Forge of Destiny(Xianxia Quest)

I'm so mad, this was my exact reaction. "You're wrong! That's just jamming ice and music together, not taking into account her intense loyalty to a... vicious snake-themed pseudo-villain... and tendency towards irreverent snark... and poor background.... with a central, character-defining trauma involving family... wait........"

"Fuck, I want you to be, but you're not wrong."
I know right!

You can't just jam together Haku and Tayuya and get Ling Qi, but if you are very careful and take select bits together and mix it it goddamn fucking works.

Somehow.
 
I think Song Chu would say that cross is missing the snark and verbal bite of Ling Qi.
Haku is polite but has no (verbal) bite, and Tayuya is just crass.

And the flying ...
 
I think Song Chu would say that cross is missing the snark and verbal bite of Ling Qi.
Haku is polite but has no (verbal) bite, and Tayuya is just crass.
I don't know. Take the brash, uncaring nature of Tayuya and combine it with Haku's love of messing with people. And yes, Haku loved messing with people. Remember, Zabuza commented that he seemed to purposely put the needles where they hurt the worst, and Haku didn't deny it. More, there was really no reason for the whole forest scene at all. He could have moved elsewhere to pick herbs, or he could have just not told Naruto he was a guy. Instead, he waited until Naruto had been blatantly checking him out and he was walking away (so Naruto was probably watching his ass) and then went "I'm a guy". It's a part of his personality that fanfics seem to miss. He enjoys needling people in more ways than one.
 
Huum, i had put Haku genderbend more in Ling Qi's "change myself to appear polite in noble company" than anything else ... but Haku was a bit of a troll yes, though it's quite far from what talkdowns Ling Qi dished out.
Haku and Tayuya also both share Ling Qi's "raise from nothing" and intense personal loyalty to their benefactor (/friend), though Ling Qi is more "Self-made with some help" rather than (CRX/)Zabuza/Orochi personally raising them from a no-future situation, so the loyalty goes to friends. But i'm sure Meizhen would agree Ling Qi has a tendency to payback at least threefold any help previously given.

So Ling Qi daughter of HakuxTayuya ? :lol
 
but Haku was a bit of a troll yes, though it's quite far from what talkdowns Ling Qi dished out.
Haku was a lot more caring than Ling Qi. Like I said, you have to put Tayuya's detatchment with Haku's trolling.
Ling Qi is more "Self-made with some help" rather than (CRX/)Zabuza/Orochi personally raising them from a no-future situation
Zequing is actually close to Zabuza. A stone-cold killer whose heart was melted by an unfortunate waif they picked up on a whim. Though the powersets are reversed, in that the ice user is training the Demon Hidden in the Mist.

This is your reminder that we have a four-dot relationship with the general outer sect of "Oh shit, not her!" I am about 90% certain we feature in their nightmares occasionally. We might actually cause more stress than CRX just because it's easy to see her coming and run like buggery. With us, your first indication is a mist drop. And by then, it's FAR too late.
 
This is your reminder that we have a four-dot relationship with the general outer sect of "Oh shit, not her!" I am about 90% certain we feature in their nightmares occasionally. We might actually cause more stress than CRX just because it's easy to see her coming and run like buggery. With us, your first indication is a mist drop. And by then, it's FAR too late.
Now I want an omake where outer disciples get diagnosed with Linq-phobia. Clearly that's the actual reason Suyin's mentor got send down.
 
This is your reminder that we have a four-dot relationship with the general outer sect of "Oh shit, not her!" I am about 90% certain we feature in their nightmares occasionally. We might actually cause more stress than CRX just because it's easy to see her coming and run like buggery. With us, your first indication is a mist drop. And by then, it's FAR too late.

They aren't even that paranoid. Some of them can legitimately say that Ling Qi "ate" their homeworktourney project!
 
Now I want an omake where outer disciples get diagnosed with Linq-phobia. Clearly that's the actual reason Suyin's mentor got send down.
RELAXATION

It was difficult to get any rest anymore Wen Long mused. Signing up with Sun Liling had seemed the smartest option at first. Then it had all gone sideways. The Bai had stayed loyal to the Cai, and together they had driven Liling into retreat. Then, when Liling had counter-attacked, the Bai and Cai had retaliated even harder, driving their side even further into the hinterlands.

All of that would have been tolerable though, except for one thing: Ling Qi. Some kind of super commoner, she had humiliated Sun and allies on several occasions. Worse, every attempt to hurt her came to nothing, ran afoul of grouchy spirits, or got a very angry Bai after you. Misfortune and disaster all round, with success being the worst!

And now Sun had made it clear to him and all the other sentries in the fortress that she would be personally unhappy with them if she managed to get around them. What were they supposed to do? She was an elite! If the ancestors had eyes, their poor descendent would never have to meet her, much less fight her!

Even without that, just the constant wondering if she was attacking or sneaking past them right then was quite wearing.

Tonight, though, he had no worries. He and his rotation had a couple of days off, and were taking advantage of the opportunity. Rather than stay in the fortress, they had rented an inn in town, and were drinking to their heart's content before retiring to their first restful sleep in quite a while.

