Roth963
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Why are you picking forcing them first? Why not just pick the volunteers?
Distant Stars. (a WH40K/Xianxia civ Quest).
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Because the volunteers are more likely be cool with their sentences and not rebel. Forcing the unwilling ones gets rid of problematic prisoners.
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Roth963
If I become inactive with this massage, I died
The problem isn't rebellion here, we are asking for volunteers to die, if anything, volanteers are more likely to rebel because they are deliberately choosing death.
The criminals are also the family of others, people are much less likely to care if their friends and family sacrificed themselves of their own choice, by doing so helping the keku race and giving money to their families as the reward, than if we deliberately picked the people who didn't volunteer to die for us like we are some third world dictator.
And even if they did rebel (which wasn't a problem ever in our reign), we can beat them down pretty easily and than eat them.
Turn 15: end.
Well, this has taken me way too long, we've started this turn back in -goes to check- oh god we started this in December. Hopefully the next few turns won't take me three months to complete.
But that depend on if I'll get tuck like I did on this one.
Anyways, it's been a long while so there might be mistakes or information I'm not remembering right, point it out and I'll fix it if anything comes up.
I hope you enjoyed the update, as we inch closer to the end.
But that depend on if I'll get tuck like I did on this one.
Anyways, it's been a long while so there might be mistakes or information I'm not remembering right, point it out and I'll fix it if anything comes up.
I hope you enjoyed the update, as we inch closer to the end.
Another decade has passed and with it passing you're inching ever closer to the apocalypse.
With the help of your divination, you estimate that the apocalypse will start anywhere between 0-3 decades (turns 16-19) from now.
The time is nigh, the apocalypse will come sooner then later, you must treat every year beyond this one as a blessing and nothing else.
Act as if the apocalypse has already started, least you find yourself unready.
Your information about the coming apocalypse is minor.
You do not know if you are ready, you cannot know if you are ready.
Soon you will know if you were ready.
-[X] The roar of thunder (must be top priority).
The construction of new artillery foundries has gone without a hitch, the raised taxes invested into churning out hundreds of artillery pieces a year, doubling your current production rate.
Additionally new factories for the require ammunition have also been built and their product stockpiled for the war to come, enough for weeks of engagements at full intensity, hundreds of thousands of shells and explosive siting in secure storges around the empire.
Factories of war updated +20 (rising toward 26) artillery units every turn.
-[X] To go beyond.
A new jewel sits upon the sky of your world, a gleaming and shining become for the future.
A large space station housing over three hundred keku with the tools and berths for the construction of true void ships.
The newly minted ships have flown out into the larger system and returned with a bounty few have seen in their life.
Minerals and metals mined form asteroids that could effectively not be found planet side. This bounty has mostly been claimed for paying the necrons so little economic gain was to be had this decade.
But the strange aliens have already left, lifting off and existing the system on their pyramid and already many of the scientist and engineers of the empire are salivating over getting access to the bounty of the stars.
Shipyard of the void- increased space presence. Increased the effectiveness of certain actions/projects +300% economic growth modifier.
-[X] To rule the sky.
Limited by expertise and resources constraints increasing the rate of construction of new aircraft has been… slow only increasing by half of what you already had.
The work on redesigning your aircraft models has gone significantly better, improving the resulting air vehicle considerably.
Foundries of war updated- +1.5 aircraft units per turn. Increased effectiveness of aircraft units.
-[X] arrange mass prayers.
Kuvara has spent the last decade creating more and more deva, for which the increased energy from the many organized mass prayers events has been greatly helpful for.
Unfortunately, with Okertaku gone and her need to defend the dreams of the keku the attrition of the fight with the four fell on her alone, many of her deva facing true death as they fight for their home.
+3 deva dots, -1 deva dot who got true deathed.
-[X] Keku claws. (updated).
With you starting to mobilize the economic power of the empire -mostly by laying down and increasing taxes- more work has been completed even as much of the resource output of the empire has been ceded to the necrons.
Full modernization of the entire Milita stands at a century hence, with tens of thousands of kits being made every year, you'll more than likely not have the time to fully modernize your armies but at least you removed the worst instances of equipment shortages by this point.
Factory of war updated- 9 turns until militia is fully equipped with second line equipment.
-[X] To sharpen the sword. (must be in the lowest three priorities). (new).
The recruitment and training of several new regiments has gone largely without a problem and at decades end you all but doubled the size of your Keku at arms.
It's mostly the required training for local militias that has seen problems and delays, mostly form the fact that people are busy and traying to fit an hour or two of regular training is a big disturbance to their life's which they resist.
Thankfully, this is why you started it this early, the wight of time and tradition slowly shifting to your side as many of the young Keku reaching their teenage hood would have had their fathers (and mothers) at least semi regularly go out for drills lowering their resistance to participating in it.
How effective the system of drills would be for the militia professionality and effectiveness remains to be seen but your general seems very pleased with the result of some of the larger drills they've run.
More units, militia unit update.
-[X] Infantry equipment. (updated).
Mostly this past decade has been focusing on the expansion of replacement parts and ammunition production, enough production of infantry kits has been spun up to keep with the army mobilization but little more as allowing your existing forces to fight for longer has been concluded to be of greater benefit then a few more advanced guns and protective equipment.
Keep up with army expansion, improve stockpiles.
-[X] The titans. (new).
A titan, a blessed tool of war. the sight of its large farm -even half finished- evokes an awe for the deadly weapon of war.
It's not yet complete but it is slotted for completing sometime in the next decade.
And yet the competition for who's going to pilot the massive weapon has already started and sont seem to be coming to an end anytime soon.
Half completed titan.
-[X] Kuvara's help
--[X] have Kuvara cast three tempering tribulations on you for the equivalent of 10 divine qi, you will try to make up for the cost with greater prayer for the empire, but she can draw some of the missing from the cultiavtors' pool if she find the prayers insufficient.
--[X] the first tribulation she'll be for your future sight, the second for your core harmony, and the third for your mind, should one fail, use your insight to survive it and repeat the failed one, if Kuvara got a lot of divine qi from the prayer and feel safe expanding more, have her cast additional one in case a previous one failed (meaning we missed from the later ones).
Three times has Kuvara brought her divine power down on you.
Three time you stood tall, taking the energy and infusing it into your being refining your very essence.
Your sight of the future became clearer, your core more harmonious and you mind expended, free from the confines of its restructured walls greater than before.
Gain tempered future sight, +5% core harmony and reduce the downsides of the mind fortress ritual while increasing the benefits.
-[X] immortal cooking
--[X] Body-mind energizing meal using the second grade herbs for as many third steps as possible, body nourishment meal for first step.
-[X] change alchemy production? (doesn't cost an action).
--[X] False Dantian pill- cost per charge: 50 EFEP. 1 notable G2 material (dantian). craft per charge: 25 capacity. effect: create a false second step. X 3
---[X] try to feed it to a sea animal while instructing it with your control over them, if considered feasible, have Terkahu use his own insight to help make a plant consume them, preferably fruit bearing one, but potentially a carnivore one, keep one in reserve, potentially for Kuvara's avatar if the process is determined safe.
--[X] The awakening pill (refined)- cost per charge: 10 EFEP. Craft per charge: 15 capacity. effect: each charge spent in a turn awaknes 20 new first step cultivators(note that overuse may lower quality of cultivators produced). Toxicity: 1. (For the rest of the production, use a single grade one herb per pill to empower them, the rest of the herbs go in storage).
The deep oceans of your home are full of mysterious and unknown creature, more then you ever imagined in you long life.
The first time you truly dived to its depth you discovered a whole new world, brutal and beautiful in a way only nature can be. The burden you bear has limited your exploration of the depth's but for this experiment you wanted the animal most likely to survive.
You more glided then swam through the water, the water pushing you forward at your command, your insight connecting to the many lifeforms around you, getting them to ignore you completely.
This deep there is no light by which to see, not that you need it your sight long beyond anything as mundane as light.
Finally, after hours of searching you find the specimen you're looking for. Its small for a fish of the depths but its ability to adapt to its changing environment has allowed it to spread over all the depths of the world.
It is the hope that its adaptive abilities would allow it to survive the process.
Unfortunately, as you feed it the pill you can already see its small soul bucking under the pressure, moments later and its dead.
You'll take its body to study, see if something changed within it, otherwise this was mostly a failure.
At least you got to see a soul imploding on itself? That's interesting, if in a morbid kind of way. could you replicate that?
Failure. Gain technique insight (soul implosion)- attack the soul in specific ways and let it implode on itself. Likely to be very deadly on mortals/beings with souls. Unknown effectiveness on deamons.
+1 false dantian pill. +3 awakening pills (used this turn).
-[X] Opening the twelve meridians- the twelve meridians don't offer any kind of straight combat power but they do grant great battle endurance as more Qi can be stored and gathered enough that even first steps might cast a powerful technique or two. give your disciples the instructions and leave to go about opening their meridians you'll be surprised if more than a tenth manage it within the time frame assigned but that may be a powerful boost to your armies.
Opening the meridians is a delicate process but its mostly time consuming. Giving your disciples both the leave and knowledge on how to open them has saw many of them attempting and succeeding at opening their meridians.
The boost offered by the meridians is subtle, it is not explosive in nature but it allows your disciples to fight harder and for longer.
