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Star-Bright Eyes makes me think of our kids and their Full Moon Eyes. I wonder if they'll be able to develop a martial style based on the darkness fenriskin we ate the heart of and turned them into weirdos with.
NorseQuest (A Norse Xianxia)
- Thread starter I.F. Ister
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- Original Fantasy Action
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- norse mythology (mythology) original xianxia cultivation western cultivation ask sirihand did your mother tell you anything? discussion pleases yggdrasil farming gloating gets people killed granary management hubris is a coward's word you will die norsemen do not die when they are killed the qm has a bad memory the qm is bad at math viking courtroom drama (legal drama) vikings open voting
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Plausibly. This is only adding to my desire to play as one of them.
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- United States
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It'd be fun if they both got the kenning "Half Moon", which I assume would boost them fighting together. Which they already are basically half moons as twins.
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[X] (Unlocked: Bold) All three at once
This probably isn't a good idea, but whatever happens, the result should be entertaining.
This probably isn't a good idea, but whatever happens, the result should be entertaining.
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- Pittsburgh PA
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[X] Rikard Rockstrong, son of Hall Water-Watcher
I.F. Ister
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Alright, voting is now closed
They regenerate, maybe we'll lose it forthe voyage but form my understanding it doesn't lock it in, we just have to spend it any time we want to train a style we learned that way and that we still don't meet the requirement for.
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We lose them for the season. Which is just beginning. And likely to see serious, life threatening, combat. Burning one of our safety nets for a Style we may not even be able to train without burning rare resources seems like a really dubious call.
Burning it to learn a Style we could then train normally would be worth it, mind you, but not one where we'd need to burn a Rewrite every time we trained it.
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Seems like it's worth checking, though.
@Imperial Fister, if we burnt a Rewrite to be able to learn this Cliffside Style, would we then be able to train in it without issue, or would we need to use a Rewrite any time we wanted to train in it?
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To be clear, my guess was not that we would inherently need a Rewrite to train it, it's that we would need an actual cliff. Which we don't have. We would thus effectively need a Rewrite to ignore the need for a cliff. So this is not quite the right question, I don't think.
Well that has an easy solution we should just make one
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Well that has an easy solution we should just make one
Again, to be clear and jokes aside, I think we'd need a giant sheer cliff like they seem to have here...which I don't think would be easy to make at all.
I.F. Ister
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I'll need someone to roll me a Tactics check, please
We live close to the coast and can fly. Unless the cliff has to be on our land or something, that should be fine?
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My impression was that our coastline in the Hading didn't have sheer cliffs.
Should be 1 more die for 18 total (12 for Hugr, 6 for Tactics).
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I.F. Ister
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The Fjord is pretty sheer, though the Hading proper doesn't really have sheer cliffs—at least not much of one.
Alrighty, then
Well, if the Fjord does not count, we could just fly a bit further? My impression was that with EWC, we can ply pretty fast, so there's got to be a secluded cliffside somewhere.
Bonus: It's practice for making longer journeys using EWC now that we've got it Perfected.
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Flying off long distances alone is a good way to get ambushed and dead. We could bring people with us (we have a flying boat), but that seems disruptive to keeping the farm operational if we do it enough to train up a style. I'm honestly pretty dubious a new style based on a terrain feature we don't have is worth it.
And even if the Fjord counts, we don't want to use it. The Fjord hates people and tries to murder them, let's all remember.
But we've spotted three styles we don't have among three people here, I suspect we could find someone with a Style we do want, and focusing on a less ideal one is a bad idea distracting us from that possibility.
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I think that suggesting all long-distance flights are going to lead to our ambush and death is pretty ludicrous. Being able to fly whenever we want is one of the most cool uses of Ember Winged Cloak, half the point of perfecting it in fact. This sort of mentality would have us cowering under our bedcovers at home if it were taken to its logical conclusion. We're a warrior.
Plus, we're in the sky and flying faster than a passenger jet. It's effectively impossible to intercept us short of actual clairvoyance if we vary our routes and times.
Plus, we're in the sky and flying faster than a passenger jet. It's effectively impossible to intercept us short of actual clairvoyance if we vary our routes and times.
Gotland Calls | Skane Spar 0
I.F. Ister
Fortifying The Thread
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[X] (Unlocked: Bold) All three at once
(Tactics: 17) 17 Successes
As you take a fighting stance in an empty plot of land—across of which your opponents mirror your motions—you consider how, exactly, you'll be battling this day.
