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Please also loot some large rocks. We need rocks, guys.
NorseQuest: Collective Edition (Group-Based Xianxia Settlement-Builder)
- Thread starter I.F. Ister
- Start date
- Original
Please also loot some large rocks. We need rocks, guys.
- Location
- The United States
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Shapecrafter upgrades and new oni related products from him are great and all, but I think pound for pound the metal and stone is a higher priority.
Not like it's my call though, I decided to farm instead of go.
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- She/Her
@I.F. Ister how much PT are we allowed to sponsor to others via methods like the training above?
Zedalb
I just started a Patreon!
- Location
- Washington
Hulfr Hardwood calls for Aid (Because he has too many things to do)
PLANNING FOR NEXT SEASON
Erik Hardhead @Simon_Jester
"A man called hardwood asking for a man called Hardhead's aid. There is a joke there someone more clever than I would be able to figure out.
I would ask you Aid, next season, our warriors though brave are repeatedly going into battle under equipped. With my Kunna growing, and our skills in wood craft developing we can make them some equipment and I plan to dedicate the entire next season to it. I would request all the aid you are able, and will happily compensate you with a generous amount of equipment based on the time you are willing to put in."
OOC: If you spend a major with me next season I will load you up with fucking gear. For a minor I'll at least make sure you get a breast plate, shield and spear/spear haft depending on your preference.
Njal Ulfson @mythfan12
"I would see your wisdom to grow the strength of our village. I am dedicating my next season to providing for our people all the wooden equipment that I can. I would ask that you help some of those who would aid me by marking the best trees and growing them as large as you can. I can detect the quality of wood and grow a tree, I suspect you can do the same quite a bit easier and it would free me up to continue to work if you could guide others instead of me having to do so."
OOC: Please throw me at least a minor, next season I know you aren't really a warrior so I can make a plow or a tool or two for you if you are willing.
NORSE WARRIORS
"You have honored me with your words, yet I have seen my shields return broken. In some way I have failed you, but I will do so no more. I will earn the name Hardwood. I would ask though you aid. I need trees chopped and formed into usable lumber. I need planks made, tools sharpened, and materials organized. Every minor thing that can be handled by the village allows me more time to work my craft with my wood golems and produce for you as much arms and armor as possible. Even delivering meals would mean many more hours I can spend with tools in my hands. I ask you of this so that I may make equipment worthy of you."
OOC: I'm asking for minor actions NEXT SEASON supporting me so I can focus more on crafting. Those who aid me have priority for gear. I will be taking NO minor actions and will be taking a skill "Tireless" so I can work more, I want to produce a shit ton of gear and really up our fighting power. Please aid me in aiding you.
PLANNING FOR NEXT SEASON
Erik Hardhead @Simon_Jester
"A man called hardwood asking for a man called Hardhead's aid. There is a joke there someone more clever than I would be able to figure out.
I would ask you Aid, next season, our warriors though brave are repeatedly going into battle under equipped. With my Kunna growing, and our skills in wood craft developing we can make them some equipment and I plan to dedicate the entire next season to it. I would request all the aid you are able, and will happily compensate you with a generous amount of equipment based on the time you are willing to put in."
OOC: If you spend a major with me next season I will load you up with fucking gear. For a minor I'll at least make sure you get a breast plate, shield and spear/spear haft depending on your preference.
Njal Ulfson @mythfan12
"I would see your wisdom to grow the strength of our village. I am dedicating my next season to providing for our people all the wooden equipment that I can. I would ask that you help some of those who would aid me by marking the best trees and growing them as large as you can. I can detect the quality of wood and grow a tree, I suspect you can do the same quite a bit easier and it would free me up to continue to work if you could guide others instead of me having to do so."
OOC: Please throw me at least a minor, next season I know you aren't really a warrior so I can make a plow or a tool or two for you if you are willing.
NORSE WARRIORS
"You have honored me with your words, yet I have seen my shields return broken. In some way I have failed you, but I will do so no more. I will earn the name Hardwood. I would ask though you aid. I need trees chopped and formed into usable lumber. I need planks made, tools sharpened, and materials organized. Every minor thing that can be handled by the village allows me more time to work my craft with my wood golems and produce for you as much arms and armor as possible. Even delivering meals would mean many more hours I can spend with tools in my hands. I ask you of this so that I may make equipment worthy of you."
OOC: I'm asking for minor actions NEXT SEASON supporting me so I can focus more on crafting. Those who aid me have priority for gear. I will be taking NO minor actions and will be taking a skill "Tireless" so I can work more, I want to produce a shit ton of gear and really up our fighting power. Please aid me in aiding you.
