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NorseQuest (A Norse Xianxia)

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Not sure why I was the one to open the Fate floodgates. I just remembered that there was already a Lancer one made so felt like doing it. Though I'm not complaining.
 
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Winter 10/Playdates
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    • [X] A Witch-King seeks his sword once more in Valland
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    Playdates (Asgeirr: 2, Sigurdr: 6, Eyvor: 4, Hallbjorn: 4)
    After a long day of play, your children's new friends leave while demanding fylgjur of their own from their parents. You suspect you'll see some cursory questions from curious parents in the coming days.

    (Your children are now friends with Klaus, Kjaran, and Kadrina)
    (Their parents may request that you unveil their fylgjur)
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    Exploring (Hamingja: 8) 8
    While you don't find much of anything in your explorations, you do spy some rather well-travelled deer trails. After organizing a hunting party and heading out, you bring back enough food to keep you sated for a fair amount of time.

    Enough food, in fact, to free up some very valuable time for more training!

    (+5 XP, next turn only)
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    Personal (Pick 2/3, if no Exploration is picked. 1 Free Social):
    [ ] (Here, Kitty-Kitty) Attempt to make friends with the skogtatt
    -[ ] (Write in) How do you go about this?
    [ ] (Violent) Pick a fight or spar with... (Sparring with people reveals a summery of their character sheets)
    -[ ] Spar with Abjorn, your husband
    -[ ] Spar with Stigmar
    -[ ] Someone else (Write in)
    [ ] (Personal) Spend time with... (Write in)
    [ ] (Shopping) Ask Abjorn to buy something for you (Write in) (Can only be used to buy or sell things you are already aware of and cannot haggle)
    [ ] (Court) Send Abjorn to make a case at the Thing (Write in)
    [ ] (Crafting) Try to make something (Write in) (Hugr+Some kind of crafting skill)
    -[ ] (Optional) Focus on repairing something (Write in)
    [ ] (Poetry) Try to realize an Inspiration (Write in one of your Inspirations)
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    Exploration/Travel (Pick 1 or none):
    [ ] (Visit) Go visit... (1 Left)
    -[ ] The Witch... even though she's dead
    -[ ] Asvir!
    --[ ] (Optional) Attend the Thing
    -[ ] Buriby, Osborn's Farm
    -[ ] Glebby, Sverre's Farm
    -[ ] Hasviby, Hasvir's Farm
    -[ ] Halfdanby, Halfdan's Farm
    -[ ] Jurgen's Cave
    [ ] (Exploration) Go on a walk through...
    -[ ] The fields!
    --[ ] (Optional) Send your fylgja in your place (Does not cost an action)
    -[ ] The Hading!
    --[ ] (Optional) Send your fylgja in your place (Does not cost an action)
    --[ ] (Optional) Try to find the Heart of the Hading
    -[ ] The hills!
    --[ ] (Optional) Send your fylgja in your place (Does not cost an action)
    --[ ] (Optional) Range further from your home
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    Training: You have 74 XP to spend as you see fit.
    [ ] (Research) Try to figure out how things work (Write in)
    [ ] (Seeress) Learn seidr with the Seeress (Only available during Summer)
    -[ ] Write in up to 3 things to request of her
    [ ] (Drifa) Teach Drifa some of your tricks (Write in)
    [ ] (Blackhand) Try to develop old/train new hugareida tricks (Write in)
    [ ] (Training) Hamr (117 XP to rank up)
    -[ ] (Optional) Train a hamr skill or trick (Write in)
    [ ] (Training) Hugr (255 XP to rank up)
    -[ ] (Optional) Train a hugr skill or trick (Write in)
    [ ] (Training) Fylgja (102 XP to rank up)
    -[ ] (Optional) Train a fylgja skill or trick (Write in)
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    Orthstirr Available: 1244
    How do you want to use your orthstirr? You can turn on passive tricks here. (Leaving this blank is assumed to be boosting all your stats to max)
    [ ] (Orthstirr Usage) (Write in) (Optional)
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    Fylgja Capacity: 13/13
    Do you want to withdraw or deposit anything in your fylgja?
    [ ] Write in (Optional)
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    Equipment/Capacity/Shapeshifting/Alloy/Pocket/Whatever Management
    What do you want to have equipped on your person, in your capacity, or for your shapeshifting? Leaving this blank means that no changes are made.
    [ ] Write in (Optional)
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    Property Management: You have 96 Work Dice Available
    How do you want to use them? (Leaving this blank is assumed to be the same as last turn)
    [ ] Write in (Optional)
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    AN: My apologies for the length. I had a really difficult time writing this one, just not a whole lot of inspiration with these two left-overs.

