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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
So, this is great remembering, but not quite what I was thinking? We probably want the Standstill component mentioned in the research action, and I'm also leaning towards making the Standstill + Stoker thing a more general enhancement/Kaio-Ken type thing whilst we go with your original uggestion of Gale for launching multiple Basics at once.
The wording I'd suggest:
[] Research: Time Stands Still - A Standstill + Stoker State technique where we turn our Standstill inside out so that the whole world slows to a fly in amber around us, then charge the vital channels of our body with the power of our Stoker State to move and attack within the stopped time. (12d6) (1 Reward Dice)
[] Research: Flurry - Moving like the wind, a Gale Trick where we deliver a flurry of Basic Attacks at once. (1d6)
I suspect you're going to be sceptical about the wording of the first one, but (a) the Standstill+Stoker State element is following Fister's own statement and (b) when you let me go off on my anime bullshit before, we got FTB/Stoker State, so please give it a whirl.
Anyway, I'm going to bed, so:
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So, If did confirm that we could do something to launch a bunch of basics at once with Stoker State alone, and if that's possible that's a lot better for us than trying to do it with a Hugareida, for a few reasons (mostly it's better on Capacity, and it lets us teach it to our kids). I'm willing to fiddle with wording a little, but I think we do want the pure Stoker State version.
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[X] Plan Head Back Home
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Any chance we can try to recruit Skarde Sharpshooter, Hakon Thunderclap or Bjorn Bjornson?
Any chance we can try to recruit Skarde Sharpshooter, Hakon Thunderclap or Bjorn Bjornson?
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Filled out research slots, changed wording on Stoker State Trick and fiddled around with what Tricks we put in our Fylgja (the last based on some Discord discussions).
I have no inherent objections but who are we replacing with them? We're definitely gonna want to talk with Vagn and Gorm. That leaves Hugehands, Roar, Randolf, and Oscar. I think Hugehands is one of our more likely recruitment targets (we spent 7 Reward Dice on saving him, after all...I'd hope that means something in-universe even if it's just 'we spent a little more effort than usual on the healing magic'), and while he's not a great warrior we could use another farmhand, and I don't see a lot of reason to favor the ones you suggest over the other three unless you have some specific insight into who is more open to being recruited.
Hakon in particular may be helping out his brothers families and a bad recruitment target for that very reason.
It'd be really good if someone could burn a Reward Die for who was good to approach for recruitment here. Maybe I'll try and write a poem...
I have no inherent objections but who are we replacing with them? We're definitely gonna want to talk with Vagn and Gorm. That leaves Hugehands, Roar, Randolf, and Oscar. I think Hugehands is one of our more likely recruitment targets (we spent 7 Reward Dice on saving him, after all...I'd hope that means something in-universe even if it's just 'we spent a little more effort than usual on the healing magic'), and while he's not a great warrior we could use another farmhand, and I don't see a lot of reason to favor the ones you suggest over the other three unless you have some specific insight into who is more open to being recruited.
Hakon in particular may be helping out his brothers families and a bad recruitment target for that very reason.
It'd be really good if someone could burn a Reward Die for who was good to approach for recruitment here. Maybe I'll try and write a poem...
Seems to me like this can be done with just Hamr (like the reverse folding thing i brought up earlier), but it never hurts to explore things.
Deadman, is there any space to ID some of our owl gatcha items? or speaking Barki, the fylgja specialist? or will we do that between Ribe and Agder?
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We left most of our gacha items at home, I'd think. As for talking with Barki...Barki works for Folkmarr and is thus not a person we can recruit permanently. I'd like to take as many chances to do that as we can arrange here since opportunities for it are rare and we're coming off a win. I'm out of Reward Dice or I'd burn one for a better idea on who to aim for, and in the absence of that am tempted to ditch one of the Solrun actions for another try, to be honest, though I'm waffling on that.
And the 10 days appears inclusive of Ribe, so there is no separate leg of the trip for that, this should be the last 'travel turn' before we get home.
no, i didn't meant recruiting, i i meant fylgja talk. that was planned at the start of the trip, iirc.
As for the Solrun actions, i think we should learn what we can before the war happens.
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I got that. I'm saying I'd rather try and recruit someone than do that.
The war is a few years out at least. We've been told we can take a year off from traveling and consolidate our gains if we want before Vestfold, and the war isn't happening until post Vestfold, and Solrun is coming to Vestfold with us. We will have many more opportunities to talk with Solrun.
Solving Starvation (DeadmanwalkingXI)
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Slade's (1) signs show starvation
Skyfire's stimulation
Sails and seeks salvation
Sees off sacker for stone
Swaps stone for sustenance
Strikes Thanes for sovereign
Sacking stronghold's storerooms
Secures sure subsistence
(1) Actually just a word that means valley.
'Solving Starvation' a poem about or deeds thus far on the trip, but really more about why we're on said trip in the first place. I'm not completely happy with it, but it's not bad all things considered, and the wordplay was fun (there was a lot of looking up synonyms, and I learned a new English word, which is a rarity).
