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The Path Unending (A Cultivation Quest)

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[X] [TECHNIQUE] The Northern Auroch's Onslaught

[X] [TECHNIQUE] Shatter the Mirror

We charge and strike our blow and shatter this mirror.

[X] [APPROACH] Investigate the probable Source for this anomaly, Liyu's Home.


[X] [SMALL] Liyu's testing should be delayed or even prevented entirely. She may have anam already and could break the treasure.
 
[x] [TECHNIQUE] The Northern Auroch's Onslaught
[x] [TECHNIQUE] Shatter the Mirror
[x] [SMALL] Liyu's testing should be delayed or even prevented entirely. She may have anam already and could break the treasure.
[x] [SMALL] Describe Liyu to your companions, and have them assure her that things will be alright.
[x] [SMALL] The Headsman's records indicate that the loop began during the reign of the Emperor in Flames when the Resolute March was encamped at Jingyi's Summit. Inquire with Zhuan if that rings any bells and if there were any other strange occurrences in the area around that time period.
 
[X] [APPROACH] Having traveled to Shoubiao's Wake three four times now, or the memories of doing so, Kong Zhi should have a general idea of where the village is. He will go ahead of everyone else straight towards the village and arrive at Shoubiao's Wake much earlier than they have been. Of course Zhi will avoid Brother Crab.
-[X] Try to find where the Herbalist lived and investigate their home. Their existence might have been removed but there should still be some sign of where they lived. A Herbalist's hut should contain herbs and have a garden, right?
-[X] Liyu's home. The Headman's note shows the start of this looping phenomenom centered around her home. Also there is her father, Liren. He was stated to be 'sick' by Liyu at the start of the loop, yet wouldn't the Kukuni heal him if that was so?

[X] [SMALL] Ask Zhuan Kun what Yi Tai's notes contain on Kukuni, especially in regards to fighting a Kukuni of perfection, joy, or time.

[X] [SMALL] Kong Zhi will trigger the Ivory Ferryman's special ability to turn intangible should he feel like things are going to be reset.

[X] [SMALL] Kong Zhi will use A Moment's Respite to store the physical stress he has just acquired.

[X][SMALL] The Kukuni curtails "poor influences" and strengthens "positive experiences". There is no way that Daiyu's singing could be a poor influence, it is nothing but a positive experience. Ask Daiyu to sing to Clerk Ni and the villagers to delay the examination to a later time.
 
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[X] [TECHNIQUE] The Northern Auroch's Onslaught
[X] [TECHNIQUE] Shatter the Mirror
[X] [APPROACH] Investigate the probable Source for this anomaly, Liyu's Home.
 
Going to make a quick post to shill upgrading the Northern Aurochs Onslaught (NAO) with time rather than cycling further into the Everdistant Flame (EF).

While we do have a limited supply of time anam, we've got enough of it to fill EF and, if we cycle into StM as it looks like we will, there's a good chance we'll complete it now or very soon, and then we won't have any time techniques except EF to cycle. If we get one phase of a technique, then EF isn't really that big a deal because of how small it is at the start, and by the end of it we can probably fit an entire phase of its time anam in one cycling action, considering the learning discount. That leaves us with plenty of time anam, although getting the other aspect in the same action might be annoying, that isn't a problem unique to time anam.

Secondly, NAO is falling way behind our physical technique, which does the same thing but better, for free. It's got more phases to upgrade, it's a higher grade, and it's only got three less dice before the benefits from Chui Dao apply. We have a chance here to massively boost a technique we otherwise wouldn't use further, as well as aspect it towards Zhi's core.

Further, I strongly advocate for any option which would allow Ves to write a time punch. Thank you for coming to my TED Talk technique rant.
 
[x] [TECHNIQUE] The Everdistant Flame
[X] [TECHNIQUE] Shatter the Mirror
[X] [APPROACH] Having traveled to Shoubiao's Wake three four times now, or the memories of doing so, Kong Zhi should have a general idea of where the village is. He will go ahead of everyone else straight towards the village and arrive at Shoubiao's Wake much earlier than they have been. Of course Zhi will avoid Brother Crab.
-[X] Try to find where the Herbalist lived and investigate their home. Their existence might have been removed but there should still be some sign of where they lived. A Herbalist's hut should contain herbs and have a garden, right?
-[X] Liyu's home. The Headman's note shows the start of this looping phenomenom centered around her home. Also there is her father, Liren. He was stated to be 'sick' by Liyu at the start of the loop, yet wouldn't the Kukuni heal him if that was so?

