wow, that's... that's a lot, yeah.
now, for the comment section
On the other hand, though, it certainly is easier to ride the waves with such little odr fueling it.
i am curious if doing it in your own home or in civilization was the big stopper.... perhaps both?
No matter how you try, you struggle to get your odr to infuse with the metal of the superior-grade sax. All that's happening is the odr tries to sink in, but is rebuked by the rigidity of cold metal.
Frowning, you wonder why that might be the case.
ah, there is no place for Odr to fill in the cooled metal, huh?
A formless mass of shifting shadows and bright lights forms out of the soil of your soul. IIt seems to almost resemble a vague outline of yourself. Instinctually, you know that this is the true form of your fylgja — the shape it bears when not reduced to an owl's body.
Frien! kinda curious how rare it is to see the true form of fylgja's... and if either the seeing eyes or seer sight sees them this way....
Crafting Sax and talking to Stigr
i think this wanted to be Sten, not Stigr
Sten squints at you with a face full of soot, his arms crossed before him. "Re-forge Sagaseeker while keeping it intact?" You nod, once again confirming the reason for your visit. He strokes his chin and jaw with thumb and forefinger as he considers the topic. "I can think of two ways, though I can only tell your one of them."
hm... the other is infusing coal/carbon to make it steel, isn't it?
(+1 Fine Molten Iron Sax equipped, but the runes added to it upgrades it to Superior)
(+2 to Born With Hammer in Hand, Born With Hammer in Hand is now Unlocked!)
Nice! and yeah, Ashen Kiss sounds good.
She smiles and holds her hands up as twin beds of flame spark into life in her palms. "Forgefire!"
You blink, not having expected that. "And how did you manage that?"
"I climbed into the furnace!"
"Oh."
...oh my gods.
This... This is what we will need to deal with, isn't it?
we REALLY need to get a fire control/extingushier trick soon, before the kittens start walking AND can climb into things.....
"It wasn't that bad." She scoffs as she rolls her eyes. "If Dad hadn't overreacted and pulled me out, I would be made of iron right now!"
She scowls, muttering something about overprotective fathers. You just stare at her as Blackhand laughs uproariously.
'Gods, it's like I'm looking in a mirror!'
yeeeeep, makes sense...
but wow, good thing Sten caught her. becoming an Iron brother that young would have messed up her standards even more....
"The Frenzy of a Berserk is a dangerous thing to toy with, Halla." Your father's solemn words filter through the air as you lay with your face turned to the sun. "I don't know how you did that without a Shapecrafter, but I don't think you should do it again without one."
Guess we gotta Visit the capital, huh? at least, we can see more of the Norse culture... and get more ideas for our descendants.
Also, we can ask said shapecrafter about this stuff.
Still, would it have been worse if we had our Hamr filled out?
Steinarr steps forward and his face blots out the sun.
-Stab, Dead. Slice, Dead. Chop, Dead. Bash, Dead-
The moment he enters your line of sight, your mind instantly starts working to figure out ways to kill him. Nothing works, but that doesn't stop your instincts.
It's like this whenever you look at anyone now. Friend or foe, it matters not to your new combat instincts — all are potential threats that you must be ready for at a moment's notice.
combat predictions, huh? too bad it doesnt have an off switch...
(You are now, by definition, a Berserk)
(You have unlocked Frenzy)
hm.... interesting.... i guess its not offical because we didn't go it about the offical way?
By the way, Shapecrafting is Shapeshifting, right...? I wonder if our Berserk is any different from Berserk achieved through Shapecrafting.
I don't think so? shapeshifting is something you do to your own body.
Shapecrafting is when you do other's bodies. and yeah, it was said by IF that its "Manly Mans with BIG MUSCLES"... so its probably as was said, Seidr that is too good toto not let man do it, so it "isn't Seidr".
Anyway, just checking, but we don't have to worry about Halla fucking everyone up anymore now that she's entered Frenzy the first time, right @ Imperial Fister? It's mostly just the shock of the first activation going on here? Also, does Frenzy have a steady regeneration thing rather than being like Focus where it fully replenishes as long as the one using it has a moment to center themselves?
Ooof, okay, yeah, that's going to take some getting used to. Is that going to happen every time we Infuse Hugr? Or was it just the first time with unlocking Frenzy?
i mean, Steinar did told us to go get a check up and don't repeat what we did without a shapecrafter.
...oh.
Shapecrafter can work on and give others frenzy safely because they both knock out the person in question and effectively cripple/dismember them for the duration of the operation, huh?
You're not alone. It's been a near-constant string of good luck and unknowingly good choices. You guys are standing at the edge of so many landmines it's ridiculous.
....So, how is our progress to unlock Godly Luck by the hard way?
also, if we are at traits...
could there be a separate list of traits for the bonus traits that don't count against the limit, like charred soul? And i forgot but Bloody basics also counts like that, right?
I'd be entirely unsurprised if we get whatever it is we're working on with the Bible Study at 9 total study events, and it turns out to be some Boon that makes interacting with Christians easier. We understand one of their big foundational Sagas, so we can better understand and get along with them, or taunt them if that's what we're doing.
or we will convert when the bible study ran its course.
...
IF, please, tell me its not going to be that.
One thing I'll tell you is that you're not quite right.
Well, at least in the way I believe you're using that word.
would a higher composure help? some of its tricks perhaps?
...also, what happens when we add Ord to composure?
It's about directing that mania, rather than trying to make it weaker, right?
For Halla, it's manifesting as her having a plan to kill everything she meets because it's interacting with her Bloodthirst and supercharging it. What we want to do is direct that Frenzy towards something more constructive instead, right?
Being a Norse Cultivator will always make you a little crazy if you're taking it to the limit, but there's ways of being crazy that don't involve just being a bloodthirsty lunatic.
Norse being shitposters showing again
joke aside, guess it shows what you are, even more than the chinese "perfection/mastery of the self" huh?
From what I understand, Hallr gave Charred Soul to everyone named Halla/Hallr. Because his memory is fragmented between all of them. I can't imagine him running the risk of losing from just being unlucky once.
No, Charred soul is a special trait. and isnt name related, IF at least, told us that.
Born of fire is our bloodline trait. from Volund.
Charred soul... its what Hallr got from the mountain god's forge. when he got the blackhand kenning, i think or shortly after.
He paid with his memories for it, among other things.
...But then, IF DID said a novel had good world building...
I've always thought that the 39-clues novels had interesting world-building in the form of different branches of the same family pulling shenanigans and scheming against each other.
but, hopefully, charred sould is not THAT fragmented that we need to fight over it with kin. Right?
He separated because of that, but as far as we know only this fragment 'woke up' and is providing more than minor benefits. Others might have in theory, but we don't know that one way or the other. We might want to meet our cousins and find out at some point.
Yeah, this.
Lets just hope the others only got the Orthstirr from him.
