Forge of Destiny(Xianxia Quest)

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Adhoc vote count started by Killer_Whale on Mar 12, 2018 at 9:32 PM, finished with 54120 posts and 29 votes.

  • [X] Plan Dancing in the Rain (Conservative Variant)
    -[X] Overflow to spiritual, vent drip to AC, Grinning Moon successes to PLR
    -[X] Buy stuff
    --[X] Neophyte's Blade (150 RSS)
    --[X] 1 YSS (10 RSS) so we use 4 this week after including our virtual stones
    --[X] Heavy Rains Pill (15 RSS), 10 Dice Wood Pills (30 RSS), 5 Dice Water Pills (10 RSS), 5 Dice Moon Pills (15 RSS), 5 Dice Darkness Pills (15 RSS)
    --[X] Dragon's Endurance Pill x5 (200 RSS), Bountiful Earth's Blessing (100 RSS)
    --[X] Total Expenditures: 150 + 10 + 15 + 30 + 10 + 15 + 15 + 200 + 100 = 545 RSS
    -[X] Train Music arts with Zeqing
    --[X] (MAJOR) FSS
    -[X] (MAJOR) Head out to Search for the cavern shown to you in the Moon Quest
    -[X] Cultivate in the White Room
    --[X] (MAJOR) Open Lung Meridian
    --[X] With Su Ling
    -[X] Train with Xiulan
    --[X] (MAJOR) PLR
    --[X] (attached minor) Sixiang shouldn't be a problem for the moment, but you are interested. She said she was a muse after all, maybe she can help you improve your music?
    -[X] Train at the vent with Su Ling
    --[X] (MAJOR) TRF
    --[X] (attached minor) Fulfill your offer with Su Ling, train her in Argent Current for another silverblood pill
    -[X] (minor) It is time to address the matter of Cai's offer, it seems she is being polite and giving you time to settle, but it would be best not to leave it for too long
    -[X] (minor) Train Zhengui in the Vale, and keep an eye on him, the little glutton
    -[X] (minor) You and Suyin could continue working on the pale manual formations, perhaps you could ask Xuan Shi for a tip or two?
    [X] Plan Dancing in the Rain
    -[X] Overflow to spiritual, vent drip to AC, Grinning Moon successes to PLR
    -[X] Buy stuff
    --[X] Neophyte's Blade (150 RSS)
    --[X] 1 YSS (10 RSS) so we use 4 this week after including our virtual stones
    --[X] Heavy Rains Pill (15 RSS), 10 Dice Wood Pills (30 RSS), 5 Dice Water Pills (10 RSS), 5 Dice Moon Pills (15 RSS), 5 Dice Darkness Pills (15 RSS)
    --[X] Dragon's Endurance Pill x5 (200 RSS), Bountiful Earth's Blessing (100 RSS)
    --[X] Total Expenditures: 150 + 10 + 15 + 30 + 10 + 15 + 15 + 200 + 100 = 545 RSS
    -[X] Train Music arts with Zeqing
    --[X] (MAJOR) FSS
    --[X] (attached minor) Sixiang shouldn't be a problem for the moment, but you are interested. She said she was a muse after all, maybe she can help you improve your music?
    -[X] (MAJOR) Head out to Search for the cavern shown to you in the Moon Quest
    -[X] Cultivate in the White Room
    --[X] (MAJOR) Open Lung Meridian
    --[X] With Su Ling
    -[X] Train with Meizhen
    --[X] (MAJOR) PLR
    -[X] Train at the vent with Su Ling
    --[X] (MAJOR) TRF
    --[X] (attached minor) Fulfill your offer with Su Ling, train her in Argent Current for another silverblood pill
    -[X] (minor) It is time to address the matter of Cai's offer, it seems she is being polite and giving you time to settle, but it would be best not to leave it for too long
    -[X] (minor) Train Zhengui in the Vale, and keep an eye on him, the little glutton
    -[X] (minor) You and Suyin could continue working on the pale manual formations, perhaps you could ask Xuan Shi for a tip or two?
    [X] Plan Dancing and Hunting.
    -[X] Overflow to spiritual, vent drip to AC, Grinning Moon successes to PLR
    -[X] Closed door cultivation.
    -[X] Buy stuff
    --[X] Neophyte's Blade (150 RSS)
    --[X] 1 YSS (10 RSS) so we use 4 this week after including our virtual stones
    --[X] Heavy Rains Pill (15 RSS), 10 Dice Wood Pills (30 RSS), 5 Dice Water Pills (10 RSS), 5 Dice Moon Pills (15 RSS), 5 Dice Darkness Pills (15 RSS)
