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

[I.F. Ister]

Passives 2

[X] Grid Frostdottir Passive Actions
-[X] Minor 1: Study the local language of the natives
-[X] Minor 2: Create a storehouse on my 2nd piece of land
-[X] Minor 3: Hunt for minor beasts for their blood and refuel my current rune equipment and use it for any new ones.
-[X] Minor 4: Teach Katla about Runes.
-[X] Minor 5: Create defenses with runes and traps to protect the storehouse.
-[X] Minor 6: Collect wood from her Jungle Hills land.
-[X] Minor 7: Create a Rune Ring with the beast blood and wood and inscribe it with "The wearer of this ring cannot be affected by illusions"
-[X] Minor 8: Rerune my Rune Wand with a different inscription and power it with the beast blood. Write "Any being that the holder of this wand points to except themselves, will start to become encased in ice "
-[X] Minor 9: Rerune my Rune Necklace with a different inscription and power it with the beast blood. Write "Any foe that wounds my wearer will suffer the same wounds they inflicted"
-[X] Minor 10: Use the Void Eagle Compass and hunt down another Void Eagle.
-[X] Minor 11: Put up the 2nd Void Eagle Skull in the house.
-[X] Minor 12: Rerune my Rune Ring with a different inscription and power it with beast blood. Write "Any Ice made by my wearer cannot melt"

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1. Improved understanding of local language
2. T1 Storehouse
4. Katla learns about runes
6. +1 T1 Lumber as a personal resource
10. +1 Ordstirr
11. +1 Prestige

-[X] Passive 1 - Hunt an animal (Not looking for hearts or hide here, just an easy hunt and blood) and make an offering of thanks to the Gods for the bountiful harvest of both crops and *blushes*. All major gods(That a Drengr pays respect) honored, Freya and Thor are addressed the most.
-[X] Passive 2 - Survey his land for exploitable flora, ESPECIALLY a novel color of dyes so his commision with Agnes would have another option, harvesting a single piece of Wood after making a small offering to the spirits of the Land and delivering it to Moli.
-[X] Passive 3 - Assign Mushroom Man 1 to the the Tier 1 Farm plot on Ragnar's land to care for Winter Farm tasks such as he be able, plant Mushroom Man 2(Harald asks Hrolfr if they can be grown in Winter and if they can care for planting another of themselves first), and stand by at Ragnar's house to compress soil that they're excavating in The Quest for Stone for transport to Harald's land for a future project.
-[x] Passive 4 - In a small bit of dirt right against the side of Ragnar's house, Harald will plant some of the seeds Agnes gave him for yellow dye. He does not care if he has to bring it inside, or move it to other sides of the house with his Kunna, or start a fire next to it, or sleep huddled around it, or dump half of his glory into Farming Tricks each day to keep it alive through Winter: In the name of his father He Will Have Yellow Dye By Summer. (Enough for one article of clothing and its embroidery)
-[x] Passive 5 - Harald will help Moli process wood, using his Kunna as an abrasive tool to help literally sand wood by spinning sandy loam at high speeds.
-[x] Passive 6 - Harald accompanies Agnes to hunt for driftwood and protect her. As he will be on *dead(but not the good kind that brings life), still, inert, worthless* Sand he ensures to bring extra Soil in case he has to fight and to store the wood. He will bear his sax and 3 javelin, leaving his axe at home and trying his best to not be lovesick and weird for Agnes' sake. He will fail when he talks about the tunics.

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4. Yellow dye seeds planted
5. +1 T2 Wood

-[X] Passive: Hunt and gather beast materials for future trade
-[X] Passive: Begin creating a network of traps throught the jungle
-[X] Passive: Cultivate golden grass on the jungle floor
-[X] Passive: gather wood

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1. +3 Units of 'Beast Materials' acquired as a personal resource
2. Network of Traps Acquired
4. +1 T1 Lumber

-[X] Passive 1: Provide Ivor a detailed investigation report of his lands in exchange for a gambeson
- [X] Passive 2: Attempt to invest parts of her mind/sanity in strong sensory experiences to take back post Shapecraft
- [X] Passive 3: Continue straining and training of her senses
- [X] Passive 4: Continue Shapecrafter training and study of native biology
- [X] Passive 5: Examine body thoroughly for any additions or alterations post revival (looking at you Hrulfr) if anything is different remove or adapt it.

