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The Path Unending (A Cultivation Quest)

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Personally a fan of chatting to him, we've had him recommended to us by Shouxi before and he's apparently near getting his sigil.

Stop, chat to him. If he's following us he'll be deterred, if he actively wants something then we have a conversation.
 
[X] [LOADOUT] A Moment's Respite
[X] [LOADOUT] The Widow's Ward
[X] [LOADOUT] The Vitriolic Retort
[X] [LOADOUT] A Dance at the Midnight Crossroads
[X] [TAIL] Confront Teng Lim, but in a nonagressive way. This may have nothing to do with the duel.

It's very simple, Widow's Ward was built for function. It's not flashy and this duel is all about showing off our cool stuff. Even if we win the fight, we could lose the duel if we don't impress the judges with our charms. We've hot to STYLE all over our foe, and Shouxi's Rave Stick is nothing but FLASH and STYLE!

Also, since the Dark Rakshasa from the Box addes a whopping 20d10s7 to any tech used, the Lower Dice of the Pond Reflected aren't as bad as they seem.

This gives Fa a Sword/Shield in one hand, a blaster in the other, and a the Demon assistant to power all of them up.

Also, Jai Fa is familiar with A Pond Reflected, Shouxi's had it for over a month. She knows how it works in and out. She won't need much practice to use it well
 
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I'm coming around to the idea of using APR, AMR, Retort, and B O X myself.

Because this is showing off not entirely our skills, because our skills are mediocre regardless to the judges. It's showing how far we've come as a crafter since arriving here.

More importantly, APR is simultaneously an Archer and Defender charm, and with Dance serving as cover, it's very good at handling surprises. Widow's Ward technically isn't ours to use (Even if the owner's offered it to us). It was also explicitly called out as not being the flashiest thing we had, and we need to put on a show. APR is extremely flashy along with its flexibility--and I point out that it was considered very impressive that Kong Zhi could combine Light and Water Anam the way he did by Shouxi--who while he's in a different line is also a crafter. This likely matters.

Aesthetically? It's a coherent build. Jai Fa has one hand and arm with APR and AMR equipped, her off-hand gets to use Retort as a hold-out and a defense breaker, and she gets to lean on B O X to seize the advantage. It's a very coherent, very strong build that shouldn't cause much mutual interference.
 
[X] [TAIL] Approach him and asked why he is following us.
[X] [LOADOUT] A Moment's Respite
[X] [LOADOUT] The Widow's Ward
[X] [LOADOUT] The Vitriolic Retort
[X] [LOADOUT] A Dance at the Midnight Crossroads
 
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[X] [LOADOUT] A Moment's Respite
[X] [LOADOUT] The Widow's Ward
[X] [LOADOUT] The Vitriolic Retort
[X] [LOADOUT] A Dance at the Midnight Crossroads
 
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[X] [LOADOUT] A Moment's Respite
[X] [LOADOUT] The Widow's Ward
[X] [LOADOUT] The Vitriolic Retort
[X] [LOADOUT] A Dance at the Midnight Crossroads

I worry about taking the Pond into the fight, that we'd be judged for putting in a flashy charm that's out of this fight's powerlevel, and it looking like we're prioritising looking good over doing well in the fight.
 
If i may offer my own theory as to why he is tailing us.

As we know basically every crafter BUT us uses pen and paper in their process. We know this is at least in part why jin dislikes us. All the crafters under tian obviously use diagrams as well. In my opinion this guy found out that we don't use diagrams but our charms still work, and they work well. from what he has heard. he hasn't seen our charms in action and our charms up to this point have not been flashy.

My guess is that he wants to see our charms in action (obviously) because of his curiousity as someone who has grown up with diagrams. I think his response to our Kong style was curiousty and "Wow can you actually do that for real?" as opposed to Jin's "dirty savage just winging his creations". obviously just conjecture, but thats my guess.
 
[X] [TAIL] Approach him and asked why he is following us.
[X] [LOADOUT] A Moment's Respite
[X] [LOADOUT] The Widow's Ward
[X] [LOADOUT] The Vitriolic Retort
[X] [LOADOUT] A Dance at the Midnight Crossroads
 
Yeah, if APR wasn't as weak as it was, I'd be a lot more inclined towards bringing it into the fight. As it is, we already have a powerful Archer in Retort, which is four and a half times stronger as an Archer and carries a debuff to boot, and Widow's Ward is two and a half times stronger as a Defender and carries Hardness 3 for two rounds, a quality Jai Fa's Defender lacks.

Hardness 3 really shouldn't be underestimated, I think. It means that even if someone got two more successes on her, she'd still no-sell the attack. This even applies say, on a turn where she had used Widow a previous round and switched over to Retort. That's pretty damn cool, I'd say.
 
Another point in APR's favor is that Shouxi volunteered it. It's not on the level of Nokai offering a technique (or is it?) but rejecting someone's generous offer of help leaves a bad taste in my mouth.
 
