What voice/tense should the story be in?

  • Second person present

    Votes: 4 22.2%
  • Second person past

    Votes: 1 5.6%
  • Third person past

    Votes: 13 72.2%

  • Total voters
    18
  • Poll closed .
Just realized the moratorium ended 15 minutes ago lmao

[X] Plan: Exploration
-[X] Attend Core Disciple Chu Quiang's martial arts class.
-[X] Attend Core Disciple Mao Yujing's cultivation study group. It will be held in the classroom. The Saint of Broken Swords will be addressing the class at the end of the week.
-[X] Attend duties in the Archives.
--[X] Try to find more about the sword saint (and saints in general) in the archive.
-[X] Study the Writ of the Broken Tree. Sure, it's mostly koans and philosophical musings, but Hua Yin has received cultivation insights within. He could study the Writ further and see what insights it could give. Hua Yin believed he was close to a breakthrough.
-[X] Explore the Supplicant's Stone and its attendant woods. There are caves, there are woods, there is adventure waiting. Core Disciple Li Ren had mentioned that there are hidden testing sites that may help with cultivation. After the last excursion, Hua Yin thought that maybe a companion would be a good idea, even if it cost some portion of the prize. Write-in companion(s).
--[X] Use the Clear-Eyed Glass to study the qi flows in both of the fonts you use and try to spot similarities between them. Take to the skies with the Earth-Defying Path to spot any similar patterns of qi from above.
---[X] Share your findings with your fellow Brothers of the Peach Blossom Fire. They can help you scope the place(s) out in exchange for use of the potential font(s), and/or a share of the rewards surely found at a strong locus of qi.
 
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[X] Plan: Hanging Out In The Woods
-[X] Attend Core Disciple Chu Quiang's martial arts class.
-[X] Attend Core Disciple Mao Yujing's cultivation study group. It will be held in the classroom. The Saint of Broken Swords will be addressing the class at the end of the week.
-[X] Attend duties in the Archives.
--[X] Try to find more about the sword saint (and saints in general) in the archive.
-[X] Study the Writ of the Broken Tree. Sure, it's mostly koans and philosophical musings, but Hua Yin has received cultivation insights within. He could study the Writ further and see what insights it could give. Hua Yin believed he was close to a breakthrough.
-[X] Write-in: Li Gai was absent from the party to work on his cultivation. See if you can offer some pointers on this subject and in return, ask for some pointers in the field of Survival.
--[X] Try using the Clear-Eyed Glass to gain some insight into his issues.

Edit: Adding the Archives subvotes to my plan for now.

Edit 2: Looks like having both at once isn't allowed. Sorry Sara, we can do that next week.
 
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On another note, from the outside it looks like we deliberately used this party as a way to fight off a threat we caused while also tying a bunch of the other cliques closer to us. This even had a bonus of overshadowing Mo inviting a higher year.

Our keikaku has only intensified!
Zhe Chao: HE IS DOING IT RIGHT IN YOUR FACES, WHY NO ONE CAN SEE IT?!

This deserves an omake of Zhe Chao's mind going overblowing.

We gave The Twin a chance to disperse The Bei. It's not our fault that The Bei weren't intimidated by them
Nah, you see, we knew the Bei wouldn't back down because of face. All according to keikaku.

I'm honestly shocked about how low her Int is.
I mean, it is low to US with nat 6 and brain dantian. 4 should be above average, and there is nothing to do to increase it but studying a lot now that she formed her dantian (I would bet in her heart). And IC, we studied practically ALL THE TIME before our hand "accident".
 
Zhe Chao: HE IS DOING IT RIGHT IN YOUR FACES, WHY NO ONE CAN SEE IT?!

This deserves an omake of Zhe Chao's mind going overblowing.


Nah, you see, we knew the Bei wouldn't back down because of face. All according to keikaku.