[X] [SMALL] Ask Zhuan Kun what Yi Tai's notes contain on Kukuni, especially in regards to fighting a Kukuni of perfection, joy, or time.

[X] [SMALL] Kong Zhi will trigger the Ivory Ferryman's special ability to turn intangible should he feel like things are going to be reset.

[X] [SMALL] Kong Zhi will use A Moment's Respite to store the physical stress he has just acquired.

[X][SMALL] The Kukuni curtails "poor influences" and strengthens "positive experiences". There is no way that Daiyu's singing could be a poor influence, it is nothing but a positive experience. Ask Daiyu to sing to Clerk Ni and the villagers to delay the examination to a later time.
 
[X] [TECHNIQUE] Shatter the Mirror
[X] [TECHNIQUE] The Everdistant Flame

[X] [APPROACH] Investigate the probable Source for this anomaly, Liyu's Home.
[X] [SMALL] Use A Moment's Respite on the physical stress.
[X] [SMALL] Try seeing if Perfect Mirror reflects different things around the village or in the Rancher's home.
[X] [SMALL] Liyu's testing should be delayed or even prevented entirely. She may have anam already and could break the treasure.
[X] [SMALL] Describe Liyu to your companions, and have them assure her that things will be alright.
[X] [SMALL] The Headsman's records indicate that the loop began during the reign of the Emperor in Flames when the Resolute March was encamped at Jingyi's Summit. Inquire with Zhuan if that rings any bells and if there were any other strange occurrences in the area around that time period.
[X][SMALL] Siani clearly has at least some form of awareness through the Sigil, and this is clearly something that he should be alerted too if we fail to handle this appropriately. Hold you hand to your sigil, say his name, and report what has been learned to the Sigil quikcly so that he might be alerted, perhaps.
Liyu needs to be delayed, the mirror was specifically called out from our mats and does have a perfection element, and Zk knows a surprising amount of things....
 
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[X] [TECHNIQUE] Warhound's Cry
[X] [TECHNIQUE] Shatter the Mirror
[X] [APPROACH] Investigate the probable Source for this anomaly, Liyu's Home.
 
[X] [SMALL] Use A Moment's Respite on the physical stress.
[X] [SMALL] Try seeing if Perfect Mirror reflects different things around the village or in the Rancher's home.
[X] [SMALL] Liyu's testing should be delayed or even prevented entirely. She may have anam already and could break the treasure.
[X] [SMALL] Describe Liyu to your companions, and have them assure her that things will be alright.
[x] [SMALL] The Headsman's records indicate that the loop began during the reign of the Emperor in Flames when the Resolute March was encamped at Jingyi's Summit. Inquire with Zhuan if that rings any bells and if there were any other strange occurrences in the area around that time period.
 
Parabola said:
No, it does seem to improve some things:

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So while it's definitely using Time to remove things, it's also using it to improve some of them, or at least revert them back to the point where they weren't imperfect.

I think it's just that this kukuni has a very alien idea of what perfection is supposed to be (it has almost no life experience), and free will simply does not figure into it.
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I'm not sure what point you're trying to make? As HousePet said, subtraction and improvement are not mutually exclusive, and indeed removing 'imperfections' does often improve what's left after the subtraction. Indeed, rewinding things to prior state is pretty easily conceptualized as subtracting time from something, 'deleting' scenes from its story so to speak.
 
Aabcehmu said:
I'm not sure what point you're trying to make? As HousePet said, subtraction and improvement are not mutually exclusive, and indeed removing 'imperfections' does often improve what's left after the subtraction. Indeed, rewinding things to prior state is pretty easily conceptualized as subtracting time from something, 'deleting' scenes from its story so to speak.
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I misunderstood what he was saying, that's all. I agree with what you and he said.

Edit: Also guys, please consider throwing in more SMALL votes.
 
[X] [TECHNIQUE] The Northern Auroch's Onslaught
[X] [TECHNIQUE] Shatter the Mirror
[X] [APPROACH] Investigate the probable Source for this anomaly, Liyu's Home.
 
[X] [TECHNIQUE] Shatter the Mirror
[X] [TECHNIQUE] The Everdistant Flame

[X] [APPROACH] Investigate the probable Source for this anomaly, Liyu's Home.
 
