Disciples of Red Dew Sect (Cultivation Riot Quest)

Turn 8: Results
@szymonmolitoris2
@Oseanman
@Poofs
@Expecting Me
@moon-llama

A surprising number of disciples are willing to venture into the ancient devil forest even as the blizzards rage outside the sect. Using Qi to warm their bones they push through the snow drifts, run on top of them, or bounce from tree to tree depending on their elemental nature. A lucky few have enough internal fire to melt their way forward, and these attract other disciples to benefit from the heat.

It was for this reason that Li, Bái Yǔ, June Peng, Tan Bo, and Luòtuó found themselves traveling together through the outskirts of the forest. They forge their way through the snow until they make their way into the ancient devil forest. It's clearer here, but the trees are not altogether dormant and they need to be alert for surprise branch assaults.

Perhaps it is because they are so busy looking up and around that they fail to pay much attention to their feet. The ground shifts and creaks then gives way entirely as frost and fire weaken the stones. And the disciples are pitched downward into a dank cavern.

Looking around they are pleased to see that it is clearly artificial. They have stumbled into some kind of ruin. Unfortunately they are less pleased when ancient formations activate and the hole above them is repaired before their eyes. Not only does that cut off their exit, but it means the ruins are active. Never a good sign.

And so it proves once again as the disciples spend the next week dodging traps, fighting nesting spirit beasts, and charting an entire labyrinth as they attempt to make their way out. By the time battered and bedraggled group manages to make it back to the sect most of them are heavily injured and the others only healthy by comparison.

Still they have definitely found a location worthy of closer exploration as shown by the plethora of treasures and minor artifacts they turn into the Resource Pavilion.

Li: 90 Spirit Stones
Bái Yǔ: 60 Spirit Stones, Injured
June Peng: 45 Spirit Stones, Injured
Tan Bo: 75 Spirit Stones, Injured
Luòtuó: 60 Spirit Stones



@_Plague Doctor_
@CedeTheBees

The disciples in search of winter herbs either have better or worse luck depending on your point of view. There are less of them for one and they don't fall into any ancient traps. On the other hand that means they have to find potential herb glades with only their own senses.

And given that most of those herb glades are under huge mounds of snow its difficult to tell just which ones actually have living herbs under them. Riyadh solves this problem with time. He simply spends some of his accumulated stores to spend several months searching instead of one.

Gan Jia's take is more precise. They consult their herb manual for herbs that are known to grow in cold weather, and then extrapolate which ones might be able to survive so much snow. That and a little intuition lets them gather almost twice as many bundles as Riaydh despite the latter's chronal advantages.

Riyadh: 60 Spirit Stones
Gan Jia: 120 Spirit Stones





@Jaguar2234
@wrecksalot
@Abyssius
@KreenWarrior
@dingdonghadron

The first thing Sect Mistress Ping tells the disciples who dare to take her up on her offer of potential training is to set aside their weapons and armor. She wishes to see their raw talent without such artificial aids. Then the sect mistress shows them a set of simple moves and sets them to sparring for a few days.

The disciples are tentative at first, but as the sect's mistress calls out taunts and orders them to go faster and faster they find themselves becoming more aggressive. Until after a week it is not uncommon for blood to be spilled as they assault each in the training pavilion.

As the spars continue the sect mistress pits them one against each other and has the losers sit and watch. Until finally her selection culminates in Liu Jin and Zise Ren having what can only described as a pitched battle as they brawl.

They almost maim each other, but the sect mistress separates them with a wave of her hand that sends the two cultivators flying apart. Afterwards the sect mistress looks mildly pleased and gifts each of the participants with a small pouch of spirit stones.

Liu Jin: 80 Spirit Stones, Red in Tooth and Claw 2/3
Jian Ke: 80 Spirit Stones, Red in Tooth and Claw 1/3
Liang Xinyue: 80 Spirit Stones, Red in Tooth and Claw 1/3
Zise Ren: 80 Spirit Stones, Red in Tooth and Claw 2/3
Yu Siyuan: 80 Spirit Stones, Red in Tooth and Claw 1/3




@Worm_that_Walks
@CausalityCircle
@digital2
@SeptimusMagisto
@DiscordOxymoron

The mortals of the Red Dew Barony are surprised to be stirred from their winter isolation by the disciples of the Red Dew sect. The disciples would rather not be out in this weather for such a menial task either. But the elders have demanded it so it shall be done.

