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Scheduled vote count started by Academia Nut on Mar 29, 2025 at 3:22 PM, finished with 50 posts and 36 votes.
 
[X] Go home with Cinder

Basically, we've been told that they probably won't be at the blood pits. Showing up at the blood pits so late that no one else is there just seems like a fail. We can check that out later.

Further investigations at the Squealing Pig? I'd say Cinder is the most interesting thing here, by a fair margin.

Madame Silk's is pretty clearly a high-class whorehouse. So... basically, going there and then going along with the Sergeant's plan means Yon giving up his virginity to some random high-class whore. Staying right here with Cinder means giving it up to her instead. Of the two, I feel like the sexy Slaaneshi bartender who'd be doing it because he won her active interest in a drinking contest beats out the high class whore who'd be doing it for pay in terms of self-respect and making your first time special and all that.

...and, honestly, "won the drinking contest so hard that the incredibly hot bartender took me home afterwards" is a hell of a story to explain why you didn't show up at the end of the day. I don't think any of them are going begrudge him that... especially after they left him there by himself.

I guess the legions of chaos don't really use a battle buddy system.
We need to do more Tzeench too, but increasing our khorne influence might be better
Why?

I mean, really, why? How is there any sort of requirement to balance these things? Yon's reaction to combat is very Nurglite, and that's okay. I mean, getting a bit more Tzeench in there might be nice, and maybe he doesn't need quite as much Slaanesh, but the choices he's making are working, and the person it's turning him into is a really very solidly stable guy. There's nothing wrong with that.
 
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Madame Silk's is pretty clearly a high-class whorehouse. So... basically, going there and then going along with the Sergeant's plan means Yon giving up his virginity to some random high-class whore. Staying right here with Cinder means giving it up to her instead. Of the two, I feel like the sexy Slaaneshi bartender who'd be doing it because he won her active interest in a drinking contest beats out the high class whore who'd be doing it for pay in terms of self-respect and making your first time special and all that.

Yeah probably correct. And Yon is going to have an amazing time of it. Slaneshi? Great sex. Possibly sex that's bad for your health, but very good sex.

...and, honestly, "won the drinking contest so hard that the incredibly hot bartender took me home afterwards" is a hell of a story to explain why you didn't show up at the end of the day. I don't think any of them are going begrudge him that... especially after they left him there by himself.

Yes it probably will get him some bragging rights. If only because the rest of them had to pay to get their docks wet, whereas Yon did it the hard way.
 
Only 46% of the vote for the winner, so Yon is probably a bit irresolute on this decision. Which makes sense, given he's managed to get seriously drunk.
 
Yes it probably will get him some bragging rights. If only because the rest of them had to pay to get their docks wet, whereas Yon did it the hard way.
It's not just that.

Cinder is sex on legs. Like, she's a very particular variety of sex on legs, but she absolutely is that thing... and she's the bartender. I guarantee you, she gets a lot of attention, and propositions of various kinds, and she turns the vast majority of them down. She pretty much has to have high standards. She doesn't have time in the day for anything else. If she wants nights to herself with any frequency, she has to be even pickier than that. So "some guy gets shot down by Cinder" is almost certainly the sort of thing that happens often enough that it's part of the culture. Her high standards will be known. So when he walks into the place and scores with her on his first night....

Only 46% of the vote for the winner, so Yon is probably a bit irresolute on this decision. Which makes sense, given he's managed to get seriously drunk.
I read it as straight-up 50/50 if you don't count mine. 36 votes, with 18 for the winner. Some people approval-voted.

If you do count mine in, it's slightly better than that.
 
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This is all making me even more adamant that we should train Iron Kettle Stomach at some point, for the record. We've already seen that it functions as an even further extender on Yon's physical and spiritual endurance via reprocessing fatigue toxins (and the spiritual equivalent thereof), but as we've seen here, it also works to help him work through essentially all various forms of toxins up to and including neurotoxins.
Diamond Body makes Yon impressive physically, but Iron Kettle Stomach's synergy with it is truly something to behold. It'd be a shame to leave one half of that synergy behind.
 