Thos who have not managed to open their meridians by this point will continue trying to on their own time but you'll doubt more than a trickle would succeed without more effort. Your disciples are just too busy for them to make any great headway on their personal time.
Your disciples have started opening their meridians, increasing your cultivator forces endurance.
-[X] clean up- with your new energy banishment technique all that is left is to teach it to several of your students -as well as the nobles and five sects- and have them zealously go over the fields every time a tribulation is called down. (new)
Teaching the banishment technique to all of your disciples has gone reasonably well and within a few years they have begun zealously going over every inch of land where a tribulation has been called down.
And while it does help, at this point it might just be too late to truly influence things.
Lowered tribulation "pollution".
-[X] false pillar- the false pillar is a runic artifact the like of which you have no yet seen craft one for use. (new)
--[X] let Haku choose which is best for this purpose between the fountain blood, her moonlight and the material she can refine in a turn, the purpose of the pillar is a weapon against the lords and their servants.
--[X] defiance pillar of Maktu
--[X] for Shitaku
Haku has spent much of her time creating a false pillar for Shikatu, its base was crafted from pure jade alloyed with pristine moonlight and drenched in the blood of the life fountain.
She then covered with hundreds of small and extremally precises runes before allowing Maktu to infuse it with the concept of defiance.
The process of bonding to the artifact is simple and only requires a bit of essence form the individual, the false pillar stands empty for now ready to be inscribed the special insights which allow a cultivator to enforce their will upon the universe.
Gain a false pillar (defiance) bound to Shikatu, it can hold a limit of 5 insights with the materials it was produced with.
-[X] formations- the power of formations is undeniable, task you disciples which creating and refining new ones.
--[X] a formation to be used by mortals to increase their bravery, so they may not break at the fear inducing effects of the enemy.
For a formation to be possible there must be a connection between the participants, in the case of cultivators, this connection is Qi. Mortals though? Mortals cannot use Qi and while a formation for the few soldiers who were awakened is possible (and easy enough to design) it dos not answer for the need the empire cultivators set out to fulfil.
A different connection must be found but it eluded the cultivators who took up this project and with no solution in sight they petitioned the emperor for his wisdom.
He bid them to pray upon the matter and so they did.
For three days and three night they prayed to him, prayed for insight and wisdom.
And within prayer they found their answer, their prayer, their worship connected them to the emperor and to his great champions.
With the answer reveled the design of the formation itself has been swift as religious zeal pushed them forward.
Gain Hyme of valor formation- a formation that must be headed by a second step cultivator but give mortal troops high levels of fear resistance.
-[X] start a ritual- you wish to attempt a large working take your time and prepare.
--[X] ritual of fortified mind- gather the needed material and craft a defensive artifact to sacrifice and let your mind become a fortress.
Normally, when one crafts a defensive tool there are several factors on must take into account.
The first is of course its defensive capabilities but even more important than what the tool could defend against is the ability to use it. it would do you no good to have a shield which defends against everything but that you cannot move and willed.
This is less of a problem when you intend to sacrifice the artifact, then you can focus everything on the protection offered and not care a wit about how to actually utilize the artifact.
The ritual itself has gone off without a hitch, the benefit of having a friendly god on your side and it being a small ritual regardless.
The effect on yourself is weird and hard to conceptualize but your mind became worse at thinking outside the lines, the natural creatively and adoptability of all living things dimming just a little. The tempering following the ritual has done a lot to counteract this price you paid yet you paid it all the same.
At first it seemed as nothing changed in regards the lord of pleasure attacks, you still suffered and your burden become no lighter. It took many interactions for you to peel into the truth beneath the façade.
He was investing more attention and power to subvert your new defenses, its not that your new defenses have proven useless, it's that your enemy has escalated to match.
It was a little optimistic to think that a single ritual would be enough to safeguard you from the old god displeasure but every bit helps.
Preformed the mind fortress ritual successfully.
-[X] Divine body infusion- learning how to infuse divine QI into their own body would not only increase the power your disciples can muster but also allow them to infuse others, allowing you to raise pseudo cultivators without your direct involvement. (new)
Teaching your disciples how to infuse their own bodies with divine Qi has been a long and tedious affair, mostly for the disciples though. Your own part mostly done within a few days, the rest up to the dedication of your students.
Most could not manage; it's a hard skill to master but the few that managed already grew at least a head taller and became ever more powerful.
They now stood ready to empower others as needed.
Most third steps, and several second steps managed to infuse their own body with divine Qi, the more divine Qi left over at the end of the turn the more would manage it in the next few turns.
Gain the option to shunt empire Divine Qi to raise armies of infused soldiers.
-[X] the power of sacrifice (no option under here takes AP)- either by way of insight or technique you have found a way to greatly empower yourself by sacrificing something. (current lifespan 581)
--[X] sacrifice life- sacrifice 10 years of life span for 1 AP (current lifespan 450). X 4
-40 lifespan.
+40 lifespan from the formation.
--[X] locate the breaches part 2- now that you know the general amount and locations of the tears in reality it is time chip away and improve the accuracy of your information. (updated).
Asserting the truth of the quantity of tears that would be open and where is long tedious work. But nothing you are not used to by now.
Fifty-one (reduced from fifty seven by the artifact purchased from the necrons) is the most likely number but it could change by one or two depending on some unknown variable.
You have located the precise location of around half of the breaches and the general area of the rest, there is a limit of how many fortifications you can construct on top of them before they move but you have taken to influencing their placements to your advantage, pushing them away from major population centers and into hard terrain.
This information would also be of vital importance when the effort to build the second and third lines of defense would be kicked into gear.
Revealed that 51 is the likely number of tears in the world (13 north, 11 south, 11 west, 10 east, 6 center), bonus to certain actions. slight bonus to initial combat rolls.
--[X] Can you stop them? (increased effectiveness in taken with or after locate the breeches)- you know your enemy will arrive from tears in the world, the question that must be asked is could you stop them? can you act now and let the ripples of time reduce the number of tears opened?
Despite how long you looked you could not find a way for you to influence the amount of breach into reality being opened. Not anything beyond what you've already done.
There is just not enough time for any effect to martialize, if only you would have attempted to do so sooner.
Nothing.
--[X] The broken- you have your cure, you have your skill get around to pulling the ruptured cultivation bases of your broken, you'll still need to find a way to heal their bodies but they could advance once more and would regain most of their former selves swelling your ranks.
The actual process of healing the broken is not difficult, not now when you have fashioned your cure, merely time consuming.
You still need find a way to fully heal their body but that is a secondary concern.
Over the decade you have returned seventeen second steps and three hundred and thirty first steps back into active service, most of them were already part of the teachers, tasked with overseeing new disciples so the actual benefit in term of having more cultivators work is small.
Still, every cultivator is a powerful combatant even weakend as they are by their bodies.
+17 second steps, +330 first steps.
--[X] Divine infusement- with the new knowledge and a versatile power sources in divine Qi you may attempt to directly infuse divine Qi into an object or organism, the precise effects are not known but guaranteed to have some positive effect.
---[X] use divine qi for the action, use one divine qi to infuse into your power armour, use another single one to attempt to infuse spiritual herb, an animal and a tree.
Infusing an animal with divine Qi produces the same effect as utilizing it on a keku, breaking the body limits. There dos not seem to be any particular benefit to utilizing parts form such animals (aside form their size if that is a factor). Attempting to feed a infused animal one of the false dantian pills has the same reaction as with normal animals -they explode- through the subject dos last several seconds longer.
A spiritual herb shows no chance when the energy is infused into its form and you can see how the divine Qi slowly dissipates back into the environment not catching on the herb like you assumed it would. You do not know why this is the result and while intrigued as to the reason, you have more important matters to research.
At first, infusing a tree seems to show much of the same rection as a spiritual herb but carful observation revels that something dos happen but it is slow and likely needs more energy to actually complete.
Information.
--[X] pillar intent- intent infusment is something that has been known to the empire for a long time, perhaps not the why or how but the phenomena was noted. Now that you know you may carry those principles forward, the pillars of the soul (and the core for that matter) contain within in them a concept which is extremely pure and dense. This is one of the reasons for why the intent of a cultivators of a higher realm is so much better then those of lower ones and why not take that further, learning to externalize the concept of the pillar itself through ones intent would enhance it power. (new).
Pillar intent has been known to the empire and you for a long time, not that you called it such.
For long have you called upon the smallest glimpse of this power, a favorite of yours was to call upon fire when the cold crept in and bask in its warmth.
You have taken this further, no longer can you only call upon minor cantrips through the very Dao of your pillar, grand displays of sorcery's might are now within your grasp through your pillar alone, imitating the very insights you carefully carved upon them.
It costs no Qi and yet is tiring beyond belief as you call upon your very soul to change and mold realty to your will with understanding alone.
A powerful tool in your arsenal but one that must be used carefully and conversantly.
Gained Pillar intent, allowing you to bring the concept of a pillar (its Dao) into realty to shape it at great stress on your soul, letting you "create" pseudo insights like effect's.
--[X] To touch giants- if you wish to even attempt soul surgery on a soul as humongous as that of the world soul you would need to design and construct several Qi techniques which will allow you to do so with relative safely.