From hut to hut they travel. Sometimes they have to dig the huts out from under huge mountains of snow as the inhabitants blink at them like disturbed moles. The outer disciples gather all the necessary information that the elders require while the inner disciples quickly test each one's spirit roots with crystal orb.

Feng Shou and Cheng Nan are distracted by their personal hunt for information and so only question a few thousand mortals each. While Zhōusān and Jin Mei are able to organize other disciples to help them process tens of thousands. It is the Changjian sisters who are the real stars of the mission however.

Rumors start spreading that they are offering silver and the mortals start flocking to them in droves. All of which are easily handled by the sisters and their friends as they work together with the ease of long familiarity. In fact they are so successful that the inner disciples allow them help with the spirit root testing. Something that lets them overhear the inner disciples discussing how the sect will be able to handle the thousands of new identified disciples.

Cheng Nan: 45 Spirit Stones
Zhōusān: 75 Spirit Stones
Feng Shou: 45 Spirit Stones
Jin Mei: 90 Spirit Stones
Changjian Meinu: 50 Spirit Stones, +2 Rep Mortals



@Epic Bygones

Not many disciples accept the task to clean up the sect's old pavilions, but among those who do are Wu Ji Nin and Yong Jiahao. Together the two are like a storm that leaves behind order instead of destruction. They tackle pavilion after pavilion cleaning dust, painting walls, and repairing furniture.

By the time they are done they are responsible for nearly a dozen gleaming pavilions all on their own and the impressed inner disciple rewards them with a sack of spirit stones.

Wu Ji Nin: 180 Spirit Stones, +1 Rep Inner Disciple


@fluxeal
@Shogeton
@alexthealright
@LinkOnScepter
@Shadowolf235

The infirmary is quieter this month. Less disciples venture out in the depths of winter to get injured, and their cultivation prevents them from falling to seasonal mortal ills. So there are less injured to recuperate in the halls of healing.

It isn't entirely empty however. Some disciples considered their current tasks too important to stop and so are only now submitting themselves to the ministries of the old doctor. Others are just now returning to the sect from long term missions. Either way they are here now and the mortal servants and medical disciples ensure that their injuries are carefully tended to.

Xìngyùn xīng: Healed
Cai Delan: Healed
Hawk Cyr: Healed
Daiki Inoue: Healed
Chen De: +2 Insights Healing



@LordEdric

It doesn't take Ding Dong long to figure out that he can produce mortal tools with ease. The mundane materials seem to mold themselves under his hammer with just a little bit of qi. And he produces sword after sword that are masterworks of steel and sharpness.

They are of course useless to him. He can bend them with ease and no matter how he sharpens them they do little more than nick his skin. A gleaming hoe breaks after a handful of cultivator strength swings. A hammer shatters when he attempts to forge some crimson copper.

Still he's left with a stack of gleaming mortal weapons and tools. Even a few pieces of armor. He carries them down the mountain and sells them to some interested mortal merchants for several bags of silver. It barely covers his costs, but contacts with the mortal merchants is something at least.

Ding Dong: 5,000 Silver, +1 Insight Blacksmithing, +1 Rep Merchants
@CoreBrute

Maggot spends the month searching the technique pavilion for some scroll to teach him how to ride a beast. Eventually he finds one with the innocuous name, "How to Ride Anything." Following its instructions he learns techniques for soothing beasts and imparting instructions to any kind of creature. As well as how to temper his body to endure the rigors of riding.

Maggot Gravedirt: How to Ride Anything. 2/3
@Floom

It turns out taming a shadow panther is a lot more difficult than capturing one. Especially once its had enough to eat and isn't half starving in the snow. Wuyin goes through a pile of lama shanks before it even deigns to let her close. Something she learns the hard way when it decides it has had enough one day and mauls her arm.

Still she perseveres, and by the end of the month the panther cub is willing to consistently let her show it affection.

Wuyin: Injured, +4 Rep Shadow Panther Cub
@Uber_Fail_Dinesh

Hong Xing spends the month in the alchemy hall using a free cauldron to brew together the ingredients for a pure essence pill. It takes most of the month to carefully monitor the distillation of the ingredients, but the result is fairly good for a first attempt. He has managed to refine the materials he had on hand enough to advance the final pill a grade.

