[x] Keep things formal between you, show her around the Sect and discuss the mission and expectations, perhaps have a spar?
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Ling Qi's first attempt is hidden away in a drawer where nobody can see the oblong globs of stitching one could loosely call a snowflake if you had only read about snow in books whose language you can only read one in three words.
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[X] Keep things formal between you, show her around the Sect and discuss the mission and expectations, perhaps have a spar?
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[X] Keep things formal between you, show her around the Sect and discuss the mission and expectations, perhaps have a spar?
[X] Keep things formal between you, show her around the Sect and discuss the mission and expectations, perhaps have a spar?
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It turns out she's just very bad at embroidery, and has been working on the same snowflake for over a year.
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[X] Be friendly, show her around and introduce her to your spirits. They will be members of the party too.
[X] Keep things formal between you, show her around the Sect and discuss the mission and expectations, perhaps have a spar?
[X] Be friendly, show her around and introduce her to your spirits. They will be members of the party too.
That smile she let slip intrigues me. Maybe she would appreciate a less formal relationship, just like Renxiang did. And seeing her reaction to a less professional circumstance would tell us more about her, too. Plus, I just think it'll be more interesting. We've seen nothing but order and discipline from the Cai faction. I wanna see what a more "normal" member does, given the chance to be informal.
That smile she let slip intrigues me. Maybe she would appreciate a less formal relationship, just like Renxiang did. And seeing her reaction to a less professional circumstance would tell us more about her, too. Plus, I just think it'll be more interesting. We've seen nothing but order and discipline from the Cai faction. I wanna see what a more "normal" member does, given the chance to be informal.
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[X] Be friendly, show her around and introduce her to your spirits. They will be members of the party too.
CRX is good at being formal. I want LQ to do a Jiao here and unbalance her through the Power of Friendship.
Another benefit to being friendly, is that this is the most minor way to check on how we can expect them to react when we inevitably encounter some cultural dissonance.
CRX is good at being formal. I want LQ to do a Jiao here and unbalance her through the Power of Friendship.
Another benefit to being friendly, is that this is the most minor way to check on how we can expect them to react when we inevitably encounter some cultural dissonance.
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[X] Keep things formal between you, show her around the Sect and discuss the mission and expectations, perhaps have a spar?
Long time lurker here, just want to give my two cents. This is an Eastern Fantasy so I'm somewhat assuming that the etiquette is based on Eastern culture. So from personal experience and upbringing, no matter how receptive someone is for a first meeting, formality is still the best way to meet someone.
One can be friendly but in a formal way. It's because formality is a sign of respect especially if you're getting to know someone for the first time.
Long time lurker here, just want to give my two cents. This is an Eastern Fantasy so I'm somewhat assuming that the etiquette is based on Eastern culture. So from personal experience and upbringing, no matter how receptive someone is for a first meeting, formality is still the best way to meet someone.
One can be friendly but in a formal way. It's because formality is a sign of respect especially if you're getting to know someone for the first time.
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well. In short: I don't like meta-votingLol you gonna edit your post later, Jow? I wanna know what changed your mind.
we have a character bloat problem
my feeling in my bones is that if there is going to be a diplomatic problem, it's going to happen regardless of how we try to mitigate it. LQ and CRX are safe. Meng boy and Xia Lin are not. Potential Snow Lady characters added, but uh. If things go well . . . maybe we can hand the diplomacy past-first-contact off to others and there'll be no lasting snow-lady characters?
anyway.
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Xia Lin smiled. It is not something I would consider Xia Ren's soldiers doing, because it is too personal and emotional. Xia Lin is a combat-focused Rushing Cloud cultivator prodigy like ourselves, except extremely imperial and also we have no idea if she has anything but martial skills. Showing your emotions on your face in public? Even when there is clearly some sort of greater screen enforced protecting you from inattention-to-diplo-arts?
two potentials for source-of-screens. First: Shenhua armor creates screens which promote unity and mute individuality, including expressions that either Social Arts or Esoteric Combat Perceptions would get an advantage from. Second: they're a buff art actively placed by commanders over the collective.
I think the first is more likely. Plumes are the elite, and that kind of jamming might be really important against diviners and precognitives like we know the Weilu successors would have had access to.
Now. This screening would also be helpful because as soldiers, your Diplo suite might be lacking/non-existant. If that's the case, so long as you can cover your face and stay standing at attention, you will not be disadvantaged in the brief instances of Politics during deployment. Such as right now.
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There is a distinct risk that Xia Lin is not only pro-imperial, but a hardline reformer like Xia Ren. Personally tearing up her clan's traditions, by force if necessary. Worse, there's a risk that, as a prodigal military talent of a notable lineage, she might hew closer in personality to Sword Boi, Wang, Sun (Shao and Lilling both) or even Ji Rong than to Xia Ren. All of these have had, or could have had in Wang's case, large problems stemming from arrogance, conflict-centered-interaction-models, and a lack of diplomacy skills.
Xia Lin's military abilities are not in question. However. We need to be damn sure that she isn't going to say or do something stupid. With the screens in play, we have no idea if such screens will be at work during the mission or if Xia Lin is the kind to "take initiative" when they really have a feeling about something.
In case 1, where the screen is attached to the armor, there might be no problems but if she's hot-headed/blooded enough there might be some anyway.
In case 2, where the screens are localized and not coming with us, that could be really dicey.
Either way, I'd prefer to nip the problem in the bud by diplo-shocking her immediately in a way that cannot be done by anything but culture shock. Which is what the informal interaction would be. An intense and high stakes culture-shock.
All that said: Meh.
If YRS wants to take the story in the direction where Xia Lin, or Meng nephew, or our Diplo Mission is on a vote against eachother. Well. Okay.
I would vote for the shock of informality primarily for meta reasons. One's desires, alone, do not make a family after all. We can accommodate Xia Lin for now.
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