1: who paid you?
2: why'd they pay you to fuck me over?
3: what are they planning now?
4: how much did they pay you?
5: who else is on their payroll?
6. Who made the barber set you showed off at the Thing, and where can I find them?
7. What do you know about the barber set and my comb?
8. Is Sterki Godi also involved in this scheme?
This formatting is a problem. Let's get this worked out to better formatting.
[X] Plan All The Questions
-[X] Ask Modolfr the following questions, with the incentive of letting him live if he answers us. If he answers, let him live, if not, kill him.
-[X] 1: Who paid you? Tell me everything you know about them.
-[X] 2: Why'd they pay you to fuck me over?
-[X] 3: What are they planning now?
-[X] 4: How much did they pay you?
-[X] 5: Why did you agree to take this task? Was itjust teh money?
-[X] 6: Who else is on their payroll?
-[X] 7. Who made the barber set you showed off at the Thing, and where can I find them?
-[X] 8. What do you know about the barber set and my comb?
-[X] 9. Is Sterki Godi also involved in this scheme?
I also added a question, to make it a nice Norsely nine questions.
[X] Plan All The Questions
-[X] Ask Modolfr the following questions, with the incentive of letting him live if he answers us. If he answers, let him live, if not, kill him.
-[X] 1: Who paid you? Tell me everything you know about them.
-[X] 2: Why'd they pay you to fuck me over?
-[X] 3: What are they planning now?
-[X] 4: How much did they pay you?
-[X] 5: Why did you agree to take this task? Was itjust teh money?
-[X] 6: Who else is on their payroll?
-[X] 7. Who made the barber set you showed off at the Thing, and where can I find them?
-[X] 8. What do you know about the barber set and my comb?
-[X] 9. Is Sterki Godi also involved in this scheme?
[X] Before he deals with Modolfr, one way or the other, he says "If you wanted me to believe that your words were not empty, if you wanted me to believe that your word or your character had any value, if you wanted me to believe that Jarn was not a miserable lazy wretch who never bothered to teach his son what a drengr's word is worth: It was a damn fool mistake to name me thief."
[X] Plan All The Questions
-[X] Ask Modolfr the following questions, with the incentive of letting him live if he answers us. If he answers, let him live, if not, kill him.
-[X] 1: Who paid you? Tell me everything you know about them.
-[X] 2: Why'd they pay you to fuck me over?
-[X] 3: What are they planning now?
-[X] 4: How much did they pay you?
-[X] 5: Why did you agree to take this task? Was it just the money?
-[X] 6: Who else is on their payroll?
-[X] 7. Who made the barber set you showed off at the Thing, and where can I find them?
-[X] 8. What do you know about the barber set and my comb?
-[X] 9. Is Sterki Godi also involved in this scheme?
[X] Plan All The Questions
-[X] Ask Modolfr the following questions, with the incentive of letting him live if he answers us. If he answers, let him live, if not, kill him.
-[X] 1: Who paid you? Tell me everything you know about them.
-[X] 2: Why'd they pay you to fuck me over?
-[X] 3: What are they planning now?
-[X] 4: How much did they pay you?
-[X] 5: Why did you agree to take this task? Was itjust teh money?
-[X] 6: Who else is on their payroll?
-[X] 7. Who made the barber set you showed off at the Thing, and where can I find them?
-[X] 8. What do you know about the barber set and my comb?
-[X] 9. Is Sterki Godi also involved in this scheme?
[X] Before he deals with Modolfr, one way or the other, he says "If you wanted me to believe that your words were not empty, if you wanted me to believe that your word or your character had any value, if you wanted me to believe that Jarn was not a miserable lazy wretch who never bothered to teach his son what a drengr's word is worth: It was a damn fool mistake to name me thief."
[X] Questions:
-[X]who paid you?
-[X]why'd they pay you to fuck me over?
-[X]what are they planning now?
-[X]how much did they pay you?
-[X]who else is on their payroll?
-[X]Who made the barber set you showed off at the Thing, and where can I find them?
-[X]What do you know about the barber set and my comb?
