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
Hm, so there is something there, but not by simply guiding the Orth to form the trick remotely.
Not relevant to our usecases, but good to know.
Also: Cool.
@Imperial Fister
If we plug a feather from our owl fylgja, would that be usable?
Also, we should look into meat-keeping stick equivalents as containers. (Like a preserving jar)
And then start collecting the eyes if/when we slaughter chicken (easy to swallow, with half the shapeshifting slots into eyesight and the other half into dexterity the piercing a hair through it shouldn't be hard)
Awww, Kolla is cute.
She was Akis age, right?
You tease.
- Location
- Hell
Have we tried increasing its size? Either for better accuracy or to lock more than one thing in place?
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The real reason the debt disappeared.
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I really think people are assuming too much by thinking Hirkir is in the same room as her and missing things due to a perception block. She's probably in a hidden sanctum he doesn't even know about...he's just using the house.
And I wouldn't necessarily assume the Enemy killed her either. It may well just have taken advantage of her death in a more opportunistic way. Alternatively, the Enemy may have killed her as part of the same sequence of events as attacking us, but not claimed the debt...it just went away because she died.
It's not a Trick at all, exactly. It is listed, under Hamr, as a Mastery, and does not take up Capacity, I don't believe. What that means is very unclear. Also, very interesting.
It's size increases naturally with level. We can hit multiple people (probably four or so) with something like IAT at this point if they were right next to each other. Doesn't help accuracy per se.
Thanks!
Honestly I can't take much credit here. It felt to me for a while like we needed to come up with our cool super-attack, because unleashing your Perfected Sword Soul or whatever is a big part of shounen stories. The result is way cooler than what I imagined, and it feels like we stumbled onto something which was planned for a while -it feels like we've seen distinct references to similar techniques being used within the Hading and causing geographical changes?
Obviously I'm just guessing here... but I think the key thing might have been than the write-in specifically zoomed in on "charging up" as the trade-off? Which kind of led Halla down the path of experimenting with taking a spark of intent and almost fanning it like an ember...
Flame-Tending also has the connotation of like, taking a little ember you've carried, building a fire, and then fanning it into a roaring blaze.
But yeah, it seems like this is maybe the very rough equivalent of IDK, Sword Intent in other cultivator stories/settings?
- Location
- Mid-Atlantic
Being in the middle of casting a spell might make it easier to kill her, not less...
Alectai
Speaks Words of Wisdom... On occasion
Yeah, but that's what her defenses are supposed to stop. Something just crushed through them and killed her so fast that she didn't have a chance to pivot.
- Location
- Mid-Atlantic
Hm.
Speculatively, her defenses might have had a gap she didn't know about or realize the significance of?
Been a while since this, but I think it works fine as long as they have distinct roles.
Like, historically you have your main weapon, your general purpose sidearm(often swords) in case your main breaks(happens a lot more than in fiction) or is being hard countered, and finally something you can throw or use if it comes down to grappling.
So like, polearm main, sword sidearm, and a couple of knives(for eating and for last ditch shanking or even throwing) or hatchets(works just fine on firewood, clearing brush, and limbs) isn't that outlandish.
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Hirkir may not be very happy to see Hasvir. As far as we know Hirkir was loyal to his father, and while Hasvir didn't actually commit kinslaying he certainly danced right up to the edge.
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One and Many
- Location
- Malaysia
Kurt Frogtongue doesn't have a Frog Fylgja, does he?
It would be real embarrassing if we accidentally'ed one of our employees because we didn't know they had a Fylgja.
That option could probably be usefull with that pawprint we found.
Finding someone based on a spiritual link, like finding the original owner of an axe (link between owner +axe) whose thief you killed, or someone you are fated to fight, could have a spell under "something all-together different" (or just "half-faded memory", but that sounds like a pain to work with).
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Hasvir and Hirkir seemed close from what Hasvir said and Horra also tried to straight-up murder Hirkir along with everyone else at the end there. It also sounded like Hasvir had all his siblings on-side for what he was doing, and Hirkir appears to be a cautious man...I doubt it'll descend into violence. Harsh words, maybe, but not violence.
Meanwhile, the last time we met Hirkir was on opposite sides of a battle. I suspect if we went to meet him alone, violence might actually ensue as he assumed the worst. Which is the opposite of what we want.
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Or something was already inside them.
Echoing these questions, you took the words right out of my mouth. It may also be that greater understanding lets us charge it internally once we've developed sufficient focus, but who knows. As a core mechanic of how the ability works, it feels like we should get to learn this for free.
The other thing I'd wonder about is whether we can currently train/infuse our "???" Mastery, which is currently at Rank 0, or need to learn more before we can do so? Can a Reward Dice help us gain more knowledge about "???", or does it require hands-on experience?
Getting Flame Tending Blade to Refined feels like a priority, as well as doing more exploratory work to learn about this potent new tool in our arsenal.
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I think we should figure out what they do first. They might be completely opposed to what we want Sagaseeker for, in theory anyway.
Lesse, what do we have for research topics:
1. Our unresearched items (the fish, the teeth, the magic pencil, and the dwarven hammer and chisel).
2. Trying to use Recall like a bow to toss Tricks
3. Using different materials to channel Recall and Seidr
4. What the hell is going on with Flame Tending Blade?
Anyone have anything else that leaps to mind?
- Location
- some computer lab
Brewery Pocket?
As a random guess, I think the teeth might be greek in origin, and sowing them will give us Spartoi
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Right! We definitely need to do that...the investment of 10 Orthstirr is doable now, but we also just found an additional use for Fasts and thus Pockets. Still, probably best to give it a shot soon.
Alectai
Speaks Words of Wisdom... On occasion
Might be worth it to push for the next Hamr Infusion and have that shapeshift slot exclusively to carry a super move in it.
On the other hand, if possible, I want to start revisiting our Produce again and see what happens. Now that we're making 20 Odr a turn, a potential 36 Odr investment isn't unthinkable anymore.
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