[X] Plan A Moonless Night is Full of Stars
-[X] Resources
--[X] 3 Red Spirit Stones, Bear Marrow Elixer, Starlight Elixir, Steady Growth Pill
-[X] Train by hunting with Han Jian and his group
--[X] Physical
-[X] Train at the vent with Suyin and Su Ling
--[X] Spiritual
--[X] Li Suyin is doing better, coax her out into studying, and talk to her about her plans. Give her your last Qi Foundation Pill.
-[X] Take a job
--[X] Moonfill
-[X] Work on getting the egg to hatch
-[X] Cultivate on your own
--[X] EPC
-[X] Ask Han Jian to give you a little instruction about the politics of your situation. He seems like a more unbiased source
-[X] Accept Cai Renxiang's invitation to tea
-[X]
Bring up the idea of training
together with Meizhen. You are strong enough now, right?
Stealing from Arkeus here, since they don't seem to be voting for their own plan yet.
Advantages: Moonfill, and potential event triggers there are accomplished. We likely break through to mid-silver, which helps future training and gives us leeway to ignore physical next week, which creates room for the archive. The egg is a must, as progress here means less effort later. We also stop neglecting our spiritual training, which is now going to be an entire level behind if we don't start catching up, and which progresses slower than physical. We also have less pills to make up rolls here. The breakthrough now means more successes toward meridians and arts later. So, while we don't get measurable progress toward an arm art now, there's definite increased room to do so next week. Moreover, EPC progresses, and if the event helps out as much as it might, we could easily get EPC next round, when we're looking at arts. In short, this makes more room to do arm arts by week 18, which is just as fast as training meridians now. However, this also gives us more bonuses to doing it next week.
Socially, we both accept Cai's invitation and mitigate it with an action focused on Meizhen. We also get Suyin working better, and work in the Han Jian action in conjunction with training.
Disadvantages: No measurable progress toward arm arts right now, but also no delaying in getting them. We don't find space to share AMA with Suyin/Ling this week. Somewhat suboptimal use of the starlight pill.
Given we're supposed to have 8 arts as a floor before green that's incredibly useful.
4 arts maxed, 4 others at low level is what was suggested. We could do that roughly next week for the limits of our current cultivation, the exceptions being AMA and SCS, AMA will take care of itself, and we will keep pushing SCS up when we have the time.
E.g., Maxed: (FVM, SCS, AMA, ZB Upgrade?) Others: (?????, ????, ????, ZB if unupgraded?)
I mean, we have already been in almost exactly that type of situation already with the encounter at the end of the Thunderdome. If Zihao had played that a little differently, then he and a couple of the other mooks could have taken care of Meizhen, while 6 mooks targeted us. We have friends who we want to protect, so we didn't run away from that fight, we forced into the confrontation by others, not of our own choosing, and they hard countered the perception debuffs. We turned out fine from the original encounter, but it would not be so hard to do the same thing to us as they did to Meizhen, but instead of Meizhen we were relaxing with Xiulan or going shopping with Li Suyin. Sometimes we will just have to fight when we would rather not, and be forced into melee when we would rather not. I would rather have a weapon that is good for clearing the area in front of us.
But that was an incredibly terrible fight and our build is nowhere complete yet? Like, the timeframe for training guandao up is months and months. It doesn't matter what happened to us now, with basic levels in our core skills. It matters what will happen to us later. Moreover, the Guandao would have done nowhere near enough to actually change that situation around.
