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NorseQuest (A Norse Xianxia)

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Yeah, the surprise they had was effectively total, and it was a fight with what amounted to being arbitrary numbers each attacking individuals who often had dependents they had to cover for.

We've already been told that Troll-Men are effectively 'Mortal Level Opponents' after all who's only advantages are their numbers.
 
Constenanto said:
Right then. So they've definitely replenished their numbers, and most definitely have way more trollmen than before.
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Not necessarily. Their 'breeding rate' is based on the amount of meat they have access to, and while they did get our livestock, we don't know how well they've been eating since then, and we don't know what percentage casualty rate they suffered in the attack. It's plausible that there are less than there were for the attack, or at least not many more.

There might also, of course, be a lot more and we should plan for that, but it's not an inevitability by any means. Also, relevantly, Halla has much better AoE effects than any of the people who were there for the attack, which is a big deal in this kind of fight. Technically, we don't know Trausti's AoE options, but if they were super notable I think we'd have heard about them and, well, we haven't.
 
And let's also not forget--because this mattered--that most of the fighters had dependents to cover for as well, and each individual was simultaneously attacked by arbitrary numbers of Troll Men.
 
I was just doing math and, assuming 7d6+4 hits Trollmen with pretty close to surety, 4 damage kills them, she can hit three at a time, and Halla invests, like 30 dice into 30 Kindle Spinners, she can kill 90 Troll-Men in a turn for about 60 Orthstirr.

Hitting that many per shot is maybe wishful thinking, but the 7d6+4 for 4 damage hitting and killing is likely not. Halla's minion-sweeping is pretty ridiculous.
 
[X] Proceed as planned... just without Abjorn and the twins.
-[X] (Optional) Scramble around for replacements (RNG if anyone is available, Silver-Tongue to convince them)
 
Well shit

[X] Proceed as planned... just without Abjorn and the twins.
-[X] (Optional) Scramble around for replacements (RNG if anyone is available, Silver-Tongue to convince them)
 
Alectai said:
Yeah, the surprise they had was effectively total, and it was a fight with what amounted to being arbitrary numbers each attacking individuals who often had dependents they had to cover for.

We've already been told that Troll-Men are effectively 'Mortal Level Opponents' after all who's only advantages are their numbers.
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Yeah, not to mention the one person that died had to deal with the entire brunt of the trollmen force by himself, while also defending our children, besides it being an ambush. Yet he not only defended our children, but also managed to kill quite a lot of trollmen, too.
 
Imperial Fister said:
Lots of people are, though perhaps not through the Volsungs. You are all the children of Odin, after all

One of the more notable things about Norse mythology is how casually the actual Norse treated their gods — at least in my opinion and for as far as I can recall. I've been wanting to, for some time now, work in a scene of Steinarr getting woken up in the middle of the night by a massive thunderstorm and him going out and yelling at Thor to quiet it down. Thor, of course, obliges. Thor is, after all, 50% brutal violence and 50% absurd comedy.
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"DAMMIT DO YOU KNOW HOW LATE IT IS!?"

"Ah crap, knew I forgot something. Sorry, bro. Been off in a pocket dimension chilling with einherjar for the last, shit... I don't even know what day it is."

"It's your day. It's YOUR FUCKING DAY! IN THE MIDDLE OF THE FUCKING NIGHT!"

"All right, all right, sheesh, calm down!"
 
Shine said:
….huh

The Norse had some opinions about farming, alright.
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Had to do with the environment, probably. Crop yields in their lands were probably not super high, meaning they needed ways to survive that were not strictly the crops alone. Hence, animal husbandry (especially of animals that could at least partially live off the land) being considered more important (especially since the mixed diet was probably a lot healthier than what many medieval peasants ate).

Steinarr, being ridiculous, breaks that pattern somewhat, but that's not gonna change an ingrained cultural prejudice.
 
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DeadmanwalkingXI said:
Had to do with the environment, probably. Crop yields in their lands were probably not super high, meaning they needed ways to survive that were not strictly the crops alone. Hence, animal husbandry (especially of animals that could at least partially live off the land) being considered more important (especially since the mixed diet was probably a lot healthier than what many medieval peasants ate).

Steinarr, being ridiculous, breaks that pattern somewhat, but that's not gonna change an ingrained cultural prejudice.
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Yeah. I mean, integrating farm animals into the farm's way of life is always important, but it only gets more important the farther north you go in this era.
 
