Threads Of Destiny(Eastern Fantasy, Sequel to Forge of Destiny)
- Thread starter yrsillar
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- Original Users' Choice!
Voted best in category in the Users' Choice awards.
- Location
- Europe
On a different note, I really liked the chapter. While the fight itself came a bit short and felt a bit floaty the focus on the scene seems to have been on the social with Wang Chao, which was very nice.
Here, in particular, I think we are seeing some serious intra and interpersonal intelligence from Ling Qi. Ling Wi heard something she didn't like but didn't hold it against the people saying it because that clearly wasn't the intent and then decided to take a moment for herself to calm down because she knew she wasn't going to be at her best while annoyed. That's a surprisingly difficult and mature thing to do, even when in a relatively relaxed context like this.
Ling Qi is growing up. 🥳
- Location
- The Temple of the Winds
[X] Join Alingge with the Beasts. [Actively help Zhengui be more social. Advice on the vagaries of raising spirit beasts, Influence Alingge bond.]
With currently three spirits we really should spend more effort in making sure we are up to the task on that front. And while not as good as a dedicated action like elder tutoring this should still be pretty useful in the short and long term.
With currently three spirits we really should spend more effort in making sure we are up to the task on that front. And while not as good as a dedicated action like elder tutoring this should still be pretty useful in the short and long term.
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[X] Join Alingge with the Beasts. [Actively help Zhengui be more social. Advice on the vagaries of raising spirit beasts, Influence Alingge bond.]
The Pokemon Dream is not dead!
A Cool Idea for a possible future territory is playing Dr Oak, get a bunch of agreeable spirits, make a connection and give them a turf and a job and school our villagers and spirits on how to maintain that connection.
The Pokemon Dream is not dead!
A Cool Idea for a possible future territory is playing Dr Oak, get a bunch of agreeable spirits, make a connection and give them a turf and a job and school our villagers and spirits on how to maintain that connection.
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[X] Join Wang Chao in the pavilion and invite Zhengui with you. [Protest vote.]
Bakkasama
There is always a greater fool
- Location
- Buenos Aires, Argentina
- Pronouns
- He/his
[X] Join Wang Chao in the pavilion. [Make yourself more approachable, influence Wang Chao Bond. Give Zhengui room to act on his own, for better or worse.]
Weren't we warned against avoiding the socializing during the Luo hunting party? Something along the lines of how if we focused only in showing how competent we are and didn'd take the time to relax and meet this people we came off as if we were looking down on them and thinking we are superior.
Besides, while some argue that we will spar and thus interact with Wang Chao tomorrow anyway, I am worried about what would happen if we beat him and didn't take the time to get closer to him before to take the sting out of losing.
Not to mention that we are nominally to co-organizer of a somewhat social event so if we ignore the social aspect then it looks like we were just humoring Wang Chao or ordered to be here. If it looks like we have zero interest on growing closer to other nobles then they have zero reason to grow closer to us.
Weren't we warned against avoiding the socializing during the Luo hunting party? Something along the lines of how if we focused only in showing how competent we are and didn'd take the time to relax and meet this people we came off as if we were looking down on them and thinking we are superior.
Besides, while some argue that we will spar and thus interact with Wang Chao tomorrow anyway, I am worried about what would happen if we beat him and didn't take the time to get closer to him before to take the sting out of losing.
Not to mention that we are nominally to co-organizer of a somewhat social event so if we ignore the social aspect then it looks like we were just humoring Wang Chao or ordered to be here. If it looks like we have zero interest on growing closer to other nobles then they have zero reason to grow closer to us.
- Location
- New Brunswick, NJ
- Pronouns
- He/Him/His
[X] Join Wang Chao in the pavilion and invite Zhengui with you. [Protest vote.]
I am frustrated that "Zhengui or mission" keeps being the tradeoff.
[X] Join Alingge with the Beasts. [Actively help Zhengui be more social. Advice on the vagaries of raising spirit beasts, Influence Alingge bond.]
Approval voting in the real option, on the off chance the vote turns around.
I am frustrated that "Zhengui or mission" keeps being the tradeoff.
