The Dao of the Awakened, a Xianxia/Cultivation Quest
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We have been told that there are multiple waves to the exam, so the ten enemies we are currently fighting will not be the last on the field. There should be other opportunities to show we can take down a foe.
This challenge is as much a group exercise as an individual assessment. Core Disciple Chu Quiang is not simply seeing how good we are at fighting an opponent. He has seen every single individual here spar with a wide variety of opponents over the course of the last several weeks, so he's already got a good idea of how good each disciple is as a fighter and how much they've improved over the training. So, more is being assessed here. Who is showing backbone and who is showing cowardice in the face of a 'real' opponent? Who is fighting as if they're a part of a unit and who is fighting as an individual? Who is engrossed in their individual duels and who is keeping an eye on the greater battlefield, and of the latter who is employing tactics? Who is using their qi reserves efficiently instead of too cautiously or recklessly? And so on.
There will probably be a point where it really is best to just stop acting as a distraction and fight more directly, but it doesn't have to be this wave.
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[X] Continue being a distraction.
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CedeTheBees
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Timer tallies post automatically. They're convenient like that.
CedeTheBees
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So if we assume all the chargen options made it in as written, and that Song Chyou is The Peasant, what do you guys think her elemental attunement is?
This seems perfectly viable now. If Hua Yin had something ranged during this test, he would have done much better.
Narratively Hua Yin disengaged combat by dodging and getting hit, so unless someone uses grappling or a movement tech he can easily keep distance.
We probably don't have enough Qi to spam lightning bolts forever though. Maybe a bow for a mundane weapon as well? Maybe he'll be able to imbue arrows with lightning?
TimEd
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A bow could be great. It is the obvious pair for our situation, so there must be tons of Celestial Bow Arts, or at least arts that are complimentary with the idea of it.
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A bow is an objectively garbage weapon in a cultivator setting. Might as well grab a staff and use sage arts instead, be just as useful without being painfully counterintuitive.
TimEd
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Just because xianxia is garbage at portraying anything not a sword or the occasional spear or axe doesn't mean we have to follow in their shit examples.
A fan would be amazing. We could use a literati fan or we can use something like a tessen or uchiwa.
That'd depend on the material it's made from. How the object looks doesn't really have any thing to do with the aspect:
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I used the word objectively for a reason, a universe with tons of movement skills and talismans to stop one shots is a universe where bows are fucking garbage. Its a mook weapon, at high levels when you get into conceptual nonsense its only plus-range, is both mitigated by line of sight and perception while other weapons get effectively increased range because the cap is lower. Sure pat yourself on the back all you want by using narritive arguments, but it doesn't change the fact that the thing will essentially become a shitty flexible staff because at high levels its all sorcery anyways.
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TimEd
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Eh. We'll still hit them, because it'll all be sorcery anyways.
Hua Yin is a mook though? And will be for quite some time.
In any case, for now I prefer a fan than a bow ... A fan when Hua Yin attack with spells can still be a defensive element
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Uhhh, no. The dude is top of the class for the more estoric disciplines and middle of the pack for cultivation and rising fast. He also has gotten a few invitations already. The mooks are the guys who still aren't cultivators.
The point was once you remove range from the equation with sorcery, all things being equal, almost any other weapon would be better than a bow due to it taking both hands, the need to take a stance, and the material requirements for something to be useable as a bow. Once you have advanced to the point where you can no sell those requirements you could probably use a spirit beasts back scratcher to shoot spirit arrow analogs.
I mean their essentially sorcery focuses and leave you a free hand, soon not bad.
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CedeTheBees
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If we're lucky, we'll make it into the more focused martial classes where our teacher can help us with all this anyway.
TimEd
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Eh, I'm not a fan.
If we want to go esoteric, my first thought was a drum. A Taiko drum already has ties to lightning (and thunder), and Gravity could be handwaved into pairing with the drum "stick" (like it's rise and fall from the drum or something?). Or we could go with a spin drum, like those toys drums with two strings with beads at the end that you spin to make a fast drumming sound. That could also be pretty cool, and since a spin drum is fairly small, the stick part of it could even be a brush!
Either way, drums of any type as a weapon could be cool. 🥁🪘🛢️
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