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

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Xepheria said:
Li Suyin has a doom gauntlet and gets carried around on a palanquin by skeletal minions with rubies for eyes. Our liege wears a dress that hungers for violence and bloodshed. Jiao, one of our biggest influences, literally wears the most garish clothing possible to actively fuck with people. A tasteful set of silver hand jewellery engraved with moon iconography is nothing in comparison, especially when we already play more towards the Weilu aesthetic.

And if they do talk? Fuck 'em. In twenty years we'll have blown past them all while looking stylish as fuck.
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But they're specifically talking about if the 'tasteful hand jewelry' is from the Western Jungles, and how that might look to people.
It's the cultural origin that may be an issue.
 
[X] Hand Jewellery
-[X] Resist

Pibo would clash so much with our wings. Also not appropriate form for a combat talisman, I think.
 
[X] Pibo
-[X] Resist

[X] Pibo
-[X] Spiritual Avoid

I like the aesthetic of a pibo here. Not that there's anything wrong with hand jewelry, but this is a cloth specialist that made our dress, basically a guarantee of aesthetic matching that would otherwise be fairly hard to get. We can get jewelry on our own commission.

Edit: sp. Def -> sp. Avoid since we're voting derived stats.
 
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Jensaarai said:
But they're specifically talking about if the 'tasteful hand jewelry' is from the Western Jungles, and how that might look to people.
It's the cultural origin that may be an issue.
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See this is an argument that appears reasonable at first glance, but it really isn't.

Even supposing the design did originate from the WT,as with India IRL (which is almost wholly unsubstantiated), there would have been significant cultural cross-contamination between the Red Jungle civilisation and that of the Emerald seas before the rise of the Sage, by sheer virtue of proximity and the fact that, unlike with China and India, there isn't an enormous bloody mountain range in the way.

Once the Sage came along and engaged in his war of genocide and annihilation, and subsequently tore down the cities and permanently stained the jungle red with violence, well, it becomes a lot harder to maintain things like jewellery and other luxuries for the natives when the land is actively trying to murder you. Jewellery is a staple for stable civilisations, like China, with access to things like metal and stone mines, which post-Sage western territories most definitely were not.

The Sun coming along millennia later and deciding to trap themselves in craters left by the Celestial Dragon and going somewhat native is basically irrelevant.

The argument holds even less weight when you realise that imperial concubines wore things like this:


Which is decidedly more gauche than the examples I posted.


EDIT: Since some people apparently lack the reading comprehension to realise that I am not in fact suggesting that we wear the above, I've stuck it in a spoiler box. Read, people!
 
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Are we sure that the use of a resist talisman on Ling Qi's hands wouldn't interfere with her flute playing narratively? Seems tricky.

[X] Pibo
-[X] Resist
 
DeAnno said:
Are we sure that the use of a resist talisman on Ling Qi's hands wouldn't interfere with her flute playing narratively? Seems tricky.
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This is an absurd statement - a superhuman flutist wearing a talisman crafted personally for her by a master crafter, that doesn't even impede finger movement, would somehow interfere with playing her instrument?
 
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Are we sure that the use of a resist talisman on Ling Qi's hands wouldn't interfere with her flute playing narratively? Seems tricky.
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I would argue that having something that can in someway be connected with our flute playing would be a positive boon in this regard, as we're mostly trying to reinforce our music.

The pibo, otoh, would fit spiritual defense better I feel.
 
I like the idea of hand jewelry and I like the idea of the Pibo. Since I think we need to have really strong resist, that's what I'm going to vote for.

[X] Pibo
-[X] Resist

[X] Hand Jewelry
-[X] Resist
 
Pibo seems like it would change overall look more than hand jewelry so that's what I'm voting for.

[X] Pibo
-[X] Spiritual Armor

[X] Pibo
-[X] Spiritual Avoid

[X] Pibo
-[X] Resist

Edited to take account of AbeoLogos point.
 
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General point of order guys: "Spiritual Defense" is not a "primary derived attribute" which is what we were directed to vote for. It's two, which means the vote is ambiguous. The votes should be either for spiritual armor or spiritual avoid. This isn't fair to @yrsillar who has to interpret the intent, or to the players who are attempting to have their intent transmitted. As it stands, he should ignore those vote responses on the basis that it is illegal and counterproductive for all parties involved.


In other matters, I don't really like the pibo aesthetically. If you look at the majority of the ways it's worn, it requires active use of the arms, which is a commitment to fashion I just don't feel is in character for Ling Qi. She wouldn't want to manage her clothing on an active basis, especially in a social setting which is stressful to her. Nor do I feel having it, like, auto-float magically would be either. It's a bit too ostentatious. In combat that's fine and cool, because it, you know, looks cool. But casual or social settings? No, it's gaudy.
 
The Pibo is basically just another scarf, guys. Can we not get an actually new piece to add to our wardrobe?
 
[><] Boombox

[><] Shutter Shades

We gotta fit with our new celebrity musician status.

For real though, you guys have actually had some pretty good ideas, looking forward to what we end up with. I hope it goes with our sparkles.

[X] Pibo
-[X] Resist

[X] Hand Jewellery
-[X] Resist

With the Pibo, I kinda hope that it isn't actually already a thing in not!China Xianxia land and it goes something like this:

LQ: "This is fine."

Renxiang: "Ling Qi, that's not an accessory, that's just a piece of cloth."

LQ: "It's cool, its got the stats."

Meizhen: Considering how she could apply poison to her own hand jewellery "Just let is go, at least it's different."

*several years pass*

Renxiang and Meizhen observe how half the noblewomen now go ahead wearing pointless pieces of cloth hanging from their arms. Meizhen pats Renxiangs shoulder.

Meizhen: "You'll get used to it."

Distant Dreaming Moon laughter.
 
[X] Earrings
-[X] Resist

I think earrings are a good pick because they're visible, kind of girly, don't get in the way of anything, are fairly easy to refer to dynamically in text, and more or less material neutral. The cloth specialist can make them out of whatever he deems appropriate.
 
Pibo is kind of weird for Ling Qi? I could see Dance for it being the closest fit, but Pibo feels more like a Counter thing (River King aesthetics) than Resist.

[X] Earrings
-[X] Resist

[X] Hand Jewellery
-[X] Resist

Then there is the issue that as far as we can tell S.Avoid is just plugging a short term hole, while this a quest-long talisman we are choosing. Our S.avoid might (might) be lower than our p.avoid ultimately because some people want SS dex and Manip could be capped at S, but perception arts also tend to give s.avoid and ENM also does, so it's unclear it won't get more passives, bridging said gap.

OTOH, Resist is very much something where I can think "this is Ling Qi". Ling Qi has always been a field-heavy art users, where making sure dispels aren't crippling her ramping up is key.
 
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