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

DeAnno · Aug 3, 2019

[X] Plan: Foundation? Established

[X] Skill Plan: Honing our edge

DeusExBritannia · Aug 3, 2019

[X] Plan: Foundation? Established

[X] Skill Plan: Honing our edge

Axel Fones · Aug 4, 2019

[X] TehChron

sergit · Aug 4, 2019

[X] Plan: Foundation? Established
-[X] High Pills (425 RSS)
-[X] Resources: 12 GSS, 8 YSS (4 free GSS, 8 from cash, 8 free YSS) , Silverblood Pill, EPC Drip on Spiritual Cultivation
-[X] Spiritual Cultivation (4 AP)
-[X] Physical Cultivation (4 AP)
-[X] Eight Phase Ceremony (3 AP)
-[X] Argent Genesis (4 AP)
-[X] Ephemeral Night's Memory (2 AP)
-[X] Archive Trip (-20 SP: Level Three)

tryrar · Aug 4, 2019

[X] Plan: Foundation? Established

[X] Skill Plan: Honing our edge

angelofwhim · Aug 4, 2019

[X] TehChron

fictionfan · Aug 4, 2019

What do we get from training Argent Genesis anyway? I thought that we could only equip one cultivation art.

Raising Kittens · Aug 4, 2019

fictionfan said:
What do we get from training Argent Genesis anyway? I thought that we could only equip one cultivation art.

Argent Soul gave us several powerful permanent effects, including +5 to breakthrough value and a reroll of every 1 rolled when cultivating - effectively increasing our cultivation successes by 5%.

The belief is that AG has similar effects at its higher levels. As such, the sooner those levels are obtained, the more we will get out of them.

LightLan · Aug 4, 2019

[X] Plan: Foundation? Established
-[X] High Pills (425 RSS)
-[X] Resources: 12 GSS, 8 YSS (4 free GSS, 8 from cash, 8 free YSS) , Silverblood Pill, EPC Drip on Spiritual Cultivation
-[X] Spiritual Cultivation (4 AP)
-[X] Physical Cultivation (4 AP)
-[X] Eight Phase Ceremony (3 AP)
-[X] Argent Genesis (4 AP)
-[X] Ephemeral Night's Memory (2 AP)
-[X] Archive Trip (-20 SP: Level Three)

[X] Skill Plan: Honing our edge
-[X] 4 Dex* (8/40) , 4 Resolve* (16/40), 4 Wits* (24/40)
-[X] 4 Fade* (28/40), 4 Vanishing** (36/40), 1 Resilience (37/40), 3 Blades (40/40)

fictionfan · Aug 4, 2019

Raising Kittens said:
Argent Soul gave us several powerful permanent effects, including +5 to breakthrough value and a reroll of every 1 rolled when cultivating - effectively increasing our cultivation successes by 5%.

The belief is that AG has similar effects at its higher levels. As such, the sooner those levels are obtained, the more we will get out of them.

Do we expect this 4 AP to manage to finish it?

Frvborg · Aug 4, 2019

[X] Plan: Foundation? Established

[X] Skill Plan: Honing our edge

fictionfan · Aug 4, 2019

yrsillar said:
Household Expenses Increase! (Pills/Medicines)
Cost defrayed by Cai contacts
+4 Red Stones per month

What in the world are the spending it on? I thought that only Mom was cultivating.

veekie · Aug 4, 2019

[X] Plan: Humming in the Archive
[X] Skill Plan: HDW

fictionfan said:
What in the world are the spending it on? I thought that only Mom was cultivating.

