CedeTheBees
Probably high right now
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Halla is gonna invent the breadstick meme 10,000 years early
NorseQuest (A Norse Xianxia)
- Thread starter I.F. Ister
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- Original Fantasy Action
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- 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 open voting
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Yeah, I thought that was about right, though I didn't count it up until it was mentioned. The full breakdown is 3 Research (though I guess two are combative and one is farming-related) 18 combat, 14 Farming/Building, 3 to Stats, 8 Utility, and 1 at Training Drifa.
Nice. I have communing with Sagaseeker tentatively penciled in for this coming turn. Would that count towards this?
I obviously think that seems fine, though we'll need to know the current state of our farm (so Resource ratings at the moment, I guess, and how to build/buy buildings) before we buy things to effect it.
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It doesn't, since we can't even receive the hugareida - barring exceptional circumstances - without mastering the atgeir to begin with. And if we do witness some incredible display of the atgeir at work and gain the hugareida, it wouldn't help our understanding of it at all, given that us gaining the Sword hugareida didn't help whatsoever when it came to understanding to swords.
I.F. Ister
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I'll say yes, it does, as I had an idea that I would like to test out and that's a perfect opportunity to do so, which should hopefully solve some potential confusion brewing.
Essentially, I'm changing how hugareida ranking up works to allow you to choose between bonus dice, bonus damage, or more simultaneous usages.
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The rules look fine to me.
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Interesting. Can we do a bit of that retroactively? We'd definitely give up some dice on Standstill for two uses at a time.
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So for example, a farm with a rating of Fine (4) in their Resources and Good (3) in their Food (Resource) would gain 7 food per turn from their Resources?
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Granted that's how it worked with the sword but I would argue that there is a difference between that situation of this potential one.
For one we've already gained a measure of understanding of the Aetigr. Secondly we have as far as I'm aware we haven't used or extensively trained swordplay (compared to axe or polearm).
The difference I'm trying to point out is with the sword it was a defining point in our lives. We had never really seen such a high end use of a weapon. One that we don't really use and one that we associate with people of great power and athority.
I would argue that seeing a high end use of what is ostensibly our favored weapon in a similar manner is a different experience than seeing the sword.
It would be the difference between to a young boy on the path of the sword seeing a high end cultivator duel of elements, and that same boy further along his path see a old monster cut a mountain in half with sword intent. Both memories seared in just a different experience.
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I.F. Ister
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Sure, I don't see why not.
Correct, as long as you assigned the necessary Work Dice to each, it works just like that.
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Petty interpretation of language question:
Foreseeably, it may come to pass that for some reason Halla is away from the farm for an extended time. Such as a sea voyage, particularly if something goes wrong and, say, we're shipwrecked. If so, then it's likely that for some meaningful amount of in-game time, Halla might be unable to direct the farm's labor pool.
I imagine that in this event, either someone other than Halla (Abjorn being the obvious choice but he might be away with us) will take charge and handle this in the background to the best of their ability, or whoever is still present on the farm will do their best to allocate their efforts so that their own subsistence needs are met. After all, even the thralls don't want to starve to death.
I imagine that production of Goods and Silver would drop off markedly without someone actually managing things; that's the usual result in practice when small farms aren't under pressure to produce a surplus for sale. Though I gather that Goods aren't necessarily surplus and may include things people actually need for month-to-month living conditions if not necessarily day-to-day.
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We have no thralls, just for reference.
Our employees are competent and could easily be given instructions on what to do while we're gone. They'd have a lot less dice so production would definitely suffer, but I don't see why they'd have any issues beyond that die reduction.
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I mean, I don't necessarily think so? Sure, Sagaseeker is our favoured weapon. But like, length of using the weapon doesn't actually determine how much we understand it. I only feel your example would work is if said young boy had enough understanding of the Sword (say, like, 5 maybe?) to actually glean insights from a master using the sword. Otherwise we'd be seeing a big, impactful moment on our lives, sure... But we wouldn't actually have the understanding necessary to gain anything from it, even if we've been using the atgeir for decades.
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Yeah, but while the thread may be very punctilious about never doing this in the many years of the quest's future, Norse society is such that we should probably at least know how that would work.
And there is that Chinese straw golem man thing. Which even if we get it working, probably is going to just stand there stupidly doing nothing all year if not given specific orders by someone with the ability to do so. Then again, that's because it's effectively a mindless robot-thing, not an actual person, and both our wage-earning farmhands and any notional hypothetical thralls would be people and would do their best to use the farm for subsistence.
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Fair enough, just noting for the record. But my main point was that assigning the remaining dice before we go seems fine and like it would work perfectly adequately barring emergencies.
Hey @Imperial Fister can we eventually get some bee skeps or something similar for the farm. Besides the honey it'd be nice to have source of beeswax.
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With the current system that probably falls under the Goods section of Resources. Well, unless we want to consider the bees Livestock, in which case it would fall under the Resources section there, but I don't think we need to feed the bees, so they're probably better placed under Resources.
Sounds good.
Summer 8/Asvir Visit 5.4
I.F. Ister
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[X] Go to the markets
-[X] Replacement animals
-[X] Replacement animals
What animals are available? (Hamingja: 6x2, 5x3, 4x2, 3x6, 2x3, 1x1)14-4(Timing)=10 Successes
Hogne Scarherd frowns as you finish greeting each other. "I heard what happened to your farm, damn awful what those troll-men do," he spits to the side, the heavy scowl slipping into a slight grin, "but I heard you got your revenge on the bastards, so good for you!"
"Thanks, Hogne," you nod, your eyes looking over the slim pickings that are left from the haggling. It's... not great, to say the least.
"It's a shame you weren't here earlier a travelling merchant had brought these wonderful sheep in from Geatland, but Horra's boy, Hasvir, scooped them up quickly. Fierce bidding war, that was." Hogne smiles, fondly recalling the day's events. "Oh, by the way, Haydis and Frogtongue have been boarding with me while you get back on your feet and they say that they're ready to rejoin you once you've got a place for them to stay, if you'll have them, of course."
"I'll keep that in mind," you say as you count up the cost of everything you want to buy.
"Now then, shall we get down to business?" There's the gleam of haggle-love in Hogne's eye.
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AN: Sorry for small update, but there's not a whole lot to cover here regarding your shopping.
Does the stats of everything seem okay?
No moratorium.
Edit: I made a rather large error that needs to be corrected, so please hold off on voting until it's corrected, which it now is.
edit2: I've made a bit of a fix, still working out the kinks. I think that the pricing of everything might be too high, but we'll see,
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Huh. I was under the impression a hamingja roll of 10 was pretty solid, if not actually 'good'.
Alectai
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It's Decent, so we got Decent levels of stuff.
That's fine, we can build our way up in time.
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Can we add a Reward Die to upgrade that to Good? I honestly wasn't aware we'd be suffering a penalty for going later in the day or I would've done so.
Also, how does this actually work mechanically? Do we need 1 Work for each point to make things work or what? Like, would Decent Cattle take 12 Work while Basic ones cost 9 or what? Because that seems a tad odd.
Or is it a flat amount of Work per herd?
Also, how does this actually work mechanically? Do we need 1 Work for each point to make things work or what? Like, would Decent Cattle take 12 Work while Basic ones cost 9 or what? Because that seems a tad odd.
Or is it a flat amount of Work per herd?
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It seems pretty solid to me. Nothing outstanding but it will be a good start to rebuilding.
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Well, it says 'The maximum amount of Work Dice that you can assign per rating is determined by that rating's number.', so would Decent Cattle not be 2 work points, since Decent is equal to 2?