I maintain that I think Asveig was as badass as Steinarr, just that while Steinarr was public about it Asveigs badassness is secret and we never got the connection where we'd have learned those secrets.
NorseQuest (A Norse Xianxia)
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I think its kinda interesting knightly plate is a thing at all, actually. Given that plate armor didnt appear before the 14th century IRL, it should have been 5000 yeaes in the future in game. Which hints at something interesting going on
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I pretty sure that it's just because knights almost always have plate armor when they appear in fiction even when it would be inaccurate
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I just really like the aesthetics of plate armor, to be honest
I don't think the story is talking abaout actual plate armor of the Low Mediaval period. Its probably more like scale or lamellar armor, wich was used in this period i think.
Something like this:
Something like this:
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No, it's proper full plate.
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Knightly Armor is actual plate. It's an anachronism, but there's magic involved and it's a cool one.
btw what are our plans for research next turn? can we try some more needlework stuff? maybe we can talk with Asva to get advice somehow on how needlework can be further applicable to cultivation? or try get more details about what in our needlework mom focused on?
and what about alloys? do we have plan to further our progress there?
and what about alloys? do we have plan to further our progress there?
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If you have a specific idea we can certainly consider it, but I don't think 'use needlework' is nearly specific enough to be a good research topic.
In general, we're gonna continue stuff from this turn (we can try and set up an ecosystem to improve the farm, add glowstones to the house, continuing work on the armor, and seeing what the Alloys we made this turn actually do), checking if we can use Stoker State Dice on non-combat stuff, and take a look at the Ice Sword to see if we could potentially use it, or will need to make another (I suspect the latter, but no reason not to check).
I think we need to work out what the ones we just discovered actually do. We proceed with other possibilities after that.
We sadly do not have the free dice, I don't think.
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huh...
we have the plate, the frisian cultivation and probably more alloys... what else do we need to research?
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perhaps can be combined with alloying it with forgefire(if used for crafting) or campfire/clearwater(if used for related stuff)?
we still haven't tried manifesting the cloak we made, worth a try. also maybe trying to create Odr strings, or alternatively bring physical strings into our soulscape and try infusing them with Odr/Orthstirr
another thing to try is maybe creating patterns in stuff we weave from aspects/orthstirr? or even runes?
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It's in the above post but basically, we still want to improve our soulscape, want to look at the Ice Sword, and need to know what the Alloys we discovered this turn actually do. Plus checking some stuff with Stoker State and continuing work on the armor.
We can maybe fit that in if it doesn't work normally, yeah.
I'm a little skeptical of most of this...Orthstirr strings are literally how Recall works, so adding Odr to that is not really new research...I'm not sure what you mean by the cloak we made?
the pocket one, I mean. from the aspects.
trying to weave Orthstirr strings together is still useful
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Probably high right now
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Could do the earthblood and the light river vial. Even if it's not sunfire, we could probably still make a fun "Fires of the Earth and Waters of the Void" thing out of them.
Weaving (NOT needlebinding (yet))
Hallas and Abjorns virthing
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I'm skeptical that would do anything but it seems like it would be interesting to try
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It's on the agenda, but I think the other stuff planned is higher priority this coming turn specifically.
I think weaving the Aspects of anyone not initiated into Odr cultivation is probably overly risky. I suspect it wouldn't do anything or be fine...but what if it starts something?
I'm "might, might not" about it doing anything.
But its interesting and might have useful effects.
When it comes to our own aspects:
2 woven shows the door, 3 woven opens it.
1 from 2 person each might show the door, but I'd be very surprised if it does something like opening.
And there are non Odr situations where cloth analogy for virthing happen. Like a Jarl picking a strand from their virthing to gift to a person.
I'd be very worried about weaving more aspects of other people, or doing it in a situation where a surprise unconciousness could kill us.
What are the risks of it in your mind?
Also, if we have spare research dice again, i could look into some more ideas to finish up the projectile guiding trick.
[X] "I... Will wait till Yule."
What a good boye!
These both seem cool.
Huh, I wonder if this is the governing Style/Hugareida for Time Stands Still?
Similar to how we actually unlocked Flame-Tending Blade before Stoker State.
So, given the effects of Odr-infused honey on Bjorney, I wonder if actually feeding some Odr-infused honey* to bees might not reap considerable rewards? If we ended up awakening them as cultivating bees, then logically, they might end up passively gathering Odr and infusing it into their honey? Which we could then take a cut of in exchange for the protection and other services we provide them, effectively upping our Odr income.
On a related note, bees and beehives to our soulscape also feels like it would be massively beneficial, whether they're odr-awakened bees or just regular ones. They're pollinators!
Given the connections between Odr and "the mead of poetry", and the fact that mead is made from honey, I think there's potentially quite a lot of very powerful stuff here we have only scratched the surface of. We should continue working on infusing Odr into honey and in brewing mead from the results.
*(We might need to Odr-infuse some royal jelly, or possibly infuse it into flowers placed near the hives, to ensure proper absorption. Both of these have present additional complicating factors... but it's worth researching.)
What a good boye!
These both seem cool.
Huh, I wonder if this is the governing Style/Hugareida for Time Stands Still?
Similar to how we actually unlocked Flame-Tending Blade before Stoker State.
So, given the effects of Odr-infused honey on Bjorney, I wonder if actually feeding some Odr-infused honey* to bees might not reap considerable rewards? If we ended up awakening them as cultivating bees, then logically, they might end up passively gathering Odr and infusing it into their honey? Which we could then take a cut of in exchange for the protection and other services we provide them, effectively upping our Odr income.
On a related note, bees and beehives to our soulscape also feels like it would be massively beneficial, whether they're odr-awakened bees or just regular ones. They're pollinators!
Given the connections between Odr and "the mead of poetry", and the fact that mead is made from honey, I think there's potentially quite a lot of very powerful stuff here we have only scratched the surface of. We should continue working on infusing Odr into honey and in brewing mead from the results.
*(We might need to Odr-infuse some royal jelly, or possibly infuse it into flowers placed near the hives, to ensure proper absorption. Both of these have present additional complicating factors... but it's worth researching.)
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Just for the passive pollination of the various flowers will be good on their own. We may need to consider bringing more chicken into the soul space to make sure they don't get out of hand.
Also worms for the soil. (if we can bring chickens a worm will be fine)
Yeah, if we're thinking about it as essentially a self-contained biosphere, we probably want to start with a range of insects and then move up.
Even a lot of "pests" like field mice, voles and shrews and so on actually have a vital role to play. Small birds too.
Even a lot of "pests" like field mice, voles and shrews and so on actually have a vital role to play. Small birds too.
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I will say that there's not really enough space to make a self-sufficient biosphere as of yet.
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Also, as a freebie for consideration, recall that dual cultivation is a thing that exists in xianxia settings.
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Fair. We could do some of the basics like bees and worms though, yeah?
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Absolutely, you can do that.