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Cultivating Magic

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Ah Mei, eventually you'll get your cultivator skeleton army.

Also, I'm LIKING the sibling bond the two of them are creating, so I'm actually hoping this doesn't heel turn into an oblivious romance...

"Otherwise, free loot?"
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Aw, he's growing up into a fine murderhobo! Mei must be so proud...

I had to admit that one of the reasons I wanted the axe-like halberd form was due to the gap moe of a "petite" person like me wielding a huge weapon.
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... Mei liked watching "Gate - And Thus the JSDF Fought There!", didn't she? Granted, Rory Mercury is a pretty great inspiration to draw from.

Blaflaix said:
I've only seen one story where the desire to return home translated to their personal decisions, and that was a demon who decided to work toward Dimensional Mage to return to hell.
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Oh! I've seen another! "The Most Evil Trainer (Pokémon SI)" a Pokemon story by Wisetypewriter over on SpaceBattles. That story was great. So if you can stomach that site, give it a try! It finished up last year, so you won't have to wait for any updates.

Nitramy said:
If I had a nickel each time "Take Me Home, Country Roads" was featured in a xianxia story I read, I would have two nickels.

Which isn't a lot, but it's weird that it happened twice.
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..."Beware of Chicken"?
 
xbox432 said:
Also, I'm LIKING the sibling bond the two of them are creating, so I'm actually hoping this doesn't heel turn into an oblivious romance...
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I am a supporter of it becoming romantic, though I am aware that the MC has so far utterly rejected male partners. I enjoy slow burn incidental romance contrary to previous preferences in genderbender
 
tricholysis said:
I am a supporter of it becoming romantic, though I am aware that the MC has so far utterly rejected male partners. I enjoy slow burn incidental romance contrary to previous preferences in genderbender
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Ah, that's fine. I'm not going to be TOO upset if the story swings that way, just a bit disapointed. It's so hard to find good "found sibling/bromance" between a man and woman. And I keep daydreaming of one day Mei sending a Message to her parents, letting them know that they now have a son.
 
SpiraSpira said:
I wasn't treble-classing, honest.
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What you did there, I see it. Fortunately, I was saved from mental anguish by sheer drowsiness.

With no clear kingdom building (that the OC is involved with), main antagonists (in the cultivation world), or overriding conflicts, the D&D/cultivation progression really carries the lion's share of the story's linear progression. Which is fine, for as long as a build up phase can be drawn out.

It's also clear that Xiao Li's some kind of protagonist, but what of his goals? Power, love and re-incorporating his grandmother? If there were hints of something more, I'm spacing them.
Hopefully Mei Wen doesn't split the group, cause her long term goals seem to be travel and cultivate; which sounds a bit too close to Slice of Life to be interesting.
Also, I'm really really hoping she keeps her relationship with Xiao Li as a friend or sibling. While a gradual change in sexual preferences could be good for story development, especially for a long lived person/race, I'd hate it; Potentially good for storytelling, but disappointing for me.
 
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Were you flying an Mi-8 for relief work? I saw a photo of one flying to the flooding in the US and thought "is that Spira?"
 
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deadlyham said:
Were you flying an Mi-8 for relief work? I saw a photo of one flying to the flooding in the US and thought "is that Spira?"
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No, I'm based in the southwest. I have done temporary FEMA deployments at my company in past hurricanes, but there wasn't one requested this time… we do have bases in the area and they are helping but as far as I know the government didn't specifically ask us or other companies to bring large amount of outside assets in like they have in the past. I'm not sure why, although I have heard rumours that the FEMA budget has already been mostly spent this year but I don't know how true that is.

I'd be terrified to fly an Mi-8 given how old most of them are, although one would expect any in the USA to be in relatively good condition. Although it would be awesome, as well. Would bring back childhood memories… despite being born in Soviet Republic I've never had the opportunity to fly any Soviet aircraft, except for one time a friend took me up in his L-39 which was awesome.
 
