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Broken Adventure
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It honestly make sense either way due to the current universe.
Arc 2: Literary Exploration.
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Third Elder Cho blinked as her meeting was interrupted by her people.
That... That REALLY shouldn't happen.
Making some quick excuses, she moved into the side room. "Well?"
The man was on one knee. "Subject was targeted by five mercenaries during his trip towards the Repository. Low level Cultivators, one managed to restrain Assistant Quan while the remaining four attacked with various flame attacks."
Her eyes widened as he continued. "According to initial interrogations, they avoided using their weapons and ability based techniques in an attempt to shift blame towards other flame based cultivators. They were all apprehended within minutes and will answer... all our questions. Expect a full report in eight hours."
She glared. "Those... those bastards. Find out who sold our Sect member out, and if that damn village was involved I want to know who, when, and to what degree. This is NOT acceptable." She took a deep... slow breath. "What is the estimated recovery time for the boy? I assume his protection detail stopped most of the damage in time?"
The wince she saw was... not comforting. "The guard on duty was drugged, though we are still investigating who, when, and how. We suspect internal sabotage."
Her heart skipped a beat. "...We DID save the child, yes?"
The man stayed still. "Reporting to Elder, he received four flame based attacks simultaneously. Though his clothing and equipment was damaged beyond repair, the child was unharmed."
She... blinked. "What?"
A nod. "If anything, his health seems to have improved after absorbing the fire. The two victims are currently being interviewed as we find appropriate replacements for his clothing, carrying sack, and writing slate. As far as we know, they are still planning on visiting the Repository."
Elder Cho nodded... "What?"
~~~Broken Adventure~~~
With new shoes and less exposure, Adam was FINALLY able to see this mysterious Repository of the Burning Sword Sect!
...It felt like a busy market.
The lowest floor of the Pagoda was covered with massive doors that were all thrown open, dozens and dozens of tents and stalls were set up all around the place, hundreds of shelves were covered with all kinds of texts and scrolls... and the people!
Masses of color and noise bustled in every direction. People yelling for friends to view various documents, others outraged that someone else took the remaining copy and they had to wait for new ones to be brought in, interesting facts shared between people at high volumes so they could hear each other... it was glorious chaos.
Absently ignoring Sister Quan, Adam fell into the mess as he drifted closer to the tower.
Get everything valuable enough to be stored INSIDE the Sect building first, THEN come back out here and consume, consume, consume.
'Research' flared bright gray in his chest as Adam reached the first bookshelf inside the doors.
Without even a pause he began pulling down material, viewing each page for a moment, and replacing it. Book after book, scroll after scroll, row after row... He felt reality fall away as 'Research' became swamped in ever growing oceans of information and data.
He never even noticed the exasperated woman standing next to him, Elder Sister Quan thankfully understanding to some degree how important this was for Adam. Though if he HAD paid attention, he would have seen her eyes growing wider as book after book started to pass through his hands, his left eye glowing bright blue around his eye-patch and his body releasing a barely visible gray light.
~~~Broken Adventure~~~
Xiao Quan wasn't sure what to do.
Adam barely walked out of the orphanage, was SET ON FIRE, then... this. Just sort of ignored the whole issue and fell into the mountain of knowledge like a thirsty man in the desert finding a clean stream of potable water.
Her heart had nearly exploded out of her chest when she saw those massive blazes hit the child. Only his lack of screams or visible pain kept her from attempting some of her stronger techniques to put the flames out, ones that could have damaged the boy by itself.
She glanced at the nearby Sect Security Guard again, finding comfort in his presence. Her life was normally in the medical wards, not so close to the 'action' as it were. It galled her to feel so useless, so helpless as her companion was 'burned alive' next to her.
Thank everything that whatever strange healing trick he did involved adapting to flame energy. If ONE of those bastards had used Sword Qi, his body would have fallen to pieces like tofu. It made her shudder at the thought alone!
Her thoughts had distracted her long enough to see Adam had moved on to a second Bookcase. Maybe he hadn't found anything interesting enough to focus on yet? He clearly was driven by some goal, if his manic grin and rapid but agile movements were any sign.
~~~Broken Adventure~~~
Seriously, this language was stupid complex.
If one was a big enough ass, it was possible to write five symbols to represent an entire speech! Sure it required reading the same symbols in different orders and patterns dictated by the material and the placement of the characters, but it was doable.
As a result, a 'thick book' that covered all kinds of interesting textile machinery maintenance tips was only five pages thick. DENSE five pages, but yeah.
It really made the thousand page cultivation books come into perspective, that was for sure.
