NorseQuest (A Norse Xianxia)

TheCount · Dec 31, 2023

Imperial Fister said:
Tomvaettir

they are eeves, huh?
could we feed them tools to get an artisan or something like that, i wonder....
Kinda sad the 3 base types vanished, but that's evolution, i guess? which has come from which though?

DeadmanwalkingXI said:
Hire someone or send a retainer, but it's Winter so that probably needs to be done in the first turn of next year.

we will need to go and talk with Gabriel too, so we could do the two at once.

DeadmanwalkingXI said:
--[X] ??? – 1 Research

should we try to alloy our Fylgja with something?

also, for a firestorm trick, there was that idea for a firefly field. Not useful alone, aside from better battlefield illumination but would be a great setup for setting stuff on fire or to feed into flamecalling later on... could also be interesting with Fanned Flames.

DeadmanwalkingXI · Dec 31, 2023

TheCount said:
they are eeves, huh?
could we feed them tools to get an artisan or something like that, i wonder....
Kinda sad the 3 base types vanished, but that's evolution, i guess? which has come from which though?

The three types are still around. They're different evolutionary paths from the 'base' version than these ones are.

TheCount said:
we will need to go and talk with Gabriel too, so we could do the two at once.

IF has requested we chill out and not take any trips personally for a bit.

TheCount said:
should we try to alloy our Fylgja with something?

also, for a firestorm trick, there was that idea for a firefly field. Not useful alone, aside from better battlefield illumination but would be a great setup for setting stuff on fire or to feed into flamecalling later on... could also be interesting with Fanned Flames.

For the Fylgja, maybe, but probably not the same turn we hit Fylgja 10.

For Firestorm, it's worth noting (and confirmed by IF on Discord) that a single shield stops the whole Trick, so we don't want to invest in it too heavily.

Shard · Dec 31, 2023

Can we get Inverted Standstill if we don't already know what Inverted Standstill does, and Inverted Forgefire if we know what it does?

KittyEmpress · Dec 31, 2023

I brought up in discord whether we should go greet those new farms with gifts of whale meat before Winter hits. If possible, I feel like a social action of

[ ] (Social) Greet the new farmers in the Hading, taking a gift of whale meats to each one as a welcome present.

I'm not sure on Norse norms for it, but giving food as a gift for new neighbors is a fairly standard thing in most cultures even from ancient times, since it helps them to focus on getting their household in order after a change, without needing to focus on food.

Obviously this would be a big gift, 1 food is like a month's eating for a person. But it seems... good to establish ourselves as neighborly. And just being helpful to people is nice.

DeadmanwalkingXI · Dec 31, 2023

Shard said:
Can we get Inverted Standstill if we don't already know what Inverted Standstill does, and Inverted Forgefire if we know what it does?

We can potentially do both these as well as Campfire eventually. Dunno about this turn...maybe Standstill if we don't come up with anything else for the final research.

KittyEmpress said:
Obviously this would be a big gift, 1 food is like a month's eating for a person. But it seems... good to establish ourselves as neighborly. And just being helpful to people is nice.

We (for the collective meaning of 'we' anyway) already gave away a crap load of food turn before last (over 4000 got distributed through the valley). This seems likely to be very unneeded this turn specifically. Meeting people at the Thing and then maybe helping out anyone who needs it seems more productive.

Skippy · Dec 31, 2023

Imperial Fister said:
Stutter Step training
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This idea of yours shows merit, that much is certain as you zip across the pockmarked training grounds—a field of low-fertility ground that you've long used for training purposes. Once, the field was relatively flat and had a few copses of trees to call its own. Now, however, it's a crater-filled moonscape of land covered in broken piles of splinters and more battle-forged hillocks than the eye can see.

Your lungs burn as you take solitary steps in frozen space. With time stuttering around you, you move where others cannot, but your lungs and body simply refuses to go any further than single steps. No matter how hard you try, your feet take you no further.

