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

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So, an interesting thought I've had for the intersect tournament is having Wang Chao be part of Cai's team. Depending on the rules for joining, such as age and whatnot, Wang Chao's ability to steadily get stronger as the fight goes on could be a good fit for a team that has Ling Qi and Zhengui on it. Even better if we are able to have Bai Meizhen join in as well. Two solid tanks just dragging out the fight while Wang Chao and (depending again on rules for joining) GG ramp up with Ling Qi as attritional support and Cai as the DPS/dispel role would be pretty difficult for opposing teams to manage.
 
[X] You have been trying to improve your social game. Keep pushing it. See if you can arrange something with not only Wang Chao, but also Alingge, Liang He and possibly others. (Social Benefits. Less focused training. Lower but wider skill bonuses. Zhengui gets more experience with other cultivators.)
 
[X] You have been trying to improve your social game. Keep pushing it. See if you can arrange something with not only Wang Chao, but also Alingge, Liang He and possibly others. (Social Benefits. Less focused training. Lower but wider skill bonuses. Zhengui gets more experience with other cultivators.)
 
[X] Try to arrange weekly training sessions for the next month with just Zhengui, Wang Chao and yourself. (More focused training, higher but more narrow skill bonuses, Zhengui gets better martial training.)
 
"It looks like he needs a little more work," Ling Qi said with a wry chuckle. "I might have to cut back on cultivation to train him a little more."

"That is a strange conclusion," Alingge replied, peering into the rising cloud of smoke and grit that consumed both combatants. "Empowering clan and companions is cultivation."

"And he hardly showed himself poorly," Liang He said tentatively, finally speaking up again.

"You're being kinda unreasonable again," Sixiang pointed out.

Ling "Imma set my goal as the ducal scions with drastically more resources, better arts, and several years head start on me and be grumpy when I can't keep up" Qi: "Zhengui is having trouble fighting someone only two small realms over him. I should step up his training."

Everyone else: "Tiger Mom, you crazy."
 
[X] You have been trying to improve your social game. Keep pushing it. See if you can arrange something with not only Wang Chao, but also Alingge, Liang He and possibly others. (Social Benefits. Less focused training. Lower but wider skill bonuses. Zhengui gets more experience with other cultivators.)
 
[X] Try to arrange weekly training sessions for the next month with just Zhengui, Wang Chao and yourself. (More focused training, higher but more narrow skill bonuses, Zhengui gets better martial training.)
 
Wow, finally caught up through both threads. That was only about 5,000 pages of great discussion and math... lots of math.:cry:

[X] You have been trying to improve your social game. Keep pushing it. See if you can arrange something with not only Wang Chao, but also Alingge, Liang He and possibly others. (Social Benefits. Less focused training. Lower but wider skill bonuses. Zhengui gets more experience with other cultivators.)

This seems like the best balance of what we're trying to accomplish here.

You have an unbelievable determination. Just reading the chapters and a few dozen of the latest pages took long enough for me.
 
Feedback, it does WONDERS for intuitive understanding of what she can do when on a desktop/laptop.
It also looks kind of ass on phone, but such is life.
 
[X] You have been trying to improve your social game. Keep pushing it. See if you can arrange something with not only Wang Chao, but also Alingge, Liang He and possibly others. (Social Benefits. Less focused training. Lower but wider skill bonuses. Zhengui gets more experience with other cultivators.)
 
Testing char sheet stuff

This is awesome. It makes understanding Ling Qi's current build a lot easier, and really helpful for me since I just caught up with everything in a really short timeframe so her evolution from stealth thief/bard to stealth archer/buff/debuffer to her current build (stealth bard/ dex tank?/ summoner) was a bit confusing. Especially with the mechanics change from FoD to ToD. So thanks for visualizing all this for us.
 
[X] Try to arrange weekly training sessions for the next month with just Zhengui, Wang Chao and yourself. (More focused training, higher but more narrow skill bonuses, Zhengui gets better martial training.)
 
Quite out of date, at least it's not so much summons as environmental construct effects with which we do damage and control. Also we're fairly solid at actually tanking and not just dodge-tanking.
Yeah, looking at that stat sheet again it seems we are quite the all around tank. By summons though I was thinking about her ability to materialize her spirits out of her dantian as needed rather than the worms she had in FoD.
 
[X] You have been trying to improve your social game. Keep pushing it. See if you can arrange something with not only Wang Chao, but also Alingge, Liang He and possibly others. (Social Benefits. Less focused training. Lower but wider skill bonuses. Zhengui gets more experience with other cultivators.)
 
[X] You have been trying to improve your social game. Keep pushing it. See if you can arrange something with not only Wang Chao, but also Alingge, Liang He and possibly others. (Social Benefits. Less focused training. Lower but wider skill bonuses. Zhengui gets more experience with other cultivators.)