Mom went from using 1 red stone and no drugs to stone and drugs

commando2341 · Aug 4, 2019

[X] Plan: Humming in the Archive
-[X] High Pills (425 RSS)
-[X] Resources: 12 GSS, 8 YSS (4 free GSS, 8 from cash, 8 free YSS) , Silverblood Pill, EPC Drip on Spiritual Cultivation
-[X] Spiritual Cultivation (4 AP)
-[X] Physical Cultivation (4 AP)
-[X] Eight Phase Ceremony (3 AP)
-[X] Argent Genesis (4 AP)
-[X] Harmony of the Dancing Wind (2 AP)
-[X] Archive Trip (-20 SP: Level Three)

[X] Skill Plan: HDW
-[X] 4 Dex* (8/40) , 4 Wits* (16/40), 4 Resolve* (24/40), 1 Presence* (26/40)
-[X] 4 Vanishing** (34/40), 4 Empathy* (38/40), 1 Woodwind* (40/40)

EternalObserver · Aug 4, 2019

fictionfan said:
Do we expect this 4 AP to manage to finish it?

nah, we expect to finish it in 2 turns

HeiTian · Aug 4, 2019

[X] Plan: Foundation? Established

[X] Skill Plan: Honing our edge

Varder · Aug 4, 2019

[X] Plan: Foundation? Established

[X]Skill Plan: Working on Core w/ Music

veekie · Aug 4, 2019

yrsillar said:
Ling Qi took one last look around the small music hall, eyeing the handful of other disciples occupying seats within. Despite her best efforts word of the matter had gotten out. Not many had bothered to show up, and most were no doubt here out of idle curiosity, but she recognized a few disciples in the orbit of more important emerald seas nobles. She smiled thinly as she caught one such young man's eye, doing her best to channel Meizhen's imperious attitude. He looked away first.

...Ling Qi please don't randomly terrorize minor nobility for just looking.

yrsillar said:
What was done was done, there was no use worrying about it now, and she would not spend Hanyi's performance getting worked up about the rumor mill. Ling Qi took one last look down at the stage, where Hanyi faced a seated Yu Nuan with her hands on her hips and a defiant look on her face. Then, she leaned back, letting her eyes drift shut as Hanyi's voice rose in song.

Hanyi a cute :3

yrsillar said:
A chill wind descended from the mountain. Swift and eager, newly born from the storm, the wind did play upon the valleys and foothills. There was so much to see, so much to do. All the land sparkled with snow and ice, a vast and wondrous playground. The winter wind laughed as it rattled window panes and sent bare branches waving to scratch at the eaves and make spooky sounds.

Our first meeting upon the mountain. It was her place and her time

yrsillar said:
But winter was not forever, and when the warm winds came, the chill would retreat back to the mountain peaks, where winter held eternal court. Below, the land changed, it's sparkling blanket faded away and it became strange. Green, warm, vibrant, and alien. In her heart the chill wind wondered what it would be like to wander green fields.

She went home with Zeqing, but her curiosity stayed below

yrsillar said:
Thoughtless and eager, when the warm winds came the next year, the chill wind lingered and did not heed the call to home. She blew threw the green fields, and in her wake there was frost and the green grass withered. The people cursed her and the warm winds drove her out. The chill wind fled and sought the comfort of the peaks, but she had wandered far, and her home was nowhere to be found.

Lost and aimless after leaving home. Only a burden, only an annoyance.

@yrsillar
Typo, through not threw

yrsillar said:
Lost, the chill wind defied the warmer winds that chased her. She blew with all her strength, and scattered her foes. For a time, the little wind grew aimless and lost, and her heels were always dogged by the warm winds of spring. However, the little wind was strong, if she could not return home, then she would not be driven away. She had given up home, and that sacrifice would not be in vain. She sought the flowing rivers and the green fields that she had longed for. She sought the birds and the beasts who had always hidden away when winter's cloak had fallen upon the world.
Though she was oft spurned, the little wind blew on regardless, into hidden lairs and warm halls. She was here, she would not go, no matter how much the warm winds buffeted her for her defiance, no matter what curses were cast her way or how harshly the sun glared.

The cold wind had come and it was here to stay.

Proud little brat, poking her nose into everything, not even noticing what havoc she was wreaking huh?

