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Nah, his father died on a raid. It happens and I doubt Horra can kill someone that badass in that manner or, like, Steinarr would be dead. Stigr getting cursed is very plausible, though.
NorseQuest (A Norse Xianxia)
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Nah, his father died on a raid. It happens and I doubt Horra can kill someone that badass in that manner or, like, Steinarr would be dead. Stigr getting cursed is very plausible, though.
Alectai
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Huh, the idea of setting up a Runestone in our battlespace has some teeth to it...
Anyway, here's hoping we get some good feedback in the AAR, and hopefully we can get the other members of the group thinking about what they need to be even stronger next time.
Anyway, here's hoping we get some good feedback in the AAR, and hopefully we can get the other members of the group thinking about what they need to be even stronger next time.
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We absolutely should as soon as we have a spare action...
Actually, @Imperial Fister is talking with them about adding them to the sparring a valid addition to the general debrief action? I'm adding it right now as it makes sense to me, but I'll remove it if that seems like too much.
EDIT: And done, the after-action report includes a general invitation to regular sparring for everyone there, though I suspect Steinarr and Sten may decline on the basis of not getting much out of it (which would leave the twins and Joarr as potential new people, and Joarr may have other commitments).
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Also, the Seeress in in Asvir only during Summer, right? Shouldn't we visit Asvir to talk with the Seeress and share what we know? We also only get one visit per season.
Possibly using Dressed in Rags to visit, if we're concerned about Shenanigans. Would also be a good time to test putting Odr into Twists. It would also be good to experiment on putting Odr into Twist: Punching upward while sparring with Sten, see what happens.
I think the 5d6 into 'Train a Dodge Trick that allows multiple dice' is a lot of dice into a trick we don't know the effects of yet. 1 Dice into it should be fine, then if we like the trick we can start shoving dice into it.
With the other 4d6, I'd like to:
- Figure out a Tactics/Strategy (what's the difference? We're not doing large scale combat..) trick that lets you coordinate between allies. Maybe even wordless communication.
- Maybe train our friends in Reinforce-Shield, if they don't have it?
Possibly using Dressed in Rags to visit, if we're concerned about Shenanigans. Would also be a good time to test putting Odr into Twists. It would also be good to experiment on putting Odr into Twist: Punching upward while sparring with Sten, see what happens.
I think the 5d6 into 'Train a Dodge Trick that allows multiple dice' is a lot of dice into a trick we don't know the effects of yet. 1 Dice into it should be fine, then if we like the trick we can start shoving dice into it.
With the other 4d6, I'd like to:
- Figure out a Tactics/Strategy (what's the difference? We're not doing large scale combat..) trick that lets you coordinate between allies. Maybe even wordless communication.
- Maybe train our friends in Reinforce-Shield, if they don't have it?
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It's Winter right now (the turn that just ended was Summer 3, that Summer also involved investigating Horra's place, so no room for another Visit).
My hope is that, late in the Winter, we go get evidence from Horra's sanctum, then next Summer we can go to Asvir, bring charges, talk to the seeress, maybe buy some stuff...all one big trip.
We don't get to know what the trick does until it hits 3 successes, which is what the 5d6 is for...hitting 3 successes.
A communicator Tactics trick is a good call, but not super urgent...we mostly communicate okay. And Reinforce Shield is already on the itinerary for our friends as part of mutual training and sparring. Investing a die would speed that up, but probably for only one person and doesn't seem necessary.
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Fair enough.
The problem with communication, especially verbal communication, is that our enemies can hear us. Wordless communications (if possible) solves that.
Of course that assumes this is possible at all.
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I definitely think it's worth pursuing in the longer term, I'm just not currently willing to prioritize it over the other stuff we've got in the plan.
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Also, total non-sequitur, but the loot on that bandit camp was really good. Like, I think that's somewhere between 1/2 and 2/3 of what we got on the Raid we went on. It's a solid chunk of change. The Orthstirr is also not bad at a bit less than half what we got on the actual Raid (more like 1/3 when you count the Trials and joining Folkmarr's Felag). Maybe better than 1/2 the actual raid once the Poetic Inspiration gets used and counted (still closer to 1/3 all things considered).
So yeah, tough fight, but very big rewards to go with it.
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man, the Norse walking along with deadly injuries without a problem would make the renaissance secret body study groups salivate at seeing how the body works....
Also, did Sten died a body dead, what with him stopping breathing?
