Forge of Destiny(Xianxia Quest)

@PrimalShadow and anyone else making plans take note: we can't open 2 meridians next week since we don't have Meizhen-backed training and Golden Fields allows for Arts only.

(I guess we could take tutoring but we kinda need the minors this week)
 
Ji Rong has a tech called Oneness Under Heaven as his go-to defensive instant.
  • His physical defense dice on turn 1 is around 28-31 (depending on how big the surprise bonus is).
  • With the tech on (and possibly without it) he has 3 regular armor.
  • The tech seems to negate the first 2 points of incoming damage, and just that (so not HRA-tier damage reduction).
  • Either GG's bonus damage is blockable, or the tech allows qi-blocking at 2qi/point even for that (better than TRD's rate).
  • Either he has a something that negates multi-attacker penalty or yrs forgot to include AC in there.

I'm guessing that might be the fourth Argent argent (Heaven/Earth)? Might not be, but that was my first thought. AC boosts others attack on a single target (one vs. many) - perhaps an art designed to be one vs. many?
 
I only see 21 on the character sheet, even if it lacks the Spine and the likely Heart meridians I'm two meridians short. How come?
Source?

I counted and currently shows 2+4+4+6+3+2=21, and we opened hopefully 2 this turn, which puts us at hopefully 23. That is AFTER the heart meridian; without it, we would be at only 22.
Count the actual meridians, not the numbers next to the type. We have 6 (7) spine and 4 arm.
 
Hoo, okay! We're nearly at breakthrough stage guys! And we made Sun turtle up, so breaking through soonish is a good idea.

Hmm, still no minor or major action to find the 4th Argent art despite how very much the thread and Ling Qi wants it. Maybe levelling 3 Argent arts to level 3 will lead the way to the fourth? Hell, maybe you have to cap 3 Argent arts before the 4th one will reveal itself to you, as a kind of test of devotion. But whatever, we definitely don't have time for that. Now, let's look at the minors...

Ok, these are the few I think are important to grab before breakthrough

[] Zhengui's pyre had begun to dim, shrinking no matter how much fuel you add. You should be there when he emerges
[] Work to unlock the Puzzle Box
[] You've learned what you can from simply observing Cai Renxiang. Ask her about the capital and about herself

These 3 are the most important, for personal development and for our cultivation. Zhengui and the Puzzle Box are self-explanatory of course. Zhengui is our baby bro, and puzzle box might have something that helps our breakthrough, or the 4th Argent art, or who knows what.

Cai is probably a more controversial choice given how many options we've already been spending on her, but... look, this is it, we're close to breakthrough. We've been doing all her actions these past few weeks so that Ling Qi will get to know her better, get to be friends with her, and now, we have finally reached the stage of asking her about herself. We can finally start talking about at least mildly personal stuff instead of staying mostly professional with her. Also, we get to ask her about the capital where she'll probably be dragging us for spy work.

We only have another week or two at most to get to know Cai as well as possible before we have to give her our answer. I know most of the thread is already fine enough with joining Cai with what we know of her currently, but I think it would be more in character, and more appropriate, for Ling Qi to only join Cai after they're properly friends. And while Ling Qi is definitely warming up to Cai, they're still not friends yet. Please, let's not abandon Cai minor when we're so close to breakthrough.

Apart from that, I think the Meizhen option is the next most important. She's too busy to train us this week, and I think this is the point we should definitely investigate. We don't want Meizhen slowing down her cultivation because she's too busy chasing Yan. She's our friend, he's our enemy, we should totally help her out now, or she might spend more weeks chasing him and maybe fall behind on cultivation and get beat by Liling.

As for the last option... either Su Ling of Xiulan. Maybe Su Ling minor, and Xiulan wolf mission major. Important to keep our social links strong.

Han Jian and Gu Tai aren't particularly important since we really don't have the action economy to be just socialising when we have other things to do. And Suyin is useful, but we're not finishing that research tree before breakthrough, and we saw her just this week, so she's not that urgent either.
 
[X] Plan Steady as a Turtle
-[X] Argent Vent Bonus -> Argent Current
-[X] Grinning Moon Bonus -> Physical
-[X] Overflow -> Physical
-[X] Use from inventory: 3 RSS (3), 1 YSS (10), Highsun Pill
-[X] Purchase: Channel Cleansing Pill (2) + Heavy Rains Pill (10) + Gushing Spring Pill (2) + Flowing Rivers Pill (6) + Both Fire Pills (2+6) + Vigorous Sapling Pill (2) + Second Wood Pill (6) + Bear Marrow Elixir (4) + Bear's Heartsblood Elixir (10) + White Hart Elixir (6) + Steady Growth Pill (8) + Sturdy Oak Pill (18)
-[X] Total resources consumed: 3+10+2+10+2+6+2+6+2+6+4+10+6+8+18=95RSS, 1 Highsun Pill
Major Actions
-[X] Explore and Train with Golden Fields
--[X] Cultivate Thousand Ring Fortress
--[X] (minor) You never did get to go out have a night on the proverbial town with Xiulan, see if she's still up for that
-[X] Train at the vent with Su Ling
--[X] Open Arm Meridian
--[X] (minor) Invite Su Ling to join in and spar with the Ma Sisters. She could use some partners closer to her level, and more friends besides
-[X] Cultivate on your own
--[X] Cultivate Argent Current
-[X] Research Dragons, and how one might be appeased
-[X] Do a favor for Fu Xiang
--[X] Try for x2 Favors, but stop at 1 if the first heist doesn't go too well (i.e. we have used up our reroll)
Minor Actions
-[X] Meizhen has been disappearing more often, she's even too busy to train this week. What is she up too?
-[X] Zhengui's pyre had begun to dim, shrinking no matter how much fuel you add. You should be there when he emerges
-[X] Work to unlock the Puzzle Box
 
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Count the actual meridians, not the numbers next to the type. We have 6 (7) spine and 4 arm.
Ah. Okay; in that case getting that second meridian is non-critical.