Iirc the iron stomach already is connected to the concepts of life and growth so perhaps with training, direction, effort, or maybe even a dash of favor we could make or be let in on a "Harvestfather's Bodily Crucible of Life" as a Nurgle aligned greater version of it?

Nurgle is stinky, people don't like it because it's gross or they think the others are cooler, but Nurgle is also about life, growth stagnation, and decay. That sounds prime for translation into a "cycle of life" style technique of boom and bust.
 
I was actually hoping to do an extra update last night, but it didn't really work out that way despite the vote being decidedly one sided. Combine that with the ADHD kicking in (fuck, I don't think I took my meds today... ah well) and I was getting antsy.

Also

when in doubt i've been assuming the gods are aligned with classic xianxia tropes: unfettered violence, rampant drug abuse and towering arrogance, convoluted schemes and outrageous twists of fortune, and enduring unimaginable suffering for stupid reasons.

This summarizes what I am up to perfectly.
 
With how terrible the drinks are, I wonder if it is worth making a private distillery and see if we can make better booze. Maybe Spirit Wine can help grease the wheels for smoozing our superiors.
 
With how terrible the drinks are, I wonder if it is worth making a private distillery and see if we can make better booze. Maybe Spirit Wine can help grease the wheels for smoozing our superiors.

To be fair, this stuff was pretty much all deliberately bad since the point of most of them is to test how tough the drinker is and/or industrially clean bionics. The first drink was kind of bad because it was a mishmash blend of flavours, but the individual elements were good as far as Yon could tell.
 
Iirc the iron stomach already is connected to the concepts of life and growth so perhaps with training, direction, effort, or maybe even a dash of favor we could make or be let in on a "Harvestfather's Bodily Crucible of Life" as a Nurgle aligned greater version of it?

Nurgle is stinky, people don't like it because it's gross or they think the others are cooler, but Nurgle is also about life, growth stagnation, and decay. That sounds prime for translation into a "cycle of life" style technique of boom and bust.
I genuinely feel like if we're looking at aligning ourselves with a particular chaos god, Nurgle is likely the best one to go with for Yon's particular path to power. The big thing about cultivation in specific appears to be that it's focused on not allowing mutations to define where you're going with it, and instead allow you to work that out yourself. You take the reigns, control how things flow, and actually properly process what you're doing to make this shit work in a way that won't leave you as a disgusting husk or fleshbag.

The main, actual problems with Nurgle are all associated with the excessive parts of him. Unchecked growth is cancerous. Unchecked stagnation means you'll never get anywhere. But Yon's teachings are all about mastering both of those; handling our growth in a controlled fashion, with carefully pruned branches and aimed focus. Our controlled stagnation means we're not going in bad directions. Rather, it's a steady stride forward, supported by unwavering focus and will.

And it's offset somewhat by Slaaneshi influence, because we're both indulging - something that we showed off pretty damn well in that last update - but not overly focusing on it and losing ourselves to it, and doing what all cultivators are supposed to be doing; striving for perfection.

A steady walk towards perfection sounds like exactly what you want as a cultivator. No surprises, but absolutely no stopping either.
 
This is all making me even more adamant that we should train Iron Kettle Stomach at some point, for the record.
For what it's worth, I'm pretty sure that the stuff we've been doing tonight is training for Iron Kettle Stomach. Yon has absolutely been pushing that art to his limits with it in interesting ways.
I genuinely feel like if we're looking at aligning ourselves with a particular chaos god, Nurgle is likely the best one to go with for Yon's particular path to power. The big thing about cultivation in specific appears to be that it's focused on not allowing mutations to define where you're going with it, and instead allow you to work that out yourself. You take the reigns, control how things flow, and actually properly process what you're doing to make this shit work in a way that won't leave you as a disgusting husk or fleshbag.

