I will say that there's not really enough space to make a self-sufficient biosphere as of yet.

Fair point!

But even if we're thinking about those small scale terrariums that hobbyists make, or those NASA experiments in smallish (like the volume of a few shipping containers) sealed biospheres, there's kind of an art to getting it right, and insects are important. Although you can also have weird runaway effects where one species like nettles or ants takes over everything and then dies out. Sealed biospheres are a honestly great tool for helping to understand how "simple" Earth conditions are actually the result of like two hundred different subtle feedback loops perfectly balancing each other.

...I imagine a lot of this is not 100% applicable because it's our soul, so everything is kind of a metaphor as much as it's a physical thing, like how our crops needed our attention to grow and so on. But I imagine that butterflies and bees to pollinate flowers, worms to turn the soil, beetles to uh... beetle around, and so on, can't hurt in making it more vibrant.
 
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?

Fair, I'm just inclined to be cautious about anything that even gets close to initiating anyone. Anything that might even give them ideas. I think we should actually initiate him into Odr cultivation before we play around too much with stuff like that.

Also, as a freebie for consideration, recall that dual cultivation is a thing that exists in xianxia settings.

This, however, is very interesting. I think this gives us an outline of what we need to do to get Abjorn doing Odr cultivation. We figure out the safe way to initiate someone, then we do that, then literally walk him through various processes doing them with him rather than risking disclosure by explaining per se. That requires a very deep connection, but it's probably doable.

Now, the precise logistics of that I'm less sure of, but it seems like An Idea.
 
Have we uh... tried burning Odr during conception? Odr is distilled divine poetry or something. It makes sense that we'd be able to initiate someone through that.
 
Have we uh... tried burning Odr during conception? Odr is distilled divine poetry or something. It makes sense that we'd be able to initiate someone through that.
It has been considered but the thread has chosen to test that on a chicken egg before we try it on a child

(Personally I'm pretty sure it makes someone an Odr cultivator from birth)
 
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Have we uh... tried burning Odr during conception? Odr is distilled divine poetry or something. It makes sense that we'd be able to initiate someone through that.

We have not. We thought we should try that when an animal is conceived before trying it when it might effect our kids. The most likely result is the kid being an Odr cultivator from birth. Which would actually be really, really, bad and probably fatal for the kid given Disclosure not being available.
 
So from my understanding, Dual Cultivation is done because it's a back and forth of the different energies of the two, so I can't help but feel it'd be more dangerous if Abjorn doesn't have his own Odr to pass to us as we pass ours to him.
 
So from my understanding, Dual Cultivation is done because it's a back and forth of the different energies of the two, so I can't help but feel it'd be more dangerous if Abjorn doesn't have his own Odr to pass to us as we pass ours to him.

Agreed. Which is why I suggest we initiate him and then experiment with doing communal cultivation activities.
 
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We were planning to throw a big party with some of the food we'd brought back, right?

Shall we roll that into the general Yule celebration plans?

IF said that there will be options for what to do with the Food starting next turn. We'll see what they are before making decisions...big party is on the list, but it strongly depends what the options actually are.
 
@Imperial Fister can we put stuff in the house in our soulscape? like can we use it for stuff like storage or various facilities?
having a workshop in our soul can be very useful when on journeys, for example.

can we build a barn?
 
I know we like to joke around about Abjorn's bruised hips, but my man's hips would break under such an assault as that
Good that we have healing seid!

We could steal Abjorn's kenning
Nah, we combo our kenning with his, first couple kenning:
Halla Hipcrusher & Abjorn Backbreaker
The bonebreachers

Halla Hipcrusher has a nice ring to it tbh
And fits nicely with our nutcracker trick.
 
Not actual conception, just the act. Divine passion has to be a decent aphrodisiac.

Does Halla need any aphrodisiac, honestly? She's thirsty enough. Lol

So from my understanding, Dual Cultivation is done because it's a back and forth of the different energies of the two, so I can't help but feel it'd be more dangerous if Abjorn doesn't have his own Odr to pass to us as we pass ours to him.

As far as I know, dual cultivation is based on the whole yin-yang thing where the woman's yin and the man's yang complement each other. Does dual cultivation even exist for Nordic/Germanic cultivation?
 
As far as I know, dual cultivation is based on the whole yin-yang thing where the woman's yin and the man's yang complement each other. Does dual cultivation even exist for Nordic/Germanic cultivation?

Probably not in the same way, but IF brought it up and ideas about doing cultivation stuff as a couple had already been floated as possible, with some good logic behind them, so there's likely something we can work with there, though whether sex is actually involved or necessary is another thing entirely.
 
I already pity the idiot who tries to beat Abjorn.... and succeeds.
If it was just a bodily death, that can be solved with weregild, but if they get the "bright" idea to make him a thrall....

Well, i am sure the tale will become a long standing cautionary one...
 
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