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then that's just another version of Sword Guard, which we are hopefully getting this turn.
NorseQuest (A Norse Xianxia)
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Alectai
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Nah, he can do Wondrous if he feels like it, It's T9 that requires a special investment above and beyond, which apparently means "You need to engrave it with Gold" or something. Presumably because Gold is very magically resonant in Cultivation Earth?
I imagine Dwarf Commerce also requires Gold as your currency, is that about right @Imperial Fister ? How's that kind of thing going to work anyway? Do we find out if we go visit Toki later?
Also, did we loot the silk? Silk is one of the very best fabrics when it comes to defensive strength (A good silk shirt had a decent chance of stopping a knife even in reality, let alone what magical silk in Cultivation Earth!), which means it's an excellent component for our future plate armor project.
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[X] Training Dice: The next time you encounter Hooknails, you will have to fight him. However, you'll gain an extra 12 training dice until that time comes.
[X] Feat: Forced an Ironbrother to Retreat. +5 Orthstirr a year
[X] Feat: Forced an Ironbrother to Retreat. +5 Orthstirr a year
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I think it's just, the Norse expect T9+ Items to be Blingy. A non-Bling item can't be T9+.
Of course there's also the Knightly Armor Nonsence. They're also very Blingy.
I might have missed it but has it been said if the training dice reward* will come into effect this turn/vote or not?
*Assumeing it wins.
*Assumeing it wins.
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but imagine how strong Abjorn would be in T8 mail
how much Iron do we need?
Alectai
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101 Forged Iron to make Abjorn's armor. A bit extra if we want to have some flex for later projects.
She's good, but she's not fantastic, it's just that she has literal rivers of Odr that she can spend freely which lets her perform feats way beyond her age and skill.
She's good, but she's not fantastic, it's just that she has literal rivers of Odr that she can spend freely which lets her perform feats way beyond her age and skill.
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Didn't we get 240 forged iron from looted dwarven armor did we use it already?
Alectai
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Wasn't that already added to our list?
Then again, I could be mistaken. I note we didn't get our warehouse share of the loot yet.
EDIT: Ah, we got the Glowstones, I think that was because we're hoping we can use it in our Estate to skip a level of quality?
Weren't we thinking of using it to upgrade something in our soulscape?
Alectai
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Yeah, we were going to use that for a free upgrade on something once we know what the remaining parts of Saga Establishment are for once we hit the point of diminishing returns I think.
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Uh...I'm only emptying one of three Fasts. That's all we need to practice with and fills only 9 Pockets with Frenzy rather than the usual 6. We could make another Fast, sure, but the pockets are sitting empty this turn anyway, so...
I don't think we should do the Hading Witch this winter. With how we've been told seidr duels go I'm very dubious of our ability to get enough defensive seidr going in time unless we burn way more dice than we likely should. But yeah, we'll get the spar with Gabriel doen by year's end.
I'd definitely do it as a Visit so we can see the situation and negotiate. That means waiting until Winter at the very least.
On smithing? Very high, probably second only to Sten. Our Born With A Hammer Trait is effectively +5 successes on smithing and that combined with our solid skill ratings and Forgefire makes us absurd. For other crafts? Middling, but pulled into the realm of 'good' by our superior tools. Our Housecraft is mediocre by the standards of Norsewomen, but that means we're two dice worse, so less than two successes worse, and our tools even now likely more than make up for it.
It was. We need Forged Iron for a lot of things other than Abjorn's armor, and we need 500 rather than 400 to make him good armor...more like 590 if we want to make him a good helmet as well. We will need to buy a lot of Forged Iron for what we want.
That was the general consensus, yeah. I remain dubious but it's worth a shot.
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The Asvir Blacksmith is probably also pretty good.
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I wonder if we can send that 150oz of gold right back for a pair of legitimate dwarven-made helmets.
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The problem is that the better the helmet, the worse they will be in sunlight. Dwarfmagic fails in sunlight.
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The Asvir Blacksmith is likely quite solid, yes. That said, the highest quality stuff they sell is Good. I'm...pretty sure we'd have to actively work at making our products worse to make anything that was merely Good (like, refuse to use our tools or workshop and roll really badly kind of work at it).
Like, we'd need to roll -5 Successes on 18 dice to make something that was less than Fine, and we average Grand Items. Now, my bet is that the blacksmith has a Trick for making multiple less impressive things with one crafting roll by dropping the quality, but the complete absence of Fine or higher items still inclines me to think we're a bit better in terms of quality (they'd have at least a few Fine or better things for sale if they were as good as us, I'd think).
I do bet they can churn out an order of magnitude more items than we can in the same amount of time, though.
Basically all the good Dwarf stuff degrades or doesn't work in sunlight. It's why they sell metal and not finished products. There are probably exceptions, but also we're really good at this and I don't think it'd be worth the price they'd charge for something so unique when we can make something really good ourselves.
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I had assumed their crafting skills were separate from their magic*, but this may not be the case.
* and thus they could make us a nonmagical helmet out of Really Good Metal and we would go on to carve runes into it.
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We've been specifically told that all dwarf-made gear has the sunlight problem. We could maybe commission something that didn't, but that'd be real pricey and since they wouldn't be using magic and we're really good, I suspect it wouldn't be that much better than what we can make on our own.