Ghosts of the Ancestors. (A Cultivation Riot Quest).

really tempted to try Yin Qi for Meridians. assuming it counts as spiritual and therefore gets double benefits, we could get a lot more qi income before the DCs get entirely untenable. it takes like 2.5 qi ghosts per point of yin qi so it's extremely expensive in that regard.

so 7.5 ghosts worth of yin qi + about 1 ghost worth of pure qi per attempt.
IF it counted THAT would probably be worth it, considering the difficulty of opening meridians goes up all the time.
 
The grades on the roots make me wonder, are their cultivators with elemental roots higher than their pure root, say a grade 10 pure root and a grade 3 water root?
 
Running the numbers, it's totally worth cultivating up from QC-low to QC-mid with water Qi. For normal Qi, It takes 2 ghosts plus 6 progress generating Qi (so just under 3 ghosts) to get an average of 14 progress. Meanwhile, for water Qi, it takes 1 ghost plus 10 progress generating Qi (just under 2.5 ghosts) for the same average of 14 progress. This is entirely aside from the extra dex from doing so. Even using water qi from mid to high is only slightly worse than normal Qi, and should be better after a meridian or two.

Edit: Double checking the numbers from mid to high QC-2, it comes out to just over 26 ghosts average for normal qi and just over 27 for water, so even without any meridians, it's probably worth being slightly slower for the extra dex
 
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Okay, so if we want a good foundation, which is typically super important in xianxia stuff we should be using Water for QC for.now and hopefully Yin on Meridians, which could eventually let us catch up to more talented peers when it comes to qi gathering.
 
Considering the question marks and the reference in narrative to breaking chains when we advanced, it looks like refining our skin when we broke through was related to the anomaly in the heavens. We're 33/50 for that, so it would be a good thing for 2-3 ghosts to spend dice on next turn.
 
Okay, so if we want a good foundation, which is typically super important in xianxia stuff we should be using Water for QC for.now and hopefully Yin on Meridians, which could eventually let us catch up to more talented peers when it comes to qi gathering.
At the very least were going to have to use it for the double progress.
Meridians are going to be critical for getting enough water and yin qi .
Also we have to look into what comes from the bloodline and qi actions i feel are going to be critical for our progress.
 
So... we are as yet awaiting our current challenge, with not much else we can really do about it. I suppose that the wrath spirits can be doing the distraction thing. We... don't actually know what the next challenge will entail, but it wont' be immediate. As such, it makes sense to have our next turn mostly spent on a combination of "try to figure out what's going on" and long-term growth picks. Combat skill is always going to be a worthwhile investment (hello, xianxia) but I don't know that it's really what's called for right now.
 
Whoops I just realized I didn't give you the fire Qi (which I should have) you might not be able to generate it but you're in a fire sect so you can just buy pills for it.

Here it is for those who don't want to go back.

Fire is destruction, it is wild and uncontrollable but it is also renewal, purification and the forge of all things. Using fire Qi to refine one's body yields double the progress and double the benefits.
 
*oh*. Well, that's that one answered, then.

It seems like the proper thing to optimize on for physical cutivation is "income". So... what path do we want to try to take to crank our boy's income?
 
Learning Alchemy or Refining might get us sect tasks more important than grunt work.

personally if we don't see an urgent quest, training breakthrough and buying meridian pills while qi ghosts gather Yin qi could put us in a good position long term. The cost is per attempt and yin qi is crazy expensive, so opening more than one meridian in one go would be a huge savings.
 
I'm thinking that a combination of social skill and a good trade skill is the best bet here... and I'm thinking that alchemy might be the way to go for a trade skill. If qi affinities have a major impact on trade skill effectiveness then we might *not* want alchemy, as fire is a classic alchemy element, and this sect has a lot of it so the competition might get ugly. Water is... sometimes also an alchemy element? Sometimes it's other stuff, though.

Sorry. I digressed. We should look into trade skills. If there's one that our boy has reasonable talent with, or one that will more effectively let us leverage ghost power, then we should go with that one. If they're even, though... with these kinds of gains, we'll probably want to be sucking down a *lot* of pills, so developing alchemy skills (and thus being able to make his *own* pills) is going to be a major efficiency gain.

Past that, it looks like social skills are important as a supplemental way to get resources and opportunities, and we shouldn't neglect those.
 
First fight: Ma Rong. New
In a well-maintained field, in one of the many valleys in the mountain range the verdant flame sect occupied, over five hundred young men and woman gathered, organized into neat rows and standing at attention.

To the last they were all the new outer disciples which have risen to the second stage of Qi condensation and in light of their achievement have been given the right to fight for their place in the sect.