    Regardless, 25-minute moratorium
     
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    • Right! There's the doot!

    So, just checking, we do need an action to Empower our household, but do we need to invent a whole new spell for Initiation, or is Halla sharp enough now to be able to just modify Odr Soul-Shock appropriately to acclimatize someone?

    Stigmar and company we can definitely buff reasonably safely--at least their Hamr, Abjorn would take most of the action though because we've got to walk him through.
     
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    Question. Whatever happened to our Norse plate mail and the Calvery idea? What happened to our horsey?
     
    Two important questions @Imperial Fister:

    1. What were our retainers responses to the idea of being Infused? Did that just...not happen and we need to spend another action, or did it happen, or what?
    2. Do we need to spend an action to inform Dorri about the vittra and that whole thing, or can telling him the basics be assumed? Or spend our free Fylgja explore to deliver the message?
     
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    weeblypanda said:
    Question. Whatever happened to our Norse plate mail and the Calvery idea? What happened to our horsey?
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    Norse don't ride horses to battle--though having one means you can attend the bigger Things since one of the requirements to have a say is being able to ride there on a horse.

    Plate, I'm hoping we can find an avenue to continuing this project on the way to Gotland, we'll have to pass through Denmark after all, and that's right on the border with Christian lands. It wouldn't be impossible to find someone who can translate Latin there, one way or another.
     
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    Skippy said:
    We need to come up with versions of Halla in even more RPG systems.
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    The easiest way to slot Halla into Exalted would, obviously, be as a fire aspect Dragonblooded. It fits both her fire themes and the focus on lineage and dynasty the Quest overall has. She's just a Dragonblooded who took a 5 dot Mentor fluffed as a ghost bonded to her soul.

    She has high Melee, Presence, and Socialize of her Caste skills, and favored Craft, Lore, and Occult, and is a Sorcerer definitely.


    Her Odr stuff doesn't easily map to anything Exalted, but could easily be some sort of extended Sorcerous Working to improve herself beyond normal dragonblood ken.

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    Update thoughts:

    Things I'm interested in:

    Making fertility buffs for Kurt and his wife so he swears loyalty to us (I think having a Jarlsoul seems like a huge deal, since everyone we have met with one has been able to command us around with Force)

    Making super dogs out of our family's puppies. (Vikingr may not ride horses into battle, but hunting dogs are normal. Super powerful cultivator hunting dogs? Cool.)

    Making even more cool gear and stuff. (I think crafting our way to more power is fun. I want us to be decked out in a dozen Realized pieces of equipment to pass down through our family line until they're Legendary)

    Things I think are important/time limited:

    Going to the Thing is probably important. There's currently a power struggle in our home between the Jarl we hate and the Headsman we don't. If we want to get involved on either side, we probably have to attend.

    Teaching Abjorn Odr stuff - he said he wants to walk the path with us. We should start him down it ASAP, so it doesn't look like we are not following through on it.
     
    DeadmanwalkingXI said:
    1. What were our retainers responses to the idea of being Infused? Did that just...not happen and we need to spend another action, or did it happen, or what?
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    Stigmar and Tryggr are the only people who are up for it at the moment—the rest have heard too many stories of your convulsions and the like to be super amped.
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    2. Do we need to spend an action to inform Dorri about the vittra and that whole thing, or can telling him the basics be assumed? Or spend our free Fylgja explore to deliver the message?
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    Telling him the basics is assumed
     
    KittyEmpress said:
    Making even more cool gear and stuff. (I think crafting our way to more power is fun. I want us to be decked out in a dozen Realized pieces of equipment to pass down through our family line until they're Legendary)
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    I'm down with more gear. That said, Realized gear are people, and require us to be a good parent to them, and do not always get along...making too many Realized Items is thus problematic. Dozens of Wondrous Items, sure, but not Realized.

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    Going to the Thing is probably important. There's currently a power struggle in our home between the Jarl we hate and the Headsman we don't. If we want to get involved on either side, we probably have to attend.
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    I think getting involved before we figure out more about Steinarr's death is probably bad. We don't want to back the wrong people here. We could do the Divination first, but that probably means no crafting this turn, which means the book cover doesn't get done.

