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NorseQuest (A Norse Xianxia)

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DeadmanwalkingXI said:
It's late where I am and I'm not following. Could you expand on that?
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A gate is a subset of doors. I am drawing a similarity between the gate to our soul and the cultivation site.
Our gate was originally locked, and we unlocked it with our aspects.

In theory, our farm should either be something like a blocked door, a wall, or something along those lines. Investigating this should in theory provide us the ability to create and improve cultivation sites.
 
Shard said:
In theory, our farm should either be something like a blocked door, a wall, or something along those lines. Investigating this should in theory provide us the ability to create and improve cultivation sites.
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Ah! Yeah, okay, we could try and investigate our physical farm for what kind of things might be causing a spiritual blockage. That seems reasonable as a research topic...
 
Shard said:
I think this technique is tied to our heart somehow?
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Your heart, when using this technique, sounds like an engine revving by the way. I just think it's a cool way to describe it

Definitely has no other potential meanings, no sirree

They say, lying through their teeth.
DeadmanwalkingXI said:
I mean, that's fair. I, uh, may have a tendency to get a trifle obsessive about things sometimes.
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Hey, I'm certainly not complaining! It's great that people enjoy my work enough to dwarf me in comments, lmao.
 
Imperial Fister said:
Your heart, when using this technique, sounds like an engine revving by the way. I just think it's a cool way to describe it

Definitely has no other potential meanings, no sirree

They say, lying through their teeth.
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Does our Aspect manifest visibly, or is it spent invisibly?

This reminds me of Sten. The way his heart was thumping like a hammer and anvil.
 
Man, I kinda want to try to win a fight with just IAT + Flame Tending Blade. Of course, any competent opposition can just stoke an aspect to get out, but most norsemen only have 3 of those, and a Three Strike and you're out policy seems like a nice and weird angle of attack.
 
Imperial Fister said:
Also, I've left a few hints here and there towards other uses of your Aspects rather then just refilling orthstirr. A hint towards a location; Hooknails.
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Hmmm. Rereading the fight, it's hard to say what's a Trick and what's maybe a non-standard Aspect usage. Someone with better insight might be needed to pluck the clues out.

wrecksalot said:
Man, I kinda want to try to win a fight with just IAT + Flame Tending Blade. Of course, any competent opposition can just stoke an aspect to get out, but most norsemen only have 3 of those, and a Three Strike and you're out policy seems like a nice and weird angle of attack.
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Sadly, we need a hand free to throw IAT, so we'd need them to stay stuck in a single IAT for that to work and I dunno how feasible that is. We can go full defense, of course, which is valid in some situations.
 
DeadmanwalkingXI said:
Hmmm. Rereading the fight, it's hard to say what's a Trick and what's maybe a non-standard Aspect usage. Someone with better insight might be needed to pluck the clues out.
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Imperial Fister said:
Less what he's doing
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And more what he's saying:
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Hooknails pauses as the candleflames flicker on in unison. His eyes narrow as his lips thin, a hint of worry playing across his angular face. "A crown of iron spikes..."

"Yeah! What of it?" You call across the warehouse floor, the flow of blood slowing as the influx of orthstirr mends the opened arteries both outside and inside your body.

He holds up two fingers. His bronze fishhooks gleam in the light of your might. "I have met only two men with hair of red, eyes of steel, and crowns of iron spikes and I've sworn myself to one of them. So tell me," a finger falls, leaving his forefinger pointing straight at you, "Halla Skyfire, who is the man you call your father?"

'What is he playing at...?'

"My father is Steinarr Hallsson." Your voice rumbles with pride, as if daring him to challenge your heritage.

He frowns as if dejected. "Damn, and I'd hoped I'd stumbled across my King's long lost offspring. That would've helped my standing within the hird considerably!" He shrugs a sigh, "Oh well, you can't win 'em all."
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DeadmanwalkingXI said:
Sadly, we need a hand free to throw IAT, so we'd need them to stay stuck in a single IAT for that to work and I dunno how feasible that is. We can go full defense, of course, which is valid in some situations.
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Hmm, yeah, we probably need to get good at Atgeirs first so we can use Sagaseeker in our teeth or something first, But we should probably try to get good at Atgeirs anyway, since we actually use Atgeirs.
 
