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

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Also, I would bet money that Xuan Shi has used an Insight to repurpose his family's "Nap to get Swole" cultivation art to work while reading books.
Meanwhile, in Xuan Shi Quest:

The Voyages of Yu Long reading comprehension advanced to 4

[] In the future, devote more time to your favorite books. (-1AP in future turns)
[] While you will read them as much as you can, your favorite books cannot be top priority yet. (Status quo)

Two hour moratorium.
 
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[] Be the Defense: Stay down here along with Zhengui and draw the guardians attention, while Xuan Shi seeks a method to disable it
 
No way, if we spend more time cultivating now, we can learn to create clones faster and can read twice as many books.

[jk] While you will read them as much as you can, your favorite books cannot be top priority yet. (Status quo)

You know what, I think the author of all those books is Elder Jiao. In before he was the head of MoI, he was the author of Tales of Yu Long, the trashy romance novel series. We invest AP into this, we on our way to DAT Jiao route

Legitimately, that is my headcanon. Jiao is totally the author and will appear at the end of the temple. Xuan Shi will fanboy the fuck out while Ling Qi just stands there utterly baffled
 
Since some of these comments don't appear to make sense given the option text. Zhengui will be let out to play regardless of which option is chosen. The question is if he tanks with Xuan Shi or tanks with Ling Qi.
 
Perceptiveness: C (25/25)

We have two capped skills. This and stealth.

How many times are we going to find a trial focused on perception I ask you ? How many months are we going to need to wait before getting it unlocked ?

If we intend to pursue divination, perceptiveness and combat perception will be a major tool of ours. Let's not pick the option that means leaving that tool far behind.

Vote for offense.
 
[X] Be the Offense: Use your superior mobility to to seek weakness in the guardians frame while Xuan Shi and Zhengui keep it's attention on them.
 
[X] Be the Offense: Use your superior mobility to to seek weakness in the guardians frame while Xuan Shi and Zhengui keep it's attention on them.
 
[x] Be the Defense: Stay down here along with Zhengui and draw the guardians attention, while Xuan Shi seeks a method to disable it
 
We have two capped skills. This and stealth.

How many times are we going to find a trial focused on perception I ask you ? How many months are we going to need to wait before getting it unlocked ?

If we intend to pursue divination, perceptiveness and combat perception will be a major tool of ours. Let's not pick the option that means leaving that tool far behind.

Vote for offense.

Based on the Suyin trial, this does seem like a good chance to uncap perception. I'm just concerned that putting LQ on the offense will lead to a more brute force approach, which might be unfavorable for getting the best rewards in this trial.

Uncapping perception seems to be fairly likely to happen though. I think the cost-benefit analysis falls on the side of offense, so I'm changing my vote.

[X] Be the Offense: Use your superior mobility to to seek weakness in the guardians frame while Xuan Shi and Zhengui keep it's attention on them.
Adhoc vote count started by Huo Yuhao on Apr 11, 2019 at 8:33 PM, finished with 113 posts and 52 votes.
 
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Pretty close.
Adhoc vote count started by TotallyNotEvil on Apr 11, 2019 at 8:34 PM, finished with 113 posts and 52 votes.
 
Health A40 Qi B
Speed C Init D10
C Perc B25
  1. Avoid D15, P Armor S25
S Avoid C15, S Armor A
P Hit B P Pen B10

Primary Element: Earth, Water
this is nice, but we're missing some info that should logicaly be among the first Ling Qi has about him:
-his cultivation rank
-his spirits, if he has any.


[x] Be the Defense: Stay down here along with Zhengui and draw the guardians attention, while Xuan Shi seeks a method to disable it
Mostly because i want to see Zhengui in action.
 
this is nice, but we're missing some info that should logicaly be among the first Ling Qi has about him:
-his cultivation rank
-his spirits, if he has any.


[x] Be the Defense: Stay down here along with Zhengui and draw the guardians attention, while Xuan Shi seeks a method to disable it
Mostly because i want to see Zhengui in action.

Zhengui is in action with either choice. Zhengui will work with Xuan Shi if we choose offense.
 
Zhengui is in action with either choice. Zhengui will work with Xuan Shi if we choose offense.
Offense is xuan shi + zhengui, which 'im less interested in seeing than defense's Ling Qi + Zhengui. What's relevant, at least to me, is seeing Zhengui in action in regards to sect challenges, hence working with Ling Qi.
 
