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RHUNRIKKI STROLLAR (Warhammer Fantasy Golden Age Dwarf Runelord Quest)

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Always Late said:
Taking an axe to the BB code so people can see the invisitext. This went through because we had regeneration, otherwise it would have interfered. Also we tripped parameters, "Writs", 1 through 6, and we got Response #4. And right before the song hit it just said it was 99 and change percent done.

Thungi made logic paths.
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He honestly seems to have made outright VI going by the Gronti. Dumb VI but VI.

It's really impressive.

We're gonna get so much Inspiration outta this, it's a super good idea we went here.
 
The most flattering section is:

Contender Regeneration: exceed expected parameters.​

Snorri made a piece of runic gear that exceeded Thungni's expectations.

Thungni made something with keen enough magical senses to measure how much essence Snorri can contributed and how much was needed.

Something we didn't consider, in Barak Azamar, Snorri doesn't bleed biological blood. He bleeds molten metal, IIRC, something transmuted by high end runecraft. Not only that, but while in the armour he's pulling up lots of Deep Magic that flows into and through the wearer, and presumably their blood, meaning it's more highly magical than regular runesmith's blood.

The ingot Snorri was forging would presumably be effected by this aspect of that as well:

Items and Runes made while wearing Barak Azamar will instinctively draw from the deep magic of the earth as easily as they do the winds, improving their longevity.

As the ingot is an item.
 
DocMatoi said:
Rune flowing-now: Power Flows
Stone-concept future-making: building the future? the working of stone
??? your burdens (cant figure the root word here)
skull future-making: the working of the mind?
??? amd ?? of The Miner (same root as line 2)
Treasure of eternity
In the hall of the miners in the digging of our halls
??? And old-recording: (probably) Legend And Myth
Tool-conceptual Master Craftsmen: "The Work Of The Smith"

wait this is just a translaton of the normal poem isnt it
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Yeah. Skaud is the missing root word and means song.
 
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Alratan said:
The most flattering section is:

Contender Regeneration: exceed expected parameters.​

Snorri made a piece of runic gear that exceeded Thungni's expectations.

Thungni made something with keen enough magical senses to measure how much essence Snorri can contributed and how much was needed.

Something we didn't consider, in Barak Azamar, Snorri doesn't bleed biological blood. He bleeds molten metal, IIRC, something transmuted by high end runecraft. Not only that, but while in the armour he's pulling up lots of Deep Magic that flows into and through the wearer, and presumably their blood, meaning it's more highly magical than regular runesmith's blood.

The ingot Snorri was forging would presumably be effected by this aspect of that as well:

Items and Runes made while wearing Barak Azamar will instinctively draw from the deep magic of the earth as easily as they do the winds, improving their longevity.

As the ingot is an item.
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It's possible the ingot was drawing on deep magic instead of runesmith essence. Or maybe it was drawing on a mix of both.
 
soulcake said:
"Took you a while there lass. Are my retainers so lost that you had to explain something as simple as 'Master Snorri may be stuck here a while, have a sit down,' more than once?" you ask jokingly.

"No Master, that part went by quickly. I just had to have a discussion with Dreng that ran longer than I thought it would." she apologizes with a short bow.
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Why is Karstah talking to Dreng?
soulcake said:
In the end half of your retainers are forced to head back towards the entrance. Nineteen were too injured to continue on, and eleven more to escort them back and protect their colleagues from anything and everything that may wish them harm. Joining them would be Dreng, much to the old warrior's displeasure, the old Dwarf only got on a stretcher after several of the former Valkyrie Guard amongst you yell and grumble him into admitting defeat. Leaving you with your heir, and the remaining half of your retinue.
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Shouldn't Dreng be with the group waiting outside the trials for Snorri to complete them, instead of with Snorri and Karstah? Or did Karstah backtrack through all of the tunnels to talk with him and come back? Because that would probably be almost impossible to find her way back through the labyrinth without Snorri's help.
 
It's probably a combination of factors - our gear lets us 'cheat' and Gazul is giving us the instincts to take advantage of it instead of beating our heads against a wall figuring it out
 
IronFist said:
The dragons are 20ish meters now.
Small hands are still pretty big, and dragon strength is very high. He's probably slapping the metal into shape.
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It would've made sense anatomically to use his chin for it though, given how close it is and how comparatively tougher Noodle chins are with their skulls vs Dawi's- they do ore farming and digging with them tbf. Just cap it in a gromil cap and padding before going ham. :thonk:

Alratan said:
The ingot Snorri was forging would presumably be effected by this aspect of that as well:

Items and Runes made while wearing Barak Azamar will instinctively draw from the deep magic of the earth as easily as they do the winds, improving their longevity.