Used: 10 Spirit Stones, 10 Clay Spirit Herbs
Hong Xing: 1 Copper Pure Essence Pill

@MrRageQuit

Song Zhili looks through the technique pavilion for a manual on training alchemy beyond the basics available in the Red Dew School. He has a stroke of luck when he finds a manual tucked away behind some spare red dew manuals called the Celestial Cauldron. Opening the first he begins perusing it and is amazed at how easy and intuitive the technique is.

It only takes a few return trips for Song Zhili to have fully familiarized himself with the first chapter of the manual and be confident in his ability to produce basic elixirs and pills.

Song Zhili: Learned Celestial Cauldron
@HousePet

Every skilled chef should know how to prepare a carcass, and so Pan Tingfen paid careful attention to those parts of the Red Dew School. As such his cuts are swift and precise as he carefully extracts various vital organs. He avoids piercing a particularly nasty gallbladder that would ruin a large section of the corpse and so gains quite a haul of useful components from the corpse. Either for cooking later or selling to his more alchemically inclined sect mates.

Lost: 1 clay spirit beast corpse
Pan Tingfeng: 30 Spirit Herbs

@Guest99

Jiang Chen trains with his sword for long hours. Through the cold, freezing cold, and cold that numbs bones he keeps at it fighting imaginary foes, training dummies, and any disciples willing to brave the cold. Slice after slice he works on his precision. Working out the exact sequence he needs to deal the maximum damage with the minimum of effort. By the end of the month he feels he is on the edge of a new level of understanding of how to use his sword. But he is not quite there yet.

Jiang Chen: 10,000 Mathematical Variations Technique 2/3 (Clay)
@Bylba

There are unfortunately not really any exorcists in the sect currently. The inner disciples that Lung Doji talks to are encouraging, but don't offer much in the way of practical advice. It's all koans and riddles that will probably be enlightening after Lung Doji figures out the answer for himself. Still he is pointed in the direction of the sect memorial hall. It's a long silent chamber with thousands of alcoves covering the walls. Each one with a small casket full of ashes. It's a good place to practice communicating with the dead and Lung Doji gets to work.

Lung Doji: Manual Divining the Dead (2/3)
@SootCube

Venturing to the edge of the woods even in the depths of winter is a risky proposition especially for a lone disciple. So Gu Jin is cautious as he explores. Luck is with him and he eventually finds a small grove of Viridian Nut saplings. He digs up one, and then another, but when he tries for a third he finds that the disturbance of the soil has woken up the grove from their dormancy. Roots and branches whip out at him and he barely escapes with his prizes and a nasty gash on his leg that seems to pulse with virulent qi.

Gu Jin: 2 Viridian Nut Saplings, Injured
@rush99999

Hanyi Huoshui has run the mortals out of barrels. There are no more to be had in Roaring Furnace City for any price, and no more wood to build more until Spring. Still in talking to dozens of coopers Huoshui gains a better understanding of how to actually make barrels should wood become available.

Hanyi Huoshui: 1 Insights Path of the Cooper
@Vanestus

Liao Chuanli's search leads him to the ominously titled manual The Path of Slaughter. With only a moments hesitation he opens it to find that the title is being very literal. It is a technique for slaughtering spirit beasts. Albeit ones that aren't really fighting back. It's fairly straightforward in fact and between Liao Chuanli and Qin Xiaobo putting their heads together they are able to figure out how to apply the various cuts and slices illustrated in the manual to best effect.

Liao Chuanli: Learned The Path of Slaughter
@Synergy

There isn't much more that the mortals can teach Jang Hui. They show her a few more woodworking techniques and talk about the dangers of river travel, but frankly they spend more time in the marshy shallows on rafts. And those are more designed to look like natural debris so as to avoid spirit beasts. Anything more advanced Jang Hui will probably have to come up with herself.

Jang Hui: +1 Insights Shipwright


That should be everyone, but let me know if I missed you.