A nice structure, but it feels lacking in purpose beyond "I'm here and I go where I want!", which is authentic to her at this point.

yrsillar said:
Ling Qi hummed to herself as the vision began to fade. Although she had helped Hanyi practice again and again. Her inexperience still showed, though she had felt the full force of the message, being so familiar with Hanyi, she could tell that others in the audience had found the expression muddled at points, the strong central theme had been conveyed, but the details were blurred. She was still proud of her junior sister, even as she met Yu Nuan's eyes down on the stage.

The other girl gave her a faint nod before turning her eyes back to Hanyi. Ling QI was glad to see that thoughtfulness had replaced the suspicion that she had seen in the girl last time. "I can tell you put a lot of passion into that," Yu Nuan said idly as the last notes faded.

"Obviously, are you still gonna say I'm bad?" Hanyi replied with a harrumph.

"Nah, but you still have a long way to go," Yu Nuan replied with a lopsided smirk.

"Hmph, quit stalling then if you think you're so good," Hanyi said, crossing her arms.

Yu Nuan is satisfied already here I think. Hanyi 'won' in that she got some respect

yrsillar said:
"Right, I won't insult you by playing around. Let me show you what defiance really sounds like." Ling Qi felt the change in the rooms atmosphere as Yu Nuan plucked a hard note on her lute. Sparks lept from her fingers and the torches lighting the hall flared. The temperature soared, and as Ling Qi opened her minds eye to the song, she burned.

In the ashes of broken dreams the lightning struck. From it was born an ember, nurtured on ruin and ash. The ember burned brightly and with great heat, and dreamed of the day when it would rejoin its father in the heavens. When the rains sought to drown it, the ember burned on, hissing and spitting defiance all the way. When the cold sought to sap its energy, it burned low and endured. When the ground shook and sought to bury it, the ember burned deep within the earth and sought the sky. However, eventually the day came wherein wicked creatures bound the ember, using it for warmth and craft.

Alone, the ember burned on, sometimes weak and sometimes strong, but never extinguished. Always it strained toward the sky, toward the heavens. Through bondage, through crushing, through drowning, and more the ember burned on. It's captors shepherded it, and in their arrogance fed it fuel to birth new embers. In time, all the land was aglow with the light of the ember and its many, many children.

And at last, the captors grew slothful and incautious. The embers roared their freedom and the captors burned. All the land was consumed in conflagration, and at last no force could extinguish them. Finally the flames reached the heavens and became the lightning, and the world was right once more.

Ling Qi blinked as the last notes faded and gave Yu Nuan a thoughtful look. That had been rather different from her last composition. She listened with half an ear to the other disciples under the sounds of scattered applause. It seemed that the consensus was that Yu Nuan's song was about the triumph of men over beasts and dragons and the rise of civilization and the empire. Ling Qi wasn't so sure.

"Not bad, gotta give the stodgy types an acceptable message to keep 'em happy I guess," Sixiang snickered.

A song about a downtrodden people being given resources by their unknowingly trusting overlord to rise up and overthrow them when they grew strong enough.

You could read it as the rise of the empire, in which case I suppose becoming the lightning was hitting spirit ascension?
But it seems to me that she might INTEND something more contemporary.

AND I think we got an interesting angle to use for a Social Art which is in line with our domain?
You should be sincere, but let the other party draw their own conclusions and use their own assumptions against them.

yrsillar said:
Ling Qi leaped lightly down to the stage and landed beside Hanyi, who was pouting mightily at Yu Nuan as the other girl stood up, her lute still producing streamers of smoke. "What do you think Hanyi?" Ling Qi asked.

"...I lost," Hanyi grumbled. "I'm sorry Big Sister."

"You did really well, do not apologize," Ling Qi said quietly, ruffling Hanyi's hair.

"It was a good try for a runt," Sixiang teased.

"Listen to her, she's right," Yu Nuan grumbled. "Damn natural talents," she added under her breath. Ling Qi shot her a look. Yu Nuan's met it without contrition. "You're not half assing someone else's work. That's the biggest step."