    --[X] Total Expenditures: 150 + 10 + 15 + 30 + 10 + 15 + 15 = 245 RSS.
    -[X] Train Music arts with Zeqing
    --[X] (MAJOR) FSS
    -[X] (MAJOR) Head out to Search for the cavern shown to you in the Moon Quest
    -[X] Cultivate in the White Room
    --[X] (MAJOR) Open Lung Meridian
    --[X] With Su Ling
    -[X] Train with Xiulan
    --[X] (MAJOR) PLR
    --[X] (attached minor) Sixiang shouldn't be a problem for the moment, but you are interested. She said she was a muse after all, maybe she can help you improve your music?
    -[X] Train at the vent with Su Ling
    --[X] (MAJOR) TRF
    --[X] (attached minor) Fulfill your offer with Su Ling, train her in Argent Current for another silverblood pill
    -[X] Take a job
    -[X] (minor) It is time to address the matter of Cai's offer, it seems she is being polite and giving you time to settle, but it would be best not to leave it for too long
    [X] Plan Wormwood
    -[X] Overflow to spiritual, vent drip to AS, Grinning Moon successes to PLR
    -[X] Buy stuff
    --[X] Neophyte's Blade (150 RSS)
    --[X] 1 YSS (10 RSS) so we use 4 this week after including our virtual stones
    --[X] Heavy Rains Pill (15 RSS), 10 Dice Wood Pills (30 RSS), 5 Dice Water Pills (10 RSS), 5 Dice Earth Pills (10 RSS), 10 Dice Darkness Pills (40 RSS), 5 dice music pills (15 RSS)
    --[X] Total Expenditures: 150 + 10 + 15 + 30 + 10 + 10 + 40 + 15 = 280 RSS
    -[X] Train Music arts with Zeqing
    --[X] (MAJOR) FSS
    -[X] (MAJOR) Head out to Search for the cavern shown to you in the Moon Quest
    -[X] Cultivate in the White Room
    --[X] (MAJOR) Open Lung Meridian
    --[X] With Su Ling
    -[X] Train with Gu Xiulan
    --[X] (MAJOR) TRF
    --[X] (attached minor) Xiulan seems to know a fair amount about the inner Sect from her sister, see what stories she has to tell.
    -[X] Train at the vent with Su Ling
    --[X] (MAJOR) AE
    --[X] (attached minor) Fulfill your offer with Su Ling, train her in Argent Current for another silverblood pill
    -[X] (minor) Sixiang shouldn't be a problem for the moment, but you are interested. She said she was a muse after all, maybe she can help you improve your music?
    -[X] (minor) It is time to address the matter of Cai's offer, it seems she is being polite and giving you time to settle, but it would be best not to leave it for too long
    -[X] (minor) Train Zhengui in the Vale, and keep an eye on him, the little glutton
    [X] Plan Terror
    -[X] Overflow to spiritual, vent drip to AC, Grinning Moon successes to PLR
    -[X] Buy stuff
    --[X] Neophyte's Blade (150 RSS)
    --[X] 1 YSS (10 RSS) so we use 4 this week after including our virtual stones
    --[X] Heavy Rains Pill (15 RSS), 10 Dice Wood Pills (30 RSS), 5 Dice Water Pills (10 RSS), 5 Dice Darkness Pills (15 RSS), 4x Dragon's Endurance Pill (40RSS), Bountiful Earth's Blessing (100 RSS)
    --[X] Total Expenditures: 150 + 10 + 15 + 30 + 10 + 15 + 40 + 100 = 370 RSS
    -[X] Train Music arts with Zeqing
    --[X] (MAJOR) FSS
    -[X] (MAJOR) Head out to Search for the cavern shown to you in the Moon Quest
    -[X] Cultivate in the White Room
    --[X] (MAJOR) Open Lung Meridian
    --[X] With Li Suyin
    --[X] (minor) You and Suyin could continue working on the pale manual formations, perhaps you could ask Xuan Shi for a tip or two?
    -[X] Take a job
    --[X] Lost and Found
    --[X] Shambling Terror
    -[X] Train at the vent with Su Ling
    --[X] (MAJOR) TRF
    --[X] (attached minor) Fulfill your offer with Su Ling, train her in Argent Current for another silverblood pill
    -[X] (minor) It is time to address the matter of Cai's offer, it seems she is being polite and giving you time to settle, but it would be best not to leave it for too long
 