-[X]Is Sterki Godi also involved in this scheme?
We should see if we can free his Thrall. It would both damage him and give us a good ally.
If we are asking who else is on the their payroll, its kind of redundant to ask if Godi works with them, especially as it will give a specific target to send us after.
If we are asking who else is on the their payroll, its kind of redundant to ask if Godi works with them, especially as it will give a specific target to send us after.
I think the specificity is worth it. Asking about anyone else gets us anyone else who was paid off, while asking about the Godi gets a read on whether he has reasons other than money for being involved. Assuming Modolfr knows any of that, of course.
[X] Before he deals with Modolfr, one way or the other, he says "If you wanted me to believe that your words were not empty, if you wanted me to believe that your word or your character had any value, if you wanted me to believe that Jarn was not a miserable lazy wretch who never bothered to teach his son what a drengr's word is worth: It was a damn fool mistake to name me thief."
[X] Plan All The Questions
-[X] Ask Modolfr the following questions, with the incentive of letting him live if he answers us. If he answers, let him live, if not, kill him.
-[X] 1: Who paid you? Tell me everything you know about them.
-[X] 2: Why'd they pay you to fuck me over?
-[X] 3: What are they planning now?
-[X] 4: How much did they pay you?
-[X] 5: Why did you agree to take this task? Was itjust teh money?
-[X] 6: Who else is on their payroll?
-[X] 7. Who made the barber set you showed off at the Thing, and where can I find them?
-[X] 8. What do you know about the barber set and my comb?
-[X] 9. Is Sterki Godi also involved in this scheme?
[X] Questions:
-[X]who paid you?
-[X]why'd they pay you to fuck me over?
-[X]what are they planning now?
-[X]how much did they pay you?
-[X]who else is on their payroll?
-[X]Who made the barber set you showed off at the Thing, and where can I find them?
-[X]What do you know about the barber set and my comb?
-[X]Is Sterki Godi also involved in this scheme?
[X] Before he deals with Modolfr, one way or the other, he says (something like) "If you wanted me to believe that your words were not empty, if you wanted me to believe that your speech or your character had any value, if you wanted me to believe that Jarn was not a miserable lazy wretch who never bothered to teach his son what a drengr's word is worth: It was a damn fool mistake to name me thief."
[X] Plan All The Questions
-[X] Ask Modolfr the following questions, with the incentive of letting him live if he answers us. If he answers, let him live, if not, kill him.
-[X] 1: Who paid you? Tell me everything you know about them.
-[X] 2: Why'd they pay you to fuck me over?
-[X] 3: What are they planning now?
-[X] 4: How much did they pay you?
-[X] 5: Why did you agree to take this task? Was it just the money?
-[X] 6: Who else is on their payroll?
-[X] 7. Who made the barber set you showed off at the Thing, and where can I find them?
-[X] 8. What do you know about the barber set and my comb?
-[X] 9. Is Sterki Godi also involved in this scheme?
"[X] Before he deals with Modolfr, one way or the other, he says "If you wanted me to believe that your words were not empty, if you wanted me to believe that your word or your character had any value, if you wanted me to believe that Jarn was not a miserable lazy wretch who never bothered to teach his son what a drengr's word is worth: It was a damn fool mistake to name me thief.""
So, I don't think that this is something that Barki would say. Doesn't fit his character.
Would you folks be mad if I didn't use it? Or at least re-worked it to fit?
"[X] Before he deals with Modolfr, one way or the other, he says "If you wanted me to believe that your words were not empty, if you wanted me to believe that your word or your character had any value, if you wanted me to believe that Jarn was not a miserable lazy wretch who never bothered to teach his son what a drengr's word is worth: It was a damn fool mistake to name me thief.""
So, I don't think that this is something that Barki would say. Doesn't fit his character.
Would you folks be mad if I didn't use it? Or at least re-worked it to fit?
As the person who wrote it, I edited mine to (something like) for a reason.
Whatever you need to make sense for Barki and the new knowledge he'll have from modolfr between the first part of the update and the statement.
