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NorseQuest (A Norse Xianxia)

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Lunoros said:
My only issue with the whole Odin adventurer thing is that questors wouldn't vote the whole Odin curiosity thing cause oh no it could cause us problems. Otherwise it would be fun.
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I'm not against being curious, what I'm against is not having the option to leave something Well Enough Alone.
 
Interesting, wonder how the settlement of Iceland's going then. Assuming the years work about right if we just cut off the last digit, it should be getting going around now.
 
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Summer 5/Turn 1
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    • [X] Plan Let's Get Married
    -[X] (Personal) Spend time with...(Write in)
    --[X] Gabriel
    --[X] Try and make friends
    -[X] (Crafting) Try to make something (Write in) (Hugr+Some kind of crafting skill)
    --[X] Make a new set of tools
    -[X] (Must Take) It's... it's time to get _married!_ Yay!
    -[X] (Research) Try to figure out how magical items work (Write in)
    --[X] Research Explosive Charm 1d6
    --[X] Ask about and discuss with Hallr how runes work
    -[X] (Blackhand's Training) Try to develop old/train new hugareida tricks (Write in)
    --[X] Train Kindle-Spinner 2d6 (1d6)
    --[X] Train Ember-Winged Cloak 4d6 (2d6)
    --[X] Train Firebomb-Strike 2d6 (1d6)
    -[X] (Steinarr's Training) Ask Steinarr to teach you a trick/some tricks (Write in)
    --[X] Train Sidestep 1d6
    --[X] Train trick to increase eyesight 1d6
    --[X] Train 'Household' Housecraft Skill-Trick 1d6
    --[X] Train 'Stealth' Wildcraft Skill-Trick 1d6
    -[X] (Training) Hamr (30 successes to rank up)
    --[X] Train Glima - 1 Reward Die courtesy of [@DeadmanwalkingXI](https://forums.sufficientvelocity.com/members/89786/)
    --[X] Train Labor 1d6
    --[X] Train Overland 1d6
    -[X] (Training) Hugr (31 successes to rank up)
    --[X] Train Artcraft 1d6
    --[X] Train Management 1d6
    --[X] Train Scouting 1d6
    --[X] Train Strategy 1d6
    --[X] Train Weaponcraft 2d6
    --[X] Train Wildcraft 1d6
    --[X] Train Wordplay 1d6
    -[X] (Orthstirr Usage)
    --[X] 5 Hamr
    ---[X] 4 Chop, 4 Defend, 4 Dodge, 4 Glima, 2 Overland (18 total)
    --[X] 6 Hugr
    ---[X] 3 Composure, 4 Housecraft, 2/3 Scouting, 3 Silver-Tongue, 3 Tactics, 3 Wordplay, 2 Wildcraft (20/21 total, depending on if Scouting goes up)
    --[X] 4 Fylgja
    --[X] 1 First Impression
    --[X] 17/16 free for tricks (depending on if Scouting goes up)
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    (Research: 5) 2 Successes
    "And why is it that you won't tell me the true meaning?" You scowl as Blackhand takes his sweet time answering.

    'Because,' Blackhand says as he finally deigns to answer, 'if you don't figure it out for yourself, then it's useless.'

    Your scowl deepens. "Can you at least tell me if I'm close or not?"

    'Of course,' he clears his 'throat', 'you're correct that 'Hardened-Soft' refers to pottery and that 'Force of Fire' refers to an explosion.'

    "And?" You start hopefully, to little avail.

    'And that is it.'

    Great.

    You sigh as you get back to work.

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    (Hamr Trick Training #1: 2) 1 Failure. (Hamr Trick Training #2: 4) 1 Success
    Focusing orthstirr into your eyes, you find yourself seeing the world far sharper than before.

    You blink in awe and it disappears as quickly as it arrives.

    Scowling, you resolve to keep practicing.

    (Magnify-Sight Trick Added to Generic Hamr Tricks. Needs 8 more successes to unlock.)
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    (Hugareida Trick Training #1: 3, 3) 2+1=3 Successes. (Hugareida Trick Training #2: 1, 6, 4, 2) 1+1=2 Successes. (Hugareida Trick Training #3: 2, 6) 1+1=2 Successes. (Household Skill-Trick Training: 2) -1+1=0=1 Success. (Stealth Skill-Trick Training: 1) 1 Failure
    Fire!

    Fire!

    Fire!

    Oh how you love its siren song!

