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

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[X] Because she wanted him to be happy, and she wanted to be part of that. (Tech alteration route)
 
3 questions

1- Will we get another chance at combination techniques if we don't choose the first option?

2- Will we need to open more meridians with either option to keep our current build?

3- Will altering techs to fit Zhengui's themes give them a bonus to cultivate them?
 
Black Noise said:
I'm on-average ok with both; first is solid all-round, second I like the answer and can agree that long-term having closer-together themes is strong but also think having distinct themes that can work together is viable (as is implied by the first option basically). Idk what I'm voting, convince me people.
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TimEd said:
Either way, I can't decide which I want more. I think I'll wait for some analysis on what possible modifications can be made first, since combination techniques could come from any direction.
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I'm in exactly the same situation... 😅
 
[X] Because she wanted him to be happy, and she wanted to be part of that. (Tech alteration route)
 
[X] Because she wanted him to be happy, and she wanted to be part of that. (Tech alteration route)
 
Bakkasama said:
3- Will altering techs to fit Zhengui's themes give them a bonus to cultivate them?
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I can answer this one:
yrsillar said:
  • Zhengui:
    + .2 Multiplier to Fire Arts
    + .2 Multiplier to Wood arts
    G Damage Reduction vs Fire damage
    +10 health

  • Sixiang:
    + .2 Multiplier to Music, Moon Art cultivation
    + .2 Multiplier to Wind Art Cultivation
    +5 Bonus to Music, Dance, and Art
    +10 To Hit of Music & Dance and Wind Arts
    +5 to Presence

  • Hanyi:
    .2 Multiplier to Cold and Music Arts
    .1 Multiplier to darkness arts
    +10 to Penetration of Cold Arts
    +5 to Hit of music Arts
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Our spirits each give us a couple of bonuses to cultivation, which stack. Having an art be Fire or Wood in elemental affiliation gives us a bonus to cultivating it. That is why cultivators almost always have spirits of elements compatible with their arts, and why Alingge gave us a weird look about the fact that we don't really use much of either Wood or Fire. So if we alter one of our arts to add Wood or Fire, we get a bonus to cultivating it.
 
[X] He was her little brother, and she wanted to work on something as equals. (Combination technique route)

Combo Techs are cool. That and I don't want Ling Qi to share Zhengui's themes. I like them being so different and having to work around that.
 
lioli said:
The Name for Zhen is [Renewal], the destruction that clears away the old to make way for the new. For Zhen, the Sect grounds are insufficiently wild to be comfortable. To make a stab at the problem, the Sect to too controlled and bounded: Zhen's Fire nature can't be let loose without brushing up against places ordered and claimed by the Sect, leaving him feeling restricted and constrained, incapable of expressing himself fully.

In other words, Zhen perhaps needs more places to burn than he has? And thus, the future land needs of Zhengui has to take into account a degree of expendable area.
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I think you've spotted the core of it, but I think there's more to it than that. He's burning/renewal. He's supposed to destroy what is there to bring forth something better... but the entire sect is so cultivated already that he can't really do that. He doesn't really need expendable lands. He needs lands that would be made better by his passing.

There's a similar thing alongside that, though. Zhengui is... basically a tiny god at this point. Like, he has a shrine and everything... but right now, everyone around him is pretty much his tier or higher. He'd totally be a valued agricultural deity if he were in farmlands being worked by mortals and protected by reds. It is his nature to lift up those around him by his presence - but he can't really explore that part of himself unless he's far enough above them to actually do the lifting, and in the sect that's just not true.

Zhen in particular by has something of a proud and domineering nature, but that does nothing more than make him a comic figure in the sect because he's surrounded by people who are more badass than he is, or at least within reasonable reach. Out in the wilds, though, that's suddenly very much not the case... and that may help him with the whole sniping with Gui thing, because he won't have to scrabble for social status wherever he can find it. Everyone will just know that he is badass, and Gui is badass, and they are badass together. Like here, where they get to play "good cop bad cop" when dealing with a grove of trees. "So... either we can transplant you into really nice places that will fit well into the new qi formations where you'll thrive... or we can burn you down to ashes and let something better grow in your place." "I, Zhen, would not mind if it were the second."


As for me?

[X] He was her little brother, and she wanted to work on something as equals. (Combination technique route)

Combo techniques are good and useful things. Theme-sharing? Well, it would probably be good from a cultivation standpoint, but I do think they gain something from their dramatically different perspectives. I suspect that our family will gain something from it as well.
 
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[X] Because she wanted him to be happy, and she wanted to be part of that. (Tech alteration route)
 
[X] He was her little brother, and she wanted to work on something as equals. (Combination technique route)

the combo seems more interesting option.
We already know how to mess with techniques but we never even heard of a combo.
i'm also more in favor of anything that encourages us to work with Zhengui.
 
Sirrocco said:
I think you've spotted the core of it, but I think there's more to it than that. He's burning/renewal. He's supposed to destroy what is there to bring forth something better... but the entire sect is so cultivated already that he can't really do that. He doesn't really need expendable lands. He needs lands that would be made better by his passing.

There's a similar thing alongside that, though. Zhengui is... basically a tiny god at this point. Like, he has a shrine and everything... but right now, everyone around him is pretty much his tier or higher. He'd totally be a valued agricultural deity if he were in farmlands being worked by mortals and protected by reds. It is his nature to lift up those around him by his presence - but he can't really explore that part of himself unless he's far enough above them to actually do the lifting, and in the sect that's just not true.

Zhen in particular by has something of a proud and domineering nature, but that does nothing more than make him a comic figure in the sect because he's surrounded by people who are more badass than he is, or at least within reasonable reach. Out in the wilds, though, that's suddenly very much not the case... and that may help him with the whole sniping with Gui thing, because he won't have to scrabble for social status wherever he can find it. Everyone will just know that he is badass, and Gui is badass, and they are badass together. Like here, where they get to play "good cop bad cop" when dealing with a grove of trees. "So... either we can transplant you into really nice places that will fit well into the new qi formations where you're thrive... or we can burn you down to ashes and let something better grow in your place." "I, Zhen, would not mind if it were the second."
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Man. Golden Fields route would have been fun. But LQ's hangups meant it was never going to happen.
 
[X] Because she wanted him to be happy, and she wanted to be part of that. (Tech alteration route)
 
dycouza said:
[X] Because she wanted him to be happy, and she wanted to be part of that. (Tech alteration route)

I just feel like the way Ling Qi usually approach her connections is more about their happiness than being equals. Oftentimes when we vote about something it's about encouraging our friends towards what Ling Qi and the questers think is best for them. We spend pages of discussions about which option is best for their development. We're shaping them, raising them, helping them, Manipulation A-ing them into being their best selves. It's not about being equals, the goal is taking a role in a relationship that most fit with what these lonely people need.

We're not trying to be equals with Hanyi, we're raising her where Zeqing cannot. We try to help Renxiang be her own person, we are a friend to Meizhen when friendship is what she needs most, and to Xiulan while being supportive yet checking her well-being, we even are Xuan Shi's dedicated friendmaker now. We chose not to introduce Su Ling to the Wang group because it was her first week in Inner and she's our asocial friend who we thought wouldn't be comfortable. We always try to do our part in making our friends happy, equal or not, and while being equals might be a good way to do it with Zhengui it's not as much the fundamental motive.
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ngl if I wasn't in spite mode, I'd totally switch sides and vote for the other one. This is a good post
 
[X] He was her little brother, and she wanted to work on something as equals. (Combination technique route)

Combo techniques are very cool.
 
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