Threads Of Destiny(Eastern Fantasy, Sequel to Forge of Destiny)

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[X] Invite Xuan Shi to help you with building his breakthough nest. Surely his knowledge will improve it
[X][M] Ask Cai Renxiang to put it up for auction
 
[X][M] Ask Cai Renxiang to put it up for auction
[X] Invite Xuan Shi to help you with building his breakthough nest. Surely his knowledge will improve it

I want Zhengui to have high quality nest.
 
So of the arts that we have planned, could any of them be music arts?

I think for this first meeting, it would be baller if we could play a Song with different themes than the fairly similar FSS and FVM.

Also, I don't want to pop an @ yrs on this, but does anybody know how many more updates we expect this turn to take? I want to get some omake in before the cap resets and with cooking for thanksgiving I'm kinda pressed for writing time.
 
This just isn't true. Cultivation has a profound impact on the mind. They think faster and more clearly and can remember more precisely, which has a huge impact on their skill ceiling for academics. Note that our Intelligence is two ranks higher than peak mortal.
I agree.

However, unless we play Ling Qi very differently she's not going to become a great scholar. More importantly, she doesn't need to be.
 
So of the arts that we have planned, could any of them be music arts?

I think for this first meeting, it would be baller if we could play a Song with different themes than the fairly similar FSS and FVM.
Or you know. Play an entirely normal song we simply compose and move away from the limiting silliness that is "oh our only music must be arts".
 
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[X][M] Ask Cai Renxiang to put it up for auction
[X] Invite Xuan Shi to help you with building his breakthough nest. Surely his knowledge will improve it

Build our boy a bed out of all this cash we gonna be rolling in.
 
[X][M] Keep the mirror

[X] Go with Zhengui and help him build his breakthrough nest on your own.

Wasn't the mirror a really good ingredient for something when we're stronger? If we're serious about starting a clan having a powerful talisman/artifact/whatever to use and hand down strikes me as being much better than some extra money now. Maybe if selling it really would actually fund the setup for our fief.

I'd at least like to see what the next bracket of sect income is before hocking off our super treasure.

Xuan Shi is better than Xiulan for this but I'd rather have a special moment between Ling Qi and Zhengui. Plus it won't win anyway:p
 
I agree.

However, unless we play Ling Qi very differently she's not going to become a great scholar. More importantly, she doesn't need to be.
I'm not sure about that. Ling Qi doesn't need to be a great scholar now (although Xin would approve), but as a spymaster she'll need the knowledge to turn the clues she finds into actionable intelligence.
 
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[X][M] Keep the mirror

[X] Go with Zhengui and help him build his breakthrough nest on your own.

Wasn't the mirror a really good ingredient for something when we're stronger? If we're serious about starting a clan having a powerful talisman/artifact/whatever to use and hand down strikes me as being much better than some extra money now. Maybe if selling it really would actually fund the setup for our fief.

I'd at least like to see what the next bracket of sect income is before hocking off our super treasure.

Xuan Shi is better than Xiulan for this but I'd rather have a special moment between Ling Qi and Zhengui. Plus it won't win anyway:p

Yah so the mirror could become a 4th level tresure which is much higher than a starting barony could usually hope for. On the other hand its death qi and even the Bai don't mess with death qi. So... selling it allows us to get more powerful faster which then earns us greater treasures. More specifically treasures that aren't death qi.
 
Wasn't the mirror a really good ingredient for something when we're stronger? If we're serious about starting a clan having a powerful talisman/artifact/whatever to use and hand down strikes me as being much better than some extra money now. Maybe if selling it really would actually fund the setup for our fief.
The last info I remember was; "Make powerful ward, but still dangerous to use because it is death" or "Sell it for like a tiny fraction of our fief's needs to fuel a few 8 green stone months".
 
Basically, while there are some things on which I think we shouldn't sacrifice her future for a quick boost to power (E.G doing something that would aleniate allies, losing friends, or mess up our Ways), ultimately we have a Nightmare mode mission set by Shenhua.

Each time we decide "let us not use the treasure/consumable/opportunity to get stronger", we also decide "We are doing well enough that we can afford to do so".

Currently, we are very much not in a position to confidently say we can afford this, I think. Especially not for 'plausible death item in a few years'.
 
