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The Path Unending (A Cultivation Quest)

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What, exactly, is the advantage of the ghost-box vs. the ice-necklace that was suggested earlier? it seems like making a necklace is more in tune with our current skillset, or are people just really married to the box idea?
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So, here's the thing, Jewelry was getting stretched too far, and the reason why it applied like it did to our last two charms was because of Ves's generosity. He's getting tired of us doing Jewelry for edge cases all the time tho, so that's not an option.

(Like, the Blood Defender should have been Clothworking, for one.)
 
welp to give people context on why discord people be going for box, heres why

Ves voiced his annoyances with being lenient on jewel crafting for the past charms and I quote here from discord

Edit: Alright, forgot to not quote Discord Ves because I'm usually a lurker so heres the reasons why discord peeps decided to go full box without Discord Ves quote
Edit: Ves liked the idea of box and said he was annoyed with us relying to much on jewelry as the necklace should be cloth working and woodworking the acid charm. People on Discord said "Huh, guess time to make papa Ves proud and go full Box plan" mainly because we didn't want to piss Ves of.
Just a note here though. Ves didn't like us using jewel crafting for every past charm which technicly shouldn't count as jewel crafting. we can make a different charm from box it's just that making the necklace should count as weaving and not jewel crafting and that sort of ticked him of because our last charm should be wood working.
Edit: That's discord folks


Suffice to say he's been very lenient with jewel crafting for our last couple of charms and after being told this, everyone on discord decided, "Fuck it, Box we go. We'll make papa Ves proud"

Anyhow that's preety much it, hope ya guys don't feel left out with why discord peeps decided to go all in on box but Papa Ves likes it and is being annoyed by our constant flexability with what counts as jewel crafting so here we go.

Anyway im lazy, peace
 
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dingdonghadron said:
What, exactly, is the advantage of the ghost-box vs. the ice-necklace that was suggested earlier? it seems like making a necklace is more in tune with our current skillset, or are people just really married to the box idea?
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It's very simple.

We've made too many charms with Jewelry in one go, some of which were only barely jewelry, and we need to broaden out. Using the Night mats and woodworking will also give us a higher starting BT compared to an ice necklace.

We can't combine Ice and Night because the result would look too much like something from another quest and Ves doesn't want to get in trouble because of that. Also, Night Hunger was always our preferred pokemon type in this case :V

TLDR; we've been playing it too safe and we need to get CRAZY
 
If we really wanna do wood stuff, I feel like we need to farm cash and do a big lesson so were not trying to dd or td with a crap dice pool. What's our woodworking? How many actions does that take to average 30-40 successes?
 
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dingdonghadron said:
If we really wanna do wood stuff, I feel like we need to farm cash and do a big lesson so were not trying to dd or td with a crap dice pool. What's our woodworking? How many actions does that take to average 30-40 successes?
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Currently Woodcarving is at 2. After some discussion, we've decided to swap over to second-tier tutoring, since the hunt action is very likely to give us the required talents. In the event of a rolling bad and not finding any, Cteatus gave the OK on it being swapped to first tier tutoring in its place. (Though, we'd still lose the difference between the two in that event, which is one action. That's better than losing three, though.)

Woodcarving 9/10 should be a lot more suited for completing the Box.
 
[X] Plan: THE BOX BECKONS

-[X] You have begun work on the charm for Xu Yun's commission. All it needs now is for you to finish infusing it.
--[X] Cloud's Breath
-[X] You will go hunting for a beast whose parts can quickly be sold for Talents.
--[X] Invite Nokai
-[X] The Archives of the Delving Heart also offer to connect disciples with tutors in their discipline for a moderate cost. You will take advantage of the wisdom of your seniors.
--[X] 5th Circle (6 talents, Counts as 3 Actions, 1d8+3 training roll)
---[X] Craft (Woodworking) (DEX): 2
-[X] You are close to completing your glove of bone and wood. All that it requires is a few finishing touches. Time to get to work (1)
--[X] You are close to completing your glove of bone and wood. All that it requires is a few finishing touches. Time to get to work (2)
-[X] You have been challenged to a duel of champions by the fiend Jin Yazhu. For that to happen, you must secure a champion. You will attempt to decide on who that shall be.
-[X] Jai Shouxi has moved on from pills and is trying his hand at medicinal teas. He would welcome your assistance as a test subject once more.

IT BEGINS!!!
 
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... I'd rather not jump on the bandwagon just yet. I was really hoping we could find out Jin's champion this week so we could decide on our own champion based on that. I'd also prefer if we did the last map action because it might give us extra materials. And we need to keep making progress on impressing Siani.
 
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So are we no longer going for DD on the Archer charm? I suppose there is an argument to be made that we don't have enough time, but that would only take two extra actions for 50% more firepower right?

Especially since we're going for Tier 2 tutoring, I wouldn't expect the box to take more than 6 actions, which means we should have time to squeeze in both.
 
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The only problem with this plan is that I want to do the shallows investigation more than I want to do Jai Shouxi social. Which I hate myself for because I have been consistently saying we need to hang out with Shouxi.
 
Wistways said:
The only problem with this plan is that I want to do the shallows investigation more than I want to do Jai Shouxi social. Which I hate myself for because I have been consistently saying we need to hang out with Shouxi.
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We don't want to do two actions that might involve battle. We had to cancel our hunt last week, and Ves was being nice giving us another action to replace it. Let's not make the same mistake this time.
 
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