Human made ship vs dwarf made sword for example makes that easy to imagine.
Dwarven crafting can produce god-tier items.
Hel, when items are god-tier it is safe to assume a dwarf made it.
NorseQuest (A Norse Xianxia)
- Thread starter I.F. Ister
- Start date
- Original Fantasy Action
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- Tags
- norse mythology (mythology) original xianxia cultivation western cultivation ask sirihand did your mother tell you anything? discussion pleases yggdrasil farming gloating gets people killed granary management hubris is a coward's word you will die norsemen do not die when they are killed the qm has a bad memory the qm is bad at math viking courtroom drama (legal drama) vikings
Dwarven crafting can produce god-tier items.
Hel, when items are god-tier it is safe to assume a dwarf made it.
Alectai
Speaks Words of Wisdom... On occasion
I presume that we're talking about "Kingdom Level Things" there as opposed to just the regional get-together that this was, right?
Still, yeesh, that's wild. I presume that passing both of those particular Rites of Passage is a major dividing line in Orthstirr Cultivation? (As opposed to Odr Cultivation anyway).
Still, now that we're officially on a Hero Quest now, chances are that things might escalate. There's going to be lots of Big Shit on the table from here until the Quest is resolved, one way or another, and we need to be ready for it.
Still, yeesh, that's wild. I presume that passing both of those particular Rites of Passage is a major dividing line in Orthstirr Cultivation? (As opposed to Odr Cultivation anyway).
Still, now that we're officially on a Hero Quest now, chances are that things might escalate. There's going to be lots of Big Shit on the table from here until the Quest is resolved, one way or another, and we need to be ready for it.
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- Location
- Space between realms
- Pronouns
- He
Holy shit. I take back every negative thought about the Sword and Horse thing.
Edit: I feel like the depopulation of an ENTIRE JARLDOM is a pretty big deal. If so I kinda feel bad about being in a fued with Hasvir's (old dead one) line ... Barring that fucker Horra. Seriously fuck that guy. Also still salty about Logi (we should tell him the kenning thing if he hasn't realized it.)
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- He/Him
Random crafting note, since we're talking crafting: Forgefire does just add its dice to crafting, no Trick necessary. We still want a Trick or three obviously, but it's nice even without them.
Alectai
Speaks Words of Wisdom... On occasion
Definitely want to run that down with Sten now that we've got it. What he'd recommend us develop in that field.
- Pronouns
- He/Him
Agreed entirely. It's already in the plan for next turn (though no actual Trick training, I thought that, like we did with Gale, we'd get a list and then pick the next turn).
- Location
- Mid-Atlantic
Still, the basic logic applies.
If you somehow get a robot strawman on your farm who will perform basic manual labor, you assign the strawman to the second-lowest position on the farm occupied by humanoids (above whichever thrall pissed you off that week, but below all the other thralls). The strawman now does thrall-work, which frees up thrall-hours to do more thrall-work, which means the dividing line between "this shit is thrall-work" and "this is farmhand-work" can slide slightly upwards and the farmhands concentrate on doing more of those high-prestige tasks so that the farm as a whole accomplishes more.
It's complicated, but it's basically just "managing everyone's hours, Norse edition" with extra paranormal crap.
Maybe it's a matter of degree. Or that if you're very rich and high-status and expect someone to go on a quest for you, you're expected to pony up something more valuable than an actual pony. Because going "I will pay you, hero, to perform this noble quest" while keeping your orthstirr implies that this is a problem you could totally sort out by headbutting it personally but have some valid reason not to go for, and you (being a badass) regret not having the opportunity to deal with it yourself.
The wealth you have to sacrifice to adequately convey how much it sucks that you're not able to go personally suplex that zombie elephant and are instead hiring another badass to do it for you... probably scales somewhat with just how rich you, yourself, are. And just how high your reputation is for performing other related tasks such as suplexing gorillas, rhinoceroses, and sharks.
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- Location
- Somewhere, probably Earth
Good explanation, but my guy. You goofed.
No, ya know what, you didn't just goof. You gave that shit the House of Mouse special. Disney is on their way right now to copy protect that omega-class whoopsie doodle of a goof you just did. I can hear that rat bastard necromancer making YAAAAHOOHOOHOOEY sounds over the pot of jelly you turned his son into.
Logi. The fuck.
@Imperial Fister would this quest still have been offered had we brought up this stuff during the course of the Trial?
- Location
- Mid-Atlantic
Wow.
So we managed to accidentally fuck up the situation so badly we get a free boat? Sweet.
So we managed to accidentally fuck up the situation so badly we get a free boat? Sweet.
Sirrocco
Pedantic
Well, in that case they wouldn't have heard about Drysalt, and would thus be in a position to handle it themselves.
I.F. Ister
Fortifying The Thread
- Pronouns
- He/They
It would not have.
However, you would have gotten a ship from other means. After, like, a couple decades lmao
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Sirrocco
Pedantic
He looks directly at Logi.
"And it's coming out of your paycheck."
Alectai
Speaks Words of Wisdom... On occasion
Haha, so we manage to get the Ship Management Simulator unlocked a full character in advance. I'll take it, having a ship gives us the freedom of the setting.
Hopefully we can catch things and avoid too much involuntary escalation for now.
Looking at the stuff we didn't do yet because "we are about to fight Horra, need to play it safe!" and the fact we will unlock Seidr once Horra is wormfodder. (A (presumably) VERY interesting time sink for Halla)
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- He/Him
Well, the hope is that the Seeress provides Training Dice to take advantage of her tutelage with and makes it not too bad.
Hopefully it isn't just Training Dice and opening up a new category of tricks.
The topic sounds much too interesting to degrade it to just that.
- Location
- Three feet to the left
- Pronouns
- He/They
So next turn, I'm guessing we round up our posse, and burn Harra's workshop down?
- Location
- Ohio
Yeah. That's the Sword. As for the Horse? At this point in time, a properly armored warhorse was essentially a Main Battle Tank. With cultivator BS, I'd imagine a Christian Hero on his horse could quite literally charge straight through most defenses (shield walls, regular walls, etc.) before even drawing the damn Sword.
- Location
- San Ramon, CA
No waiting for next turn, we're doing this right NOW.
- Pronouns
- He/Him
Not just that, no. But I do suspect both of those will be involved.
As Silverking notes, that's this turn, actually. We're doing it imminently.
Shard
One and Many
- Location
- Malaysia
..How much of our Orthsirr was '''winning'''' the court case and how much was everyone talking about Halla in the context of Drysalt?
It's okay, we've got a blood feud going mon
Well, like five blood feuds and counting, really
(Solrun, Steinarr+Family, Harald Wolfwind, Haklangr's Bro, Elephant Merchant)
Why didn't we hear the stories..
..Maybe we should spend some time getting to know the people of the valley enough to hear their stories.
Do they know?
Also... Solrun, the fuck? You sicced Blackhand on the fucking hero of your valley?
...I don't want to think about this.
Permission to kill Horra Hasvirshame: Get!
- Pronouns
- He/Him
We've gotten to know almost all our neighbors quite well. The issue is that we apparently live in the immigrant neighborhood where people don't know this one.
Probably. I doubt Horra was shy about spreading it around.
He killed her father. Regardless of the rights or wrongs that's gonna leave a mark. Something to bear in mind regarding Horra's kids going forward. Though hopefully they're a bit less fondly disposed towards him (he struck me as a not-great parent, though he did clearly love his son).
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