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For the training, i know its not major, but do we infuse Odr and Orthstirr into Hamr before or after the Hugr infusion? because i would think doing it after would make the other's task of restraining us easier...
Also, i know its late, what with the gift already given to Stigr, but here is what i had in mind for his gifft.... perhaps we can give it when he wanders off?
"Let the wearer ride the wolf of the land as he travels the path of the giants" = airstep in a steep upward or downward incline
(wolf of the land = wind, path of the giants = mountains)
IF mentioned Stig will go wandering, so this will help him get to places easier, and an archer can always use the high ground advantage.
Also, did Sten died a body dead, what with him stopping breathing?
[X] You do and the twins join your household as huskarls.
[X] Plan Making Our First Weapon
For the training, i know its not major, but do we infuse Odr and Orthstirr into Hamr before or after the Hugr infusion? because i would think doing it after would make the other's task of restraining us easier...
Also, i know its late, what with the gift already given to Stigr, but here is what i had in mind for his gifft.... perhaps we can give it when he wanders off?
"Let the wearer ride the wolf of the land as he travels the path of the giants" = airstep in a steep upward or downward incline
(wolf of the land = wind, path of the giants = mountains)
IF mentioned Stig will go wandering, so this will help him get to places easier, and an archer can always use the high ground advantage.
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IF explained it as "A Norseman dies some death when they've been convinced that they die and stop animating their body.", then I suppose the difference between Bodily Dead and True Dead is whether it's your Time, and presumably your Gate opens on it's own to eat you if that's the case. Even if Sten is clinically dead by modern medicine's standards, he'll be fine after a night's sleep because he doesn't believe he's dead--he's just tired.
Not how Halla is casually walking off heart palpations and just finds it it being a little lazy. The higher your Hamr score, the more you can hilariously shrug off damage that should be literally impossible to survive, strap a few band-aids on, and walk it off. Case in point, the dude who's walking and talking with a concave chest from taking 6 Endurance Damage, and he's still got 2 or 3 left, which means you'd need to kill him that many times over before he finally goes "Oh hey, I should be dead now", and passes out.
Remember, Ordinary human beings have 1 Endurance, which is to say "Every point of Endurance represents enough damage to kill a human fucking dead."
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Sure, I'll specify we do Hugr first.
Eh. There are some indications that Hamr 2 is still within the range non-cultivators can manage (at the very high end, but still). I suspect 2 Endurance is very possible for mortals.
Of course, that still leaves someone with Hamr 8 as able to walk off things that would kill any three men.
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Would Puncture work on something like Father Gerrit's shield?
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[X] You do and the twins join your household as huskarls.
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That worked more like armor (ie: it was just a big pool of HP to wade through), so I suspect not (though if the occasion ever arises we can give it a try). Might work on Focus's 'perfect defenses' though.
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Would it also be possible to ask Drifa about the hugareida she got while exploring our land?
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I'll add it in and see what happens.
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I think Fister implied that the Captain we beat got a Muna out of the experience, and by extension, is likely to be a recurring character.
Families keeping locks of hair to regrow from is interesting. Does our extended family have a hair exchange program so that if someone dies we can regrow?
e: I think the big lesson to be taken from Puncture is: There's always a counter, a way to break through any defence. And probably counter any attack, too. RS-Layers are broken by any trick. Halting Vortex can be penetrated by various elemental attacks. You can maginuke Sidestep spammers. This lesson was repeated with Horra, too. We accidentally countered his shenanigans with a Fylgja and a Twist. There's a counter to everything. Don't get complacent!
ee: I think a great Ignition trick would be one where we use Ignition on ourselves, similar to Emberwing Cloak, to accelerate our attacks. Think Rinko's handglove bomb from Law of Ueki, where she uses bombs to accelerate her punches. Extra momentum for more damage! For standstill, a trick to immediately arrest our own momentum would also be useful. Actually, can we combine Standstill with Kindle-Spinner? What I was thinking is, the Kindlespinner explodes, but also dumps Standstill on the target - similar to IAT. This would improve the 'stun' effect of Kindle-Spinner.
Also, a trick that's basically a bajillion Orthsirr to achieve a big impact might be helpful to learn.
Like if we're getting a ton of arrows rained on us ala what Sten did to the Captain, a Standstill 'bulwark' might be great to have to NOPE all ranged attacks.