'Research' was actually burning a bit of actual energy it was processing so fast! Thankfully he had Battle Qi so he didn't need to pause and cultivate more power to keep going.
His memories were being stuffed with data to be 'Researched' later. Even the useless crap was helping his ability to decode the (stupidly complicated) languages, and later when he had time to analyze these things all kinds of stuff should turn out to be usable in one way or another.
Absently Adam felt some sort of wave pass towards his body, his Shard bending the power around his body and letting it go on its way. Probably wasn't important. Ooh, medical texts! Well, medical texts related to farm animals, but still!
Without thought his Shard would ensure that each of those odd pulses would pass by without interaction as he moved from shelf to shelf, gathering data. Valuable, delicious data.
Humming tunes that didn't exist in this Realm, Adam continued bookshelf by bookshelf, spending fractions of time on every document available. Since the more popular items had several duplicates for people to consider buying, he was making good progress scanning the first floor's contents. Heck, at this point he was only decoding the titles and front covers! He could translate the rest later.
He frowned as he reached into his pouch. Right, those bastards burned his prunes. Wonder if that mentally unstable guy had more.
~~~Broken Adventure~~~
Brother Juan sighed. "Look, Brother Hou..."
He waved his arms. "I'm serious! Why won't anyone listen to me!? I must have bought a HUNDRED contribution points of prunes at this point, look at my receipts! LOOK AT THEM!"
Juan sighed, Brother Zhanfei silent at his left. "Yes, I see them."
Brother Hou nodded. "NO ONE likes prunes! I should know, I bought like a bazillion of them! But that fake disciple grandpa is eating them up!"
Brother Zhanfei blinked. "I like prunes."
Hou waved a hand. "Fine, no one who is NORMAL likes prunes. Point is, that old man is just moments away from using his ancient wiles and fake young face to woo Angel Quan! Look at all my evidence!"
Brother Juan groaned and rubbed his headache. "I seem to remember you claiming that you would prove he was a Grandpa based on his cane usage."
Hou frowned with past rage. "Must have left a hundred of the damn things near his room, but he was TOO CRAFTY to fall for it."
Juan winced. "Well, I'm sure the dozen or so Brothers and Sisters that DID fall over those randomly strewn canes would have to mean something to you then."
He sighed. "Look, Brother Hou. I need you to calm down a little. No more littering, for one thing. It is dangerous to others. I've seen you having a nice chat or two with the boy, why not more of that? It would also save you some finances."
For the first time, Brother Hou seemed remorseful. "I'll be honest, I didn't expect this to get so expensive. Who knew Prune Juice was so hard to supply the Sect? I thought it was 10 points an ounce, not 1000." He slumped in his chair. "Didn't even taste good."
Juan nodded. "So for now, maybe hold back on the antics a little. I'm sure eventually you will find out that Chongsheng Adam is more normal and simple than you suspect."
One of Brother Zhanfei's people dashed in. "Sir! Brother Adam has been caught on fire and requires additional fresh underclothing!"
Juan's head fell to the desk as Brother Hou lept to his feet. "Ah HA!"
As the room fell into an argument about whether being fireproof or naked counted towards or against being a secret grandfather, Juan considered just going to his room and sleeping the rest of the day. Might be less stressful.
~~~Broken Adventure~~~
The touch of a hand caught Adam off guard. What!?
Sister Quan chuckled. "I think we should stop for the day here."
Adam's attention was fully awake now. NO! He had only read half the books outside the tower! Just a few more hours...
Despite his frantic gestures and scribbled notes, Sister Quan was unmoved.
Her look was dry. "Unlike the Repository, this outer area is not restricted and does not require appointments. Not that I am sure you had enough time to even absorb half the stuff you've glanced at today."
She gestured at the tower. "It is late, we can come back tomorrow... and then you can figure out what to spend your contribution points on. I would suggest getting a copy of the Cultivation Techniques you feel the closest connection to, for reference later." Glancing at how dark it was getting, she sighed. "Tomorrow anyway, It is getting a bit late."
With longing eyes staring at the tower, he let the woman pull him away and back towards the orphanage.
Soon, my precious! Wait for me!
~~~Broken Adventure~~~
Blinking back in his room, Adam felt he... might have over-reacted to leaving.
...Did he really throw a hissy fit like an actual child?
Clearly his body's age was affecting him. That was his argument and he was sticking to it.
With Pulse circulating, he activated 'Research' and dove into the massive mess of memories.
The walk there, the fight, the noises and stuff... push that aside for later review. Convert each text into the concepts and translations that they represent... eugh, what was THIS!?
