- Location
- Canada
[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.
Threads Of Destiny(Eastern Fantasy, Sequel to Forge of Destiny)
- Thread starter yrsillar
- Start date
- Original Users' Choice!
Voted best in category in the Users' Choice awards.
Pretty confident, since again we know that the Meng and Luo did not officially support her - only small radical factions. If their head was there it would be a very different story.
Not 100% on Elder Heng, since yrs isn't the best about giving us everyone's power level (
)and searching things doesn't bring anything up. Was possibly violet. I feel like he was indigo but yeah, can't find anything...
- Location
- Colorado
Pretty confident, since again we know that the Meng and Luo did not officially support her - only small radical factions. If their head was there it would be a very different story.
Not 100% on Elder Heng, since yrs isn't the best about giving us everyone's power level (
If Hua Heng was old enough to have been there he was at least Violet when he died.
Cai Renxiang: "I wonder what my spymaster is up too, let me take a sip of my tea as i glance out the windo-"
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- He/Him
[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.
EternalObserver
eYe Gaze baCk
- Location
- The Void
Wow, so close. Which one's gonna win in the end?
Wiadi
Uncompromising Radical Leftist
- Location
- Something Clever
- Pronouns
- She/Her
I mean, TBH I think this vote is mostly like...a liability waiver, basically? It's us saying "yeah, okay, fuck me up." In a collaborative environment like a quest, there are typically limits on how nasty the QM(/GM in an RPG/etc.) can reasonably be to the PC(s) unilaterally before things start to feel unfair or unfun. The point of this vote is for us to stare in the face the fact that we're volunteering to suffer whatever consequences this course of action will bring, with full understanding of their possible severity, and thereby to free yrsillar to rain hell down on our heads just like we asked him to.
With that said...yeah, okay, fuck me up.
[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.
In theory based on the timelines yeah.
But also the lifespan wogs aren't really precise either since on one hand prism should be ~700 years old max, otoh apparently Yuan He is 900 lol
- Location
- The Maple Syrup Mountains
[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.
WhoTheHeckity
But no one ever asks HowTheHeckity
- Location
- Murica 🦅
[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.
- Location
- Red Blood on Golden Shield
[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.
[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.
[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.
- Location
- Finland
Hey, a foreshadowing.
[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.
Let's gooooo!
fictionfan
Please sir, may I have some Meows?
- Location
- Tempe, AZ
[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.
Because it had to be a choice.
If she just automatically accepted, it'd be poor QMing, it takes a choice to risk your life and sanity in a battle three realms above you, even if you wouldn't have done it any other way.
- Location
- Colorado
True, but I don't like his odds of surviving that fight if he was Indigo back then. That's at least a two realm difference, potentially a three realm difference given the Yuan He interlude might have been hinting Ogedai hit White before he died. I'm pretty sure Sovereignty was required to not die instantly when they all threw down.
NaanContributor
Provider of delicious flatbread, and nothing else.
- Location
- Hawaii
I know it has to be a choice, that's not the point. The point is that there's no subpar course of action inherent to the other option to give even the illusion of narrative viability, it's just giving up as the PC to let other characters take on the challenge with no follow-up. With no mention of what Ling Qi might be doing to try to otherwise contribute, she either helps or she does nothing and lets everyone down, it's not just a lesser alternative but a complete non-action.
Is there an alternative?
Because this is the classic kind of Step Up Or Back Down choice.
Its always a choice to prioritize self preservation if you don't feel like you have enough skin in the game.
It can be a valid choice, if the risk is too high or the rewards too poor.
Its only a non-choice because we chose that this summit matters.
Because this is the classic kind of Step Up Or Back Down choice.
Its always a choice to prioritize self preservation if you don't feel like you have enough skin in the game.
It can be a valid choice, if the risk is too high or the rewards too poor.
Its only a non-choice because we chose that this summit matters.
This choice reminds me of the one when she was following the cloud tribesman at a distance and had to decide whether to go on into danger or retreat to safety. Yrs assumed that everyone would vote for going into danger but was blindsided when the retreat option won. There's no chance that happens this time.
[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.
[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.