Even leaving our the worst of the insult to something like "Of course I thought your words were empty. You named me thief, and any man who names me thief is a liar, or a fool, or has been fooled. Now I know you are most likely the latter, this morning I did not." would be totally chill as that does my goal of getting a dig in while trying to drive a wedge between him and his client.
I never voted for it, so I'm fine. I think the core thing, even for people who did vote for it, is to call out Modolfr for having started this by calling us a thief.
"[X] Before he deals with Modolfr, one way or the other, he says "If you wanted me to believe that your words were not empty, if you wanted me to believe that your word or your character had any value, if you wanted me to believe that Jarn was not a miserable lazy wretch who never bothered to teach his son what a drengr's word is worth: It was a damn fool mistake to name me thief.""
So, I don't think that this is something that Barki would say. Doesn't fit his character.
Would you folks be mad if I didn't use it? Or at least re-worked it to fit?
[X] Before he deals with Modolfr, one way or the other, he says "If you wanted me to believe that your words were not empty, if you wanted me to believe that your word or your character had any value, if you wanted me to believe that Jarn was not a miserable lazy wretch who never bothered to teach his son what a drengr's word is worth: It was a damn fool mistake to name me thief."
[X] Plan All The Questions
-[X] Ask Modolfr the following questions, with the incentive of letting him live if he answers us. If he answers, let him live, if not, kill him.
-[X] 1: Who paid you? Tell me everything you know about them.
-[X] 2: Why'd they pay you to fuck me over?
-[X] 3: What are they planning now?
-[X] 4: How much did they pay you?
-[X] 5: Why did you agree to take this task? Was itjust teh money?
-[X] 6: Who else is on their payroll?
-[X] 7. Who made the barber set you showed off at the Thing, and where can I find them?
-[X] 8. What do you know about the barber set and my comb?
-[X] 9. Is Sterki Godi also involved in this scheme?
0~0~0
Blood, dark and deep-drawn, drips down Barki's leg. Dark red splotches seep through his trousers, dyeing the green fabric a dull brown. Wind chill tickles his leg through the ragged hole in his pants, a loss he'll have to fix at some unknowable point in the future.
Bending down, Barki retrieves his shield from the grassy dent in which it lay. Brushing away the few cuts of grass clinging to the surface, his lips press thin as he runs fingers across the tattered scar now adorning his shield's woolen cover. With the cover in the state it is, his shield will be quicker to splinter, and that much easier to break.
Fortunately, the wood beneath went undamaged by Adamaz's trick. A fair wind by all reckoning when one considers how difficult it is to replace. The cover just needs to be taken off—which is done by untacking the rim—while if the wood beneath is damaged over-much... Well, at that point you might as well just make a new shield.
A good shield will take a half-dozen or more full-strength blows in lieu of its wielder. Since a good shield can and will save your life, you should make certain of its ability to do so at the earliest opportunity. A man who lacks a shield is a man who will very soon be dead.
A good shield is also sized to the wielder and to fit his fighting style. A larger shield is slow and heavy, but protects from head to toe. A small shield is light and quick, but protects no more than a man's chest. The wise fighter wields a shield sized to cover the majority of his body while remaining light on his feet, though such things are difficult to judge indeed.
"Modolfr," Barki says, acknowledging Modolfr's presence for the first time as he slides his shield onto his back, "your life is in my hands."
Modolfr swallows from where he kneels, his weapons discarded before him as Keld pads a slow circle about his empty-handed prey, "It is."
"The only way you leave with that life is if you heed my words and obey my will," Barki takes a slow series of meandering steps to his defeated foe, Sunning's edge the stage for sunshine's glimmering dance. "Who paid you, and why?"
"Erlingr Cross, in the North Quarter," Modolfr is quick to answer, "and three times I asked his reason, but three times he refused to answer."
"Erlingr Cross?" Barki tilts his head as the name plays across his lips, his mind journeying to where the skald-tales reside. The son of a Norwegian Jarl, Erlingr was born with vertical pupils slashed through the middle, for which he earned his kenning 'Cross'. Fought against the Fairhair and was forced to leave his family's lands as a result. He is at odds with Skallagrimur Kveldulfsson, who lives at Borg a Myrum in the West Quarter.