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- Location
- Many Places
Do you want these actions done this turn or the next?
Zedalb
I just started a Patreon!
- Location
- Washington
NEXT I added in some notes to make that clear.
Shard
One and Many
- Location
- Malaysia
Tentatively, sure.
..Though, what if it's a renewable, unmovable, or unsplittable resource? In that case would you accept a somewhat ambiguous 'Moli will get you something later/do a favor for you'?
- Location
- Hell
Is Akali part of a clan? I do not mind taking care of them the rest of this season if not.
Aabcehmu
Confusion as a Natural State of Being
- Location
- Chicago, IL
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- Any/All
Sure, though I think he'd prefer just an increased share of the rest? But a favor for each/bigger favor for more things works. I'll add it to my action-plan now.
- Location
- New Jersey
Would be much appreciated especially since Bo saved his life the first time lol so they can laugh and tease him about it
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Would be much appreciated especially since Bjorn saved his life the first time lol so they can laugh and tease him about it
You've got the name wrong, though it was Agnes son who saved you.
- Location
- New Jersey
It's the Bs that keep getting me I did it with the Bjorns too.
Shard
One and Many
- Location
- Malaysia
"Cousin-kin mine, surely this is a path rather best not tested?"
- Location
- Mid-Atlantic
I could be wrong, but there may have been some confusion about who is the challenger/challenged party.
As I understand it, holmgang disputes over loot start because one party is willing to say shit that can't be taken back. One party or the other has to be the one provoking the challenge. If neither party is willing to provoke a deathmatch, then they'd presumably just take the matter to arbitration.
I mean, the thing about you being a carpenter yourself is that you're just as good at this stuff as my guy if not marginally better, so there's no comparative advantage. Either of us can knock out a building in a minor action and it'll be a better than average building. If we had a huge wood-related project like "maintain the ships" having both of us collaborate in an attempt to keep them from deteriorating might make sense. How does that sound?
Also, gradually becoming the shipwright would be a plausible path to respect and status for your guy, and your guy and mine are probably the two closest to eventually evolving into that role.
This might be a tough sell, culturally speaking. Part of the point of having dueling customs is to make it kind of suicidal to provoke someone much stronger than you, and conversely that your reputation/orthstirr/badassery is in effect a very real sort of "deflector shield" against other people's verbally abusive tendencies.
The usual dynamic of a Holmgang, as I understand it, is something like "Alice talks shit, Betty has to challenge Alice or get Nid, Betty challenges Alice to a duel, now Alice has to accept or be outed as a shit-talking coward." In this situation, Alice, the challenged party, has about 90% or more of the actual agency in deciding whether or not there's going to be a duel, because nobody in our situation is going to lightly or willingly eat Nid.
To my way of thinking, the point here isn't to maximize for the number of duels between equals (which are potentially the ones most likely to end in death). The point is to minimize the number of people willing to provoke a Holmgang in the first place. The ideal duel isn't one where Alice brings in Carla to fight on her behalf, it's one where Alice is deterred from talking shit in the first place.
Are we talking the "only mostly dead, get 'em to Miracle Max" kind of dead, or the "all dead" kind of dead here?
You make that kind of kit out of wood, right?
Erik usually makes his own wooden shields and is pretty confident of them, even if he doesn't have that circle-grain-rim trick. Spearhafts are easy and not even worth worrying about. Erik honestly isn't sure whether a wooden breastplate is a good idea for armor. (He's not insulting about it or anything, it'd probably just turn into a technical disagreement between experts about whether it's more trouble than it's worth).
Erik agrees that making a big pile of shields is a good idea, but I think I've either already committed my major action for next season, or should probably spend it on Erik's own farm. He'd be happy to do a Minor to chip in and make some extra shields... though OOC I might simply forget, it gets to be a lot to remember. Can we sort of have a no-offense friendly understanding on that subject?
Personally I'd suggest the two of us looking over the ships and trying to make sure they're in the best shape we can manage. That is something where you really would want a couple of paranormally good carpenters, what with us having no shipwright.
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- Location
- Mid-Atlantic
[X] Erik Hardhead Summer 2 Actions (Modified by Skeleton War)
-[X] Major action: Carve memorial runestone for Torgarr Village-Feeder (Galti Sea-Rider can wait a bit)
-[X] Minor actions:
--[X] Erik and his family sow grain in various patches scattered across his land that were cleared over the summer and winter, hoping for a decent harvest but mostly trying to get a sense for where it will grow well NEXT year. Would do the same with flax, but instead...
--[X] Cultivate golden grass in a sizeable fenced enclosure near the house. (Micro-omake here).
--[X] Erik makes a few home improvements around the house- proper sleeping cabinets, for starters.