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    Teaching Abjorn Odr stuff - he said he wants to walk the path with us. We should start him down it ASAP, so it doesn't look like we are not following through on it.
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    Realistically, we need to teach him to weave first. That apparently isn't an action, but waiting a turn while we do that and other prep and spending the actual action next turn seems right to me.

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    Stigmar and Tryggr are the only people who are up for it at the moment—the rest have heard too many stories of your convulsions and the like to be super amped.
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    That's entirely fair. Would Infusing, say, Stigmar's Hamr be a Research action, just an Odr expenditure, or what?
     
    So, we need to learn our Unbinding Trick, do we need to develop a modified Odr Soul Shock as well? Or is it simple enough that it's just a matter of throttling, rather than anything else?
     
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    So, we need to learn our Unbinding Trick, do we need to develop a modified Odr Soul Shock as well? Or is it simple enough that it's just a matter of throttling, rather than anything else?
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    This is a really good question. @Imperial Fister do we know enough to actually start learning how to drip feed someone Odr as a Trick? We'd definitely learn it if so, or would we need Research actions first, or is it not a Trick just a technique?

    Oh, and side question, would our Unbinding Trick benefit from our Hugr Training Item?

    I have a plan, but I'd adjust it to learn this if available. Speaking of which, tentative plan:

    [X] Plan Spreading Ashes
    -[X] (Crafting) Try to make something (1)
    --[X] Cover and Binding for our Book (+16 successes from Tools/Workshop)
    --[X] Use the pelt of Moonless Night for the leather of the cover, hopefully making it very hard to damage
    --[X] Wax the pages with a mix of wax and hearthroot oil to make it both flame resistant and water resistant
    --[X] Use 1 Odr as ink in writing the title
    --[X] Add runes to the cover saying "When this book is opened, the contents will be restored from damage." (Hopefully allowing instant repairs when colored and the book is opened).

    -[X] (Crafting) Try to make something (2)
    --[X] Various small but useful or pleasant presents for everyone in the family or household (+16 successes from Tools/Workshop)
    --[X] Made of metal as this is a smithing action
    -[X] (Crafting) Try to make something (3)
    --[X] Reforge Tryggr and Trausti's Helms to attempt to improve them (+16successes from Tools/Workshop)

    -[X] [Social] (Personal) Spend time with...
    --[X] Kurt Frogtongue and Haydis
    --[X] Specifically, in addition to doing the requested fertility ritual, offer to make him a huscarl if he wants (no pressure, we're fine keeping him in his current position), give him the Superior weapon for his bravery in battle, and offer Fylgja unveiling to both if they want it.

    -[X] Yule Divination
    --[X] Attempt divination to determine who hired people to kill Steinarr
    --[X] Contacting Odin
    --[X] Draw lots from a bag of 9: Drysalt, Lidrun of the Red Sash, Dorri Rattlespear, Logi Flamehair, Buri Borruson, Erikaer Corpsemaker, Hasvir Horrason, Reinar Swordfury, and someone else. The "someone else" option is labeled "Someone Else"
    ---[X] Note that we're not publicizing this list and consider most of the names on it very unlikely (everyone but Drysalt and maybe Corpsemamker), we just want to be thorough and nine options seems better symbolically. We probably don't show or tell anyone the results of this unless it's Drysalt.
    ---[X] Further questions TBD based on results from the initial draw

    -[X] (Exploration) Go on a walk through...
    --[X] The coast!
    ---[X] (Optional) Send your fylgja in your place (Does not cost an action)

    -[X] Trip to Gotland to spread Steinarr's Ashes
    --[X] This is also a trading expedition and we'll recruit crew and acquire trade goods for it as such.
    --[X] Details on this are likely their own vote.