If you wanted to have any chance to perform surgery on a soul so large and powerful as that of the very world, you needed to design and test several techniques.
The first problem you needed to solve was that you needed to be able to look at a soul which could fit several times over in your field of vision. So large that you could not see it all at once. making identifying the effect of any touch on other parts of the soul more difficult to predict.
A simple eye technique only took you a month and a half to test to your satisfaction, it allowed you to compress the image your eyes sent to your brain as well as increase your field of vision several fold, enough to behold the entire soul at once.
You also needed to design several diagnostic techniques for things that you hadn't any need for with keku souls, knowledge of your own soul sufficient as a base for identifying problems and locations within souls of your race.
the final problem was actually affecting any kind of change on the soul. with smaller souls free manipulation of Qi was sufficient in channeling enough power to effect the soul and the increased adaptability and versatility such a method offered was beneficial for delicate work on the soul.
For a soul as big of the world? You needed to channel -a lot- more power than normally and that meant utilizing a technique, several in fact to make up the lack of adaptability from not being able to change and adapt on the fly.
But finally, your ready. If you judge it right you may attempt to perform surgery on the soul of the very world itself.
Gain soul surgery techniques (world souls), which allow you to preform soul surgery on world souls with -relative- safety.
-[X] Listen to the earth- your new pillar allows you to understand the language of the earth all you must do is listen, you're not likely to get any useful information but practice makes perfect.
--[X] listen to the soul- the world has a soul, it speaks to you through the earth, listen to this dormant entity and seek its aid. (new).
You have long been able to listen to the earth, little did you know that it was more then quite literally the earth, the very world around you.
You have spent a good portion of the last decade in meditation, attempting to reach deep down into the earth and find the soul slumbering beneath.
You have failed more often than not, the insight filling your head with knowledge of distant places but you've glimpsed enough.
It is not sapient might not even be sentient but it is alive, in a way you have never encountered before now, it very health tied to the life on the world and it would move to defend it.
It's ability to influence the small lifeforms that make its biosphere and ecosystem are extremely limited but effecting the larger ecosystem? That is very much to its power.
You get the sense that any weapon or sorcery that would attempt to scrouge the plant of all life or render it uninhabitable would be countered -to great effectiveness- by the world soul.
You also get the feeling that daemons -and deva- being inherently destructive to the world by their very nature would face -and have faced- resistance in maintaining their presence.
Same for the tears in the world, the world soul would actively work to close and heal them, it would be slow, decades before they fully closed from its efforts alone.
But it is not alone and you can work to strengthen the world itself, the stronger it becomes the more it could help.
New knowledge. New options to strengthen the world soul.
Cultivator reports.
This decade eight hundred new cultivators have been awakened the coming of the prophecy has driven the new recruits to train and study with a zeal unseen before as they put their everything on the line, more then one burnt out and crippled themselves with improper cultivation but in the end, you increased the number of cultivators under your banner significantly.
Likewise, with recent allowances for blood sacrifice -must of the discontent with the decision being washed away by the time of the apocalypse being nigh- a staggering number of first steps have challenged the tribulation, with almost three hundred facing the great enemy and eighty coming up victorious.
A net gain of 500 first steps.
A net gain of 80 second steps.
All three of your notable disciples have spent the last decade shoring up their cultivation, a measure to increase their personal power before the apocalypse arrives.
Vakatu has reached the point where he can attempt to ascend to the third step but has confided in you that he is not planning to take the risk when the invasion is so close at hand and has already pushed into the fifth dantain expansion stage and almost achieved the sixths by decades end.
Haku on the other hand has constructed another pillar for her foundation as well as imbued several new insights as she travelled around the empire looking for inspiration.
Okokuto has pushed well into the third dantian expansion stage but the fourth is still a way's away for him.
No new inventions, your notables pushed their cultivation up (this was not actually scripted, all of them rolled terribly on the new tech roll but great at the cultivation roll).
Faction reports.
The five sects: the five sects have mostly understood the reasoning behind your decision to allow the use of blood sacrifices even as they refuse to do so themselves and the relationship has definitely cold somewhat, even if the effect is not really felt between the disciples.
The nobles: the nobles have took your new practice of sacrifices and ran with it, spreading a bunch of rumors and fear mongering about how the emperor is going to kill and devour your loved ones to surprisingly lackluster results. Oh, sure some got taken in by it and the crown did experience some difficulty in certain far-flung villages but by and large there was little fear of the general populace being forced to provided lives for the emperor.
The army: the army is currently doing its best to train up new units and rise up as many cultivators as they can. To middling results.
Roth963
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What about my third step write in of titan pilot?
Could the dantians from the failed experiments be recovered? And interesting.
It seems their soul couldn't take the pressure, their bodies seem to do fine though.
Are there any animals with souls close to keku? Like how dolphins and similar are smart animals capable of their own language and such?
Good thing we didn't cut first and ask questions later, does it mean the cleansing ability is counterproductive, because I remember the demon implied the pollution let him enter more easily.
Best option for the world may be to attempt awakening it to cultivation manually, we can also try align it with kuvara more…
All pur third steps can do it now, right?
Also, what the limits here, can we do any insight we were offered? What the practical cost, is it combat use only? Just flavor for general boost to everything a pillar can potentially help with?
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well, most projects can be summarized as "Army expands, it's much larger and stronger than before but still not enough".
And now we're ? years away from the apocalypse. Hopefully we get lucky and we get another couple turns.
Still if Shikatu or a third step are out of Qi this gives them another way to fight.
We should try to keep it to volunteers then, and maybe the worst prisoners.
What option won last time, actually?
And now we're ? years away from the apocalypse. Hopefully we get lucky and we get another couple turns.
mh... I wonder... are chaos marine souls particularly "strong"? It might be a weak point, considering how absurdly durable their armors are...
yeah, if we're lucky it will buy us a few years, but we should have gone for it MUCH earlier.
yeah, it's still more attention he needs to spare to us, so hopefully that will create openings for other factions to take advantage of.
again, another thing we tried just too late.
intriguing and with potential, but not quickly enough to be worth doing more about it now.
powerful, and another trump card for our third steps, but not something we can spam basically.
Still if Shikatu or a third step are out of Qi this gives them another way to fight.
so 80/300 = 26.7% success rate on tribulation? That's incredible. Then again, blood sacrifice. I get why it's so tempting to become a demonic cultivator...
Understandable. It's basically a "we get you're desperate, but we're not willing to do it ourselves".
We should try to keep it to volunteers then, and maybe the worst prisoners.
What option won last time, actually?
Roth963
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To be honest, give us 10 more turns and I doubt it will be enough, conventional forces wouldn't win us this fight.
Yes, the space marine process improve the soul too.
That said, it is string compare to mortals, and strong doesn't mean invulnerable…
Depends on how much divine qi it needs, if it needs just a single point, the knowledge may be worth it.
We also just released necrons with cultivators, we can just tell slannash we told the necrons to spread cultivation as our cost for selling stuff to them.
That depends, if it can mimic insights, who can say what it can do, there are a bunch of insights that we encountered in the picks that even brief uses off could be handy.
Copying insights as techniques to a lesser level is also something already done, so having the ability to make examples of what to develop on command should make stuff much easier.
Blood sacrifice doesn't really gelp with tribulation as far as I remember, unless the gods gone easy on them in the hopes of recruiting them later.
From the reaction, I think my vote.
Basically, only volunteers, and not even all volunteers.
Peak is back.
We got this tho.
Our advancement die got cut for a while, right? How long does that last again? More science never hurt.
Our strength is growing quickly, a few more breakthroughs and small improvements in places will matter a lot. It seems we have the elites kinda-figured, and the fodder, but the problem is the middle-ground, the space marines and the big chaos demons.
Can't wait for the war, and the following galactic keku domination.
How does one defend against 250.000 chaos space marines? I think them alone would be enough to take over our planet 10 times over.
We got this tho.
Our advancement die got cut for a while, right? How long does that last again? More science never hurt.
Our strength is growing quickly, a few more breakthroughs and small improvements in places will matter a lot. It seems we have the elites kinda-figured, and the fodder, but the problem is the middle-ground, the space marines and the big chaos demons.
Can't wait for the war, and the following galactic keku domination.
Roth963
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Chances of us doing any science are near zero, we can't even really make full use of our own technological base.
Yep, they are going to go through us like a knife through butter as we are now, my hopes is blowing them up and while they are distracted, blitz the gates and close them, 250,000 marines will attacks, but marines are just people.
If their advancement isn't careful, we would just nuke them, we can even probably kill 250,000 marines with one nuke if they stood close enough together amd were without protection.
My hope is that their progress will be slow, first setting up zones of safety before slowly expanding, this might mean that we wouldn't have to fight so many at once, but they are led by siege expert primarch, so them being slow or careful, if they will, wouldn't necessarily be helpful.
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This is assuming they will all come out from the same rifts. And even if they did we would need to know beforehand, or have nukes placed near every rift
But yea they will be slow. Sadly we're talking in timelines of years and decades here.
What can we do, rush the primarchs while slowing the space marines with fodder and then get our top cultivators to take care of the space marines?
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the solution to chaos marines is basically second step cultivators and above, our best artillery, or nukes, or orbital bombardment.