    (+3 to Kindle-Spinner)
    (+2 Successes to Ember-Winged Cloak)
    (+2 Successes to Firebomb-Strike)
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    (Glima Training: 4) 1 Success. (Labor: 1) 1 Failure. (Overland: 3) 1 Success
    You spend your days improving your glima to great success and training your general fitness.

    (Glima Rank Up!)
    (+1 to Overland)
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    (Artcraft Training: 4) 1 Success (Management: 2) 1 Failure. (Scouting: 5) 2 Successes. (Strategy: 6) 2 Successes. (Weaponcraft: 3, 2) Neutral Outcome, 1 Success. (Wildcraft: 6) 2 Successes. (Wordplay: 5) 2 Successes
    Wow, where has this progress been all your life?

    (+1 to Artcraft)
    (Scouting Rank Up!)
    (Strategy Rank Up!)
    (Weaponcraft Unlocked!)
    (Wildcraft Rank Up!)
    (Wordplay Rank Up!)
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    Making friends with Gabriel (Hugr (Silver-Tongue): 2, 5, 1, 3, 3, 6, 6, 4, 4, 5) 10 Successes
    Sparks fly as you and Gabriel dance across the training field. Sagaseeker against Sparrowflight. Norse against Christian. Warrior against Squire.

    "So you're getting married, huh?" Gabriel asks as you find yourself on your back, a whip-fast trip having knocked you down.

    "Yeah, yeah I am," you say, smiling dopily as you catch him under the arm with Sagaseeker. Lifting him high off his feet, you slam him against the dirt as you spring back upright.

    "Good for," he coughs, wheezing as you help him up, "you!" He stands with hands on knees as he gulps down lungful after lungful of sweet, lifegiving air. "I, uh, I actually had a betrothed... back in Wessex."

    "Really?" You quirk your head as you take a draught of water. "I wouldn't have thought a Christian would marry."

    "What?" Gabriel stares at you with an expression of utter confusion. His brows furrow and his mouth hangs agape.

    You shuffle on the spot as an embarrassed warmth springs to your cheeks. "W-well, Jerasmus is a Christian and he's, you know, not married, right?"

    "How did you think more Christians were made?"

    "I... Never mind, moving on," Gabriel squints at you for a long moment, but acquiesces. "So you said that you were... betrothed, was it?"

    He stares at the fluffy clouds slowly rolling across the pale blue sky. "Yeah, I was. Still am, maybe. I don't really know anymore."

    "Because you were enthralled."

    "Yup." He sighs, still staring at the sky. "Before I came here, before that night," the nisse's blood still lingers in some places, "I'm not sure that I would've been able to do what you did."

    "What, kill the nisse?" You frown as you say that. He's pretty strong, he might've been able to do it if his shackles were off.

    "Try to stop it at all."

    "Oh." You don't have much more to say to that.

    "Yeah." Shoulders slumping, he turns his gaze from the sky to the ground, "I was taught that vikings were nothing more than savage barbarians who wish nothing more than to kill, rape, and ravage the lands. I was taught that Christians would be sacrificed to pagan gods, that I should never let that happen to any loyal subject, even if it required ending their lives."

    "But?"

    "But that hasn't happened. In fact, I've been treated to a homey environment full of cozy hearthfires and merry feasts. Sure, there's violence," he shakes his head, "but is there more than back home?"

    He shrugs and you shrug back.

    (+1 Relations with Gabriel)
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    Forging tools (Hugr (Housecraft): 4, 6, 6, 6, 6, 4, 4, 4, 4, 6, 3, 2) 15+2=17 Fucking Successes. Holy Shit, Halla
    Wizard-Owl disappears as soon as you retrieve your tools from his feathers. You offer words of thanks to the spirit, who returns them with an obedient hoot before fluttering off.

    Tools in hand, you eye the hot bog iron with a careful, calculating eye.

    ...

    You blink as the hammer falls one last time, time seeming to have warped and jumped as you forged.

    Looking down, you find that you...

    Those are some Fine tools, wow.

    You blink once more and shake your head free of the fog.

    What in the Nine Realms just happened?

    (+1 Fine Toolset added to Inventory)
    (+2 to Boon: Born With Hammer in Hand)
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    Marriage Time. Oh Boy
    You stand in the bath-house, your hair loose and falling around you like a cloak of crimson thread. Asveig, Asva, and a number of women you've never seen before in your life swarm around you, making sure that everything is ready for your big day.

    A bridal crown sits atop your head, an heirloom from your grandmother specifically for this occasion. It sparkles with red gems and the gold and silver shines in the light of the bath. Just wearing this fills your heart with warm pride.

