- Pronouns
- He/Him
[X] Greater Efficiency. (Kong Zhi is far more used to manipulating his own anam than he once was. He no longer suffers from the 10% penalty towards combat techniques inherent to the Kong Family Cycling Technique.)
The Path Unending (A Cultivation Quest)
- Thread starter Vesvius
- Start date
- Original
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- Tags
- original xianxia cultivation quest
WhiteNights
Notorious Phoneposter
- Pronouns
- She/Her
[X] Enhanced Recovery. (Kong Zhi's breathing technique now bolsters his core, increasing it's own productivity. Kong Zhi's EMP is doubled when calculating anam regeneration rate.)
Kornet
Quite possibly a sloth abomination
- Location
- Mother Russia
[X] Added Utility. (When Kong Zhi is not at a Natural Wonder, he can still attempt to cycle ambient anam. He may cycle at a location not strong in anam and gain an amount of anam equal to his WIT that is appropriately aspected.)
- Pronouns
- He/It/Argh!
[X] Added Utility. (When Kong Zhi is not at a Natural Wonder, he can still attempt to cycle ambient anam. He may cycle at a location not strong in anam and gain an amount of anam equal to his WIT that is appropriately aspected.)
I'm not sure where it leads, but it feels more like KZ to me.
I'm not sure where it leads, but it feels more like KZ to me.
- Location
- United States of America
[X] Added Utility. (When Kong Zhi is not at a Natural Wonder, he can still attempt to cycle ambient anam. He may cycle at a location not strong in anam and gain an amount of anam equal to his WIT that is appropriately aspected.)
I like this option especially with my desire to work on SEG more.
I like this option especially with my desire to work on SEG more.
- Location
- England
[X] Enhanced Recovery. (Kong Zhi's breathing technique now bolsters his core, increasing it's own productivity. Kong Zhi's EMP is doubled when calculating anam regeneration rate.)
- Location
- USA
Let me make a quick argument against Greater Efficiency - it's the only one of the three options that does literally nothing.
In order to save us a single mote of anam on a technique activation - it needs to be a technique that:
a.) matches zero elements of our core and has a base cost of six or higher (none of our current techniques) This will stop a 6-anam technique from going to 7-anam. We really can't afford 6-anam techs with our pitiful pool anyway.
b.) match smoke/steel, and have an anam cost of at least 6 (again, none of our current techs) this will make a 6-15 cost go down by 1 to 5-14. Which is a marginal gain at best
c.) match time, and have a cost of 6+ (once again, none of our current techs) but a bigger discount at the high end I guess.
Our current techs are a 2-cost Wood/Earth, a 3-cost Beast/Sound a 1-5 cost beauty, a 5-cost time, a 4-cost steel/royalty and a 4-cost smoke/wind.
None of them benefit. What are the odds we get a 6+ cost anytime soon? We've got enough other techs to work on before we go looking for something more expensive than we can reasonably use.
Enhanced recovery at least incentivizes us to do things with our anam more, or dump it into charms occasionally (though, honestly, with a steady income of sect points and access to discount pills, any time we want a quick anam infusion/recharge, we can get it)
But Enhanced Utility? That opens up new actions that don't exist otherwise.
In order to save us a single mote of anam on a technique activation - it needs to be a technique that:
a.) matches zero elements of our core and has a base cost of six or higher (none of our current techniques) This will stop a 6-anam technique from going to 7-anam. We really can't afford 6-anam techs with our pitiful pool anyway.
b.) match smoke/steel, and have an anam cost of at least 6 (again, none of our current techs) this will make a 6-15 cost go down by 1 to 5-14. Which is a marginal gain at best
c.) match time, and have a cost of 6+ (once again, none of our current techs) but a bigger discount at the high end I guess.
Our current techs are a 2-cost Wood/Earth, a 3-cost Beast/Sound a 1-5 cost beauty, a 5-cost time, a 4-cost steel/royalty and a 4-cost smoke/wind.
None of them benefit. What are the odds we get a 6+ cost anytime soon? We've got enough other techs to work on before we go looking for something more expensive than we can reasonably use.