The people here were so... damn... ARTSY.
It had to be a cultural issue, Sister Quan's notes were not this pretentious and flowery. 'In the twixt of time doth flower the seeds of possibilities, like a larch full of fowl expectations.', which after giving 'Research' some time translated into 'Wait a bit before the next step.'
It was hard to follow, hard to translate, and near useless anyway. No WONDER making your own notes was a popular past time.
And why was Adam having such a difficult time? He too was raised in this culture.
Simple.
When reviewing his memories, EVEN THE PRE-AWOKEN VERSION OF HIMSELF marked that stuff as trash.
As the night progressed, Adam grew more and more exasperated as the massive volume of data began reducing in size significantly. If the initial raw data was the size of a mountain, it had squished down to twelve feet or so tall just from cutting out the fluff and removing the weird examples. It was both a sign of great personal progress and a massive disappointment in literally several lifetimes worth of previous cultivators experience. He was sure SOME of this drivel was only written this way because the stuff THEY learned from was equally as crappy.
What does the attack value of a duck's foot have to do with slapping someone anyway? What in the WORLD had they been thinking where that situation even came up to be considered as an actual example? It was wrong anyway, once 'Research' calculated what the hell was going on. Though the 'Duck Slap Hat Attack' sounded fun in general.
Point was, Adam's study material had dropped from 'unbelievably huge' to 'mildly massive', and that was fine in his book.
Right, Cultivation Techniques. Focus.
It was a bit tricky to notice without reviewing all the low level techniques at the same time, but the overlap was useful. There was a bare minimum meridian route that HAD to be cycled for anyone to reach First Order Warrior, and any extra ones had various benefits or reduced potential issues in different directions. A spiritual network or framework that everything else eventually would be based on. He made a mental note to document this thing and see if a similar minimum cultivation pattern showed up at higher levels.
Some routes on the various technique documents were... unexpected. But 'Research' suggested the odd squiggles and unneeded paths would make more sense once the next levels of those cultivation techniques were purchased from the Repository.
Oh, some issues with his own technique was addressed by the documents, but his method in general was just so unusual that Adam wasn't surprised that he didn't make much progress in that department.
More interesting was the large number of simple techniques that could be practiced. VERY basic ones, used for camping and quality of life issues. Cleaning, moving small amounts of water, dirt, or plants... even tricks that helped preserve food or clean wilderness kills. The collection of small techniques seemed fairly useful, and it was sad that the dust collected on those scrolls showed that most Cultivators gravitated to the more flashy stuff.
And uh. There WAS a lot of flashy stuff.
Attacks with amazing names (God piercing ice spear, Mountain crushing elbow, etc), that required years of dedication and work to get any results... way more popular than a simple method to clean stains off cloth.
Didn't help that these useful techniques had been ten times more complex and given stupidly obstructive documentation, but 'Research' fixed all of that... So Adam had actual choices at this point.
Considering his recent past, the various cleaning tricks would likely be the first techniques learned. Not smelling bad was awesome.
Sadly, the vast majority of information (Even after simplification and removal of fluff) was waiting to go through an initial pass of 'Research'. Including the medical tricks, animal care techniques, and human anatomy documentation... basically all the building blocks for a new healing trick or two. He also had a lot of sensing related texts that would need decoding... sigh.
As he felt his energy slowly improve his cultivation base in the background, Adam sighed even harder. Focus.
He had time, there was no rush.
Just... Just consider the 'Gentle Regrowth' technique to be a more long term project. His new body would live long enough to do things correctly.
Glancing at his stump, he sighed... and chuckled.
Hopefully, this soon-to-be-reviewed data would give him a hand.
~~~Broken Adventure~~~
Brother Hou grinned hard as his ultimate plan began to come together.
A cane. Covered with plums. With a old school black and white portrait of the 'good old days'. On fire. There was even a cup for the fake's dentures when he went to sleep!
No secret grandpa could escape the charm and stereotypes so carefully constructed!
Brother Hou's cackling was cut off when he realized the flaming cane was a bit too close to his previous 'ultimate cane' attempts, and that he had apparently (accidentally) created a pile of wood (Canes), covered in fuel (Previous fire attempts), in a well ventilated area (His room windows were open because of the fuel fumes).
He dived from his bedroom as everything lit on fire.
...Well played Grandpa.
Well Played.
That... That REALLY shouldn't happen.
Making some quick excuses, she moved into the side room. "Well?"
The man was on one knee. "Subject was targeted by five mercenaries during his trip towards the Repository. Low level Cultivators, one managed to restrain Assistant Quan while the remaining four attacked with various flame attacks."
