Ling Qi can't have losers for friends. Look at how the tournament went. All her friends were winners. Look at Han Jian's performance. He tried to distance himself from Ling Qi, and what did he get in return? Not winning is what he got, the poor mad fool.Regardless of the rank changing, CP, yadda yadda, in the case of Suyin being challenged and Renshu winning that means in Ling Qi's head that Suyin was basically targeted and the defeat meant to spite Ling Qi. The scale of the consequences is immaterial.
Ling Qi doesn't like seeing her friends lose, is basically what that line says.
This better explains the point I was making in my own vote.I'm going for this because I think we could suprise him with a challenge based on his two primary areas. He helps out regularly with wardings, so a trial where he constructs wards for us to pass seems possible, and I think we could do that. I also think he might well choose dealing with spirits if offered, and again Ling Qi is suprisingly skilled in that sort of challenge area.
804 I think is likely to have more stealth specialised arts, and will be better until we actually do some study of the stealth arts from the archive. So if the challenge could be stealth based we'd be better against disciple 807.
On disciple 812, loud and vulgar for current imperial sensibilities isn't necessarily meaning bad and I'm not convinced Ling Qi's own compositions are considered the height of imperial taste, and are often noted as somwhat gloomy. It's entirely possible that "loud and vulgar" is just her personal taste (important for cultivation). Besides which Ling Qi's most notable composition is her song for Meizhen (which I don't want to share in public) and required a lot of emotion for us to construct, so if she goes for a challenge of composition I'm not certain we'd win.
Plus 807 seems like more of a fun challenge that we could interact with as players rather compared to 812.
Ling Qi can't have losers for friends. Look at how the tournament went. All her friends were winners. Look at Han Jian's performance. He tried to distance himself from Ling Qi, and what did he get in return? Not winning is what he got, the poor mad fool.
Do note that losing a challenge is not actually a great loss. In fact, Yu Nuan's losses from us challenging her and winning are the same as her losses if we challenge someone higher than her and win - she goes down a rank*.I don't want to pick on the common-born kid who got last place yesteryear.
foils are great, they give us an opportunity to temper ourselves![X] Research Disciple 807
812 is a commoner with a penchant towards music and is a social disaster. I'd rather avoid the obvious foil if we can.
That being said, if 807 uses a bunch of consumables we just might find some cool stuff that we can use without a huge time investment. Assuming the fight doesn't resolve in a way that makes us hate one another.
Yeah. A foil is exactly what we want. We can be frenemies!foils are great, they give us an opportunity to temper ourselves!
Yeah, but you can only do the "that could have been me" thing so many times before it feels too same-y. Would rather spend it on an arc villain/rival and not the entry fight.foils are great, they give us an opportunity to temper ourselves!
I think there are compelling ways it can develop that aren't along the lines of 'that could have been me'Yeah, but you can only do the "that could have been me" thing so many times before it feels too same-y. Would rather spend it on an arc villain/rival and not the entry fight.
basically thisRegardless of the rank changing, CP, yadda yadda, in the case of Suyin being challenged and Renshu winning that means in Ling Qi's head that Suyin was basically targeted and the defeat meant to spite Ling Qi. The scale of the consequences is immaterial.
Ling Qi doesn't like seeing her friends lose, is basically what that line says.
Also like, it probably won't even be a fight in any sense with 807.[X] Research Disciple 807
812 is a commoner with a penchant towards music and is a social disaster. I'd rather avoid the obvious foil if we can.
That being said, if 807 uses a bunch of consumables we just might find some cool stuff that we can use without a huge time investment. Assuming the fight doesn't resolve in a way that makes us hate one another.