- Location
- Canada
[X] The little village, full of little people and shadows that would keep her safe.
Forge of Destiny(Xianxia Quest)
- Thread starter yrsillar
- Start date
- Original Fantasy
- Location
- The United States
- Pronouns
- He/They
There's more than a very good chance I'm being paranoid here, but if not we may have a problem...
TheLastOne
Person of impeccable tastes (for destruction)
The talk about freedom. We've had a number of discussions about freedom up to this point, and how it's not a purely positive force when talking about Xianxia. We choose against the path of absolute freedom last time, and I think that was a wise choice. We're defined by the burdens we take on.
Arkeus
Crazy cat guy
- Location
- France
Sadly, we can use 3 yellow, or 2 Yellow, 1 green. We'll be able to use 4 YSS or 2 YSS, 1GSS when we breakthrough bronze.
Basically, our cultivation dice just got slapped around.
You might also want to catch this reference, which mentions cultivating "back to peak".
This new bonus overwrites the old bonus, right? They don't stack?
Shit is lit friends!
The Sandman
So Zetta Slowpoke
- Location
- Wherever I am, which isn't where I'm not
[X] Into the sky, unfettered and free, to visit where ever she wished, at the time she wished
We can decide where to make our nest when we're older and wiser. For now, we have many places to go and many people to see.
We can decide where to make our nest when we're older and wiser. For now, we have many places to go and many people to see.
[X] Into the forest, full of life and joy. She did not want to leave her friends waiting.
- Location
- USA
So some thoughts on the update
. With how long it's taken him to break through I still think we'll leave him in the dust. Also turns out Lu Feng has made it to entirely late second realm. He'll probably be a contender towards for one of the bottom slots to get into the Inner Sect.
Two green spirit stones worth of yellow stones, nice. We now have enough to buy 4 green spirit stones, which is pretty good. That's enough for our two sable light pill weeks to both have 2 green spirit stones used for them, assuming we can get to Appraisal Green. More on that later.
We got out Perfect Success Bonus due to Blood of the Father Sky, and how it subtracts 5 from the roll. I mean, rolling a 2 might have gotten us that bonus or at least a lesser one, I don't know, but I assume that getting a roll of 0 (impossible without drugs) is what got us this. So yea, both breakthrough drugs worked great, and without them we would have only gotten 2 successes out of the 5 rolls we had.
Bronze appraisal, on the other hand, I'm not sure of. We're probably going to only go after Bronze breakthrough slowly, and it's probably impossible to get another Perfect Success Bonus. That all adds up to taking too long. And getting a physical to appraisal as well doesn't help much with cultivation.
Finally, for the dogs that didn't bark, I'm rather shocked we didn't uncap attributes or skills. From Yrsillar in thread, we'll unlock them when we hit Bronze though. We unlocked them with only Yellow last breakthrough. We also didn't get a bonus dot to put towards a social/mental attribute - although without uncapping attributes this makes sense.
We also didn't get anything from EPC, which is rather annoying. Perhaps it's such a long art that we haven't mastered it enough to get any bonuses? In other words, maybe we'll get a bonus when we breakthrough to the Fourth Realm (assuming we've taken EPC as far as we can in Green), but don't here because even though we've taken EPC as far as we can in Yellow it just has so far to go it isn't considered mastered.
No Flying Swords yet, we'll probably have to get Bronze to unlock them.
Finally we didn't get anything from our ??? Bonus. It's always been mysterious, and just continues to be mysterious here. We might get it with Bronze, but last time we got it with Yellow only.
So without Ji Rong with her I thought this was probably just before Ji Rong's interlude, but look at what Sun is wearing in the interlude:
So unless there is typo here (@yrsillar - was it supposed to be "WITHOUT the sort of wide sleaves and trailing hem..." in Ji Rong's interlude?) this is not the same dress, so my theory that Ji Rong's interlude was directly after her surrender is incorrect. Perhaps Ji Rong's interlude is the day after the surrender? I just can't see Cai letting Ji Rong go before the formal surrender. So I'm confused here. Which is why I think there may be a typo.
Kang beat us to Third Realm, if only barely, the bastard
. With how long it's taken him to break through I still think we'll leave him in the dust. Also turns out Lu Feng has made it to entirely late second realm. He'll probably be a contender towards for one of the bottom slots to get into the Inner Sect.I love how a hundred meters is needed to be a safe distance.
Two green spirit stones worth of yellow stones, nice. We now have enough to buy 4 green spirit stones, which is pretty good. That's enough for our two sable light pill weeks to both have 2 green spirit stones used for them, assuming we can get to Appraisal Green. More on that later.
Blood of the Father Sky was HUGE here. Wouldn't have gotten the success if not for it. But that's not the only time it came up big...
We got out Perfect Success Bonus due to Blood of the Father Sky, and how it subtracts 5 from the roll. I mean, rolling a 2 might have gotten us that bonus or at least a lesser one, I don't know, but I assume that getting a roll of 0 (impossible without drugs) is what got us this. So yea, both breakthrough drugs worked great, and without them we would have only gotten 2 successes out of the 5 rolls we had.
