Forge of Destiny(Xianxia Quest)

Spreading out the breakthroughs is fine, if you're not about to be bottom bitch in the thunderdome. We need Silver in order to survive (well, not literally survive, but win enough to keep our gains.

I swear, if we lose the slip with Eight Phase Ceremony on it because of this cowardice, I will be salty as fuck.

It's almost certainly being kept at home. We carry our pills, but we don't need to take the jade slip with us day to day, and Meizhen is a huge deterrent still. That will fade as we level up and people grow more confident, but I wouldn't be worried about that. Cowardice is what would drive us to throw away all our hard work and weeks of setup for momentary gain.

But both FVM and ZB need a ton of sux to level, and we proc Qi anyway.

@yrsillar What happens if we hit Peak Red and still have overflow left over? It goes to Physical? More Qi?

Could we fill multiple "train with Han Jian" actions?

We get the Qi Foundation Pill for Meridians, which is our best not tea/not sable pill. We don't for arts. Overflow is what our spiritual advancement this week is based on.
 
We only have three arts, so we should be pushing for four Meridians for maximum benefit this week.
That's not true. We can train an Art twice with Tea where we get full rolls twice.
I'm actually not so sure of that. My plan has two Spiritual Cultivations and the Tea going into it. I don't think we can get a comparable amount from overflow. Can I see your math?
Oh, if you now have flat spiritual cultivation and no breakthrough attempts yeah. The overflow, if we do three meridians, is around 30. If we do 4, it's more but doesn't matter as we hit peak red.
 
My only regret is the fact that our last free portion of Bear Marrow Elixir will go unused. Let's hope it find a better home, and isn't wasted on us.
 
Oh, if you now have flat spiritual cultivation and no breakthrough attempts yeah. The overflow, if we do three meridians, is around 30. If we do 4, it's more but doesn't matter as we hit peak red.

We just got taught about positive outliers this week. Lets not make a plan forgetting about negative ones. And overflow probably will still be useful - it will probably shift to qi or something, so I wouldn't worry about doing too well.
 
It's almost certainly being kept at home. We carry our pills, but we don't need to take the jade slip with us day to day, and Meizhen is a huge deterrent still. That will fade as we level up and people grow more confident, but I wouldn't be worried about that. Cowardice is what would drive us to throw away all our hard work and weeks of setup for momentary gain.
It's not really momentary gain. We can easily bring it into sustained 'beat up all the people who hate us, and maybe spirit beasts' getting us money, cultivation resources, and more. It also keeps us from losing our stuff, which is important.
 
We just got taught about positive outliers this week. Lets not make a plan forgetting about negative ones. And overflow probably will still be useful - it will probably shift to qi or something, so I wouldn't worry about doing too well.
I'm assuming it's shifted to Qi yeah, I'm not worried about it, I was talking in the context of Spiritual Cultivation.
 
It's not really momentary gain. We can easily bring it into sustained 'beat up all the people who hate us, and maybe spirit beasts' getting us money, cultivation resources, and more. It also keeps us from losing our stuff, which is important.

It really is - we get it next week. You plan has us giving up massive gains to qi and to the arts that make spiritual cultivation useful. We aren't going to have that many chances to progress this fast - we're at the junction of several updates of work so that we can do what we planned to do, and you want to throw it away. It really is a kneejerk reaction rather then something premeditated, because if it was premeditated you would have been part of the discussion leading up to @Arkeus and I having near identical plans ready to go the moment this update dropped.
 
The training session was awkward and difficult, but she felt like Suyin and Su Ling at least got something from it. Between her and Gu Xiulan's coaching as well as a few bits of advice from han Jian, Suyin began to get a bit better at avoiding attacks, and Su Ling seemed a bit interested in the way Han Jian wielded his sword. By the time she left she was glancing down at her sheathed knives thoughtfully.
When they showed up to train the next day, she had acquired a curved sword from somewhere, and set to practicing with it, studiously ignoring Fan Yu and the others in favor of prodding Han Jian for advice, the fox girls close attention put Gu Xiulan in a poor mood though, and the when they sparred on opposite sides, things got heated rather quickly. Su Ling's tail ended up on fire that day and Gu Xiulan lost one of her sleeves to the other girls embers. Suyin suffered from more than one waspish comment about her lack of confidence and physical fitness as well, and although she improved, Ling Qi noticed her becoming more withdrawn as the week went on.

I-I ship it?

Sorry Gu Xiulan you're a sorta-friend but I must support any plan to ship Fluffy Tail with her Sword-Sempai, they are just too cute. :D
 
[X] Plan Pill Week - Arts and Meridians
-[X] Friends - Tell them all we are going to be heavily cultivating
-[X] Resources - 2 Red Spirit Stones, 1 Sable Light Pill, 1 Qi Foundation Pill, 1 Channel Cleansing Pill, 1 Qi Expansion Pill, 1 Clear Wind Pill, 1 White Heart Elixer, 1 Meizhen's Tea
-[X] Elder Su's Class - Heart Meridian
-[X] Try for training between Han Jian's group and yours again
--[X] Forgotten Vale Melody
-[X] Go up to the vent to cultivate with Su Ling and Li Suyin
--[X] Sable Crescent Step
--[X] Bring in Han Jian and his group
-[X] Cultivate Art - Zephyr's Breath
-[X] Cultivate Meridian - Spine
-[X] Meizhen's Tea - Cultivate Meridian - Arm

OK, this is pill week so it's time to go all in. I've left Zhao's class free to do physical cultivation as we're only 16 successes from reaching that. Secondly, for Su's class I went with studying a meridian as we've got tons of dice towards them that will overflow back into spiritual cultivation.

