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

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-[] Hidden
-[] Echoing Grandeur
-[] Hidden Smile IV

Its Braidtugger's full moon plan except I swapped grinning with hidden since the overflow on Hidden let's us add +2 to the power concept which when combined with the +1 we'd get from Echoing Grandeur would let us level power. I think improving our understanding of the power concept could help with the heart demon
 
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Our cultivation art remains a priority. Improvements will likely give us extra experience, base or otherwise. Plus it gives a ton of concept increases in place of direct power. Best to not neglect this.

For this particular turn, it'd also be nice to tie one of the PLR improvements into the dream exploration.

The math cabal will likely tell us more about how we should order projects later, but for now anything we can get double successes on is fine, as is anything we'd need multiple extra bonuses to get double successes on.

I kinda like Plan Full Moon for the dreaming/hidden/grinning combo, but I'm going to push for The Dreaming Gala over Echoing Grandeur. Fulltexts:
  • The Dreaming Gala: Only once have you tasted the wine of Dream, and reveled in her halls. Those memories are blurry. Those memories are slippery. You have grown, and you know in your heart that you always have an invitation. Seek again that cacophonous hall, that phantasmal concert, and find the lessons you may have yet missed: Fuses the Ephemeral Dreamlit Dancer technique in to the Dreamwalker Trait. Advances the Dreamwalker Trait by 1 level, and the Creation Concepts by 1 step. (0/5)
  • Echoing Grandeur: In the techniques of the Lunar Revelry, there is one which stands out unfiotting from the others. The Joyous Toast, which amplifies the power of your songs. From whence does that power come, flooding in from the Dream? What does even the applause and adulation of mere figments raise the potency of your music so? Advances the Power and Community projects one step. Alters the Joyous Toast technique. (0/5)
Find the hall in the depths of dream? Learn better dreamwalking while walking said dream? It's so appropriate.

I'm less invested in the details of the two options, but as said, a selection for each of our moon patrons has a nice symmetry. Also:

  • Grinning: It is the seeking that brings joy, the journey and the acquisition. Delve into the deeper mystery of the Grinning Moon, seek, adventure, explore to integrate its lessons. Advances the Freedom, Motion, and Isolation projects one step on completion. 30 XP to physical cultivation. (0/3)
Seeking and exploration is perfectly tied into the turn already.

[] Plan Full Dreamwalking
-[] Grinning
-[] The Dreaming Gala
-[] Hidden Smile IV
 
Hmm. The Dreaming Gala project says we have an invitation. Doesn't that kind of undermine the Dream exploration we're doing with Sixiang? Don't get me wrong, that's tread ground I think we'd find immense value in trodding again, but it's not exactly exploring in the normal sense.
 
[X] Plan Icy Phantasm
-[X] Soul of Ice (10/5 - Argent Domain, Argent Vent)
-[X] The Dreaming Gala (7/5)
-[X] Hidden Smile IV (1/1)
 
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AbeoLogos said:
Hmm. The Dreaming Gala project says we have an invitation. Doesn't that kind of undermine the Dream exploration we're doing with Sixiang? Don't get me wrong, that's tread ground I think we'd find immense value in trodding again, but it's not exactly exploring in the normal sense.
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It's also, well, something that we didn't exactly need a dream quest for - we already know where it is.

And doesn't really respond to the current heart demon narrative at all either.


qazcdewsx said:
What do people thing of
-[] Hidden
-[] Echoing Grandeur
-[] Hidden Smile IV

Its Braidtugger's full moon plan except I swapped grinning with hidden since the overflow on Hidden let's us add +2 to the power concept which when combined with the +1 we'd get from Echoing Grandeur would let us level power. I think improving our understanding of the power concept could help with the heart demon
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Hmm, yeah, that's tempting concept and heart demon-wise.
 
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[X] Plan Move It Move It
-[X] The Dreaming Gala
-[X] The Laughing Wind
-[X] Hidden Smile IV

This plan is fairly simple, Ling Qi should practicing moving it. Both of these seem to deal with how to move, either between reality and the liminal or between the earth and the sky, and I feel that Ling Qi will have a lot of fun studying such parts of her arts.
 
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People are forgetting the sites and other 1 use bonuses

I like [] Plan We Dream of a Society but it doesn't have those. The moratorium's over btw.
 
