Forge of Destiny(Xianxia Quest)
- Thread starter yrsillar
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- Original Fantasy
I'll add a few sentances about this to the post later but for now... winners this week were Ling Qi, Li Suyin, Ji Rong, Gan Guangli, and Hong Lin(girl who laid you out with tonfas when the spars started)
The pills looked the same to Ling Qi, and Elder Su didn't mention them being different, so Ling Qi assumes so. She's hardly a drug expert though. The only yellow winners so far though have been Han Jian, who just broke through, and Cai Renxiang, who won the first week and then never again.
Just in case it was missed, yeah not intending to make this overly dark.
You can cultivate arts in ZHou's class rather than physical, if you like
To expand on this, I don;t mind one or maybe two if they're related to the main action, just keep in mind that the more stuff that gets stuffed into the vote the less time I have to focus on the actual scenes in the update if I want to get it out in a reasonable time.
That's fine, production hall was gonna be on the shopping list anyway, you only didn;t see it last time because it was added to the hang with Xiulan option
Thank you, I think?
Alectai
Speaks Words of Wisdom... On occasion
Seriously, I don't donate money to just any QMs, this game here's probably my number one most anticipated Quest at the moment, it's well written, with likable characters, and has an interesting system going with it.
Even if I scream internally with stuff like Creeperman being a thing. Just, eew, make it go away.
Even if I scream internally with stuff like Creeperman being a thing. Just, eew, make it go away.
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Xetares, Third Redeemer; World Drinker
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- Sesh
Also binged this quest,
I feel that calling Huang Da a creeper is wrong
dude is odd and anti-social
but dehumanizing him is not the answer.
In my opinion,
he is a blessing in disguise.
The Dao is mysterious and impenetrable
yet reveals itself in an ephemeral instance.
To risk all on one reckless moment.
To advance against a difficult foe.
Is it not in such times of adversity,
that the Dao itself is cultivated?
Without tribulation,
there can be no ascension.
I feel that calling Huang Da a creeper is wrong
dude is odd and anti-social
but dehumanizing him is not the answer.
In my opinion,
he is a blessing in disguise.
The Dao is mysterious and impenetrable
yet reveals itself in an ephemeral instance.
To risk all on one reckless moment.
To advance against a difficult foe.
Is it not in such times of adversity,
that the Dao itself is cultivated?
Without tribulation,
there can be no ascension.
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- Location
- Brazil
Ditto, I've never even considered doing it, now I'm wading through he mess of updating a PayPal account without having the cards themselves on hand, or really remembering theproper login and password.
Too bad about the conversion rate, I think I will only be able to shell ~$7 a month. Four years ago, I be getting $15 for the same price.
Lealope
Not yet invincible
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- She/Her
Translation: Rapey creepers are strong motivation to get good.
Well, you're not wrong.
Arkeus
Crazy cat guy
- Location
- France
Huh. Gan Guangli now has a second pill, and Hong Lin, if she is the same one from last week, also does. That might mean they are now competitive for Archive Pass.
Also, *shakes fist at people wanting to go to shop instead of awesome Gu Xuilan action*. Also who prefers phys to AS, even though that phys action very much makes sense as it makes getting peak gold very reliable on week 12.
@TotallyNotEvil Can you make two modifications to your post?
first, switch when you cultivate physical and FVM, as while cultivating Physical with Li Suyin and not alone might help a bit the Physical dices (unknown), cultivating an Art with her will help Spiritual and Art dices instead, so +2 to
Second, please add my question to Elder Su
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TheLastOne
Person of impeccable tastes (for destruction)
Huh. Gan Guangli now has a second pill, and Hong Lin, if she is the same one from last week, also does. That might mean they are now competitive for Archive Pass.
Also, *shakes fist at people wanting to go to shop instead of awesome Gu Xuilan action*. Also who prefers phys to AS, even though that phys action very much makes sense as it makes getting peak gold very reliable on week 12.
@TotallyNotEvil Can you make two modifications to your post?
first, switch when you cultivate physical and FVM, as while cultivating Physical with Li Suyin and not alone might help a bit the Physical dices (unknown), cultivating an Art with her will help Spiritual and Art dices instead, so +2 to43 different full actions instead of for one and a half actions. Given how low Art dices are, it's fairly important.
Second, please add my question to Elder Su
Gu Xuilan just doesn't make sense as an action at this point. It would have as part of a series of actions to deal with the issues, bring our allies together, and start building up our defenses, but it does little as an orphan.
Arkeus
Crazy cat guy
- Location
- France
I think it's helpful in order to lay the foundations for latter when we want to hunt him. Also, it goes well with asking to bring Li Suyin/Lu Sing to the group training.
