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NorseQuest: Collective Edition (Group-Based Xianxia Settlement-Builder)

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Clockmosis said:
Ingegärd is going to stay in her forest and avoid the problem due to being largely incapable of fighting outside of a forest
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For what it's worth this kind of strikes me as a "There's no point not helping because losing means that survival here is impossible because none of us can do it alone" situation.

Also, keep in mind that everyone regardless of what's on your sheet is a superhuman combatant and the most numerous of the opposition is basically "Normal dude, minus pain and disobedience". (Not a threat assessment)
 
I might not be available during the time frame tomorrow, but I give @Guest99 permission to give Eirny combat actions if needed. They know my current list of tricks I have written up for her to use.
 
I have some interesting information, I asked Bjorn Bjarneson for his battle plan on discord and here's what he said
Oh absolutely.

Now, granted, there wasn't really much of a *plan* so much as an *idea*.

See, the OG East Scouting Party had encountered one (1) skeleton before, and that one went down like a stalk of wheat before a scythe. Ragnarr One Punch Man'd that shit like there was a 5 for 1 sale on eggs at the local mart.

And *I* knew that Bone Kunna worked on these assholes, since I used that to snatch up our infiltrator in the first place, so my thinking was "200 of these fuckers? I could totally solo that! And if they had some crazy crap going on, I could charge in, do some damage, and then charge out and reassess".

And then when I showed up on my suped up Bone Raptor, I counted like 400 of the fucks, 12 of which were super sized, and thought "Ah, a moment of Blazing Glory!"

So I converted my Bone Raptor into a Bone T Rex and explicitly burned an Aspect to get a Super Rex, who has been named Sue, and dived on into the violence.

While I *had* an exit strategy or two in my brain, I forgot to like, actually say so?

So I ended up going out in Glory And Violence, as all good Norse aspire to.

Results:

100 dead skeletons, 3 dead goliaths, 1 pitch for a new Fylgja as I hadn't actually used my Spider yet in any capacity-

And *this* lovely bit right here:

```Distantly, you hear the faint shouting of a man with carefully laid-plans turned upside down by the arrival of something nobody ever expects: the gigantic, skeletal, Ultra T Rex.```

Oh, also, like I said, a Clue towards my personal quest
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Now, look at that last bit about how this guy was surprised by the result of this, when "A single guy is confidently walking straight at an army" should be the world's most obvious warning that the guy is a powerful cultivator.

This implies that whoever this is is so unfamiliar with high level cultivators that they don't recognize the obvious signs, and that weirdness is compounded by the fact that the Norse specialty isn't power.

It's numbers, numbers, the fact we don't need cultivation records and our immortality.

Which means something is really fucking weird, any group of cultivators in this environment would almost certainly put considerable effort into fighting, so why was this guy so shocked when he encountered a high level fighter?
 
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alexthealright said:
Which means something is really fucking weird, any group of cultivators in this environment would almost certainly put considerable effort into fighting, so why was this guy so shocked when he encountered a high level fighter?
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Personally, I think he's racist. Specifically, I think the local humans are not nearly as badass as the Norse in a fight and we look close enough to them that he made assumptions. Deeply bad assumptions.

There are definitely 'high level cultivator' types here...but they don't necessarily look human.

That'd track with the onigar we met, who was similarly surprised by the prowess of the Norse.
 
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DeadmanwalkingXI said:
Personally, I think he's racist. Specifically, I think the local humans are not nearly as badass as the Norse in a fight and we look close enough to them that he made assumptions. Deeply bad assumptions.

There are definitely 'high level cultivator' types here...but they don't necessarily look human.
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That raises the question "Why are the local humans so weak", once again, a cultivation system in this environment is going to end up being pretty combat focused unless something really weird happens.

So why don't the locals have any big guns?
 
alexthealright said:
That raises the question "Why are the local humans so weak", once again, a cultivation system in this environment is going to end up being pretty combat focused unless something really weird happens.

So why don't the locals have any big guns?
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could be that local cultivation leaves you looking distinctly non human. so anyone who looks like a base human must be weak by local standpoint
 
theknightofiron said:
@DeadmanwalkingXI i don't appear to have a position in the battleplan?

Anje shows up, small uprooted tree slung over one shoulder and quietly rumbles "Where do you want me"
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You do, you're in Group #4.

alexthealright said:
That raises the question "Why are the local humans so weak", once again, a cultivation system in this environment is going to end up being pretty combat focused unless something really weird happens.

So why don't the locals have any big guns?
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Maybe their cultivation is focused on, like, hunter-gathering, not fighting. Or maybe the powerful ones become, like, jaguar people (a common Mesoamerican trope) and thus only the weak ones look human.
 
DeadmanwalkingXI said:
You do, you're in Group #4.



Maybe their cultivation is focused on, like, hunter-gathering, not fighting. Or maybe the powerful ones become, like, jaguar people (a common Mesoamerican trope) and thus only the weak ones look human.
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They also sometimes become local landmarks on death

OneArmedYeti said:
Also, keep in mind that everyone regardless of what's on your sheet is a superhuman
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Completely forgot about norse being baseline suprehuman
 
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Shapeshifting And Combat PSA

For the record, in case anyone has forgotten, the Norse often have low level shapeshifting...most PCs can be assumed to have this. For a fight like this, focusing it at least partially on durability (ie: making yourself tougher) should be very helpful against all the little attacks from the normal skeletons. So...everyone should maybe consider doing that.
 
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