Threads Of Destiny(Eastern Fantasy, Sequel to Forge of Destiny)
- Thread starter yrsillar
- Start date
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- Location
- Staring into the void
[X] Infiltrate the fortress by using your wisps to move through the walls (Base DC 40 higher degrees of success allow deeper infiltration, degrees of failure shorten time spent before turning back)
Thinking about it...
We know the deeper you go into the abyss, the more poisonous it is to high-level cultivators, and the other way around for the Gnawing Ones.
What if there isn't anywhere deep enough for the highest level of their cultivators to not be poisoned? That even in the deeps, there's enough pure air around to slowly or not-so-slowly kill any of them above Yellow?
It's not a perfect symmetry, but we're not exactly guaranteed that, now are we.
Cecylene
Eternal Idea Engine
- Location
- Massachusetts
- Pronouns
- He/They
[X] Infiltrate the fortress by using your wisps to move through the walls (Base DC 40 higher degrees of success allow deeper infiltration, degrees of failure shorten time spent before turning back)
It's why we got em and I wanna use em.
It's why we got em and I wanna use em.
[X] Infiltrate the fortress by using your wisps to move through the walls (Base DC 40 higher degrees of success allow deeper infiltration, degrees of failure shorten time spent before turning back)
Radical Sway
Space Cowboy
- Location
- The Bebop
[X] Infiltrate the fortress by using your wisps to move through the walls (Base DC 40 higher degrees of success allow deeper infiltration, degrees of failure shorten time spent before turning back)
[X] Infiltrate the fortress by using your wisps to move through the walls (Base DC 40 higher degrees of success allow deeper infiltration, degrees of failure shorten time spent before turning back)
- Location
- The Space Between
I was actually thinking about restoration/renewal of Ways. Songs. Cultures. People. Artifacts and talismans sure, but like. Renaissance. Embrace of the broken instead of the scouring and replacing with the new
Sirrocco
Pedantic
...and if their power-ups are driven by impurities, rather than the purging of same, it makes some sense that it might reduce their lifespan. Worth noting that their lifespans initially start out quite high.
I also note... it looks like their spirit-stone equivalent feeds on bodies... which means that when they crank up to go meganuke, they may be sacrificing more of their people ti generate the "stones" necessary to do the thing.
Ooooh. Good call. It might be the trip to the surface that carves off the years, rather than the cultivation (or both?)
- Location
- Spain
[X] Infiltrate the fortress by using your wisps to move through the walls (Base DC 40 higher degrees of success allow deeper infiltration, degrees of failure shorten time spent before turning back)
We've learned a lot in here. I had imagined the Dome would be a sort of military headquarters, but it would look like that was not the case? As someone who voted for insoecting the dme, I'm alright with this outcome.
We've learned a lot in here. I had imagined the Dome would be a sort of military headquarters, but it would look like that was not the case? As someone who voted for insoecting the dme, I'm alright with this outcome.
[X] Infiltrate the fortress by using your wisps to move through the walls (Base DC 40 higher degrees of success allow deeper infiltration, degrees of failure shorten time spent before turning back)
TimEd
Meteor maker
[X] Infiltrate the fortress by using your wisps to move through the walls (Base DC 40 higher degrees of success allow deeper infiltration, degrees of failure shorten time spent before turning back)
so, this vote was changed a bit right? Added the wisps and degrees of failure?
Nice to see our skill set mitigates the risks.
so, this vote was changed a bit right? Added the wisps and degrees of failure?
Nice to see our skill set mitigates the risks.
NoxOfUmbra
Shadow of the night
- Location
- Colombia, South América
- Pronouns
- He/Him/His
[X] Infiltrate the fortress by using your wisps to move through the walls (Base DC 40 higher degrees of success allow deeper infiltration, degrees of failure shorten time spent before turning back)
EternalObserver
eYe Gaze baCk
- Location
- The Void
[X] Wait and see if you can spy a group going in or out that you can shadow (Base DC 20, waiting means less time to investigate overall. Failure indicates no opportunity arises)
Changing vote, it's getting too one-sided that I just have to switch sides.
Changing vote, it's getting too one-sided that I just have to switch sides.
If they are specifically cultivating impurities, it makes sense that it would shorten their lifespan, since the process of (human) cultivation is to rid oneself of impurities to attain immortality by ascending to spirithood. This would be the opposite of that. It's entirely possible that for these things even attaining red soul/gold body would result in them becoming mortal (and might actually be the "awakening" talked about earlier if it came with awareness) and each subsequent step on the path cuts down their remaining lifespan by a similar amount that a human reaching that step would gain. So a white Gnawing One could be expected to lose a millennium of their lifespan for a huge amount of power. If their method of cultivation takes a similar amount of time, it's entirely possible that anything above Yellow doesn't have the lifespan left to do anything but fight.
If that's the case, should a White Shishigui appear it will either be old enough where it will just destroy everything it sees... or it will be young, and want to talk; the latter is terrifying.
Jensaarai
Sing Victory Everlasting
- Pronouns
- They/Them
why though
[X] Infiltrate the fortress by using your wisps to move through the walls (Base DC 40 higher degrees of success allow deeper infiltration, degrees of failure shorten time spent before turning back)
[X] Infiltrate the fortress by using your wisps to move through the walls (Base DC 40 higher degrees of success allow deeper infiltration, degrees of failure shorten time spent before turning back)
I can't work out the math here, so going with what seems coolest.
I can't work out the math here, so going with what seems coolest.
- Location
- At the end of the world
[X] Infiltrate the fortress by using your wisps to move through the walls (Base DC 40 higher degrees of success allow deeper infiltration, degrees of failure shorten time spent before turning back)