Haha, Ling Qi's luck flummoxing other characters is always the best.
While Meizhen SHOULDN'T take a massage from Li Suyin the wrong way, it's probably for the best not to mention it to her. I do note that Ling Qi is actually enjoying being touched by another person. That's very rare for her. Can anyone remember another time?
Zhengui is the best.
Fifty yellow stones for a minute? I don't know if that's worth it. That's a whole green spirit stone. Still, worth looking into, especially if we swear to Cai and spirit stones become less scarce.
Lots of people have already analyzed the choices, so I won't bother. They do seem more complex than I thought my first browse through.
More Qi and more auto successes to spiritual and qi increase are totally expected. The meridian bonus is rather nice, if totally unexpected. Heart, Spine, and Arm are our three locations with the most meridians opened, so it makes sense which got extras. The one annoying thing is that the next meridians we need are Leg (to train SCS) and Head (to train AM), and very possibly Lung after that (to equip AE if we get AE 3), but those are the breaks
There aren't as many Art bonuses as I was expecting. In particular I'm kinda shocked that Water didn't get a bonus. We have 3 water meridians, same as Wood, after all. But perhaps that got subsumed by the Imperial Eight Bonus? That's a rather nice bonus after all. And the Dark bonus is very great for us, our FVM dice are looking competitive again with Zhengui's bonus, the rebalancing, and this giving +6 dice total. We still need to get an art that buffs spiritual offense before the tournament, but with the recent gains and no war ongoing I think we can put it on the backburner a bit.
That is VERY nice. That's almost exactly 2 actions worth of successes with our previous Spiritual dice. From the frontpage update it takes 600 successes to get Appraisal, so with 500 more successes to go that's about 10 weeks to get to Green Appraisal - probably less as we'll probably get better dice after all. Very doable, we should get it at the end of week 47 even without better dice if we do one Spiritual roll a turn, and again probably a turn or two earlier. That leaves plenty of time for 2 sable light pill weeks with 2 green spirit stones used each week. We might even be able to get FVM 7 if we can hurry Spiritual along a good amount using EPC bonuses and then use those bonuses on FVM. As such I think it's worth it to go for Green Appraisal.
Bronze appraisal, on the other hand, I'm not sure of. We're probably going to only go after Bronze breakthrough slowly, and it's probably impossible to get another Perfect Success Bonus. That all adds up to taking too long. And getting a physical to appraisal as well doesn't help much with cultivation.
And THIS is something totally unexpected. Especially as it's listed as an Attribute. Will we get dots in whatever we choose as are domain, much like we get in Dexterity or Manipulation? What will those dots mean? We'll have to see.
Finally, for the dogs that didn't bark, I'm rather shocked we didn't uncap attributes or skills. From Yrsillar in thread, we'll unlock them when we hit Bronze though. We unlocked them with only Yellow last breakthrough. We also didn't get a bonus dot to put towards a social/mental attribute - although without uncapping attributes this makes sense.
We also didn't get anything from EPC, which is rather annoying. Perhaps it's such a long art that we haven't mastered it enough to get any bonuses? In other words, maybe we'll get a bonus when we breakthrough to the Fourth Realm (assuming we've taken EPC as far as we can in Green), but don't here because even though we've taken EPC as far as we can in Yellow it just has so far to go it isn't considered mastered.
No Flying Swords yet, we'll probably have to get Bronze to unlock them.
Finally we didn't get anything from our ??? Bonus. It's always been mysterious, and just continues to be mysterious here. We might get it with Bronze, but last time we got it with Yellow only.
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- Location
- Portugal
[X] Into the sky, unfettered and free, to visit where ever she wished, at the time she wished
with the exception oft he first, all the options appeal to me, but I really like our wind theme.
with the exception oft he first, all the options appeal to me, but I really like our wind theme.
That is not how it works though... cultivation and breakthrough forms a basis for the character and how she wants to go forward. You are picking the 'never settle down' option. The mindset she will come to realisation about is that she does not want to settle down... ever. Sky is not the 'do not commit right now' option it is the 'commit to never committing to anything option'.
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TheLastOne
Person of impeccable tastes (for destruction)
Only not? Every step along the path we're discarding part of our mortality, our ability to choose. Every commitment we make here is permanent, it says someone about what the nature of the Greater Spirit Ling Qi would ascend into. Each of the paths is a priority, and will effect to some extent how we see others.
I sort of group them like this.
Antisocial
- The village is full of marks to use and hid among.
- The sky is empty of others.
- The Mountain is full of secrets to win from spirits
- The Campsite is with our friends, guarded by our Spirit Beast.
Yep. Our die rolls really favored our drugs.
With 5 rolls, the chance of Blood of Father Sky saving a breakthrough are around 5*.05 = .25, so 1/4. The odds of forcing a prefect breakthrough (which hadn't occurred to anyone before...) are also 1/4. We got both of these bonuses.
Milk of Mother Earth worked as expected, but because we failed the reroll it pulled double-duty on preventing XP loss.
So our drugs had an unquestionably good day to show off their performance.