Her eyes widened as he continued. "According to initial interrogations, they avoided using their weapons and ability based techniques in an attempt to shift blame towards other flame based cultivators. They were all apprehended within minutes and will answer... all our questions. Expect a full report in eight hours."
She glared. "Those... those bastards. Find out who sold our Sect member out, and if that damn village was involved I want to know who, when, and to what degree. This is NOT acceptable." She took a deep... slow breath. "What is the estimated recovery time for the boy? I assume his protection detail stopped most of the damage in time?"
The wince she saw was... not comforting. "The guard on duty was drugged, though we are still investigating who, when, and how. We suspect internal sabotage."
Her heart skipped a beat. "...We DID save the child, yes?"
The man stayed still. "Reporting to Elder, he received four flame based attacks simultaneously. Though his clothing and equipment was damaged beyond repair, the child was unharmed."
She... blinked. "What?"
A nod. "If anything, his health seems to have improved after absorbing the fire. The two victims are currently being interviewed as we find appropriate replacements for his clothing, carrying sack, and writing slate. As far as we know, they are still planning on visiting the Repository."
Elder Cho nodded... "What?"
~~~Broken Adventure~~~
With new shoes and less exposure, Adam was FINALLY able to see this mysterious Repository of the Burning Sword Sect!
...It felt like a busy market.
The lowest floor of the Pagoda was covered with massive doors that were all thrown open, dozens and dozens of tents and stalls were set up all around the place, hundreds of shelves were covered with all kinds of texts and scrolls... and the people!
Masses of color and noise bustled in every direction. People yelling for friends to view various documents, others outraged that someone else took the remaining copy and they had to wait for new ones to be brought in, interesting facts shared between people at high volumes so they could hear each other... it was glorious chaos.
Absently ignoring Sister Quan, Adam fell into the mess as he drifted closer to the tower.
Get everything valuable enough to be stored INSIDE the Sect building first, THEN come back out here and consume, consume, consume.
'Research' flared bright gray in his chest as Adam reached the first bookshelf inside the doors.
Without even a pause he began pulling down material, viewing each page for a moment, and replacing it. Book after book, scroll after scroll, row after row... He felt reality fall away as 'Research' became swamped in ever growing oceans of information and data.
He never even noticed the exasperated woman standing next to him, Elder Sister Quan thankfully understanding to some degree how important this was for Adam. Though if he HAD paid attention, he would have seen her eyes growing wider as book after book started to pass through his hands, his left eye glowing bright blue around his eye-patch and his body releasing a barely visible gray light.
~~~Broken Adventure~~~
Xiao Quan wasn't sure what to do.
Adam barely walked out of the orphanage, was SET ON FIRE, then... this. Just sort of ignored the whole issue and fell into the mountain of knowledge like a thirsty man in the desert finding a clean stream of potable water.
Her heart had nearly exploded out of her chest when she saw those massive blazes hit the child. Only his lack of screams or visible pain kept her from attempting some of her stronger techniques to put the flames out, ones that could have damaged the boy by itself.
She glanced at the nearby Sect Security Guard again, finding comfort in his presence. Her life was normally in the medical wards, not so close to the 'action' as it were. It galled her to feel so useless, so helpless as her companion was 'burned alive' next to her.
Thank everything that whatever strange healing trick he did involved adapting to flame energy. If ONE of those bastards had used Sword Qi, his body would have fallen to pieces like tofu. It made her shudder at the thought alone!
Her thoughts had distracted her long enough to see Adam had moved on to a second Bookcase. Maybe he hadn't found anything interesting enough to focus on yet? He clearly was driven by some goal, if his manic grin and rapid but agile movements were any sign.
~~~Broken Adventure~~~
Seriously, this language was stupid complex.
If one was a big enough ass, it was possible to write five symbols to represent an entire speech! Sure it required reading the same symbols in different orders and patterns dictated by the material and the placement of the characters, but it was doable.
As a result, a 'thick book' that covered all kinds of interesting textile machinery maintenance tips was only five pages thick. DENSE five pages, but yeah.
It really made the thousand page cultivation books come into perspective, that was for sure.
'Research' was actually burning a bit of actual energy it was processing so fast! Thankfully he had Battle Qi so he didn't need to pause and cultivate more power to keep going.
His memories were being stuffed with data to be 'Researched' later. Even the useless crap was helping his ability to decode the (stupidly complicated) languages, and later when he had time to analyze these things all kinds of stuff should turn out to be usable in one way or another.
Absently Adam felt some sort of wave pass towards his body, his Shard bending the power around his body and letting it go on its way. Probably wasn't important. Ooh, medical texts! Well, medical texts related to farm animals, but still!