Many have already been kicked out, the untalented and the lazy those without a future and no prospect.

In front of them, on a raised platform stood the reason for the crowed peacefulness, outer elder Mu Dong, his very presence pushing down on all of the cultivators present. He might have look like any second he's going to kneel over dead form old age, yet his aura was something different.

'Nascent soul' whisper Gunag Li ancestors, as he watched the elder slowly walk to the edge of the platform he was own and start a speech.

He talked of duty, of courage and how iron would sharpen iron this day.

Then he was gone, like he was never even there and his assistants have started moving between the disciples, organizing them into groups and distributing blunt weapons.

Guang Li found himself staring down Ma Rong a blunted spear in hand, the black-haired disciple seemed as nervus as Guang Li felt.

Swallowing his nerves, he immersed himself in his ancestors' whispers letting his worries melt away.

The inner disciple watching the pair signaled the fight beginning and Li rushed forth the anger flowing in his veins giving him the strength and speed to react first.

His spear thrusted forward, breaking through the clumsy guard attempt to draw first blood.

Not to be undone Ma Rong swiped the blunt end of the spear into Li stomach knocking the breath from his lungs.

Quickly recovering Guang Li sent a wide sweeping strike which Ma Rong dodged by hastily moving backwards before retaliating with a quick thrust which Li ducked under.

This continued for some time, as both Guang Li and Ma Rong exchanged strikes, achieving little else then tiring themselves out and a few minor cuts.

With his ancestor's rage flowing between his veins, it was Guang Li that broke the stalemate as Ma Rong tired guard broke before his anger filed stirks and pushed him to the ground where Guang li proceeded to rain blow after blow at Ma Rong prone body until at last the boy surrendered.

As Guang Li left the improvised arena, his soul screamed of triumph, he has passed, his place at the sect was secured and his vengeance was one step closer.

Now, he had to decide if what he achieved today was sufficient or should he risk more. Wining more fights would come with their own rewards and yet they also come with the chance of death and injury.

The chance was low, but it was risk all the same.

As Guang Li caught his breath form his match, he entreated his elders for advice and the whippers spoke.

[] Of courage and risk. (Gunag Li will fight the rest of his battles in the hopes of gaining prizes).

[] Of wisdom and caution. (Guang Li will forfeit his next fights to ensure he won't receive a grievous injury)


Guang Li currant state- Hp 18/24. 2 stacks of exhaustion.


Welcome to events, normally an event would be more then 1/2 posts and would have more choices/options for the ghosts to intervene but for this tutorial event you only have a single choice.

The choices you make in events effect more than just the event, they effect Guang Li personally and priorities. This effects both the choices he makes during events, as well as what kind of actions he chooses every turn.

So, keep him in mind when you're choosing your vote.

Now, votes during events are random in nature (when voting is done, I gather all the votes give each option a number depending on how many voted for it and then roll a die, the number it fell on is the what Guang Li heard) this is done for two reasons.

One, it retains the inherent riot quest trait where every vote changes the outcome and very vote matters and two, the ancestors cannot yet fully converse with Guang Li and doing things this way helps emphasize that what Guang LI hears form the whispers of his ancestors can be random at times.

That all for today, the vote would be left open for 2~ days and then well move to either T4 or to the next fights (depending on the option chosen).
 
[X] Of wisdom and caution. (Guang Li will forfeit his next fights to ensure he won't receive a grievous injury
 
[X] Of wisdom and caution. (Guang Li will forfeit his next fights to ensure he won't receive a grievous injury
 
[X] Of wisdom and caution. (Guang Li will forfeit his next fights to ensure he won't receive a grievous injury

I know he likely feels he can go further, but our journey is just beginning and being injured might hamper our plans next turn.
 
[X] Of wisdom and caution. (Guang Li will forfeit his next fights to ensure he won't receive a grievous injury

We need to be able to hit the ground running as an outer disciple
 
[X] Of courage and risk. (Gunag Li will fight the rest of his battles in the hopes of gaining prizes).
The others will (hopefully) be equally weakened by their previous fights.
 
[X] Of wisdom and caution. (Guang Li will forfeit his next fights to ensure he won't receive a grievous injury

Hmm, fine. We won't go balling, this time.

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[X] Of courage and risk. (Gunag Li will fight the rest of his battles in the hopes of gaining prizes).

I changed my mind, fuck it we ball!
 
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[X] Of wisdom and caution. (Guang Li will forfeit his next fights to ensure he won't receive a grievous injury

If it was just this fight, I might be tempted to push on. But this is a good opportunity to set his personality. Rushing ahead is not the best idea. We need time and effort to achieve results, and this option will give us that.
 
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