The main, actual problems with Nurgle are all associated with the excessive parts of him. Unchecked growth is cancerous. Unchecked stagnation means you'll never get anywhere. But Yon's teachings are all about mastering both of those; handling our growth in a controlled fashion, with carefully pruned branches and aimed focus. Our controlled stagnation means we're not going in bad directions. Rather, it's a steady stride forward, supported by unwavering focus and will.

And it's offset somewhat by Slaaneshi influence, because we're both indulging - something that we showed off pretty damn well in that last update - but not overly focusing on it and losing ourselves to it, and doing what all cultivators are supposed to be doing; striving for perfection.

A steady walk towards perfection sounds like exactly what you want as a cultivator. No surprises, but absolutely no stopping either.
...and, in turn, we look at the two that we're not favoring. First - Khorne. Yon just doesn't pick fights much. He's willing to get into fights, and he knows how to handle himself when he's in them, but for the most part, it's a cost and a risk to be managed, rather than something to be sought out. Second - Tzeench. Yon's path doesn't depend on outrageous twists of fortune, involved scheming, or fate. Those things can send the Blessed of Tzeench rocketing ahead, but they're also fickle. Schemes can fail. Fortune, once twisted, can twist again. Fate is unreliable. Yon simply shrugs, and continues to push forward.
 
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[X] Go home with Cinder

Yon thought about things for a moment, impulses him pulling his brain this way and that as he tried to work out what was best to do. There was actually a part of his brain that was stone sober, but when the wasted part of his brain tried to query for help it got back a message that amounted to 'Do you want a decision or to live?'

Yon grabbed a nearby glass and belched into it, the remains of whatever sugars and other compounds within sizzling from the gases his body was expelling. Someone handed him a glass of water, and he realized that it had been Cinder somewhat belatedly. That was nice of her.

That decided it for him. He smiled and asked, "You wanna suck me off?"

She ran her fingers delicately across the line of his jaw and said, "Fuck yeah rock star! You've given me the most entertaining shift in years, and I want to experience what kind of motor you've got under the hood to keep running after all the shit you shoved in your tank."

She leaned in close to him a bit and let her tongue extend from her mouth to trail across the opposite side of his face from where she was holding him, rubbing her mouth clit across his nose before flicking the appendage back into her mouth so fast it almost made a whipcrack. She whispered into his ear, "Also, when you're slamming your cock into my mouth I'm getting off too, unlike lame ass bitches."

For a brief and dangerous moment Yon's mind flashed with the image of Lady Va's mouth open wide to take his cock all the way to its base. The image mingled with a pair of outcomes, one where she was choking on him for all of the times her antics had got him beat up, and another one where she was flush with pleasure, her pussy slick and twitching. He dismissed the imagery as being more trouble than they were worth, somewhat aided by the fact that his brain got hung up on trying to decide whether or not it was more proper and ladylike if she waxed porcelain smooth or if she maintained a carefully trimmed and styled patch of pubic hair. The trail of thought soon went to 'pubic bonsai' and he was able to drop the whole thing as absurd.

Yon was fairly certain that while this was going on he was wearing a stupid smile on his face, and thankfully Cinder seemed to understand that he was not exactly all there, since she straightened back up and announced, "However, before all of that we're going to have to get you cleaned up. Come on up big guy, we're going to need to flush some of what you drank out before you stick it in me. The Prince seems to like me, but not enough that I can go play in the Grandfather's Garden and expect to come out with a dick instead of cancer."

What an odd thing to say. Whatever else he had to think on got thrown out as he discovered that much of his sense of balance had been delegated to the chair he had been sitting in. He put more focus towards digestion, and also with all the water he was being given he put focus into just shoving as many toxins into his bladder as possible. He also cranked up his internal spiritual furnace since he had a steady supply of water.

He somewhat lost track of where he was while doing that, but eventually his attention was drawn back to the outer world by a tongue sliding across his ear. He was in some sort of shower area with his pants down, while Cinder was behind him with one hand under his shirt, the other holding his dick, and she was licking his ear while breathily whispering, "Just let it all out."

