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Yeah, our immediate priority is unfucking our Frenzy, if we can't figure out how to make that work for us instead of against us, we're already in a dead-end.

Notably, one neat thing I've noticed, is that we now have a Magical Plant that corresponds to each of our current Hugareida!
 
Alectai said:
Yeah, our immediate priority is unfucking our Frenzy, if we can't figure out how to make that work for us instead of against us, we're already in a dead-end.
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Pretty much. We'll see what comes up this turn in that regard.

Alectai said:
Notably, one neat thing I've noticed, is that we now have a Magical Plant that corresponds to each of our current Hugareida!
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Technically we only have one for both Campfire and Ignition, but yeah. It's nice.
 
Huh, on a related note.

Alloys @Imperial Fister , once we've made one, does it level up like any other Hugareida even though there's no Muna attached to it? Or are Alloys trained like Campfire is?
 
Well, typically, it's getting Rank 7 in an Attribute that starts unlocking the Real Bullshit, and we're on the cusp of that for Hugr.
 
And voting is now closed.

I'll post the child roll results once they're done.
Scheduled vote count started by Imperial Fister on Apr 29, 2023 at 7:05 PM, finished with 270 posts and 9 votes.
  • [X] Plan Berserker Life Advice
    -[X] (Personal) Spend time with...
    --[X] Toki Thunsson
    --[X] Buy 200 oz. Forged Iron and maybe other things if they've got them (we could use a Helm)
    -[X] (Personal) Spend time with... (again)
    --[X] Stigulf Snowbeard
    --[X] Ask for training in how to control your rage as a berserker (and how that works and so on)
    -[X] (Personal) Spend time with... (and again)
    --[X] Tryggr and Trausti
    --[X] Invite them to spar with the rest of us and generally hang out
    -[X] (Rolled)
    --[X] Train Kindle-Spinner 2d6 (1d6) (+1 Success from Born of Fire)
    --[X] Train Firebomb-Strike 2d6 (1d6) (+1 Success from Born of Fire)
    --[X] Train Ember-Winged Cloak 2d6 (1d6) (+1 Success from Born of Fire)
    --[X] Train Campfire 2d6 (1d6) (+1 Success from Born of Fire)
    --[X] Train Hugr itself 6d6
    -[X] (Research)
    --[X] Cultivation Note: Do so outside the fence again.
    --[X] Cultivation Note: Put 9 Odr into our new Sealwood Sapling
    --[X] Try to bring additional useful mundane plants into our soulscape with our Fylgja, as well as a fertilized chicken egg 1d6
    --[X] Commune with Sagaseeker's weapon spirit, once we get to know each other better see how it would feel about being reforged to be more powerful 1d6
    --[X] Do more bible reading with Jerasmus 1d6
    -[X] (Blackhand's Training) Try to develop old/train new hugareida tricks
    --[X] Train Halting Vortex 1d6
    --[X] Train Mire Ward 1d6
    -[X] (Training) Tricks
    --[X] Talk to Sten about how to make an atgeir
    --[X] Train Goal-Tell 1d6
    --[X] Train Cool-Off 1d6
    --[X] Train Skewer-Flick 1d6
    --[X] Train Chuck 1d6
    --[X] Train Sway 1d6
    --[X] Train Slice-Aside 1d6
    --[X] Train 'Rare Weapon' Weaponcraft Skill-Trick 1d6 (+1 Success from Sten)
    -[X] (Training) Hamr (59 successes to rank up)
    --[X] Train Hamr itself 1d6
    --[X] Train Chop 1d6
    -[X] (Training) Hugr (25 successes to rank up)
    --[X] Train Artcraft 1d6 (+1 Success from Sten)
    --[X] Train Housecraft 1d6 (+1 Success from Sten)
    --[X] Train Weaponcraft 1d6 (+1 Success from Sten)
    -[X] (Training) Fylgja (8 success to rank up)
    --[X] Train Fylgja Itself 1d6
    -[X] (Orthstirr Usage)
    --[X] 4 Odr and 3 Orthstirr to Hamr
    ---[X] 3 Chop, 4 Defend, 4 Dodge, 4 Glima, 3 Bash, 3 Pierce, 3 Throw, 3 Cut, 3 Farmwork, 3 Labor, 3 Overland (36 total)
    --[X] 5 Orthstirr to Hugr
    ---[X] 4 Artcraft, 5 Armorcraft, 3 Barb-Tongue, 4 Composure, 5 Housecraft, 3 Management, 4 Scouting, 4 Silver-Tongue, 3 Strategy, 3 Tactics, 5 Weaponcraft, 4 Wordplay, 5 Wildcraft (52 total)
