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Salted Spires (A Cradle Quest)

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[x] A. "I want a Parasite Ring like yours. Mom. I'm really good at cycling, so it slowing me down won't be that bad. And Tama taught me all our Path's techniques, so having purer Madra would help!" You will commit to utilizing a Parasite Ring for the time being, slowing your advancement but strengthening your madra and resulting techniques, so long as you keep using it.

[x] B. "I want a set of Leeching Bracers - Tama said the Copper fights are just decided by who is stronger. And I'm already the weakest kid in my class. So I need to get stronger, faster than he is." You will commit to utilizing Leeching Bracers for the time being, greatly weakening your physical capabilities for your day to day life but strengthening the growth of your Strength and Toughness.
 
[x] A. "I want a Parasite Ring like yours. Mom. I'm really good at cycling, so it slowing me down won't be that bad. And Tama taught me all our Path's techniques, so having purer Madra would help!" You will commit to utilizing a Parasite Ring for the time being, slowing your advancement but strengthening your madra and resulting techniques, so long as you keep using it.

[x] C. "I'm never going to win in a brawl, Tane's twice my size. But if I can see him coming, I can avoid him even if he's faster. And a Reversal Necklace will help me be able to react to that." You will commit to utilizing a Reversal Necklace for the time being, messing with your senses and control of your body, but greatly strengthening the growth of your Coordination.
 
[x] A. "I want a Parasite Ring like yours. Mom. I'm really good at cycling, so it slowing me down won't be that bad. And Tama taught me all our Path's techniques, so having purer Madra would help!" You will commit to utilizing a Parasite Ring for the time being, slowing your advancement but strengthening your madra and resulting techniques, so long as you keep using it.

Slowing down advancement is not that much of an issue here.
 
[x] A. "I want a Parasite Ring like yours. Mom. I'm really good at cycling, so it slowing me down won't be that bad. And Tama taught me all our Path's techniques, so having purer Madra would help!" You will commit to utilizing a Parasite Ring for the time being, slowing your advancement but strengthening your madra and resulting techniques, so long as you keep using it.

It sounds like we're already ahead of the curve when it comes to advancement, so this seems workable. We do also need to learn to actually fight, mind you, but I think people outside the family can help with combat skill training in a way they can't with this.
 
[X] A. "I want a Parasite Ring like yours. Mom. I'm really good at cycling, so it slowing me down won't be that bad. And Tama taught me all our Path's techniques, so having purer Madra would help!" You will commit to utilizing a Parasite Ring for the time being, slowing your advancement but strengthening your madra and resulting techniques, so long as you keep using it.

[X] C. "I'm never going to win in a brawl, Tane's twice my size. But if I can see him coming, I can avoid him even if he's faster. And a Reversal Necklace will help me be able to react to that." You will commit to utilizing a Reversal Necklace for the time being, messing with your senses and control of your body, but greatly strengthening the growth of your Coordination.
 
[x] C. "I'm never going to win in a brawl, Tane's twice my size. But if I can see him coming, I can avoid him even if he's faster. And a Reversal Necklace will help me be able to react to that." You will commit to utilizing a Reversal Necklace for the time being, messing with your senses and control of your body, but greatly strengthening the growth of your Coordination.
 
[X] A. "I want a Parasite Ring like yours. Mom. I'm really good at cycling, so it slowing me down won't be that bad. And Tama taught me all our Path's techniques, so having purer Madra would help!" You will commit to utilizing a Parasite Ring for the time being, slowing your advancement but strengthening your madra and resulting techniques, so long as you keep using it.
 
[x] A. "I want a Parasite Ring like yours. Mom. I'm really good at cycling, so it slowing me down won't be that bad. And Tama taught me all our Path's techniques, so having purer Madra would help!" You will commit to utilizing a Parasite Ring for the time being, slowing your advancement but strengthening your madra and resulting techniques, so long as you keep using it.

[x] B. "I want a set of Leeching Bracers - Tama said the Copper fights are just decided by who is stronger. And I'm already the weakest kid in my class. So I need to get stronger, faster than he is." You will commit to utilizing Leeching Bracers for the time being, greatly weakening your physical capabilities for your day to day life but strengthening the growth of your Strength and Toughness.
 
[x] A. "I want a Parasite Ring like yours. Mom. I'm really good at cycling, so it slowing me down won't be that bad. And Tama taught me all our Path's techniques, so having purer Madra would help!" You will commit to utilizing a Parasite Ring for the time being, slowing your advancement but strengthening your madra and resulting techniques, so long as you keep using it.
 
[x] C. "I'm never going to win in a brawl, Tane's twice my size. But if I can see him coming, I can avoid him even if he's faster. And a Reversal Necklace will help me be able to react to that." You will commit to utilizing a Reversal Necklace for the time being, messing with your senses and control of your body, but greatly strengthening the growth of your Coordination.
 
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[x] C. "I'm never going to win in a brawl, Tane's twice my size. But if I can see him coming, I can avoid him even if he's faster. And a Reversal Necklace will help me be able to react to that." You will commit to utilizing a Reversal Necklace for the time being, messing with your senses and control of your body, but greatly strengthening the growth of your Coordination.
 
[X] A. "I want a Parasite Ring like yours. Mom. I'm really good at cycling, so it slowing me down won't be that bad. And Tama taught me all our Path's techniques, so having purer Madra would help!" You will commit to utilizing a Parasite Ring for the time being, slowing your advancement but strengthening your madra and resulting techniques, so long as you keep using it.
 
[x] B. "I want a set of Leeching Bracers - Tama said the Copper fights are just decided by who is stronger. And I'm already the weakest kid in my class. So I need to get stronger, faster than he is." You will commit to utilizing Leeching Bracers for the time being, greatly weakening your physical capabilities for your day to day life but strengthening the growth of your Strength and Toughness.
 