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1. +1 Gambeson, Ivor can decide to have something funny on his land, within reason
5. You don't find anything, though, of course, your mind could have been altered to skip over any desired details. However, you still don't find anything when utilizing your ulterior methods.

-[x] [Minor 1] Trade a gambeson to Agmundr for a set of copper cookware
-[x] [Minor 2] Trade a gambeson to Anja in exchange for help constructing trenchwork defenses
-[x] [Minor 3] Trade a gambeson to Ingunn in exchange for help investigating my land
-[x] [Minor 4] Spend time with a cauldron and my fire Kunna making salt out of seawater.
-[x] [Minor 5] Rune my sword with the runes "This counts as a needle for kunna effects" and "Any wounds caused by this weapon are moved to the victim's throat."
-[x] [Minor 6] Investigate the floating speck on Anja's property.
-[x] [Minor 7] Investigate my land for anything yet to be discovered, with Ingunn's assistance.
-[x] [Minor 8] Teach Aj, the native boy, about Norse language, ways and combat.

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1. +2 Prestige from copper cookware, Agmundr gets a gambeson
4. 3 Units of Salt acquired
6. That's a major action
7. You get to pick a funny thing to have, within reason, on your land

-[X] Minor Action 1: Scout out the Oni's Quarry from as far away as possible while still getting a decent understanding of what's changing over there, I'll be using Wind Kunna to conceal my scent and if reasonable I'll use my Wind Kunna to listen in on any conversations by helping the words travel to me more clearly, I will flee immediately if discovered.
-[X] Minor Action 2: Take lumber from my uncleared plot of land and deliver it to Hulfr Hardwood, avoid clearing the entire area and leave some trees for next turn.
-[X] Minor Action 3: create a pair of compasses like Grid's, only using the Void Eagle feathers I found in the mountains instead of using skin with the modified wording being "Will point in the direction to the closest alive beast that is the same race as the beast's feather that is attached to this compass" giving 1 to the general public in case of another Void Eagle attack and keeping the other for myself.
-[X] Minor Action 4: Create a rune inscribed bone amulet with the words "The wearer of this amulet can never have their emotions forcibly changed by external magic" and "Hostile Magic will not effect my wearer."
-[X] Minor Action 5: inscribe "Arrows shot from me will always strike exactly what Kare Sky-Dancer wants them to" and "Magic cannot turn aside my attacks or afflict others with them." on my bow.
-[X] Minor Action 6: inscribe "After this axe is thrown and hits a target the axe returns safely to the hand that threw it" on the handle of the axe of Stigg Drythroat @The Chilly One in exchange for a promise to teach Astrid (Kare's adopted daughter) about Axe fighting.
-[X] Minor Action 7: inscribe "Wearer has their normal speed and reflexes increased by half-again" on a wooden arm ring which I will keep for myself.

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1. That's a major action
2. +3 Units of T1 lumber for Hulfr Hardwood

- [X] Minor actions
- [x] Learn runes from Grid
- [x] test which herbs in her property and garden survive the winter and check if they are useful
- [x] work on building her own home near Grid's.
- [x] spend time with her son (who I accidentally wrote was a daughter in my intro.)
- [x] harvest wood from the jungle plot.