[X] [TECHNIQUE] Shatter the Mirror
[X] [TECHNIQUE] The Everdistant Flame


[X] [SMALL] Read Daiyu and Kun into what is going on so far and what you have figured out. Three heads are better than one after all.
[X] [SMALL] Liyu's testing should be delayed or even prevented entirely. She may have anam already and could break the treasure.
[X] [SMALL] The Headsman's records indicate that the loop began during the reign of the Emperor in Flames when the Resolute March was encamped at Jingyi's Summit. Inquire with Zhuan if that rings any bells and if there were any other strange occurrences in the area around that time period.
[X] [SMALL] Ask Zhuan Kun what Yi Tai's notes contain on Kukuni, especially in regards to fighting a Kukuni of perfection, joy, or time.
[X] [SMALL] Kong Zhi will trigger the Ivory Ferryman's special ability to turn intangible should he feel like things are going to be reset.
[X][SMALL] The Kukuni curtails "poor influences" and strengthens "positive experiences". There is no way that Daiyu's singing could be a poor influence, it is nothing but a positive experience. Ask Daiyu to sing to Clerk Ni and the villagers to delay the examination to a later time.
[x] [SMALL] Describe Liyu to your companions, and have them assure her that things will be alright.
 
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[X] [TECHNIQUE] Shatter the Mirror
[X] [TECHNIQUE] The Everdistant Flame

As interesting as adding Time to Aurochs would be, we already struggle with one Time Technique. Max out Shatter, get a head start on flame, focus on Cycling that. At that point, we only really have Shadow's to really focus on cycling.

[X] [APPROACH] Having traveled to Shoubiao's Wake three four times now, or the memories of doing so, Kong Zhi should have a general idea of where the village is. He will go ahead of everyone else straight towards the village and arrive at Shoubiao's Wake much earlier than they have been. Of course Zhi will avoid Brother Crab.
-[X] Try to find where the Herbalist lived and investigate their home. Their existence might have been removed but there should still be some sign of where they lived. A Herbalist's hut should contain herbs and have a garden, right?
-[X] Liyu's home. The Headman's note shows the start of this looping phenomenom centered around her home. Also there is her father, Liren. He was stated to be 'sick' by Liyu at the start of the loop, yet wouldn't the Kukuni heal him if that was so?

[X] [SMALL] Ask Zhuan Kun what Yi Tai's notes contain on Kukuni, especially in regards to fighting a Kukuni of perfection, joy, or time.

[X] [SMALL] Kong Zhi will trigger the Ivory Ferryman's special ability to turn intangible should he feel like things are going to be reset.

[X] [SMALL] Kong Zhi will use A Moment's Respite to store the physical stress he has just acquired.
 
[X] [TECHNIQUE] The Northern Auroch's Onslaught
[X] [TECHNIQUE] Warhound's Cry

I like the idea of making every single one of our techs a Core Tech. I don't have any opinion on the Approach so I'm just voting for every single Small option so far to tip the scales...

[X] [SMALL] Ask Zhuan Kun what Yi Tai's notes contain on Kukuni, especially in regards to fighting a Kukuni of perfection, joy, or time.
[X] [SMALL] Kong Zhi will trigger the Ivory Ferryman's special ability to turn intangible should he feel like things are going to be reset.
[X] [SMALL] Kong Zhi will use A Moment's Respite to store the physical stress he has just acquired.
[X][SMALL] The Kukuni curtails "poor influences" and strengthens "positive experiences". There is no way that Daiyu's singing could be a poor influence, it is nothing but a positive experience. Ask Daiyu to sing to Clerk Ni and the villagers to delay the examination to a later time.
[X] [SMALL] Liyu's testing should be delayed or even prevented entirely. She may have anam already and could break the treasure.
[X] [SMALL] Describe Liyu to your companions, and have them assure her that things will be alright.
[X] [SMALL] The Headsman's records indicate that the loop began during the reign of the Emperor in Flames when the Resolute March was encamped at Jingyi's Summit. Inquire with Zhuan if that rings any bells and if there were any other strange occurrences in the area around that time period.
[X] [SMALL] Try seeing if Perfect Mirror reflects different things around the village or in the Rancher's home.
[X] [SMALL] Use A Moment's Respite on the physical stress.
[X] [SMALL] Tell Zhuan Kun where you are going, and that you will howl very loudly if things turn into a fight that requires his assistance.
 
