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Threads Of Destiny(Eastern Fantasy, Sequel to Forge of Destiny)
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Ah, good to know, thank you.
It seems I was thinking per month and you were talking per week. 3hEDIT: clarity
Ah, yeah, you can get a few quirks when you try to make two different discrete systems equivalent (with, essentially, differing base units). 3hEDIT: clarity
Soul stone resonance has been the fluff in my mind for a while now. Though it could also be that having multiple stones of the same type allows the cultivator to more carefully draw from each stone, possibly by cycling between them and letting them "rest". Both effects, however, are a bit strange being very discrete, but, well, the simulation only estimates reality.
Additionally, like meridians, higher breakthroughs also have increased difficulty of success (it was 10% more difficult (additive) per breakthrough in the old system, it may have changed) and the backlash effect means that lower talents getting failures more often is actively punished (with cultivation loss) instead of just forcing them to try yet again. So, yeah, breakthroughs and meridians benefit extra from talent effects. 3hEDIT: fixed "are" instead of "and"
But I think it's a good point: in our discussions on talent and how strong its effects are, we were ignoring two of its advantages. I think overall it doesn't really change what I've come to: I still don't have trouble believing Ji Rong managed to essentially keep pace with Ling Qi in year one, and I still won't have trouble believing it if Ling Qi manages to keep pace or exceed Ji Rong this year, nor will I have much trouble believing it if Ji Rong keeps pace with Ling Qi. I want to say it makes it easier to believe Ji Rong will keep up, but it seems like a breakthrough this year is unlikely. 3hEDIT: clarity
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Hardly matters since to vote is over but have to dispute this. "There are ways to live that aren't just what we've set out as the only way to live" is gonna be WAY higher on their priorities than "baron Joe made fun of viscount Bill back when Joe's friends were in power, but now Bill's friends are in power."
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It really depends on what they are, all three can come in degrees. If the satire is biting criticism directed at the current rulers then its removal is probably high priority. You've already demonstrated the low priority case.
Similarly "ways to live" doesn't have to be a direct contradiction of an authoritarian "this is the only possible way things can be". It could instead be something more minor like helping society forget that spirit-people like the Bai and other old families used to be revered for their spiritness, while making sure to only leave the documents about how spirit-people are really strange. This would be a soft power play by slightly marginalizing the biggest threats to the current ruling dynasty.
My examples might not actually fit, exactly. They're not meant to be *the truth*, they're only there to demonstrate that satire removal could be a big heavy handed power play or that removing documents about ways of life could be a subtle soft power play.
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It would be, except that's not gonna be something libraries were jumping at the bit to stock in the first place.
Art must come from the heart huh?
The Dreaming Moon would probably be horrified at modern factory production approach to create things of great technical skill but no passion in bulk
The Element of Surprise!
Hmm, flavored heavily by Ling Qi being Ling Qi here.
I somehow doubt the Hidden Moon focuses on threat and power. She yet lacks a true love of scholarship.
Simpler things resonate with more people after all.
The more complex the more nuance, the less who feel it, but those who feel it feels more.
Totes is.
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We in the Cognitive Realm or something?
A distinctly moonlogic statement.
Stasis is death to beings of change.
Yet stasis is needed for life, or it doesn't stay, but just passes like a dream.
You know, theres shinto rites for this sort of thing, to ritually dispose of unwanted old stuff so their spirits don't rise up and seek vengeance.
I suppose the individual scrolls don't really have enough power to bother cultivators though.
...as long as they scatter the ashes.
Or make drugs from the ashes.
I'd note this is specifically the Imperial Throne, not the provinces. The censorship effort is fairly gently enforced as a result. The Throne bribes everyone who complies, which means that those who insist on keeping their non-compliant texts get no benefits.
This is probably part of the whole centralization effort, which includes:
-Stamping out symbols of past or displaced cultures for seperatist movements to rally around.
-Quashing records of internal strifes. Civil war is forbidden yes, but its better to have civil war just not be known to happen at all.