Maybe I just like Gu Xiulan though.
You keep saying this and it keeps getting ignored. Guess they just don't give a shit.
[X] Plan Market and Celestial Tokens
-[X] [Pills] Two Red Stone
-[X] [Free action] Warn our friends about Huang Da and our plans of doing drugs.
-[X] [Free action] Refill Qi Cards. One for Mist of Vale and ally if possible, one for Crescent's Grace, and ask Bai Meizhen to fill the last.
-[X] Instructor Zhou Class (Locked-In)
--[X] Start using arts in class. Now that an enemy knows about them, it's more valuable to try and improve in a real world situation then keep them hidden.
-[X] Go up to the vent to cultivate with Su Ling and Li Suyin
--[X] Physical Cultivation
-[X] Talk to Han Jian, he did mention wanting to do some training
--[X] Sable Crescent Step
--[X] See about inviting Su Ling and Li Suyin
-[X] Head to the market for some shopping
--[X] Try and find the original owner first to sell the staff, as she's likely to want it the most thus be the best customer due to it's status as heirloom. Check her background first, and if she's liable to initiate conflict gift it to Elder Su instead.
--[X] With Gu Xuilan's aid.
-[X] Try to puzzle out the tokens left from the test
--[X] Ask Gi Xuilan and Han Jian if they figured out what they can do.
As the author has repeated several times now, going to the market automatically includes going to the production hall as well as getting a list of items to purchase. Thus, I went with the market action with my previous addendum of trying to look for the previous owner due to the high likelihood of them being the best customer for it, and having Gu Xuilan's social and market knowledge should aid us.
Second is working out the celestial tokens that we got from the Zhao's test as if they weren't relevant, they wouldn't have an action in the first place. It would be rather foolish of us if we had something valuable within our possession but simply never took advantage of it.
-[X] [Pills] Two Red Stone
-[X] [Free action] Warn our friends about Huang Da and our plans of doing drugs.
-[X] [Free action] Refill Qi Cards. One for Mist of Vale and ally if possible, one for Crescent's Grace, and ask Bai Meizhen to fill the last.
-[X] Instructor Zhou Class (Locked-In)
--[X] Start using arts in class. Now that an enemy knows about them, it's more valuable to try and improve in a real world situation then keep them hidden.
-[X] Go up to the vent to cultivate with Su Ling and Li Suyin
--[X] Physical Cultivation
-[X] Talk to Han Jian, he did mention wanting to do some training
--[X] Sable Crescent Step
--[X] See about inviting Su Ling and Li Suyin
-[X] Head to the market for some shopping
--[X] Try and find the original owner first to sell the staff, as she's likely to want it the most thus be the best customer due to it's status as heirloom. Check her background first, and if she's liable to initiate conflict gift it to Elder Su instead.
--[X] With Gu Xuilan's aid.
-[X] Try to puzzle out the tokens left from the test
--[X] Ask Gi Xuilan and Han Jian if they figured out what they can do.
As the author has repeated several times now, going to the market automatically includes going to the production hall as well as getting a list of items to purchase. Thus, I went with the market action with my previous addendum of trying to look for the previous owner due to the high likelihood of them being the best customer for it, and having Gu Xuilan's social and market knowledge should aid us.
Second is working out the celestial tokens that we got from the Zhao's test as if they weren't relevant, they wouldn't have an action in the first place. It would be rather foolish of us if we had something valuable within our possession but simply never took advantage of it.
Okay, so it looks like we've maxed out exploration gains here. That's the top reward category.
Which is good because exploring off the beaten trail is no longer safe. We have Meizhen backing us up, so using the vent is safe, but with Huang Da, it's NOT safe to go anywhere with less than either the full gang or Meizhen.
Argent Soul 4 is even more awesome than expected.
Okay, so we can expect Huang Da to be substantially more cautious for a while. He doesn't have a "get out of shit free" card anymore in reserve, and we wiped out much of his financial reserves.
He's acting creepy, I think, as much to deter us from predating on HIM after rounding up all our allies, as because he's a creeper. This is a dominance display, designed to show strength, or he wouldn't have been meeting us here in a crowded area and mentioning his breakthrough where everyone could hear.
He's lost an advantage, anyone with eyes to see would have realized he was injured recently and he doesn't know the technique card was a one off yet. For all he knows the next time he picks a fight we'd pull a Yu-gi-oh duelist imitation and lay down another technique card he can't afford to be hit by right now.
...not that Ling Qi has the kind of social awareness needed to read the metadata.
