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

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[X] You may not like the priestess much, but she is not wrong here. Working within the Ministries bounds is important (Begin Laws Long Hand Political Quest)
 
[X] You may not like the priestess much, but she is not wrong here. Working within the Ministries bounds is important (Begin Laws Long Hand Political Quest)
 
[X] You may not like the priestess much, but she is not wrong here. Working within the Ministries bounds is important (Begin Laws Long Hand Political Quest)
 
picklepikkl said:
In this case, the word "Idol" does not refer to the dream idol, but rather to the East Asian cultural phenomenon of idol performers, which is a running joke about Hanyi's singing career.

Yeah, this was executed so clumsily that I am certain that the obvious culprit will just be a patsy for someone else.
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Why not both.jpeg? Titles often have as much wordplay and double meanings as possible crammed into them. My distaste for the dream idol is on record and we need to reign in our maverick tendencies a bit so I'll go with-
[X] You may not like the priestess much, but she is not wrong here. Working within the Ministries bounds is important (Begin Laws Long Hand Political Quest)
 
[X] You will naturally cooperate with the Ministry of law and any others, but you cannot just leave this matter be (Begin Idol Days Political Quest)
 
[X] You may not like the priestess much, but she is not wrong here. Working within the Ministries bounds is important (Begin Laws Long Hand Political Quest)
 
[X] You may not like the priestess much, but she is not wrong here. Working within the Ministries bounds is important (Begin Laws Long Hand Political Quest)
 
[X] You may not like the priestess much, but she is not wrong here. Working within the Ministries bounds is important (Begin Laws Long Hand Political Quest)

I like the idea of seeing more about the proper procedures and trying to work with/through the bureaucracy more than trying to go around them.
 
[X] You may not like the priestess much, but she is not wrong here. Working within the Ministries bounds is important (Begin Laws Long Hand Political Quest)
 
[X] You may not like the priestess much, but she is not wrong here. Working within the Ministries bounds is important (Begin Laws Long Hand Political Quest)
 
[x] You will naturally cooperate with the Ministry of law and any others, but you cannot just leave this matter be (Begin Idol Days Political Quest)
 
[X] You may not like the priestess much, but she is not wrong here. Working within the Ministries bounds is important (Begin Laws Long Hand Political Quest)
 
[X] You will naturally cooperate with the Ministry of law and any others, but you cannot just leave this matter be (Begin Idol Days Political Quest)

Eh, I see too much political interference in the the other option. Not that there won't be political trouble with going it alone, but I am thinking this option will give us a cleaner resolution whereas leaving it to the Ministry means we will need to compromise at the end due to politics.
 
[X] You may not like the priestess much, but she is not wrong here. Working within the Ministries bounds is important (Begin Laws Long Hand Political Quest)
 
[X] You may not like the priestess much, but she is not wrong here. Working within the Ministries bounds is important (Begin Laws Long Hand Political Quest)
 
[X] You may not like the priestess much, but she is not wrong here. Working within the Ministries bounds is important (Begin Laws Long Hand Political Quest)
 
[X] You may not like the priestess much, but she is not wrong here. Working within the Ministries bounds is important (Begin Laws Long Hand Political Quest)
 
[X] You may not like the priestess much, but she is not wrong here. Working within the Ministries bounds is important (Begin Laws Long Hand Political Quest)
 
[X] You may not like the priestess much, but she is not wrong here. Working within the Ministries bounds is important (Begin Laws Long Hand Political Quest)
 
[X] You may not like the priestess much, but she is not wrong here. Working within the Ministries bounds is important (Begin Laws Long Hand Political Quest)

Priestess has acknowledged we're not to blame and by working with the Ministry we undercut our loose cannon/negative reputation (narrative). Should be worth a brownie point or two and prevent the local clergy from trying to tank us moving forward. We'll learn how the legal /investigative system works which will be handy whatever side of the law we're on.

If they fail then they'll lose face and we'll have a justifiable reason to suggest a house cleaning or be aggressive next time.
 
[X] You may not like the priestess much, but she is not wrong here. Working within the Ministries bounds is important (Begin Laws Long Hand Political Quest)
 
Chao yanlin shook out her sleeve, the tiny bells woven into the fabric ringing, and an iron cage appeared on the table between her and Hanyi, in it were a variety of pulsing lights bobbing and bouncing crazily in the confines. They were dark blue black and shimmering white, winter faeries, if Ling Qi had her guess. "There was further sabotage. An attempt to disrupt the ritual using a bound mortal servant."