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1. Runes learned
3. House built next to Grid's
5. +1 T1 Lumber

-[X] Minor Action 1: Set up a ritual commune for the hill spirits on Akali's land
-[X] Minor Action 2: interact with the healing spirit more to come to know it better
-[X] Minor Action 3: Study the Greek runes on the door from memory carefully
-[X] Minor Action 4: Explore safer areas for places of spiritual significance that may have been missed

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4. That'll be a major action

 

[I.F. Ister]

Sigmund's Hunt Report

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Rock on

+3 Ordstirr to Sigmund, +4 to the others involved

I'm doing this one very quickly, please poke me if you think it unfair

@I.F. Ister

Did I not successfully build a farm on my land this season?

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You did, yes

 

[OneArmedYeti]

5. +1 T2 Wood

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"FREYA IS FAITHFUL"

((Yall I am tickled pink I get to use something for my Winter action besides "The Quest for Wood"))

 

[Oshha]

I'm doing this one very quickly, please poke me if you think it unfair

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I think it is fair. Sigmund is a lot stronger than the other two so getting less Ordstirr is reasonable. That said, do we get anything for my boasting and truthful embellishments of how the hunt went? Especially since we killed a beast without suffering any injuries at all while the last hunt of one, which was of similar size to this one, killed half of the hunting party, a hunting party that was twice the size of our own hunting party.

 

[CoatRackRanger]

You did, yes

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Does it have a Tier and/or Prestige value?

 

[alexthealright]

1. That's a major action

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Sorry, my bad.

 

[fearsome hill]

5. Weird tracks discovered, like someone were using ski-poles as feet

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@DeadmanwalkingXI bjorn comes up to ragnarr
"hersir, i have found strange tracks near the village."
he will point out the tracks he found.

 

[DeadmanwalkingXI]

On wood supplies: I think everyone who gained 1 Tier 1 Wood did so with the understanding they were adding it to the communal stockpile based on my PSA we were running low and/or to build things they built this season. If anyone wants to just keep the Tier 1 Wood, say so and I'll add it to your sheet, but otherwise I'm not adding all that just to then delete it and put it back in the common store.

Other stuff from Passives and the Hunt has been added.

@DeadmanwalkingXI bjorn comes up to ragnarr
"hersir, i have found strange tracks near the village."
he will point out the tracks he found.

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Ragnarr will nod and suggest maybe getting some people together to investigate. He has no skill as a tracker personally, and will be busy dealing with the crabs soon, but if people found a strange beast it's likely either useful in its own right or could be given to the shapecrafter for a reward.

 

[Guest99]

Kol and the Cow
(A side story to build up story for my back-up character, who lives with his cousins Gunnar and Liv)

In the hills of Gunby, home of Gunnar Toad-Terror, set in the Settlement of Rekavidr, in the land of Hakistadr, there lived a boy named Kol. Red of hair and strong of arm, Kol was said to have been the spitting image of Thor himself, able to lift an entire cow over his shoulder by the time he was 8.

Alas, though great in strength and girth, Kol was a lonely child, even those twice his age struggling to match his incredible might, many of his fellow children had been injured in their games in the past, causing them to grow distant and afraid. Such it was that Kol's only true friend was his cousin Gunnar's cow, Njalla.

One day, as he took Njalla out to pasture, the young Kol cried "Oh Njalla! Whatever am I to do! The other children are too small and frail, and break so easily when I play with them! However am I to make friends?"

In reply, Njalla, the gentle cow, said "Oh Kol, sweet and gentle soul, here, climb upon my back, and hold tight, and we shall show them a sight that they shall forever remember" And as he did so, Njall began to buck and skip with great vigour, flattening the earth as she did so. So mighty was her step that all the children of Rekavidr came out to see what was happening, and what they saw was Kol, strong of arm and red of hair, holding on tight to a wildly bucking cow as she bucked and thrashed, attempting to throw him from her back, but still he clung on.

"Me next! Me next!" Came the cries of the children, and so it came to pass that many of the children of Rekavidr rode upon the back of sweet Njalla the cow, but none could ever match the length of time for which Kol could stay on, for he possessed a stronger arm than any of them, and, more importantly, a greater bond with the cow. From that day on, Kol was famed among his fellow children as the CowRider, and never again did he struggle to make friends.