Ideally we'd manage to, say, stop them from arriving in the first place. Close the gates before they can pass through, or destroy their spaceships (if they come with those) by having Shikatu fly up there and sabotage them. Anything to NOT have to face them in conventional combat, really.
Ideally we'd manage to, say, stop them from arriving in the first place. Close the gates before they can pass through, or destroy their spaceships (if they come with those) by having Shikatu fly up there and sabotage them. Anything to NOT have to face them in conventional combat, really.
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Mot sure how well fighting the primarchs directly will go, we should be careful to avoid being where a priamrch be, but it is unlikely they will let us.
If soul implosion is useful against demons thiugh, we might have gotten some very useful ability, both magnus and purterabu got skme heavy soul damage before they became demons.
If we face them conveniently, they will only be slowed down by the corpses piling up, and basements.
He's likely going to be the one who'll win that competition but that doesn't stop the rest from trying. The potential to pilot a giant mecha is more then tempting for people to challenge him.
No.
Not really, also it seems less a problem of them being seemlier and more on size and complexity. Normal animals' souls are just not that big or complex and can handle stress less because of it.
Yes and no. it's a spectrum of easier to enter to harder to remain, the energy in the air very much allows the deamon to enter more easily and with less cost but the stronger soul also means they would be opposed more.
I should also note, that while the soul strength and its ability to channel the warp do influence one another, they don't always do so in a 1 to 1 manner or at all. there ways to strengthen the world soul (and as such the resistance deamons would face) without increasing its ability to channel the warp (and as such making it easier for them to enter).
yes.
It doesn't allow for effect that are permanent or that last for a long while, it just doesn't have the power and stability to do so, so its mostly a combat/emergency use where you need something specific but powerful.
As a note, I'm not going to ask you to design the insights for it, as it would mostly be for combat Shikatu would utilize it when he thinks its cost is worth the effect.
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Can we add general basic manipulations, like sau, try to check if we can awaken an animal purely with our teacher pillar.
Can someone like Haku briefly improve her ability to make a specific tune while making said rune as another example?
Is our daughter dreaming ability to protect us slightly more effective now?
What about using teaching, earth, life or keku pillars to try help in modifying the world?
Basically, like with the haku idea, less making a long lasting insight and more improving our ability to do long lasting stuff.
Does the defiance false pillar count for this ability?
Turn 16.
"How was this missed" you asked your gathered generals.
The glanced at one another before Ikukaru moved to answer "it wasn't" he said "as our recall we did push an expansion proposal ten years ago, we just misidentified the scale of the problem".
"I remember" you said, your memory precise enough to recall small details from that far back "that still doesn't answer the question of how you missed this"
The general sighed "the truth of it that we're lacking experience, war games can only show us so much, it was only by luck that some of the students at the academy attempted to calculate how much and how fast the artillery would consume through ammunition".
"And their conclusion is that we don't have enough?" you ask "I assume you double checked this?"
"Of course, our conclusion collaborated theirs -though it was more accurate- assuming we us the guns at full intensity were looking at more than eighty thousand shells fired each day, this will deplete our existing stockpiles in three weeks, resulting in over a million shells being fired during that time frame, now this is somewhat misleading as we expect a full half of our artillery pieces would be either destroyed by enemy fire or require maintenance and repair from the stress put upon them in the first two weeks of fighting so our stockpiles would stretch longer"
"But it's still you're recommendation to increase our stockpiles?"
"Yes, your majesty".
"Very well then" you said as you stamped the proposal they put in front of you.
[] To go beyond. (updated).
Form time primordial the keku have always wondered about the stars.
The spread of knowledge and understanding has done nothing to reduce this fascination.
The infrastructure constructed in decade pastis mostly obsolete by now, but obsolete does not mean useless.
You can utilize the work you already down as a seed from which more will grow.
Utilizing the built up experience, the mining ships would be redesigned from the ground up not only would they be far less fragile they would, last longer and require less maintenance overall.
They would also be fitted with two small and primitive macro cannons, giving the ships some -limited- usage in times of war.
A minimum investment would see you complete current construction and lay down new halls in the freed up berths, they won't be complete until the next decade but a good amount of progress would be made.
A maximum investment will see you complete currant production as well as expand the shipyard enough for a total of fifteen ships to be constructed at once most of which would be done by decades end.
[] the price of war. (must be first priority).
More then just weapons, you require the ammunitions to utilize them contently.
Recent calculations and war games have shown that you barely posses enough ammunition for your heavier weapon to last the first month of full intensity fighting.
Not because you posse little war material but because your generals are confidant that you'll utilize the entire mountain of metal in a short amount of time.
The current plane for expansion would push your resources for six months. Considering your capability would rapidly degrade, this would effectively would be enough for more than a year of fighting.
[] Infantry equipment. (updated).
To be effective on the battlefield Infantry require a whole bag of equipment, form the guns and body armor they utilize to slay their enemies and remain alive.
To the bullets and fist aid supplies they require to do so.
While no one item is all that expensive, together the cost of production is high, especially considering the amount you need to produce in the first place.
With a maximum investment you'll push the modernization of your garrisons by decade's even as they expand, modernizing the militia beyond the tip would still take hundreds of years
A minimum investment would see you keep up with army expansions but won't push the timetable forward.
[] The titans. (must be lowest priory).
There are few things which capture the imagination of mortals then giant robots, there are few things that are as evocative as aw and fear inspiriting as the titans you've seen proposed.
Giant machines of pure destruction, their stride shaking the earth. Their mere sight breaking the enemy and uplifting their ally's moral.
And you're going to build them… well one at least.
Each part, from the lowest of bolts to the most delicate of electronics is going to be constructed by hand, the work of hundreds of master craftsman all so when the final piece is complete it would truly be called an engine of destruction.
Minimum investment would see you finish the one under construction. With the uncertainly of the future you cannot invest the resources in constructing a second one least it stand unfinished by the time the apocalypse descends.
[] To sharpen the sword. (must be in the lowest four priorities).
The apocalypse is drawing ever closer and now you must do what you must. You must start mobilizing calling up the keku to arms and expending your armies.
But you cannot be too hasty, too large of a mobilization would constrain your economy and industry.
And there is another aspect to consider, the militia. You cannot coscript everyone even if you showed too but the final days would see everyone fighting for their survival.
And so have your advisors come up with a two-pronged solution, you will start ramping up your requitements filling the ranks of your army with professionals while at the same time you will mandate some basic training for the population.
Both helping improve the militia for the days to come as well as increasing your ability to hastily construct professional army units as some of the basic training and knowledge would already be done.
[] Keku claws. (updated).
In the coming apocalypse you're going to need as many claws holding weapons as possible.
Yet there is no real way to equip them all in any reasonable timeframe with the best of your equipment.
The solution is to not equip them with your best.
Your generals have provided you a list of equipment that is inferior to you line weaponry but far cheaper -in both cost and expertise- and while it irks you to not send your subjects with the best you can. Two decent guns are better than a single good one.
With the focus being on lowering production costs rather than power or effectiveness, the equipment you will produce for the militia is cheap, very cheap.
With new expertise and better foundational expending the basic factories and production chains for the less technology advanced equipment has become even cheaper and swifter, a maximum investment would see production expanded enough to equip the entire militia within nine decades.
While a minimum investment would only retain the ground lost form the growth of the population and would still require almost century and a half for full modernization.
[] To rule the sky.
To the keku the thought of a machine for flight comes unnaturally, yet with the knowledge of the capabilities of air crafts it is a thought that must be internalized.
The age of Keku domination of the sky comes to an end and new way must be devised to ensure the sky remains the keku friend.
With the work done and the now experienced crews as well as the rare metatrails brought form space not only can you construct more aircraft.
You can craft better ones.
A maximum investment would see you tripleing your aircraft production although such an action would put a heavy strain on the empire resources and expert manpower.
A minimum investment would only see you adding half again the production of aircraft but would be far less disruptive
[] The roar of thunder.
You have chosen the doctrine of overwhelming fire and now you must ensure that you would possess enough modernized artillery pieces to create the wall of fire you envisioned.
A maximum investment would see you more than double your artillery production, constructing thousands of artillery pieces every decade.
A minimum investment would still see a respectable expansion of production even if not as explosive as a maximum one.
The last decade saw both the fast expansion of the number of cultivators and also the expansion of their reasonability's (5 AP).
third step intervention- in an attempt to make third steps more influential, in addition to the bonus they give form now one each one of them has a small chance (5%~ to free up enough of their time and energy to grab one of your cultivator action's. those actions will be picked semi randomly.
Teachers: it is expected that around 324 new 1st step cultivators would be recruited and trained this decade (at current pace you're expected to get another AP in 5 turns).
Tribulations: currently no new tribulations are planned.
Lightening reflection arrays: 29 (+7 per turn)
Blood sacrifice- according to your policies you will gain 2 charges of blood sacrifice you may decide what do with them. (choose 2).
[]Give you 5 AP toward a core insight.
[] Give one of your third steps a pillar.
[] Improve the rate of advancement for the lower steps (and push the average of their cultivation stage).
[] Allow the awakening of 100 new first steps.
Alchemy: 200/200 capacity. Total cost: 20 EFEP. Total production: all for awakening pills.
[] change alchemy production? (doesn't cost an action).
-[] to what?