As the ingot is an item.
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:O

If we'd removed Barak Azamar and have Karstah style Snorri's beard for the occasion (throwing the excess hair into the fire), we might've saved a lot more time!
 
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[AU] Historical Revisionism, +5 to a Roll
  • Apocrypha
    • You know what would be really funny?

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    On the origins of Wyrm wand

    Many a runelord had been lost to the sands of time, for our people have much declined since time of woes. Certainly, those who have died violent deaths have been remembered well, for Book of Grudges is one of the few uninterrupted, complete records of our history, but names of those who died peacefully or disappeared as runelords oft do after finishing their masterpiece have in many cases been forgotten.


    Only those of truly legendary status, or those who have left behind mighty works that are still extant in this day and age can truly be certain that their name is spoken of still. The most controversial of these is the one named Zharrok. Not much is truly known about him, except that he hailed from the now near mythical Kraka Drakk, was one of three children of prollific runelord Karstah and was obsessed with harnessing the power of fire. The source of the controversy is that some even dare doubt that he was a runesmith at all, for the singular work of his genius still left around bears no mark of runes and seems instead to be much closer to the enchanting methods of those damnable Elgi. But all know that the only dwarfs that could use magic so were the now extinct Frundarr, and so he could´ve been nothing else.


    It was his superlative mastery of his craft through which the grand Wyrm wand was forged. Some grumble that the name is the height of hubris, for it appears to be named after the staff of Thungni himself, but their tongues quickly stop wagging when a true elder makes their opinion known. For the veterans of Great War have seen its might sunder Asavar Kul´s army at Praags Fields of Fire, and those older still know it is very lucky that the frostbitten Praagites have grown to enjoy the warmth of the still burning inferno, for the one at Pass of Living Flame, where the manling Sigmar and High King Kurgan Ironbeard shattered greatest Waaagh the world has ever seen, shows no sign of simmering down any time soon.
     
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    • MoonSerpent said:
    But how does that work exactly?
    -Noodle in S shape with relatively smol arms going to work?
    -Noodle lifting a hand prosthetic with magic and going to work?
    -Noodle has magic arms and going to work?
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    Long arms, very pointy and dexterous fingers for their size.
    Lokimotion said:
    Shouldn't Dreng be with the group waiting outside the trials for Snorri to complete them, instead of with Snorri and Karstah? Or did Karstah backtrack through all of the tunnels to talk with him and come back? Because that would probably be almost impossible to find her way back through the labyrinth without Snorri's help.
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    They are in the chamber. Think of it that the Forge was at the far end opposite them, and that they could only get so close before having to stop. Karstah and Snorri were able to get right up to it.
     
    soulcake said:
    Long arms, very pointy and dexterous fingers for their size.
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    Getting swole I'm sure from all that metalwork- Zharrok's probably the buffest male Shardwyrm by the time he approaches the mastery of his craft.

    Talon TigerDino said:
    Most of his customers will want works too small for the chin-hammer to be deployed.
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    A giant form would do... like say shaping part of the giant capstone gronti would warrant the use of the Chin-Hammer now wouldn't it?
     
    soulcake said:
    "You already said your eye wasn't able to show you anything sadly, but I'm more surprised that it's even a valid answer for this Trial. Runesmith blood has, historically, not led to any useful ends as a reagent at any quantity." she mulls over.
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    I am surprised yet somehow completely unsurprised that this has already been investigated 😄
    Binge-Reader said:
    Eh that's what this method took, there could be other methods. The essence that does the work seems to be more metaphysical.
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    Yeah, the description of how this felt like creating a rune without creating a rune makes me think that there's some universal infusion of essence required for every rune, something that no one's realized is a separate step of the process. That's what we need to make the metal.
    MoonSerpent said:
    We can ask fellow dawi for their beard/plait hair after they've groomed it for a comparative study
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    Oh god, since we know runesmith blood has been tested as a reagent there just have to have been tests on everything else that could come from a runesmith, right? These are dwarves, there's no way they haven't been methodical about this if they started investigating it.
     
    TempestK said:
    Why? I don't get it.
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    oh i just dislike the idea of the truth of things being shrouded behind the fog of history. I had basically the same reaction to Voikirium's omakes about how Snorri Klausson OBVIOUSLY didnt actually exist because his feats were so cool they must OBVIOUSLY be dwarven ego and myth
     
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