-Burying political scandals. I'll point to one RIGHT NOW that's relevant this year: all the works portraying the Bai negatively are no longer consensus-compliant in Emerald Seas, but as recently as a year ago, Cai Shenhua is a close ally of the Throne and the Throne was working to marginalize the Bais. Probably best to toss out all the uncomplimentary works mocking them eh?
Saving a few motes of inspiration to work into new fairies?
And yeah I think the guy doing the burning realizes the danger if the books woke up.
Words of fire.
Also that guy is gonna be SPOOKED from how the flames went berserk suddenly.
I hope Hanyi teaches Zhengui to read. It'd be adorable.
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Censored historical plays in medieval times included, for example, Greek plays to do with democracy. To my mind historical plays doesn't mean fairly recent politics. Not within the lifetime of anyone living.
Chibi-Hanyi and Zhengui sketch
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More Art! Now in chibified version.
So I was attempting (and failing) to draw the tutors (coming soon). Due to that, I decided to do my next idea first based on the current arc we are in. Hence this:
Little Zhengui being super reactive and amazed so easily (still doesn't know how to read). Chibi-Hanyi lying down and teaching him
@yrsillar here's more
So I was attempting (and failing) to draw the tutors (coming soon). Due to that, I decided to do my next idea first based on the current arc we are in. Hence this:
Little Zhengui being super reactive and amazed so easily (still doesn't know how to read). Chibi-Hanyi
lying down and teaching him
@yrsillar here's more
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Yes Ling Qi, you are very unusual. When seeing a Prism and White spar during the Outer Sect Tournament, instead of being completely scared witless you instead noted just how far you had to go.
Never rest Ling Qi, always reach for the next star that is just out of reach!
Turn 4: Arc 4-5
Ling Qi ascended the steps into the fiery archive one by one, Sixiang at her side and Hanyi just behind her. The greyed out, frozen world seemed to fade away behind them until at last they stood inside of the billowing flames. Ling Qi looked around at the flame wrought shelves that seemed to stretch out beyond her sight in every direction but back. Reaching out, she brushed her fingers across a fiery shelf and found herself surprised when a charred scroll materialized in her hands.
"Alright," she said determinedly. "Sixiang, Hanyi, we're going to split up. Don't worry about trying to look at everything just… look for things that interest you." She had a feeling that would be enough in a place like this. Sixiang gave her a nod, and Hanyi grumbled rebelliously but didn't disagree.
"What about us?" Zhengui asked, his stubby legs kicking uselessly from his spot under Hanyi's arm.
"You two will be coming with me," Ling Qi replied, reaching down to take him from Hanyi. "Big Sister is going to start teaching you to read."
It was just good practice to do two things at once if you could. She considered trying to cultivate as well… but something told her that it wouldn't work, she wasn't exactly wholly herself right now, given that her body was still back on the mountain.
Ling Qi gave her other spirits a nod, picked a direction and started walking. They would probably be here for awhile. As she searched the shelves, Ling Qi passed over paintings, tapestries and other more visual works. She ignored play scripts and dry histories. As she searched, she found herself drawn instead to songs, stories and poems. Here and there she would pluck a scrap of paper from a tongue of flame, or a storybook from the inferno of the shelving. Sometimes she only glanced at them before tossing them aside, but for others she would stop, reading to Zhengui, pausing to point out the meanings of characters as she read.
As Ling Qi worked her way further toward the dim back of the archive the language of the works began to take on a slightly archaic edge. Slight twists on otherwise familiar spirit tales began to diverge more and more, and the songs began to take on an almost foreign cadence.
Yet she was still surprised the first time she plucked out a song from the flames and found it written in a wholly foreign tongue, if one that was still familiar to her. She remembered deciphering at Li Suyin's side as they translated the book she had taken from that shaman. It was the language of the Hill tribes, if Ling Qi recalled, people who had dwelled in Emerald Seas in the long past.
...However, that didn't seem right, the more she looked, the more she found works that were a strange dialect that seemed to mix the Imperial tongue with the Hill languages. She found poems in that tongue that were marked with dates from under the current dynasty even, no more than a half a millennia old, though they were few indeed.
