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Threads Of Destiny(Eastern Fantasy, Sequel to Forge of Destiny)
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Uh...my read was that he had hopes for Renxiang as the base of his distress.
Not having a Xuanwu is more a consequence of there being too few of them period for someone of his status to get ome
Well, as already said, FSS does it better for most scenarios, unless comboing into other Melee arts with a Doot base like using the Argent Storm counter. Or the like.
Ok, I'm going to argue this vote because why not.
Spending the morning with our family first is boring. Indeed, I'd say it's almost pointless narratively. It's just background fluff to the important plotpoint that is our meeting with Meizhen's cousin.
If we have our meeting after, then there is the possibility that our meeting might actually influence it. The meeting might bring up issues that we could discuss with our mother, making the scene more narratively important and opening up more character development opportunities - as well as tying the update together.
Some have suggested that the vote affects the focus of the update or whether or not we're prioritising family or friends/work. I would argue against this. Firstly, because I would say that the Bai cousin is clearly plot important and should just have narrative focus. Secondly, because either vote can be interpreted as focusing on family or friends. Spend time with our family first? We're putting them first. Spend time with our family after? We're getting our appointments out of the way so we can spend as much time as we want with our family.
Spending the morning with our family first is boring. Indeed, I'd say it's almost pointless narratively. It's just background fluff to the important plotpoint that is our meeting with Meizhen's cousin.
If we have our meeting after, then there is the possibility that our meeting might actually influence it. The meeting might bring up issues that we could discuss with our mother, making the scene more narratively important and opening up more character development opportunities - as well as tying the update together.
Some have suggested that the vote affects the focus of the update or whether or not we're prioritising family or friends/work. I would argue against this. Firstly, because I would say that the Bai cousin is clearly plot important and should just have narrative focus. Secondly, because either vote can be interpreted as focusing on family or friends. Spend time with our family first? We're putting them first. Spend time with our family after? We're getting our appointments out of the way so we can spend as much time as we want with our family.
Varder
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I vote for family first because what we hold first has a certain time frame which it can't overflow. And since Meizhen's meeting seems more important, I want it to have a possibility to stretch for however much is needed.
We're just going to meet Meizhen's cousin. Possibly over tea or something. I'd be surprised if it took more than an hour. We're not going to be conducting trade negotiations here.
BungieONI
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Of course that argument in the last paragraph is mostly baseless, because it's trying to have both at the same time with very little indication. Which is kinda the problem with this vote, since it's just there because the update ended. (Which isn't that much of a problem, but does deserve being mentioned)
I think it's worth unpacking this line a little bit, because it's easy to gloss over it. To take an "obvious" answer for granted. This could be a "Man I wish I had a xuan wu partner" look from Xuan Shi, but it could also be a "he'll outlive everyone he wished to be a home for you know" look.
He is familiar with the xuan wu condition in ways that we aren't, and has shown himself to be a generally thoughtful kind of guy. Xuan Wu, in their power and longevity, may well suffer for it. How many cousins might pass in the span of a single bout of torpor for the truly powerful? How many generations of cousins? How lightly might they begin to resist the pull of sleep after such habitual loss? I imagine the burden of supporting their more diminutive kin has little to do with weight indeed.
This could be the future Xuan Shi sees when his eyes fall on our brother.
[X] Meet Meizhen first, and see who she wanted to introduce, she would visit mother after
There's lots of potential arguments for this vote, so I'm going to employ a radically unused one! If the meeting goes awkward, having our family waiting for us is an ironclad excuse to excuse ourselves within the culture framework all parties are operating from. It's just a hop, skip, and "Sorry Meizhen, gotta go meet my mother, you know that thing you don't have and that I gave no indication of having until suddenly I did in contradiction to the apparent bone-wearying familial isolation you likely allowed yourself to believe we shared in common and that informed your unspoken decisions to become emotionally vulnerable to me?" away.
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Varder
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With her cousin? Yes. But maybe we can spend some time with Meizhen herself afterwards.
DonLyn
Verified Soulless Bureaucrat
2 things.
1.: It's not an unprecedented argument, since I made it a couple of posts above yours ( and establishing that fact is vitally important to my sense of self worth, dammit! )
2.: We've had a couple of insights into Meizhen's issues, and there is no indication that Ling Qi or anyone else having a mother is one of them.
[X] Spend the morning with her Mother and Biyu, and meet with Meizhen after
[X] Spend the morning with her Mother and Biyu, and meet with Meizhen after
Meizhen and her cousin don't need sleep. Mother and Biyu does.
Meizhen and her cousin don't need sleep. Mother and Biyu does.
I feel like we dont spend enough time with the fam.
It's been years since LQ left. It's gonna take time and effort to mend that rift.
Origami Clock
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[X] Spend the morning with her Mother and Biyu, and meet with Meizhen after
Aranfan
Team Plasma Grunt
except instead of spindly arms and legs and neck and tail it's all tortoise
... I don't think he's going to be able to pull off being an ambush predator after he gets to Green.
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after a certain point the size just makes it easier
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Once you get big enough being an ambush predator is surprisingly effective.