He broke through because he needed to. He spoke with us in public because he had to be heard to have broken through early, because we're a known ally of Han Jian who's also broken through. At the same time, he throws bait around Ling Qi, publically marking his territory so as to speak, so that she'd find it harder to gain more allies because they would not risk crossing a Yellow over her, AND channels his enemies at Ling Qi, because hey, if he's interested in her, then if Ling Qi is taken out it'd hurt Huang Da and she's sure to be an easier target than a Yellow.
If he didn't the sheer amount of resources he expended to recover from the fight and the knowledge that he got spanked by three not particularly strong girls(and people would be able to realize who he fought with by simply tracking the injuries) would have brought him even more challenges and risked crippling his progress from challenges.
Better then, for him to sacrifice getting an optimal foundation here in favor of immediate power, because he's not getting optimal at all otherwise when the sharks smell blood.
Oh right and the vote:
[X] Beneath the Horizon of my Contempt Mk 2
- Location
- Australia
[X] Beneath the Horizon of my Contempt Mk 2
Arkeus
Crazy cat guy
- Location
- France
Soon. Soon our stealing spree/revenge will happen. Mwawawawawa.
- Location
- Brazil
Ah, I will just make all cultivation at the vent, then.
And I suspect the answer to your question to be "you will know when you reach it".
Are you switching to the market action yet @TotallyNotEvil ?
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- Brazil
Hm? I do believe Yrsillar said we can keep it as Production Hall to the same effect.
[x] Beneath the Horizon of my Contempt.
Superior to the revised version floating around. Continuing AS progress with a proper roll is more likely to secure that library pass for us.
Speaking of, @TheLastOne would you consider adding a Qi Foundation pill to your plan? It's not ideal with the action spread, but our last week's performance should secure us a pill, which is all we need for the tea week. With people wanting to get a breakthrough as soon as possible, we might as well use what pills we can.
If people are worried about lacking the physical cultivation to breakthrough on week13, we can always spend an action of physical cultivation then, when we're not competing for a unique resource.
Superior to the revised version floating around. Continuing AS progress with a proper roll is more likely to secure that library pass for us.
Speaking of, @TheLastOne would you consider adding a Qi Foundation pill to your plan? It's not ideal with the action spread, but our last week's performance should secure us a pill, which is all we need for the tea week. With people wanting to get a breakthrough as soon as possible, we might as well use what pills we can.
If people are worried about lacking the physical cultivation to breakthrough on week13, we can always spend an action of physical cultivation then, when we're not competing for a unique resource.
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- The Star Kingdom of Manticore
[x] Beneath the Horizon of my Contempt Mk 2
Arkeus
Crazy cat guy
- Location
- France
@CircleTheSkies, @Vanguard_D, I am switching my vote because of tactical voting reeasons. The more I think about it and the more the current winning vote has much too low odds of impressing Elder Su for my paranoia-addled mind.
[x] Beneath the Horizon of my Contempt.
@TheLastOne And yeah, I'll also add to the 'please use a Qi Foundation Pill', simply because we might not have enough weeks before we get to either Yellow or Silver to use them in an optimal manner, so might has well use them when we can. Likewise, it's probably better to switch the FVM and ZB action, as training FVM in the hot spring is better as long as we get a Art training with Li Suyin elsewhere (in this case ZB).
[x] Beneath the Horizon of my Contempt.
@TheLastOne And yeah, I'll also add to the 'please use a Qi Foundation Pill', simply because we might not have enough weeks before we get to either Yellow or Silver to use them in an optimal manner, so might has well use them when we can. Likewise, it's probably better to switch the FVM and ZB action, as training FVM in the hot spring is better as long as we get a Art training with Li Suyin elsewhere (in this case ZB).
I really don't think focusing on AS 5 is going to impress Elder Su at all. In fact I think it might do the opposite.
From the week 8 update:
She was advising balancing our needs as to whether to break through even to AS4 before we went to yellow soul and advocated remembering the practical things as well as improving our AS cultivation.
Getting through to AS4 before breaking through might well impress her, but maintaining the focus on the Argent Soul art rather than our other practicals despite it having no practical benifits at our level and risking us falling behind our peers strikes me as something she wouldn't look favourably on given her previous advice to us.
From the week 8 update:
She was advising balancing our needs as to whether to break through even to AS4 before we went to yellow soul and advocated remembering the practical things as well as improving our AS cultivation.
Getting through to AS4 before breaking through might well impress her, but maintaining the focus on the Argent Soul art rather than our other practicals despite it having no practical benifits at our level and risking us falling behind our peers strikes me as something she wouldn't look favourably on given her previous advice to us.
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