The picture they painted was a strange one; of a people who wandered and settled depending on the season. Who sang songs to spirits of wind and rain, and played games of riddles and wordplay with terrestrial spirits to barter for boons and cultivation. She found herself laughing at silly scraps of legends about silver tongued tricksters and clever hunters. She found less cheerful songs as well, written in a strange ritual cadence and whispering of clashes with the Horned Gods of the Deep Groves.
Newer stories praised the sun and moon, and spoke of the Weilu more as strange neighbors than monsters in the dark, then as allies against the Cloud Tribes of the south. The songs took a turn for the dark though as they grew more modern. Songs of everyday life turned into melodies of war, and then subjugation, pages filled with venom for the conquering Xi, from there the stories began to disappear, and the songs and poems dwindled in number, growing more melancholy and full of nostalgia for the lost past with every year.
They weren't the only ones either. Hanyi brought her a book of rough charcoal illustrations in a foreign style, depicting a people that lived in the high snowy mountains who worshipped the lethal and beautiful spirits that lived there and cultivated through exposure to the fierce blizzards that raged on icy peaks. Sixiang brought her scrolls of poetry written in a dozen odd dialects, almost incomprehensible in their familiarity.
Ling Qi thought she had an inkling now, for why Emerald Seas was such a fractured place.
When she at last emerged from the archive with her spirits, Ling Qi held only a work, a scroll made from many hundreds of wooden strips bound together and rolled up. It held a a long form poem, one that she had found many, many different versions of spanning a great deal of time. In varying forms it told the tale of a hero king figure and his two companions, who played the spirits of the land and mighty beasts against each other to attain. They defeated some and won bargains from others, assuring the prosperity of the king's people.
The details varied depending on the version, sometimes the king's companions were human, sometimes they were spirits, or something in between. The kings name and the exact nature of the spirits he bargained with and antagonized changed as well. This version however was the oldest one that had seemed 'complete' to her.
It had been a difficult choice to make, with so very much work to sift through, but…
"Mine was better," Hanyi said childishly as they descended the steps, drawing her attention.
"Obviously not, or Big Sister would have picked it," Zhen replied imperiously from his perch on her shoulder.
"Yeah! This story was way better," Gui agreed.
Ling Qi had found Hanyi's finds interesting but… a little disturbing frankly. The unnamed mountain peoples had been rather explicit in their depictions of the various self mutilations that were part and parcel to their cultivation. She didn't think herself squeamish but… no she didn't feel regret in knowing that those traditions weren't a thing any more among civilized people. She would remember to be much more cautious with spirits like her mentor Zeqing if she encountered them away from the Empire's influence though.
Sixiang gave her a sidelong look and a smirk. "I don't really agree all the way, but yeah, not gonna argue with you going for those folks instead."
As they finished speaking, Ling Qi stepped down onto the gravel, coming face to face once more with the three moon spirits. The Hidden moon sat atop one of the larger boulders in the garden, eyes closed in meditation. The Dreaming stood, surrounded by a cloud of dying embers, humming a faint melody that sounded familiar and foreign all at once. The Grinning Moon… had taken a seat atop the shoulder of the frozen scholar, balanced impossibly despite her size. The man's still features were marked by glowing lines of fluorescent ink, irreverently scribbled.
"...Is that still going to be there when we leave?" Ling Qi asked with some concern, looking to the veiled spirit.
"Not in a way anyone will notice," replied the Grinning Moon. "Well, not right away. I'm sure our guy here will go get the bad fortune cleansed after a week or two."
The Dreaming Moon inhaled, and the embers and lights around her rushed in, vanishing in an instant. "More importantly, you have made your choice?"
"I have," Ling Qi replied, stepping forward both to present the rolled up scroll in both hands and to give Hanyi room to hop down.
"And what were the reasons for your choice?" The Hidden Moon asked, opening Xin's eyes and regarding Ling Qi withy interest.