"To brothers and peace!" At the yelled toast, Wen Long raised his jug. Truly, he had never known the value of peace until it was gone!

XXX

A white mist snaked through the inn, the chill dew it brought causing the drunk and sleeping disciples within to shiver unconsciously. Each tossed, unaware of the dark turns their dreams had taken. However, each came awake with one sound.

The long, solemn notes if a sorrowing flute.

As though their feet had been given wings, disciples burst out of the nearest exit of the inn, shoving each other in a panic. These "brothers" now gave have no thought to each other, drunken fear causing a free-for-all with the slowest eschewing blocked exits in favor of creating new ones.

As the group scattered to the winds, none noticed the group sitting on the neighboring roof. Laughing.

The innkeeper did though, when he came to investigate the ruckus. "Honored disciples, pardon this one," he called, "but while it was quite amusing, much damage was caused to my inn."

"Not to worry," the ringleader replied, jumping off the roof, "this should cover the costs." With that he dropped a heavy bag in the innkeeper's hand.

Turning back to his compatriots, he spread his arms wide, "See? For the cost of a mist formation, a flute player, and a bit of repairs, you can have a show greater than any in town!" Raising the jug in his hand, he offered his own toast, "To Ling Qi and drunk enemies!"

"Ganbei!"


It's rough, but funny to me!
 
Haha, for a while there, I thought that was a natural mist and Ling Qi just happened to be playing for her mum nearby.
 
Haha, for a while there, I thought that was a natural mist and Ling Qi just happened to be playing for her mum nearby.
I imagine that anywhere Sun loyalists go has very few flutes or snakes.

Also, I'm pretty sure that if we found out any of them were setting up near Mom, we would show that we remember what dark alleys, sharp knives, and sewer rats are for.
 
Does anyone else have butterflies right now? This really feels like the actual test of our build-we can support perfectly, but can we stand on our own?
I'd rather we lose after a good show, personally, so that we don't have to face Sun Liling in the round after. Not eager to give her an opportunity to vent her frustrations on us with impunity.
 
I'd rather we lose after a good show, personally, so that we don't have to face Sun Liling in the round after. Not eager to give her an opportunity to vent her frustrations on us with impunity.
Ehh, we can give up anytime, so that's not a real danger I think.

OTOH, we know that the inner sect gives vastly different rewards depending on the placing in the tournament, so I really hope we aren't going to be twoshot in the first turn because we haven't put our defensive suite on. Crossing fingers, hopefully my worries about Ji Rong not being mulltiple tier under Ling Qi are wrong.
 
Ehh, we can give up anytime, so that's not a real danger I think.

OTOH, we know that the inner sect gives vastly different rewards depending on the placing in the tournament, so I really hope we aren't going to be twoshot in the first turn because we haven't put our defensive suite on. Crossing fingers, hopefully my worries about Ji Rong not being mulltiple tier under Ling Qi are wrong.

I'm thinking he's as ramp dependdent as we are.

Back when we jumped him with Gan, he didn't punch out one of our mooks or hit one of the two elites, he went super saiyan.

I'm hoping that's exactly that he does here.
 
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Oh, I must be misremembering,

I could have sworn he spent his first action chargin' his lazors.
There is no 'charging' done for his lazors anymore than we need 'charging' when we use SEA, it's just that some people like to say that Ji Rong attacking with his lazors need charge up because it looks cool when he does it.
 
I'd prefer to win the entire thing. Reach for the heavens as it were.

I wonder if the dicing is done?
I'd prefer to take out Sun Liling and then go down in the finals to CRX like a good subject, selling exactly the story Shenhua (or CRX) wants us to sell. Long-term, that leads to better resources, not worse. (runner-up: as above, but with the slightly different plot where we instead go down in the finals against Bai Meizhen.)

Us going all the way might be sort of gratifying in some ways, but it wouldn't serve our Duke's purposes, it wouldn't increase the Sect resources that our little bloc receives, and it would draw attention that we'd rather not have. We'll *already* have as much attention as we could possibly make actual use of if we take down Sun Liling.
 
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Personally I would like it if Ling Qi started losing a bit more. I think it would make for a better story. Like Meizhen says, it's arrogant of Ling Qi to believe that she is the only one who gets to improve.
 
Personally I would like it if Ling Qi started losing a bit more. I think it would make for a better story. Like Meizhen says, it's arrogant of Ling Qi to believe that she is the only one who gets to improve.
Well we are hoping to win against Ji Rong but that should be the last fight we have a chance to win in this tourney. Sun is just so much stronger than us that winning against her is very far fetched.
 
Personally I would like it if Ling Qi started losing a bit more. I think it would make for a better story. Like Meizhen says, it's arrogant of Ling Qi to believe that she is the only one who gets to improve.
I don't think so, and here's why: We lose a lot. Or rather, we redefine victory until it is something obtainable. We run from anything that might be too dangerous, having absolutely no compunction about honor or dignity. The few times we've been forced to fight straight-up have been our least glorious moments. The first Sun fight and the Chu Song fight. That's one thing that makes me so nervous about this. We've never really had a time where we couldn't run. This is the real question-can we stand on our own, when we can't cut and run if it all goes south?
 
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