Our protagonist is a hillbilly from West Virginia that finds himself in the middle of a summoning between some Necromancers (heavily based and inspired on D&D5e) and a Great Old One.
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I don't know why but I keep imagining this as though the necromancers themselves are very based, and I can't stop chuckling at the idea lol.
 
Yeah, but it didn't get much response, and the author stopped. But that will be fine too because removal is part of the contract.
 
lord_Bren said:
Skimming through previous chapters, I have no memory of this story whatsoever, and no idea why I am watching it. A very confusing prospect considering I normally have a very good memory of fanfic, and this last updated only a year ago. Guess I'll have to trust my former self and re-read the entire thing.
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So, it's been a while, but I'm back online after having my power knocked out by a certain natural disaster or two, and I can say that I am officially caught up! I recognized it maybe a third of the way through; this is actually what introduced me to Changeling the Lost, which I then proceeded to never play due to scheduling conflicts; I have no idea how it slipped my mind.

With that out of the way, yeah, that city trying to hunt them down was about as expected. Realistically, custom necromantic items should be commissioned through the unnamed conspiracy without too much difficulty, and anything other than that would be pushing it. Honestly, if they are expecting her to go undercover as a demonic elder, stuff like that would basically be required, so she could probably get them at much-reduced prices.
 
Recently found this story... it was a couple of sleepless nights. Good times.

About the latest chapter.
It is good to see Little Li growth- I am waiting when he will reach "Brother, you are the cover" state.
Li and Mei look like an ideal couple from the outside, people ship them. It's funny when one of them is lustful "diremonster" insatiable for young women flesh and the other is Xiao Li who might still be a virgin.
Can not wait for Mei adventures as Daemonic Sect Wandering Elder. She gonna be terrifying some demonic cultivators with her subtle deceiving skills which make Karma detectors to ping her as a good person. Like Palpatine. Li can pretend to be her obviously mind controlled bodyguard. Or Mercenary. It is for a good cause after all. Or she might bribe him with sweets or something

P.S. after watching excellent vtuberr eaction to Hellsing Abridged I had a flash of Insight. With this Soul holding technique Mei has reached an eldritch status of "I am the Gate, I am the key!" (To frozen eternally snowy hellscape where wrathful dark spirits of very bad people dwell). Wasn't some eldritch entity in Lovecraft Mythos described similarly? Can Mei potentially build her own Hell? What if someone gives a consent to her to hold their soul? Can she bring those souls into cloned bodies as kind of rebirth (remember the book with Clone spell)? Of course this is all potential for distant future

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Lol, she is a scatterbrained icy beauty 😂
Also starting to hope she does get together with Xiaoli at this rate, they act like such a good couple!!
 
Ace Dreamer said:
Wouldn't it be more fun if they never quite get together? Maybe he'll fall for some fire-aspected lass who turns out to be a secret monster, or something?
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I was 🤔 more all my the lines of they suddenly come out of a cultivating streak and realize they're basically already life partners😆
 
orchamus said:
I was 🤔 more all my the lines of they suddenly come out of a cultivating streak and realize they're basically already life partners😆
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They are platonic life-partners. Their relationship is pure. The Purest! She washed his clothes, he stacked dead bodies for her.
They have Love. It's not kind of love a couple in sexual relationship have. It's kind of love bros have, where they both can admire the same boobs. But their Love is kinda lke what spacemarines of the same Chapter have, where they ready to kill and die for each other. No homo.
 
Centergg said:
They are platonic life-partners. Their relationship is pure. The Purest! She washed his clothes, he stacked dead bodies for her.
They have Love. It's not kind of love a couple in sexual relationship have. It's kind of love bros have, where they both can admire the same boobs. But their Love is kinda lke what spacemarines of the same Chapter have, where they ready to kill and die for each other. No homo.
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I'll admit it was hilarious how long it took GW to spot the subtext in some of the WH40k Space Marine novels written for them...

Quite a few excellent work of fiction, though, have IMO not been improved, sometimes weakened, by including romance elements. Yes, we all know the selection drive for physical relationships - otherwise, no next generation(s), but it can really interfere with fun companionship(s). Eros has its place, but Philia and Agape (etc.) are fun, too.
 
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