[X] Of courage and risk. (Gunag Li will fight the rest of his battles in the hopes of gaining prizes).
The fighting at the current level doesn't appear to be overly lethal, and our next opponent isn't some obnoxious Young Master who'd cripple us just because. I'd want a chance to bow out before the last one, though, because she will absolutely flatten us regardless.
@uri is that a doable thing? I mean, we *know* that he's going to lose his last fight. That's not even in question. It's just that you didn't seem to offer a write-in option here.
@uri is that a doable thing? I mean, we *know* that he's going to lose his last fight. That's not even in question. It's just that you didn't seem to offer a write-in option here.
Hmm… in hindsight that would have been better, lets just say that the courage and risk action is only for the next fight and you would bow out of the third fight regardless as she really would flatten you.
Hmm… in hindsight that would have been better, lets just say that the courage and risk action is only for the next fight and you would bow out of the third fight regardless as she really would flatten you.
All four of us (Guang,Ron,, Feng, Ling) are fighting only those within our four-person bracket? If so, even at a loss we'll be unknowingly giving Opponent #2 (Yu Feng) face - I don't think their odds against Ling are much better than ours.
My ghost is Guang Li's great aunt, who died sometime before he was murdered and has returned to help the "nice young man" who "was kind to an old woman" and spends her time either talking about he is such a filial young man, trying to avenge his family, etc, or complaining about how he needs to shape up and start really trying, and how kids these days are worse at everything.
My ghost is a female elder from a few centuries ago, who was always searching for new stuff and new interesting things to do.
Answering Guang Li's plea was just an excuse to investigate the world again.
Cool mine was an elderly women who never married out of the Clan, instead devoted her life to study feng shui, take care of the archive, and bestow fortunate names on every child of the clan. She died after trying to divert a misfortune that was destined to strike the at the time sect newborn heir.
The sad thing is that by the numbers, our clan did a lot of dying young.
Given our peculiar clan inheritance, and the fact that cultivating clans tend to be kind of ruthless, it might have even been deliberate. Like, you try to have a *bunch* of kids, and then you have a large number of those kids try out the kind of cultivation techniques that might give you a meaningful boost to cultivation and/or talent but also might just kill you. Like... no one wants any particular kid to fail the trials, but it's not like adding a new qi ghost to the family rolls before anyone's really invested a lot of time into them is a bad thing, you know?
...and the fact that the ghosts can manage lower-level cultivation so well probably adds to that, honestly. Like, I bet there are all kinds of secret forbidden techniques that you could pull off if you could manage to awaken a kid way before they were old enough to start cultivating normally.
Of course, it's possible that we never had any Secret Forbidden Technique like that, and our wealth of Qi Ghosts is a result of a series of attempts to develop one. That's also a thing.
I really hope I didn't forget something but ehh I'll remember if it was important.
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[X] Ghosts of the Ancestors. (A Cultivation Riot Quest).
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Guang Li takes a moment to regain his breath before following his ancestor's wisdom and stepping back into the impromptu arena.
Yu Feng, was a short man standing a full head below Guang Li but his farm was broad and full of muscles and his eyes were attentive and alert.
Guang Li barley managed to sway out of the way of the first spear thrust, only the swiftness gained form his cultivation allowed him to block the second and just about to deflect the third and forth although the pain in his side reveled that he was not as successful as he thought he was.
Yu Feng was fast; he was also skilled both facts allowed him to keep Gunag Li on the backfoot never allowing him to counter attack or break away.
And then things got worse, Yu fang spear burst into flame and swiped into Guang Li side, he managed to block the strike the crack of wood echoing in the arena form the strength in the blow, yet he could not block the flames which spread to his spear and cloths.
As pain started to blossomed across Guang Li body, he followed his instincts and dropped, rolling on the ground, hoping to extinguish the flames.
Somewhere in that tumble he managed to trip Yu Fang and he pounced on the opportunity throwing himself over Yu Fang body and brawling with him until he managed to get him in a hold.