It seems, for the time being, you'll only be able to take single steps with this 'Stutter Step' technique of yours, though that's all you'll need in most fights. Burns through orthstirr like a furnace, though, so that's something you ought to keep in mind.

(Stutter Step (Cost per step 28 Orthstirr/6 Odr): Allows you to take steps in frozen, stuttering time as many times per round as you have steps. You can only manage one step at the current time. (Refined: 1/6))

Huzzah!

Imperial Fister said:
Unfortunately, despite the cleverness of your ideas, it seems that Firestorm is simply too unruly to deign to being corralled into a formation like the Flame-Tending Blade or even Thermic Reckoning.

(I'll refund that reward dice)

F

Would this have worked if we used a Rewrite on it, out of curiosity?

Imperial Fister said:
Bartholomew, as a teacher, is tough but fair—the toughest you've ever had, in fact! Where other teachers allow you to ask off-topic questions, Bartholomew has no patience for any such perceived laziness.

Brother Bartholomew:

View: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/tA8LjcpjjKQ

Imperial Fister said:
"And your sister, what of her?" Eager to not lose the moment, you slide another bowl your way before digging in.

Bartholomew's face twists into a deep frown as he sighs once more, "Died in childbirth, I'm afraid. A surprise set of triplets were two-too-many for my dear Anne. As I was captured as war-booty in a raid not long after, I haven't any idea as how her husband, Godwin Blackstone, cared for the children. I can only hope that he accepted them as his, for I suppose I shall find out when I return."

Your spoon clatters against the once-more empty bowl as you hear that name. Blackstone? Like Gabriel Blackstone?

Blackhand's chuckles echo in your head, 'The world is a shockingly small place, sometimes.'

The Archangel Who Had to Swap A Tin of Lamp Oil with Heimdall to Pull This Off: "All according to cake."

Imperial Fister said:
Orthstirr Available: 1603
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: 16/16
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 179 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: Not super happy with this one, but it's the first turn back in the saddle of normal turns so I'll allow it.

Also, I'll not be rolling random events for a few years in an effort to give you folks some downtime. To help with this, I'll ask that you folks not go on any voyages as that will be super intensive and I'd like a break from that for a bit. You can assign people to go on voyages in your stead, though, and they'll not be rolling any danger rolls or anything like that—unless you overuse it.

25-minute moratorium.

Uhhhh... did we do the spying on Dorri?

DeadmanwalkingXI · Dec 31, 2023

Skippy said:
Huzzah!

It's really good, if a tad pricey.

Skippy said:
Uhhhh... did we do the spying on Dorri?

We did not. It's a Travel action and we were out of those for the season. We got the action refunded and are doing the surveillance this turn in my current plan (since it's a new season).

Skippy · Dec 31, 2023

DeadmanwalkingXI said:
It's really good, if a tad pricey.

Any idea on mechanical effects?

DeadmanwalkingXI said:
We did not. It's a Travel action and we were out of those for the season. We got the action refunded and are doing the surveillance this turn in my current plan (since it's a new season).

Ah, fair enough, that makes sense!

DeadmanwalkingXI · Dec 31, 2023

Skippy said:
Any idea on mechanical effects?

It can be used as a conditional defense against anything one step could avoid (so most melee attacks and some ranged ones, and it's conditional, so it avoids Puncture), or to give the enemy a penalty on their defense as you are suddenly attacking from a different angle. Plus anything else you could use a one step teleport for (it's not technically a teleport, but in practice...).

It's very good, if pricey.

Shard · Dec 31, 2023

Imperial Fister said:
It's time for the Seasonal Thing! Would you like to go and what would you like to do there?
[ ] Write in (Leave blank if you don't wish to go)

Can we have a Chill Moment where we visit the Thing with our family (and children? Do children go to the Thing)?

DeadmanwalkingXI · Dec 31, 2023

Shard said:
Can we have a Chill Moment where we visit the Thing with our family (and children? Do children go to the Thing)?

