NorseQuest (A Norse Xianxia)
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I.F. Ister
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Alright, fine, you've puppy dog eyed me.I imagine it'll be funny in context, for now, I just feel sad
I find it funny because the way you wrote that line implied that, while you couldn't take Dorri, you could take Drysalt.
Alectai
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I think it's actually that Dorri's a political threat, not a martial one.
Yes, he's strong, but the real problem is that if we can't prove he had a hand in this in the eyes of the Law, then he has all the power in the equation. But if we can, he'll lose so much Orthstirr from the Nid that he'll probably drop a full tier, and any oaths that are sworn to him will likely shatter like glass.
I.F. Ister
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Oh yeah, I knew what you meant. I just read it the martial way first and was like 'wha?'
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I think we can probably bring the kids, if we want. It's not safe, but nothing is, in truth. And this is a trip within Scandinavia which are a bit lower key than those outside it.
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I think there are advantages to enraging Halla. We have no proof and if he attacks us but it's not obviously him there's quite a bit to gain. Throwing us off our game, making us attack first without finding proof, driving us to do stupid things, being able to frame our attacks on him as us searching for someone to blame. Halla doing something insane out of business could be exactly what he wants.
It also weakens our power at home if he's killed our Huskarls, and means that even if we oppose him it's going to be with less firepower. Maybe more 'do or die' firepower, but were we ever going to turn tail and run from our Father's killer?
It's escalation, it's ensuring we go after him, but he might prefer the idea of meeting us with steel rather than giving us time to meet word vs word. If we unite the valley against him and turn all the families against his aide and reveal his misdeeds, staining him with so much Nid he becomes weaker than our weakest family members, he is much more likely to lose than if we go to lop of his head when he's at the height of his power surrounded by loyal idiots, in a berserker fury.
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Alectai
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We're useful to him in our current position, and we haven't sided with Corpsemaker either. It'd be really weird for him to want to try and push things when--as far as he knows--things are going swimmingly.
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I mean that's why I started my first post with 'if we think there's any chance he might know'. If he thinks we are all good battle besties ready to support him, that's great. If he doesn't? There's risk there. And the question is how much do we want to risk that? How far do we wanna go? What's the safest pick here for our family?
I feel like it wouldn't be hard to justify it either/wouldn't be that suspicious of us. While the youngests obviously won't remember Steinnar at all, taking your children to see their Grandfathers ashes off isn't that weird.
It would be weirder if we decided to go off route and take extra stops.
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We need to pick up Asva in Denmark. This is her father after all. Other than that generally agreed.
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That's an easily justified one yeah. No worries about it seeming too weird
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Been thinking on the Dorri/Horra idea and I think it makes sense. Even if Logi's reactions were genuine hatred, he called the trial against Horra very quickly. As soon as the name Drysalt came out he called it, without asking for any evidence, without asking us for any additional testimony, nothing. Just instant 'horra loses, no chance to defend'.
When reading that segment I thought it felt awkward, off. Like it ended too easily and too quickly. But now I think we know why.
[X] Go with the people who went last time
-[X] (Optional) Add in some newbies
[X] Go shopping for some
[X] Stop some places along the way
-[X] (Optional) Stop in Denmark (+2 Days)
Lots of things happened really quickly. In the next turns we should start gathering support against Dorri, then publicly reveal his treachery. Maybe doing it at the Tournament would be fitting? Lots of people would be in the same place, lots of witnesses..
I am unsure abaout what we do after, on one hand want to challenge him to duel and kill him. On the other hand we should capture him and interrogate him on everything he knows abaout Drysalt.
Regarding the rest of the Turn.
When we can we should try to recruit the three Sapient Spirits in our Soulscape. Offer them land as our vassals. The singing Spirit will probably we the easiest one to recruit.
Once we know how useful they are we can start creating more Sapient Spirits and choose what type of them we want.
During the journey we should totaly teach Abjorn and our retainers how to read. Its a great opportunity so save time.
We should also see abaout Infusing Trausti and talking with Vagn abaout becoming our vassal. When we return we can talk with Kurt abaout Infusing.
Speaking of retainers. The journey is a great opportunity for recruitment. And if we go against a Jarl and his Hird we will need all the help we can get. I already have some candidates in mind.
Once we arrive in Denmark we should reveal what we know abaout Dorri to our siblings and retainers. So we are sure that we are far and safe from Dorri spies.
-[X] (Optional) Add in some newbies
[X] Go shopping for some
[X] Stop some places along the way
-[X] (Optional) Stop in Denmark (+2 Days)
Lots of things happened really quickly. In the next turns we should start gathering support against Dorri, then publicly reveal his treachery. Maybe doing it at the Tournament would be fitting? Lots of people would be in the same place, lots of witnesses..
I am unsure abaout what we do after, on one hand want to challenge him to duel and kill him. On the other hand we should capture him and interrogate him on everything he knows abaout Drysalt.
Regarding the rest of the Turn.
When we can we should try to recruit the three Sapient Spirits in our Soulscape. Offer them land as our vassals. The singing Spirit will probably we the easiest one to recruit.
Once we know how useful they are we can start creating more Sapient Spirits and choose what type of them we want.
During the journey we should totaly teach Abjorn and our retainers how to read. Its a great opportunity so save time.
We should also see abaout Infusing Trausti and talking with Vagn abaout becoming our vassal. When we return we can talk with Kurt abaout Infusing.
Speaking of retainers. The journey is a great opportunity for recruitment. And if we go against a Jarl and his Hird we will need all the help we can get. I already have some candidates in mind.
