The RNG is part of the point. By allowing multi-turn plans, the price paid for it is the possibility of wasting a turn by over-commiting to a plan.

The solution for the incomplete information is pretty easy too- just dedicate a single turn to it to find out the DC, then decide if you want to dedicate multiple turns to it in a future turn.
We are playing a sapient being, I'm pretty sure. IC, there's no difference between a multi-turn plan and a one-turn plan, except for some reason the ant doesn't stop to consider what it's doing at all, even when new information is presented to it that is relevant to its clearly stated intentions.

I think punishing the players by making the character arbitrarily stupid doesn't help anyone and only lowers the quality of the quest.
 
[X] Plan Food First, Gunk Later
-[X] Day 45: Work towards expanding your fungus farm. (5/40)
-[X] Day 46: Work towards expanding your fungus farm. (5/40)
-[X] Day 47: Cultivate outside your lair (Small chance of summoning a predator)

So rather than doing a one-day plan with the recent changes to Plan - Work work!, I think we should continue to work towards getting our next farm up and running, so we can look forward to a future where we hopefully never have to forage again. This won't get us all the way there, but *touches wood* next plan we should be able to do it! We might need to forage once before for safety first.

Our current level of Poison Energy means that there's quite a low chance of predators showing up when we cultivate outside. Which is kind of a mixed blessing really, but I know it's a concern people had.
 
You have 1 > 4 Poison Qi flowing through your Meridians
[][Ladybug]Use the Ladybug as cultivation materials and gain 60 Cultivation XP. You will also gain 3 Poison Energy.
The Poison Qi has been purged from your body
The Ladybug sucked up our poison qi before we killed it, so we should have been at 0 Poison Qi and gone up to 3 after we used the ladybug to increase our cultivation? Not 4?
 
The Ladybug sucked up our poison qi before we killed it, so we should have been at 0 Poison Qi and gone up to 3 after we used the ladybug to increase our cultivation? Not 4?
I thought so too at first, but then I checked and the Ladybug's counterattack saddled us with 1 Poison Qi before we killed it. So we had 1 Poison Qi again before deciding to take in the additional 3, bringing us to 4 total.
 
I can't seem to find that, could you quote it please?
It's in the turn where we killed it:
It seems that the poison qi has synergized well with the Ladybug's ability to secrete a stinky residue. Its residue is now poisonous and it sprays you with it, flooding your meridians with its poisonous Qi.



[][Ladybug]Use the Ladybug as cultivation materials and gain 60 Cultivation XP. You will also gain 3 Poison Energy.
[][Ladybug] Use the Ladybug as bait in order to attract more predators to your lair.



You have 1 Poison Energy coursing through your meridians.
 
[X] Plan Food First, Gunk Later
-[X] Day 45: Work towards expanding your fungus farm. (5/40)
-[X] Day 46: Work towards expanding your fungus farm. (5/40)
-[X] Day 47: Cultivate outside your lair (Small chance of summoning a predator)
 
Adhoc vote count started by Tam Lin on Sep 19, 2023 at 8:45 PM, finished with 40 posts and 16 votes.

  • [X] Plan - Work work!
    - [X] Deposit the black tarry substance just outside your lair (0/??)
    [X] Plan Food First, Gunk Later
    -[X] Day 45: Work towards expanding your fungus farm. (5/40)
    -[X] Day 46: Work towards expanding your fungus farm. (5/40)
    -[X] Day 47 Cultivate outside your lair (Small chance of summoning a predator)
    [X] Plan - Work work!
    - [X] Deposit the black tarry substance just outside your lair (0/??)
    - [X] Try to get a feel for the mysterious energy surging within you (Early 2nd Realm of Qi Gathering 48/70)(You cannot cultivate in your lair without first getting rid of the black tarry substance)
    [X] Plan - clean up
    -[X] Day 45 Deposit the black tarry substance just outside your lair (0/??)
    -[X] Day 46 Deposit the black tarry substance just outside your lair (0/??)
    --[X] Beetle Charge
    -[X] Day 47 Cultivate outside your lair (Small chance of summoning a predator)
    [X] Plan - A successful ant is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him.
    - [X] Deposit the black tarry substance just outside your lair (0/??)
    - [X] Try to salvage food from the ruined colony (4/10)
    - [X] Purge the Poison Qi (0/?)


Thy will be done
 
Day 45
1st roll: Events (1-4=Bad Event, 17-20=Good Event)
2nd Roll: Deposit the black tarry substance just outside your lair (0/??)
Tam Lin threw 2 20-faced dice. Reason: Day 45 Total: 23
6 6 17 17
 
Day 45: Clearing the den
Being unable to cultivate in your shelter and exposing yourself to the possibility of being eaten by an unwitting predator is starting to become too risky for your palate.

