It's worth noting that we don't actually have any actual stealth aspects in RME yet. Our wisps aren't necessarily sneakier than if Meng Dan cultivated this Art, and we're kind of taking for granted that they will be. Even with the Accompaniment our main use of the wisps is still as a sneaky perception ability, and I would like them to be a thematic extension of our Stealth. Like, Vanish is our Advanced Stealth Skill and it allows us to disperse into a cloud of Qi, so imagine if Ling Qi in the fourth realm sneaks not like a human but as mist, shadows and moonlight moving through all the hidden of her surroundings. If we want to move not just as a invisible cloud but as darting wisps of mist, not as a human but as innumerable phantoms, Merry Moon's Eyes lays the groundwork for slivers of our Self being just as sneaky as the entire whole.
I like the Accompaniment. I like the idea of being able to put pieces of our Self with others and acting through them and the wisps are natural candidates of that, and just like with making our wisps stealthier I don't know if we may do something like this again. But just plain giving our techs to others feel to much like a game mechanic right now. It doesn't feel like teamwork to have others use the Hoarfrost Refrain, it's Ling Qi using her power through her allies rather than Ling Qi and diverse companions combining their strengths. I'd be much more okay with Accompaniment if it only allowed self-buffs and self-affecting things like Black Mirror and West Wind Step. It'd be Ling Qi helping her companions be better at what she's good at and protecting them, while their actual actions in a scene is still their own things.
I don't know. Accompaniment is definitely sexier, but I wish it was more conservative. But I like both of these so maybe sneaky wisps can continue to be largely implied narratively rather than mechanically.