Skyfire's stimulation
Sails and seeks salvation
Sees off sacker for stone
Swaps stone for sustenance
Strikes Thanes for sovereign
Sacking stronghold's storerooms
Secures sure subsistence
(1) Actually just a word that means valley.
'Solving Starvation' a poem about or deeds thus far on the trip, but really more about why we're on said trip in the first place. I'm not completely happy with it, but it's not bad all things considered, and the wordplay was fun (there was a lot of looking up synonyms, and I learned a new English word, which is a rarity).
Hmmm, fair. Is it confirmed that these Basics stil net us stoked die?
But yeah that does sound good.
However, my Spidey Sense is still tingling that Standstill+ Stoker could lead somewhere really good?
How about this- we do your old wording, unmodified, going purely for launching multiple Basics, and for a 1d6 + my research die we go with my wording unmodified. One is aiming at doing the multiple Basic Attacks thing which is confirmed to work, and the other is my wildly attempting to create Norse Ki Rata.
I know you'd already very kindly earmarked a blank research die because you are a gentleman, so... everyone gets what they want?
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I actually prefer the new wording on mine, I think.
That said, I'm perfectly willing to throw in yours unmodified with 1 Research Die, yeah.
EDIT: And done. For the record, I checked and you don't have a Reward die right now so that wasn't added, but the basic idea is added, though it's more Training a new Trick than research, I think, so it's in that section.
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Huh, I thought I had one left from the ones we used keeping people from true death. Anyway, sounds good to me, cheers!
I think this is sooort of research because I don't think we
e tried combining a Style and a Hugareida into a new technique before? But I'm not too fussed.- Pronouns
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@Imperial Fister if I get a Reward Die from the poem above can I spend it for a hint on who in our crew that we aren't talking to would make a good recruitment target? Or, I guess, if any of our current choices are bad and should be replaced?
It seems like recruiting people should be viable here, but picking which people is pretty hit or miss. Like, Alf Arrow-Catcher seems like a good bet but didn't do much that would make us approach him, but I dunno who we'd drop for him...
It seems like recruiting people should be viable here, but picking which people is pretty hit or miss. Like, Alf Arrow-Catcher seems like a good bet but didn't do much that would make us approach him, but I dunno who we'd drop for him...
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do we want to try alloy a Hugareida with a Martial style?
probably not very important, but might be worth checking if we ever have time for it:can we stoke our aspects through our Fylgja(ie have the aspects physical manifestation appear on it). it might be possible if its our soul. if it works, it might have no further effect, or it might affect other things
probably not very important, but might be worth checking if we ever have time for it:can we stoke our aspects through our Fylgja(ie have the aspects physical manifestation appear on it). it might be possible if its our soul. if it works, it might have no further effect, or it might affect other things
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We probably do eventually if Alloying Martial Styles actually works. I suspect it won't work, but it'd be worth a shot.
I'm...dubious that this works. All evidence we have is that they always appear on us, and that's true of even the Fylgja users we've seen. Unlike some of the other tricks we've been figuring out, that one would be readily available to anyone with a Fylgja, so I'm pretty sure we would've seen it if it were an option.
I.F. Ister
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'Experience Steel, I suppose.'
Nice! A Reward Dice to you!
0~0~0
I'll call voting in an hour and a half
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Sweet! So...can I spend that for hints on who might or might not be a good recruitment target as I mention above?
Woes of the whetstone (fearsome hill)
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Woes of the whetstone:
stolen from mother mountain
woken from fearless slumber
shattered by the wants of fire
taken by the hand of man
shaped by the bite of steel
carried from my mother's grave
to foreign monster's manse
where stones shouldn't stray
made as chattel to Thor's daughter
taken further, farther
to fields of faith and fire
where bloody mouths pray
sold to sullied hands
into warworker's wares
made to suffer iron's ire
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Every day dozens of whetstones are sacrificed to make sharpened swords. You can change this. Use a hammer, save a mountain's son.
(This poem was brought to you by Harald's Hard Hammers)
stolen from mother mountain
woken from fearless slumber
shattered by the wants of fire
taken by the hand of man
shaped by the bite of steel
carried from my mother's grave
to foreign monster's manse
where stones shouldn't stray
made as chattel to Thor's daughter
taken further, farther
to fields of faith and fire
where bloody mouths pray
sold to sullied hands
into warworker's wares
made to suffer iron's ire
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Every day dozens of whetstones are sacrificed to make sharpened swords. You can change this. Use a hammer, save a mountain's son.
(This poem was brought to you by Harald's Hard Hammers)
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He'd feel terrible. We'll just borrow his sword and stab ourselves instead. That's a much better plan.
Disclaimer: This is a terrible idea, we should under no circumstances do this.
We could always pick a fight with somebody else who has a Steel Weapon.
Who do we know who has a Steel Weapon and a good reason to stab us with it? Let's go and annoy him until he gets angry and attack us.