"I feel like having more ways of dealing with spirits out there can only make things better," she replied after some thought, regarding the scroll in her hands. So many of her successes had come from dealing with spirits that it seemed foolish to lose any wisdom relating to the subject. She was hardly a master of wordplay, but studying the poems and songs back there… she felt like it gave her some insight into the behavior of spirits that the sort of rote genuflection, appeasement or exorcism more common today lacked.
That wasn't her only reason either. "The ones who wrote this… they weren't barbarians, not really. So it's a shame for everything to fade away. This poem seems like the root of a lot of their ideas so, it's the best for getting them out there, isn't it?" The Manual she had taken from the shaman showed that they had a darker side too, one better lost, but… Ling Qi couldn't help but remember the little horrors of the city they were in now and at some of the things she had glimpsed and seen hinted at in the archive, and in the Bloody Moon's dream. Even the Empire had its darker sides.
The Dreaming Moon stepped forward, accepting the scroll with a thoughtful hum. "Not a choice I would object too, but… difference often breeds conflict. Are you certain?"
"You all said it," Ling Qi replied confidently. "Stagnancy brings harm too. Besides," she paused, glancing up at the stars in the frozen sky. She hadn't spent much time thinking about it, but… "Things are going to be changing anyway." The days when she only had to worry about herself were long over by now. Right now it was just her family, her household, but that was changing and growing, and seeing Tonghou again… she could only feel dissatisfied. Cai Shenhua had started to change the Emerald Seas hinted at in the archive, and her daughter was going to continue it. Ling Qi was going to be at its forefront. That was the choice she had made. It was about time that she started acknowledging it.
"Good girl," the Grinning Moon said fondly. "Just remember to keep your eyes on the prize, and when you sow that storm, do it for yourself. Don't allow yourself to become someone else's shadow."
"Remember the small moments, the little secrets that you create each day," The Hidden Moon added quietly. "See and study the world before your eyes, and do not fail to account for the little details when building your models, nor come to rely on them overmuch. The future can only be predicted, never read."
"And of course, keep the power of dreams always in your heart. You will not live forever, and in time your works will crumble and fade, but ideas and dreams…" The Dreaming Moon said quietly, the scroll in her hands dissolving into glittering dust that rose like a cloud of smoke high into the sky before exploding in a thousand directions. "Can always be reborn."
Ling Qi blinked as the grey time frozen world began to dim, and then felt her eyelids droop, a deep exhaustion setting in. Between the running, the flight and the studying, she was suddenly so very tired. As the world grew dark, the three great spirits dissolved into motes of glinting light that surrounded her like a cloud of fireflies. As Ling Qi's eyes drifted shut, she reached out and grasped…
[] The ethereal green lights of the Grinning Moon.
{Laughing Flight of the Wind Thief; Mobility and Stealth Art}
[] The pale grey lights of the Hidden Moon
{Imperturbable Starlight Mantle; Defensive Social and Defensive Combat art}
[] The sparkling many colored lights of the Dreaming Moon
{Trickster King's Devious Oratory; Offensive Social and Spiritual Buff/debuff Art]
AN: All arts are baseline Green 3 and equal in quality
"Alright," she said determinedly. "Sixiang, Hanyi, we're going to split up. Don't worry about trying to look at everything just… look for things that interest you." She had a feeling that would be enough in a place like this. Sixiang gave her a nod, and Hanyi grumbled rebelliously but didn't disagree.
"What about us?" Zhengui asked, his stubby legs kicking uselessly from his spot under Hanyi's arm.
"You two will be coming with me," Ling Qi replied, reaching down to take him from Hanyi. "Big Sister is going to start teaching you to read."
It was just good practice to do two things at once if you could. She considered trying to cultivate as well… but something told her that it wouldn't work, she wasn't exactly wholly herself right now, given that her body was still back on the mountain.
Ling Qi gave her other spirits a nod, picked a direction and started walking. They would probably be here for awhile. As she searched the shelves, Ling Qi passed over paintings, tapestries and other more visual works. She ignored play scripts and dry histories. As she searched, she found herself drawn instead to songs, stories and poems. Here and there she would pluck a scrap of paper from a tongue of flame, or a storybook from the inferno of the shelving. Sometimes she only glanced at them before tossing them aside, but for others she would stop, reading to Zhengui, pausing to point out the meanings of characters as she read.