Enhanced recovery at least incentivizes us to do things with our anam more, or dump it into charms occasionally (though, honestly, with a steady income of sect points and access to discount pills, any time we want a quick anam infusion/recharge, we can get it)
But Enhanced Utility? That opens up new actions that don't exist otherwise.
- Location
- Washington
[x] Enhanced Recovery. (Kong Zhi's breathing technique now bolsters his core, increasing it's own productivity. Kong Zhi's EMP is doubled when calculating anam regeneration rate.)
CedeTheBees
Probably high right now
- Location
- Somewhere
- Pronouns
- They/Them
[X] Added Utility. (When Kong Zhi is not at a Natural Wonder, he can still attempt to cycle ambient anam. He may cycle at a location not strong in anam and gain an amount of anam equal to his WIT that is appropriately aspected.)
[x] Enhanced Recovery. (Kong Zhi's breathing technique now bolsters his core, increasing it's own productivity. Kong Zhi's EMP is doubled when calculating anam regeneration rate.)
- Location
- Hell.
- Pronouns
- She/They
Gah, I ultimately gotta go with this
[x] Enhanced Recovery. (Kong Zhi's breathing technique now bolsters his core, increasing it's own productivity. Kong Zhi's EMP is doubled when calculating anam regeneration rate.)
Much as I'd like for us to get the added utility, especially for Weird Anam Types, it's never going to give us enough for stuff like getting Techs or similar unless the amount involved is incredibly small. With this, we go from 2 anam per day to 3, 4 when we raise Emp again with Shatter. This gives us way more ways to use anam over a week, since we can do things like dumping our core into something or go all out with techs. And it'll take until our capacity is at 36 for our regen/Core ratio is made equal again (I.e. needing 9 Days for a full charge).
[x] Enhanced Recovery. (Kong Zhi's breathing technique now bolsters his core, increasing it's own productivity. Kong Zhi's EMP is doubled when calculating anam regeneration rate.)
Much as I'd like for us to get the added utility, especially for Weird Anam Types, it's never going to give us enough for stuff like getting Techs or similar unless the amount involved is incredibly small. With this, we go from 2 anam per day to 3, 4 when we raise Emp again with Shatter. This gives us way more ways to use anam over a week, since we can do things like dumping our core into something or go all out with techs. And it'll take until our capacity is at 36 for our regen/Core ratio is made equal again (I.e. needing 9 Days for a full charge).
- Location
- Czech Republic
[x] Enhanced Recovery. (Kong Zhi's breathing technique now bolsters his core, increasing it's own productivity. Kong Zhi's EMP is doubled when calculating anam regeneration rate.)
- Location
- Poland
- Pronouns
- He/Him
[X] Added Utility. (When Kong Zhi is not at a Natural Wonder, he can still attempt to cycle ambient anam. He may cycle at a location not strong in anam and gain an amount of anam equal to his WIT that is appropriately aspected.)
Additional push to explore.
Additional push to explore.
[X] Enhanced Recovery. (Kong Zhi's breathing technique now bolsters his core, increasing it's own productivity. Kong Zhi's EMP is doubled when calculating anam regeneration rate.)
- Location
- USA
Good stuff. Happy we managed to finish the charm, or make progress on it depending on which way we go.
Yes, planning out important projects are for boring people. Better to leave it all up in the air. I'm sure an outside observer would be appalled. And now I finally understand why other charmcrafters look at the Kongs side-eyed, especially considering the valuable material he was using.
A discussion to be had for the next week plan vote I guess. Though if people are in favor of DD then we need to understand that we will have to commit to spending at least another 3+ actions on the project for a couple more weeks. The only thing worse than doing a DD on a crafting project is choosing to continue working on it and only throwing one or two actions towards it per week and causing the expected completion of the project to balloon further down the line.
Those were some really nice rolls there. Glad we kept working on StM. We made some really good progress here.
Though I am a bit confused on what happened here. Did Kong Zhi sort of attempt to connect to other versions of himself? That is the best guess I have. That the different sensations and feelings where parallel versions of himself. A bit creepy tbh.
Gonna have to think on this a bit more. They are all useful in some way, but I am leaning more towards enhanced recovery.
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