You know how Meizhen's always worrying about Ling Qi's health?

I imagine she'll get a heart attack when she learns we challenged a dragon to a duel.

No, what we've got to do is wait for Heizui to start flirting with Ling Qi.

At which point, we go to Meizhan for help/relationship advice.

Ling Qi: "Hypothetically speaking..."

Meizhan: *Takes very deep breath*

Ling Qi: "What should I do about a dragon flirting with me?"

Meizhan: "......Where and how did you meet a dragon?"

Ling Qi: "Oh, Heizui was in this vale that's an amazing cultivation site. I kinda wanted it so I challenged Heizui for the right to cultivate there and ran around him until he ran out of qi. Then I showed up, played music for him while I cultivated, and then we came to the present problem."

Meizhan: "I don't even know where to start picking out everything wrong with what you just said."
 
I don't know if it's possible for Zhengui to get Green,
That would require him to hibernate again, and each hibernation is longer than the previous. If he's in hibernation when the tournament comes we're out of luck, so we might actually want to hold back on that count. Peak yellow should be easy though.
 
hi

I am putting off Cai for transparent reasons of abhorring both her and salt, but have also seen 'put off cai for reasons of meeting the mom' floated about so I am totally not a clearly selfish person about this at all :V :V :V

so here is my personal favorite plan which is not obviously biased in favor of Golden Fields at all and is in fact totally balanced

Other than that, the most notable feature of this plan is taking a sect job instead of immediately jumping on Moon Quest, I guess? I don't see the rush, honestly.

[X] Plan Filial Piety or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Piss in the Wind
-[X] Overflow to spiritual, vent drip to AC, Grinning Moon successes to PLR
-[X] Buy stuff
--[X] Neophyte's Blade (150 RSS)
--[X] 1 YSS (10 RSS) so we use 4 this week after including our virtual stones
--[X] Heavy Rains Pill (15 RSS), 10 Dice Wood Pills (30 RSS), 5 Dice Water Pills (10 RSS), 5 Dice Moon Pills (15 RSS), 5 Dice Darkness Pills (15 RSS)
--[X] Dragon's Endurance Pill x5 (200 RSS), Bountiful Earth's Blessing (100 RSS)
--[X] Total Expenditures: 150 + 10 + 15 + 30 + 10 + 15 + 15 + 200 + 100 = 545 RSS
-[X] Train Music arts with Zeqing
--[X] (MAJOR) FSS
-[X] Take a job
--[X] Shambling Terror
-[X] Cultivate in the White Room
--[X] (MAJOR) Open Leg Meridian
--[X] With Xiulan
-[X] Train with Xiulan
--[X] (MAJOR) PLR
--[X] (attached minor) Sixiang shouldn't be a problem for the moment, but you are interested. She said she was a muse after all, maybe she can help you improve your music?
-[X] Train at the vent with Su Ling
--[X] (MAJOR) TRF
--[X] (attached minor) Fulfill your offer with Su Ling, train her in Argent Current for another silverblood pill
-[X] (minor) Train Zhengui in the Vale, and keep an eye on him, the little glutton
-[X] (minor) You and Suyin could continue working on the pale manual formations, perhaps you could ask Xuan Shi for a tip or two?
-[X] (minor) Have a few lunches with Gu Tai, you like him well enough, and you are a little curious, maybe he has a few embarrassing stories about Xiulan to share
 
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So we kind of need that mission. I'm seeing a whole lot of plan without mission and it will fuck us over.

We currently have two Sable Light Pills burning a hole in our storage ring. I think it's likely we won't go for Appraisal, which means those SLP weeks need to be done sooner rather than later. Current thinking is they're best done the moment the moon quest is complete, whenever that is. We should definitely not wait until the end, because without Appraisal we can't reliably open meridians without the White Room in the final weeks.

The problem is that SLP weeks are tutor weeks. We currently have 48 sect points. If we have to do our SLP weeks, we need 60 sect points available. I've seen an argument by PrimalShadow that we can do one SLP week and then earn the points for the next one after that, but he's very wrong about that. If we do that, then for the remainder of the year we will have to earn points for tutoring in the same week we spend them. While technically this has been permitted by yrs in the past, it is risky, since we aren't guaranteed mission success. In addition, averaging 25 sect points per mission, we'll be able to use our 13 leftover sect points to make up the difference only twice. That means we miss another week of tutoring.

Let me make it clear: each week we don't mission, we are burning actions later on. Even if we don't want to spend points on anything but tutoring. The ideal scenario is we mission 8 times and tutor 8 times in the next 10 weeks, which is definitely possible and gives us by far the most training. 7 and 7 would work, 6 and 6 starts to get iffy. What I'm seeing right now is 5 and 5. That won't work. That's giving up an entire additional art level because... no reason, actually. I see no justification for it at all.
 
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Why are we looking for more arts again? Instead of shoring up arts we do have?