I mean, either or, I think Xuan Shi will makes sure to tell us if we're going/went too far. (maybe)

I decided to vote for defence cause while I like the idea of Zhengui and Xuan Shi working together, to me it's best if we play the slow game i.e. use FVM to obfuscate. I mean, keeping our capped perception in mind, I think we could still contribute on that area and rank it up since most of the guardian's attention would be on us. (and Zhengui)

Also as I was typing this, it occurred to me that the best way we could defeat the guardian is CtE touch, which seemed to me like it would guarantee automatic destruction since it goes through armor.......Uh.....do we want to break it completely?
 
I mean, either or, I think Xuan Shi will makes sure to tell us if we're going/went too far. (maybe)

I decided to vote for defence cause while I like the idea of Zhengui and Xuan Shi working together, to me it's best if we play the slow game i.e. use FVM to obfuscate. I mean, keeping our capped perception in mind, I think we could still contribute on that area and rank it up since most of the guardian's attention would be on us. (and Zhengui)

Also as I was typing this, it occurred to me that the best way we could defeat the guardian is CtE touch, which seemed to me like it would guarantee automatic destruction since it goes through armor.......Uh.....do we want to break it completely?

If we choose offense, we'll be actively searching for weaknesses. I don't think we'll be doing anything perception related if we choose defense.
 
Xuan Shi almost certainly has a taunt. It would be a waste not to with his armor.

We said that about Zhengui, tho

Out of all the powers we've seen in both quests, the only tanking-relevant ones we've seen are CWY, LWM, Zhengui's two, Kang Zihao's parry and that one gravity power from thunderdome 2 which Zihao's minion used to lock down Meizhen. Of those, exactly one actually strictly prevents your target from attacking anyone else, the rest either limit your enemies mobility in a way that may encourage them to attack you instead of someone else or apply penalties of some sort to enemies that attack people other than you. While I'm quite certain that the Xuan have outright taunts in their library, they're clearly rare enough that even someone with good defenses can't necessarily be counted on to have learned one.
 
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Changing my mind based on Zhengui coming out anyways.
[X] Be the Offense: Use your superior mobility to to seek weakness in the guardians frame while Xuan Shi and Zhengui keep it's attention on them.
 
[X] Be the Offense: Use your superior mobility to to seek weakness in the guardians frame while Xuan Shi and Zhengui keep it's attention on them.

We are here to do some training so stretching out some new muscles sho8ld be good
 
If we choose offense, we'll be actively searching for weaknesses. I don't think we'll be doing anything perception related if we choose defense.

Watchful Moon Analyisis: D
Duration: Immediate
Used in tandem with an damaging art, allows the users thoughts to far outspeed their limbs, greatly slowing their perception of the world, and allowing the user to pick out minute details that might otherwise be missed in the flows of an enemy or obstacles qi, and adjust the course of their blow. Through this the user ignores the effects of a single defensive technique of D rank or lower, or if none are active, penalizes the targets armor or avoid at the users discretion.

I know that some parts of my explanation may be a bit of a stretch, but hear me out.

Defence isn't always all about putting walls up and shelling. It can also be about distracting the enemy, which is what FVM is for, putting Zhengui's art aside for now. We annoy the enemy enough with small damage to get it to go for us. That can totally be applicable to perception as well. FVM being the kind that chips you little by little along with its debuffs while Zhengui defends us.

And remember this
Travelers End: B
Duration: Scene
Damage: B
In a distant, misty valley, far from the works of mankind, a traveler completed a melody and offered it to the moon, the final notes echoing long after his last breath. This melody is but a shadow of that… but even shadows hold power. Only usable if all other Forgotten Vale Melody techniques are active.

The mist grows darker and more cloying still, blotting out almost all external light, and draining the warmth from those trapped within. The mist grows potent with dark qi, fogging the senses still further to bring them the lonely despair of the travelers final days. While active all other Forgotten Vale techniques are considered one rank higher, and attempts to dispel them must first dispel Travelers End.

The user may choose to end the melody at any time after Travelers End has been used. If they do so, the song reaches its finale, and all other techniques of the Forgotten Vale are ended as well. All who were still lost within the mist suffer an immediate spiritual attack of great magnitude, an echo of the travelers death in that far away vale. Those damaged by this attack may be paralyzed utterly by the assault, if their composure is too weak.

We could use this

I know that my explanation is doing a bit of a huge stretch, but the thing is, I'm wary of us completely destroying the thing (which yeah, it contradicts a bit of what I said in the last post, but it kinda hit me now)
 
[X] Be the Defense: Stay down here along with Zhengui and draw the guardians attention, while Xuan Shi seeks a method to disable it
 
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