[X] 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)
[X] Buy a meridian impurity expulsion pill (+2 to next attempt to clear meridian) for 4 contribution points.
[X] Rest and recuperate +2 Hp (in addition to the base healing rate of 2 to a total of 4 HP heal this turn).
[X] Gather Qi [0/3]. Gain 1 Qi. (every 3 points of progress here give 1 point of Qi).
-[X] Yin Qi [0/17]
I have a question, if we buy the elixir does it give a bonus to seeking knowledge from the collective or does the learning aspect only apply to Guang Li?
I have a question, if we buy the elixir does it give a bonus to seeking knowledge from the collective or does the learning aspect only apply to Guang Li?
I have a question, if we buy the elixir does it give a bonus to seeking knowledge from the collective or does the learning aspect only apply to Guang Li?
I think it's been long enough to call it, as always I'm offering a +5 to anyone who wants to gather up the results (do remember to note where you want your +5 to go).
The update would take a little while, I need to plot the course of t15 of distinct stars and I still have a half finished update for Iron Oath I want to finish out so we'll see.
In the meantime rolls.
we'll start with the easy, with you buying a healing pill you heal 6 HP this turn bringing you to 13/28 wich mean you have 36% to heal your injury (Current HP/max HP *100 -10%) so and up means you heal the injury this turn, rolled twice because he's resting.
Other than that we have two fellowship rolls, one for the elder lessons and one for the library both are 2d10+2.
and that is all for Guang Li rolls this turn.
Scheduled vote count started by uri on Dec 8, 2024 at 11:22 AM, finished with 81 posts and 51 votes.
[x] Buy a healing elixir for 2 contribution point (+1 HP a turn for 4 turns).
[x] 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)
[X] 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.
[X] 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).
[X] Elixir of pure thought- a valuable and rare elixir which enhances one ability to learn and retain information (+2 to all learning/teaching actions. this includes the ghosts)
[X]Meridian cleanser pill- a rare and valuable pill, ingesting it will fully cleanse a single meridian. (+1 meridian opened).
-[X] Breakthrough [0/50]. Raise the breakthrough skill to 1.
@uri the next event is end of Turn 5 I.e. next turn. Is the any benefit to completing phase 1 or 2 of the divination action next turn? I'm wondering where to put the +5.
the next event is end of Turn 5 I.e. next turn. Is the any benefit to completing phase 1 or 2 of the divination action next turn? I'm wondering where to put the +5.
Figured I should be doing this, as a quick reference to what the different types of Qi do. More would be added as you discover them.
Water Qi is ever flowing, water represent change and flexibility and it naturally attempts to become a liquid. Utilizing water Qi for condensation accrues double the progress, completing a project which gives +Dex with mostly water Qi doubles the Dex gained.
Yin represents the mind and spiritual. By dint of their bloodline the Guang posses Yin roots heavily developed. Utilizing mostly Yin Qi for projects which improve the mind/spirit double the benefits incurred.
Yang represents the energy of the living, physically. The Guang line has been known to have well below average Yang roots. Utilizing mostly Yang Qi for projects which impose the physicality aspect grant double the benefits.
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.
@uri the next event is end of Turn 5 I.e. next turn. Is the any benefit to completing phase 1 or 2 of the divination action next turn? I'm wondering where to put the +5.
The presence of the roots reveled to them the ancestors drink deeply of the world bounty pure and yin Qi flowing freely into Guang Li dantian.
+5 Qi, +5 Yin Qi.
QI CONDENSE: 16/100 to Qi 2-Mid. Spent 2 Pure Qi.
Slowly the ghosts gather the Qi and start the process of condensing it. applying just the required pressure and no more.
With the expansion of the dantian the amount of Qi needed to condense a liquid drop of Qi has risen, although that is more a side effect of the needed pressure and work to truly condense the drop.
Consequently, much work is still needed before another drop could be condensed.
MERIDIAN BREAKTHROUGH: +1 failure (3 total),
Another attempt on clearing the meridians, this attempt like its predecessors has failed but in its failure It has dislodged some of the impurities paving the way to the next attempt.
BREAKTHROUGH SKILL: 54/50 to lvl 1 COMPLETED
What is the difference between breaking though and just regular cultivation?
At the end of the day both skills are just Qi control applied differently.
To cultivate you need stamina and precision, to control Qi for long periods of time and apply just the right amount of force.
A breakthrough needs explosive power, to throw its entire might at once and the control to not let it rage further then you need.
Both skills require Qi control but of differing kinds and the difference can be quite hard to learn.
Thankfully, with his ancestors' words in his ears Guang Li has learnt well.
Breakthrough skill increased to Lv 1. SILENT HUNTERS: 59/10.
Unseen by all the ghost of warmth and anger prowled the sect grounds hunting for their prey.