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So of the arts that we have planned, could any of them be music arts?

I think for this first meeting, it would be baller if we could play a Song with different themes than the fairly similar FSS and FVM.

Also, I don't want to pop an @ yrs on this, but does anybody know how many more updates we expect this turn to take? I want to get some omake in before the cap resets and with cooking for thanksgiving I'm kinda pressed for writing time.
Probably gonna be awhile. First month has to frontload all the setup stuff
 
[X] Invite Xuan Shi to help you with building his breakthough nest. Surely his knowledge will improve it
[X][M] Ask Cai Renxiang to put it up for auction
 
[X][M] Ask Cai Renxiang to put it up for auction
[X] Invite Xuan Shi to help you with building his breakthough nest. Surely his knowledge will improve it
 
Kind of curious what they will pass us from the Cai archive.

At the very least, this does confirm that it's not just heaven type stuff.
 
[X] Invite them both, why not? They don't have any conflicts, right?

[X]Ask Cai Renxiang to put it up for auction
 
[X][M] Ask Cai Renxiang to put it up for auction

[X] Invite Xuan Shi to help you with building his breakthough nest. Surely his knowledge will improve it


If the mirror was dark qi I'd be all over it, but death isn't in our themes.
 
So of the arts that we have planned, could any of them be music arts?

I think for this first meeting, it would be baller if we could play a Song with different themes than the fairly similar FSS and FVM.

Also, I don't want to pop an @ yrs on this, but does anybody know how many more updates we expect this turn to take? I want to get some omake in before the cap resets and with cooking for thanksgiving I'm kinda pressed for writing time.
We know more music than FSS and FVM, they just aren't arts. Like, seriously, we do know non-art music, it's come up a fair amount.
 
Kind of curious what they will pass us from the Cai archive.

At the very least, this does confirm that it's not just heaven type stuff.
There was speculation on Discord it might be TRF adjacent or stuff similar to TRF in philosophical style. I figure that is likely, along with stuff that shares Weilu theming, in the sense that it springs from Weilu culture and associates with either the Moon or Sun. The Xi and Hui and their associated count clans would have had Weilu influence still within them after all.

I do expect to be somewhat surprised by whatever is in there, but I also wouldn't be surprised if when it lands there is some failure to meet possible hype amongst some of the stuff and success amongst some of the others. So I'm not going to make myself go nuts over thinking about it.
 
I agree.

However, unless we play Ling Qi very differently she's not going to become a great scholar. More importantly, she doesn't need to be.
Definitely. It's possible it'll play a tertiary role if we need to research things to help spy efforts, but that's not enough to worry about it for the scope of this quest. We can work on it after the Sect if we end up needing it, or else Renxiang will insist on it, but we shouldn't need to pursue it unprompted.

There was speculation on Discord it might be TRF adjacent or stuff similar to TRF in philosophical style. I figure that is likely, along with stuff that shares Weilu theming, in the sense that it springs from Weilu culture and associates with either the Moon or Sun. The Xi and Hui and their associated count clans would have had Weilu influence still within them after all.

I do expect to be somewhat surprised by whatever is in there, but I also wouldn't be surprised if when it lands there is some failure to meet possible hype amongst some of the stuff and success amongst some of the others. So I'm not going to make myself go nuts over thinking about it.
I'm crossing my fingers to see Darkness or Music in an art, but as long as we get a usable art that connects to something we've done it'll be a welcome bonus.
 
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There was speculation on Discord it might be TRF adjacent or stuff similar to TRF in philosophical style. I figure that is likely, along with stuff that shares Weilu theming, in the sense that it springs from Weilu culture and associates with either the Moon or Sun. The Xi and Hui and their associated count clans would have had Weilu influence still within them after all.

I do expect to be somewhat surprised by whatever is in there, but I also wouldn't be surprised if when it lands there is some failure to meet possible hype amongst some of the stuff and success amongst some of the others. So I'm not going to make myself go nuts over thinking about it.

Well, over-hype happens.(CoughArgentArtsCough)

Mostly though, I'm just glad for the potential to supplement arts we will eventually have to make ourselves. Two years is not a large amount of time to master a lot of arts.
 
[X][M] Keep the mirror

[X] Invite Xuan Shi to help you with building his breakthough nest. Surely his knowledge will improve it
 
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