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NorseQuest (A Norse Xianxia)

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TehChron said:
Yes, no, or they're the same individual
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We already got two hits, we wouldn't have gotten two hits if they were the same person.

Now, my Bet is that "Dorri didn't knowingly do this, but his resources were co-opted to do it, which as a Jarl, it's on Dorri to keep track of his shit and failing to do so means he's at least partially culpable for the acts done with them." Just like how we established that if you use someone else's Orthstirr, any Nid that's done with it falls on the head of the one who loaned it out to you. Jarls do that on a wide scale.
 
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[X] "Was Dorri knowingly working with Drysalt in that regard?"
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Ryumancer said:
Personally, I'm inclined to add that the weird twin vibe would be rather hard to maintain when players are in control of one half of the pair.

Eyvor sounds the most appealing to me, tbh.
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Clearly the easiest solution to this is just make the twins a paired pick where we get both. Joined at the hip for all but the least impactful options, always doing adventure-level stuff (raids, bandit fights, going to fight trolls, etc) together. It'd make things more complicated, by like... doubling our actions in battle and needing to assign for both Asveig and Steinulfr, but I feel like it could be doable? And it'd make the weird twin vibe easier to maintain. Just like how we write in arguments for how Halla does stuff, we could write in how we see the twins doing it, and just have it passed between the two.

The balancing aspect here being that they'd gain Orthstirr slower since they'd split all their gains between two people, I guess?
 
...or is the man we know as Dorri currently a shifter? Has he been outright replaced?

We have a test that we can use, but Drysalt might have known to spoof that one.
 
Alectai said:
ow, my Bet is that "Dorri didn't knowingly do this, but his resources were co-opted to do it, which as a Jarl, it's on Dorri to keep track of his shit and failing to do so means he's at least partially culpable for the acts done with them.
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Well we do know where drysolt got the money from and he did so by promising lands for all kinds but wouldn't corpsmaker name also come up if that was the case? As the lands are also his?
 
uri said:
Well we do know where drysolt got the money from and he did so by promising lands for all kinds but wouldn't corpsmaker name also come up if that was the case? As the lands are also his?
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Corpsemaker hasn't outright dominated the Hading in the same way he has Agder. Mostly because it's a pain in the ass getting around the murder fjord so he's content to delegate usually.

But Drysalt appears to be making a play to Dominating the Hading, and is pretty far along the road apparently since he can now claim to be its master and it be accepted by various monsters.
 
Alectai said:
Corpsemaker hasn't outright dominated the Hading in the same way he has Agder. Mostly because it's a pain in the ass getting around the murder fjord so he's content to delegate usually.
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Corpsemaker has only Jurgdby, not all of Agder.

Alectai said:
But Drysalt appears to be making a play to Dominating the Hading, and is pretty far along the road apparently since he can now claim to be its master and it be accepted by various monsters.
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Yeah, or Dorri is working for him and making that claim...which is plausible.
 
Hey, correct me if I'm wrong but Solrun has shroud sight right? The thing that lets one see through lies? And we are inviting her to stay over and become part of our household. Would it be out of line to have her take a look at Dorri, see if he's lying to us or hiding something?And if it's actually far sight, like I might also remember her having, then maybe she could keep an eye on him?
 
Ariesthegolden said:
Hey, correct me if I'm wrong but Solrun has shroud sight right? The thing that lets one see through lies?
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She does not. She has Scrysight, which is remote viewing. Veni, Horra's daughter, was the one with Shroudsight.

Ariesthegolden said:
And if it's actually far sight, like I might also remember her having, then maybe she could keep an eye on him?
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She can't keep it up all that long or it damages her, from what we've seen. She could spy on him for a specific meeting or something, but could not manage round the clock surveillance.
 
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Added a variant that accounts for them being the same person or some other fuckery we can't anticipate.
 
Did we include a short vignette of who we are in the foreword of the book? Like who her father was, who she is, here feats and the like.

Also really cool that we've ensured that a contemporary source of life in the Viking age survives.
 
DeadmanwalkingXI said:
She does not. She has Scrysight, which is remote viewing. Veni, Horra's daughter, was the one with Shroudsight.



She can't keep it up all that long or it damages her, from what we've seen. She could spy on him for a specific meeting or something, but could not manage round the clock surveillance.
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Damn. Oh well. One way or another though we need to investigate Dorri. Maybe it's just because I haven't been following the quest for long but something about him or at least the situation between him and corpsmaker reeks. I'm remarkably unsurprised that he's involved in something shady at least.
 
Ariesthegolden said:
Damn. Oh well. One way or another though we need to investigate Dorri. Maybe it's just because I haven't been following the quest for long but something about him or at least the situation between him and corpsmaker reeks. I'm remarkably unsurprised that he's involved in something shady at least.
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Problem, if this is anything like Horra's son being swapped not even someone with Shroudsight can see past it, that was the shocking thing then.
 
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Scheduled vote count started by Imperial Fister on Nov 3, 2023 at 6:41 PM, finished with 44 posts and 5 votes.
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Ariesthegolden said:
Damn. Oh well. One way or another though we need to investigate Dorri. Maybe it's just because I haven't been following the quest for long but something about him or at least the situation between him and corpsmaker reeks. I'm remarkably unsurprised that he's involved in something shady at least.
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The reason we thought he was unlikely was a lack of motive, not that we didn't think he was shady. The Drysalt connection is unexpected.

mythfan12 said:
Problem, if this is anything like Horra's son being swapped not even someone with Shroudsight can see past it, that was the shocking thing then.
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Nah, Veni was in on that, she probably could see through it. Solrun, however, could not, so it might well be only Shroudsight that could.
 
I think Dorri might actually be working with Drysalt.
1 It pits Halla's (and the thread's) disdain for Steelfathers and Corpsemaker specifically against our love for our family and desire for revenge. It makes picking a side in the fight an actually interesting choice, instead of just trying to figure out if we can meaningfully defeat a Steelfather
2 Drysalt. . .might be able to harm a steelfather? Even if he isn't, he might have convinced Dorri he can, and Dorri desperately needs a way to.

We told Dorri about Drysalt about 3.5 years ago, and we haven't heard anything about him since. If we get a yes here we could ask how long they've been working together, or where Drysalt lives.
 
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    • DeadmanwalkingXI said:
    It's plausible if he's utterly morally bankrupt, yeah. He'd just need to be completely without scruples.
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    It's also possible from another standpoint: Drysalt is clearly a major threat. He nearly killed Hading to a man last time he came. Maybe Doring is working with him not because he's morally bankrupt. But because he thinks it'd be better for Drysalt to see himself as ruling Hading instead of burning it to the ground again.

    He might be doing Drysalt's work because he sees it as the best course of action for everyone's safety.
     
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