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

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Arkeus said:
Likewise, I don't think it's cunning and creativity to serve the goal of staying alive:
The 'kept her alive' part refers to her past, while the 'done better in recent trials' is an example of what 'Cunning and Creativity' could give her in latter days.
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Yeah that's a fair reading, the "had" in "had kept her alive" is what's key here.
 
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Adhoc vote count started by naths on Feb 23, 2019 at 5:50 PM, finished with 150 posts and 75 votes.
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[X] Water


Best snek is water. I think Ling Qi has been heavily influenced in how Bai Meizhen thinks.
And we have a Wood/Fire turtlesnek. So I dont want to double up on wood. Might also go for Darkness, just because of the jelousness of keeping her friends.

[X] Darkness
 
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What kind of home do we want to build? One that is dark and no one can leave even if they want to? Or a home where the birds go but always come back because it is a place of joy?
 
Mmm, the big thing I'm concerned about for Wind is that I can very easily just see us doing a repeat of last year where we vote for it now, and then it just sort of tails off and disappears again because we're just not fitting it into our arts.

Darkness, by contrast, not only makes the most sense as the "what is most important to you" thing, but is also really safe there.

Wind is honestly kinda this slightly meta nostalgia vote in many ways. Of course, if we could push out water and get some neat darkness/wind arts I'd be all for that :p
 
Aranfan said:
What kind of home do we want to build? One that is dark and no one can leave even if they want to? Or a home where the birds go but always come back because it is a place of joy?
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LoL no.

Dark means we Jealously protect that which is ours, and is willing to pay a high price in keeping them safe and secure.

It might even be tempered in how Suyin acted in the recent journey, where Ling Qi acknowledged that letting Suyin grow in danger had its benefits.


So dont go on with your smear campaign against dark. Its got its charms too.
 
Aranfan said:
What kind of home do we want to build? One that is dark and no one can leave even if they want to? Or a home where the birds go but always come back because it is a place of joy?
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Oh you want to go there?

Like Wind is not building a home at all if we are going to just shittalk the elements. Whimsical and only going places, not caring but for scant seconds or minute before moving on. Like a dead beat parent that really do not care about being home.
 
Erebeal said:
Mmm, the big thing I'm concerned about for Wind is that I can very easily just see us doing a repeat of last year where we vote for it now, and then it just sort of tails off and disappears again because we're just not fitting it into our arts.

Darkness, by contrast, not only makes the most sense as the "what is most important to you" thing, but is also really safe there.

Wind is honestly kinda this slightly meta nostalgia vote in many ways. Of course, if we could push out water and get some neat darkness/wind arts I'd be all for that :p
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Well, as mentioned the concern is for the core arts. However, for non-core arts, we are getting HDW this turn, and there is a real pushing for ENM (Wind/Darkness art), MNO (Wind/Moon art), DLS (Wind/Darkness art) and AFL (wind art). So while I think there is a danger of Wind never being part of our 'signature arts', which are arguably the ones that matter the most narratively, I don't think it's in a danger to be a repeat of last year where it just sort of tails off and disappears.

Hell, considering that CRX is asking us to be in a lot of parties, HDW should almost certainly have a signfiicant narrative role, and hopefully MNO will too.
 
Aranfan said:
What kind of home do we want to build? One that is dark and no one can leave even if they want to? Or a home where the birds go but always come back because it is a place of joy?
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But Manor of Ice Mom was very beautiful, not so dark and we easily leave it, and Ice Mom is embodiment of Heat Death, Dark and Cold. She was still gracious host though.
 
Erebeal said:
Mmm, the big thing I'm concerned about for Wind is that I can very easily just see us doing a repeat of last year where we vote for it now, and then it just sort of tails off and disappears again because we're just not fitting it into our arts.

Darkness, by contrast, not only makes the most sense as the "what is most important to you" thing, but is also really safe there.

Wind is honestly kinda this slightly meta nostalgia vote in many ways. Of course, if we could push out water and get some neat darkness/wind arts I'd be all for that :p
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Was it wind? It had fallen behind in her arts, and she had rejected the idea of absolute freedom, but did they playful joy of the wind spirit still exemplify what she wanted to be at the end. Would she have done better in recent trials, if she found again the thread of cunning and creativity that had kept her alive in latter days?
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The text is fairly explicit about her still rejecting the 'absolute freedom' even if Wind is picked here, so I wouldnt worry about that. The qualities listed are 'playful joy', 'cunning' and 'creativity' and I am fine with those
 
[X] Wind

Don't have time to take part in the inevitable arguing but just going with my gut. Some restrictions are accepted and inevitable, but I still think wind is a big part of Ling Qi's identity.
 
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