Without thought his Shard would ensure that each of those odd pulses would pass by without interaction as he moved from shelf to shelf, gathering data. Valuable, delicious data.
Humming tunes that didn't exist in this Realm, Adam continued bookshelf by bookshelf, spending fractions of time on every document available. Since the more popular items had several duplicates for people to consider buying, he was making good progress scanning the first floor's contents. Heck, at this point he was only decoding the titles and front covers! He could translate the rest later.
He frowned as he reached into his pouch. Right, those bastards burned his prunes. Wonder if that mentally unstable guy had more.
~~~Broken Adventure~~~
Brother Juan sighed. "Look, Brother Hou..."
He waved his arms. "I'm serious! Why won't anyone listen to me!? I must have bought a HUNDRED contribution points of prunes at this point, look at my receipts! LOOK AT THEM!"
Juan sighed, Brother Zhanfei silent at his left. "Yes, I see them."
Brother Hou nodded. "NO ONE likes prunes! I should know, I bought like a bazillion of them! But that fake disciple grandpa is eating them up!"
Brother Zhanfei blinked. "I like prunes."
Hou waved a hand. "Fine, no one who is NORMAL likes prunes. Point is, that old man is just moments away from using his ancient wiles and fake young face to woo Angel Quan! Look at all my evidence!"
Brother Juan groaned and rubbed his headache. "I seem to remember you claiming that you would prove he was a Grandpa based on his cane usage."
Hou frowned with past rage. "Must have left a hundred of the damn things near his room, but he was TOO CRAFTY to fall for it."
Juan winced. "Well, I'm sure the dozen or so Brothers and Sisters that DID fall over those randomly strewn canes would have to mean something to you then."
He sighed. "Look, Brother Hou. I need you to calm down a little. No more littering, for one thing. It is dangerous to others. I've seen you having a nice chat or two with the boy, why not more of that? It would also save you some finances."
For the first time, Brother Hou seemed remorseful. "I'll be honest, I didn't expect this to get so expensive. Who knew Prune Juice was so hard to supply the Sect? I thought it was 10 points an ounce, not 1000." He slumped in his chair. "Didn't even taste good."
Juan nodded. "So for now, maybe hold back on the antics a little. I'm sure eventually you will find out that Chongsheng Adam is more normal and simple than you suspect."
One of Brother Zhanfei's people dashed in. "Sir! Brother Adam has been caught on fire and requires additional fresh underclothing!"
Juan's head fell to the desk as Brother Hou lept to his feet. "Ah HA!"
As the room fell into an argument about whether being fireproof or naked counted towards or against being a secret grandfather, Juan considered just going to his room and sleeping the rest of the day. Might be less stressful.
~~~Broken Adventure~~~
The touch of a hand caught Adam off guard. What!?
Sister Quan chuckled. "I think we should stop for the day here."
Adam's attention was fully awake now. NO! He had only read half the books outside the tower! Just a few more hours...
Despite his frantic gestures and scribbled notes, Sister Quan was unmoved.
Her look was dry. "Unlike the Repository, this outer area is not restricted and does not require appointments. Not that I am sure you had enough time to even absorb half the stuff you've glanced at today."
She gestured at the tower. "It is late, we can come back tomorrow... and then you can figure out what to spend your contribution points on. I would suggest getting a copy of the Cultivation Techniques you feel the closest connection to, for reference later." Glancing at how dark it was getting, she sighed. "Tomorrow anyway, It is getting a bit late."
With longing eyes staring at the tower, he let the woman pull him away and back towards the orphanage.
Soon, my precious! Wait for me!
~~~Broken Adventure~~~
Blinking back in his room, Adam felt he... might have over-reacted to leaving.
...Did he really throw a hissy fit like an actual child?
Clearly his body's age was affecting him. That was his argument and he was sticking to it.
With Pulse circulating, he activated 'Research' and dove into the massive mess of memories.
The walk there, the fight, the noises and stuff... push that aside for later review. Convert each text into the concepts and translations that they represent... eugh, what was THIS!?
The people here were so... damn... ARTSY.
It had to be a cultural issue, Sister Quan's notes were not this pretentious and flowery. 'In the twixt of time doth flower the seeds of possibilities, like a larch full of fowl expectations.', which after giving 'Research' some time translated into 'Wait a bit before the next step.'
It was hard to follow, hard to translate, and near useless anyway. No WONDER making your own notes was a popular past time.
And why was Adam having such a difficult time? He too was raised in this culture.
Simple.