As Ling Qi worked her way further toward the dim back of the archive the language of the works began to take on a slightly archaic edge. Slight twists on otherwise familiar spirit tales began to diverge more and more, and the songs began to take on an almost foreign cadence.
Yet she was still surprised the first time she plucked out a song from the flames and found it written in a wholly foreign tongue, if one that was still familiar to her. She remembered deciphering at Li Suyin's side as they translated the book she had taken from that shaman. It was the language of the Hill tribes, if Ling Qi recalled, people who had dwelled in Emerald Seas in the long past.
...However, that didn't seem right, the more she looked, the more she found works that were a strange dialect that seemed to mix the Imperial tongue with the Hill languages. She found poems in that tongue that were marked with dates from under the current dynasty even, no more than a half a millennia old, though they were few indeed.
The picture they painted was a strange one; of a people who wandered and settled depending on the season. Who sang songs to spirits of wind and rain, and played games of riddles and wordplay with terrestrial spirits to barter for boons and cultivation. She found herself laughing at silly scraps of legends about silver tongued tricksters and clever hunters. She found less cheerful songs as well, written in a strange ritual cadence and whispering of clashes with the Horned Gods of the Deep Groves.
Newer stories praised the sun and moon, and spoke of the Weilu more as strange neighbors than monsters in the dark, then as allies against the Cloud Tribes of the south. The songs took a turn for the dark though as they grew more modern. Songs of everyday life turned into melodies of war, and then subjugation, pages filled with venom for the conquering Xi, from there the stories began to disappear, and the songs and poems dwindled in number, growing more melancholy and full of nostalgia for the lost past with every year.
They weren't the only ones either. Hanyi brought her a book of rough charcoal illustrations in a foreign style, depicting a people that lived in the high snowy mountains who worshipped the lethal and beautiful spirits that lived there and cultivated through exposure to the fierce blizzards that raged on icy peaks. Sixiang brought her scrolls of poetry written in a dozen odd dialects, almost incomprehensible in their familiarity.
Ling Qi thought she had an inkling now, for why Emerald Seas was such a fractured place.
When she at last emerged from the archive with her spirits, Ling Qi held only a work, a scroll made from many hundreds of wooden strips bound together and rolled up. It held a a long form poem, one that she had found many, many different versions of spanning a great deal of time. In varying forms it told the tale of a hero king figure and his two companions, who played the spirits of the land and mighty beasts against each other to attain. They defeated some and won bargains from others, assuring the prosperity of the king's people.
The details varied depending on the version, sometimes the king's companions were human, sometimes they were spirits, or something in between. The kings name and the exact nature of the spirits he bargained with and antagonized changed as well. This version however was the oldest one that had seemed 'complete' to her.
It had been a difficult choice to make, with so very much work to sift through, but…
"Mine was better," Hanyi said childishly as they descended the steps, drawing her attention.
"Obviously not, or Big Sister would have picked it," Zhen replied imperiously from his perch on her shoulder.
"Yeah! This story was way better," Gui agreed.
Ling Qi had found Hanyi's finds interesting but… a little disturbing frankly. The unnamed mountain peoples had been rather explicit in their depictions of the various self mutilations that were part and parcel to their cultivation. She didn't think herself squeamish but… no she didn't feel regret in knowing that those traditions weren't a thing any more among civilized people. She would remember to be much more cautious with spirits like her mentor Zeqing if she encountered them away from the Empire's influence though.
Sixiang gave her a sidelong look and a smirk. "I don't really agree all the way, but yeah, not gonna argue with you going for those folks instead."