[X] [LOADOUT] A Moment's Respite
[X] [LOADOUT] The Widow's Ward
[X] [LOADOUT] The Vitriolic Retort
[X] [LOADOUT] A Dance at the Midnight Crossroads
 
KreenWarrior said:
Another point in APR's favor is that Shouxi volunteered it. It's not on the level of Nokai offering a technique (or is it?) but rejecting someone's generous offer of help leaves a bad taste in my mouth.
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With that logic, I could mention that many of us guessed that Xu Yun heard about the Duel and let us keep A Widow's Ward for longer so we'd be able to use it, at the expense of his own benefit. Rejecting that help is just as bad, I'd say.
 
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[X] [LOADOUT] A Moment's Respite
[X] [LOADOUT] The Vitriolic Retort
[X] [LOADOUT] A Dance at the Midnight Crossroads

Box is obvious, the retort is a big-ish dice pool with a nice debuff, and the respite is just free-hit points. The pond is a bit too low quality to really... do much
Plus it's literally a hunk of glass and we don't really want to break other people's things, we might have to replace them.

[] [TAIL] Turn down a corner, grab him when he follows, and have a little chat
 
[X] [LOADOUT] A Moment's Respite
[X] [LOADOUT] A Pond, Reflected
[X] [LOADOUT] The Widow's Ward
[X] [LOADOUT] The Vitriolic Retort
[X] [LOADOUT] A Dance at the Midnight Crossroads

More charms is better, I don't even understand the objection.

[X] [TAIL] Exchange Pointers with him, at length

Sick of Jin's freaking minions. Send this one home in something less than mint condition.
 
ReaderOfFate said:
With that logic, I could mention that many of us guessed that Xu Yun heard about the Duel and let us keep A Widow's Ward for longer so we'd be able to use it, at the expense of his own benefit. Rejecting that help is just as bad, I'd say.
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It also means in the event that Jin Yazhu got Mei as his Champion (Not impossible, it's one of our frontrunners actually), that Xu Yun can never use Widow's Ward in her presence, ever, or else he becomes a new 'Betrayer'.
 
[X] [TAIL] Confront Teng Lim, but in a nonagressive way. This may have nothing to do with the duel.
[X] [LOADOUT] A Moment's Respite
[X] [LOADOUT] The Widow's Ward
[X] [LOADOUT] The Vitriolic Retort
[X] [LOADOUT] A Dance at the Midnight Crossroads
 
ReaderOfFate said:
With that logic, I could mention that many of us guessed that Xu Yun heard about the Duel and let us keep A Widow's Ward for longer so we'd be able to use it, at the expense of his own benefit. Rejecting that help is just as bad, I'd say.
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Xu Yun didn't tell us that it was for the duel, so we can just use Jai Fa's reasoning that it was one charm too many and we wanted to use the flashy APR instead.

Also, if Widow's Ward gets damaged that could also be bad.

Walter said:
More charms is better, I don't even understand the objection.
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The objection is that it's hard to make a coherent battle plan if there's too many options. Jai Fa has to use the charms and her own techs, and if she takes in a charm and doesn't use it then that might be a ding against us.
 
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[X] [TAIL] Approach him and asked why he is following us.
[X] [LOADOUT] A Moment's Respite
[X] [LOADOUT] The Widow's Ward
[X] [LOADOUT] The Vitriolic Retort
[X] [LOADOUT] A Dance at the Midnight Crossroads
 
Enjou said:
Xu Yun didn't tell us that it was for the duel, so we can just use Jai Fa's reasoning that it was one charm too many and we wanted to use the flashy APR instead.



The objection is that it's hard to make a coherent battle plan if there's too many options. Jai Fa has to use the charms and her own techs, and if she takes in a charm and doesn't use it then that might be a ding against us.
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No, that just means we can say it was so powerful, we feared to use it! 😬
 
[X] [LOADOUT] A Moment's Respite
[X] [LOADOUT] A Pond, Reflected
[X] [LOADOUT] The Vitriolic Retort
[X] [LOADOUT] A Dance at the Midnight Crossroads
 
Walter said:
[X] [TAIL] Exchange Pointers with him, at length

Sick of Jin's freaking minions. Send this one home in something less than mint condition
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There's a decent chance that he might be following us for a different reason than Jin. He also hopefully isn't one of his minions, and if Teng is another one of Jin's minions we are so screwed. Teng probably has the most influence in the whole circle, he's the one that started the Tear's politics.
 
[X] [TAIL] Confront Teng Lim, but in a nonagressive way. This may have nothing to do with the duel.
[X] [LOADOUT] A Moment's Respite
[X] [LOADOUT] The Widow's Ward
[X] [LOADOUT] The Vitriolic Retort
[X] [LOADOUT] A Dance at the Midnight Crossroads
 
[X] [TAIL] Invite him out for a social evening, as though he was a friend you saw on the street!

If he's there for legitimate reasons, he'll come with us. If he's there as a spy, he might run, he might try to get information out of us. But if he does join us we have the chance to pump him for information, and we have three chances to catch him in lie to his one.

And it'd be funny if our response to a (potential) spy was to invite him for a big bowl of soup at the shop of one of our friends. Or whatever else they do to relax.
 
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