Honest question.

Also we should take into consideration any future plans just won't work with all the possible things happening before tournament and the minors as well as the Cai vote coming in hot , which can just...make everything choatic at best.
 
Why are we looking for more arts again? Instead of shoring up arts we do have?

Honest question.

Also we should take into consideration any future plans just won't work with all the possible things happening before tournament and the minors as well as the Cai vote coming in hot , which can just...make everything choatic at best.
He's talking about training our existing arts one level more/less. Another art is only an option.
 
I'm kind of curious, is there anything mother could say that would actually push people to change their votes on Cai? Personally I don't think she knows anything that matters when it comes to matters of nobility, but I keep seeing this get brought up so maybe I am missing something.
 
I'm kind of curious, is there anything mother could say that would actually push people to change their votes on Cai? Personally I don't think she knows anything that matters when it comes to matters of nobility, but I keep seeing this get brought up so maybe I am missing something.
people just want to delay the salt and arguments. Also, there are other minors they'd rather take
 
I'm kind of curious, is there anything mother could say that would actually push people to change their votes on Cai? Personally I don't think she knows anything that matters when it comes to matters of nobility, but I keep seeing this get brought up so maybe I am missing something
Our mother has consistently written and hinted in her letters that she has some knowledge of how nobles work. One was that she feared our brash manner of speech would not be of help in dealings with nobles.

There are further implications in that only a brothel would hire her even though she has a passable education in music, mathematics and is literate. Most commoners are not typically educated in music, mathematics, and the written word as there are more important tasks to do (farming, laundary, cooking, etc). Clearly, she has had an education above the norm of commoners, and some event in the past precludes her from using that education to find productive work outside of a brothel.

There is something fishy going on, and with her repeated words of caution in dealing with nobles, an inference can be drawn that she herself has had trouble with nobles. Such trouble could lead to a result that our Mother finds herself in.
 
I'm kind of curious, is there anything mother could say that would actually push people to change their votes on Cai? Personally I don't think she knows anything that matters when it comes to matters of nobility, but I keep seeing this get brought up so maybe I am missing something.

Actually yeah, we still don't know anything about ling qis background or that whole ??? Thing she had . Plus add in little mystries like the knowledge qi mom posses about different things, the wind comb , and some jumbled memories . We could have a sudden revalation that makes it harder to choose
 
[X] Plan Open Door Mission
-[X] Overflow to spiritual, vent drip to AC, Grinning Moon successes to PLR
-[X] Buy stuff
--[X] Neophyte's Blade (150 RSS)
--[X] 1 YSS (10 RSS) so we use 4 this week after including our virtual stones
--[X] Heavy Rains Pill (15 RSS), 10 Dice Wood Pills (30 RSS), 5 Dice Water Pills (10 RSS), 5 Dice Darkness Pills (15 RSS)
--[X] Dragon's Endurance Pill x5 (200 RSS), Bountiful Earth's Blessing (100 RSS)
--[X] Total Expenditures: 150 + 10 + 15 + 30 + 10 + 15 + 200 + 100 = 530 RSS
-[X] Train Music arts with Zeqing
--[X] (MAJOR) FSS
-[X] (MAJOR) Head out to Search for the cavern shown to you in the Moon Quest
-[X] Cultivate in the White Room
--[X] (MAJOR) Open Lung Meridian
--[X] With Su Ling
--[X] (attached minor) Fulfill your offer with Su Ling, train her in Argent Current for another silverblood pill
-[X] Take a job
--[X] (MAJOR) Lost and Found
-[X] Train with Gu Xiulan
--[X] (MAJOR) TRF
--[X] (attached minor) Sixiang shouldn't be a problem for the moment, but you are interested. She said she was a muse after all, maybe she can help you improve your music?
-[X] (minor) It is time to address the matter of Cai's offer, it seems she is being polite and giving you time to settle, but it would be best not to leave it for too long
-[X] (minor) Train Zhengui in the Vale, and keep an eye on him, the little glutton
-[X] (minor) You and Suyin could continue working on the pale manual formations, perhaps you could ask Xuan Shi for a tip or two?

This is the same as Primal's plan except it swaps PLR for a sect mission, which helps a ton in keeping our future schedule flexible. And it's not closed door like the other mission plans.

Why are we looking for more arts again? Instead of shoring up arts we do have?

Honest question.

Also we should take into consideration any future plans just won't work with all the possible things happening before tournament and the minors as well as the Cai vote coming in hot , which can just...make everything choatic at best.
The nice part about future plans is that they are more flexible the more preparation we do now, not less. Even if we don't want more arts, or we have to re-arrange where pill weeks are.
 
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