NorseQuest (A Norse Xianxia)
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Any guidance to our friends?
"They look to you for direction"
1.5x ish speed of attack doesn't sound that minor.
And if we do bursts of 1 normal+ 1 folded it isn't extra cost even in the worst interpretation how the cost works.
Is that "spend 3 to add a third" a sum (so to do a 3 fold it is base cost+2+3=basecost +5) or the direct price (to do a 3 fold it is base cost + 3)?
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Well, as I mentioned before, Halla killing 90 of them in a round is not a big deal and while her AoE is likely better, each of our friends can kill at least 20 or 30. Heck, Halla could technically kill as many as 150 in a turn while still having some defenses left. Actually, with Folded Attacks, she could easily do more like 300, though that's probably getting a tad risky.
They're mooks, and we can mow through them as such.
This is fair, we should add a warning that there's about to be a lot of fire and to prepare to fight any that get past said fire.
It's minor in context when we're already going at two or three times the speed of the Troll Men. It's not nothing, but it's not a huge deal either.
Doing 2x is defensible since we aren't using non-basic defenses anyway, but honestly, we sort of don't want to go faster so that our comrades have a chance to actually rack up some kills.
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[X] Plan: Warm-Up
Goblin slayer time.
I hate to be that guy but ... is this really the situation we want to be using a polearm? Like we still have Thiefsbane and the molten sax.
Goblin slayer time.
I hate to be that guy but ... is this really the situation we want to be using a polearm? Like we still have Thiefsbane and the molten sax.
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I mean, we can stab with it, that works fine for tunnel fighting. It also gives us super-speed. That's a good combination I don't think we want to give up.
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[X] Plan: Warm-Up
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We know a bit. Stigr is an archer, Stigmar a fairly defensive melee fighter, Gabriel is gonna be basically invulnerable to Troll-Men in his Knightly Armor and is a solid melee combatant, and Eric has Gale and a lot of melee skills that won't be needed here, though he's likely the most badass one here (though we and Gabriel may be close, depending).
That said...none of that really changes the fact that 'I'm throwing fire' is probably the only super useful bit to impart. Maybe also have Gabriel stand in front given his extraordinary resilience?
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Oh... that does explains it, yeah.
Some things just change people.
Is this just me or does this screams "Colloapse Danger", just like the cave fight against Lars, just without the dust.
IF, does the tunnel seems sturdy enough to withstand explosions?
So, they are zerg rushing huh? agressive, but i can't call them vermin, that would insult vermins everywhere.
Ah, mobs.... guess they would be good material source for a shapecrafter?
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Can we just, you know, go blender on them with mundane attacks? with tricks used to avoid being burried by the corpses or bound by body locks?
We could tell them to team up or cover Stig, so he can use his bow longer
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This seems fairly intuitive even without instructions, but it couldn't hurt.
If we aren't certain we kill them before they reach us it is another little edge at no extra cost (besides the risk of Troll-Men reaching us before we are done with a fold chain, then we'd be unable to defend ourselves -> bad).
How much of an edge? Lets see:
Assume conservatively that we are going for 2 fold KS (no extra cost even in worst assumption about how the price works):
Assume that the speed boost is only for the folded KS, not the extra.
One at basic speed and one at 1.5 times speed.
Lets call the duration of time needed to do a KS a KSTime.
1 KS at normal speed = 1 KSTime
1 KS at 1.5 speed = 1/1.5=0.666...
2 KS in 1.666.. KSTime
2/1.666...)=1.2
So 20% more time efficient at no extra Orth cost.
"Everyone stay together, give yourselves enough room to use your ranged abilities while they approach and melee attacks once they get close enough. Remember to defend each other if they try to overwhelm anyone!"
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Probably high right now
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What's the plan on sparring everyone to get their char sheets btw? Not really relevant rn, but those would be nice to have.
We probably all know each other well enough to communicate that in a quick glance.
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We can actually make mundane defenses while using Folded Attacks, it's Trick Defenses that we can't use.
Being more time efficient in this fight just means we spend more Orthstirr, basically. I do think Kindle Spinners are right because this is enough to overwhelm us without them, at least potentially, but we don't need to rush it like this.
Like, right now we're probably already killing half of them in the time it takes everyone else to kill the other half. We don't need to be faster than that.
Too many people, too many actions we need to take. We're definitely doing that with Gabriel and Abjorn, and probably Steinarr and Eric...but anyone else is very much a long term project, not any time in the next year or so.
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[X] Plan: Warm-Up
Time to rip'n'tear. Or, well, more like burn'n'tear, but whatever.
Time to rip'n'tear. Or, well, more like burn'n'tear, but whatever.
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part of me is just a touch concerned about the backdraft from using too much fire... also got to ask because I can't really recall but do our fires create smoke at all when they burn things?
Doing the same amount of KS in less time -> less time for the Trollmen to spread out.
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[X] Plan: Warm-Up
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My point is that it's also less time for our allies to attack them. And we're in an underground tunnel, I'm not sure how much they even can spread out.
[X] Plan: Warm-Up
Burn em out.
Burn em out.
"12 men arms spread out and only barely touching fingertips"
If that is enough to negate the aoe of our KS, they could approach in 5 waves.
Though that is probably vastly overestimating their coordination. they still could try to be a bit harder targets (though that would also make it much harder for them to swamp people)
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That would be Wildfire, most likely. Firestorm could do that too, but would most likely hit us as well.
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There are also 60 of them in a big clump. I'm not saying spreading out is literally impossible, just that doing so in a way where there are no groups of three to hit with Kindle Spinner strikes me as deeply unlikely given their intellect and the terrain.
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