[X] Join Alingge with the Beasts. [Actively help Zhengui be more social. Advice on the vagaries of raising spirit beasts, Influence Alingge bond.]
Approval voting in the real option, on the off chance the vote turns around.
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[X] Join Wang Chao in the pavilion. [Make yourself more approachable, influence Wang Chao Bond. Give Zhengui room to act on his own, for better or worse.]
Zhengui is actually better at making friends when Ling Qi isn't around. Mostly because when she's there he pays attention to nobody else.
Zhengui is actually better at making friends when Ling Qi isn't around. Mostly because when she's there he pays attention to nobody else.
I mean, it does makes sense storywise. @yrsillar has clearly been building up the Job vs Family conflict and with our next advance insight building it only makes sense that it is about making it a "Your work is more important then your family" insight or not.
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Black Noise
Curious
- Location
- About 1AU from Sol
Imagine not being able to fly or at least ignore physical obstacles.
More seriously, some thoughts about the arts:
- BKSD action econ continues to be insane (double C damage followed by a free fast of a long high damage field effect that later also acts as a multiple-charge team prefect defense/damage mitigation), the theme of just summoning an army seems to come together pretty well with it as well. Shame about the range loss though since 100m frankly just isn't that much in cultivator battles (and that applies to things like Zhengui's field setup too).
- UGM seems to be delivering both in overclocking our offense in general (yellows get sooo fucked with straight up ignoring D rank defense forcing them to roll armor vs pen), and giving us a way to scale powerful single target damage that's in its own way as powerful as CtE, especially against opponents that would be difficult to 1-shot with it. Dirge(once we pick it up) should also work pretty well in team context since everyone will benefit from the stacking armor debuff. Plus the CC aspect has a lot of combo potential like using splash damage to double-blast opponents trapped by Zhengui.
- If this level of attack stacking is reasonable for Count-level mid greens then I'm pretty glad we're picking up SNR for its defense against repeating effects, and wind thief/PLR7 for increased defenses and mobility to avoid landing in killing fields where you're forced to deal with like 6~12 simultaneous C rank damage attacks (3 stacks GGM, 2 from eagle, 1 from primal war calling, all potentially doubled by dirge)
Other than that, I like this line too:
Not gonna vote on this one I think, both options can be good here:
- I think the main draw of going with Wang is the acting approachable part. We're gonna have a spar tomorrow after all so it's not like we won't talk.
- Meanwhile it's on one hand questionable how much alingge could help with a problem fundamentally about trust, but this is LQ putting effort to help Zhengui (who's in a somewhat grumpy mood) and possibly reaching out for help.
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- Location
- being near locations is my passion.
Seems sensible to mention the unfriendly dream spirit that we met at the time that... he also met a dream spirit, yes.
Anything that could fuck with Ling's thoughts to prevent her from going "oh, this might be a nightmare spirit" with regard to someone she has a positive bond with (Xuan Shi) is not something that Xuan Shi would be able to bind, so "thought fuckery" of any sort seems like it would be an odd explanation.
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EternalObserver
eYe Gaze baCk
- Location
- The Void
.....*sigh* you know what, why the hell not
[X] Join Wang Chao in the pavilion and invite Zhengui with you. [Protest vote.]
[X] Join Alingge with the Beasts. [Actively help Zhengui be more social. Advice on the vagaries of raising spirit beasts, Influence Alingge bond.]
[X] Join Wang Chao in the pavilion and invite Zhengui with you. [Protest vote.]
[X] Join Alingge with the Beasts. [Actively help Zhengui be more social. Advice on the vagaries of raising spirit beasts, Influence Alingge bond.]
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- Required Location
[X] Join Wang Chao in the pavilion and invite Zhengui with you. [Protest vote.]
[X] Join Alingge with the Beasts. [Actively help Zhengui be more social. Advice on the vagaries of raising spirit beasts, Influence Alingge bond.]
Protests are all the rage right now!
[X] Join Alingge with the Beasts. [Actively help Zhengui be more social. Advice on the vagaries of raising spirit beasts, Influence Alingge bond.]
Protests are all the rage right now!
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