    --[X] 2 Orthstirr to Fylgja
    ---[X] 3 Command
    --[X] 1 First Impression
    --[X] 222 free for tricks
    [X] Name it "Ashen Kiss"
    [X] (Fourth Born) Commanding Presence
    [X] (Fourth Born) Good At Everything
    -[X] Lock in Godly Luck with Muna
    -[X] Lock in Seeing Eyes with 1 Hamingja
    -[X] Add 2 Reward Dice to Giant's Blood courtesy of @DeadmanwalkingXI
    -[X] Add 1 Reward Die to Snake's Tongue courtesy of @DeadmanwalkingXI
    -[X] Add 1 Reward Die to Snake's Tongue courtesy of @Toboe
    -[X] Add 2 Reward Dice to Friendly courtesy of @Dromuthra
    -[X] Add 1 Reward Die to not getting Bloodlust courtesy of @Alectai
    -[X] Add 1 Reward Die to not getting Wrathful courtesy of @Exmorri
    [X] (Fourth Born) Commanding Presence
    -[X] Lock in Godly Luck with Muna
    -[X] Lock in Seeing Eyes with 1 Hamingja
    -[X] Lock in Leader with 1 Hamingja
    -[X] Add 2 Reward Dice to Giant's Blood courtesy of @DeadmanwalkingXI
    -[X] Add 1 Reward Die to Snake's Tongue courtesy of @DeadmanwalkingXI
    -[X] Add 1 Reward Die to Snake's Tongue courtesy of @Toboe
    -[X] Add 2 Reward Dice to Friendly courtesy of @Dromuthra
    -[X] Add 1 Reward Die to not getting Bloodlust courtesy of @Alectai
    -[X] Add 1 Reward Die to not getting Wrathful courtesy of @Exmorri
    [X] Plan Berserker Life Advice
    -[X] (Personal) Spend time with...
    --[X] Toki Thunsson
    --[X] Buy 200 oz. Forged Iron and maybe other things if they've got them (we could use a Helm)
    --[X] Stigulf Snowbeard
    --[X] Ask for training in how to control your rage as a berserker (and how that works and so on)
    --[X] Tryggr and Trausti
    --[X] Invite them to spar with the rest of us and generally hang out
    -[X] (Rolled)
    --[X] Train Kindle-Spinner 2d6 (1d6) (+1 Success from Born of Fire)
    --[X] Train Firebomb-Strike 2d6 (1d6) (+1 Success from Born of Fire)
    --[X] Train Ember-Winged Cloak 2d6 (1d6) (+1 Success from Born of Fire)
    --[X] Train Campfire 2d6 (1d6) (+1 Success from Born of Fire)
    --[X] Train Hugr itself 6d6
    -[X] (Research)
    --[X] Cultivation Note: Do so outside the fence again.
    --[X] Cultivation Note: Put 9 Odr into our new Sealwood Sapling
    --[X] Try to bring additional useful mundane plants into our soulscape with our Fylgja, as well as a ferilized chicken egg 1d6
    --[X] Commune with Sagaseeker's weapon spirit, once we get to know each other better see how it would feel about being reforged to be more powerful 1d6
    --[X] Do more bible reading with Jerasmus 1d6
    -[X] (Blackhand's Training) Try to develop old/train new hugareida tricks
    --[X] Train Halting Vortex 1d6
    --[X] Train Mire Ward 1d6
    -[X] (Training) Tricks
    --[X] Talk to Sten about how to make an atgeir
    --[X] Train Goal-Tell 1d6
    --[X] Train Cool-Off 1d6
    --[X] Train Skewer-Flick 1d6
    --[X] Train Chuck 1d6
    --[X] Train Sway 1d6
    --[X] Train Slice-Aside 1d6
    --[X] Train 'Rare Weapon' Weaponcraft Skill-Trick 1d6 (+1 Success from Sten)
    -[X] (Training) Hamr (59 successes to rank up)
    --[X] Train Hamr itself 1d6
    --[X] Train Chop 1d6
    -[X] (Training) Hugr (25 successes to rank up)
    --[X] Train Artcraft 1d6 (+1 Success from Sten)
    --[X] Train Housecraft 1d6 (+1 Success from Sten)
    --[X] Train Weaponcraft 1d6 (+1 Success from Sten)
    -[X] (Training) Fylgja (8 success to rank up)
    --[X] Train Fylgja Itself 1d6
    -[X] (Orthstirr Usage)
    --[X] 4 Odr and 3 Orthstirr to Hamr
    ---[X] 3 Chop, 4 Defend, 4 Dodge, 4 Glima, 3 Bash, 3 Pierce, 3 Throw, 3 Cut, 3 Farmwork, 3 Labor, 3 Overland (36 total)
    --[X] 5 Orthstirr to Hugr
    ---[X] 4 Artcraft, 5 Armorcraft, 3 Barb-Tongue, 4 Composure, 5 Housecraft, 3 Management, 4 Scouting, 4 Silver-Tongue, 3 Strategy, 3 Tactics, 5 Weaponcraft, 4 Wordplay, 5 Wildcraft (52 total)
    --[X] 2 Orthstirr to Fylgja
    ---[X] 3 Command
    --[X] 1 First Impression
    --[X] 222 free for tricks
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Alrighty, here are the results for your fourthborn.