Yu Fang was fast but he was not strong and with leverage on Guang Li side there was nothing he could do.
Guang LI forfeited the fight aginst Quing Ling, even if he was at top shape he wouldn't have managed to win, the woman in question just rolled her eyes as it seemed he wasn't the only one who forfeited.
Afterwards, the disciples gathered once more as the elder congratulated those who won at some point those who lost slinked off as they were kicked out of the sect but Guang Li was in too much pain to really pay attention.
The next day, with his wounds starting to heal and the pain subsiding he returned to the administration hall to see what the rewards for his pain were.
For passing at all he has been given five contributing points -which he very much suspected were meant to be use to help him heal- and the right to attend one of the elders lectures.
He was then given a requisition form for his second win, which he could redeem to one of three prizes.
[] An inner flame pill- a valuable pill full of fire Qi. (+10 fire Qi).
[] Elixir of pure thought- a valuable and rare elixir which enhances one ability to learn and retain information (+2 to all learning/teaching actions for 2 turns. this includes the ghosts)
[] Meridian cleanser pill- a rare and valuable pill, ingesting it will fully cleanse a single meridian. (+1 meridian opened).
He just hopes the prizes were worth the injuries he suffered.
Guang Li is at 7/28 Hp and has suffered the injury; spiritual burns: - 3 to guan Li physical actions, -1 to Qi actions (this includes ghosts). Evry turn Guang Li will roll to heal his injuries the chance is dependent on how full his HP bar is (IE: when at full health he has a high chance and when its low he has a very low chance).
And so, ends the first true test of Guang Li resolve, his ancestors hope it will be the last one in a while and yet the strands of fate relevel otherwise.
The stage is set and the actors are in place, the heavens put their finger on the scales and all follow.
The strands of fate are opaque to the ghost of the Guang, once they may have read as easy as breathing but lesser as they are the meaning and interpretations are beyond them.
The only thing they know is that it will happen soon and it will either be a great opportunity or a great ruin.
Turn 4.
Event tracker.
Time: 2 turns. (end of turn 5).
Type: ???
Description: ???
Failure: major setbacks???
Successes: an opportunity???
Requirements: ???
Qi reserve [9/29]
Hp [7/28]
Shop (requires 15 votes to buy something)
CCC- 0.
Default- points will be used instead of pure Qi (at 1 to 1) when pure Qi runs out.
[] Buy fire Qi. 2 CC for 1 point of fire Qi.
[] Buy Yang Qi. 4 CC for 1 point of yang Qi.
[] Buy water Qi. 8 CC for 1 point of water Qi.
[] Buy a body reforging elixir (2x progress to the first body refining action to the turn) for 2 contribution points.
[] Buy a healing elixir for 2 contribution point (+1 HP a turn for 4 turns).
[] Buy a meridian impurity expulsion pill (+2 to next attempt to clear meridian) for 4 contribution points.
[] Buy a calm Qi pill (+2 to all QC breakthrough attempts in a turn) for 5 CC.
[] Buy a Ox strength pill* (+10 to strength for a 3+x rounds) for 5 CC +X.
[] Buy A willow drop pill (advance a single sub stage in you QC stage) for 10/20/40/80** CC.
[] Purchase basic lessons (+3 to skill progress bar) for 1 CC.***
[] purchase advance lessons (+10 to skill progress bar) for 3 CC.***
*There is a variant available for all the other attributes.
**the cost is dependent on the stage you are on (IE: a QC 1 pays 10, while a QC3 pays 40).
***rare skill double the cost.
Guang Li actions.
[] Attend the elder lessons. +cultivation skill.
[] Rest and recuperate +2 Hp (in addition to the base healing rate of 2 to a total of 4 HP heal this turn).
[] pursue the library and its technique selection.
Wisdom.
[ ] Map Guang Li body [0/100]. Reduced progress needed to refine the body.
[ ] Teach Guang Li.
-[ ] Cultivation. [11/50]. Raise the cultivation skill to 3.
-[ ] Combat. [25/100]. Raise the combat skill to 5.