When reviewing his memories, EVEN THE PRE-AWOKEN VERSION OF HIMSELF marked that stuff as trash.
As the night progressed, Adam grew more and more exasperated as the massive volume of data began reducing in size significantly. If the initial raw data was the size of a mountain, it had squished down to twelve feet or so tall just from cutting out the fluff and removing the weird examples. It was both a sign of great personal progress and a massive disappointment in literally several lifetimes worth of previous cultivators experience. He was sure SOME of this drivel was only written this way because the stuff THEY learned from was equally as crappy.
What does the attack value of a duck's foot have to do with slapping someone anyway? What in the WORLD had they been thinking where that situation even came up to be considered as an actual example? It was wrong anyway, once 'Research' calculated what the hell was going on. Though the 'Duck Slap Hat Attack' sounded fun in general.
Point was, Adam's study material had dropped from 'unbelievably huge' to 'mildly massive', and that was fine in his book.
Right, Cultivation Techniques. Focus.
It was a bit tricky to notice without reviewing all the low level techniques at the same time, but the overlap was useful. There was a bare minimum meridian route that HAD to be cycled for anyone to reach First Order Warrior, and any extra ones had various benefits or reduced potential issues in different directions. A spiritual network or framework that everything else eventually would be based on. He made a mental note to document this thing and see if a similar minimum cultivation pattern showed up at higher levels.
Some routes on the various technique documents were... unexpected. But 'Research' suggested the odd squiggles and unneeded paths would make more sense once the next levels of those cultivation techniques were purchased from the Repository.
Oh, some issues with his own technique was addressed by the documents, but his method in general was just so unusual that Adam wasn't surprised that he didn't make much progress in that department.
More interesting was the large number of simple techniques that could be practiced. VERY basic ones, used for camping and quality of life issues. Cleaning, moving small amounts of water, dirt, or plants... even tricks that helped preserve food or clean wilderness kills. The collection of small techniques seemed fairly useful, and it was sad that the dust collected on those scrolls showed that most Cultivators gravitated to the more flashy stuff.
And uh. There WAS a lot of flashy stuff.
Attacks with amazing names (God piercing ice spear, Mountain crushing elbow, etc), that required years of dedication and work to get any results... way more popular than a simple method to clean stains off cloth.
Didn't help that these useful techniques had been ten times more complex and given stupidly obstructive documentation, but 'Research' fixed all of that... So Adam had actual choices at this point.
Considering his recent past, the various cleaning tricks would likely be the first techniques learned. Not smelling bad was awesome.
Sadly, the vast majority of information (Even after simplification and removal of fluff) was waiting to go through an initial pass of 'Research'. Including the medical tricks, animal care techniques, and human anatomy documentation... basically all the building blocks for a new healing trick or two. He also had a lot of sensing related texts that would need decoding... sigh.
As he felt his energy slowly improve his cultivation base in the background, Adam sighed even harder. Focus.
He had time, there was no rush.
Just... Just consider the 'Gentle Regrowth' technique to be a more long term project. His new body would live long enough to do things correctly.
Glancing at his stump, he sighed... and chuckled.
Hopefully, this soon-to-be-reviewed data would give him a hand.
~~~Broken Adventure~~~
Brother Hou grinned hard as his ultimate plan began to come together.
A cane. Covered with plums. With a old school black and white portrait of the 'good old days'. On fire. There was even a cup for the fake's dentures when he went to sleep!
No secret grandpa could escape the charm and stereotypes so carefully constructed!
Brother Hou's cackling was cut off when he realized the flaming cane was a bit too close to his previous 'ultimate cane' attempts, and that he had apparently (accidentally) created a pile of wood (Canes), covered in fuel (Previous fire attempts), in a well ventilated area (His room windows were open because of the fuel fumes).
He dived from his bedroom as everything lit on fire.
...Well played Grandpa.
Well Played.
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- Location
- USA
Yes...I think Adam is safe from this one.
He might appreciate more prunes to replace the burnt ones though.
Quixotic_being
Fulfilling every contract to the letter
He should probably imbibe at least some sword qi since it's so plentiful, also would protect against suddenly being flayed alive, plus it would let him have another tool to fake being Sans with.
Talley so far
-Binding people
-Blue fire
-Skeletons
-Teleportation
-Much more capable then they let on
-Actively doing weird magic and/or science
All we need is projectiles to spam now
Talley so far
-Binding people
-Blue fire
-Skeletons
-Teleportation
-Much more capable then they let on
-Actively doing weird magic and/or science
All we need is projectiles to spam now
- Location
- Earth, Sol System, Virgo Supercluster, Earth-1218
E-Rank Jutsu! The Camping 10!