Imperial Fister said:
[ ] Proceed as planned... just without Abjorn and the twins.
-[ ] (Optional) Scramble around for replacements (RNG if anyone is available, Silver-Tongue to convince them)
[ ] Call it off, you'll have to find a different way of getting even. (Postpones Troll-men Reprisal)
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AN: The reason I didn't mention the height problem until now is because I didn't think of it until now. If I had, I absolutely would have said something.
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Man would it have been inconvenient if we had Giant-Blooded ourselves right now.
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I've also taken the liberty of just maxing out your combat pool from the get-go, if that's alright?
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That's alright with me.

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Yeah, don't use it on other Norse. Monsters are fair game, Outlaws are fair game, non-humans are fair game. If you do happen to punch a Norseman, then don't hit their face and, whatever you do, don't mar them with spilled blood and/or long-lasting marks.
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Incidentally,

By definition, if Halla went to visit Vestfold, since she doesn't have a place of residence there, would she be considered an 'outlaw' there?

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[X] Proceed as planned... just without Abjorn and the twins.

Don't really feel like making Silver-Tongue rolls right now.
 
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Shard said:
Incidentally,

By definition, if Halla went to visit Vestfold, since she doesn't have a place of residence there, would she be considered an 'outlaw' there?
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Not having a house nearby doesn't make you an outlaw. An outlaw doesn't have a house, but they're hardly the only ones who don't, and your house being far away definitely doesn't make you an outlaw in and of itself. Now, if we start raiding them we're pretty rapidly gonna fall into the 'outlaw' category, but that is very much not the plan.
 
[X] Proceed as planned... just without Abjorn and the twins.
-[X] (Optional) Scramble around for replacements (RNG if anyone is available, Silver-Tongue to convince them)
 
Shard said:
By definition, if Halla went to visit Vestfold, since she doesn't have a place of residence there, would she be considered an 'outlaw' there?
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Technically, as she does not have a permanent place of residence that a Vestfold Thing could contact, Halla would be technically outside the law of Vestfold, though not an outlaw.

Fortunately, guest rights are important and Halla is a friendly, selfless sort, which will swiftly engender good will. Once you've secured some manner of lodgings, you're good to go.

If I were you, I would make sure all my affairs were in order before traveling to Vestfold. Not because you're going to die, but because a lot of storythreads are looking to twist together there lmao. Chaotic situations are dangerous ones.
 
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[X] Call it off, you'll have to find a different way of getting even. (Postpones Troll-men Reprisal)

Going into situations underprepared is a likely way to get halla killed.
 
[X] Proceed as planned... just without Abjorn and the twins.
-[X] (Optional) Scramble around for replacements (RNG if anyone is available, Silver-Tongue to convince them)
 
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The Ironbrother (Shard)
  • Apocrypha
    • The Ironbrother

    Forkbeard sees felled Felag,
    Face at grave their slayers.

    Spear splices against spear,
    Spiked strikes meet shield Standstill.

    Bearswing brings earth broken,
    Bear's wife breaks Forkbeard's balls.

    Stonesmith's [1] sister stricken,
    Steelstorm seals stormson [2] still.

    [1] Sten
    [2] Lars Forkbeard. Alternatively, Sparkbutt strictly fits into the schema still. But Stormson, you know, rhymes better.

    AN: This is a quest that has made me do things like google search synonyms for 'three', just in case there's a nice-sounding alternative that rhymes.

    Was Lars Forkbeard an out and out Ironbrother of a warband, or 'only' Ironbrother-tier?
     
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    • Shard said:
    Was Lars Forkbeard an out and out Ironbrother of a warband, or 'only' Ironbrother-tier?
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    My impression was very much that he was not currently a member in good standing of a warband or he wouldn't have been doing what he was doing (not in a moral sense, but in a 'this is penny ante shit' sense). Like, his takeaway from the raid was gonna be lower than ours was from our first raid...it was a mediocre job well below his power level. Which says to me that he didn't have access to better jobs.
     
    DeadmanwalkingXI said:
    My impression was very much that he was not currently a member in good standing of a warband or he wouldn't have been doing what he was doing (not in a moral sense, but in a 'this is penny ante shit' sense). Like, his takeaway from the raid was gonna be lower than ours was from our first raid...it was a mediocre job well below his power level. Which says to me that he didn't have access to better jobs.
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    Not everyone can talk a Knight into giving up all their treasure without even defeating them.
     
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