Infused soldiers- you may spend 10 empire divine Qi to turn 1 units of mobile hover infantry to 5 units of mobile hover infused infantry (which is about equal to first steps).
[] Recruiting- if you wish to have a hope of survival the current number of disciples is pitiful, your disciples would focus on going out and training potential cultivators in order to find new talents and increase their number. With a crude but passable way to determine talent you can now weed out the untalented. Increasing the power and quality of your new disciples.
[x] Cultivation boot camp (may be picked more then once)- its beyond clear that you're going to need many more cultivators, it is beyond clear that even shoddy cultivators possess unique and powerful advantages. you already started training less talented disciples in faster and less pure ways but you can always train more. The quality of the resulting cultivators wouldn't be great but you'll get a lot more of them.
[] To draw on the emperors might- the emperor soul is connected to those of his students, the connection is thin, almost nonexistent but it is there. the emperor has speculated that he could share at least some of his Qi through this connection and might even be able to, at great cost, express his insights thorough it but much experimentation must be conducted to see if any of the above are actually possible and this kind of experimentations would require hundreds of cultivators.
[] Cleansing taint- with the newly acquired lore of the lords, your disciples believe they can slowly, over the decade, and with the help of many cultivators cleanse the demonic taint of the sword you acquired some time ago. This will make the sword safe to utilize and grant you a powerful artifact for use by your champions and would likely increase the ease at which the sword secrets are studied but may destroy any of the demonic enhancements on it.
[] Push forward- your disciples have their own cultivation to pursue and they will do so regardless but giving them more time to do so would allow them to make more progress.
[] rune study- new knowledge has brought your disciples another avenue of growth you very little about the runes you've found and how they work but where there is two there are three and your disciples are eager to find out more so let them and slowly you'll unlock the secrets of artificing.
[] craft- supernatural knowledge is at your disciples' beak and call, maybe they should do something with it.
-[] condensing arrays- perhaps you have changed you opinion on how they should be divided? If so, you will need to replace the current arrays. (doesn't cost an AP just don't go changing it every turn)
-[] heavenly lightening deflection array- a special array that is incredibly helpful when challenging tribulation, unfortunately the power of the tribulation burns it out so it can't be used. Charge your disciples with constructing it. taking this action will give 2 such arrays.
-[] shield array's- able to protect a small city for outside attack so long as its fed sufficient Qi, the shield array represent a paradigm shift for defensive siege warfare
-[] false pillar- the false pillar is a runic artifact the like of which you have no yet seen craft one for use.
--[] what materials are used (at least some G1 refined materials must be used to make it work)
--[] which pillar is it copying (can choose any of the ones that can be find in the various character sheets or the allied third steps tab).
--[] and who'll it be used by. (pick any third/forth step).
-[] something else?
-[] pills- you have a need for more pills so task more disciples with crafting them. (+500 capacity)
[] the building blocks of the world part 3- the world is full of possible alchemy materials that you haven't even touched yet, with at least a somewhat better understanding of the underlaying principles of alchemy you can continue to attempt mixing and matching materials and see what new recipes you can come up with.
[] cultivating perfection- the road to perfection is endless but it is a road that must be walked, refine one of your alchemy recipes lowering the requirements to craft it or unlock its more powerful version.
-[] which recipe?
[] expend the farms- there is no denying that the spiritual herbs are far more effective and potent as ingredients for alchemy and immortal cooking both and while you currently produce more then you need, this won't be true for long so expend the farms that produce them. (+25 G1 herbs)
-[] invest cultivators- you need more herbs, you need herbs of a greater power, the only way you will get those in a timely manner is to permanently second cultivators to grow them. (spend 1 Permanent Ap +50 G1 herbs +5 g2 herbs).
[] To perfect your taste- to eat immortal cooking is an experience out of this world but your chefs think they can do even better, that they can create something that tastes so good all other foods are ruined forever more…. You're kinda scared but also intrigued?
[] fang shui – your disciples have reached a good enough understanding of Fang Shui that they can move forward with purpose rather than throwing shit together and seeing what happens.
-[] The Breach Closing pattern (1 cultivator AP, 1 emperor AP)- the emperor has conceived of a general Fang Shui pattern that in theory should help close the breaches naturally. Spend some time with your disciples in an attempt to actually craft said pattern.
-[] describe the general direction of the feng shui patterns you want (something for combat, diplomacy, economy so on and so on.
[] formations- the power of formations is undeniable, task you disciples which creating and refining new ones.
-[] describe (in general terms) what you want the formation to do and if it should use any special resource/triggers (divine Qi, lifeforce, ingredients/materials, rituals).
A long decade is awaiting you, there is much to do and not enough time to do it all (4 personal AP). (38 divine Qi). (+38 lifespan per turn from life draining).
[] The eternal flame (doesn't cost AP)- from the black flames you have crafted a unique artifact which can either enhance your talent in divination or be used to allow another to divine the future.
-[] enhance your divination action you've taken this turn.
-[] or chose a free divination action to be taken at small penalty.
[] the power of sacrifice (no option under here takes AP)- either by way of insight or technique you have found a way to greatly empower yourself by sacrificing something. (current lifespan 581)
-[] sacrifice life- sacrifice 10 years of life span for 1 AP (current lifespan 450).
-[] sacrifice wealth- commend your empire to tribute 150 Estimated Economic Power worth of wealth and gain 1 divine charge.
-[] sacrifice divinity- spend 1 divine charge to gain 6 lifespan.
-[] attempt healing- spend divine charges and lifespan to heal a certain condition.
-[] Yourself- you are injured, spend 1 divine charges and 10 lifespan to heal yourself.
[] Push higher- your power alone would not save you or your kind, but more power would certainly be useful, so push ahead on this path that you've created oh so long ago.
-[] condense your core (0/15)- pour ever graters amount of power into your core to increase the pressure placed upon the Qi inside it and then crystalize your insights at the moment of condensation.
-[] insight of defiance (may be picked more then once)- your new false pillar must be inscribe with insights to give any benefit, do so. (new).
-[] meditate upon your insights (may be taken more than once)- meditate upon your insights in preparation to combining them, spend years pondering their natures so when the times comes to combine them your chances of success will be higher.
-[] the third of twelve (0/6)- in your studies of the soul you have stumbled around twelve points where the body and soul interconnect with enough Qi and time you can widen and fully open the connecting. The effect can only be positive although as of yet eluding your sight.
-[] Distal understanding (may be taken more than once)- you are standing on the cusp of enlightenment, push further and break the wall to understand a greater portion the Dao.
-[] seek life (0/3)- you have spent a decade in the realm of the dead and have come out with new knowledge but now your understanding is unbalanced, seek death counterpart to regain the balance, seek life and the great Dao so that balance may be returned.
-[] Achieve supercritical (require special pill)- recently you and your disciples have conceived of a special Qi state, supercritical Qi a way to gain the advantage of liquid and gaseous Qi with none of the downsides. Invest the time to ready yourself to the transformation.
-[] The connection of it all- following your new insight you have hundreds of links connecting you to your students and many more from them to their students, the ability to know your daughter is alright at all times is the dream of all fathers but maybe you should try and see if this connection has other uses. Your new understanding has shown that this connection is more than just something simple but a lick between souls, its likely behooves you to at least understand the implications of such information.
[] the lords- who are the lords? what are the lords? And how do they fit into your world? You know not the answer but you could find out.
-[] the bounty of heaven- your disciples have confirmed to the best of their abilities that after a tribulation passed, small amounts of energy still linger, further study would hopefully not only shed more light on the nature of heavens Qi but perhaps also find a useful use for it.
[] Glimpse the future- you have a gift, a gift that no other has. It has set you on this path and you must both hone and use it, to see the end of this path. Cast your eyes into the future and the apocalypse to come and attempt to draw any piece of information that might give you an advantage.
-[] Secrets of the tribulation [dangerous]- something about the tribulations is being hidden form your sight, the four having gone to great efforts to wipe away any hint or crumb of knowledge in the present, past and future and you wish to know of it. in all likelihood you will find nothing but even gods can make mistakes. (new)
-[] The tide P.3- in your vision you saw many types of beast's, small and big, deformed and consisting of perfect form. Attempt to more correctly ascertain what it is that you'll be fighting.
-[] the maelstrom [very dangerous]- in your journey through the sea of time you have encountered a being that defies understanding. One way or the other this being is connected to the coming apocalypse, already without even knowing you desist it shrouds your sight of the future, your sight now returning with less and less details. So cast your gaze once more to the future and attempt to ascertain its nature and perhaps you'll find ways to avoid it. But beware as should you be caught death is the only mercy you can expect. New knowledge as to the nature of the lord of fate would allow you to more easily escape its sight. (updated).
-[] locate the breaches part 3- you know the number and the locations generally now increase your accuracy of their locations and attempt to divine who will come out of what breach. (updated).
-[] Perturabo- Perturabo, a strategist unmatched, from the Knowledge gained form Okertaku few in the galaxy are equal in his talent for war. you know frighteningly little about him so attempt to pierce the shadows shielding him form your sight.
--[] what kind of information are you looking for? (True name, equipment, Skills, weaknesses, strengths, reactions to certain actions and so on)
-[] Magnus- Magnus, the mad sorcerer, from the Knowledge gained from Okertaku you know that Magnus is a powerful sorcerer (perhaps the greatest in the galaxy). you know frighteningly little about him so attempt to pierce the shadows shielding him form your sight.
