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The Dao of the Awakened, a Xianxia/Cultivation Quest

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
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[X] Nothing changes, and Hua Yin will be seen as just another faceless watcher.

She deserves this tbh

[X] Accept Buns. Hua Yin does not think she would be very good in the woods. If anything, the somewhat prissy girl might even be a detriment.
[X] Explore Li Gai's new Font.
 
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Juli Freixi said:
On this topic, Coruscant Cut, there's one thing that does not convince me...

And that's that it seems like the kind of technique that can only be used if you're wielding a sword or a blade... (and Hua Yin can be disarmed or be in unarmed situation)
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If we're going to get an offensive martial tech it's going to be specific to a particular weapon or when unarmed.
 
[X] Nothing changes, and Hua Yin will be seen as just another faceless watcher.

[X] Accept Buns. Hua Yin does not think she would be very good in the woods. If anything, the somewhat prissy girl might even be a detriment.

[X] Wander and see what there is to discover.
 
WhoTheHeckity said:
If Guan Zhi can't come, neither should some rando.
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It isnt a "Guan zhi cant come", it is a "Hua Yin forgot to ask". It is not Yang Genji fault.

Changing votes to not talk with Daiyu here, you guys convinced me.

[X] Nothing changes, and Hua Yin will be seen as just another faceless watcher.
[X] Accept Buns. Hua Yin does not think she would be very good in the woods. If anything, the somewhat prissy girl might even be a detriment.
[X] Explore Li Gai's new Font.

Juli Freixi said:
I would prefer it to be a spell that uses our high intelligence than a martial tech but well...
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... We can just have another tech later? Hua Yin wants to integrate Jianshu more in his comnat style, NS was the first step, but he lacks damage and offensive options in that style. So he goes for a heavy damage attack with Jianshu.

Later he can learn a long distance magic or whatever, we need to have options to attack from away but it is not a priority with our movement technique, we can close up really fast after all for now.

And technicality, all techs uses int in the end.
 
Nah he really forgot, the update ends with this being pretty clear. We even got an innocent statement of "nothing bad can happens right?" :V
 
To everyone voting do far, I do have a question. Do we really need another font, rather than trying to find techniques or treasure? What is the reasoning for voting for the font?
 
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[X] Accept Buns. Hua Yin does not think she would be very good in the woods. If anything, the somewhat prissy girl might even be a detriment.
Ambivalent towards other options so only voting this.
 
Hex said:
To everyone voting do far, I do have a question. Do we really need another font, rather than trying to find techniques or treasure? What is the reasoning for voting for the font?
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The Bear. Sounds like a good fight and the more we can use Levin to get Inspiration the better. Plus having another font opens up new qi aspects that we could attune to and have arts for if we want.

Plus it's a certain thing instead of just wandering around hoping to find something when we're probably going to be dragging Buns and Yang along.
 
Juli Freixi said:
On this topic, Coruscant Cut, there's one thing that does not convince me...

And that's that it seems like the kind of technique that can only be used if you're wielding a sword or a blade... (and Hua Yin can be disarmed or be in unarmed situation)

Edit: Although if it's a technique to make a lightsaber, then, I don't have any problem :)
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We're a swordsman now. We're gonna need to get sword techniques at some point. May as well start now.

Gintarazimu said:
This is a bit more of a dangerous option (especially with Buns coming along), and I don't really mind this vote going either way, but I agree that I wanna see what the Glass can do.
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We can always do another Glass explore action with Guan Zhi later. Right now we're trying to diplomance Yang Genji, and I think fighting a bear together and wowing her with a new Font is a great way to do that.
 
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[X] Approach Ling Daiyu. This will be an obvious signal that you disapprove of the service used by Song Chyou. This will also build your reputation with Ling Daiyu's faction. Without more, it is not a declaration of support for Ling Daiyu's faction. You may write-in more to tie yourself closer.

[X] Accept Buns. Hua Yin does not think she would be very good in the woods. If anything, the somewhat prissy girl might even be a detriment.


[X] Wander and see what there is to discover.
 
Hex said:
I'm not sure that's how attunement works. Pretty sure it's just one or two things, not adding to a list of elements. I could be wrong though.
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Yeah, it's only a couple elements I think. It's also not something we can pick and choose.
warumono said:
Developing the Affinity is a natural process that will happen as you cultivate. The type of Font you are cultivating plays a big factor.

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Alright, enough lecturing. Sister Zhe Chao, why don't cultivators develop Affinities with all sorts of Qi considering it sounds like you just need access to the right Fonts?"