I think I am leaning towards this as a way to help Zhengui be more then just our companion, but a member of a family. Maybe that doesn't make sense.
 
[X] You have been trying to improve your social game. Keep pushing it. See if you can arrange something with not only Wang Chao, but also Alingge, Liang He and possibly others. (Social Benefits. Less focused training. Lower but wider skill bonuses. Zhengui gets more experience with other cultivators.)

I think I am leaning towards this as a way to help Zhengui be more then just our companion, but a member of a family. Maybe that doesn't make sense.
Seems like the other voters feel the same regarding this
 
Our current build specializes in Rapid Response, Recon and Multi-Role Tactical Support. We move largely unseen at high speed with high perception and high endurance. Additionally we are pretty good at most combat roles with a specialization in Punching Down at Masses of Chaff and Ambush.
As we saw during the Village Defense Mission, our speed endurance and stealth allow us to deploy and redeploy again and again at various battlegrounds to pull the tides to our group's favor in whichever role we seem to be needed most doing.

The build isn't a typical RPG build, it's better to think of it in the context of the military. We're very Special Forces. Low Supplies Footprint, Low Noise, High Flexibility, High Self-Sufficiency, High Power, Quick to Mobilize, Strong Recon. Very Durable. Not best utilized in any single, particular role but Very Competent at most anything. Great unit to work directly under Command to gather recon, be empowered to make decisions in the field, and really screw up the enemy's planned engagement.

Give us some social prowess for InfoSec and Intel Gathering and we'll be Covert Ops qualified Special Forces. We're not going to be a one woman court intrigue machine anytime soon, but if we empower our spirits to socialize of their own accord we'll have *lots* of access to info that people might not expect us to. It's a pretty organic and "sincere" way to be a spymaster tbh. Don't bother trying to leverage Court Intrigue when talking to a variety of more common folk via Big Gregarious (little) Brother and Untouchable Idol Hanyi can get info that even the nobles might not be aware of. Echoes exist even when unheard after all. If we figure out how to trace those echoes back to the source and reconstruct what happened, there's no need to interrogate Nobles we can just interrogate the walls and leaves and other such witnesses. Seek the Songs and we'll find truths in that Music that will penetrate every facade and feint they want to socially make.

Seriously what a cool person we are. Excellent stuff.
 
Our current build specializes in Rapid Response, Recon and Multi-Role Tactical Support. We move largely unseen at high speed with high perception and high endurance. Additionally we are pretty good at most combat roles with a specialization in Punching Down at Masses of Chaff and Ambush.
As we saw during the Village Defense Mission, our speed endurance and stealth allow us to deploy and redeploy again and again at various battlegrounds to pull the tides to our group's favor in whichever role we seem to be needed most doing.

The build isn't a typical RPG build, it's better to think of it in the context of the military. We're very Special Forces. Low Supplies Footprint, Low Noise, High Flexibility, High Self-Sufficiency, High Power, Quick to Mobilize, Strong Recon. Very Durable. Not best utilized in any single, particular role but Very Competent at most anything. Great unit to work directly under Command to gather recon, be empowered to make decisions in the field, and really screw up the enemy's planned engagement.

Give us some social prowess for InfoSec and Intel Gathering and we'll be Covert Ops qualified Special Forces. We're not going to be a one woman court intrigue machine anytime soon, but if we empower our spirits to socialize of their own accord we'll have *lots* of access to info that people might not expect us to. It's a pretty organic and "sincere" way to be a spymaster tbh. Don't bother trying to leverage Court Intrigue when talking to a variety of more common folk via Big Gregarious (little) Brother and Untouchable Idol Hanyi can get info that even the nobles might not be aware of. Echoes exist even when unheard after all. If we figure out how to trace those echoes back to the source and reconstruct what happened, there's no need to interrogate Nobles we can just interrogate the walls and leaves and other such witnesses. Seek the Songs and we'll find truths in that Music that will penetrate every facade and feint they want to socially make.

Seriously what a cool person we are. Excellent stuff.
So we're an 18 series Bard with a little embassy atache/CIA station chief thrown into the mix. That is really cool when looking at it that way. I suppose dropping Zhengui directly on our enemy from above makes us our own air support as well.
 
Our current build specializes in Rapid Response, Recon and Multi-Role Tactical Support. We move largely unseen at high speed with high perception and high endurance. Additionally we are pretty good at most combat roles with a specialization in Punching Down at Masses of Chaff and Ambush.
As we saw during the Village Defense Mission, our speed endurance and stealth allow us to deploy and redeploy again and again at various battlegrounds to pull the tides to our group's favor in whichever role we seem to be needed most doing.

The build isn't a typical RPG build, it's better to think of it in the context of the military. We're very Special Forces. Low Supplies Footprint, Low Noise, High Flexibility, High Self-Sufficiency, High Power, Quick to Mobilize, Strong Recon. Very Durable. Not best utilized in any single, particular role but Very Competent at most anything. Great unit to work directly under Command to gather recon, be empowered to make decisions in the field, and really screw up the enemy's planned engagement.