Once we arrive in Denmark we should reveal what we know abaout Dorri to our siblings and retainers. So we are sure that we are far and safe from Dorri spies.
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This is all a bit overly optimistic and premature, I think. We're very unlikely to have proof by then, and almost certainly can't take Dorri in a fight even if we did. Not even close in fact. Dorri is two tiers above us in combat. He's a threat for us to expose and arrange for others to deal with, or to fight along with a whole bunch of friends. A duel with him is verging on the suicidal.
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@Imperial Fister Wouldn't a stop at Uppsala logically come after a stop in Gotland, or is this a timer for the entire trip?
You are probably right. I was hoping by the time we face him we would have grown strong enough.
It probably will be a group fight.
After we make a plan and gather support. I am in favor of talking again with Corpsemaker and taking his offer.
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We might be able to, but not in two turns, I don't think.
Shard
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Yeesh Vidar.
The Kerrsons seem to have way better education though.
I thought literacy was more widespread given everyone could read runes and all..
Lmao Abjorn.
Seems more like curious and inquisitive than creative. Creative would be, well, creating something.
Leadership huh?
.. Food? I guess this is like a mini Hersir/Hugr.
Huscarl Spirits. Good for cleaning up unwanted spirits.
So bears have a different afterlife..
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Ah, Abjorn. The man who, when skeletally broken while making love to a woman who can crush literal rocks with her thighs, just shrugs, decides that this is a skill issue, decides to resolve it, then immediately gits gud and fathers another child on her. And another, and so on.
Halla has a true gem here, a man anyshieldmaiden shield-enthusiastically-ex-maiden who fancies the fellas would surely wish for!
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Halla has a true gem here, a man any
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I am sure it will take a while. But vengence is better served cold.
As if we needed any more proof that Vidar is an asshole.
I also had the impression more people coupd read. Maybe we should also write a simple book with images and words to teach othes to read.
We totaly need to teach at least our family and retainers if we want to spread Odr Cultivation.
They could be Scouts or Explorers? Maybe gather Expiriences?
This is the first Spirit we should recruit. If we can do it we can basicaly make our own Spirit vassals in our Soulscape.
They will probably be hard to control. But if we can manage they could be useful.
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I couldn't find the posts in question and despite enjoying the story didn't feel like doing a full re-read of the story in order to find it; but was Dorri related to why we started hating Corpsemaker? I kind of feel like he was?
I did find the bit in the story at Halla's wedding, where Corpsemaker's attendance was, at first, made out to be a goodish thing. It was Halla's chance to network and show off her silver tongue to a Jarl and she and her family were both happy (if worried) about the situation.
It was only later that it became more explicitly 'how dare he put himself above my father, how dare he be such an asshole, I hate this man'. I remember someone explained the action he took as being him trying to make sure we knew he was the top dog and that his family are under him... but was that Dorri?
I did find the bit in the story at Halla's wedding, where Corpsemaker's attendance was, at first, made out to be a goodish thing. It was Halla's chance to network and show off her silver tongue to a Jarl and she and her family were both happy (if worried) about the situation.
It was only later that it became more explicitly 'how dare he put himself above my father, how dare he be such an asshole, I hate this man'. I remember someone explained the action he took as being him trying to make sure we knew he was the top dog and that his family are under him... but was that Dorri?
I am not sure, i don't think it was Dorri who told us that. I think that it was either Eric or one of our Huscarls.
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I just think it'd be hilarious if Corpsemaker was actually not a huge asshole, we just misinterpreted or were misinformed on him and let that color the opinions.
Because I feel like 'the Jarl himself comes to your wedding to grant his blessing to the happy couple' isn't usually something that'd be portrayed as an insult. In most culture that kind of thing tends to be seen as a blessing, a good thing. A sign your family is Important.
I assumed it was just some minor Norse thing I didn't know, but it'd be extra funny if we were just... wrong and lied to.
Because I feel like 'the Jarl himself comes to your wedding to grant his blessing to the happy couple' isn't usually something that'd be portrayed as an insult. In most culture that kind of thing tends to be seen as a blessing, a good thing. A sign your family is Important.
I assumed it was just some minor Norse thing I didn't know, but it'd be extra funny if we were just... wrong and lied to.
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He was not.
No, what happened was that, at Halla's wedding, he only took the high seat (the insulting bit) while she was off consummating the marriage and nobody told her. Then, at Asva's wedding, he did it again and she saw it this time and was told about the previous time (by
Which is, in fact, pretty insulting. Corpsemaker was making a point of his authority in a fairly asshole way.
EDIT: Here's the relevant passage:
So...yeah. Hating him forever may be an overreaction, but he was in fact being a dick and we saw it ourselves. No tricks involved.
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I really don't think Logi is in on this. he doesn't seem like the type. of course, Dorri didn't seem to be either, but he is a politician and was always cunning. Logi is a warrior, and from everything we saw honest. Im not the biggest fan of him, but don't think he's involved, not knowingly.
can we make a stop at Jurgdby, to tell Jarl Erikaer we looked into it)(at his behest) and discreetly tell him we are with him on this? we all still hate the man guts, but if we are to take down Dorri and stop Drysalt we gotta coordinate on this
can we make a stop at Jurgdby, to tell Jarl Erikaer we looked into it)(at his behest) and discreetly tell him we are with him on this? we all still hate the man guts, but if we are to take down Dorri and stop Drysalt we gotta coordinate on this