Anecdotally…
Yes.
Nowadays, I try and stick to relatively simple votes for that very reason.
NorseQuest (A Norse Xianxia)
- Thread starter I.F. Ister
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- Original Fantasy Action
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- norse 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 no seriously you will die norsemen do not die when they are killed the qm has a bad memory the qm is bad at math try not to die viking courtroom drama (legal drama) vikings you will die
Anecdotally…
Yes.
Nowadays, I try and stick to relatively simple votes for that very reason.
WhoTheHeckity
But no one ever asks HowTheHeckity
- Location
- Murica 🦅
[X] Use Abjorn's eye (???)
Cannibalism is neat
Cannibalism is neat
I don't generally vote here because I do not understand how the mechanics work, so I leave the plans to people who do.
I came out to vote because 1) the options were easy, 2) the situation was interesting but ultimately low-stakes, and 3) I get invested whenever there's an opportunity to encourage Halla to be extra bloodthirsty (or generally play into her traits in a suboptimal way).
- Location
- San Ramon, CA
[X] Hunt for some forest creature (Wildcraft check, the better the roll the faster you find a suitable creature)
-[X] Use 4 Odr
-[X] Use 4 Odr
Well, that's a nice surprise.
[X] Call it a wrap and go home (Ends Encounter)
Say, IF, how fast can we go to the cave our fyjgla heard snorting from?
- Location
- USA
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- He/They
[X] Hunt for some forest creature (Wildcraft check, the better the roll the faster you find a suitable creature)
-[X] Use 4 Odr
-[X] Use 4 Odr
I love this turn of phrase.
And this answers my previous question about eating (/drinking) the heart(blood) of a strong Norseman, be it consensual or not, just like any other strong creature's... Mostly.
Good to have that out of the way in a safe setting and well before the war arc.
Abby Normal
High Clerk of the Ymaryn
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Finally caught up... stayed up half an hour longer than i planned in part to finish said catching up 
I'll have general feedback and thoughts and whatnot tomorrow, but some thoughts that i put in my drafts while catching up:
Do we get Orthstirr from our farm in the new system?
Is there a reason we haven't started building the house/building part of our soulscape? (or is that not part of building out realm 1 anymore? i remember there being some back and forth on what exactly the 4 requirements for)
Have we tried alloying sword and aetgir? or one of those and gust?
Iirc, way back when blackhand first woke up, and we talked about the witch, blackhand said to just go kill her, so why is it now potentially nid or odreng for someone-possibly-halfdan to have done so?
(also just in general i think abjorn could use more fighting-screen time...something about one of his recent scenes had me wondering if he had...not nidheart, but whatever the term for a cultivation snarl leading up to a potential heart demon would be called in this system
I'll have general feedback and thoughts and whatnot tomorrow, but some thoughts that i put in my drafts while catching up:Do we get Orthstirr from our farm in the new system?
Is there a reason we haven't started building the house/building part of our soulscape? (or is that not part of building out realm 1 anymore? i remember there being some back and forth on what exactly the 4 requirements for)
Have we tried alloying sword and aetgir? or one of those and gust?
Iirc, way back when blackhand first woke up, and we talked about the witch, blackhand said to just go kill her, so why is it now potentially nid or odreng for someone-possibly-halfdan to have done so?
Hopefully someone mentions this idea before i catch up but: is the water literal (the 'sparkfugue' as others have proposed, with halla forgetting to drink or eat for Days), or is this saying that there will be an odr "upkeep" for some things? (since it comes from a well, like water?)
This sounds like a hint to spar with him
(also just in general i think abjorn could use more fighting-screen time...something about one of his recent scenes had me wondering if he had...not nidheart, but whatever the term for a cultivation snarl leading up to a potential heart demon would be called in this system 
I.F. Ister
Fortifying The Thread
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That's the thing, though. I'm not 100% sure how it would be considered historically, in these specific circumstances. Honestly, it's probably not nid as it would be used as part of a ritual to increase the power of the ritual which was sort of okay?
I'm gonna change my mind and say it's not nid, in these specific circumstances
AeonIlluminate
The power of friendship and aggressive landscaping
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[X] Hunt for some forest creature (Wildcraft check, the better the roll the faster you find a suitable creature)
-[X] Use 4 Odr
[X] Use Abjorn's eye (???)
-[X] Use 4 Odr
[X] Use Abjorn's eye (???)
ThatGazzer
Minds Eye Bind
- Location
- PNW
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[X] Hunt for some forest creature (Wildcraft check, the better the roll the faster you find a suitable creature)
-[X] Use 4 Odr
[X] Use Abjorn's eye (???)
Honestly I'm good with either
-[X] Use 4 Odr
[X] Use Abjorn's eye (???)
Honestly I'm good with either
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Finally caught up... stayed up half an hour longer than i planned in part to finish said catching up
Do we get Orthstirr from our farm in the new system?
Presumably, but it's unclear how much.
We still don't have the Tricks for that completed. We could theoretically rush them, but with an upcoming pregnancy we should have time to do that anyway and it saves some training dice to complete them the 'slow and steady' way
We have not. Not yet anyway.
Blackhand recommending something is not always an endorsement of that thing.
I think it's the former but the latter is not impossible and has been mentioned.
This sounds like a hint to spar with him
We owe Gabriel a spar next turn, but sparring with Abjorn is probably on the agenda the turn after.
I.F. Ister
Fortifying The Thread
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Quality of everything either added together or averaged, I'm undecided
Not necessarily upcoming. I've decided to let you folks decide, whenever the seasons change, if you'd like to 'try for baby' over the course of that season. This is to give you a measure of agency in pregnancy.
[X] Hunt for some forest creature (Wildcraft check, the better the roll the faster you find a suitable creature)
-[X] Use 4 Odr
-[X] Use 4 Odr
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Well, our last farm was 7 Orthstirr per year, and I think this one is better than that one even taking different systems into account (mostly in terms of building quality), so probably not just the three averaged. If all three added together is too hight maybe (Building Quality + Resources Quality)/2 + Livestock Quality? Livestock seem like the high prestige part of a farm to me and this'd get us 11 Orthstirr per year which sounds right-ish, maybe?
Yeah, I figured, but I think we still want to try in the coming year for a variety of reasons. I probably should've made that clearer.
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Shard
One and Many
- Location
- Malaysia
Hmm..
It's harder to get higher ratings in any given stat, by design, so higher stats should be more impactful.
Better question: How much Orthsirr should a regular Norse Farm have? We can extrapolate from there.
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Hey Halla,
Did you detect anything analogous to Orthsirr in the Shadowbear, Dwarves, or Svartalfar?
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As mentioned, our last one gave 7/year. Wavedancer gives 10/year. I think our current farm should probably be more than either of those, but I'm not sure how much more. 17/year (just adding all the Quality numbers together) might be fine?
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Would fine smithcraft/silversmithing be a source of Orthstirr if we started selling it? Assuming it's good enough quality that people start recognising our work on the people out and about with it.