[X] [TECHNIQUE] The Northern Auroch's Onslaught
[X] [TECHNIQUE] Shatter the Mirror

[X] [APPROACH] Investigate the probable Source for this anomaly, Liyu's Home.


[X] [SMALL] Liyu's testing should be delayed or even prevented entirely. She may have anam already and could break the treasure.
[X] [SMALL] The Headsman's records indicate that the loop began during the reign of the Emperor in Flames when the Resolute March was encamped at Jingyi's Summit. Inquire with Zhuan if that rings any bells and if there were any other strange occurrences in the area around that time period.
[X] [SMALL] Describe Liyu to your companions, and have them assure her that things will be alright.
 
[X] [TECHNIQUE] Shatter the Mirror
[X] [TECHNIQUE] The Everdistant Flame

[X] [SMALL] Ask Zhuan Kun what Yi Tai's notes contain on Kukuni, especially in regards to fighting a Kukuni of perfection, joy, or time.
[X] [SMALL] Kong Zhi will trigger the Ivory Ferryman's special ability to turn intangible should he feel like things are going to be reset.
[X] [SMALL] Kong Zhi will use A Moment's Respite to store the physical stress he has just acquired.
[X][SMALL] The Kukuni curtails "poor influences" and strengthens "positive experiences". There is no way that Daiyu's singing could be a poor influence, it is nothing but a positive experience. Ask Daiyu to sing to Clerk Ni and the villagers to delay the examination to a later time.
[X] [SMALL] Liyu's testing should be delayed or even prevented entirely. She may have anam already and could break the treasure.
[X] [SMALL] Describe Liyu to your companions, and have them assure her that things will be alright.
[X] [SMALL] The Headsman's records indicate that the loop began during the reign of the Emperor in Flames when the Resolute March was encamped at Jingyi's Summit. Inquire with Zhuan if that rings any bells and if there were any other strange occurrences in the area around that time period.

Shouldn't we be asking Daiyu and Zhuan Kun to do stuff in this loop as well?
 
[X] [TECHNIQUE] Shatter the Mirror
[X] [TECHNIQUE] The Everdistant Flame

[X] [SMALL] Liyu's testing should be delayed or even prevented entirely. She may have anam already and could break the treasure.
 
[X] [TECHNIQUE] Shatter the Mirror
[X] [TECHNIQUE] The Everdistant Flame

[X] [APPROACH] Investigate the probable Source for this anomaly, Liyu's Home.

[X] [SMALL] Liyu's testing should be delayed or even prevented entirely. She may have anam already and could break the treasure.
[x] [SMALL] The Headsman's records indicate that the loop began during the reign of the Emperor in Flames when the Resolute March was encamped at Jingyi's Summit. Inquire with Zhuan if that rings any bells and if there were any other strange occurrences in the area around that time period.


I know this is a slight non sequitur and won't be relevant for at least a few more posts but their is a hound barking in the village possibly steeped in either time or perfection anam, and Nokai did give us permission to find her a dog to join her pack.
 
[X] [TECHNIQUE] The Northern Auroch's Onslaught
[X] [TECHNIQUE] Shatter the Mirror
[X] [APPROACH] Having traveled to Shoubiao's Wake three four times now, or the memories of doing so, Kong Zhi should have a general idea of where the village is. He will go ahead of everyone else straight towards the village and arrive at Shoubiao's Wake much earlier than they have been. Of course Zhi will avoid Brother Crab.
-[X] Try to find where the Herbalist lived and investigate their home. Their existence might have been removed but there should still be some sign of where they lived. A Herbalist's hut should contain herbs and have a garden, right?
-[X] Liyu's home. The Headman's note shows the start of this looping phenomenom centered around her home. Also there is her father, Liren. He was stated to be 'sick' by Liyu at the start of the loop, yet wouldn't the Kukuni heal him if that was so?
[X] [SMALL] Use A Moment's Respite on the physical stress.
[X] [SMALL] Liyu's testing should be delayed or even prevented entirely. She may have anam already and could break the treasure.
[X] [SMALL] Describe Liyu to your companions, and have them assure her that things will be alright.
[x] [SMALL] The Headsman's records indicate that the loop began during the reign of the Emperor in Flames when the Resolute March was encamped at Jingyi's Summit. Inquire with Zhuan if that rings any bells and if there were any other strange occurrences in the area around that time period.
 
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