 

[Aabcehmu]

Decided these today in Discord:

Agmundr's plot is named Agstrǫnd (Edge-Shore), his house is Hatimbradr (High-Timbered), and the forge is named Gneistahus (Spark-House, because Smargneisti lives there now).

 

[I.F. Ister]

Passives 3

-[X] Passive 1: Support The Quest For Stone with knowledge of Architecture and Demolition as well as usage of Clearwater kunna as needed.
-[X] Passive 2: Support Gunnar with the work around the Reborn Spring, making sure to keep the original spring as close to untouched as possible.
-[X] Passive 3: Spend time on and in the Reborn Spring: relax in its waters, play with it using her kunna, perform weapon drills in its shade...
-[X] Passive 4: Explore the surroundings for anything that might be usable for brewing (berries and other fruits, herbs and stuff). Maybe someone has a nana they're open to pass along?
Passive 5: With permission from Fernweh (@Ralakesh) Liv will harvest one unit of lumber from their plot, and add it to the communal stash. In exchange she promises "any part, any time [she] want[s ]" of a future kill of hers, to be a sacrifice to the jungle spirits.

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+1 T1 Lumber to the communal pool

-[X] Passive 1: Collecting the wood from the active to give to Hulfr and for wood stock.
-[X] Passive 2: Building a house for Gefjosa on her land.
-[X] Passive 3: Test the viability of using tree canopies to catch the majority of the freezing-boiling rain.

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+3 Units of T1 Wood to the lads
Gefjosa gets a T1 House
Seems viable, if you're clever about it

-[x]minor offer assistance with labor to Hrulfr Hardwood. My Mushling can help too.
-[x] minor practice using the Horn Spring Core, with the goal of strengthening it.

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Horn-Spring Core strengthens slightly

-[X] Minor 1 - Spend extra time with his son, teaching him to fight, especially Glima, but also how to better avoid escalating confrontations in general, and to not come across as bossy. Spend time with his family in general.
-[X] Minor 2 - Attempt to repair relations with Erik (if he gets back this season), see if we can work on the kids getting along better.
-[X] Minor 3 - Assuming the Egging Frogs are hatching soon, take one clutch of eggs for his farm and help Alyssa take care of them, make sure the rest of his family helps as well, and learns how.
-[X] Minor 4 - Harvest 1 Wood from Steinarr's plot as long as he doesn't object @Ulvlar
-[X] Minor 5 - Spend significant time helping Hulfr make shields, armor, and other stuff.
-[X] Minor 6 - Rune up my own spear (likely one of the ones Hulfr is making, as they are high quality) with "Like Gungnir, I never miss the mark." on one side of the haft, "I am as difficult to break as the boughs of Yggdrasil" on the other side, and "Armor never slows or bars my way." on the spearhead.
-[X] Minor 7 - Make an amulet with the following rune phrase on it: "My wearer is swift as Sleipnir's step."
-[X] Minor 8 - Make a sacrifice for the gift of Runes. Probably Ordstirr, but exact amount depends on various factors.

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4. +1 T1 Lumber

-[X] Passive Action: Hopefully leveraging his labor and focus on setting the Runestone up to get some materials to, improve his structures to nicer, even more prestigious lands. Hopefully at least getting to Decent!
-[X] Passive Action: Gather Wood and any other material available in one of his two plots to supplement construction and other projects in the future.
-[X] Passive Action: Spend time with the family, especially making sure that the little Muspel-Bird integrates well, is healthy, and generally free of problems--either causing or being the cause of. Raising Pets is like raising kids, right?
-[X] Passive Action: Generally help out around the village as an assistant, teacher, guide, and helper for favor-trading, lending his assistance for a share of the resources to cover his other interests.