--[] what kind of information are you looking for? (True name, equipment, Skills, weaknesses, strengths, reactions to certain actions and so on)
[] The burdens of an emperor- a farmer, son of a farmer turned into a sage, you never thought, nor wanted the burden of rule but here you are with a crown upon your head.
-[] To rule well- taking the time to listen to your subordinates and subjects as well as taking care of the small problems that arise would free your subordinates from the need to do it. (OOC: with the competent ruling action being removed from the empire action list -having achieved a good enough administrative efficiency that it doesn't need to be focused on- this action still helps with the rule of the empire and solving any problem that might crop up).
-[] The bounty of the ocean- the ocean and seas contain untold wealth both of food and of metal, by use of your new insight it is possible to now tap into that wealth with relative ease bringing great wealth to the empire.
-[] catch up (1/10)- you have just thrown most research disciplines upside down, a thousand years' worth of knowledge crammed in less than a decade and like your subjects you are also lost the information you so long relied upon now outdated and incorrect, you will attempt to rectify this when you can. Yet the burdens of running an empire and cultivation would make this a process of centuries so instead reserve some time to dedicated study and improve yourself. (OCC note: the benefit for this action are gained with every AP invested, you will naturally gain 1 AP worth every 3 turns)
[] The burdens of a teacher- you have come to enjoy teaching, but the very act gives you a certain obligation to those you teach.
-[] Haku- it has been some time since you have taken a student personally but some talents are worth it.
-[] Vakatu- it has been some time since you have taken a student personally but some talents are worth it.
-[] unforgotten- your new insight makes your lessons quite literally unforgettable, you have a lot of knowledge to impart many of it would normally go over most first steps head but now that they quit literally can't forget it you can impart upon them knowledge that will be supremely useful for their cultivation efforts.
-[] To teach the next generations- you're going to need many more cultivators to face the end that comes, and you have taught many, do so again and help train the defenders of the future. Your new pillar makes you even more suited to this task.
-[] The next step- you have many students pushing for the next step in their journey, take the time to share your wisdom and guide them in surviving the tribulation, with your new insights this is even more effective as your advice can be kept in mind at all times.
[] Listen to the earth- your new pillar allows you to understand the language of the earth all you must do is listen, you're not likely to get any useful information but practice makes perfect.
-[] attempt to pry the secrets of the noble's- somehow the nobles managed to get a third step, listen to the earth and try to ascertain how they did so.
-[] just listen- the earth has much to say and instead of directing it for a specific piece of information you can just listen, you wont get any useful information but it would make for very good practice.
-[] discover the secrets for its health- your new insight scales based on the health of the land you live on and who is better in showing you how to care for it then the land itself? Attempt to listen to the earth and ask for how you may care for it.
-[] purifying pattern- using fen shui you can start to slowly strengthen and purify the world soul, increasing it strength without a corresponding increase in its ability to channel Qi even if very slowly. (new)
-[] the surgeon tool- while outright crippling the world soul would not be benefital, using soul surgery o make slights cuts here and there could reduce its ability to channel Qi by a significant amount. It dos carry the risk of cutting something important though.
[] The burden of a god- whether it was a mistake you will perhaps never know but you are now a god or at least worshiped as one. and being divine -fake or not- comes with some benefits and no less reasonability.
-[] spend time with your daughter's- form the sacrifice of your pillar and the soul of your people has your new daughter been born and while she is far older then, she is also incredibly young and ignorant, you cannot teach her of her domain or her nature but you can certainly tach her about mortality. Besides that, just spending time with her Avatar would help her with the stress of the coming decade, kekita would also be happy to join the family time.
-[] to change realty- your experiments with divine Qi has shown you that its nature is to change the rules that govern realty at least when it comes to techniques attempt to see if it can be used more broadly.
-[] Edict formation- with the knowledge gained from Okertaku and a massive amount of divine Qi you may attempt to issue an edict, or to at least learn to do so. from your understanding Edicts are mainly a way for gods to automate some of their actions to not require direct attention and you aren't sure how useful they would be to you but you can attempt to learn.
-[] The seed of creation- you have realize that for a god to be born some sort of seed is needed, attempt to divine its nature.
-[] Divine infusement- with the new knowledge and a versatile power sources in divine Qi you may attempt to directly infuse divine Qi into an object or organism, the precise effects are not known but guaranteed to have some positive effect.
[] Research- there are many ways you can put your experiences and knowledge to help, invest the time and hope the results will be worth it.
-[] The experiences of age- with several new third steps perhaps it is time to pick up a project your daughter started? Much has changed since she first wrote the cultivation almanac and with your experience and knowledge as well as the help of the other elders even more conapts could be included as well as expending the concepts interactions to the fifth order.
-[] To turn backwards (0/4)- even though you have advanced you wish to turn back and perfect your foundation even more, this is a difficult project and will probably not work for anyone but you as temporarily liftin your core form your foundation is all but impossible for lesser talents.
-[] write in- ping me with an idea and I'll tell you how much it will cost and if its viable.
[] The power of nature and life- your new core insight has given you power over the building blocks of life. Now you can do mor then heal you can force life to change, to evolve to become better. (base cost of 1 AP +1 AP per 2 mutations after the first done in the same turn).
-[] Small mutation- make minor change, with such a change very little can go wrong and the change is unlikely to be radical for good and Ill (low risk, low reward). 1% chaos.
-[] Medium mutation- make a medium change, a change big enough to have massive reprocations upon the body if things go wrong but can also drastically improve the subject (large risk, medium reward). 5% chaos.
-[] Heavy mutation- force life to change drastically at this point more of the life form is changed then remains. With drastic results to match (very large risk, large reward) 10% chaos.
--[] On yourself- mutations on the self are more likely to be positive but also carry more risk as even with your healing abilities something may go wrong.
--[] On another- mutations on another (willing) subject are less likely to be positive but do not carry the inherent risk of doing it on yourself.
---[] What kind of mutations do you want? (not guaranteed).
-[] Technique creation.
--[] inspiration has struck and you wish to design a new technique Describe what it is you want it to do (in general terms) and what resources your willing to pay for it (things like lifespan, Qi, divine Qi other forms of sacrifice and so on).
--[] Time reversion (2 AP)- inspired by the way the perpetual being is imposed upon reality you have found a way to revert time for a single moment, this technique is crude and expensive. You'll have to refine it if you wish to ever actually use it.
--[] soul implosion (1 Ap)- recently you have been inspired on the ways to make a soul turn upon itself and implode, you'll need to organize your thoughts and do some experimenting if you truly want this to be a technique. (new)
THE WAR IN THE WARP.
The four great chaos gods gather their strength to in time struck you down, to ravage your lands and wipe your name from history.
They are not yet ready to cross the boundary between the real and the unreal yet they need not.
For a new goddess has been born.
Kuvara, goddess of the wind patron deity of the Keku, a species the four has deemed a mortal enemy.
Did you think even for a second that they will let her gather her strength in peace? To accrue experience and allies?
The warp is the domain of the four and only theirs
To be a god in this land means to cower before their might and hope they never turn their eyes toward you to hind and flee at every opportunity, for to face even the slight attention of one means death to any but the mightiest.
And Kuvara has the attention of not one but all four.
For any other god this would have been a death sentence, yet your sacrifice has granted Kuvara an avatar in the mortal realm in which she can hide beyond the reach of the four.
Yet Kuvara is a creature of the warp and going too long without breathing its energy will kill her all the same.
And so war has come, a game of cat and mouse as your goddess gathers strength while the four chaos gods attempt to struck her down.
Thankfully, while the power the four posses is all but infinite, their abilty to channel it in specific areas is limited and their attention more so.
And in a true chaos fashion three of the four are content to watch from the sidelines to either swoop for the prize or to stab a knife in their brother side, in time they will unite but for now they stand divided.
On the one side we have Kurvara who possess the following traits and attributes.
Outer shell: 26/40
Inner shell: 10/10 (this is her HP, only inner shell damage actually hurts and penalizes her)
Attention 100: +100 (+1 per attention level).
deva (7 dots): +7 (+1 per dot). Oteka (II), shikatu (I).
Fortification (100 dots): +900 (+2 per dot of fortification, +1 per dot of deva).
Avatar: Kurvara may more directly intervene in affairs on the non-warp side of things, outer shell damage received cannot be higher than 2 per clash as Kurvara may retreat into it (note: using this function means abandoning all presence in the warp temporarily).
For the following turn Kuvara will attempt the following:
1. Create Deva.
Kuvara will attempt to create enough Deva to have a minuscule presence of them this isn't a contested roll as Kuvara gets enough souls to do this passively but she will roll to see if she manages to snag a good enough soul to create a greater Deva.
Oteka assigned to help in the gathering of souls.
2. protect the dreams of the keku.
Kuvara will attempt to shield the dreams of the keku form Salleenesh deamons.
The higher the roll the better she dos in this task.
Shiaktu assigned to help defend the dreams of the keku.
3. War with the four.
With Okertaku gone Kuvara is left to fend on her own.
