Remove ads

Forge of Destiny(Xianxia Quest)

Reader mode
Thor's Twin said:
What do you mean doesn't fit us exactly? We are still in the moments where Ling Qi is figuring out what type of cultivator she will be, things will change and grow. A Heavy polearm might not be traditionally thought of as a weapon for her to use, but it fits with her desire to be strong enough to carry all of the weight she chooses to carry. It's going to be a heavier weapon, but that will have more power behind its swings meaning it's better at playing keep away with other cultivators than a sword would. She is not a gentleman or noble, so I don't know why a sword would fit her better than any other weapon.
Click to expand...
Click to shrink...

We're light on our feet - we don't stand and take charges head on, nor do we do a stright on charge. We move, slip, dance across the battlefiled. The spear (both normal and heavy) as a Hero weapon is the weapon of the one who either stands his ground, or attacks head on. Linear speed, yours or your enemies, is the power of the spear for a hero unit.

Thematically the straightforwardness of it is wrong for Ling Qi. Like, could you see Ling Qi look across the battlefield at massed troops, set her spear for the one right in front of her, and CHARGE, lancing through her opponent and knocking asside men to slow to get out of her way? It's an epic image, but doesn't seem like the right image.

As I said, I'm sad we sold the Mountainheart Gaui, because they actually do fit us. They're a 'humble' weapon, but a versatile and powerful one. If I was going purely off thematics and imagery I would go for them.

But I'm keeping my eyes on the prize, which is a flying sword, and the first step to getting there is learning normal sword. And swords fit everyone in Martial Arts stories.
 
Last edited:
Inserted tally
Adhoc vote count started by Forbidden knight on Jun 7, 2017 at 8:25 PM, finished with 176 posts and 72 votes.
Click to expand...
 
TheLastOne said:
As I said, I'm sad we sold the Mountainheart Gaui, because they actually do fit us. They're a 'humble' weapon, but a versatile and powerful one. If I was going purely off thematics and imagery I would go for them.

But I'm keeping my eyes on the prize, which is a flying sword, and the first step to getting there is learning normal sword.
Click to expand...
Click to shrink...
Why not compromise and aim for a flying guai?
:p
 
TheLastOne said:
Concidering how fragmented that is...

Unarmed 18
Heavy Polearm 10 + 7 = 17
Jain 9 + 8 + 5 = 22
Ji/normal Polearm 9

Like, I want sword to win, but normal and heavy polearm users should settle, because they're clearly ahead if they just get together.
Click to expand...
Click to shrink...
It's even worse: There is Chinese Halberd, Heavy Polearm, and Heavy Polarms. So it's 26.
 
[X] Bow
[X] Chain whip

I am not caught up just yet, so my question is when people vote unarmed do they mean pure unarmed, or like, talisman gloves as weapons?
 
TheLastOne said:
Concidering how fragmented that is...

Unarmed 18
Heavy Polearm 10 + 7 = 17
Jain 9 + 8 + 5 = 22
Ji/normal Polearm 9

Like, I want sword to win, but normal and heavy polearm users should settle, because they're clearly ahead if they just get together.
Click to expand...
Click to shrink...
I thought they were counted together?

Umi-san said:
All xianxia members hate society. It stems from their traditional abject status that provides the necessary loophole for a meteoric rise back to power.
Click to expand...
Click to shrink...
...............what the hell does that have to do with getting a sword or not?
 
1986ctcel said:
So not being a literal noble means Ling Qi can't have class or grace or poise? I guess Meizhen was wrong about being a Cultivator making her a "Lady" too despite her low birth.
Click to expand...
Click to shrink...
Does Ling Qi believe herself to be a noble? So far we haven't seen that thought process come through. A noble is not necessarily someone who has grace and dignity, a noble is something granted by birth or by the authority of a higher power. We haven't been granted nobility merely because we are cultivators, otherwise, all guardsmen would be nobles. I believe we can have grace, poise, and use the Heavy pole arm.
 
1986ctcel said:
............it's not meta-humor it's freaking pun based on a character having the same name as the weapon he used.

And why the hell are you singling me out as the reason people are voting for halberds?
Click to expand...
Click to shrink...

It's humor that the questers find funny that the characters really wouldn't. Which is close enough to meta for government work.

I'm not?

you were the first person I saw with that reasoning after the post where someone asked for an explanation on why so many people where voting that way. Given that the name was a reason people were voting for it, I grabbed it as an example.
 
[X] Sword/Jian
[X] Unarmed

At the moment, I'd rather have something more compact than a polearm, because it just doesn't fit the image I have of Ling Qi at all.
 
[X] Unarmed
[X] Bow


Edit: Doubt it will win, but I like unarmed because it's the one weapon we will never be without.
 
Last edited:
Thor's Twin said:
Does Ling Qi believe herself to be a noble? So far we haven't seen that thought process come through. A noble is not necessarily someone who has grace and dignity, a noble is something granted by birth or by the authority of a higher power. We haven't been granted nobility merely because we are cultivators, otherwise, all guardsmen would be nobles. I believe we can have grace, poise, and use the Heavy pole arm.
Click to expand...
Click to shrink...

I believe we can have grace, poise, and fly around on giant swords.



 
TheLastOne said:
Because there aren't any? The flying sword is the flying sword, it flies because that's something swords can do in Xianxia.
Click to expand...
Click to shrink...
What?
There are flying Alchemy pots, Feng Shui Compasses and Weavers shuttles much less flying versions of the traditional weapons.
Your wuxia Fu is weak



Seen here: Flying weapons propelled by Chi and a Magical Staff

Swords don't have a monopoly on flight.
 
Last edited:
@yrsillar I just noticed the threadmark but you can consider my non-titled script fics to baaaaasically be me shitposting. o3o;;;

Otherwise I am going to be way too tempted to just churn out seventy billion of them, they're not exactly hard to do.
 
TheLastOne said:
But I'm keeping my eyes on the prize, which is a flying sword, and the first step to getting there is learning normal sword. And swords fit everyone in Martial Arts stories.
Click to expand...
Click to shrink...
I'm pretty sure we were told a few hundred pages back that a flying sword would count as a accessory talisman, not a weapon. In any case, why would we need weapon skill for something that fights autonomously?
 
Reader mode
You must login or register to reply here.
Remove ads
Back
Top