[x] A. "I want a Parasite Ring like yours. Mom. I'm really good at cycling, so it slowing me down won't be that bad. And Tama taught me all our Path's techniques, so having purer Madra would help!" You will commit to utilizing a Parasite Ring for the time being, slowing your advancement but strengthening your madra and resulting techniques, so long as you keep using it.

[x] B. "I want a set of Leeching Bracers - Tama said the Copper fights are just decided by who is stronger. And I'm already the weakest kid in my class. So I need to get stronger, faster than he is." You will commit to utilizing Leeching Bracers for the time being, greatly weakening your physical capabilities for your day to day life but strengthening the growth of your Strength and Toughness.

[x] C. "I'm never going to win in a brawl, Tane's twice my size. But if I can see him coming, I can avoid him even if he's faster. And a Reversal Necklace will help me be able to react to that." You will commit to utilizing a Reversal Necklace for the time being, messing with your senses and control of your body, but greatly strengthening the growth of your Coordination.
 
Mr. Prokosch said:
. I think the treasures are a bigger investment overall than family tutoring, that's why they're being brought up. Any one is outsized support.
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The treasures are the kind of thing you'd get for hitting Iron, as your graduation present. They're definitely the higher support. But they also come with bigger downsides that the simpler options do not. Some of the treasures are likely to interfere with some of the options from your non family.
 
Coordination buff pairs well with our quick writing technique. Would be very embarrassing to lose a fight because of bad combat handwriting. That said the parasite ring also looks like it uses our strengths well

[x] C. "I'm never going to win in a brawl, Tane's twice my size. But if I can see him coming, I can avoid him even if he's faster. And a Reversal Necklace will help me be able to react to that." You will commit to utilizing a Reversal Necklace for the time being, messing with your senses and control of your body, but greatly strengthening the growth of your Coordination.

[x] A. "I want a Parasite Ring like yours. Mom. I'm really good at cycling, so it slowing me down won't be that bad. And Tama taught me all our Path's techniques, so having purer Madra would help!" You will commit to utilizing a Parasite Ring for the time being, slowing your advancement but strengthening your madra and resulting techniques, so long as you keep using it.
 
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[x] A. "I want a Parasite Ring like yours. Mom. I'm really good at cycling, so it slowing me down won't be that bad. And Tama taught me all our Path's techniques, so having purer Madra would help!" You will commit to utilizing a Parasite Ring for the time being, slowing your advancement but strengthening your madra and resulting techniques, so long as you keep using it.

Staff isnt winning it seems so this is my close second.
 
Yeah, it would have been cool if we got to pick both a treasure and a training. Really pick a direction and make some headway. But our family taking time to train us is time they could spend working so it's also a cost to the family.

Keen on a few options here. Parasite ring isn't my fav but it's high up there. Leaching or reversal would also have been cool.
 
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Leeching Bands came to me in a dream. They're literal still living coral that can reproduce by breaking off when touched, attach itself to living beings that it breaks off on, and them parasitize them, absorbing their lifeline over months or years. Where the creature dies becomes a new coral growth as it plants down "roots'.

Your people have learned to mutilate and carve scripts and break bindings of these living creatures, putting limitations on their access to the Lifeline, to create a living training aid. They still absorb the body's strength and energy, but they're unable to do so in a way that harms the Lifeline. And by training the body with them, your body starts to adapt to having to support two lifeforms, and is forced to become stronger. But the Coral is also growing and getting stronger. So you never quite outgrow it.

You have to have a Blood Artist present to remove them safely, because they bond very closely to body and Lifeline. Ripping them off is... dangerous, to say the least.


I didn't have quite as grand an idea for the reversal stuff. It's just what came yo me when I said 'what would a debilitating training aid to help someone with their coordination and bodily control look like'.
 
[x] B. "I want a set of Leeching Bracers - Tama said the Copper fights are just decided by who is stronger. And I'm already the weakest kid in my class. So I need to get stronger, faster than he is." You will commit to utilizing Leeching Bracers for the time being, greatly weakening your physical capabilities for your day to day life but strengthening the growth of your Strength and Toughness.
 
[x] B. "I want a set of Leeching Bracers - Tama said the Copper fights are just decided by who is stronger. And I'm already the weakest kid in my class. So I need to get stronger, faster than he is." You will commit to utilizing Leeching Bracers for the time being, greatly weakening your physical capabilities for your day to day life but strengthening the growth of your Strength and Toughness.

This seem perfect for fitting our face well also making us unexpectedly powerful. We are currently a kid and known to be script focused. Us being weaker physically is totally expected. We can just keep wearing these and losing all the fights that don't matter well preparing ourselves for the fights that do matter.
 
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[x] E. "Dad, Tama said you were really good at the Construction of the Rolling Skies technique, right? Can you teach me how to use that to defend myself better?" You will improve the Novice Forger technique to Apprentice level, improving upon its current capabilities.
 
[x] B. "I want a set of Leeching Bracers - Tama said the Copper fights are just decided by who is stronger. And I'm already the weakest kid in my class. So I need to get stronger, faster than he is." You will commit to utilizing Leeching Bracers for the time being, greatly weakening your physical capabilities for your day to day life but strengthening the growth of your Strength and Toughness.
 
[x] A. "I want a Parasite Ring like yours. Mom. I'm really good at cycling, so it slowing me down won't be that bad. And Tama taught me all our Path's techniques, so having purer Madra would help!" You will commit to utilizing a Parasite Ring for the time being, slowing your advancement but strengthening your madra and resulting techniques, so long as you keep using it.
 
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