As they finished speaking, Ling Qi stepped down onto the gravel, coming face to face once more with the three moon spirits. The Hidden moon sat atop one of the larger boulders in the garden, eyes closed in meditation. The Dreaming stood, surrounded by a cloud of dying embers, humming a faint melody that sounded familiar and foreign all at once. The Grinning Moon… had taken a seat atop the shoulder of the frozen scholar, balanced impossibly despite her size. The man's still features were marked by glowing lines of fluorescent ink, irreverently scribbled.
"...Is that still going to be there when we leave?" Ling Qi asked with some concern, looking to the veiled spirit.
"Not in a way anyone will notice," replied the Grinning Moon. "Well, not right away. I'm sure our guy here will go get the bad fortune cleansed after a week or two."
The Dreaming Moon inhaled, and the embers and lights around her rushed in, vanishing in an instant. "More importantly, you have made your choice?"
"I have," Ling Qi replied, stepping forward both to present the rolled up scroll in both hands and to give Hanyi room to hop down.
"And what were the reasons for your choice?" The Hidden Moon asked, opening Xin's eyes and regarding Ling Qi withy interest.
"I feel like having more ways of dealing with spirits out there can only make things better," she replied after some thought, regarding the scroll in her hands. So many of her successes had come from dealing with spirits that it seemed foolish to lose any wisdom relating to the subject. She was hardly a master of wordplay, but studying the poems and songs back there… she felt like it gave her some insight into the behavior of spirits that the sort of rote genuflection, appeasement or exorcism more common today lacked.
That wasn't her only reason either. "The ones who wrote this… they weren't barbarians, not really. So it's a shame for everything to fade away. This poem seems like the root of a lot of their ideas so, it's the best for getting them out there, isn't it?" The Manual she had taken from the shaman showed that they had a darker side too, one better lost, but… Ling Qi couldn't help but remember the little horrors of the city they were in now and at some of the things she had glimpsed and seen hinted at in the archive, and in the Bloody Moon's dream. Even the Empire had its darker sides.
The Dreaming Moon stepped forward, accepting the scroll with a thoughtful hum. "Not a choice I would object too, but… difference often breeds conflict. Are you certain?"
"You all said it," Ling Qi replied confidently. "Stagnancy brings harm too. Besides," she paused, glancing up at the stars in the frozen sky. She hadn't spent much time thinking about it, but… "Things are going to be changing anyway." The days when she only had to worry about herself were long over by now. Right now it was just her family, her household, but that was changing and growing, and seeing Tonghou again… she could only feel dissatisfied. Cai Shenhua had started to change the Emerald Seas hinted at in the archive, and her daughter was going to continue it. Ling Qi was going to be at its forefront. That was the choice she had made. It was about time that she started acknowledging it.
"Good girl," the Grinning Moon said fondly. "Just remember to keep your eyes on the prize, and when you sow that storm, do it for yourself. Don't allow yourself to become someone else's shadow."
"Remember the small moments, the little secrets that you create each day," The Hidden Moon added quietly. "See and study the world before your eyes, and do not fail to account for the little details when building your models, nor come to rely on them overmuch. The future can only be predicted, never read."
"And of course, keep the power of dreams always in your heart. You will not live forever, and in time your works will crumble and fade, but ideas and dreams…" The Dreaming Moon said quietly, the scroll in her hands dissolving into glittering dust that rose like a cloud of smoke high into the sky before exploding in a thousand directions. "Can always be reborn."
Ling Qi blinked as the grey time frozen world began to dim, and then felt her eyelids droop, a deep exhaustion setting in. Between the running, the flight and the studying, she was suddenly so very tired. As the world grew dark, the three great spirits dissolved into motes of glinting light that surrounded her like a cloud of fireflies. As Ling Qi's eyes drifted shut, she reached out and grasped…
[] The ethereal green lights of the Grinning Moon.
{Laughing Flight of the Wind Thief; Mobility and Stealth Art}
[] The pale grey lights of the Hidden Moon
{Imperturbable Starlight Mantle; Defensive Social and Defensive Combat art}
[] The sparkling many colored lights of the Dreaming Moon
{Trickster King's Devious Oratory; Offensive Social and Spiritual Buff/debuff Art]
AN: All arts are baseline Green 3 and equal in quality
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...oh goodness, there's gonna be a lot of salt soon isn't there.