-[ ] Breakthrough [0/50]. Raise the breakthrough skill to 1.
-[ ] Fellowship [2/50]. Raise the fellowship skill to 3.
[ ] investigate the anomaly in heavens power [33/50]. ???
[ ] Seek knowledge from the collective.
-[ ] Knowledge of alchemy [0/50]. Unlock Alchemy actions.
-[ ] Knowledge of refining [0/50]. Unlock refining actions.
-[ ] Knowledge Of Qi [4/100]. Unlock advanced Qi actions.
-[ ] Knowledge of the bloodline [0/250]. Unlock bloodline actions.
-[ ] Knowledge of your demise [0/500]. Knowledge about the slaughter.
[ ] Refine the bloodlust. [47/100]. Unlock more wrath options.
[ ] Attempt to divine the strands of fate and glimpse the future to come [0/50] ([0/75 for phase 2, 0/100 for phase 3) reveal basic information about the event. (further phases revel more information).
[ ] Look to the stars for hidden knowledge of the future [0/500]. Reveal the event in the event track permanently.
Wrath.
[ ] Screams of death- nothing more than restless ghosts wailing of their death, diffuse and weak, it is nonetheless the best way for the ancestor ghosts to directly attack their enemies. The result depends on the final roll.
[ ] Restless anger- infuse the anger of your demise into Guang Li body and soul and let him push beyond his limits at a cost. [2/10] +1 to all of Guang actions this turn per completion of this action. -1 Hp per time taken.
[ ] silent hunters- with Guang Li passing the tests and now being part of the sect proper there are many new mission available for him, some of those are hunting various small spiritual critters that make their home around the sect. the perfect pray for invisible ghosts. [0/10]. +1 contribution point.
Qi.
[ ] Gather Qi [0/3]. Gain 1 Qi. (every 3 points of progress here give 1 point of Qi).
-[ ] water Qi [0/10].
-[ ] Yin Qi [0/17]
-[ ] Yang Qi [0/60]
[ ] Condense Qi in Guang Li Dantian. Cost 1 Qi per time taken [4/100]. Advance to QC 2 mid.
[ ] Refin Guang body. variable cost.
-[ ] Refine his skin. Cost 2 Qi per time taken [0/50]. Refined skin II (+3 Constitution*).
-[ ] Refine his muscles. Cost 1 Qi per time taken [0/20]. Refined muscles I (+1 Strength).
-[ ] Refine his blood. Cost 1 Qi per time taken [0/40]. Refined blood (+1 Constitution, +1 Dexterity).
-[ ] Refine his nerves. Cost 1 Qi per time taken [0/40]. Refined nerves (+1 Dexterity).
-[ ] Refine his senses. Cost 1 Qi per time taken [0/40]. Refined sense I (+1 Perception).
-[ ] Refine his organs. Cost 2 Qi per time taken [0/60]. Refined organs (+1 Constitution, slight toxic resistance).
-[ ] Refine his Bones. Cost 2 Qi per time taken [0/60]. Refined bones (+1 Constitution, reduced injury rolls).
-[ ] Refine his mind. Cost 3 Qi per time taken [0/100]. Refined mind (+1 Intelligence. increased comprehension speed).
[ ] Clear a meridian acupoint. Cost 5 Qi per attempt DC 9 (12/15/18) [1/670 Cleared]. +1 open meridian. (note: 2 failures so far).
*this replaces the refined skin I trait so the actual bonus of the action is +2 but the total is +3.
Yin. (a new category, discover more about your bloodline to unlock further actions in this category).
[ ] Nurture Yin- as ghost of the dead, you are binges of Yin inhabit Guang Li body and let his roots nurture of your power but be careful for even those of the Guang cannot stand the chill of death for long. -3 Hp per time taken. [0/100] advance Guang Li Yin root to grade 16.
[ ] The power of thought- flood Guang Li mind with Yin Qi and show the power of thought and mentality Cost: 1 Yin Qi per attempt. [0/50] +1 to all learning/teaching actions next turn (ghosts actions included).