With the local warp fortified to the fullest extent she will marshal her devas and attempt to war with the four, limiting their -and their minions- movements and attempt to get some of licks in as they attempt to snuff her out.
Actions:
Empire action (must replace other empire actions):
[] arrange mass prayers.
In the hopes of supplying more power toward Kuvara, your empire will organize massive prayers, day and night tens of thousands will be led in fervent prayer in the hopes that the extra power will help their goddess in her fight.
The more you invest the more people will be able to dedicate a large potion of their day for prayer.
Cultivator actions:
[] The cavalry- Kuvara has reached the threshold skill level to be able to safely draw willing people into the warp with some limited ritual help, the amount that can be sent over is limited and non-cultivators are all but useless within the warp. This posting is likely to be deadly and getting the keku who volunteered out of the warp will involve a dedicated ritual but it will not only help Kuvara but also give your forces some experience against the enemies they will face and give you the opportunity to gather some demonic essence for various purposes.
Personal actions:
[] Sacrifice 10 life span and 1 divine Qi to heal 1 outer shell level for Kuvara. (doesn't cost AP).
[] Attempt to contest Tzeentch divination (not as dangerous as it sounds as you mostly try to divine his action after his divination, while he dos the same to you) for every AP spent on this action lower the number of points Tzeentch gets to distribute to his rolls by 200.
Reminder there is a 4~ hour moratorium in place. vote in plan format.
Plan format example:
[] plan name.
-[] empire action with highest priority.
-[] empire action with lower priority.
-[] empire action with lowest priority.
-[] cultivators actions.
-[] personal action.
As a reminder maximum investment refers to putting the action the highest in the plan and minimal investment means putting it the lowest.
AN: Took me a bit longer then I would have liked (a lot actually) but its out so lets get things back on track.
The glanced at one another before Ikukaru moved to answer "it wasn't" he said "as our recall we did push an expansion proposal ten years ago, we just misidentified the scale of the problem".
"I remember" you said, your memory precise enough to recall small details from that far back "that still doesn't answer the question of how you missed this"
The general sighed "the truth of it that we're lacking experience, war games can only show us so much, it was only by luck that some of the students at the academy attempted to calculate how much and how fast the artillery would consume through ammunition".
"And their conclusion is that we don't have enough?" you ask "I assume you double checked this?"
"Of course, our conclusion collaborated theirs -though it was more accurate- assuming we us the guns at full intensity were looking at more than eighty thousand shells fired each day, this will deplete our existing stockpiles in three weeks, resulting in over a million shells being fired during that time frame, now this is somewhat misleading as we expect a full half of our artillery pieces would be either destroyed by enemy fire or require maintenance and repair from the stress put upon them in the first two weeks of fighting so our stockpiles would stretch longer"
"But it's still you're recommendation to increase our stockpiles?"
"Yes, your majesty".
"Very well then" you said as you stamped the proposal they put in front of you.
[] To go beyond. (updated).
Form time primordial the keku have always wondered about the stars.
The spread of knowledge and understanding has done nothing to reduce this fascination.
The infrastructure constructed in decade pastis mostly obsolete by now, but obsolete does not mean useless.
You can utilize the work you already down as a seed from which more will grow.
Utilizing the built up experience, the mining ships would be redesigned from the ground up not only would they be far less fragile they would, last longer and require less maintenance overall.
They would also be fitted with two small and primitive macro cannons, giving the ships some -limited- usage in times of war.
A minimum investment would see you complete current construction and lay down new halls in the freed up berths, they won't be complete until the next decade but a good amount of progress would be made.
A maximum investment will see you complete currant production as well as expand the shipyard enough for a total of fifteen ships to be constructed at once most of which would be done by decades end.
[] the price of war. (must be first priority).
More then just weapons, you require the ammunitions to utilize them contently.
Recent calculations and war games have shown that you barely posses enough ammunition for your heavier weapon to last the first month of full intensity fighting.
Not because you posse little war material but because your generals are confidant that you'll utilize the entire mountain of metal in a short amount of time.
The current plane for expansion would push your resources for six months. Considering your capability would rapidly degrade, this would effectively would be enough for more than a year of fighting.
[] Infantry equipment. (updated).
To be effective on the battlefield Infantry require a whole bag of equipment, form the guns and body armor they utilize to slay their enemies and remain alive.
To the bullets and fist aid supplies they require to do so.
While no one item is all that expensive, together the cost of production is high, especially considering the amount you need to produce in the first place.
With a maximum investment you'll push the modernization of your garrisons by decade's even as they expand, modernizing the militia beyond the tip would still take hundreds of years
A minimum investment would see you keep up with army expansions but won't push the timetable forward.
[] The titans. (must be lowest priory).
There are few things which capture the imagination of mortals then giant robots, there are few things that are as evocative as aw and fear inspiriting as the titans you've seen proposed.
Giant machines of pure destruction, their stride shaking the earth. Their mere sight breaking the enemy and uplifting their ally's moral.
And you're going to build them… well one at least.
Each part, from the lowest of bolts to the most delicate of electronics is going to be constructed by hand, the work of hundreds of master craftsman all so when the final piece is complete it would truly be called an engine of destruction.
Minimum investment would see you finish the one under construction. With the uncertainly of the future you cannot invest the resources in constructing a second one least it stand unfinished by the time the apocalypse descends.
[] To sharpen the sword. (must be in the lowest four priorities).
The apocalypse is drawing ever closer and now you must do what you must. You must start mobilizing calling up the keku to arms and expending your armies.
But you cannot be too hasty, too large of a mobilization would constrain your economy and industry.
And there is another aspect to consider, the militia. You cannot coscript everyone even if you showed too but the final days would see everyone fighting for their survival.
And so have your advisors come up with a two-pronged solution, you will start ramping up your requitements filling the ranks of your army with professionals while at the same time you will mandate some basic training for the population.
Both helping improve the militia for the days to come as well as increasing your ability to hastily construct professional army units as some of the basic training and knowledge would already be done.
[] Keku claws. (updated).
In the coming apocalypse you're going to need as many claws holding weapons as possible.
Yet there is no real way to equip them all in any reasonable timeframe with the best of your equipment.
The solution is to not equip them with your best.
Your generals have provided you a list of equipment that is inferior to you line weaponry but far cheaper -in both cost and expertise- and while it irks you to not send your subjects with the best you can. Two decent guns are better than a single good one.
With the focus being on lowering production costs rather than power or effectiveness, the equipment you will produce for the militia is cheap, very cheap.
With new expertise and better foundational expending the basic factories and production chains for the less technology advanced equipment has become even cheaper and swifter, a maximum investment would see production expanded enough to equip the entire militia within nine decades.
While a minimum investment would only retain the ground lost form the growth of the population and would still require almost century and a half for full modernization.
[] To rule the sky.
To the keku the thought of a machine for flight comes unnaturally, yet with the knowledge of the capabilities of air crafts it is a thought that must be internalized.
The age of Keku domination of the sky comes to an end and new way must be devised to ensure the sky remains the keku friend.
With the work done and the now experienced crews as well as the rare metatrails brought form space not only can you construct more aircraft.
You can craft better ones.
A maximum investment would see you tripleing your aircraft production although such an action would put a heavy strain on the empire resources and expert manpower.
A minimum investment would only see you adding half again the production of aircraft but would be far less disruptive
[] The roar of thunder.
You have chosen the doctrine of overwhelming fire and now you must ensure that you would possess enough modernized artillery pieces to create the wall of fire you envisioned.
A maximum investment would see you more than double your artillery production, constructing thousands of artillery pieces every decade.
A minimum investment would still see a respectable expansion of production even if not as explosive as a maximum one.
The last decade saw both the fast expansion of the number of cultivators and also the expansion of their reasonability's (5 AP).
third step intervention- in an attempt to make third steps more influential, in addition to the bonus they give form now one each one of them has a small chance (5%~ to free up enough of their time and energy to grab one of your cultivator action's. those actions will be picked semi randomly.
Teachers: it is expected that around 324 new 1st step cultivators would be recruited and trained this decade (at current pace you're expected to get another AP in 5 turns).
Tribulations: currently no new tribulations are planned.
Lightening reflection arrays: 29 (+7 per turn)
Blood sacrifice- according to your policies you will gain 2 charges of blood sacrifice you may decide what do with them. (choose 2).
[]Give you 5 AP toward a core insight.
[] Give one of your third steps a pillar.
[] Improve the rate of advancement for the lower steps (and push the average of their cultivation stage).
[] Allow the awakening of 100 new first steps.
Alchemy: 200/200 capacity. Total cost: 20 EFEP. Total production: all for awakening pills.
[] change alchemy production? (doesn't cost an action).
-[] to what?
Infused soldiers- you may spend 10 empire divine Qi to turn 1 units of mobile hover infantry to 5 units of mobile hover infused infantry (which is about equal to first steps).
[] Recruiting- if you wish to have a hope of survival the current number of disciples is pitiful, your disciples would focus on going out and training potential cultivators in order to find new talents and increase their number. With a crude but passable way to determine talent you can now weed out the untalented. Increasing the power and quality of your new disciples.
[x] Cultivation boot camp (may be picked more then once)- its beyond clear that you're going to need many more cultivators, it is beyond clear that even shoddy cultivators possess unique and powerful advantages. you already started training less talented disciples in faster and less pure ways but you can always train more. The quality of the resulting cultivators wouldn't be great but you'll get a lot more of them.