Fourthborn Son
Locked In:
-The Bloody Basics (Auto-Locked)
-Born of Fire (Auto-Locked)
-Godly Luck
-Seeing Eyes
-Leader
Rolled For
-Giant's Blood (Reward Dice)
-Snake's Tongue (Reward Dice)
-Friendly (Reward Dice)
-Stoic Silence
-The Terror-Bear's Loyalty
-Poet
-Beardless
-Hemophobia
 
Imperial Fister said:
Alrighty, here are the results for your fourthborn.

Fourthborn Son
Locked In:
-The Bloody Basics (Auto-Locked)
-Born of Fire (Auto-Locked)
-Godly Luck
-Seeing Eyes
-Leader
Rolled For
-Giant's Blood (Reward Dice)
-Snake's Tongue (Reward Dice)
-Friendly (Reward Dice)
-Stoic Silence
-The Terror-Bear's Loyalty
-Poet
-Beardless
-Hemophobia
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That does look like a good homemaker.
Good that he has Poet. Then he can make poems about the heroics of his friends ass his hobby.
 
Imperial Fister said:
Alrighty, here are the results for your fourthborn.

Fourthborn Son
Locked In:
-The Bloody Basics (Auto-Locked)
-Born of Fire (Auto-Locked)
-Godly Luck
-Seeing Eyes
-Leader
Rolled For
-Giant's Blood (Reward Dice)
-Snake's Tongue (Reward Dice)
-Friendly (Reward Dice)
-Stoic Silence
-The Terror-Bear's Loyalty
-Poet
-Beardless
-Hemophobia
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Huh. I though we capped out at 6 normal traits and only 2 Recessives?

Well, regardless, I wonder what the interaction is between Stoic Silence (which makes you nearly fearless) and Hemophobia is.
 
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TheCount said:
Speak quietly and carry a big stick, obviously.
No blood if you don't break the skin, after all! :V
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Beating people to death with a club definitely breaks the skin.

Toboe said:
Fire Hugareidar!
No blood if all blood already boiled off.
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This, however, seems like a more viable solution to Hemophobia. But that wasn't really what I was talking about, I was more going 'How do being fearless and having a phobia go together?'
 
Hah, he's Norse Caiphas Cain! I love it!

