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That would require finding one first. Has Halla even met another female warrior?
NorseQuest (A Norse Xianxia)
- Thread starter I.F. Ister
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- Original Fantasy Action
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If this is ever an option, I will leap on it like a starved smilodon on meat.
Lidrun. But she turned out to be a bigoted asshole.
Yes.
After she compared us living with Abjorn to zoophilia, we are now mortal enemies. 😅
GIVE US THE TOMBOYS @Imperial Fister!!
YOU'RE HOLDING OUT ON US
THE CHILDREN CRY OUT FOR GIRLBOSSES
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Was Lidrun a warrior? I never really got that impression from her.
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She wore a sword and had calluses on her hands from using it. It may not be her primary career, but she knows how to fight.
I think that given the nature of the setting, some degree of being a sword wizard kinda comes with the territory, with the exception of Seers like Solrun apparently. Skalds are mentioned to be pretty formidable opponents due to their unique abilities.
Also, on a side note, for this:
We should offer freedom and transport back to Slavic lands (since we're going that direction anyways) in exchange for information and maybe a promise to serve as a guide. Frankly my temptation would just be to buy all of them so that we can free them.
But that could be quite expensive and I imagine that the rest of the thread may be less enthusiastic, so, we'll see. If the people we want to trade for information with (probably the noblemen?) have family here though, then we should definitely at least get them too.
Also, on a side note, for this:
We should offer freedom and transport back to Slavic lands (since we're going that direction anyways) in exchange for information and maybe a promise to serve as a guide. Frankly my temptation would just be to buy all of them so that we can free them.
But that could be quite expensive and I imagine that the rest of the thread may be less enthusiastic, so, we'll see. If the people we want to trade for information with (probably the noblemen?) have family here though, then we should definitely at least get them too.
Also, we could ask one of them to teach us the Slavic language. It could be really useful.
Oh yeah, that would be handy.
Actually, you know what would also be handy? A Skill-Trick for learning languages faster.
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Really depends on price on that one. And potential rewards. But yeah, we should check out that situation and see what we can arrange there.
Taking the time to look at some of the new tricks and cool kung-fu wizard shit we researched this turn:
Man, this technique plus a Rewrite to make damage not be split would be so great for dealing with groups of people.
Sick.
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Man, this technique plus a Rewrite to make damage not be split would be so great for dealing with groups of people.
Sick.
CAP: DETECTED
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZiQRF5h3zDQ
I.F. Ister
Fortifying The Thread
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Very nice, have 2 Reward Dice
The irony is palpable
Hey Halla/Blackhand, do you think that Sunfire spear could have pierced the Jotnar's skin? not that we are going to go fight Jotnar(hopefully) we'll still die horribly. but interested if thats a thing that can break through
So, he has a teleport trick... Or did he just tagged along and was at our house?
... Did we got any idea how to make one?
...on a related note, did we got a theet from the Jotun we helped to kill?
Fuuuuck. I should have remembered....
Forgot to ask Sten for help with this.... oh well, I will try to remember it next time.
Guess we are gonna do the "alloy of alloys" trick next time?
... Fuck. Nice catch shard!
I remember there not being a trick like that when I asked earlier about fire control, but this might just work...
...oh, that's sad.
Hm.... We need to figure out how to make at least plants grow automatically on our soulscape or the fishes will starve/drown in it....
Hm.... Oh... Oooh!
@Imperial Fister , do Halla knows if tricks that are fueled by Odr can interact with things like we fed/infused Odr into them, if the trick is not harmful? Like say, the Spring Shower trick of clear water? Could it supply Odr to our plants? Or would we need a special trick for that?
Forgot to vote...
[X] Visit the Jarl's hall
Edit: didn't want to double post...
Just a reminder of what twe know of them....
They are also guerilla warfare masters, from hiding to baiting for an ambus.
Something else to consider though...
We could learn more world building from them, even if not cultivation related.
A learning enhancer in general would be great, yeah.
I will throw in stuff like lip reading or cold reading too.
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We do now know that it's more possible to let in odr to a genuine love than, say, a brother. It could be the case that this is common knowledge among true cultivators. In that case, Lidrun might've been saying something more along the lines of "You don't actually love him, because otherwise he would be a real cultivator. The inferred explanation is that he's a boytoy. Here's me expressing my dislike of that in a culturally consistent way."
Still rude, but that would be more understandable. Is elitism the entire picture here?
I have noticed a tendency towards "slighting us=pure evil" in this thread. Sometimes rude people are just rude.
Still rude, but that would be more understandable. Is elitism the entire picture here?
I have noticed a tendency towards "slighting us=pure evil" in this thread. Sometimes rude people are just rude.
That is explicitly not what Lidrun was saying.
And where is this tendency of "slighting us=pure evil"?
The only people the thread ever called evil or something similar were Horra, Dorri, Vidar and Drysalt. Wich are pretty bad people even by the standards of Norse Culture, wich is saying something.
Corpsemaker was treated more like a petty tyrant who made powerplays over his subjects.
Maybe the raiders who killed Steinarr, especialy Hooknails and Sharkmouth because they tortured Eric.
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she kinda insulted our entire family and all our friends and compared them to beasts. thats not just 'he is your boytoy'
and even assuming there is such thing as common knowledge for Odr cultivators is a lot. there is no cultivator community, nowhere they share knowledge
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We do? From where?
Uh...no. Those are not remotely comparable statements. And IF specifically noted it as elitism and why Blackhand didn't like a lot of Odr cultivators.
This was done in-character about Corpsemaker but that was proven wrong, but I don't think the thread has ever done it OOC. We don't think Lidrun is evil because she slighted us, we think she's evil because she regards anyone without Odr as no better than livestock. Which is, in fact, a straight up evil attitude. She may or may not be a serious enemy, but she's a piece of shit either way.
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I really want her to be absolutely crushed some day by someone with not even a hint of Odr. shame that Steinnar is dead, honestly
Okay, this and your previous comment about irony when someone suggested the idea of finding a female huscarl makes me wonder if Something is Up.
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Okay, this and your previous comment about irony when someone suggested the idea of finding a female huscarl makes me wonder if Something is Up.
Yeah, there's something up here, though I'm not sure what. I guess Vagn could be a woman instead of involved in an illicit relationship? Or both, of course. That's the only immediate possibility that leaps to mind that seems at all plausible.
I mean, I think Fire Poker is similar in motion to Sunfire Spear (and thus so is Thermal Reckoning) and I'm pretty much positive Palm Crush is similar in motion to Sunshine Slap, as is the version of Sparkbomb used in melee. So we have this already, I think.
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Wasn't that the implication, though? That there even is elitism implies a community of like-minded people
Brimir's suggestion/advice about how to easily initiate Abjorn. That sharing in a place important to the both of them is good practice. It's obviously extremely circumspect, but there has been some speculation since. From that, it seems plausible.
When comparing exactly what was said, sure, but subtext could support such a comparison. "Eww, lessers" could be a spoken justification for a variety of other reasons for her attitude. For that matter, that's assuming she was being entirely truthful. We only had, like, two conversations. There's only so much we can infer with confidence.
That said, this was mostly just idle suggestion of a possible interpretation of a minor character. Me overthinking it is very plausible as well.
As for the thread tendency statement, that was just me misremembering the Corpsemaker responses, mostly.
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Why would that not work with a sibling?
I mean, there are a lot of possible reasons for her attitude, but lying is nid and the conversation was secret, so she had no real reason to do so. I think her believing that non-Odr cultivators are meaningless livestock is by far the most likely interpretation, as compared to her actively taking nid just to offend us.
Fair enough.