That pun was bad and you should feel bad.
You know, I think Brother Hou is going to get a reputation, but ironically enough the words about him losing the girl will be proven correct. Not because Adam is a secret grandpa, but because his efforts to expose him will make people look at him in an amusing way.
Also, after they were mercenaries and Brother Hou's ongoing efforts, I'm going to say it was the villagers that sold Adam out. Mostly because Brother Hou is a little too invested in exposing Adam than murdering him and if Adam gets killed than Hou will never be able to expose him.
Also, after they were mercenaries and Brother Hou's ongoing efforts, I'm going to say it was the villagers that sold Adam out. Mostly because Brother Hou is a little too invested in exposing Adam than murdering him and if Adam gets killed than Hou will never be able to expose him.
- Location
- Israel
But why would the villagers try to kill him? Perhaps they're thinking that he cares about them and blaming them for his mother's death + following theft of personal belongings/resources.
Or perhaps it's his mother's family trying to tie up loose ends... Who's to say that the monster attack wasn't them in the first place? Shouldn't be hard for them to pay off someone to move a sedated beast near the village and let it rampage there.
Edit: In case it wasn't clear, I'm enjoying postulating about this and various other stuff that is obscured from us readers.
Or perhaps it's his mother's family trying to tie up loose ends... Who's to say that the monster attack wasn't them in the first place? Shouldn't be hard for them to pay off someone to move a sedated beast near the village and let it rampage there.
Edit: In case it wasn't clear, I'm enjoying postulating about this and various other stuff that is obscured from us readers.
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I'm amused by Adam casually defeating Elder Cho's sensing technique.
At least I assume it's elder Cho.
- Location
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Brother Hou never wanted Adam dead, he just want Adam to admit he's a secret grandpa.
Yup. The only way I could see it is if Brother Hou hired some mercenaries that would be able to break the grandpa's cover, but not strong enough to actually be a threat to the sect. But then we see all the effort he has gone through for the other things to try and get him to admit it and I'm pretty much thinking that even if he had the ability to do so, he would not, because then HE would not be the one to make the grandpa infiltrating the sect admit his dastardly plan! Also, someone could get hurt by accident!
Brother Hou, a good guy, if a little strange and obsessed
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Brother Hou's the crazy conspiracy kid at school who's sure the new kid who just moved in is an alien in disguise working for the government to push the milk agenda in schools' cafeteria and mind control people with the Oxygen in the air. But he's also the guy that if you are his friend will always be there for you.
Fragnostic
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Yes, this sums up Adam nicely, doesn't it?
Ha! As if. If only you know the bigger truth.
"I AM LORD BURNS"
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Quick, someone figure out an anagram for "Adam Adventure Burns"!
Edit: Wait, won't it be "Chongsheng Adam" in this case? Cuz that's his name in this word.
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Just before leaving: "WE APOLOGIZE FOR THE INCONVENIENCE" (you know, in 20 foot tall flaming letters next to a cliff face)
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I found something even funnier by going here Multiple Word Anagram Solver
It's more of a hit and miss than your link, but the results can be funnier if you sift through garbage.
mensch gonad hag
Or as I prefer to arrange it "Gonad Mensch Hag"
Or "Hang Dong Schema" (schema hang dong on the site)
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Hes not wrong though. Not right but not wrong. Technically Adam is 14+ however old he was when he split. Not really sure since time is weird around Adam and a year can go by in a few posts
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This was actually what sparked the idea for me, but I thought the HP reference would better convey the image of the technique when in use.
That and Adam anagramming his name for a 'big reveal' was too funny to pass up.
I can't wait for Adam just to start re-writing things in his own words and submitting them.
I'm wondering how Adam might troll people with how he puts his words together. Oh, make it where they have to understand the karma or live it properly or something to really get it.
The thing is he isn't just memorizing mountains of text, but somehow processing them and reducing them to the barest true essentials. When he basically rewrites and submits his traveling/camping 15-20, there will be interest. He will likely be keeping to the KISS outlook and just explaining things the easiest that he can.
Everything that was out there was pretty much out there because it was starter stuff or that they wanted folks to start using it. Adam didn't just read through everything, but will eventually publish a better-compiled book.
There is a method to the madness. Sister Quan doesn't have a clue just what sort of awesome prodigy that she just escorted through the free stuff. She had a point though. That stuff he could come back and learn at any time. In theory.
He likely had a better idea though. It's better for him to spend a few days going through all those starter texts and finding something that really calls to him or puts a true direction to his path. Now he has a vastly better idea of what to spend his time on in the more advanced section.