To elaborate, Beardless and Hemophobia would normally be a death sentence... But he has Stoic Calm, The Terror Bear's Loyalty, Leader, and Friendly. So they're just funny character quirks rather than crippling downsides. He's a character who prefers to solve problems with a good argument but if the chips are down and it's you and yours against the world, he won't back down.

But he is a fucking fantastic Skald if that's what he decides to do, and those skills lend themselves well to a character who's good at stirring the hearts and minds of others. He doesn't get riled up easily either, and his traits mean that picking fights is his last resort--but he has the mitigating traits to end them decisively.

He's going to go far!
 
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DeadmanwalkingXI said:
Beating people to death with a club definitely breaks the skin.



This, however, seems like a more viable solution to Hemophobia. But that wasn't really what I was talking about, I was more going 'How do being fearless and having a phobia go together?'
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I took TheCounts post as a joke and answered with a joke.

To be serious:
Could be that he is almost fearless, except for the Hemophobia, where he is just much more resistant than people without the calmness.
 
Like, seriously, this is the kind of guy who gets a Kenning called "The Beardless" and fucking owns it instead of as a mark of shame.

Like that one dude who was called "The Boneless" who still ended up roflstomping most of the British Isles. Ivar, wasn't it? Either way, Terror Bear's Loyalty and Stoic Calm means that he's got the tools to overcome his dislike for bloodshed when the chips are down, which are great mitigating traits.

What I'm trying to say is, Boy #3 is great and I have high hopes for his future!
 
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DeadmanwalkingXI said:
That's fair. My own thought is that instead of being afraid he just finds blood viscerally disgusting, so he likes to avoid it...but that probably has the same basic result.
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Yeah, the viscerally disgusting is something i took for granted coming with Hemophobia.
And that the interaction with fearless then is "does B3 have to throw-up/suffer a malus/be unable to interact" rolls get a bonus. Or he gets a composure roll at all where normal Hemophobes wouldn't get one.
 
Alectai said:
Like, seriously, this is the kind of guy who gets a Kenning called "The Beardless" and fucking owns it instead of as a mark of shame.

Like that one dude who was called "The Boneless" who still ended up roflstomping most of the British Isles. Ivar, wasn't it? Either way, Terror Bear's Loyalty and Stoic Calm means that he's got the tools to overcome his dislike for bloodshed when the chips are down, which are great mitigating traits.
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Oh definitely, I'm voting him 'child most likely to use a polearm so the blood doesn't get on him when he's killing people'. With, y'know, all that implies.
 
DeadmanwalkingXI said:
Oh definitely, I'm voting him 'child most likely to use a polearm so the blood doesn't get on him when he's killing people'. With, y'know, all that implies.
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I'm still a bit worried though about how hard the Malus Beardless is though, the lore suggests it's a damn near death sentence to be a man with it, but Halla being a woman was supposed to also drag her down, and as we've seen--enough early advantages can snowball into you being slotted into the "Weird Exception that proves the rule" category.

Are you going to call someone a little bitch if he's regularly dunking on people who do that and can probably kick the ass of most of your family if pressured? I mean, some people still will, but...
 
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Alectai said:
I'm still a bit worried though about how hard the Malus Beardless is though, the lore suggests it's a damn near death sentence to be a man with it, but Halla being a woman was supposed to also drag her down, and as we've seen--enough early advantages can snowball into you being slotted into the "Weird Exception that proves the rule" category.

Are you going to call someone a little bitch if he's regularly dunking on people who do that and can probably kick the ass of most of your family if pressured? I mean, some people still will, but...
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It's effectively on par with being female. He's thus no worse off than our daughter is. I think they'll both be fine all things considered, particularly given the whole 'Giant's Blood' thing (being well over 7 feet tall makes people a lot less willing to insult you)...it has also occurred to me that I suspect this boy may also take after his father in terms of Glima...you actually can kill people bloodlessly with that!
 
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Alectai said:
Either way, Terror Bear's Loyalty and Stoic Calm means that he's got the tools to overcome his dislike for bloodshed when the chips are down, which are great mitigating traits.
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It also helps that his older siblings are the Murderkittens. As a solo combatant, I think he would have problems, but being an archer/tactician/PR while helping his family? I could see him coming into his own that way.
 
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