Actually, might be good for communication if we include the expected progress numbers in the plans?

[x] Plan We Dream of a Society
-[x] Echoing Grandeur (7/5)
-[x] Hidden Smile IV (1/1)
-[x] Xiangmen, Fortress of Tsu Pt. 1 (6/5)

And yeah, I'll also support the variants here:

[x] Plan Full Moon
-[x] Echoing Grandeur (7/5)
-[x] Hidden Smile IV (1/1)
-[x] Grinning (8/3)

[x] Plan Dreams of Power
-[x] Echoing Grandeur (7/5)
-[x] Hidden Smile IV (1/1)
-[x] Hidden (8/3)
 
[X] Plan Full Dreamwalking
-[X] Grinning (8/3)
-[X] The Dreaming Gala (7/5)
-[X] Hidden Smile IV (1/1)

With bonus resource allocation.
 
Erebeal said:
Actually, might be good for communication if we include the expected progress numbers in the plans?

[x] Plan We Dream of a Society
-[x] Echoing Grandeur (7/5)
-[x] Hidden Smile IV (1/1)
-[x] Xiangmen, Fortress of Tsu Pt. 1 (6/5)

And yeah, I'll also support the variants here:

[x] Plan Full Moon
-[x] Echoing Grandeur (7/5)
-[x] Hidden Smile IV (1/1)
-[x] Grinning (8/3)

[x] Plan Dreams of Power
-[x] Echoing Grandeur (7/5)
-[x] Hidden Smile IV (1/1)
-[x] Hidden (8/3)
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Just gonna make a note here of the gains each of these plans offer:

All three offer 1 Community, which is currently locked, and 1 Power, as well as Altering Joyous Toast and advancing the Hidden Smile trait.

We Dream offers an alteration to Eagle God, as well as +1 Motion and +1 Home, which advances Home from rank 0 to rank 1.

Full Moon offers 2 to Isolation, Motion, and Freedom, which advances Freedom from rank 2 to 3, as well as 30 Physical Cultivation

Dreams of Power offers +2 to Mystery, Causality, and Power, which advances Power from rank 2 to 3, and advances both Mystery and Causality to rank 1, as well as offering 30 Spiritual Cultivation.
 
Adding to that, by 30 spiritual/physical cultivation it actually means 180, since it gets multiplied by our talent.

But yeah, ngl Dreams of Power is growing on me. That Power rank up feels pretty relevant to current heart demon stuff.
 
[x] Plan We Dream of a Society
-[x] Echoing Grandeur (7/5)
-[x] Hidden Smile IV (1/1)
-[x] Xiangmen, Fortress of Tsu Pt. 1 (6/5)

[x] Plan Full Moon
-[x] Echoing Grandeur (7/5)
-[x] Hidden Smile IV (1/1)
-[x] Grinning (8/3)
 
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[X] Plan Dreams of Power

Advancing the Power concept is something I really want to do so that LQ will start grappling with what she wants power for.
 
Approval voting Erebeal's plan and variants. I got my COVID shot yesterday and am just too out of it to be able to do the thinking needed to do anything else.

[x] Plan We Dream of a Society
-[x] Echoing Grandeur (7/5)
-[x] Hidden Smile IV (1/1)
-[x] Xiangmen, Fortress of Tsu Pt. 1 (6/5)

[x] Plan Full Moon
-[x] Echoing Grandeur (7/5)
-[x] Hidden Smile IV (1/1)
-[x] Grinning (8/3)

[x] Plan Dreams of Power
-[x] Echoing Grandeur (7/5)
-[x] Hidden Smile IV (1/1)
-[x] Hidden (8/3)
 
[x] Plan Dreams of Power

Power, Unlimited Power is always useful.
 
I like all of the plan participation!

Some I like so far:
[X] Plan Icy Phantasm
[X] Plan Dreams of Power
[X] Reflecting on the lessons learned with Ice Ladies

Also I'll throw one in the ring just for fun!

[X] Plan All in on Grinning
-[x] Grinning (8/3)
-[X] The Laughing Wind (6/3)
-[X] The Opened Vault +Argent Vent +Argent Domain (8/5)

The Opened Vault doesn't need the bonuses but *shrug*
 
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