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

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Yes, but if that happens, presumably she arranges a meeting with Meizhen similar to this one then explains. Meizhen is more than capable of getting Renshu to knock it off. It's not even outside Sect Rules since she's presumably officially respoding to a complaint of harassment or somesuch by a clanswoman.
The solution is obvious, we must simply tutor our Kouhai in the art of stealing from Renshu in the lessons we do get.

He shall have no escape.

Renshu is in the Inner Sect. She can't steal from him, unfortunately. However, it might be worth asking Meizhen if she has any objection to us teaching her cousin our more...larcenous...abilities. It is something potentially useful, either to give her cousin some insight into how to tell if someone is trying to steal from Meizhen (or herself) and, if Meizhen needs her to, to steal things. (That and similar skills can be useful for information exchange- such as someone skilled at pickpocketing can also sneak notes into someones' pocket.)
 
I am still stuck on those Yin wood seeds I am sure we can get a yin wood art.

So
[Moon]
[Wood]
[Yin]


For some reason I keep imagining a small reflective pool (reflecting the moon) atop that spire from her breakthrough dream surrounded by pale white weeping willows.
The tally won't pick up your vote formatted like that. The brackets need to be arround an "X" as thus:

[X] Connection
[X] Wind
[X] Fade
 
-She has two elements known, Darkness and Yin Fire. However, the Bai Recommendation is Three Elements. She may be looking to pick up a third. If so, our other possibilities:

--Moon is possible, but we hadn't really seen that kind of temperament to make it work from her? And the Bais have their own cultivation arts so EPC isn't a big sell to them. Still, theres like two Moon cultivators in the Inner Sect that we know of, so scoring Ling Qi is easy.

I already said this on discord, imo we should give Xiao Fen SCS to corrupt her with our Moon influence. Teach her to live a little, also radicalizing adorable Bais is basically a core mission goal now.

I do think moon would be actually a good third element for her, it offers all sorts of interesting stuff for a ninja maid. And throw half the outer sect into PTSD fits about fog and shit, given how we did in the tournament - the first time our new snek pupil unleashes, everybody will be "omg not another one of those" and curl up in a ball
 
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[X] Moon
[X] Stealth

I still want Sable Moon's Veil...
I am pretty sure Sable Moon's Veil is basically "need to impress Liao Zhu" only art :D
Adhoc vote count started by Arkeus on Dec 4, 2018 at 12:47 PM, finished with 2836 posts and 150 votes.
 
Time-sheets and optimal use of drugs 101. How to fit extra cultivation into any other downtime. How social actions can be turned into extra training.
Also: the myriad uses of aloofness when not in your comfortable environment.


I'm a bit sad to see Music and Moon take a slot when we already have a borderline perfect teacher for one and a treasure map directly from our Moon patron.
Same, I thought that was redundant as fuck personally.

I'd want Darkness instead of Moon and not Connection though that seems unlikely.
Reason I voted for at least one of those was this(can't remember which); "Not enough of a good thing". It is my firm opinion that while we have tutors for these things, since they are our main things it behooves us to focus on them and not use one of our resources to pick something uninfluenced by those.

It wraps back to the arguments in the old thread about Music. We are at the point where stuff is literally better for Ling Qi if it is a Music art because of all of the stuff we've accrued that benefits from it.

And @PrimalShadow, nah. That is hilariously unlikely given that most of the people who can be arsed to make plans, and most/all of the people who don't, understand how Darkness is really super important.
 
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Huh. Looks to me like the vote has 7 competing choices.

Perceptiveness, Wind, Stealth, Moon, Music, Darkness and Connection.

Interesting range. Anyone want to spitball on what arts might come of these?

Oh! @yrsillar - what was your plan if we decided not to get healing in Zhou's trial? That's where we met Xin and got our formative arts.

Think that one vote outside chargen was arguably the most important we've had in terms of our path.
 
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Perceptiveness, Wind, Stealth, Moon, Music, Darkness and Connection.

Interesting range. Anyone want to spitball on what arts might come of these?

I for one am hoping to get a good perception art, to replace AM. Beyond that, a commander art to boost group movement/group stealth would be great, and maybe some communication art (wind/connection) to talk to people over distance. or listen to them, which gets us back to perception arts.
 
I wonder if the Elders will literally move "stuff" around in the Outer Sect. If not we can give her quite a few very useful cultivation spots if nothing else...

Changing my vote to a more strategic:
[X] Connection
[X] Darkness
[X] Wind

hopefully it'll push moon and music down. It's not like the 1st archive floor could ever offer anything competitive with what we already have on those, let alone the likely upgrades from zeqing and moon map...
 
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Reason I voted for at least one of those was this(can't remember which); "Not enough of a good thing". It is my firm opinion that while we have tutors for these things, since they are our main things it behooves us to focus on them and not use one of our resources to pick something uninfluenced by those.

It wraps back to the arguments in the old thread about Music. We are at the point where stuff is literally better for Ling Qi if it is a Music art because of all of the stuff we've accrued that benefits from it.

And @PrimalShadow, nah. That is hilariously unlikely given that most of the people who can be arsed to make plans, and most/all of the people who don't, understand how Darkness is really super important.
I would argue that we should just be assumed to be always interested in Moon by default. We shouldn't even need to say it.

Also, unless one is arguing that we should literally be running a mono-darkness build for the sake of optimising one part of our toolset, the "but it's not darkness" argument kinda falls flat on its face.

I would also remind people that this should not be our only art research action. Getting a wide range of options is a good thing.
 
Thread Tools up by the top, next to watch thread.

Also next to edit post in your posts.

"thread tools" in my case has only "who replied". Nothing else.
Next to "edit post" in my post is only "delete" and "report".

Do I have something wrong with my browser? I turned off AdBlock and AdGuard for this site, so I am not sure what else I am missing.
 
"thread tools" in my case has only "who replied". Nothing else.
Next to "edit post" in my post is only "delete" and "report".

Do I have something wrong with my browser? I turned off AdBlock and AdGuard for this site, so I am not sure what else I am missing.
It's because you haven't made enough posts on Sufficent Velocity, and/or don't have enough time as a member. I'm not sure which it is but it should open up some time in the near future.
 
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