I'm leaving it in my plan anyways; we are going to want to have that meridian as soon as we have broken through, and since we are using our Highsun pill bonus right now for +5, we aren't going to be able to beat that after our breakthrough anyways (since breaking through only gives us an extra +5 from using +1YSS, -3RSS). Might as well get it done now - and it has the added advantage of giving us a second chance at the Arm Meridian if we mess that one up.

Note that if we didn't get the Heart Meridian this turn, I will swap it in for this meridian instead.
 
@yrsillar Did you see this?

@yrsillar - I'm putting together a list of things that need to be addressed when you have time.
  • Grinning Moon Bonus to AE
  • Vent bonus to AC
  • Heart Meridian action
  • We wanted to give Li Suyin her pen
  • We should have gotten 39 total successes for FSA, not 29 - which means an extra 10 points of overflow to Physical.
  • The thing mentioned here.
I think that is everything, but I'll add things here as they come up.
@Everyone - is there anything else that needs to go into this list?

Also I think this is meant to be a Zeqing week?
 
[X] Plan: The Final Countdown
-[X] Purchase
: Channel Cleansing Pill (2) + Heavy Rains Pill (10) + Gushing Spring Pill (2) + Flowing Rivers Pill (6) + Both Fire Pills (2+6) + Vigorous Sapling Pill (2) + Second Wood Pill (6) + Bear Marrow Elixir (4) + Bear's Heartsblood Elixir (10) + White Hart Elixir (6) + Steady Growth Pill (8) + Sturdy Oak Pill (18)
-[X] Total resources consumed: 3+10+2+10+2+6+2+6+2+6+4+10+6+8+18=95RSS, 1 Highsun Pill
-[X] EPC Bonus:
Physical Cultivation
-[X] Overflow: Physical
-[X] Major: Train at the Vent with Su Ling (Arm Meridian)
--[X] Attached Minor: Invite Su Ling to join in and spar with the Ma Sisters. She could use some partners closer to her level, and more friends besides
-[X] Major: Explore and Train with Golden Fields (Thousand Ring Fortress)
--[X] Attached Minor: You never did get to go out have a night on the proverbial town with Xiulan, see if she's still up for that
-[X] Major: Cultivate on your Own (Argent Current)
-[X] Major: Research Dragons, and how they might be appeased
-[X] Major: Do a Favor for Fu Xiang (2)
-[X] Minor:
Work to Unlock the Puzzle Box
-[X] Minor: Zhengui's pyre had begun to dim, shrinking no matter how much fuel you add. You should be there when he emerges
-[X] Minor: You've learned what you can from simply observing Cai Renxiang. Ask her about the capital and about herself
 
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[X] Plan Steady as a Turtle
-[X] Argent Vent Bonus -> Argent Current
-[X] Grinning Moon Bonus -> Physical
-[X] Overflow -> Physical
-[X] Use from inventory: 3 RSS (3), 1 YSS (10), Highsun Pill
-[X] Purchase: Channel Cleansing Pill (2) + Heavy Rains Pill (10) + Gushing Spring Pill (2) + Flowing Rivers Pill (6) + Both Fire Pills (2+6) + Vigorous Sapling Pill (2) + Second Wood Pill (6) + Bear Marrow Elixir (4) + Bear's Heartsblood Elixir (10) + White Hart Elixir (6) + Steady Growth Pill (8) + Sturdy Oak Pill (18)
-[X] Total resources consumed: 3+10+2+10+2+6+2+6+2+6+4+10+6+8+18=95RSS, 1 Highsun Pill
Major Actions
-[X] Explore and Train with Golden Fields
--[X] Open Arm Meridian
--[X] (minor) You never did get to go out have a night on the proverbial town with Xiulan, see if she's still up for that
-[X] Train at the vent with Su Ling
--[X] Open Spine Meridian if previous Meridian was successful, or Arm Meridian if it failed
--[X] (minor) Invite Su Ling to join in and spar with the Ma Sisters. She could use some partners closer to her level, and more friends besides
-[X] Cultivate on your own
--[X] Cultivate Argent Current
--[X] Cultivate Thousand Ring Fortress
-[X] Research Dragons, and how one might be appeased
Minor Actions
-[X] Meizhen has been disappearing more often, she's even too busy to train this week. What is she up too?
-[X] Zhengui's pyre had begun to dim, shrinking no matter how much fuel you add. You should be there when he emerges
-[X] Work to unlock the Puzzle Box

Uh, why are you opening Spine instead of Leg? That's legitimately confusing considering we have the meridian for TRF4 already open.

Otherwise, it looks good:

[X] Plan Steady as a Turtle
 
Ehh... Steady as a turtle has little difference from mine, the only real difference is that I want to get Fu Xiang's favor out of the way before we breakthrough. The dragon's not going anywhere after all, but if we're Green and we do the plundering, it's kind of us bullying rather than having a daring heist.
 
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