Give us some social prowess for InfoSec and Intel Gathering and we'll be Covert Ops qualified Special Forces. We're not going to be a one woman court intrigue machine anytime soon, but if we empower our spirits to socialize of their own accord we'll have *lots* of access to info that people might not expect us to. It's a pretty organic and "sincere" way to be a spymaster tbh. Don't bother trying to leverage Court Intrigue when talking to a variety of more common folk via Big Gregarious (little) Brother and Untouchable Idol Hanyi can get info that even the nobles might not be aware of. Echoes exist even when unheard after all. If we figure out how to trace those echoes back to the source and reconstruct what happened, there's no need to interrogate Nobles we can just interrogate the walls and leaves and other such witnesses. Seek the Songs and we'll find truths in that Music that will penetrate every facade and feint they want to socially make.

Seriously what a cool person we are. Excellent stuff.
Future ling clan black ops squad
 
Yeah, looking at that stat sheet again it seems we are quite the all around tank. By summons though I was thinking about her ability to materialize her spirits out of her dantian as needed rather than the worms she had in FoD.
Spirit materialization isn't particularly unusual. Everyone at Green usually has a spirit or two, and everyone with a spirit can dematerialize them for storage in their dantian.

Our current build specializes in Rapid Response, Recon and Multi-Role Tactical Support. We move largely unseen at high speed with high perception and high endurance. Additionally we are pretty good at most combat roles with a specialization in Punching Down at Masses of Chaff and Ambush.
As we saw during the Village Defense Mission, our speed endurance and stealth allow us to deploy and redeploy again and again at various battlegrounds to pull the tides to our group's favor in whichever role we seem to be needed most doing.

The build isn't a typical RPG build, it's better to think of it in the context of the military. We're very Special Forces. Low Supplies Footprint, Low Noise, High Flexibility, High Self-Sufficiency, High Power, Quick to Mobilize, Strong Recon. Very Durable. Not best utilized in any single, particular role but Very Competent at most anything. Great unit to work directly under Command to gather recon, be empowered to make decisions in the field, and really screw up the enemy's planned engagement.

Give us some social prowess for InfoSec and Intel Gathering and we'll be Covert Ops qualified Special Forces. We're not going to be a one woman court intrigue machine anytime soon, but if we empower our spirits to socialize of their own accord we'll have *lots* of access to info that people might not expect us to. It's a pretty organic and "sincere" way to be a spymaster tbh. Don't bother trying to leverage Court Intrigue when talking to a variety of more common folk via Big Gregarious (little) Brother and Untouchable Idol Hanyi can get info that even the nobles might not be aware of. Echoes exist even when unheard after all. If we figure out how to trace those echoes back to the source and reconstruct what happened, there's no need to interrogate Nobles we can just interrogate the walls and leaves and other such witnesses. Seek the Songs and we'll find truths in that Music that will penetrate every facade and feint they want to socially make.

Seriously what a cool person we are. Excellent stuff.
Rapid Response/Recon/Multi-role tactical support is mostly on-point, however there are several additional points and nuances here:
  • LQ is by now a fairly accomplished duelist, with power at her level that only reliably loses to ducal-tier focused combatants. As a combat unit, especially with her spirits in tow, she's very much a heavyweight. Not just against hordes of weaker opponents (though that's where we excel).
  • LQ's ability to act on her scout-oriented build aspects is currently somewhat hampered by the promise to keep our spirits involved in any serious combat. We are working on it, and with steps like PLR on the way this plausibly becomes a solved issue later, but for now we're not as suited for Covert Ops as we could be. Not that that's necessarily bad, and we can still do plenty of recon-ajecant work with divination.
  • I would say the strongest aspect of our build is in field control; though we can kick ass reasonably well on our own, we really shine when working with a small squad of (preferrably high SL) elite combatants (think a kill squad with CRX, Meizhen and LQ support as base), either as a highly mobile disruptive force or as a moving hardpoint that can take all comers.
  • Last but not least, we're putting significant investment into becoming proficient at Spirit Affairs, so our social game isn't just limited to humans.
 
LQ's ability to act on her scout-oriented build aspects is currently somewhat hampered by the promise to keep our spirits involved in any serious combat. We are working on it, and with steps like PLR on the way this plausibly becomes a solved issue later, but for now we're not as suited for Covert Ops as we could be. Not that that's necessarily bad, and we can still do plenty of recon-ajecant work with divination.
We can still do all the recon work we want, we just can't recklessly jump into trouble without considering getting reinforcements first. Arguably the promise improved our ability to recon by hemming in our more foolish tendencies, making us better in the role of recon for a bigger force.
 
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