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

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Well, it's certainly not 100%. More like 98%.

I do not disagree. Still a huge thing tho. It means we start to slowly actually overtake her. Before that, it was 100%, then 100% but with a 5% possibility of managing to run if the heavens aligned (they actually did, somehow), then 100% but we'd give a better showing for spectators. Making this eternal, overbearing 100% drop even by 1 is actually huge, it means we start to become really scary, and that we'll become even more of a monster if we do not bottleneck.
 
705: Ling Qi
706: Sun Liling
Ha! someone must be pissed! :rofl:
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that is interesting but ... doesn't seem to be worth the time and cost. I mean, at best we have around fifteen training actions available per turn, spending one AP to gain 1.5AP is nice, but only if it doesn't cost sect points. I mean, spending two AP to cover the sect points cost and one AP on the lesson itself to gain ~1.5AP is ... <censored>.

On the other hand, once again the Ma sisters are left in the dust.

"Pssst did you hear, anyone guarded by the Ma sisters get into the inner sect, pass it on!"

inb4 they are guarding Gan
i know you're being funny, but can you imagine the kind of rep that would net them? Assuming they want to work in that kind of field, it's the kind of bodyguard resumé that you really can point at. If they can get some kind of sect "medal of valor" of some kind during this war they'd basically be set.

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Also we have 20 green stones so at worst we will probably lose half of our currency and still have 10 Green stones left over. Otherwise we might consider getting back into our Formations skill so we can get our own set of security.
The issue is that half our total found is a big fucking deal when we still have to go up two ranks to have any hope of hitting our current end of the arc targets. And that's not even touching issues like our spirit's lack of gear or how Ling Qi's own gear is starting to look dusty and worn... as in there's at least two talismans she could upgrade and our list of consumables is also looking quite ridiculous for our level.

Besides, it's not like they are defenseless. How much did we spend on the houses' defenses already? 2GSS? Does anyone remember?
Even if you disregard the Sect's own defences (which you really really shouldn't do) we already invested as much as we could into upgrading the house's defences last time.

And lastly, let's not forget Qi mom's poor heart. She'll have a heart attack if she ever hear's how much Ling Qi wants to spend on the issue. again. :V
[X] A general upgrade of the home's formation arrays for durability and security (2 green stones)
I mean if you define supernatural as not including dodging or being faster/stronger/etc than a mortal, then sure, you're right.

But that seems limiting on the definition of supernatural, especially when if the definition is "beyond mortal ability" it neatly encompasses all of the weird stuff yellow soul cultivators get up to instead of needing to chop it up into multiple boxes.
The definition of supernatural is "something that can't be achieved by natural means", it's not "something beyond a human's ability".
For example, running as fast as a cheetah is superhuman but not supernatural.
Its a fully organized state with organized armies with good leaders and strategists. So yes, why wouldnt they potentially do that if they believed it was to their advantage? We dont really have much of a read on their inclinations given how their response to a mere raid was ridiculously disproportionate.
Its a fully organized state with organized armies with good leaders and strategists. So why would they send greens (+) after mortals when red/yellows are more than enough?
Besides, the recent event didn't really show that they had greens or cyans to spare when fighting against the Sect...
 
that is interesting but ... doesn't seem to be worth the time and cost. I mean, at best we have around fifteen training actions available per turn, spending one AP to gain 1.5AP is nice, but only if it doesn't cost sect points. I mean, spending two AP to cover the sect points cost and one AP on the lesson itself to gain ~1.5AP is ... <censored>.
It's passive.
 
that is interesting but ... doesn't seem to be worth the time and cost. I mean, at best we have around fifteen training actions available per turn, spending one AP to gain 1.5AP is nice, but only if it doesn't cost sect points. I mean, spending two AP to cover the sect points cost and one AP on the lesson itself to gain ~1.5AP is ... <censored>.
Erm, the time and cost was getting to this sect rank. We get that all the time now for free.
 
The definition of supernatural is "something that can't be achieved by natural means", it's not "something beyond a human's ability".
For example, running as fast as a cheetah is superhuman but not supernatural.
Good point! I was mistaken.
 
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[X] A fully fortified 'Panic Room' fortified to the limit of Xuan Shi's skill (7 Green Stones, owed favor to Xuan Shi.)

Is it weird I am basically advocating paying 5 GS just for the privilege of owing a favour to Xuan Shi?



Come to think of it, this may not be mere luck of the wartime situation granting us privilleges. After darkness month is over, we may have a chance of outright beating her. Ducals are scary monsters, yes, but people in this thread seem to forget we are actually progressing faster than any of them, if only slightly, its just that their headstart is big and that each rank they move forward they get access to more OP techniques.

I would still bet on Liling winning, its just the prudent thing to do, but after darkness month, I would no longer consider her victory a certainty.
There's being confident in one's capability and then there's hubris.

While our build has the potential for it, the gap between LQ and Meizhen (and by extension Liling) was and still is around 3-5 months. The reason we've been catching up is largely because we're picking lower hanging fruit, both in cultivation and in stats, which creates an impression we're catching up faster than we actually are (if we are at all).

In practical terms, the current gap is not just the already substantial extra few months of cultivation time, but it's also one of skill. We're growing fast but it will be a while before we've fully grown into peak performance by mid-Green standards, but the ducals are already there, the equivalent of professional athletes.