    Your clothes have been stripped from your body and fresh, far fancier clothes have been laid out for you. They look to have been made specifically for your married life. A hem of silver and gold thread trails around the dress, giving it an opulent flair.

    This... might be the cleanest you've ever been, flat out. Your skin feels red and raw from how hard you've been scrubbed. Apparently, the Jarl of Jurgdby himself decided to conduct the ceremony, as is his right as Jarl.

    "Are you ready, Halla?" Asveig asks as your heart beats faster and faster. You gulp and answer...

    [ ] "Yes, yes I am."
    [ ] "Of course!"
    [ ] "I feel like I've been waiting for this moment my entire life."

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    AN: This is just a silly little vote to allow those holding reward dice to use them on the various rolls that are coming up, should they want to. Also because I feel like your wedding is an important enough event to get its own bit.

    As a reminder, jy3, Exmorri, KreenWarrior, and Constentanto all have 1 Reward Dice each, I believe.

    Alright, so, the wedding rolls are thus;
    (Hugr (Silver-Tongue) This is for the introductions you make with everyone new that you meet, namely the Jarl of Jurgdby. Which First Impressions will help with greatly.

    (Hamingja Roll #1) This is for if you develop a muna or not from your wedding ceremony. And, if you do, how good it is.

    (Hamr (Overland) This is for the traditional 'marriage race', which is when the bride's family and the groom's family race each other back to the hall, where the loser has to serve the winner the first alcoholic beverages.

    (Raw Hamr Roll) This is for the potential, ahem, 'aftermath' of 'consummating' your marriage (which we will skip over. I'm not here to write about two teenagers — or anyone, for that matter — getting it on). There is a chance, however slim, that Halla gets pregnant from that. Which would really throw a wrench in peoples' plans, I feel.

    (Hamingja Roll #2) This is for the dreams you have during your first night as a wife, which were considered prophetic and foretold the prosperity and potential number of children you would have.

    No moratorium. Also, I've got a psychiatrist's appointment tomorrow, so the voting and stuff will be rather extended. I might not even be able to write an update, which would be rather embarrassing after how good I've been.
     
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    • Fine Tools! Oh Boy!

    Now that we've made one, what are the requirements to craft Fine Items?

    Anyway, lots of things that we want to Roll Good on. People should alot their Bonus Dice as they please.
     
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    I'll toss a die to the roll regarding a muna.

    Yay, fine tools!

    Did the owl give us something or will that be later?

    For "black man's end" I'm wondering if it's maybe a swamp? Black murk that swallows people? Could go back to my theory that it's gunpowder - sulfur from the swamp, saltpetre from the low tide? But while saltpetre is chemically a salt; I don't think you find it in salt water. 🤔
     
    Yeah, like, I cannot even begin to describe how nuts it is that we got Fine Tools like that. It means we cannot fail at crafting Decent Tools, and getting Good Quality doesn't require a unicorn to show up either. Given how even decent quality stuff can go for Big Money, that'll be extraordinarily handy, and a wonderful side-hustle during quiet times.
     
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    Anyway, that aside. A question @Imperial Fister .

    Does using superior materials give you bonus successes on crafting by chance? In other words, getting Fine Quality out of Bog Iron is really uncommon outside of top tier smiths and whatnot, and you'd normally need the higher quality stuff to get there?
     
    [X] "I feel like I've been waiting for this moment my entire life."
    Woo talk about those successes on tools.

    Also wonder how people will react if we actually succeed at Halla getting pregnant on that raw Hamr roll.
     
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    Imperial Fister said:
    They do not. Which is why a really good smith is extremely valuable.

    You can have the best materials in the world, but if the skill just isn't there, you can't use them to their fullest extent.
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    Huh, given that, Halla's a fair bit above average, isn't she?

    I guess then that Superior Materials just gives you perks on the finished product?
     
    DeadmanwalkingXI said:
    @Imperial Fister We should've had 2 dice on training Weaponcraft but it looks like only one got rolled.
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    Ope, my bad, fixing. Given that that's a really big goof on my end, have another reward dice.

    I'm feeling rather generous today.
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    Huh, given that, Halla's a fair bit above average, isn't she?
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    In many ways, yes
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    I guess then that Superior Materials just gives you perks on the finished product?
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    Some do, some just increase the number of dice/successes something gives you.
     
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    Okie dokie.

    One last question, what's Halla's eye color? And do you have a favored art-style? I'm clubbing NovelAI into producing a decent placeholder pending an actually decent artist now that Halla's grown up.
     
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