Votes for this Turn:A1 - Jon - 0A2 - Rob - 2A3 - Ned - 1A4 - Sansa - 25
S1 - Wikipedia - 12S2 - Steam - 0S3 - Paradox - 1S4 - World - 15
Names:Jinx - 13SlyJaw - 7Shyde - 4Willow - 3Axel - 1Shadowfang - 1Pochita - 1Snowsong - 1
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Rolls for this Turn:Personal: WikipediaThanks to Mempodia, the magical healer and seer, Mempus will join Viserys Targaryen and begin using his (now very real) prophetic and healing abilities to advise Viserys towards the path of wealth and success in the service of his patron Deity Dionysus.(Upshot: Viserys might become a Drunk.)(Downshot: He’s now guaranteed not to become cannon’s “Beggar King.”)
World: CoppermindThanks to Kevron's you now own a Pub in the city of Kings nding.This will be “discovered” by the casteln of Long Lake Castle when he goes over the accounts, and will start to contribute towards your accounts.When Resource options unlock, you will have a starting allowance of 2 resources per turn, rather than 1, thanks to this roll.
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Story:
After having familiarized yourself with Winterfell, it's about time you became closer to the cousin closest to your own age, and so decided to seek out some time with Sansa.
Obviously, your lessons couldn't be combined, but Sansa, more than any of your other cousins, seems the most keen to learn new things, whether it be in study with the maester, her septa, her mother, or any other adult around her.
And so, over several different attempts at getting closer to her, you discover the way to bond with her the most is to share knowledge and allow yourself to be taught by her.
In the end, you end up convincing her that it's shameful for a Northern Lord or dy to not be well versed in Old Tongue, which, to be fair, is a thing you genuinely believe after your time in Long Lake castle, where you were led to believe that most Northerners spoke it as their mother Tongue.
But she, in trade, would help you with your schorly Pursuits in particur by helping teach you to read and, somewhat less so, to speak Valyrian.
Theoretically speaking, Valyrian isn't something you need anymore, not with the current Dynasty being Stormnders.
But if you can't comprehend Valerian in writing, then you're not going to get anywhere past a certain point in schorly matters, not to mention things like the westerosa legal code, which is a weird mishmash of Common, Valerian, and whatever local dialect has developed in an area, usually some mishmash of Old Andal and Old Tongue.
So it is that over the next several weeks, when not performing your regur lessons, training, or archery practice with Jon.
You're doing your best to prepare your cousin for life as a Northern Lady, even as she prepares you for life as someone who doesn't have to rely on a maester to read most books produced in the st 300 years.
And of course, both of you continue your studies together on the Common Tongue and its variations.
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You have to give your Aunt credit, despite no doubt having an inclination to do so, the version of Common Tongue spoken and practiced in Winterfell is actually trade Common, which would prepare its speakers to be able to communicate with just about anybody across Westeros, rather than the regional dialect, such as Trident Common, that she no doubt grew up on.
Still, you do end up bringing it up to your Aunt on the strangeness of not having formal lessons in the nguage that the North, or at least most of the Northern people, use first and foremost.
Your aunt's reasoning does sort of make sense, though.
She says that, despite it being true that her children are Starks and Northerners, the current dynasty was based on an alliance of multiple major houses intermarrying.
And so it's expected that, unlike the purity-obsessed Targaryens, dynastic marriages between great houses are going to be a lot more Common nowadays.
Meaning that it could be especially important for someone like Sansa, or little baby Arya, to be able to come off as intelligible anywhere from Dorne to the wall, which is why she's focused her children's education more on being Westerosi nobility rather than specifically Northern.
Though a few days ter, she does come back to you after having spoken to your uncle, and requests that you continue with your lessons with Sansa in the future.
Apparently, your uncle has decided that speaking Old Tongue and knowing the North as you do is important at least as a secondary nguage and tradition, even for great Lords, given that even if they do marry into Southern houses, they'll still be representing the North when they do.
So your uncle has taken it upon himself to teach Rob and Jon. And your aunt has requested that you continue to teach Sansa.
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As a result of all this, you've grown a good bit closer to your cousin Sansa, and you feel now that your aunt respects you a good deal more than she did previously.
That's especially nice considering how, despite being younger than you, Sansa is ahead of you in just about all of your lessons.
So it's good to show that you're not entirely behind, you just were learning different things than she was, since you don't have to bother with all of this Westerosi nonsense, given pretty much the only chance of you leaving the North is some kind of War, and everybody knows how Hardy and strong the Baratheons are so there's no need to worry on that account…
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In slightly stranger news, it appears that at some point your father attempted to dabble in the world of business, because the casteln of Long Lake Castle recently sent you a missive that he discovered your apparent ownership over a fairly popur Pub in King's Landing, of all pces.
