Forge of Destiny(Xianxia Quest)
- Thread starter yrsillar
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@TotallyNotEvil
I am changing my vote in order to do some tactical voting here. I don't like Plan "Last Stop Before Breakthrough" for a couple of reasons. I disagree with the second Cai minor at this time, I feel that the Second cultivation of AE is not needed as one will most likely get us AE 3 and so doing AC would be better for the possible rehabilitation action.
I also want to get through at least Green this week, putting it off doesn't seem like something we want to do. The plan that is closest to winning that achieves those is "Plan Breakthrough Start!"
You might want to change your vote to vote for the plan that you desire.
As such, changing my vote to
[x] Plan Breakthrough: Start!
I am changing my vote in order to do some tactical voting here. I don't like Plan "Last Stop Before Breakthrough" for a couple of reasons. I disagree with the second Cai minor at this time, I feel that the Second cultivation of AE is not needed as one will most likely get us AE 3 and so doing AC would be better for the possible rehabilitation action.
I also want to get through at least Green this week, putting it off doesn't seem like something we want to do. The plan that is closest to winning that achieves those is "Plan Breakthrough Start!"
You might want to change your vote to vote for the plan that you desire.
As such, changing my vote to
[x] Plan Breakthrough: Start!
Highly unlikely. There's no point to make the quest actively boring to 'punish' the voters for choosing an option with high reward, it makes the overall narrative shittier for no reason.
yrsillar might have the high reward option filled with more risk (or tougher challenges to match the new resources available) but actively making the quest less interesting might as well be a self-own.
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By less interesting I meant CRX not the narrative. Her character itself may be dull but I doubt doing heists for her when we visit the capital will be.
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While I agree that they are underwhelming, it's not as bad as it first appears, at least from a cost perspective.
There are 4 sets of tools, that are plural, which means at least 8 tools that were given to us. That means from a cost perspective, it is about 37-38 RSS per tool that we got, if we use the guideline that we spent 300 RSS on it.
Otherwise, it is 17-18 RSS per tool, with an 1/8 of a Grade 3 Core per tool, at the very most. Each tool then gives +3 dice to larceny, and in that vein, the cost isn't terrible.
Moving on to what these tools can do, it pretty much gives us a +3 to all larceny actions other than pickpocketing (where we already have a speciality). The etching tools are for Formations, the lockpicks are for locks, the brushes are to clear a patch of wall to clearly see the formations, and I honestly have no clue what the wire is for.
Since they are tools, we can still equip a talisman to help with larceny while still using the tools (it would just cost more), which means we can get more successes for larceny should we want to. I'm not sure about the 1 dice bonus to avoiding the penalties of a failed attempt, but it might be useful if it procs the roll since we haven't seen that occur yet. Or it could be essentially useless, but we'll see how it goes.
Edit: Clarification. The +3 to larceny bonuses don't stack. It's not going to be 24 bonus dice to successes. But at the very least, every situation I can conceive of will have a tool that gives a +3 to the success chance (other than pickpocketing.)
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Yeah, that is much more impressive.
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Codex
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Yrs, what do we need to do to determine what the consumables from Renshu's base are?
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Hmm, I feel like being invited by Zeqing to her home is a fairly significant thing. If higher level spirits have their own domain outside of the physical realm, being allowed there would be quite exceptional. Also we're on the verge of breaking through, I don't think she would invite us just to have a cup of tea.
And then there's also Cai. While I don't think she's of the sort to knock on our door as soon as we've reached green and it would likely be no problem to delay our answer for a week or two of further interaction, doing it before our breakthrough does offer some advantages though. If we feel sufficiently convinced after our conversation we can enter closed door with a clear mind of what we're going to do once we reach full third realm, and we don't risk coming across as someone who dallies when it comes to their important choices in life.
I feel like breaking through now is leaving the situation somewhat hanging, and having some kind of consensus on what we're going to vote for before starting our breakthrough extravaganza seems desirable. A conversation with Cai on her ambitions and how we fit in them seems like the perfect minor to round off our chain of interactions with her, and have us be sufficiently informed to reach said consensus.
Therefore,
[X] Plan: Last stop before Breakthrough Week 2.0
And then there's also Cai. While I don't think she's of the sort to knock on our door as soon as we've reached green and it would likely be no problem to delay our answer for a week or two of further interaction, doing it before our breakthrough does offer some advantages though. If we feel sufficiently convinced after our conversation we can enter closed door with a clear mind of what we're going to do once we reach full third realm, and we don't risk coming across as someone who dallies when it comes to their important choices in life.
I feel like breaking through now is leaving the situation somewhat hanging, and having some kind of consensus on what we're going to vote for before starting our breakthrough extravaganza seems desirable. A conversation with Cai on her ambitions and how we fit in them seems like the perfect minor to round off our chain of interactions with her, and have us be sufficiently informed to reach said consensus.
Therefore,
[X] Plan: Last stop before Breakthrough Week 2.0
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- USA
@yrsillar - I have a weird question for you. We got 25 bonus successes to AE from stealth this week. In Yan Renshu raid, part 1 we had a stealth roll that had 17 successes. There were no other stealth/larceny tests shown this week.
Now we probably had other stealth roll(s) during Yan Renshu raid, part 2 from the text, although we didn't see any rolls. This would explain why we got more than 17 successes towards AE. But it is VERY unlikely we'd only get 8 successes on a stealth roll-that's literally our autosuccrsses for stealth during the night. My best guess is that you forgot EPC's bonuses are caped at 30 these days rather than 25, but it's possible I'm getting something wrong. Just wanted to check in any case.
Now we probably had other stealth roll(s) during Yan Renshu raid, part 2 from the text, although we didn't see any rolls. This would explain why we got more than 17 successes towards AE. But it is VERY unlikely we'd only get 8 successes on a stealth roll-that's literally our autosuccrsses for stealth during the night. My best guess is that you forgot EPC's bonuses are caped at 30 these days rather than 25, but it's possible I'm getting something wrong. Just wanted to check in any case.
Arkeus
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The consensus about CRX has already been reached for the playerbase though, and for Ling Qi seeing her won't really create a 'consensus' I think. Especially as the minor is about CRX herself, not really Ling Qi.
If anything, seeing Gu Tai to politely reject him is more likely to make such consensus.
Arkeus
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We used One with Shadow when we shot YR from his own shadow, and it proc a Stealth roll:
My guess is that even though we had 26 Stealth + 2 autos, we only got 8 successes because of horrible rolls and the autos from cultivation level are not 'counted' for those clashes.
I also think we should have had a stealth test for entry in the base, but whatever.
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- Burgundian Netherlands
There does seem to be a few people who still want to pursue the Gu Tai option though? And I think some also spoke out in favour of wanting to stay with the sect for now and delay any decision? There might be a majority, but I don't think there's consensus to go with Cai's offer? Might just be my perception though.
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But if the character herself is boring it will bring down the surrounding narrative, there is no point to make the quest less interesting by having dull characters take center stage because of external mechanical reasons. There is no reason to actively write boring characters unless you deliberately aim for 'Naked Came the Stranger' shenanigans.
I'll addthem in the next updoot
I forgot the cap change honestly
Arkeus
Crazy cat guy
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- France
@PrimalShadow Mind updating the pill use?:
Your pill use doesn't include the secondary pills, and also has the physical ones even if we cultivate only spiritual, etc.