"Luckily, my own arts were able to detect something wrong with the man carrying the spirit cages, since Lady Ling informed me that high alert was necessary. Unfortunately there was little to be gained from the poor mortal."

"Sloppy," Ling Qi said, squinting at the cage. The faeries shrank back under her gaze, huddling at the bottom of the cage. "What would releasing these have accomplished?"

"Important rituals interact with the flow of the world's energies, the regions meridians, if you must compare it to human cultivation. Introducing foreign qi into the midst of a ritual unplanned would confuse and anger the spirits of the land, and may even cause them to lash out at the performers, perceiving an insult," Chao Yanlin said sourly.
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Actually I'd speculate it is less sloppy, and instead either a peer opponent who was relying on a divination art to get away with it only to blindsided by LQ's insight, or more likely somebody most likely a spirit/cultivator associated with the Moon took issue with somebody bullying their little sister, and ran interference by giving her an obvious lead.
"It seems really sloppy to me," Hanyi said absently, watching the fairies dart around their cage. "The Duchess is really scary, you'd have to be pretty dumb to break her rules like that."

There was a shared moment of silence among the three of them. Truth from the mouths of children indeed.
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Something this forgets is that Shenhua outright intervening in the affairs of CRX's retainer would be a massive victory for anyone trying to slow CRX influence within serious politics. Because even if they're caught the high nobility can largely tank the consequences even for somebody as mighty as Shenhua.
"Whoever did this was quite a forger," Bao Qian said sourly. There was no trace of his joviality. "Although, I do believe they made a mistake."

"Oh, and what is that?" asked Chao Yanlin, looking as if she had bitten into something sour herself. "By my measure, you were bamboozled completely."

Ling Qi bit her tongue to keep from pointing out that the priestess had been tricked as well. It wasn't helpful.

Bao Qian rubbed a finger across the text of one of the offending letters. "I had no reason to find it suspect before, but the ink used in the altered letters is different. "The soot in it comes from a specific grove of valley pines."

"How do you know that?" Ling Qi asked curiously.

"Family trade secrets," Bao Qian said.

"How convenient," Chao Yanlin said.
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So the ink by itself likely wouldn't have been enough unless the Ministry of Communication had instituted policies of requiring all ink to be sourced locally to track thinks like this down.
"Hey, none of you are going to eat those, right?" Hanyi asked, interrupting them to point at the cage of fairies.

"Hanyi," Ling Qi sighed.

"Hey, its not just cause I'm hungry. I bet you I can tell you where they came from if you let me eat a few," Hanyi said defensively. When Momma went wandering with her second soul to visit other ice spirits she'd bring me treats like this from all over the place."
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Alright now I'm questioning how long Xin was friends with Zeqing? Since this would imply Hanyi was around before the second great retreat unless the other ice spirits simply never mentioned [Songstress of Endings] being alive to the nearby Voice.
Like a candy, Hanyi spent a few long moments chewing and rolling it around in her mouth before swallowing. She grinned and the rest of the faeries cowered. "Oh this one's easy. It's from the Green Stone Gleaming, its tangy."

Ling Qi frowned in confusion.

"Mount Tong," Chao Yanlin said. "That would be…"

"In the same viscounty as the pine groves. It is the great quantities of copper in the soil which lends the pine soot its properties after all," Bao Qian said triumphantly. "Our letters would have passed through the Ministry of Communication office in Ganjian, would they not?
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I cannot help, but wonder if Hanyi is going to bully them to join her next tour as the light show seeing as they wanted to so badly join her first one.

Oh, and to reiterate given how convenient of a lead this was I cannot help, but think somebody ran interference to give us a lead.
 
Yun said:
Alright now I'm questioning how long Xin was friends with Zeqing? Since this would imply Hanyi was around before the second great retreat unless the other ice spirits simply never mentioned [Songstress of Endings] being alive to the nearby Voice.
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So I think we need to make a difference between ice spirit, and ice spirit. It could very well be that Zeqing was the strongest ice spirit in the northern wall and the ice spirits she visited were born after the great retreat. So Zeqing could have been visiting green level spirits occasionally just to see if anyone she knew from before the great retreat was popping up again.
 
[X] You may not like the priestess much, but she is not wrong here. Working within the Ministries bounds is important (Begin Laws Long Hand Political Quest)
 
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