For the rest I'm training each of our arts once given we have insane bonuses towards them, and repeating the action is inefficient given the sheer pill use we're using. I'm also further opening a further two meridians in the spine and arm, which should take us up to Peak Red Spiritual given the overflow from them all.

Finally I'm continuing with training both groups of ours, as with the coming lifting of the truce they should ideally be integrated (or bare minimum, cordial) before then and have reason to help one another. Thus along with continuing the training, I've gone with telling Han Jian's group about the Vent. This is helpful for us as it strengthens people who would aid Ling Qi, it further limits the time that Huang Da can spend there, it gives a reason for our groups to further interact and help one another with an alignment of interests in defending it, and if there are issues they can easily be mitigated via the groups coming at different times of the day given there isn't a reason everyone has to go all at once.

TLDR - Upgrades all our arts, continues merging of groups, unlocks three more meridians and with the overflow from dice should reach Peak Red Spiritual, with a chance of reaching Peak Gold with some luck. The latter isn't essential however, as it can easily be done next week with a single action while we reach for the next level in Spiritual cultivation. Finally, all the Qi rolls. Although on a final optimizing note and just to make sure it's not a thing;

@yrsillar - if we do meridian cultivation in Zhao's class, would overflow from that go into physical cultivation?
 
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It really is - we get it next week. You plan has us giving up massive gains to qi and to the arts that make spiritual cultivation useful. We aren't going to have that many chances to progress this fast - we're at the junction of several updates of work so that we can do what we planned to do, and you want to throw it away. It really is a kneejerk reaction rather then something premeditated, because if it was premeditated you would have been part of the discussion leading up to @Arkeus and I having near identical plans ready to go the moment this update dropped.
So will you support a 'get Silver next week' plan?
 
[x] Plan The Zephyr Will Fly

Going to go with this one, I think. We KNOW we need more heart meridians, spine meridians are good for all builds, and I value Zephyr's Breath level III more than an arm meridian.

The massive increase in our qi pooling enable qi mitigation and increased art use, the improved equipment, and upgrading all arts should let us throw anyone who tries something for a loop. They know about the mist cloud. They DON'T know that the mist cloud can kill them given time.
 
@Neptune, given that if you use the Tea for Zephyr we can get ZB3, do you mind switching your normal cultivate art Zephyr to with Suyin, your meridian on Tea to cultivate, and Tea to Zephyr (so a second full roll)? Sure, it means not getting progress on FVM, but Zephyr has 3 pills working for it this turn, and getting its capstone is worth less progress for now for FVM. FVM is also easier to improve with EPC.

Anyway, let's try this preliminary plan:




[X] Plan The Zephyr Will Fly
-[X] Two Red Stone, 1 Sable Light Pills, 1 Gushing Spring Pills, 1 Qi Foundation Pill, 1 Channel Cleansing Pill, 1 Qi Expansion Pill, 1 Clear Wind Pill, 1 White Hart Elixir, Meizhen's Tea
-[X] Instructor Zhou Class (Locked-In)
--[X] Warn Gui Xuilian and Han Jian that we've doing all the drugs this week, and will be worst company for the week.
--[X] Cultivate Zephyr's Breath.
-[X] Elder Su's Class (Locked-In)
--[X] Open Heart Meridian
--[X] Ask her how one would go about earning the next scroll of the Argent series, or of Zephyr's Breath. Is there anything we can do to earn them?
-[X] Go up to the vent to cultivate with Su Ling and Li Suyin
--[X] Warn them that we're going to be doing all the drugs this week, and apologize for our lack of personality for the next little while.
--[X] Apologise to Li Suyin about pressuring Her into training with the other group given how painful it seems to have been for her, and make it obvious our friendship is not conditional on her doing this.
--[X] Forgotten Vales Melody
-[X] Talk to Han Jian, he did mention wanting to do some training
--[X] Sable Crescent Step
-[X] Cultivate on your own
--[X] Open Head Meridian.
--[X] Open Spine Meridian.
--[X] (Meizhen's Tea) Zephyr's Breath
[X]Overflow to physical first.

Notable things I am unsure about:
--[] Politely tell Elder Zhou we are practicing an Art, so we don't need the Bear Marrow Elexir. But please can we take it?
--[] See if Su Lin and Li Suyin want to continue training with them. (temporary taken off)

The question to Elder Su:
--[] Ask her how one would go about earning the next scrool of the Argent series, or of Zephyr's Breath.
 
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