the King's court, refer to him as "just Alfred", and immediately start haggling over her single boatload of trade goods.
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In fairness each space on our ship can take 1 Food, which is, like, 250 lbs of food (enough to feed one person for 2 months). So, assuming the whetstone weights the same, we have 250 tons of whetsone.

Viking Ships look to have spatial storage. Which makes sense but makes a 'single boatload' quite a lot.
 
I would guess that Priests transfer Zeal to Errant Cultivators through Communion which is then transformed into Fervor (perhaps automatically).
 
Grytorm said:
I would guess that Priests transfer Zeal to Errant Cultivators through Communion which is then transformed into Fervor (perhaps automatically).
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It seems like Communion gives you Fervor, from what IF has said...it might also, at least if you do it enough, grant Grace (seems to be the Christian version of Hamingja), which is how Feudal Cultivators gain Zeal (though you could not gain the Zeal itself if you have the Anglo-Saxon internal resource instead).
 
The Lone badger said:
Either that or Norsemen don't eat much due to being body cultivators that partially subsist on orthstirr.
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Even if that's true, it's not by a factor of more than 2 or 3 given that children also consume 1 Food every two months even when they still lack Hamr above 1 and have no Orthstirr. And children eat less than adults, usually, but we're talking 1/2 to 1/3. Maybe that does mean that each Food is a smaller weight...but we're still probably talking about at least 100 lbs of food per unit of Food, and thus 100 tons of whetstone.
 
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I dont know if anyone has noticed, but when we entered Halla thought she was the weakest among 120 men, but when the King did his silencing magic, Halla said that 124 men were not making a sound. Is there any significance to the addition of 4 men? Or is it just nothing, and the 120 men was just an approximation?
 
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