The same also applies to our spirits; while they have potential to be top tier, none of ours are even G3. It will take a lot of training and time for our spirits to match LQ in the way the ducal spirits match their companions. SSC should help with that a lot but that's gonna take time.

So a current match up would be LQ with g3 arts vs Liling with fully g4 arts, g4/g3 spirits, domain C or even B, and about a rank across the board higher than us in attributes and a lot of skills. That's for a match up that would be difficult if we were matched in cultivation and stats.

Yeah no, ducals kick our ass.
 
[X] A fully fortified 'Panic Room' fortified to the limit of Xuan Shi's skill (7 Green Stones, owed favor to Xuan Shi.)

safety for family, hook for best husbando, this option has it all.
 
[X] A fully fortified 'Panic Room' fortified to the limit of Xuan Shi's skill (7 Green Stones, owed favor to Xuan Shi.)
 
There's being confident in one's capability and then there's hubris.

While our build has the potential for it, the gap between LQ and Meizhen (and by extension Liling) was and still is around 3-5 months. The reason we've been catching up is largely because we're picking lower hanging fruit, both in cultivation and in stats, which creates an impression we're catching up faster than we actually are (if we are at all).

In practical terms, the current gap is not just the already substantial extra few months of cultivation time, but it's also one of skill. We're growing fast but it will be a while before we've fully grown into peak performance by mid-Green standards, but the ducals are already there, the equivalent of professional athletes.

The same also applies to our spirits; while they have potential to be top tier, none of ours are even G3. It will take a lot of training and time for our spirits to match LQ in the way the ducal spirits match their companions. SSC should help with that a lot but that's gonna take time.

So a current match up would be LQ with g3 arts vs Liling with fully g4 arts, g4/g3 spirits, domain C or even B, and about a rank across the board higher than us in attributes and a lot of skills. That's for a match up that would be difficult if we were matched in cultivation and stats.

Yeah no, ducals kick our ass.
Also, well... successor arts are OP.

I don't even mean they are stronger than normal arts (though they tend to be given the already invested levels in them), but simply that they make things so much simpler. Meizhen, Cai Renxian, Liling or any of the High Nobles rarely have to redo their builds every so often when they finish their arts. They don't have kinks to work through.

When they finish their SCS/FVM/TRF/HDW/FSS, they already have their successors all lined up and just continue their cultivation. Whenever they pick a new arts it's because they are looking to broaden or change their toolsets, not because they have to.

This is a lot of time Ling Qi is 'wasting' that they don't, there. Though OTOH there is an argument that experimenting a lot all over the place is actually not too bad when you are young.
 
[X] A general upgrade of the home's formation arrays for durability and security (2 green stones)
 
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[X] A fully fortified 'Panic Room' fortified to the limit of Xuan Shi's skill (7 Green Stones, owed favor to Xuan Shi.)
 
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Adhoc vote count started by GlassMask on May 28, 2020 at 5:27 PM, finished with 154 posts and 57 votes.
 
[X] A general upgrade of the home's formation arrays for durability and security (2 green stones)

I know there are good reasons to vote for option B, but I don't think they're quite good enough for this expense at this time for this duration.
 
[X] A fully fortified 'Panic Room' fortified to the limit of Xuan Shi's skill (7 Green Stones, owed favor to Xuan Shi.)

Room for the entire family, and a promise of more Xuan Shi interaction.
 
[X] A general upgrade of the home's formation arrays for durability and security (2 green stones)

I know I mostly lurk and don't really contribute, but am I the only one who actively dislikes Xuan Shi? He just seems to scream neckbeard cultivator to me. I was under the impression that the reason we were even ordered to bring him back into the fold was because it was insinuated that he had a crush on Renxiang, and then they had a "falling out" and so he started avoiding the entire faction. I also dislike how every interaction with him seems to involve needing his assistance to ensure our companions well being.

I don't know, I guess I just generally dislike the character.
 
[X] A fully fortified 'Panic Room' fortified to the limit of Xuan Shi's skill (7 Green Stones, owed favor to Xuan Shi.)
 
I know I mostly lurk and don't really contribute, but am I the only one who actively dislikes Xuan Shi? He just seems to scream neckbeard cultivator to me. I was under the impression that the reason we were even ordered to bring him back into the fold was because it was insinuated that he had a crush on Renxiang, and then they had a "falling out" and so he started avoiding the entire faction. I also dislike how every interaction with him seems to involve needing his assistance to ensure our companions well being.

I don't know, I guess I just generally dislike the character.
He's definitely an awkward and shy young nerd, but he doesn't have the level of creepiness-about-women that I feel the term "neckbeard" implies. If anything, he has strenuously avoided Nice Guying us (cf the "oh shit I accidentally brought my crush to a love nest, now she's gonna think I'm trying to seduce her, aaaaahhh" freakout he had), and "I had a crush on this girl, I realized it's never gonna happen, so I will interact with her less to avoid prodding the open wound of my feelings" (if that is indeed why he stopped spending free time with CRX's faction beyond his official duties) is a pretty mature handling of the situation -- certainly more emotional maturity than I exhibited at fifteen.

"All our interactions with him are framed in the context of needing his help to take care of our responsibilities" is a legitimate frustration to have, though, and I buy it as a reason to like his presence in the story less.
 
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