I'm quite intrigued by Devious Oratory, I'm not sure if we've seen an offensive social art before.
I'm quite intrigued by Devious Oratory, I'm not sure if we've seen an offensive social art before.
I think it might actually be time for that stealth art half the thread has been clamoring for.
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[X] The ethereal green lights of the Grinning Moon.
{Laughing Flight of the Wind Thief; Mobility and Stealth Art}
I'm very much for this one. Wind, stealth, speed? What's not to love. Social's fine and all, but we've been practicing social a lot. Stealth stealth stealth.
{Laughing Flight of the Wind Thief; Mobility and Stealth Art}
I'm very much for this one. Wind, stealth, speed? What's not to love. Social's fine and all, but we've been practicing social a lot. Stealth stealth stealth.
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TheSilenceIsVast
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That name though is so nice. We need starlight for our sparklegirl
Here is hoping. I have a stalking fear that we would pick up a different art, and then go get Stealth from freaking Archive 1 just because there is a sizable block that REALLY wants stealth.
...Did the Dreaming Moon just use Ling Qi's cultivation quest to straight up dump that poem across the entire province? As in, the Great Spirit herself, not just the limited local avatar?
Makes Moon-favored cultivators a serious pain in the side for any established order, huh? I wonder what justice chaos the Bloody Moon sowed when Liao Zhu did his EPC quest...
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Holy crap those are strong fits for Ling Qi.
[] The ethereal green lights of the Grinning Moon.
{Laughing Flight of the Wind Thief; Mobility and Stealth Art}
The long-desired SCS Successor Art. Pretty clearly. Not straight SCS+, since that likely doesnt exist, but it gives rise to that extremely strong suite thats been a mainstay enabler for all of Ling Qis build since.
[] The pale grey lights of the Hidden Moon
{Imperturbable Starlight Mantle; Defensive Social and Defensive Combat art}
This would be our TRF Successor, an incredibly potent armor made of Lunar Qi that also functions in social aspects as well. Based on theming, it'd be an impermeable type of defense. So less hard defending, and likely more mitigation focused?
[] The sparkling many colored lights of the Dreaming Moon
{Trickster King's Devious Oratory; Offensive Social and Spiritual Buff/debuff Art]
Oh man. This would be Ling Qi's equivalent to Han Jian's own Charisma boosting art, and the scary thing is that it'd fold in really well with Ling Qi's own rotation as it would be purely oratory.
Naturally I want to go with LFotWT because its just that awesome, and Id rather bet on the TRF Successor coming from the Cai package...But that Oratory one...I can't imagine there being a replacement for it.
[] The ethereal green lights of the Grinning Moon.
{Laughing Flight of the Wind Thief; Mobility and Stealth Art}
The long-desired SCS Successor Art. Pretty clearly. Not straight SCS+, since that likely doesnt exist, but it gives rise to that extremely strong suite thats been a mainstay enabler for all of Ling Qis build since.
[] The pale grey lights of the Hidden Moon
{Imperturbable Starlight Mantle; Defensive Social and Defensive Combat art}
This would be our TRF Successor, an incredibly potent armor made of Lunar Qi that also functions in social aspects as well. Based on theming, it'd be an impermeable type of defense. So less hard defending, and likely more mitigation focused?
[] The sparkling many colored lights of the Dreaming Moon
{Trickster King's Devious Oratory; Offensive Social and Spiritual Buff/debuff Art]
Oh man. This would be Ling Qi's equivalent to Han Jian's own Charisma boosting art, and the scary thing is that it'd fold in really well with Ling Qi's own rotation as it would be purely oratory.
Naturally I want to go with LFotWT because its just that awesome, and Id rather bet on the TRF Successor coming from the Cai package...But that Oratory one...I can't imagine there being a replacement for it.
Its nothing so obvious and overt, but she did do something pretty big yeah.
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Oh fuck an Art vote.
