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NorseQuest (A Norse Xianxia)

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Do we have a Boulder Bomb available? I think a surprise yeetsplosion might be fun.
 
Maybe we could zoom right above it, drop Abjorn on it, and use our sun spell while it's away from any shadows
 
I think we split up and come at it from two directions, try and trap it between us, maybe? We could combine that with the sun sphere idea and try herding it like the aborted plan last time?
 
FYI I'm gonna be out of communication for around an hour. I'm happy to write the mechanical part of a plan (or provide feedback on other people's) once there's a consensus, but it's gonna be a minute.
 
Couldn't we just hold it in place with a sufficiently strong IAT, and then us and Abjorn just stab the fuck out of it?

@Imperial Fister, can we be assumed to have replaced our three-fold IAT in our fast in the intervening time here? It's part of our standard loadout and obviously useful here, and we've had an hour or so where we were hunting the deer and whatnot.
 
IF, important questions: Can the bear use its own shadow for submerging? And how much time do we have until sun down?

And yeah, the spirit of the wheel is interesting.... i guess all spirit of the wheel are guides/drivers, what with them taking you to what you seek?

For tactics.... both the drop and the pincer attack is good.... but i would like to drop at least 4 , preferably more, KS around the clearing, make it so there are less shadows...

Man, we really need to pick up something that explicitly starts fires.... preferably on most, if not everything.
 
DeadmanwalkingXI said:
FYI I'm gonna be out of communication for around an hour. I'm happy to write the mechanical part of a plan (or provide feedback on other people's) once there's a consensus, but it's gonna be a minute.
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That's no biggie. I, uh, I got distracted with a game so I'm probably not going to be doing a second update
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@Imperial Fister, can we be assumed to have replaced our three-fold IAT in our fast in the intervening time here? It's part of our standard loadout and obviously useful here, and we've had an hour or so where we were hunting the deer and whatnot.
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Sure!
TheCount said:
IF, important questions: Can the bear use its own shadow for submerging? And how much time do we have until sun down?
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You have about 6 hours till sundown. You got lucky on the hunting roll. You're not entirely sure, but you think that the shadow has to exist while it is inside it in order to work. If the bear's not there to block the light, then there's no shadow to sink into.
 
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We're not sure how it does it shadow porting, but I'm betting it requires it to be in contact with the shadows. If we drop Abjron directly on top of the bear I'm betting he'll be able to latch on and ride it anywhere it'll try to port to or pull it away.
 
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That's no biggie. I, uh, I got distracted with a game so I'm probably not going to be doing a second update
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Cool. I got back slightly early anyway.

Skippy said:
Couldn't we just hold it in place with a sufficiently strong IAT, and then us and Abjorn just stab the fuck out of it?
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It seems able to shadow-meld out of IAT...at least partially. We'd need to catch, like, it's head specifically in order to prevent that. We should definitely try, but we shouldn't put all our eggs in that particular basket.
 
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Bass11 said:
We're not sure how it does it shadow porting, but I'm betting it requires it to be in contact with the shadows. If we drop Abjron directly on top of the bear I'm betting he'll be able to latch on and ride it anywhere it'll try to port to or pull it away.
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Thats a good point, but lets keep in mind what happened with its arm, we do not need a literally disarmed abjorn because the bear gecided its worth losing some meat to the light if it gets away from the two norseman.

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DeadmanwalkingXI said:
It seems able to shadow-meld out of IAT...at least partially. We'd need to catch, like, it's head specifically in order to prevent that. We should definitely try, but we shouldn't put all our eggs in that particular basket.
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oh! what if we combine the pincer and aerial attacks? Abjorn occupies its attention while we go from above (making sure it can't see us in the water's reflection) and surprise it with the IAT?
 
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DeadmanwalkingXI said:
It seems able to shadow-meld out of IAT...at least partially. We'd need to catch, like, it's head specifically in order to prevent that. We should definitely try, but we shouldn't put all our eggs in that particular basket.
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Did it shadow-meld out of IAT? If we didn't cut off the shadows that lead it to getting portal cut I assume the bear would have been stuck for as long as IAT kept it there.
 
Bass11 said:
Did it shadow-meld out of IAT? If we didn't cut off the shadows that lead it to getting portal cut I assume the bear would have been stuck for as long as IAT kept it there.
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Maybe? My impression was that the light caused it to abort leaving part of it trapped, certainly, but it might well be able to do the same at will if willing to lose the parts of it that are trapped.
 
It didn't shadow meld out of the IAT, it got banished because the sun we spawned pushed the shadows back, which in turn pushed the bear- who happened to be bound to the shadows at the time - back too. The arm happened to get cut off because it was stuck in IAT, so it couldn't follow the bear.
 
Constenanto said:
It didn't shadow meld out of the IAT, it got banished because the sun we spawned pushed the shadows back, which in turn pushed the bear- who happened to be bound to the shadows at the time - back too. The arm happened to get cut off because it was stuck in IAT, so it couldn't follow the bear.
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I don't necessarily disagree, I just wouldn't assume it can't do the same thing at will (ie: shadowport away leaving only the parts of it caught in IAT behind).

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oh! what if we combine the pincer and aerial attacks? Abjorn occupies its attention while we go from above (making sure it can't see us in the water's reflection) and surprise it with the IAT?
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I think we'd need to dismiss our ball of sunshine for that to work...maybe? That'd make it less likely to run, but eliminate one of our options for preventing it from doing so.
 
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DeadmanwalkingXI said:
It seems able to shadow-meld out of IAT...at least partially. We'd need to catch, like, it's head specifically in order to prevent that. We should definitely try, but we shouldn't put all our eggs in that particular basket.
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Reading back to the update where the bear lost its arm, it appears like our IAT wrapped around its arm... which was the one it left behind to flee. So whatever shadow-melding it can do, our Standstill appears to be able to hold onto it.

That means that an IAT to the head or torso would instantly be fight-ending, and honestly, getting another of its limbs would effectively be fight-ending as well, because with two limbs lost, it isn't going to be able to run away or honestly fight for that matter either.
 
Skippy said:
Reading back to the update where the bear lost its arm, it appears like our IAT wrapped around its arm... which was the one it left behind to flee. So whatever shadow-melding it can do, our Standstill appears to be able to hold onto it.

That means that an IAT to the head or torso would instantly be fight-ending, and honestly, getting another of its limbs would effectively be fight-ending as well, because with two limbs lost, it isn't going to be able to run away or honestly fight for that matter either.
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Hmmm. Fair point with it losing another limb probably making it unable to flee effectively...maybe just shock and awe it with a very high dice immediate Standstill and then help Abjorn finish it off once it's trapped, then?
 
DeadmanwalkingXI said:
Hmmm. Fair point with it losing another limb probably making it unable to flee effectively...maybe just shock and awe it with a very high dice immediate Standstill and then help Abjorn finish it off once it's trapped, then?
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I think we do a high-dice immediate Standstill, and then our trump card for if the bear manages to escape/pulls some kind of unexpected shenanigans is that we use Contested Movement with our two remaining charges of Fight of Your Life to immediately drop a second IAT (the one stored in our Fast) on it. We still have our Sword Guard active, so I think we can probably just focus on making some strong attacks.

If you're about to have limited availability/communications, I can write up a plan to that effect in a bit.
 
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