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

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[ ] She did, Shu Yue had said it, the best battlefield they could ask for was the liminal. She could not fight on this level… but perhaps she only needed to facilitate.

our first word is COMMUNICATION

all we need to do is convey the concept of XIA REN to Still Waters Deeping and uh. She'll do the rest

Divine Delivery Gal Ling Qi! On the case!
 
[ ] She did, Shu Yue had said it, the best battlefield they could ask for was the liminal. She could not fight on this level… but perhaps she only needed to facilitate.

Let us defy the very heavens
 
[ ] She did, Shu Yue had said it, the best battlefield they could ask for was the liminal. She could not fight on this level… but perhaps she only needed to facilitate.
 
[ ] She did, Shu Yue had said it, the best battlefield they could ask for was the liminal. She could not fight on this level… but perhaps she only needed to facilitate.

Who wants to live forever?! Let everyone see that we have no scars on our back.
 
[ ] She did, Shu Yue had said it, the best battlefield they could ask for was the liminal. She could not fight on this level… but perhaps she only needed to facilitate.

So hyped for this, I can't even.

To be a devil's advocate; this fight will almost certainly melt our brains and likely leave us weakened for the final Summit round. This could mean reduced ability to influence Foreign Quarter stuff.

On the other hand, it's imperative this goes well and doesn't blow up the Summit. Also, we can experience an awesome Liminal fight so let's go!
 
We earned that Patience, and now we get to see the Sword Which Rends History fight another Sovereign. Even in diplomacy, we find loot.

[X] She did, Shu Yue had said it, the best battlefield they could ask for was the liminal. She could not fight on this level… but perhaps she only needed to facilitate.
 
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[ ] She did, Shu Yue had said it, the best battlefield they could ask for was the liminal. She could not fight on this level… but perhaps she only needed to facilitate.

There's no way we miss out on this kind of scene, right?
 
yrsillar said:
"Pride, traditions, history, faith, is that all you can say you miserable old man. What has any of it bought us but humiliation, defeat, and disdain!

The sound of a fish striking flesh, a young woman's snarl of pain. Blood spat on the ground.

We cannot answer even the most blatant insults, your precious traditions can defend none of us from any abuse. You, half in the ground, chain us to graves even older, longing for a past you've never seen, and would strangle any who try to break them. Fine then! Strike to kill the next time grandfather, or when I return, I will burn all of those chains away."
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yrsillar said:
No, if anything… someone this extreme… they would want to drag everyone down with them, it would be a way of succeeding even in failure.
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Xia Ren has a type advantage against this kind of person.
 
[ ] She did, Shu Yue had said it, the best battlefield they could ask for was the liminal. She could not fight on this level… but perhaps she only needed to facilitate
We like to play it safe sometimes, choosing "reasonable" options.
But if there is a moment to go full Anime Protagonist is this.
We are likely going to get hurt, that much is certain. Let's just hope it doesn't incapacitate us for the rest of the Summit.
We still have cultural matters to attend to, like the Han geomancers and the Ith intel.
At the very least, we can't miss the next week, as that's when we will settle the Embassy town.
But we can only hope for the best here.

yrsillar said:
"...It is possible. The hunt is disrupted, the prey has its back up. I may not be able to take their throat and drag them into the deep dream, where the harm would be minimized, though I am certain he is hiding there in the shallows," Shu Yue said carefully. "This was my intent. If it comes to open blows, the sword which rends history will be much better suited to end things decisively."
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So if we hadn't warned the WS, SWD would be less on guard and Shu Yue may have been able to spirit them away into the deep dream. That would have been the "perfect run" with minimal casualties. A big may, though.
This Meng linking cultivation art means that any lesser agent, willing or not, may unleash a pseudo-Sovereign power as a last resort. So even if Shu Yue took care of SWD flawlessly, they could still have seriously harmed the WS through that method.
I'm reassured we took the right option warning them.

Also, we are taking Xia Ren to cut down a rotten piece of harmful tradition and stale history. That's going to be a field day for her.
I'm expecting a check, or maybe a roll, for the General similar to Cao Chun's. Either to convince her to let us guide her, or how successfully we can take her to the liminal.
Our strangely high rep with the WP and the General herself is going to come in handy here.
 
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LETS FUCKING GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
KILL THE BOSS AND YOINK ALL THE RICHES
[x] She did, Shu Yue had said it, the best battlefield they could ask for was the liminal. She could not fight on this level… but perhaps she only needed to facilitate.
 
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Thematically there's also no other answer. SWD represents a thematic rival/opposite number to us, and the idea of us driving Xia Ren into sword-slashing range in a beat up old Jalopey made of "Old Garbage" made anew into something transformative... yeah. Fuck.
 
I feel a little bit nervous that Ling Qi hasn't mentioned to Meng Dan or Dui about the fact the rogue Meng have managed to piss off the Bai, who are going to want their pound of flesh. Especially with Meng Dui mentioning a 'cleaning', if the rogue elements just get summarily wiped out I'm not sure the Bai will accept that as appropriate restitution, as opposed to being given the perpetrators to commit whatever bronze age worse than death torture execution punishment they feels appropriate, as was previously hypothesized.

Would be a pretty bad bombshell to drop on them once everything's otherwise done and dusted...
 
Boundaries Untrodden: To slip between, through and around, through the tiniest keyhole or the open window. Round the mountains or through even the veil of death. So walks the thief, who must bypass boundaries in the same way that a bird must fly. But to step across or through, one must understand that which they will violate. Alters and advances the Breeze in the Vault technique. +1 XP to Want and Mystery. Unlocks a new project.

Looks like we've got the context Ling Qi will be cultivating this one under: she's going to be bending the rules as hard as she can to keep the Heron General in the liminal during the fight, while also trying very hard not to die to said fight in the meanwhile. That's certainly one way to gain an understanding of boundaries.

(And depending on the length of her hospital stay afterward, possibly also the most important kind of boundary, "the importance of saying 'no.'" :p)
 
Anderein said:
Boundaries Untrodden: To slip between, through and around, through the tiniest keyhole or the open window. Round the mountains or through even the veil of death. So walks the thief, who must bypass boundaries in the same way that a bird must fly. But to step across or through, one must understand that which they will violate. Alters and advances the Breeze in the Vault technique. +1 XP to Want and Mystery. Unlocks a new project.

Looks like we've got the context Ling Qi will be cultivating this one under: she's going to be bending the rules as hard as she can to keep the Heron General in the liminal during the fight, while also trying very hard not to die to said fight in the meanwhile. That's certainly one way to gain an understanding of boundaries.

(And depending on the length of her hospital stay afterward, possibly also the most important kind of boundary, "the importance of saying 'no.'" :p)
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Except that we're cultivating Winter's Crown :p
 
[x] She did, Shu Yue had said it, the best battlefield they could ask for was the liminal. She could not fight on this level… but perhaps she only needed to facilitate.
 
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