I mean, it is low to US with nat 6 and brain dantian. 4 should be above average, and there is nothing to do to increase it but studying a lot now that she formed her dantian (I would bet in her heart). And IC, we studied practically ALL THE TIME before our hand "accident".
Sure, but Yang was one of the top 3 in Cultivation class and in our study group she keeps pace intellectually with us and Tao. I would have expected at least a Nat 5 Int.
 
Adding the saint question to my plan for now

[X] Plan - Studying, Writ and Levine Step
-[X] Attend Core Disciple Chu Quiang's martial arts class.
-[X] Attend Core Disciple Mao Yujing's cultivation study group. It will be held in the classroom. The Saint of Broken Swords will be addressing the class at the end of the week.
-[X] Attend duties in the Archives.
--[X] Try to find more about the sword saint (and saints in general) in the archive.
-[X] Study the Writ of the Broken Tree. Sure, it's mostly koans and philosophical musings, but Hua Yin has received cultivation insights within. He could study the Writ further and see what insights it could give. Hua Yin believed he was close to a breakthrough.
-[X] Practice the Levin Step. Hua Yin had reached the first stage of Qi-infusion with the Levin Step. He knew that he could improve it further. Hua Yin will practice at the Kiss of Tribulation. This can be taken multiple times with a diminishing returns malus.
 
Speaking of Yangs stats, she has to have at least a Nat 4 Will and Cha, right? So with her CL that'd put her at, like, 9 Cha and 6 Will? Her stats are stacked like a fucking brick house. YG OP Plz nerf.
 
[X] Plan: Hanging Out In The Woods

Going with this, because I feel like we really need to help out Li Gai before something bad happens there.
 
[X] Plan: Exploration

I'd be happy with Writ winning too, but I think after beating off the Bei Consortium this turn we can put off training up Levin Step a turn or two.
 
For those voting to help Li Gai, I would point out that he may well have already broken through to Low Initiate by the start of next week. He went into closed door Cultivation with a fairly powerful Pill.

Also, as has been noted before, there's nothing we can really do to help on that front anyway. Cultivation is a very personal experience and is unique to the individual. So even if we did give him advice it probably wouldn't help as we'd only be telling him what works for us, not him.
 


Really low effort meme about how I see Zhe Chao in my head right now.

Do you want to know in what amazing app I did this? The everpresent Paint, of course!

OBS: The pictures have more than 96% to be innacurate because I only remember Zhe Chao using a hood to hide their appearance, and I copy-paste whatever dude I saw in google images to be Hua Yin.

[X] Plan: Exploration
 
Also, as has been noted before, there's nothing we can really do to help on that front anyway. Cultivation is a very personal experience and is unique to the individual. So even if we did give him advice it probably wouldn't help as we'd only be telling him what works for us, not him.

I would imagine it would be similar to the Cultivator teacher we have giving tips on her students cultivation techniques that she's spent entire class portions on, and has even benefited Hua Yin Midnight Visitation use. I think the bit about it being such a personal experience was meant to show you can't just have people rote learn 'how to be a cultivator 101' and teach the True Correct Path, but I don't think it's meant to mean their are literally no useful things cultivators can pass down to eachother.
 
I would imagine it would be similar to the Cultivator teacher we have giving tips on her students cultivation techniques that she's spent entire class portions on, and has even benefited Hua Yin Midnight Visitation use. I think the bit about it being such a personal experience was meant to show you can't just have people rote learn 'how to be a cultivator 101' and teach the True Correct Path, but I don't think it's meant to mean their are literally no useful things cultivators can pass down to eachother.
I mean, sure, buts he's probably still using the Sprouts Yearning cult-tech while we've been using MV. Plus he's been cultivating at different fonts and such. Not to mention the undoubtably difference in the experience of cultivation between a Mortal and an Awakened.

While we might be able to give some measure of useful advice it's also possible that our advice could be detrimental or even just frustrate him further as he might see it as pity only leading to him further stunting his cultivation efforts from his turbulent emotions.

The pros of trying to help him are very minimal while the cons could possibly be quite serious.
 
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