Threads Of Destiny(Eastern Fantasy, Sequel to Forge of Destiny)
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Black Noise
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- About 1AU from Sol
One thing I'd really like to see is a kind of "sparring" between LQ and Xuan Shi where he sets up defended locations or detection schemes and we do our best to bypass any protections.
I suppose I can also settle for some poetry slam dunks as the excuse/result of art training.
Varder
Tired Cultist
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- Hell
An adult has higher chances against a master than a newborn baby against one. It doesn't mean that the master is being slowly "overtaken", it's just the adult is actually a capable person now.
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- Right Behind You.
Yes, Yes, come to the Treason Alliance. Embrace your hatred! We will kill everyone who stands between Ling Qui and uhh, something. I'm sure there's something Ling Qui wants and we can get! Right after we get rid of all these annoying side characters.
Seriously though, I kind of figure he's a future contact and thats about it. He's that guy at work who everyone knows got shot down by the boss and now we're all trying to ignore the office politics and just get on with our work. We'll be nice to him and keep everything copacetic until he goes back to his dukedom and then we can tap him some time later as a useful alumni buddy or something. Miezhen mentioned he was unimportant enough to be married off to her when they were younger and he dissent even have a Xuan Wu or seem to be that invested in politics (He came to Argent to read romance novels for goodness sake). Soo I doubt he's going to be too important to his clan in future like the other Ducals we know. Still, he's a contact with a ducal clan so we should be nice even if things are a bit awkward.
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- Alaska
[X] A fully fortified 'Panic Room' fortified to the limit of Xuan Shi's skill (7 Green Stones, owed favor to Xuan Shi.
They're under attack from above and below, and it wasn't too long ago that she saw half a mountain turned into "powder"....so yeah, panic room. Maybe it could even be improved in the long term with traps , or a secret escape route out of the village, like the nobles in that dream test had.
They're under attack from above and below, and it wasn't too long ago that she saw half a mountain turned into "powder"....so yeah, panic room. Maybe it could even be improved in the long term with traps , or a secret escape route out of the village, like the nobles in that dream test had.
[X] A general upgrade of the home's formation arrays for durability and security (2 green stones)
So while you're quite correct that we're not leaving before the war simmers down and that the Shishigui are capable of repaying the Sect's attacks in kind, repaying in kind doesn't actually imply that the Shishigui would be deliberately attacking the town our family lives at - that would be an escalation from the current state of affairs.
Neither the Shishigui nor the Sect has deliberately targeted civilians as of yet - only military assets, which our Family doesn't count as. The Shishigui took advantage of the Sect's distraction with the Cloud Nomad's having raided civilian targets, but that doesn't mean that they'll go for civilian targets themselves.
So while you're quite correct that we're not leaving before the war simmers down and that the Shishigui are capable of repaying the Sect's attacks in kind, repaying in kind doesn't actually imply that the Shishigui would be deliberately attacking the town our family lives at - that would be an escalation from the current state of affairs.
... You do remember that part of the first strike was an attack on the sect town? And that only Su Ling´s divination and GG´s intervention stopped a bloodbath from occurring among the mortal populace? Hell we had shishigui crawling out of the basement in LQ´s family house.
They very much do attack civilians as a first strike even.
Heck it was why Moon sempai argued for attacking their town during the Underground expedition, as it would be paying them back for attacking the civilian population.
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- The Star Kingdom of Manticore
The Shishuigui has deliberately targeted civilians. It was their weird rat things that crawled up and attack the sect town. One of them got into our house.
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- Earth
[X] A fully fortified 'Panic Room' fortified to the limit of Xuan Shi's skill (7 Green Stones, owed favor to Xuan Shi.
"Witness the power of a fully-fortified and operational panic room."
"Witness the power of a fully-fortified and operational panic room."
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Note, any spending now is less we have on future stuff. Every turn or so we have some choice which costs GSS. We are starting to become GSS positive, but this is going to change further on. I'd like to only spend money on what is actually needed. It makes sense to spend a couple GSS for piece of mind but seven is way more than that. Any security we add is mostly irrelevant compared to the sheer power of the elders. Suyin's panic room, plus Xuan Shi generally upgrading the formations of our home is enough.
We can't lose sight of the future for fears that wont come to pass. We want to spend money on what will actually help our family, not waste it before it can be used for good purposes.
We can't lose sight of the future for fears that wont come to pass. We want to spend money on what will actually help our family, not waste it before it can be used for good purposes.
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Come to think of it, they probably don't know all that much more about the specifics of our cultivation than we do about theirs.
If I was reading the infiltration right then they get born as nonsentient rat monsters, which occasionally awaken to sentience and then can accept grafts of some great old one's power to achieve higher levels of cultivation at the cost of lifespan.
Their fundamental limit is how many awakened they have total, how willing that population is to sacrifice for victory and how much they'll be crippling themselves long term by throwing away life hours.
That would make attacking population centers of low level or even unawakened critters a very cheap and efficient (albeit horrific) way of waging wars of attrition against them, fewer unawakened means fewer awakened citizens which means fewer who will be willing to accept grafts and that each graft will constitute a bigger relative sacrifice of societal work-hours. The assumption that humans work the same way could easily prompt attacks on human towns.
On the other hand they do sometimes use those same unawakened kin as disposable cannon fodder so who knows.
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BungieONI
Seven gremlins in a trench coat
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We're only effectively spending 20 yellow stones from our bank with Ling Qi's current income from Bao if we go with the seven stone option. There's an argument to be made that we're giving up on 4 green stones and 30 yellow stones if we don't take the two stone option, but we'll make that back as Bao pays out again and a seven stone expense like this is I think the highest we've gotten so far that wasn't drug related.
I don't think seven green stone payouts are going to be very common.
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The ones that LQ found talking about getting a graft so they could jump ahead in the line to get a pup adopted mentioned, well a pup. So there might be a cutoff date on the unawakened kin for when they can gain sapience.
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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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- Canada
[X] A fully fortified 'Panic Room' fortified to the limit of Xuan Shi's skill (7 Green Stones, owed favor to Xuan Shi.)
Really tho, did su ling got in because massive casualties?
BungieONI
Seven gremlins in a trench coat
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More of a contribution thing I think, for her level and usefulness as a diviner.
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She got in because she demonstrated a useful skill that the higher ups want to assign more resources to so it can grow. If there have been enough casualties to get someone let in by default up to 800 we're in very big trouble.
The fun thing is that I'm pretty sure Renxiang is about to be running into that problem. The Cai are too young to have built up a library for everything like the Bai, and Renxiang's just discovered that trying to blindly copy her mother isn't actually a viable path (and maybe her mother sent her to the Sect for a reason
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