First things first: the terrain. There's a slight incline beneath your feet, not enough to make fighting difficult but perhaps enough to throw someone off-balance if they land wrong. The grass is yellow and a collection of wild flowers grow about the ground.
In short, it's nothing all that noteworthy.
Second things second: the people you'll be fighting.
Rikard is tall and strong, with two swords that he clearly knows how to use. He's eager to see your strength firsthand—eager enough to rush ahead of the group. You reckon you're faster than he is, but perhaps not by as much as you'd like.
Audvin, though tall and strong in his own right, seems more content to hang back a ways. He seems better with his bow than he is with his melee weapons, but that doesn't mean he's weak at it. He'll be peppering you with arrows unless you do something about it.
Foresti... Alright, that's weird. You can't read him, flat out. It's like he's got some kind of weird veil covering his potential motions. However, given his apparent personality, he's probably going to be waiting for the right opportunity—probably, anyways.
Regardless, if you play your cards right here, you may be able to snag a victory—or at least take a few of them with you before meeting defeat.
Endurance: (16/16) | Frenzy: (7/7) (+7 to all Combat Rolls) | Armor: (42/42) (+9 to Defense)
Orthstirr: (1278/1319) | Odr: (124)
( ) Frami: 440 | ( ) Virthing: 440 | ( ) Saemd: 439
Sagaseeker has 80 orthstirr in his reservoir.
Emberguard has 28 orthstirr in its reservoir.
Shapeshifting + Runes are granting you (+2 to Damage, +7 Attack-Speed)
Your combat pool is 137d6 and you have 21d6 Stoked Dice
What do you do?
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-[ ] (Dice) Attack
-[ ] (Dice) Defense
-[ ] (Dice) Intercept
-[ ] (Dice) (Trick) (Orthstirr)
-[ ] Tactics Write in
0~0~0
AN: Not much to say here
No moratorium
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Hoo boy.
Okay, I'm thinking... Look like we're getting tied up with Rikard, but that might mean we can surprise Audvin with the ballista if we can force an opening. Foresti on the other hand is going to be a problem, because he's probably a stealth expert based on the fact he's running a veil to hide his intentions.
EDIT: He's going to do some bind or pollen stuff with the flowers, I imagine, at the worst time for us, we can likely mitigate that with our flaming aura to create a no-flower zone. I imagine they'll just get erased with the level of heat we put out, right?
I think he's definitely about crowd control though.
Hmm, come to think of it, can we use Contested Movement to use Forceful Lever to drag Rikard into an attack from Audvin? We have a significant advantage in Contested Movement contests with Rikard thanks to Frenzybane.
Okay, I'm thinking... Look like we're getting tied up with Rikard, but that might mean we can surprise Audvin with the ballista if we can force an opening. Foresti on the other hand is going to be a problem, because he's probably a stealth expert based on the fact he's running a veil to hide his intentions.
EDIT: He's going to do some bind or pollen stuff with the flowers, I imagine, at the worst time for us, we can likely mitigate that with our flaming aura to create a no-flower zone. I imagine they'll just get erased with the level of heat we put out, right?
I think he's definitely about crowd control though.
Hmm, come to think of it, can we use Contested Movement to use Forceful Lever to drag Rikard into an attack from Audvin? We have a significant advantage in Contested Movement contests with Rikard thanks to Frenzybane.
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Rikard seems liable to rush in and give us the chance to do a stop-hit with Contested Movement. Audvin is problematic, but we can close the distance fairly easily, and potentially ignore some arrows. Foresti seems like the one to worry about here, I think. He's an X-factor who could really complicate any attempt to divide and tackle the other two.
I wonder why we can't read him. Some kind of Skill-Trick I wonder? If it's a unique ability or Hugareida then we're probably out of luck, but it'd be neat if we could learn that.
I wonder why we can't read him. Some kind of Skill-Trick I wonder? If it's a unique ability or Hugareida then we're probably out of luck, but it'd be neat if we could learn that.
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@Imperial Fister when is the earliest we can use Time Stands Still without upsetting the Norns here? Just so we can plan a bit in advance. Or is it 'as soon as we start having trouble' or something like that?
Forseti reminds me very specifically of Steinarr, who had a Plant Hugareida and couldn't be read by Frenzy due to Stone Faced. This inclines me to be very concerned about him indeed.
I'm betting the same Twist as Steinarr had.
Forseti reminds me very specifically of Steinarr, who had a Plant Hugareida and couldn't be read by Frenzy due to Stone Faced. This inclines me to be very concerned about him indeed.
I'm betting the same Twist as Steinarr had.