Also can we combine Firebomb-Strike with Hefty Halter Blow? Nuke their weapon out of their hands! Actually we should just combine Firebomb-Strike with everything we do.
eee: In general, is there a reason not to use blood for runes? Blood is replenishable, paint not so much.
Families keeping locks of hair to regrow from is interesting. Does our extended family have a hair exchange program so that if someone dies we can regrow?
e: I think the big lesson to be taken from Puncture is: There's always a counter, a way to break through any defence. And probably counter any attack, too. RS-Layers are broken by any trick. Halting Vortex can be penetrated by various elemental attacks. You can maginuke Sidestep spammers. This lesson was repeated with Horra, too. We accidentally countered his shenanigans with a Fylgja and a Twist. There's a counter to everything. Don't get complacent!
ee: I think a great Ignition trick would be one where we use Ignition on ourselves, similar to Emberwing Cloak, to accelerate our attacks. Think Rinko's handglove bomb from Law of Ueki, where she uses bombs to accelerate her punches. Extra momentum for more damage! For standstill, a trick to immediately arrest our own momentum would also be useful. Actually, can we combine Standstill with Kindle-Spinner? What I was thinking is, the Kindlespinner explodes, but also dumps Standstill on the target - similar to IAT. This would improve the 'stun' effect of Kindle-Spinner.
Also, a trick that's basically a bajillion Orthsirr to achieve a big impact might be helpful to learn.
Like if we're getting a ton of arrows rained on us ala what Sten did to the Captain, a Standstill 'bulwark' might be great to have to NOPE all ranged attacks.
Also can we combine Firebomb-Strike with Hefty Halter Blow? Nuke their weapon out of their hands! Actually we should just combine Firebomb-Strike with everything we do.
eee: In general, is there a reason not to use blood for runes? Blood is replenishable, paint not so much.
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I guess an odr infused knee to the groin probably *would* be the sort of thing that sticks in your memory. But really, there's a lot of good moments in the fight. Taking Abjorn's massive hit, the kgt, that moment of knowing he can't stop Sten's steel wave.
As epic as the fight against the captain was, my favorite moment from the camp raid is still that poor sentry running face first into Halla's ridiculousness and just being super frustrated over it lol.
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Don't think such a thing would work. We've been told that Standstill doesn't play well with anything, and while that was said in response to Alloying, I suspect that'd also extend to trying to combine Standstill with another hugareida. The KS would probably get frozen, rather than it acting as a vector for IAT.
Huh. We might not have. It takes a second to do, so it's possible us draining his orthstirr for countershock and then snuffing our flame tapped him out without leaving him enough of a pause to stoke before he needed it for Sten.
One alternative, (or an option for our next firesax, if we make another one):
snakesires rival starting sax
laments nurturing logi
snakesire -> Loki (father of the Jörmungandr)
Lokis rival -> Logi (who was pitted against Loki in an eating contest by Utgard-Loki)
Logi -> Fire/"Wildfire itself"
So overall
firestarting sax, complaints (/speaking) feeds the flames (or the blade)
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I.F. Ister
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Alright, I'll be calling the vote a bit earlier than normal — in 30 minutes.
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Talking with new hires (and potential witnesses), forging a sax, and infusing our stats with phenomenal cosmic power. Let's do this!
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I don't really disagree, but I think the lesson is to have multiple different ways to do everything with very different weaknesses, so you can always use a different tactic if the current one is insufficient.
Immediately arresting our own momentum is probably part of the 'platforming/double jump' Standstill movement thing we'll be getting eventually. I'm unconvinced that using Ignition to accelerate our attacks is worth it...we have both Firebomb-Strike and Power Chop which both do different parts of that already. Like, what's that actually gonna do that one of those two doesn't?
And as Constenanto suggests Standstill doesn't play well with other Hugareida so I'm skeptical of the Kindle Spinner/IAT thing.
We did in fact just grab Skewer-Flick Trick specifically to have a 'big hit' that wasn't Leaping Cleave...that might've been big enough to trigger a cave-in, which would be why we didn't use it here.
Halting Vortex actually does this if they're simultaneous, and IAT might work even if they aren't.
This seems possible once we Master Firebomb-Strike, yes. Might be worth it since it likely adds some damage to the enemy on top of Hefty-Halter Chop's usual effects.
Blood dries and then flakes off. Or rots. It's...really pretty shitty for writing long term. If we need something quick we could use it, but it's sub par at best for anything long term.