You start transporting the cultivation gunk outside your lair, so it can be washed away by the rain and wind.

You deposit it far away enough that any predators attracted to it won't necessarily wreak havoc where you live, but not so far away that the predators would spot you and be tempted to attack. Not that they necessarily would, because of the poison qi in your meridians.

It's a hard day's work, but not one you're unfamiliar with given that you're an ant.

When you're done, the gunk has been cleared from your lair.

Deposit the black tarry substance just outside your lair 0/?? > 17/10

You have 1 Fungus Farm, which will produce 1 food in 2 turns.
You consume 1 food, bringing your total to 0 food.
You have gone 2 days without churning your Qi.If you go 4 days without churning your Qi, it will disperse and set you back to the Early 1st Realm of Qi Gathering.
You have 3 Poison Energy coursing through your Meridians

Select 3 actions to be taken over the next 3 turns. Qi Burst is on cooldown for 8 more days.


[] Try to salvage food from the ruined colony (4/10)
[] Try to expand your meager shelter (10/40)
[] Work towards expanding your fungus farm. (5/40)
[] Try to get a feel for the mysterious energy surging within you (Early 2nd Realm of Qi Gathering 48/70)
[] Cultivate outside your lair (Small chance of summoning a predator)
[] Purge the Poison Qi (0/?)
[] Cultivate the Poison Qi (0/??, costs 10 Cultivation XP per attempt)
[]Seek out Qi Vein (0/???)
[] Train the (QiBlood) technique, Qi Burst (Initiate 0/???)
[] Train the (Lightness) technique, Beetle Charge. (Initiate 0/???)
[] Try to integrate into a new colony (0/??)
[] Take over another colony (0/???)
 
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[X] Plan Farm Life
-[X] Day 46: Work towards expanding your fungus farm. (5/40)
-[X] Day 47: Try to get a feel for the mysterious energy surging within you (Early 2nd Realm of Qi Gathering 48/70)
-[X] Day 48: Work towards expanding your fungus farm. (5/40)
 
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[X] Plan Farm Life

Both of you should edit that because we did, in fact, get rid of the gunk.

Actually ... for maximum utility, we do not want to finish the farm on day 48, but rather on day 50 or so. So if we roll too well (and manage to avoid event interrupts), "Plan Farm Life" will be suboptimal. Unless the QM decides that staggered production is too complicated and decides to merge it anyway.
 
[X] Plan Farm Life truncated
-[X] Day 46: Work towards expanding your fungus farm. (5/40)
-[X] Day 47: Try to get a feel for the mysterious energy surging within you (Early 2nd Realm of Qi Gathering 48/70)(You cannot cultivate in your lair without first getting rid of the black tarry substance)

Shortened to a 2 day plan so we don't finish the farm on an inopportune turn. We can do something else for a turn if we roll well or bump it again if we roll badly.
 
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[X] Plan Farm Life

I'd be willing to switch to truncated, if @Tam Lin confirms that the farm will have individual day counters, and not just "this becomes 2 every 5 days now" and/or "this becomes 1 every 4 days now"
 
[X] Plan Farm Life

My assumption was that farms finished partway through production receive "prorated" gains. If true, we'd get (2/5)*1=0.4 food from the second farm and 1 from the existing farm, until the next cycle where we got 2 food every 5 days
 
@Tam Lin Can you confirm how multiple farms will work?
Multiple farms will produce at the same time, meaning the next time the farm procs, you get 2 Food instead of one.

Just keep in mind that with your expanded lair, you have 25 inventory space and each farm takes up 10 inventory space.

once you finish the farm, you're taking up 20/25 inventory space, and each unit of food takes up 1 inventory space

if your possessions take up more inventory space than you have, predators will eat your food.
 
[X] Plan Farm Cleaning
-[X] Day 46: Work towards expanding your fungus farm. (5/40)
-[X] Day 47: Try to get a feel for the mysterious energy surging within you (Early 2nd Realm of Qi Gathering 48/70)
-[X] Purge the Poison Qi (0/?)
 
[X] Plan Gu
-[X] Day 46 Cultivate the Poison Qi (0/??, costs 10 Cultivation XP per attempt)
-[X] Day 47: Try to get a feel for the mysterious energy surging within you (Early 2nd Realm of Qi Gathering 48/70)
-[X] Day 48: Work towards expanding your fungus farm. (5/40)
 
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