Forge of Destiny(Xianxia Quest)
- Thread starter yrsillar
- Start date
- Original Fantasy
- Location
- Earth
[X] Plan: Last stop before Breakthrough Week 2.0
We've had hints in-character to get the breakthrough over with already. Why are we delaying it another week? This is very much not the time.
Not going with a plan that has a good chance to get to Green wastes an entire incredibly precious week. We can pick up the minors and the various majors we have to clean up next week as we clean up our physical breakthrough. That also means our extra successes and such can go to Green-level arts.
Throwing away a 67%+ chance to hit Green is just fucking us over for no reason.
Plus the plan really is awful.
- Fu Xiang favor is good larcenry and stealth successes that could go to getting us towards Green Appraisal.
- Cull the black soil is the worst mission available. Heck, we could pick off the juniors of the wolf pack with Zhengui and we'd be better off. A mere FOUR wolves would exceed this mission.
- Abyssal Exhalation is just unnecessary and pointless.
Not going with a plan that has a good chance to get to Green wastes an entire incredibly precious week. We can pick up the minors and the various majors we have to clean up next week as we clean up our physical breakthrough. That also means our extra successes and such can go to Green-level arts.
Throwing away a 67%+ chance to hit Green is just fucking us over for no reason.
Plus the plan really is awful.
- Fu Xiang favor is good larcenry and stealth successes that could go to getting us towards Green Appraisal.
- Cull the black soil is the worst mission available. Heck, we could pick off the juniors of the wolf pack with Zhengui and we'd be better off. A mere FOUR wolves would exceed this mission.
- Abyssal Exhalation is just unnecessary and pointless.
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What's the idea behind the mission? The way I see it, it gives very few sect points and afaik it's an old (and easy) one. Considering your plan has the Fu Xiang mission as well, it won't do anything for the Grinning Moon bonus either. So we waste a major to gain TEN Sect points, that's garbage. I'm sure you have a reason for it and maybe you've already explained it but I don't really want to read all 16 pages to find it :/
Alectai
Speaks Words of Wisdom... On occasion
It's mostly for Zhengui, and the possibility of immediately going to the third level of the library.
That being said, I can absolutely remove that in favor of personal training. Or hell, Golden Fields training even for the off chance of getting a few Sect Points that way.
I'm not too sold on the idea of half-assing our breakthrough but disregarding this point both the wolves mission and the Golden Fields training action are better and can involve Zhengui.
- Location
- Canada
[X] Plan: Give the dude a chance
Id like to see some new character growth
Id like to see some new character growth
Possibly better options are:
- Wolves + zhengui (little worried about trauma there
) - Cultivate on our own + puzzle box
- Dragon + Meizhen dragon
Alectai
Speaks Words of Wisdom... On occasion
Possibly better options are:
- Wolves + zhengui (little worried about trauma there
- Cultivate on our own + puzzle box
- Dragon + Meizhen dragon
Again, that one's up for negotiation, I don't want to try running the Wolves down since Zhengui's still new to actually being a fighter, but cultivate on our own + puzzle box is entirely doable. I remember that we had a prospect of doubling down on AE so that in the event that we end up having to not recover at all, that we can get another rank in that before breakthrough.
Alectai
Speaks Words of Wisdom... On occasion
Based on a lot of people in the Discord demanding I not take a Sect Mission unless it's the Rimefur Wolves, I've adjusted the Major with Zhengui attached to a second recovery action, with a second AE training if we luck out and pass both, as that'll give us good odds of getting another rank before Breakthrough.
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Arkeus
Crazy cat guy
- Location
- France
So, I consider DV pretty useless much of the time, but it has an interesting interaction with high armour value when there is low AP. Which actually seems to be the default for spirit beasts:
This means that the wolves most like have DV3/4.
In practice, this means that Zhengui, who has armor 7 usually (natural 5 + TRF1 + Roots 1), literally cannot be hurt by a wolf attacking him with 1AP and +2 bonus damage. Considering that zhengui with us should have around 26~ defence, even in the worst case scenario where he gets surrounded by 10+ wolves for 1 turn, they will do 0 damage to him. He can actually last 4+ turns like this without any damage (good durability and armor regen), and by then we could use HRA, bringing him back up to invulnerable.