As far as Barki can recall, though, he's never been face to face with Erlingr, so what could Barki have done to earn such unfair hate?
Perhaps Skallagrimur could shed light on the matter? The wise man knows his enemies well and Skallagrimur is said to be a very wise Skald indeed. Regardless, the greatest smith in Iceland would surely be able to lend Barki aid even if his wisdom fails.
"If he did not give his reasons," Barki eventually says after a moment's thought, "then what were yours? What fell star lights this path you walk?"
"Look at me, look at mine," Modolfr sets his jaw and waves a hand at his clothes, at his house, and at his lands—all three in states of disrepair. His clothes bear obvious stitch-marks and a mismatched stretch of cloth patches over an elbow. The walls of his home look a wind's gust from collapse, and his lands are barren and empty, lacking in any seedtime preparation. "I am one of Sterki Godi's trusted silksmen. I take his silk to market in England and if there is no silk, then I have no work. Erlingr said that, if I brought you to court, I would be given enough silver to feed myself and my family for a decade. I agreed," a scowl passes across his lips, "and I was a fool to do so, for not an ounce of silver has passed my doorway."
Barki purses his lips as Sunning wavers, a sharp pang passing through his chest. What would he do in Modolfr's shoes? What lengths might he go to never see Bestla gaunt and ill, weak from hunger and dead-brushing from starvation?
"Modolfr," Barki swallows as Sunning finds a familiar home in its sheath, "I will not kill you, though I expect your answers to stay true."
"My words are as true as any man's."
"You said you are one of Sterki Godi's silksmen?" Barki asks with tilting head, something sticking in his mind, "I asked Sterki of his silkworms, yet he deflected at every turn."
If there is something wrong with Sterki Godi's livelihood, something that threatens his ability to perform as Godi, that could give reason for Sterki accepting the gold. But even so, that's still no excuse to sell one of his godord to the wolves.
"They're dead," Modolfr replies, unknowingly confirming Barki's suspicions. "Every last one of them, dead. Some Greek curse, the Seeress thinks."
"Who made the barber set? The one you presented at the Thing," Barki clarifies after Modolfr's brows twist in confusion.
"I know not, for Erlingr gave them to me to use as evidence. Though," Modolfr says as a thought comes to mind, "my father, though his talent for working iron was never mine, once said that a master craftsman can tell an item's maker by the marks of his hammer."
"Who else is on Erlingr's payroll? And what plan does he follow?"
The same words answer both questions, "I don't know."
With the interrogation of Modolfr over with, there's small reason for Barki to stay any longer at Stacksdell. Feeling little need to part Modolfr with any of his already meager possessions, Barki mounts back up on Olfossa as he resumes his journey.
The only question is... What next?
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0~0~0
Current Situation:
-Serious Puncture, Left Thigh | Untended | ??? Days Remaining
-Two Broken Ribs, Chest | Untended | ??? Days Remaining
You are currently tired
You are currently hungry
AN: Sorry for this taking me a minute, I've had to readjust to not having a steady schedule to build my day-to-day around and that's thrown me for an utter loop.
Hmmm...I think we probably want to do something like this:
[ ] Go to ground somewhere away from Modolfr's land, treat our injuries, and repair our equipment, then get a good night's sleep.
After that, we probably want to go have a word or three with Erlingr. @I.F. Ister do we know where Erlingr lives? Is it anywhere near any of our places of safety?
I think binding our wounds is our first step, I'm neutral on shield repair as we do have a spare. It sounds like we need to visit Sterki and maybe Skallagrim?
Wasnt expecting the guy to be from Iceland, guess were going to be sticking around for a little while longer. Though we should find out why he targeted Barki before a week is up and Harald starts hunting us.
Wasnt expecting the guy to be from Iceland, guess were going to be sticking around for a little while longer. Though we should find out why he targeted Barki before a week is up and Harald starts hunting us.