Small as they were the various critters that inhabited the sects' lands fell swiftly and with Guang Li gathering the corpses and turning them in his ancestors effort has provided him with a modest amount of Contribution points.
+5 CC. ANOMALY IN HEAVEN: 52/50 COMPLETED
Rarely do the heavens turn their eyes to the mortal world, even when their chains are broken heavens sight is elsewhere.
So, to see such a concentration of its power within Guang Li was both mystifying and worrying. Yet out of all the sects and clans none knew of the power of heaven more than the ancestors of the Guang and under their close scrutiny its secrets were revealed.
The energy was protective of Guang Li, deeply infused with the Dao of the shield. It has been tied to his soul specifically so it could protect him.
The why eluded them but the evidence is clear beyond all doubt, the heavens have moved to protect Guang Li investing enough power to stave his death thrice.
Only two instances remained now, some of the energy released during the breaking of the chain, and it will continue to do so with every chain broken.
At least now that the collective knows of the energy and its purpose it might be diverted to different courses.
Revealed, the energy of heaven (shield)- when Guang Li die's (or a quest end is achieved) remove one stack of heaven energy instead, when ascending a stage remove one stack of the energy of heaven and receive a random small benefit. 2 stacks remaining. KNOWLEDGE OF QI: 12/100
KNOWLEDGE OF ALCHEMY: 10/50
MAP THE BODY: 5/100
REFINE THE BLOODLUST: 77/100
COMBAT SKILL: 25/100 to lvl 5
CULTIVATION SKILL: 19/50 to lvl 3
Even deeper do the ghost dive into the collective, aiming to reclaim the knowledge that they once possessed to middling results.
Meanwhile the wrath of the ancestors is ever closer to true potency. DIVINING THE STRANDS OF FATE: 50/50
Deciphering the strands of fate is a difficult task at any time, especially when one possesses no tools or true talent for the art.
In truth the only reason the ancestors of the Guang can even divine the future is their nature, they stand in the in-between, not alive yet not dead. This has a few benefits one of which is a clearer sight of fate.
But where talent and resources fail, hard work prevails and precious nuggets of information are stolen form the strands of fate.
They see a crowed of outer disciples all surrounding three people, one is shadow, the other is Guang Li and the last is a man adorned with rich robs, full and decorated beyond all good tase, all the bystanders hang on his words, they all compete to garner his favor for fate bends around him.
Upon his words will either doom or glory arrive.
knowledge of the event.
The hall housing the Elder lecture was full to bursting, hundreds of outer disciples close to suffocating as they push and are pushed. All to gain an even closer sit to the elder so they would stand the chance to get personal tutelage.
Guang Li remained in the back already in one of the many seats not been fought over. He might have also wished to ern a closer seat but he was nothing if not a realist and knew he could not claim one even if he tried.
And so, he didn't and conserved his effort and attention to the coming lecture.
The elder was an old man, with wrinkling skin and long gray hair drawn into a ponytail. It might have been redundant to call an elder old but as a core formation cultivator and one which -according to his ancestor's wisdom- reached close to its peak, to show the signs of aging that he did must have meant he was positively ancient.
Guang Yu, Guang Li great-great aunt reached a similar cultivation level and she hasn't shown a single sign of aging despite being more than six hundred years old.
The elder voice was deep d and full betraying the frail image his body showed. The elder spoke of the basics of Qi, on its nature, power and how to beast yield it. he shard knowledge control and under his keen eyes did they practice the art of cultivation the elder calling out corrections.
Guang Li was only corrected once, not because he was skilled -his ancestors corrections proved otherwise- but because he was at the back and it is here that the fruits of the earlier scuffles bared fruits as the closer you sat the more attention fell upon you form the elder.
For Guang Li this mattered little as his ancestors filed in the role of the elder and he learned plenty but his fellows struggled.
Some of his ancestors whispered to him of how the others are failing pointing their mistakes so he wont peat them.
And on an ideal fancy he decided to share some of it.
By the time he left the lecture, Guang Li left surrounded by friends.
Cultivations skill rises to Lv3, gain contact struggling disciples (close acquaintances)- a group of outer disciples who struggle behind their peers, they cannot offer much but may be relied upon to back Guang Li up should he need it (IE: this contact may only be called upon during events).
"No" came the decisive and final declaration of the inner disciple manning the library counter.
Gung Li just stared at the man reading a book while on the job, the disciple in question did not even bother to raise his eyes form the pages.
In the end he just sighed and turned to the many shelfs of the library and began the long and boring task of trying to find something worthwhile in the unorganized mess that was the outer sect library.
After hours of searching Guang Li only found three techniques that are worth his time, the rest mostly being fire techniques that are pretty much useless for him.