"Tch, I'll be better than you in no time," Hanyi said arrogantly. "Just you watch."

Yu Nuan took how many years to get to this point...while Hanyi just started actually learning last year.
Natural talents indeed.

...also a backhanded compliment to Ling Qi, who's one herself.

yrsillar said:
Yu Nuan rolled her eyes in exasperation and Ling Qi chose not to comment. "In any case, thank you for helping my spirit with this challenge Miss Yu. I will help with your own issue when time allows," Ling Qi said formally.

Yu Nuan glanced toward the seats where a few watchers lingered. "I'll look forward to it," she said neutrally. "I need to be going though. I'll see you sometime soon then… Miss Ling," the formality sounded a little awkward on her lips, and Yu Nuan seemed aware of it, given the brief bow and somewhat hurried exit that followed.

Awww look, she's learning how to politics!
Make amends for a personal fault while spinning the public perception as a generous cultivator indulging their spirit's whims

yrsillar said:
Ling Qi rested a hand on Hanyi's shoulder as they made for the opposite exit at a more sedate pace. "Are you actually satisfied Hanyi?" She asked quietly.

"No, I lost," Hanyi said grumpily, looking up at Ling Qi as if sher thought her a bit dim for asking. "But… I did promise Momma, I gotta grow up, and I can't do that if I just run to Big Sister for help."
"You'll get better quickly if you try. You're just lacking in experience," Ling Qi said, feeling a bit relieved that this trouble had been smoothed over quickly.

Good, good.
She's learning a bit about how to lose gracefully.

yrsillar said:
"Yup! That's why I'm gonna run all over the Sect!" Hanyi chirped cheerfully. "There's so many spirits here. I need to pester 'em all!"

Ling Qi's eyes widened in alarm and she looked down to see Hanyi sticking out her tongue for a fraction of a second before the young spirit dissolved into a swirl of cold wind and snowflakes, vanishing from the entry of the music hall.

"You really shoulda seen this coming," Sixiang commented in amusement.

Ling Qi held in a groan as she blurred into shadow to chase down Hanyi. She really hoped the young spirit was just playing a joke.

#MotherProblems

yrsillar said:
Snow Maiden's Embrace: C
With either full embrace or a clasping of hands, Hanyi draws a beguiled foe to their doom. As long as Hanyi maintains physical contact with the target, dealing D rank damage and E rank qi drain, and restoring a portion of that to Hanyi (E rank health restore, F rank qi restore), who can receive temporary qi or health exceeding her maximum by up to one letter grade.

A little hard to pull off either hugs or handholding in combat.

yrsillar said:
Fleeting Spring's Chill
Passives
+20 to Speed
+15 to Physical Avoid
+15 to Spiritual Avoid

Ephemeral Frost: D
Duration: Short
Like the frost of a chilly morning melting away before the sun, the user fades back from violence and attacks flitting away in a swirl of frost and snowflakes. Grants a bonus to physical avoid and a small bonus to physical armor, as well as a significant bonus to speed.

Mocking Winter Breeze: C
Duration: Immediate
Being struck with a decisive blow, the user's physical form shatters into a thousand crystals of ice and snow, only for them to reform unharmed within a Close distance. This technique negates the damage of a single technique of C rank or lower, and significantly reduces the damage of higher ranked techniques.

She's templated that off Sable Crescent Step didn't she?

yrsillar said:
Equipment:
Flurry Gown: +10 Physical and Spiritual Armor. Provides an additional +10 to spiritual Hit of Cold Arts

I can't recall her old dress, did it upgrade?

