Threads Of Destiny(Eastern Fantasy, Sequel to Forge of Destiny)

Voted best in category in the Users' Choice awards.
It'll be good to make good with someone in the White Plumes, especially for the future. I also think our group's combat effectiveness will more than suffice right now.
 
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Adhoc vote count started by EternalObserver on Oct 3, 2020 at 11:28 PM, finished with 104 posts and 57 votes.
 
[X] Hanyi, whose nature was a key to the mission. (Increase group social cohesion)
 
Student Council - link for reference

Cai Renxiang and her mother are either based on, or have massive similarities, with the antagonists of Kill La Kill. By coincidence, Ling Qi shares marked similarity to another one of the antagonists, Nonon, and Gan Guanli seems to share a lot of qualities with Ira. So, its a running joke that CRX's Retainers are going to get two new members that resemble the remaining two antagonists from the anime.
Nonon is tiny and pink though. Ling Qi is taller than unbuffed Gan some of the time(probably not forever)


As for the vote, what we've seen is that:
-Hanyi is central to the negotiation. Engaging her is relevant to the journey plot arc.
-Xia Lin is notably jumpy and reacts martially to spirits first. This isn't a problem yet, but a more powerful spirit or worse, a diplomatic party seeing your party member reaching for a weapon upon sensing them may react poorly.
-Xia Lin is visibly immersed in the Celestial Peaks modes of thought. She expresses difficulty in talking about Cui as a person. This is important, her pokerface equipment actively hurts her here - people who can't magically divine your intentions are going to go by your behavior, and she's going to be flagging as "well, you're not exactly people" which is um...undiplomatic, even from the security.

On the flip side, Ling Qi and Zhengui are very...unusual environments to fight in. Combat efficiency will be degraded if people who don't know how to react to being in frozen burning mist and ash while stacks of walls explode from the ground are around. Its not a fatal problem, certainly Zhengui worked fine at the village defense mission without prior experiences, but they could be better.

So:
[X] Hanyi, whose nature was a key to the mission. (Increase group social cohesion)

Because this group has a lot of kill, even if they don't work together perfectly, but botching diplomacy for a preventable misstep is undesirable.
 
[X] Hanyi, whose nature was a key to the mission. (Increase group social cohesion)

One more thing i just thought of.
This update shows that we don't need to cultivate wood or fire to work with Zhengui, whatever they did seems to have been a pretty decent combo with opposite elements, if we work with Hanyi and Zhengui to explore this, we could do potentially pretty decent effects without traditional elemental synergies.
 
It's unlikely that the halberd has as much of a supermode like Liming, but this strikes me as something Shenhua would like in her personal elite strike force — the capability to artificially elevate themselves into higher cultivation to punch up.
I don't think Liming actually has a supermode, rather that state is just the object spirit releasing a bit more of its real power. We know that that that Liming has only two other "siblings" and both of those belong to White cultivators, so I think it's safe to assume that Liming is not actually Green or even Cyan; it is just limiting itself so that CRX can bind it. I wouldn't be surprised if it was really Violet or Prism.
 
I don't think Liming actually has a supermode, rather that state is just the object spirit releasing a bit more of its real power. We know that that that Liming has only two other "siblings" and both of those belong to White cultivators, so I think it's safe to assume that Liming is not actually Green or even Cyan; it is just limiting itself so that CRX can bind it. I wouldn't be surprised if it was really Violet or Prism.

I stand by my assertion that Liming bound Cai Renxiang.
 
I don't think Liming actually has a supermode, rather that state is just the object spirit releasing a bit more of its real power. We know that that that Liming has only two other "siblings" and both of those belong to White cultivators, so I think it's safe to assume that Liming is not actually Green or even Cyan; it is just limiting itself so that CRX can bind it. I wouldn't be surprised if it was really Violet or Prism.
Correction: Liming has 3 other siblings, and they do not belong to White Cultivators aside from Shenhua herself. Other ones being Empress Xiang (Prism), and Diao Linqin (Prism).
 
[X] Zhengui who shared some of her combat roles. (Increase group combat synergy)

Xia Lin is making it clear that she wants to be there on a stricter 'combat role', and as such the most important thing she is asking is to be aware of combat capabilities of Ling Qi, rather than be aware of the social details. I think we should respect her wishes there.
"Miss Bai is correct," Xia Lin said, lowering her eyes briefly. "The rhetoric a diplomat chooses is as important as a warrior's choice of arms and armor. I am not a diplomat however, my role is to ensure that the Young Mistress and Miss Ling reach their destination safely. My assessment was based upon my role in the group."
 
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