So Yon did, and he immediately felt better as he no longer had to devote an enormous amount of mental effort towards not literally melting into a pile of goo. The gain in mental acuity allowed him to comment, "Oh! That's why it's called No Night Light!"

Shaking and squeezing him playfully to get out the last drops of brightly green glowing liquid, Cinder said, "That is the joke, although pretty sure the only guys I've ever seen drink that stuff stopped pissing years ago. A shame the tiles are sizzling too, glow in the dark cum is so much fun to play with."

Yon had to process two things then. The first was that the tiles in the shower area did in fact seem to be bubbling slightly, although that might just be from the grout not having been cleaned in a while and the toxins reacting with the mildew rather than the ceramic itself being attacked. The second was that he had a very attractive and basically naked woman showing him affection while holding his penis in her hand.

"And we're off to the races!" Cinder cheerfully announced as Yon began to become erect from her attentions. "A full flush before the main event though."

She reached over and turned on the tap to the shower, washing the concentrated toxins down the drain and letting Yon drink from the spray. It wasn't particularly efficient to just flush so much without properly breaking it down and integrating it, but then again very little of what he had consumed had been properly prepared so there wasn't much loss in the end. If anything the big thing had been the practice he had picked up in using his Iron Kettle Belly techniques.

Actually, the biggest thing was that a woman was showing him the sort of attention he had been craving since puberty.

Even though he was now mostly free of intoxicants, everything became blurry after that as Cinder led him into a little room with a cot. He knew he frustrated her for a time with his endurance, before they switched things around and he impressed her with his endurance. By the time his memories began to become sorted again, they were both lying on a thin sheet on the floor, covered in sweat. Cinder was half asleep and playing with herself and the mess Yon had made between her thighs, while Yon was staring at the ceiling contemplatively.

There was a part of him that wanted Cinder, Va, and even his subordinate Yue to all be naked and kneeling before him, worshipping his body and the pleasure it brought. He dreamed of all their bellies swollen with children, breasts heavy and leaking milk. It was an alluring fantasy, but eventually he pushed it aside for reality. A question was eating at him.

"How was I?" Yon asked idly.

Cinder hummed for a moment before she said, "Honestly? It was obvious that you were a virgin before this, but you learn quick, are pretty agile, and I've fucked machines with less endurance. So you're solidly above average, and for the first time you're definitely up there."

"Thanks," Yon replied honestly, before he paused in thought and then added on, "And thanks for the honesty. I'm sure there are lots of men who wouldn't accept anything less than being told they were the best ever."

Cinder rolled over a bit to kiss Yon on the cheek. "You earned it. There's something sweet about you."

Even though she had started to play with his dick again, Yon focused on that statement instead and said, "I think we have similar backgrounds. I was a servant for years, and I've always been under the control of people more powerful than me."

Cinder purred at that before she said, "Yeah, thought so. You've moved up more than this little slave, but you're still a switch who knows how to bottom to avoid being beat down. Very sweet."

Continuing to play with him while they lay there, Cinder then added on, "Maybe too sweet. So you know, I had fun and I would like to see you again, but let me be clear. You're not that special, you're not The One, and Piggy gets annoyed if we show customers too much attention, or if guys like you start getting jealous. And when Piggy gets annoyed, people get hurt. Clear?"

"Crystal," Yon replied with full earnesty. This was like a weird mirror version of the talk Va had given him all those years ago.

"Good. And don't get any simpering, besotted ideas about trying to buy me from her. Bartending is a damn better job than whatever I would be doing as a soldier-boy's house-slave," Cinder explained as she began to slide herself atop Yon's sprawled form as her fingers roused him back to attention. "I'm pretty safe mixing drinks and working the stills."

Yon's brain stopped.

"You have access to the stills?" He demanded.
 
He dismissed the imagery as being more trouble than they were worth,
They are no longer in the sect, so it isn't really practically impossible anymore, don't give up hope Yon. /j

Taking that and his later comments, I am pretty sure he still has minor crush on Va, if purely physical one, but it all seems pretty normal for a teenager, he sees cute girls and he want to be with cute girls.
 
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