Official Cultivation Results Turn 8
Hawk "Primal Monkey" CyrTempered Lungs: Done, Tempered Heart: 8/9
Lung DojiTempered Lungs: 4/7
Hanyi HuoshuiTempered Lungs: 1/7
Wu Ji NinTempered Lungs: Done, Tempered Heart: Done, Tempered Stomach: Done
Song ZhiliTempered Lungs: Done, Tempered Heart: Done, Tempered Stomach: Done
LiTempered Lungs: 5/7
RiyadhTempered Lungs: Done, Tempered Heart: 1/9
Jin MeiTempered Lungs: Done, Tempered Heart: 4/9
Changjian MeinuTempered Lungs: Done, Tempered Heart: Done, Tempered Stomach: 3/10
WuyinTempered Lungs: Done, Tempered Heart: Done, Tempered Stomach: 8/10
Hong XingTempered Lungs: Done, Tempered Heart: 7/9
Gu JinTempered Lungs: Done, Tempered Heart: Done, Tempered Stomach: Done
LuòtuóTempered Lungs: Done, Tempered Heart: Done, Tempered Stomach: 2/10
Liao ChuanliTempered Lungs: Done, Tempered Heart: Done, Tempered Stomach: Done
Bái YǔTempered Lungs: 2/7
Feng ShouTempered Lungs: Done, Tempered Heart: 0/9
Xìngyùn xīngTempered Lungs: Done, Tempered Heart: Done, Tempered Stomach: Done
Pan TingfengTempered Lungs: Done, Tempered Heart: 8/9
Zise RenTempered Lungs: Done, Tempered Heart: 4/9
Cai DelanTempered Lungs: Done, Tempered Heart: 1/9
Daiki InoueTempered Lungs: Done, Tempered Heart: 1/9
Gan JiaTempered Lungs: Done, Tempered Heart: Done, Tempered Stomach: Done
Liang XinyueTempered Lungs: Done, Tempered Heart: 3/9
Ding DongTempered Lungs: 6/7
Jang HuiTempered Lungs: Done, Tempered Heart: 0/9
Yu SiyuanTempered Lungs: Done, Tempered Heart: 0/9
Jian KeTempered Lungs: Done, Tempered Heart: 6/9
Maggot GravedirtTempered Lungs: Done, Tempered Heart: Done, Tempered Stomach: 0/10
Kang ShuiTempered Lungs: Done, Tempered Heart: Done, Tempered Stomach: Done
Jiang ChenTempered Lungs: Done, Tempered Heart: 0/9
Liu JinTempered Lungs: Done, Tempered Heart: 0/9
June PengTempered Lungs: 4/7
Tan BoTempered Lungs: 2/7
Chen DeTempered Lungs: 1/7
Cheng NanTempered Lungs: 1/7
ZhōusānTempered Lungs: 1/7
 
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Okay. What would you like in return?
The question would be: by cooking them, you get something extra? Or you get one meal for corpse?
Because I was thinking that getting Iron Meals equivalent to the number of corpses would be enough and you can get the differences.
(Having good relationship with the chef sounds a good investment).
 
The question would be: by cooking them, you get something extra? Or you get one meal for corpse?
Because I was thinking that getting Iron Meals equivalent to the number of corpses would be enough and you can get the differences.
(Having good relationship with the chef sounds a good investment).
Swapping for Iron Spiritual Meals is fine. It looks like Pan Tingfeng has far more than he needs to get to Forged Soldier.
Pan Tingfeng hopes to be able to create his own Iron Meals in future so having lots of materials to practice with will help a lot. And someone has to help with taste testing.
How many did you with to exchange?
 
The question would be: by cooking them, you get something extra? Or you get one meal for corpse?
Because I was thinking that getting Iron Meals equivalent to the number of corpses would be enough and you can get the differences.
(Having good relationship with the chef sounds a good investment).

the problem is that if you take into account action efficiency, it's way better to sell the corpses for spirit stones than trying to craft Iron Grade Meals out of Clay grade ingredients.

so if he just uses the corpse as ingredients then he would have enough materials for 5 actions worth of crafting, but it would take 3 successes on the action to craft one iron grade Meal, and dice pools are small enough that three successes are by no means guarunteed.

On the other hand, by selling the corpse for 20 spirit stones he could buy 2 Iron Grade Herbs, enough for 2 crafting actions using Pan Tingfeng's awesome recipe. Assuming the same three successes as the other example, this one would make 3 iron grade meals, and if he gets less it ends up with one or two Iron Grade Meals rather than one Clay or Copper grade one.

so even assuming Pan Tingfeng was willing to spend the next 5 turns crafting he would be better off spending 2 actions crafting using the other method.

or at least, this is what this Jian Ke has gathered from reviewing Fellow Disciple Wuyin's useful scriptures.