"Senior sister, a soul can only develop so many Affinities at a time…"
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Juli Freixi said:
On this topic, Coruscant Cut, there's one thing that does not convince me...

And that's that it seems like the kind of technique that can only be used if you're wielding a sword or a blade... (and Hua Yin can be disarmed or be in unarmed situation)
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We want something that can be used along with the Art though. I guess we could get a buff, but I doubt that we'd be able to practice that in the physical class since we deviate from a Core Diciple's advice.

Dunno if the Coruscant Cut is a martial technique or a Qi technique, but it makes sense to get regular martial techniques too. We have a limited amount of Qi after all.

We'll either need to get a technique or we'll need to rush Numberless up to Rank 2/3 and let Jianshu take care of the extra dmg. We could then focus resources on getting a Qi ranged tech, though getting a martial technique to level 1 might be worth it even if it only adds 1 dmg. It's only 8 successes after all.

Hmm, I doubt the Core Disciple give bad advice so the tech he proposed should be good.
 
Edkose said:
Hmm, I doubt the Core Disciple give bad advice so the tech he proposed should be good.
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Yeah, basically this is the major point for me. This is an extremely experienced font of advice, and Yin is only a few months into his martial progression. At this stage of his development the smart play when given suggestions is to accept them.

There'll be time in the future to change things up and make customization, and even probably build up a secondary unarmed build once progression levels get punishing/hit soft caps. But for now just filling out the basics and picking up the low hanging fruit of his main style is the way to go.
 
EDP, Levin Step, Jianshu, Numberless Star. We have most of the pieces to turn Hua Yin in a super effective swordsman (fast, can dodge, nullify your attack, a spiritual sword) and duelist like the core disciple said. We only need more damage to make Hua Yin an even better and terrifying swordsman.

For now, it is way easier to just pick a martial/qi technique to do heavy damage with sword than to branch Hua Yin for Qi attacks. The sword technique (I will call our potential new attack this because not sure if it will be martial or qi) has the bonus to make Jianshu likes us more too, showing him we cares to improve our swordsmanship.

Hua Yin right now is a dodge tank who counters with levin steps and occasionally do some chip damage. Putting a heavy Qi attack like a Fireball (just an example, can be anything) won't help us; we are almost all the time in CQC, our techniques are good for that, we can't just use EDP to gain distance and toss a Fireball (I am not sure if Fireball-like attacks would be cheap or not but for caution i will say it is not). Because if we are away, Levin Step wont do damage and we start spending Qi just to attack instead of swording.
 
Edkose said:
We want something that can be used along with the Art though. I guess we could get a buff, but I doubt that we'd be able to practice that in the physical class since we deviate from a Core Diciple's advice.

Dunno if the Coruscant Cut is a martial technique or a Qi technique, but it makes sense to get regular martial techniques too. We have a limited amount of Qi after all.

We'll either need to get a technique or we'll need to rush Numberless up to Rank 2/3 and let Jianshu take care of the extra dmg. We could then focus resources on getting a Qi ranged tech, though getting a martial technique to level 1 might be worth it even if it only adds 1 dmg. It's only 8 successes after all.

Hmm, I doubt the Core Disciple give bad advice so the tech he proposed should be good.
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It should be decent but my guess is that it will increase our base damage instead of our attack dice. When we do go look for it I'd also like to look for some others as I'd prefer a boost to our attack dice as more dice means we hit more in general and the excess successes go to more damage anyway.

Also, I don't think anyones really pointed this out but NS only weakens our physical damage, it doesn't touch our stun. And as most people aren't Will monsters like Hua Yin they'll actually have far less Stun health than Physical, with the difference only increasing as they cultivate. Hell, we have more Phys health than Stun now.

For example, in our fight against the Bei guy with Yang, he had 9 or 10 Str which would put him at 28 or 30 Physical health but he only had 4 Will at most which left him with only 18 Stun health at best.

So while the minus to our Phys damage is a bummer it's not actually that bad.
 
Ok, now I am laughing with the image of Hua Yin breaking some guys' will to fight with a poker face and strikes that seems weak, but for some reason people just give up.
 
[] Approach Ling Daiyu. This will be an obvious signal that you disapprove of the service used by Song Chyou. This will also build your reputation with Ling Daiyu's faction. Without more, it is not a declaration of support for Ling Daiyu's faction. You may write-in more to tie yourself closer.

[X] Accept Buns. Hua Yin does not think she would be very good in the woods. If anything, the somewhat prissy girl might even be a detriment.

[X] Wander and see what there is to discover.
 
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