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+1 unit of T1 Lumber

-[X] Passive 1: Harvest 1 Unit of Lumber from his Jungle Hill plot to build a house there now that the spirits have been quieted/pacified by the Seeress.
-[X] Passive 3: Claims a Quality Gambeson from the communal stock for the winter.
-[X] Passive 4: Hunts Storm Toads for meat to eat and trophies to add to his houses.
-[X] Passive 5: Harvest 2 Units of Unusually Springy Wood from his Jungle Hill plot. He gives 1 Unit to Hulfr as part of the agreement between Hardwood and Clan Jarnblod and while he has Erik Hardhead use the other Unit to construct furniture for his new Jungle Hill house.
-[X] Passive 6: With spirits on his jungle hill land dealt with by the Seeress, Sigmund and his wife Torunn hatch and raise a clutch of egging-frogs to the instructions of the native humans on his jungle plot.
-[X] Passive 7: Sigmund adds his Gravity Tyrant skull to his Jungle Hill house while he splits his cresthead skulls between his Jungle Hill house and his beach house.

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1. +1 unit of T1 Lumber
3. +Gambeson
4. +1 Prestige
7. +2 Prestige

-[X] Passive: Gather Wood from the Jungle in west.
-[X] Passive: Offer helps to other who require some tasks to be done near the village
-[X] Passive: Spend time with the family

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+1 unit of T1 Lumber

-[X] Minor 1: Help build the smeltery, with architeture and stoneworking skills
-[X] Minor 2: Build a Stone collection indoctronating center in camp out of wood, in a way that it can later be clad in stone.
-[X] Minor 3: Study the local language of the natives
-[X] Minor 4: Collect wood from own Jungle hill.
-[X] Minor 5: Continue teaching children about stone.

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+1 unit of T1 Lumber
2. Already built
3. Language go up

-[X] Minor 1- Tools. To do all these things, Stigg needs tools, and most of his carpentry kit was left back in Gotland, so he's looking for tools. Hammers, Adzes, Saws and the like.
-[X] Minor 2- Materials. To do maintenance, Stigg needs to get much raw materials, suck as rope, tar, nails, and lumber.
-[X] Minor 3 - Weapon Upkeep. A blade (or axe) is only as good as it's wielder, a normal blade more so than a enchanted one. It must polished and kept sharp, so it doesn't not fail it's user in their time of need. Stig takes some time to do just that.
-[X] Minor 4- in exchange for Runes being drawn on Stigg's Axe, he will be teaching Astrid, Kare Skydancers adopted daughter, about Axeplay. Axeplay 1.

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1. Hash that out with other players
2. Second verse same as the first

-[X] Minor Action 1 - Being to lay a stone foundation for house expansion.
-[X] Minor Action 2 - Set up second basic Smokehouse
-[X] Minor Action 3 - Net Fishing, by simply waking into the sea and catching fish underwater. (Taking Spear with me)

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Stone Foundation laid out
T1 Smokehouse

--[X] Passive 1: Build hammock at camp
--[X] Passive 2: Build house on the beach as a decoy
--[X] Passive 3: Search for anything that Galti Hanison left behind
--[X] Passive 4: Check and reset hunting traps and fishing nets
--[X] Passive 5: Make jungle camouflage cloak
--[X] Passive 6: Gather wood and vines

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+1 unit of T1 Lumber, +1 T1 Vine Rope
1. Camp now has hammock (-1 cloth)
2. Decoy House Built (1 lumber, 1 fastener)

 

[The Chilly One]

@Aabcehmu, I need some nails for working on the ships, and possibly some tools. Would you be willing to trade a carpentry action of your choice from Stigg for those?

 

[Aabcehmu]

@Aabcehmu, I need some nails for working on the ships, and possibly some tools. Would you be willing to trade a carpentry action of your choice from Stigg for those?

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I've already added nails to the communal stockpile, and you've already used them.

 

[The Chilly One]

Ahh, ok. Still figuring out the mechanics of this quest.

 

[weeblypanda]

@I.F. Ister I'm about to send my PM to you.
I just wanted to see if anyone could take a once over on my idea for a runic inscription.