Imperial Fister said:
"They call me Hooknails, a man of the Heljarskinn's hird."
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We are working from a mish-mash of teachers and an amnesiac ghost. It's possible that the place where Hooknails is from simply has a more complete body of knowledge regarding Norse cultivation. The Seeress is probably a premium resources, but who knows what compendiums of melee Tricks are out there.
 
Imperial Fister said:
Less what he's doing
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That's good info to have, but I wasn't entirely clear on the distinction in what Halla's doing either. Modifying a Trick on the fly, maybe? I dunno.

Shard said:
And more what he's saying:
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That's just Aspects having similarities based on bloodlines and other stuff, I think. Which isn't new information, I don't think. If it's something new it must be something Halla did, or at least that seems right, maybe? I am admittedly uncertain here.

wrecksalot said:
Hmm, yeah, we probably need to get good at Atgeirs first so we can use Sagaseeker in our teeth or something first, But we should probably try to get good at Atgeirs anyway, since we actually use Atgeirs.
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As I understand it, Weapon Hugareida don't let you wield weapons in your teeth, they do what Hooknails Spear Hugareida did and give you conjured floating weapons, or the effects of conjured floating weapons. Which means whether you actually have a physical copy of the weapon is a lot less relevant than it might be.

We definitely do want to get better at atgeirs and at the Atgeir Hugareida, mind you, I'm just noting what that will and won't do, from what we understand.

Shard said:
We could try experimenting to see if we can cast IAT (and other tricks) through Sagaseeker.
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We can try, but in the context of Flame-Tending Blade it doesn't help much, since we couldn't be holding Sagaseeker while doing that either.

Silverking said:
We are working from a mish-mash of teachers and an amnesiac ghost. It's possible that the place where Hooknails is from simply has a more complete body of knowledge regarding Norse cultivation. The Seeress is probably a premium resources, but who knows what compendiums of melee Tricks are out there.
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Definitely. I still think him recognizing stuff with no visible effects on sight is magical, but his baseline Knowledge of Stuff is also clearly much more encyclopedic than our own.
 
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I guess being able to use large an overflow of Orthstirr to speed up natural healing makes sense given how resilient Norsemen have been shown to be.
 
DeadmanwalkingXI said:
I mean, we have Sword Guard for that. It defends against each individually until it's beaten. We can probably get an Atgeir Guard and thus have two such defenses on us as well. If all that gets penetrated that's what Sway and Hefty-Halter Chop are for (probably mostly Sway).
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To be clear, I was thinking of a 'burst' version of Mire-Ward. A way to no-sell a ranged attack, or multiple (folded) ranged attacks at a high Orthsirr cost in a way that isn't a perfect defence. We wouldn't have needed to go turbo Orthsirr spam for our defensive actions if we could 'simply' blast uni/multidirectional Standstills that intercepted a bunch of attacks without needing a roll.
 
Shard said:
To be clear, I was thinking of a 'burst' version of Mire-Ward. A way to no-sell a ranged attack, or multiple (folded) ranged attacks at a high Orthsirr cost in a way that isn't a perfect defence. We wouldn't have needed to go turbo Orthsirr spam for our defensive actions if we could 'simply' blast uni/multidirectional Standstills that intercepted a bunch of attacks without needing a roll.
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Anything that doesn't need a roll is a Perfect Defense. That is how they are defined. Puncture goes through any such effect. If someone is using Puncture, either you beat their roll (or force another type of roll like Contested Movement does) or you get hit.

Bass11 said:
Have we poured an entire aspect into a trick before?
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I don't think so. We've tried using Orthstirr from exclusively one Aspect and we've used them on skills, but not full Aspects all shoved into a single Trick I don't think.
 
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