If he really does well at improving readability and reducing waste from the text, I could see them asking him to go through some of those lesser learned advanced texts to see just what he makes of things. It'll be surprising just how he puts things to use.
I can see him focusing on mundane utility, healing, and little things. Flashy? Not so much. He can do flashy by himself on total accident. He needs the building blocks of others before he gets to that stage.
I'm not sure the Brother Hou really works for me. It's like he only appeals to our from of humor. Those there would just look at him funny. The ancient secret grandpapas wouldn't even care about his little attempts. They'd just keep on doing whatever and well accidentally troll him. Adam is actually worse. He doesn't even notice Hou except as a friendly source of free stuff.
I'm wondering how Adam might troll people with how he puts his words together. Oh, make it where they have to understand the karma or live it properly or something to really get it.
The thing is he isn't just memorizing mountains of text, but somehow processing them and reducing them to the barest true essentials. When he basically rewrites and submits his traveling/camping 15-20, there will be interest. He will likely be keeping to the KISS outlook and just explaining things the easiest that he can.
Everything that was out there was pretty much out there because it was starter stuff or that they wanted folks to start using it. Adam didn't just read through everything, but will eventually publish a better-compiled book.
There is a method to the madness. Sister Quan doesn't have a clue just what sort of awesome prodigy that she just escorted through the free stuff. She had a point though. That stuff he could come back and learn at any time. In theory.
He likely had a better idea though. It's better for him to spend a few days going through all those starter texts and finding something that really calls to him or puts a true direction to his path. Now he has a vastly better idea of what to spend his time on in the more advanced section.
If he really does well at improving readability and reducing waste from the text, I could see them asking him to go through some of those lesser learned advanced texts to see just what he makes of things. It'll be surprising just how he puts things to use.
I can see him focusing on mundane utility, healing, and little things. Flashy? Not so much. He can do flashy by himself on total accident. He needs the building blocks of others before he gets to that stage.
I'm not sure the Brother Hou really works for me. It's like he only appeals to our from of humor. Those there would just look at him funny. The ancient secret grandpapas wouldn't even care about his little attempts. They'd just keep on doing whatever and well accidentally troll him. Adam is actually worse. He doesn't even notice Hou except as a friendly source of free stuff.
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What I get from Brother Hou is that he's an idiot who views basically everyone as a "love rival" and has just unusually focused on Adam for the time being. Basically I see him as overly envious that Sister Quan is looking after someone who is progressing quickly. He's not malicious just a bit focused in the wrong direction, and I'd honestly like to see him work things out and make an honest effort to win over Sister Quan. (If my interpretation of Adam is right he would probably help him.)
Really the amount of female characters who are just totally ok with a polygamous/polyamorous relationship is kinda stretching my suspension of disbelief to breaking points. Like it's just not how people are.
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You kinda have to remember that Nightmare and Twilight detached off the harem and are mostly their own item now. His Harem's just SimmyX2, Narwhal and Betty. And Simmy^2 are kinda there for the show most of the times (and a lot of teasing and trolling)
Not entirely correct. Its not common in western culture/society due to the fact that our social/economic model does not prioritize it. After all, if you went to a culture were harems were the norm and got them to look at single partner relationships, they might see something odd with that, mainly due to the fact that only one woman is expected to have many children to expand the family? That there will be a lack of alliances sealed through blood (and the last alone should tell you that it tends to be upper/noble class)?
Also, in terms of pure 'what can we get out of it' one can view the polygamous relationship as less of a harem situation and more of a web of friends with benefits. After all, if everyone is aware and okay with the situation... well, hey, its their life to live and aside from Simmie tricking him into marriage that one time its not like there was any force exerted on anyones part.
Also, refreshing my understanding of the settings....
Worm- Narwhal be kinky. CD... I'm not qualified to give too much of an opinion, but consider the fact that she can create multiple run times and instances of herself and reintegrate them.
My Little Pony; Herd animals that even when intelligent likely use a somewhat different set of instincts than we do. Add in the fact that the situation is weighted so there are more females than males.
Remnant; High stress environment with killing constructs (Grim) wandering about. Given the rate at which people can fall, I'd say that increasing the birthrate and large families would be necessary for civilizations survival. Add in casual post-sex sex to bond and relive tension as part of the normal set of reactions. Then throw in the fact that while they are mostly human, Fanus do have animal DNA and likely some of the instincts, and having one male to multiple females is a common species focused survival tactic.
My apologies for the rambling, I'm a bit of a lightweight when it comes to alcohol.
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