Be they upon the waves or under. Be they man or monster. Be they clad in scale or shell. Should they wish death upon seedlings of ash and elm, may they be confounded and turned away by Net-Holder's domain. Yet, be they kith or kin. Be they friend, not foe. Be they lost, not found. Let them be guided to Driftwood's home.

 

[Walliseatscheese]

@I.F. Ister I'm about to send my PM to you.
I just wanted to see if anyone could take a once over on my idea for a runic inscription.

Be they upon the waves or under. Be they man or monster. Be they clad in scale or shell. Should they wish death upon seedlings of ash and elm, may they be confounded and turned away by Net-Holder's domain. Yet, be they kith or kin. Be they friend, not foe. Be they lost, not found. Let them be guided to Driftwood's home.

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"Be they upon the wave or under or inbetween" is my first suggestion for a correction, unless that loophole is intentional.

I am uncertain how Rune Paragraphs work compared to runic running sentences, but you might want to have each sentence have a much more direct and obvious connection to each other, as technically speaking if we're going by Literal Genie Computer Language rules, the first three sentences don't quite do anything or provide any definitions, leading to the fourth sentence to be immensely vague in its defining parameters for "They", with the fifth, sixth, and seventh sentences having the same connection issues and leaving the eighth sentence be just as vague in its defining parameters for "They".

If you're allowed to be Poetic As Shit about things though it looks good.

 

[weeblypanda]

If you're allowed to be Poetic As Shit about things though it looks good.

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I was hoping for that since it's a Rune Stone. The poetry=power but if not well, that's why I put a major action into it.

I'm really hoping for that sweaty sweaty Kenning.

 

[I.F. Ister]

First things first, I would like to say that I'm sorry for the disappointment this announcement will bring.

Second things second, I am no longer having fun running this quest. It has simply gotten too out of hand for me to deal with--even with helpers--and my stress level is rising quite dramatically.

As such, I am going to step back from control over this quest. I encourage others to follow in my footsteps and create their own versions of NQCE. The community was great and the fun I had was a lot, it's just that the stress isn't worth pursuing it further.

In short, thank you to everyone for participating. An extra big thank you to those of you who volunteered as helpers and, though never used, the co-QM team.

 

[Alectai]

Thanks for giving it a go at least! It was an ambitious project, and there's no shame in stepping it down when it blew up beyond all reason!

I'm still excited to see NorseQuest return in the future!

 

[weeblypanda]

Damn. It was fun while it lasted.

Player comments: It was an amazing quest idea and execution. As you said the pace was...hectic to say the least. I think this could be feasibly run for a long time. If it'd had a bunch of Co-QMs from the start with their own characters with built-in responsibilities/spheres-of-control it could've smoothened out some of the rough spots and divided up the burden.

I look forward to the mainline quest's return.

 

[fearsome hill]

Thank you for the quest!

 

[Walliseatscheese]

Thank you for the quest and the fun while it lasted! I'm sorry to see it go but your own health is important.

 

[Clockmosis]

Thanks for being a wonderful GM to this absolute logistical nightmare of a riot.

Definitely did something i dont think many other quest gms could do. ❤️

 

[DeadmanwalkingXI]

This Quest was super fun, and we got to the point where our community was basically self-sustaining and stable, so I feel like this is actually a fine ending? Like...not everything might go our characters ways, but the refugees of Gotland likely continued to live in these lands for some time and became a regional power.

Or that's my headcanon anyway.

 

[OneArmedYeti]

This Quest was super fun, and we got to the point where our community was basically self-sustaining and stable, so I feel like this is actually a fine ending? Like...not everything might go our characters ways, but the refugees of Gotland likely continued to live in these lands for some time and became a regional power.

Or that's my headcanon anyway.

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My headcanon is that this place is free of the reach of the Enemy and of Steel and probably also Odr, and we were Odin's cheatiest cheaty cheat that he's gonna whip out of his back pocket in a few centuries after our society will develop.

He also gets to farm more dead soldiers for his army on the way.