Valmond · Aug 4, 2019

So, what kind of social art are people wanting here?
What would it do that Bewitching Silver Maiden does not? And how should it fit Ling Qi?
Because only flaw in BSM i can see is that it is not domain compatible, and i'm not sure it is a huge drawback.
And talking of domain compatible, what kind of social art would be both domain compatible, and help with nobility?

veekie · Aug 4, 2019

Valmond said:
So, what kind of social art are people wanting here?
What would it do that Bewitching Silver Maiden does not? And how should it fit Ling Qi?
Because only flaw in BSM i can see is that it is not domain compatible, and i'm not sure it is a huge drawback.
And talking of domain compatible, what kind of social art would be both domain compatible, and help with nobility?

Based on Ling Qi's domain, a focus on mystique, information control(learn about them, prevent being learned) and clear communication.
As the Hidden Moon does, don't present a false face, present only the truth or no face at all.
As the Dreaming Moon does, communicate, heart to heart. An earnest appeal can move mountains.
As the Grinning Moon does, find the moment and seize it with the right words at the right time.

Black Noise · Aug 4, 2019

That something is domain incompatible this early means it contains at its core lessons that are antithesis to ones we've internalized already. I suspect it's something we want to avoid for more than just the mechanical drawback of less domain xp, especially for something central like a social art which would be the lens through which we interact with others.

Kai Merah · Aug 4, 2019

[X] Plan: Foundation? Established
[X] Skill Plan: Honing our edge

Kian · Aug 4, 2019

fictionfan said:
What do we get from training Argent Genesis anyway? I thought that we could only equip one cultivation art.

Another reason we want we want AG, as I am sure has been already pointed out, is the increase in our Qi pool. More precisely it the upkeep reduction from AG increases our available Qi pool from Qi B27 to A. The second level of AG already provides -2 upkeep per spirit and with the growth potential of AG (from from yellow 3 to green 3 in 6 levels) -3 or even - 4 might be in the cards. For comparison, its direct predecessor, Argent soul provided - 3 upkeep to spirits at max level. Argent soul is a red 3 potency technique.

yrsillar said:
Potency: Red 3

yrsillar said:
-Reduce upkeep of each spirit by 3

The main benefit of having an A rank Q pool is the almost ridiculous increase in combat strength as we would be able to cast B-Rank techniques at pool minus one.

yrsillar said:
Rank 0: ~5 uses
Rank -1: ~20 uses

In other words we go from being able to afford 5 B-Rank techniques per scene (with a full Qi pool) to dropping 20 of them. Dropping like 5 SCS, 5 TE and 5 CE per combat and still having a fourth of our pool left over for the set up techniques and damage mitigation gives us more staying power and a lot more attack power

An example:
If someone with a B-Rank Qi pool (like we have now) and a B -Rank technique that blocks one offensive B-Rank techniques (something incredibly overpowered) we would absolutely destroy him from the sixth CE onwards. If he used other techniques, in order to fight back for example , he drops even faster while we can likely eat the damage with SCS, TR, PLR and regular Qi damage mitigation.

In short we need 13 points of Qi for the A level pool. 7 with AG level 2, 4 if AG upgrades to upkeep - 3 and 1 more point if it upgrades to
-4 Upgrades.

Then again I am sure that there is a good reason why the math people discarded the "endurance predator approach" but as I am not on the discord I didn't get the argument/background. But it sure would look cool if we pulled out a sudden, unexpected spike in combat ability.

Also the new Art tab looks sleek as heck. Ty yrs!

Diomedea · Aug 4, 2019

veekie said:
AND I think we got an interesting angle to use for a Social Art which is in line with our domain?
You should be sincere, but let the other party draw their own conclusions and use their own assumptions against them.

You know what's a useful tool for that? Wordplay.

1986ctcel · Aug 4, 2019

Diomedon said:
You know what's a useful tool for that? Wordplay.

so Ling Qi's true strength, shitty puns :3

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

Sometimes words have two meanings

Red-White-Black-White

Please sir, may I have some Meows?

Please sir, may I have some Meows?

Please sir, may I have some Meows?

eYe Gaze baCk

Tired Cultist

Curious

Hound Hearted Hedonist

A piece of the continent