    -[X] Special Note: On all Crafting add the following if possible unless otherwise specified:
    --[X] For metal items have Heat Hold available just in case
    --[X] Using Sundersight (+1d3 Successes)
    --[X] Burning Frami, Virthing, and Saemd (for +1 Success each, +3 successes total) to enhance the crafting process


    Training:

    -[X] (Seeress) Learn seidr with the Seeress (Only available during Summer)
    --[X] Ask Solrun to explain the various uses a seeress has for a Fylgja. We feel like we're missing something fundamental here having had most of our Fylgja education from warriors.
    --[X] Ask Solrun about the mountain of metal and that whole thing, noting we've had feelings that it's something in our family lineage. She's not likely to know the martial style itself, but she might know who or what it's based on.
    --[X] Check with Solrun if our idea for the bridge and burl is on the right track...or at least not dangerous (we think we can capture the Experience of being on a bridge them imprint it into the burl to use as a beacon to come back).

    -[X] (Research)
    --[X] Teach Abjorn how to weave and start teaching him to needlebind, plus other general Odr cultivation preparations, including giving him our book to read.
    --[X] Put three Hearthberries, honey, and water in our Brewery Pocket again like last time.
    --[X] Finish teaching Bjorney Eyespeech – 1 Research
    --[X] Try and see if we can put a Muna (specifically, Whistling Wind) or a Hugareida (trying with Gale) into our Hamr, allowing us to take on its aspects physically – 1 Research
    --[X] Very carefully infuse Stigmar and then Tryggr's Hamr with up to 7 Odr each, carefully going one point at a time and stopping if they seem to be having any problems, making sure Abjorn is on hand to see what we're doing as best he can – 1 Research
    --[X] Meditate on the Mountain of Metal associated with Time Stands Still and our breathing, attempting to feel out the borders of what causes that feeling and its effects on us – 1 Research
    ---[X] While we're talking to Sten at some point, ask him about the mountain of metal and the sensations we experience, see if he knows anything about it or has experienced anything similar
    --[X] Try and feed the lesser spirits in our Soulscape and grow them in the direction of being loyal to us, investing up to 9 Odr total – 1 Research
    --[X] Try and carefully invert Ignition away from ourselves and see what it does – 1 Research
    ---[X] Switch all Ignition effects from +6 damage to adding dice when we do this, then back afterwards, and make sure we have, like, 10 layers of Reinforce Shield up and are wearing Emberguard with its runes active.

    -[X] (Drifa)
    --[X] Make sure she learns Recall, the utility Hugareida, and the basics of rote medical and household seidr if we can 1xp
    ---[X] We'll mention the ways we beat Hooknails involved Scouring Cleanse and Sickness Sear, respectively, to get her interested...this lesson plan will take more than one turn, but we're starting it now and can hopefully inspire her to pick up the basics.

    -[X] (Training) Hamr (117 xp to rank up)
    --[X] Train Hamr Itself 118xp (59xp)
    --[X] Train Tree Split with Abjorn since we could use another guard breaker 3xp

    -[X] (Training) Hugr (255 xp to rank up)
    --[X] Train our new Unbinding Hugr Trick 10xp (5xp)
    --[X] Train an Odr Drip Feed Trick to more safely initiate someone 6xp

    -[X] (Work Dice Usage)
    --[X] Buildings, Resources, and Livestock: 2 Living Space, 1 Storage, 1 Resources Goods, otherwise maxed out (58 Total)
    --[X] Crafting: Make a Superior Forged Iron weapon (of his choice) for Kurt and a Superior Forged Iron Mail-Necked Helm for Agnar Bjarnesson, both as Yule presents (8 Total)
    --[X] Construction: Make 3/10 of the Tournament Grounds (27 Total),
    --[X] Seidr: Perform a 9 Work Die Fertility Ritual for Kurt and Haydis (9 Total),
    --[X] Conversion: Spend for 6 Research Dice (12 Total)

    -[X] (Incidentals)
    --[X] Adding Taafl Board Capacity Gains to: Sigurdr, Hallbjorn,
    --[X] Receiving Metal from Dwarves: 24 oz Forged Iron, 6 oz Storm Iron
    --[X] Start carrying the Hag Stone with us everywhere

    EDIT: Okay shifted some xp to the Odr Drip Feed thing.
    EDIT2: Apparently we get a free Divination on Yule. So...added. With thanks to OrbMorb for divination details.
    EDIT3: Minor logistical changes based on the costs of Unbinding and Odr Drip
     
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    KittyEmpress said:
    Making even more cool gear and stuff. (I think crafting our way to more power is fun. I want us to be decked out in a dozen Realized pieces of equipment to pass down through our family line until they're Legendary)
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    This would involve raising a dozen more children who are fully capable of withholding their powers from us if we piss them off.
     
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