He would need to pay if he wanted to learn anyone them but thanks to his ancestors he won't need to repay if he wanted another look as they would remember the technique near perfectly.
(OOC: keep in mind that all of the following techniques are untrained and would become better as they are mastered and improved).
Type: defensive.
Cost 1 Qi.
Effect: absorb 1 Hp damage at armor 1 rating.
Special: utilizing non-pure Qi will apply its nature to the shield. (I.E. using water Qi would make the held more water and as such more effective against fire).
Type: offensive, ranged.
Cost: 1 Water Qi.
Effect: execute a ranged attack of a small water bullet (base 2 damage, pierce).
Type: utility.
Cost 1 yang Qi, must be done as part of a recuperate turn action.
Effect: spread the warmth of life and the physical world into your body, strengthening and healing it. (+1 HP, +2% chance of healing injuries).
Turn 5.
Event tracker.
Time: 1 turns. (end of turn 5).
Type: Social, ???
Description: a meeting within the sect between Guang Li, someone important and a shadow that is hidden from sight.
Failure: major setbacks???
Successes: an opportunity???
Requirements: ???
Qi reserve [12/29]
-pure 7.
-Yin 5.
Hp [13/28]
Shop (requires 15 votes to buy something)
CCC- 8.
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.***
[] Buy a technique.
-[] which one?
*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.
[X] Gather Qi (pure).
[X] Rest and recuperate +2 Hp (in addition to the base healing rate of 2 to a total of 4 HP heal this turn).
[X] Work for the sect (Variable)- grunt work (Con).
Wisdom.
[ ] Map Guang Li body [5/100]. Reduced progress needed to refine the body.
[ ] Teach Guang Li.
-[ ] Cultivation. [0/75]. Raise the cultivation skill to 4.
-[ ] Combat. [25/100]. Raise the combat skill to 5.
-[ ] Breakthrough [4/100]. Raise the breakthrough skill to 2.
-[ ] Fellowship [2/50]. Raise the fellowship skill to 3.
[ ] Seek knowledge from the collective.
-[ ] Knowledge of alchemy [10/50]. Unlock Alchemy actions.
-[ ] Knowledge of refining [0/50]. Unlock refining actions.
-[ ] Knowledge Of Qi [12/100]. 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. [77/100]. Unlock more wrath options.
[ ] Attempt to divine the strands of fate and glimpse the future to come [0/75] (0/100 for phase 3) reveal advanced 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. [9/10]. +1 contribution point.
Qi.
[ ] Gather Qi [0/3]. Gain 1 Qi. (every 3 points of progress here give 1 point of Qi).
-[ ] water Qi [5/10].
-[ ] Yin Qi [2/17]
-[ ] Yang Qi [0/60]
[ ] Condense Qi in Guang Li Dantian. Cost 1 Qi per time taken [4/100]. Advance to QC 2 mid.
-[] use X Qi (Default is pure so only include this if your using another type).
[ ] 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).
--[] use X Qi (Default is pure so only include this if your using another type).
[ ] Clear a meridian acupoint. Cost 5 Qi per attempt DC 9 (12/15/18) [1/670 Cleared]. +1 open meridian. (note: 3 failures so far).
-[] use X Qi (Default is pure so only include this if your using another type).
*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).
[X] 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. [9/10]. +1 contribution point.
We can probably start buying stuff, considering we have a decent source of money. That being, all of us Wrath spirits that have nothing better to do. I'm just not sure what would be the most useful right now.
[X] 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. [9/10]. +1 contribution point.
We can probably start buying stuff, considering we have a decent source of money. That being, all of us Wrath spirits that have nothing better to do. I'm just not sure what would be the most useful right now.
Well, for one thing it's 20 progress per point of Fire Qi... which I think it actually pretty efficient for special qi? We might well want to invest a bit into optimizing physical cultivation before we start in on that path, but I'm thinking that it's a viable thing to pursue.
[x] Gather Qi [0/3]. Gain 1 Qi. (every 3 points of progress here give 1 point of Qi).
-[x] water Qi [5/10].
[x] Buy a technique.
-[x] Water Bullet
really thought he would try to open more meridians since he has breakthrough and enough yin qi. until he does we can just try regular condensation, preferably with water qi, but we might want that water bullet attack for the future.
[X] 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. [9/10]. +1 contribution point.
I want to save up for the Life's warmth technique.
[x] Gather Qi [0/3]. Gain 1 Qi. (every 3 points of progress here give 1 point of Qi).
-[x] water Qi [5/10].
[x] Buy a technique.
-[x] Water Bullet
really thought he would try to open more meridians since he has breakthrough and enough yin qi. until he does we can just try regular condensation, preferably with water qi, but we might want that water bullet attack for the future.
