- Location
- Yes
[X] A fire burning through the forest.
The Path Unending (A Cultivation Quest)
- Thread starter Vesvius
- Start date
- Original
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- Tags
- original xianxia cultivation quest
Ferb_Ancos
The one under the table
- Pronouns
- He
[X] A hound bellowing out a warcry.
- Location
- England
If I'm understanding right, this is a metaphorical dream sequence of our present situation. The Garden of Beasts is the timeloop and Zhi's investigation into it, the mistakes are equivalent to missteps made during our investigation so far (because we lacked critical information, mostly) and "Zhuan Kun" is the hostile intellect behind the loops, the existence of one of those being critical information. Zhi was too obvious in going about things, and has been identified as a threat for removal. However, he was able to successfully channel the attack into cycling Anam, and so will not explode.
Lets analyze our options a little. The three choices presumably mean we end up interacting with one of our techniques, specifically Northern Auroch Onslaught, Warhounds Cry, and Sear.
If it's just a smiple cycle check, then Warhounds Cry would be the worst choice since it doesn't change the action number needed for integration. Otherwise it doesn't make a big difference if we choose NAO or Sear. But the modification interpretation is more interesting.
We originally got Sear to quickly integrate it as a means to increase our Wit stat, which would allow us to upgrade our Charmcrafting stat further. Making it mono Fire also played into that a bit. The other benefit of the modification was that we can later include one of our core aspects if it's a mono tech.
If we vote for it here, then integration gets tougher and we get a tech modification that would have happened down the line. It honestly sounds more bad than good to me.
Warhounds Cry is a tech thst connects us to Nokai and her hounds. Fully integrating the technique also allows us to keep our current spiritual talent modifier when we change forms. So we could get back into bronze mode for another action per turn.
Changing its aspect would once more make integration more action consuming. This will be very important once we are at the Heart again and need to cycle a lot to finally reach Farmer. Someone also brought up that combining Sound and Time might be a bad idea due to Rags, which is also a great point.
Northern Auroch Onslaught is one of our core combat techniques. Its main value is it's power in battle. NAO was recently changed, so modifying it again feels a bit bad due to it. At the same time the potential increase in combat power could very well make up for it.
Due to all this, I think we should go with the bull option for this one.
If it's just a smiple cycle check, then Warhounds Cry would be the worst choice since it doesn't change the action number needed for integration. Otherwise it doesn't make a big difference if we choose NAO or Sear. But the modification interpretation is more interesting.
We originally got Sear to quickly integrate it as a means to increase our Wit stat, which would allow us to upgrade our Charmcrafting stat further. Making it mono Fire also played into that a bit. The other benefit of the modification was that we can later include one of our core aspects if it's a mono tech.
If we vote for it here, then integration gets tougher and we get a tech modification that would have happened down the line. It honestly sounds more bad than good to me.
Warhounds Cry is a tech thst connects us to Nokai and her hounds. Fully integrating the technique also allows us to keep our current spiritual talent modifier when we change forms. So we could get back into bronze mode for another action per turn.
Changing its aspect would once more make integration more action consuming. This will be very important once we are at the Heart again and need to cycle a lot to finally reach Farmer. Someone also brought up that combining Sound and Time might be a bad idea due to Rags, which is also a great point.
Northern Auroch Onslaught is one of our core combat techniques. Its main value is it's power in battle. NAO was recently changed, so modifying it again feels a bit bad due to it. At the same time the potential increase in combat power could very well make up for it.
Due to all this, I think we should go with the bull option for this one.
- Location
- United States
- Pronouns
- He/Him
[X] A fire burning through the forest.
Please let this be a Time integration, otherwise we'll probably never get any kind of non-stat use from this technique.
Please let this be a Time integration, otherwise we'll probably never get any kind of non-stat use from this technique.
[X] A fire burning through the forest.
- Location
- Deep in a bog
[X] A hound bellowing out a warcry.
[X] A bull charging across an open field.
[x] A fire burning through the forest.
[X] A hound bellowing out a warcry.
- Location
- United States of America
[x] A fire burning through the forest.
[x] A fire burning through the forest.
Same reason I voted to strip it, I care about this technique the least so I don't mind throwing it into an rng blender.
Same reason I voted to strip it, I care about this technique the least so I don't mind throwing it into an rng blender.
[X] A fire burning through the forest.
[X] A fire burning through the forest.
Hoping this will be a time technique.
Hoping this will be a time technique.
Romv
A Memory of TREES
Poor Chui Dao is being bullied and I don't like it.
Since I don't want to mess with Nokai's technique before integrating it, and the whole point of Sear was its relative ease of integration something which adding a rare aspect would erase, I'm going with the Auroch.
[X] A bull charging across an open field.
Knight-Radiant
Recovering Rageaholic
[X] A fire burning through the forest.
This seems the most interesting to me. If we are adding time the combo seems most fun and in this situation I like the imagery here the best
Neither a challenge or a physical charge, no this is a forest fire, a destructive force of nature. I feel like it has more Gravitas and gells better with our Core, the FORGE
This seems the most interesting to me. If we are adding time the combo seems most fun and in this situation I like the imagery here the best
Neither a challenge or a physical charge, no this is a forest fire, a destructive force of nature. I feel like it has more Gravitas and gells better with our Core, the FORGE
Wiggin42
Wage Slave
That sells it to me. Having a roar that can travel through time sounds awesome, but upgrading a basic fire skill seems too good to pass up.
[X] A fire burning through the forest.
Da Boyz
The Cutest Apocalypse.
[X] A hound bellowing out a warcry.
Crazy thought: This entity isn't Time, its Fate. Fate specifically feels bad/adversarial to us and the entity here has a fixation on victory even the face of the seemingly impossible. Army Ever Victorious/Fate is opposed to the Symphony/Time in some way, so where one would have influence it might make sense for the other to.
- Pronouns
- He/Him
Even if this is true, it seems better to shunt that into a technique with 'spare room' than try and crowd it into Warhound's Cry. It also might need to be purged before it does something unpleasant to Zhi and we have significant sentimental attachment to Warhound's Cry, so I'd rather do it with something else.
Like, you could be right, but that seems all the more reason to not pick Warhound's Cry.