However, in practice, hunting the wolves would mean hunting 2/3 at a time, slowly and steadily.
So, @Alectai, if you are choosing worm culling because of fear for Zhengui, please don't. Zhengui is a Good Boy.
Zhengui said:
Now, I am going to assume @yrsillar has forgotten AC gave +1DV to Cui, because reading this means Cui has 3DV and it seems too low. Still, Cui apparently has 4DV (and Bonus 3 damage that repeats). Neither Cui nor Zhengui are 'low quality' spirit beasts, and while they aren't strength-type, they are not small squishy ones either.Cui said:
This means that the wolves most like have DV3/4.
In practice, this means that Zhengui, who has armor 7 usually (natural 5 + TRF1 + Roots 1), literally cannot be hurt by a wolf attacking him with 1AP and +2 bonus damage. Considering that zhengui with us should have around 26~ defence, even in the worst case scenario where he gets surrounded by 10+ wolves for 1 turn, they will do 0 damage to him. He can actually last 4+ turns like this without any damage (good durability and armor regen), and by then we could use HRA, bringing him back up to invulnerable.
However, in practice, hunting the wolves would mean hunting 2/3 at a time, slowly and steadily.
So, @Alectai, if you are choosing worm culling because of fear for Zhengui, please don't. Zhengui is a Good Boy.
- Location
- The United States
- Pronouns
- He/They
I really want to have more AS availible after Breakthrough to make our new pills shine better. Anyone willing to work the Han Jian in?
I'm worried it will fall off due to his own availibility.
I'm worried it will fall off due to his own availibility.
Alectai
Speaks Words of Wisdom... On occasion
I literally cannot find a way to squeeze it in, my current plan is already squeaking.
- Location
- The United States
- Pronouns
- He/They
Yeah, there's a wealth of options here.
The only one I would even want you to change is the optional CRX one, but I understand people wanting to have Qi and CRX get a little bit closer before breakthrough even though I personally would be fine with and want a more professional detached relationship.
Alectai
Speaks Words of Wisdom... On occasion
Eh, what it boils down to is that the mandatory Minor is basically Main Story Progression, while the other one is finishing up our "Get to know our possible (And increasingly likely) employer before we take the plunge" line. I don't actually consider it to be a Double Cai like some people do as a result.
Arkeus
Crazy cat guy
- Location
- France
Well, the thing to remember is that even in PS's plan we very likely won't breakthrough before being able to see Cai for fun next week... and in Alectai's we certainly won't. Having only 2 breakthrough action assures that we can still see Cai before breakthrough if we think it's that important.
I just don't think AS is half as important as Suyin/Moonbox, let alone Gu Tai.
Gu Tai is the risky action, as not seeing him before we become CRX's vassal is an effective insult to the Gu clan as a whole.
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[x] Plan Breakthrough: Start!
You know what, this is still a really good plan.
It gets all the high-priority Zeqing and Meizhen minors and has a 5-action breakthrough/recovery that's likely to get us to Green. I think it's worth consolidating on.
You know what, this is still a really good plan.
It gets all the high-priority Zeqing and Meizhen minors and has a 5-action breakthrough/recovery that's likely to get us to Green. I think it's worth consolidating on.
- Location
- Athens, Greece
Unless she develops a passive art vs unwanted social influence and connections;
*Your presence is hidden in the social battlefield; enemies forget to act against you. Roll Stealth + art bonus vs hostile social actions even if you are unaware of them.
*Your social standing is hidden from the world. Unless one succeeds vs your Stealth +art bonus they are unable to remember your social details that day/turn. You may selectively suppress this ability, revealing some details temporarily while keeping others hidden.
*Mundane means of recording your social information are erased. Special records must roll vs your Stealth +art bonus.
Ling Qui doesn't want to deal with potential partners? Potential partners forget she exists. Would be a pretty funny reason for developing an art that allows her to sow misinformation, chaos, and paranoia socially like she already does physically.
(This is totally not a shameless copy of high-dot Obfuscate. Ling Qi is even ugly by cultivator standards.)
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