My impression is that's the main point of it, but I'll add it to the plan (along with gossip and meeting the neighbors).

wabbitking · Dec 31, 2023

When Bartholomew leaves should we try to use him as a messenger to tell Gabriel that Steinnar is dead? He's probably going to the Blackstones at some point anyway and it seems kind of a dick move to let Gabriel show up in a few years ready for battle if we can avoid it.

DeadmanwalkingXI · Dec 31, 2023

wabbitking said:
When Bartholomew leaves should we try to use him as a messenger to tell Gabriel that Steinnar is dead? He's probably going to the Blackstones at some point anyway and it seems kind of a dick move to let Gabriel show up in a few years ready for battle if we can avoid it.

We 100% should, yes, along with telling him we're friends with his relative. We should probably send an actual letter.

DeadmanwalkingXI · Jan 1, 2024

Minor Plan Changes:

-Swapped out two Arm Rings for additional tools to max out our 'soft cap' on Work Dice going forward (we'll still complete the fill number next turn).
-Added some Odr to our crafting on the Pot and Abjorn's Arm Rings.
-Added inverting Standstill as a Research action...we may swap that out, but it's better to have something there than nothing.

Mystic Pentagram · Jan 1, 2024

[X] Plan Crafting, Surveillance, and the Thing

Looks like a good plan to me.

The action economy is really becoming crazy this turns.

We still have so many things we can do and never enough time.

DeadmanwalkingXI · Jan 1, 2024

Mystic Pentagram said:
We still have so many things we can do and never enough time.

We can chill out a little since we're getting at least a year off from random events. We still need to craft some stuff for our newly acquired retainers, but that, investigating Dorri (which is Travel actions, it sounds like, and thus limited) and social actions are the main needed things...some sparring and maybe dealing with the skogtatt are also on the list, I suppose.

Mystic Pentagram · Jan 1, 2024

DeadmanwalkingXI said:
We can chill out a little since we're getting at least a year off from random events. We still need to craft some stuff for our newly acquired retainers, but that, investigating Dorri (which is Travel actions, it sounds like, and thus limited) and social actions are the main needed things...some sparring and maybe dealing with the skogtatt are also on the list, I suppose.

Yeah, seems fine to me. If we have time we could also check on Jurgen, we never returned to talk with him.

And also maybe ask Halfdan if he knows what happened to the Witch.

DeadmanwalkingXI · Jan 1, 2024

Mystic Pentagram said:
Yeah, seems fine to me. If we have time we could also check on Jurgen, we never returned to talk with him.

And also maybe ask Halfdan if he knows what happened to the Witch.

Yeah, fair enough on Jurgen. I think the Witch might be better as a divination attempt than talking with Halfdan...we know of no reason he'd be the one to know about that.

Shard · Jan 1, 2024

Imperial Fister said:
Not everyone is satisfied with how their soul is expressed in animal form, for staring into a fylgja is staring into one's own soul and such a sight is not always welcome.

Happy: Everyone except Kurt and Stigrun.

What do the Snake and Frog Fylgjur do?

DeadmanwalkingXI · Jan 1, 2024

Shard said:
What do the Snake and Frog Fylgjur do?

Snake actually helps with wealth acquisition. It's great, and was one of our options. It's just also associated with Loki and other shadier stuff.

Dunno about Frog, though Kurt didn't actually seem upset.

EDIT:
Wait. I'm an idiot. We speak Latin now, the final Research action should obviously be studying the Knightly Armor. Duh. Added to the plan in place of the Campfire thing.

Mystic Pentagram · Jan 1, 2024

DeadmanwalkingXI said:
Snake actually helps with wealth acquisition. It's great, and was one of our options. It's just also associated with Loki and other shadier stuff.

Dunno about Frog, though Kurt didn't actually seem upset.

Will we unveil the Fylgja of our other retainers next turn then? And maybe offer Infusions again?

DeadmanwalkingXI said:
EDIT:
Wait. I'm an idiot. We speak Latin now, the final Research action should obviously be studying the Knightly Armor. Duh. Added to the plan in place of the Campfire thing.