First up, a Wind successor of SCS. The name of it kinda delights me in the same way that Lark did, except this one is actually high quality and has Stealth too. Wind is definitely a bonus, some of my favorite traits of Qi are her Wind traits, and her particular relationship with Freedom is still interesting. This is a very strong start.
I suppose this one is a TRF successor. Gives us that fairly useful social defense (presumably both in obfuscating our conversations and upping our composure), and will likely maintain our surprising tankiness into the next couple of stages. And that is something that kinda bores me, to be honest. I prefer the aspects of Qi that are indirect and sneaky. Qi touhou-ing through the storm of blades was cooler than her enduring Ji Rong's punches.
Oooooh, offensive social art, that could give Qi some teeth in an area where she has never been an expert. Also goes further into our Buff/Debuff game, which is dope.
I'm leaning Wind Thief right now.
First up, a Wind successor of SCS. The name of it kinda delights me in the same way that Lark did, except this one is actually high quality and has Stealth too. Wind is definitely a bonus, some of my favorite traits of Qi are her Wind traits, and her particular relationship with Freedom is still interesting. This is a very strong start.
I suppose this one is a TRF successor. Gives us that fairly useful social defense (presumably both in obfuscating our conversations and upping our composure), and will likely maintain our surprising tankiness into the next couple of stages. And that is something that kinda bores me, to be honest. I prefer the aspects of Qi that are indirect and sneaky. Qi touhou-ing through the storm of blades was cooler than her enduring Ji Rong's punches.
Oooooh, offensive social art, that could give Qi some teeth in an area where she has never been an expert. Also goes further into our Buff/Debuff game, which is dope.
I'm leaning Wind Thief right now.
- Location
- The Star Kingdom of Manticore
They are all really good arts that would really help ling qi. However the grinning moon really impressed me with that tale of stealing the wind so... And she was so much fun!
Both the Grinning and the Hidden one are the ones I want the most. Mostly Grinning though atm, because the story we been told about the Wind Thief was a bloody cool part of this event. And a Wind/Moon(maybe darkness) high level stealth/mobility art? That sounds just fun as hell. Kinda something that LQ needs at this point also, because she needs time to set up.
Would not cry about the Hidden one though cause it sounds dope as hell.
edit. Yrs confirmed on discord that they all got Moon element.
Would not cry about the Hidden one though cause it sounds dope as hell.
edit. Yrs confirmed on discord that they all got Moon element.
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- Location
- United States of America
All of these are really cool, and, as always, I love them all. However, I really want Ling Qi to laugh and dance amongst the winds. Mobility has always been a prime feature of Ling Qi and this is a great way to get back to it. Being a mobile threat that can stall for the time needed to get her long chain of synergies going will do wonders for her combat potential.
- Location
- United States
So, what's most irreplaceable? Following that, what's most necessary? As part of that, what does Ling Qi most lack that's filled by one of these?
I think that's the priorities I'd have. First if something here is unique with no substitutions available I'd grab that and deal with substitutions for the others. If they all have legitimate substitutions and there wasn't an easy way to say "this one has by far the biggest advantage over its substitutions", then whatever I most need, probably defined by what is most lacking (presuming they all fit, which I expect here).
They all sound so very interesting, though I'm partial to flight. I wonder how it'd interact with her gown, would it be used to boost her even faster? 7mEDIT: I suppose I'll be the second to note that it seems like Trickster King's Devious Oratory is the least likely to have a substitution. Though I expect flight to win in a landslide as it's the most visceral.
I think that's the priorities I'd have. First if something here is unique with no substitutions available I'd grab that and deal with substitutions for the others. If they all have legitimate substitutions and there wasn't an easy way to say "this one has by far the biggest advantage over its substitutions", then whatever I most need, probably defined by what is most lacking (presuming they all fit, which I expect here).
They all sound so very interesting, though I'm partial to flight. I wonder how it'd interact with her gown, would it be used to boost her even faster? 7mEDIT: I suppose I'll be the second to note that it seems like Trickster King's Devious Oratory is the least likely to have a substitution. Though I expect flight to win in a landslide as it's the most visceral.
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