It's a strange bit of news, but nobody seems to understand how it could have come about, even your uncle seeming baffled when you brought up the news though recommending that you keep the business as it seems to be doing well, and it's earnings could Aid you with running the castle once you properly take your seat as the Lord of Long Lake.
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In more personal news, you had nearly decided upon a name for your new wolf pup when Sansa was nice enough to inform you at the st minute that what you had was, in fact, a girl.
On confirming this fact, you decided upon the name jinx, given the magical seeming way that these new species of wolf seem to have just appeared in the Wolfswood, rather suddenly having repced all the old wolves.
So you're hoping that the Jinx will fall upon your enemies rather than upon yourself and your kin in the future, just like Jinx herself will in the field of battle.
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Skills:Combat:(1) Westerosi CQC - 31/100 (+3)(1) Westerosi Swordsmanship - 23/100 (+3)(1) Northern Archery - 68/100 (+6) (Knack)(1) Northern Equestrianism - 53/100 (+1) (Knack)
Diplomacy:(1) Interpersonal Communication - 45/100 (+5)(1) Public Speaking - 7/100 (+0)
Language:(1) Common Speaking - 40/100 (+15)(1) Old Tongue Speaking - 40/100 (+5)(1) Valyrian Speaking - 10/100 (+5)(1) Common Reading - 32/100 (+10)(1) Westerosi Runes - 5/100 (+0)(1) Valyrian Reading - 26/100 (+5)
Schorly: (+1)(1) Math(s) - 19/100 (+6)(1) Accounts - 19/100 (+6)(2) Northern History - 4/100 (+10) (Knack) ←(1) Westerosi History - 19/100 (+6)(1) Northern Peoples - 58/100 (+6)(1) Westerosi Peoples - 19/100 (+6)
Leisure:(1) Northern Hunting - 25/100 (+5)(1) Fishing - 10/100 (+0)(1) Swimming - 25/100 (+0)(1) Sailing - 10/100 (+0)
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Rolls for Next Turn: (Ouch, Snake Eyes!)T5 = Power/Skill for a Prominent FigureL5 = Mildly convenient
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Voting:Main Actions: (If you don’t include an Action in your Vote, then it defaults to A1)A1 - Spend your time with your cousin Jon. You're already friendly, so getting closer can only be for the best. (Combat Focus)
A2 - Spend your time with your cousin Rob, he’s 10 years old, and that means he’s cooler than you. (??? Focus)
A3 - Spend your time following your uncle around. (Start Learning the Lordship Skills.)
A4 - Keep up your studies with your cousin, Sansa. (Knowledge Focus)
Personal Rolls Sources: (Defaults to S1)S1 - Wikipedia (On Cooldown 1/2)
S2 - Steam Games (On Cooldown 2/2)
S3 - Paradox Wiki's (D30)
S4 - World Rolls List (D12)
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Information:After some additional testing behind the scenes, I've decided to repce:The Buffy the Vampire Syer wiki is due to it being too boring (cool for the first roll, then the next 30 are the same)The Fear and Hunger wiki is due to it tunring out to have less than a thousand actual pages of content (proof).And the Wheel of Time and Lord of the Rings wikis are due to them turning out to be mostly just pages about boring pces or characters whose whole page is “that baker that we met in the books that one time, then never again.”
I’m swapping in the Elder Scrolls wiki with its 73k+ pages, the Warhammer Fantasy wiki with its nearly 10k full of magical people and objects, the Might and Magic wiki with its 12k+ of Interesting people and pces, and the Dragonnce wiki with its 10k+ of magical items and locations.
I’m also making a change to one of the 2 “happy” wikis (Bublbapedia and Stardew Valley), due to the Stardew Valley wiki turning out to be about 2k, of which 95% isn’t usable/interesting.Instead, I’m swapping in RuneScape, since it seems to include a lot more slice-of-life items, so it fits the “happy” theme.But also, the items in question are a bit interesting, like instead of just a page about a fishing rod, it’s an “Augmented crystal fishing rod.”
For the sake of fairness, I excluded these wikis from being rolled this time, but after this, I won't.Sorry for the change-up mid quest, but I wanted to get it out of the way now, before any of them could get rolled.Hopefully, this set of wikis will work better with the idea of this quest.(Chaotic and fun rolls, but neither world-breaking nor any individual roll being “that one baker guy” or “a generic fishing rod… that's it.”)
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Write-In:1 - What should our new Pub in Kingsnding be called?(The roll was for the Pub of a Kevron, but we can call it anything from the basic “Kevron's Pub” to the wilder “Drunken Dragon” or the funnier “Ale Be Back.”)