Don't beat yourself up, with all the stuff we have in the backlog its normal to forget abaout a few things.

DeadmanwalkingXI · Jan 1, 2024

Mystic Pentagram said:
Will we unveil the Fylgja of our other retainers next turn then? And maybe offer Infusions again?

We automatically do the Fylgja reveals next turn, yeah...we'll probably do another offer of Infusions eventually but that's probably not for free.

Mystic Pentagram said:
Don't beat yourself up, with all the stuff we have in the backlog its normal to forget abaout a few things.

I'm good now. I'm not super upset about it or anything.

EDIT:
@Imperial Fister a series of relevant questions to the next few turns:

1. Can we in fact start learning Greek from Halfdan? Would that be Research?
2. Should we invest more than 1 Research into either learning Greek or the Nordic Armor? If so, how much can we invest into either in one turn?
3. What kind of Tools do Steinby and Halfdanby have? Are they all at least Grand Forged Iron tools or the equivalent?
4. What kind of magic weapons would all our new Retainers like? What kind of magic metals and Runes?
5. Is making a metal bow something we could do?

I.F. Ister · Jan 1, 2024

DeadmanwalkingXI said:
1. Can we in fact start learning Greek from Halfdan? Would that be Research?

Halfdan barely speaks Greek. Enough to buy a loaf of bread and find his way to the nearest latrine, but he mostly just associated with other Norsemen during his time in the Guard as he was on campaign for 90% of his two-year stint.

DeadmanwalkingXI said:
2. Should we invest more than 1 Research into either learning Greek or the Nordic Armor? If so, how much can we invest into either in one turn?

It's not a matter of how much you research, but how you research.

DeadmanwalkingXI said:
3. What kind of Tools do Steinby and Halfdanby have? Are they all at least Grand Forged Iron tools or the equivalent?

Nobody is going to turn down more tools, because tools, no matter the quality, eventually wear out and break.

DeadmanwalkingXI said:
4. What kind of magic weapons would all our new Retainers like?

'Magic swords' is the most common answer, though Kare actually already has magical equipment from an escapade in Jorvik—he looted a magical sword from a pond after beating up a strange water spirit lady.

No, it's not the magic pond lady sword.

DeadmanwalkingXI said:
5. Is making a metal bow something we could do?

Yes, but it's not going to be better than a wooden bow. According to light googling, metal bows can't put as much velocity behind an arrow as a wooden bow can.

DeadmanwalkingXI · Jan 1, 2024

Imperial Fister said:
Halfdan barely speaks Greek. Enough to buy a loaf of bread and find his way to the nearest latrine, but he mostly just associated with other Norsemen during his time in the Guard as he was on campaign for 90% of his two-year stint.

It's not a matter of how much you research, but how you research.

Nobody is going to turn down more tools, because tools, no matter the quality, eventually wear out and break.

Check. All that makes sense.

Imperial Fister said:
'Magic swords' is the most common answer, though Kare actually already has magical equipment from an escapade in Jorvik—he looted a magical sword from a pond after beating up a strange water spirit lady.

No, it's not the magic pond lady sword.

Interesting. Does Kare already have Mail Armor? Does anyone else among our new retainers?

Imperial Fister said:
Yes, but it's not going to be better than a wooden bow. According to light googling, metal bows can't put as much velocity behind an arrow as a wooden bow can.

Would it be equally good, or actively worse? We're better at making metal things, which is why I ask.

I.F. Ister · Jan 1, 2024

DeadmanwalkingXI said:
Interesting. Does Kare already have Mail Armor? Does anyone else among our new retainers?

Kare does, as well as a few bits of scale he won in a drinking game.

DeadmanwalkingXI said:
Would it be equally good, or actively worse? We're better at making metal things, which is why I ask.

If you want a bow made of metal, crossbows are what you use. Physics just aren't on metals' side in terms of archery.

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