If someone with a similar recipe is selling, then Jian Ke will offer 60 spirit stones to commission a Silver Grade Spiritual Meal. this is enough for 5 actions worth of crafting(assuming such a chef is using silver grade herbs to make silver grade meals), but a skilled craftsman can probably get at least two Meals per action from it.
 
I'm not going for the Dao of Efficiency here. XD
Pan Tingfeng would never dare to use Iron grade materials without proving himself worthy first.
(I also need to get a feel for how the crafting rolls work.)

Some of the corpses would likely be used for Clay grade Natural Treasures. Pan Tingfeng would like some Qi Infused Chef Knives. With sufficient assistance, we might be able to get a Copper or even Iron rank treasure made. That will make future cooking more effective. I will drown this Sect in rice balls!
 
I'm not going for the Dao of Efficiency here. XD
Pan Tingfeng would never dare to use Iron grade materials without proving himself worthy first.
(I also need to get a feel for how the crafting rolls work.)

Some of the corpses would likely be used for Clay grade Natural Treasures. Pan Tingfeng would like some Qi Infused Chef Knives. With sufficient assistance, we might be able to get a Copper or even Iron rank treasure made. That will make future cooking more effective. I will drown this Sect in rice balls!
I mean, if from the corpses you get Clay Meals, I would accept them. If you think that from 5 Clay Spirit Corpses you get 5 Clay Meals, I accept them as payment. Cooking the hunted preys sounds more like Liang style than just buying random meals.
 
This junior can play in this quest fellow daoists? if someone can giveme some advices this junior will be happy.

New people can apply, but due to the limits of my humanity I can't accept 35 players at once. You can however fill out this character sheet, and I will add you to the waiting list.

Character Sheet
Name:
Description:
Personality:
Element: Pick from Wood, Earth, Fire, Metal, Water
Path: Your intended specialization can be anything you'd like though you'll need to take actions to pursue it.

Gift: Pick One
[ ] Extra Stripe: Your spirit root has four stripes instead of three meaning you can absorb Qi faster than your peers.
[ ] Tough Body: You start with an extra grade in the Body Attribute
[ ] Bright Spirit: You start with an extra grade in the Spirit Attribute
[ ] Heavenly Fortune: You start with an extra grade in the Fortune Attribute
[ ] Treasure: You won a treasure in an early tournament. A nice early boost to help you advance.
[ ] Friend: You've made a fast friend of your own age among the other disciples. They'll stick with you through thick and thin.
[ ] Technique Manual: You found a rare technique manual that will surely give you a leg up in your cultivation. (Tell me what kind of technique you're after.)

Attributes: Pick One
[ ] Improve Body
[ ] Improve Spirit
[ ] Improve Fortune
 
I mean, if from the corpses you get Clay Meals, I would accept them. If you think that from 5 Clay Spirit Corpses you get 5 Clay Meals, I accept them as payment. Cooking the hunted preys sounds more like Liang style than just buying random meals.
Accounting for the spirit stone ingredient cost, I think Pan Tingfeng can make 12-15 Clay Meals per corpse. With the caveat that that would take 6 turns.
After the next month, I think that Pan Tingfeng would be able to create ~5 Iron Meals per corpse, also takes 6 turns to use the entire corpse.

We could hold off for a turn or two and see how this shakes out in practice.
 
Name:Lucky Dong
Description:An orphan which one day appeared from nowhere in his town.He's pretty handsome but sometimes he's so clumsy that you ask how he stills alive, then you look him and realize he is always finding spirit stones in the streets, the bastard. Also likes to know how things work more often breaking what he is trying to investigate, and being an orphan make him known what its be abandoned and forget so he will never do this to people he considers his friends.
Personality:friendly, curios, clumsy,loyal
Element:Earth,
Path:Formations or arrays.

Gift: Pick One
[X] Heavenly Fortune: You start with an extra grade in the Fortune Attribute
Attributes: Pick One
[X] Improve Fortune
I went for a character like Mr. White in Cultivation chat group
If something its bad or need a change let me know.i didnt look other characters if they went with the luck path
 
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