--[X] Make sure to keep an eye out around the settlement for threats near the main camp, especially at times when relatively many of the other warriors are away on hunts and raids.
--[X] Erik is going to have to lay his hands on some good stone for the runestone. After negotiation with Steinarr Stone-Licker, who had previously purchased the only suitable stone in town from Ivor Name-Giver, Erik agreed to help Steinarr build a 'building about stones' or something weird like that.
--[X] Make some spare shields to replace some of the ones smashed up in the skeleton fight.
I am also about to roll a d8 for reasons that need not concern anyone.
-[X] Major action: Carve memorial runestone for Torgarr Village-Feeder (Galti Sea-Rider can wait a bit)
-[X] Minor actions:
--[X] Erik and his family sow grain in various patches scattered across his land that were cleared over the summer and winter, hoping for a decent harvest but mostly trying to get a sense for where it will grow well NEXT year. Would do the same with flax, but instead...
--[X] Cultivate golden grass in a sizeable fenced enclosure near the house. (Micro-omake here).
--[X] Erik makes a few home improvements around the house- proper sleeping cabinets, for starters.
--[X] Make sure to keep an eye out around the settlement for threats near the main camp, especially at times when relatively many of the other warriors are away on hunts and raids.
--[X] Erik is going to have to lay his hands on some good stone for the runestone. After negotiation with Steinarr Stone-Licker, who had previously purchased the only suitable stone in town from Ivor Name-Giver, Erik agreed to help Steinarr build a 'building about stones' or something weird like that.
--[X] Make some spare shields to replace some of the ones smashed up in the skeleton fight.
I am also about to roll a d8 for reasons that need not concern anyone.
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Bonemeal is not available yet for projects. It will become so next season. The IC justification is that we did our planting before the skeletons, the OOC one is everyone redoing their actions to add it would've been a logistical nightmare.
- Location
- Mid-Atlantic
References to bonemeal deleted.
Zedalb
I just started a Patreon!
- Location
- Washington
I will minor action the ships in future turns but have no intention of becoming a ship write.(not next turn though gotta big plan)
As for contributing a minor action sure that would help. I wanted major cause I'm hoping to make like 20 or 30 full sets to equip most of us (A pipe dream but I'll do all I can with every trick I got).
Gm confirmed my wood will be good enough to use as armor.
But yeah, for a minor action I can throw you some gear, I'll give you a friendly reminder next turn if needed.
- Location
- Mid-Atlantic
When it comes to wooden gear, Erik's more likely to make his own and try to use runes to close any gap that comes from him not having a Wood kunna on top of his Carpentry the way your guy has one on top of his 'Wood Working.'
I don't think Erik would be actively insulted to the point of picking a fight at being gifted the gear, but it would feel kind of like an "oh, so you think I'm not good enough to do this myself?" thing. Like offering to give an interior decorator free interior decoration consulting.
This is especially true since I'm sitting on a big pile of orthstirr and am planning to buy up Carpentry 2 next turn, at which point his paranormal woodworking vibes are going to be all the stronger, even if not necessarily at your exact level since you can level your own stuff up too.
I don't think Erik would be actively insulted to the point of picking a fight at being gifted the gear, but it would feel kind of like an "oh, so you think I'm not good enough to do this myself?" thing. Like offering to give an interior decorator free interior decoration consulting.
This is especially true since I'm sitting on a big pile of orthstirr and am planning to buy up Carpentry 2 next turn, at which point his paranormal woodworking vibes are going to be all the stronger, even if not necessarily at your exact level since you can level your own stuff up too.
Zedalb
I just started a Patreon!
- Location
- Washington
I'm working on doing selective breeding on tree's to get higher tier, lumber I could gift some of that in exchange for the help.
- Location
- Mid-Atlantic
Well, that sounds like a promising long-term project!
More generally, I think there's a risk here of trying to solve every problem with the same tool. When your guy is basically monofocused on carpentry, he's not necessarily going to have a lot to 'buy' the help of other carpenters with. Comparative advantage. Now, if it's a project that's clearly whole-community focused, a guy may chip in anyway, but that only gets you so far (especially since Erik's gone to considerable trouble this season to pursue an altruistic project no one else seemed to be directly tackling, so he's going to want to cultivate his own garden too).
Let's just take it easy and do things as they seem logical in context.
I.F. Ister
Fortifying The Thread
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The Quarry team returns with 2 Units of Granite (Tier 2 Material) as well as two halves of an Onigar Club and a suit of Onigar Armor.
They all gain +7 Ordstirr.
They all gain +7 Ordstirr.
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Did they also bring back any onigar bodies?