[] To draw on the emperors might- the emperor soul is connected to those of his students, the connection is thin, almost nonexistent but it is there. the emperor has speculated that he could share at least some of his Qi through this connection and might even be able to, at great cost, express his insights thorough it but much experimentation must be conducted to see if any of the above are actually possible and this kind of experimentations would require hundreds of cultivators.
[] Cleansing taint- with the newly acquired lore of the lords, your disciples believe they can slowly, over the decade, and with the help of many cultivators cleanse the demonic taint of the sword you acquired some time ago. This will make the sword safe to utilize and grant you a powerful artifact for use by your champions and would likely increase the ease at which the sword secrets are studied but may destroy any of the demonic enhancements on it.
[] Push forward- your disciples have their own cultivation to pursue and they will do so regardless but giving them more time to do so would allow them to make more progress.
[] rune study- new knowledge has brought your disciples another avenue of growth you very little about the runes you've found and how they work but where there is two there are three and your disciples are eager to find out more so let them and slowly you'll unlock the secrets of artificing.
[] craft- supernatural knowledge is at your disciples' beak and call, maybe they should do something with it.
-[] condensing arrays- perhaps you have changed you opinion on how they should be divided? If so, you will need to replace the current arrays. (doesn't cost an AP just don't go changing it every turn)
-[] heavenly lightening deflection array- a special array that is incredibly helpful when challenging tribulation, unfortunately the power of the tribulation burns it out so it can't be used. Charge your disciples with constructing it. taking this action will give 2 such arrays.
-[] shield array's- able to protect a small city for outside attack so long as its fed sufficient Qi, the shield array represent a paradigm shift for defensive siege warfare
-[] false pillar- the false pillar is a runic artifact the like of which you have no yet seen craft one for use.
--[] what materials are used (at least some G1 refined materials must be used to make it work)
--[] which pillar is it copying (can choose any of the ones that can be find in the various character sheets or the allied third steps tab).
--[] and who'll it be used by. (pick any third/forth step).
-[] something else?
-[] pills- you have a need for more pills so task more disciples with crafting them. (+500 capacity)
[] the building blocks of the world part 3- the world is full of possible alchemy materials that you haven't even touched yet, with at least a somewhat better understanding of the underlaying principles of alchemy you can continue to attempt mixing and matching materials and see what new recipes you can come up with.
[] cultivating perfection- the road to perfection is endless but it is a road that must be walked, refine one of your alchemy recipes lowering the requirements to craft it or unlock its more powerful version.
-[] which recipe?
[] expend the farms- there is no denying that the spiritual herbs are far more effective and potent as ingredients for alchemy and immortal cooking both and while you currently produce more then you need, this won't be true for long so expend the farms that produce them. (+25 G1 herbs)
-[] invest cultivators- you need more herbs, you need herbs of a greater power, the only way you will get those in a timely manner is to permanently second cultivators to grow them. (spend 1 Permanent Ap +50 G1 herbs +5 g2 herbs).
[] To perfect your taste- to eat immortal cooking is an experience out of this world but your chefs think they can do even better, that they can create something that tastes so good all other foods are ruined forever more…. You're kinda scared but also intrigued?
[] fang shui – your disciples have reached a good enough understanding of Fang Shui that they can move forward with purpose rather than throwing shit together and seeing what happens.
-[] The Breach Closing pattern (1 cultivator AP, 1 emperor AP)- the emperor has conceived of a general Fang Shui pattern that in theory should help close the breaches naturally. Spend some time with your disciples in an attempt to actually craft said pattern.
-[] describe the general direction of the feng shui patterns you want (something for combat, diplomacy, economy so on and so on.
[] formations- the power of formations is undeniable, task you disciples which creating and refining new ones.
-[] describe (in general terms) what you want the formation to do and if it should use any special resource/triggers (divine Qi, lifeforce, ingredients/materials, rituals).
A long decade is awaiting you, there is much to do and not enough time to do it all (4 personal AP). (38 divine Qi). (+38 lifespan per turn from life draining).
[] The eternal flame (doesn't cost AP)- from the black flames you have crafted a unique artifact which can either enhance your talent in divination or be used to allow another to divine the future.
-[] enhance your divination action you've taken this turn.
-[] or chose a free divination action to be taken at small penalty.
[] the power of sacrifice (no option under here takes AP)- either by way of insight or technique you have found a way to greatly empower yourself by sacrificing something. (current lifespan 581)
-[] sacrifice life- sacrifice 10 years of life span for 1 AP (current lifespan 450).
-[] sacrifice wealth- commend your empire to tribute 150 Estimated Economic Power worth of wealth and gain 1 divine charge.
-[] sacrifice divinity- spend 1 divine charge to gain 6 lifespan.
-[] attempt healing- spend divine charges and lifespan to heal a certain condition.
-[] Yourself- you are injured, spend 1 divine charges and 10 lifespan to heal yourself.
[] Push higher- your power alone would not save you or your kind, but more power would certainly be useful, so push ahead on this path that you've created oh so long ago.
-[] condense your core (0/15)- pour ever graters amount of power into your core to increase the pressure placed upon the Qi inside it and then crystalize your insights at the moment of condensation.
-[] insight of defiance (may be picked more then once)- your new false pillar must be inscribe with insights to give any benefit, do so. (new).
-[] meditate upon your insights (may be taken more than once)- meditate upon your insights in preparation to combining them, spend years pondering their natures so when the times comes to combine them your chances of success will be higher.
-[] the third of twelve (0/6)- in your studies of the soul you have stumbled around twelve points where the body and soul interconnect with enough Qi and time you can widen and fully open the connecting. The effect can only be positive although as of yet eluding your sight.
-[] Distal understanding (may be taken more than once)- you are standing on the cusp of enlightenment, push further and break the wall to understand a greater portion the Dao.
-[] seek life (0/3)- you have spent a decade in the realm of the dead and have come out with new knowledge but now your understanding is unbalanced, seek death counterpart to regain the balance, seek life and the great Dao so that balance may be returned.
-[] Achieve supercritical (require special pill)- recently you and your disciples have conceived of a special Qi state, supercritical Qi a way to gain the advantage of liquid and gaseous Qi with none of the downsides. Invest the time to ready yourself to the transformation.
-[] The connection of it all- following your new insight you have hundreds of links connecting you to your students and many more from them to their students, the ability to know your daughter is alright at all times is the dream of all fathers but maybe you should try and see if this connection has other uses. Your new understanding has shown that this connection is more than just something simple but a lick between souls, its likely behooves you to at least understand the implications of such information.
[] the lords- who are the lords? what are the lords? And how do they fit into your world? You know not the answer but you could find out.
-[] the bounty of heaven- your disciples have confirmed to the best of their abilities that after a tribulation passed, small amounts of energy still linger, further study would hopefully not only shed more light on the nature of heavens Qi but perhaps also find a useful use for it.
[] Glimpse the future- you have a gift, a gift that no other has. It has set you on this path and you must both hone and use it, to see the end of this path. Cast your eyes into the future and the apocalypse to come and attempt to draw any piece of information that might give you an advantage.
-[] Secrets of the tribulation [dangerous]- something about the tribulations is being hidden form your sight, the four having gone to great efforts to wipe away any hint or crumb of knowledge in the present, past and future and you wish to know of it. in all likelihood you will find nothing but even gods can make mistakes. (new)
-[] The tide P.3- in your vision you saw many types of beast's, small and big, deformed and consisting of perfect form. Attempt to more correctly ascertain what it is that you'll be fighting.
-[] the maelstrom [very dangerous]- in your journey through the sea of time you have encountered a being that defies understanding. One way or the other this being is connected to the coming apocalypse, already without even knowing you desist it shrouds your sight of the future, your sight now returning with less and less details. So cast your gaze once more to the future and attempt to ascertain its nature and perhaps you'll find ways to avoid it. But beware as should you be caught death is the only mercy you can expect. New knowledge as to the nature of the lord of fate would allow you to more easily escape its sight. (updated).
-[] locate the breaches part 3- you know the number and the locations generally now increase your accuracy of their locations and attempt to divine who will come out of what breach. (updated).
-[] Perturabo- Perturabo, a strategist unmatched, from the Knowledge gained form Okertaku few in the galaxy are equal in his talent for war. you know frighteningly little about him so attempt to pierce the shadows shielding him form your sight.
--[] what kind of information are you looking for? (True name, equipment, Skills, weaknesses, strengths, reactions to certain actions and so on)
-[] Magnus- Magnus, the mad sorcerer, from the Knowledge gained from Okertaku you know that Magnus is a powerful sorcerer (perhaps the greatest in the galaxy). you know frighteningly little about him so attempt to pierce the shadows shielding him form your sight.
--[] what kind of information are you looking for? (True name, equipment, Skills, weaknesses, strengths, reactions to certain actions and so on)
[] The burdens of an emperor- a farmer, son of a farmer turned into a sage, you never thought, nor wanted the burden of rule but here you are with a crown upon your head.
-[] To rule well- taking the time to listen to your subordinates and subjects as well as taking care of the small problems that arise would free your subordinates from the need to do it. (OOC: with the competent ruling action being removed from the empire action list -having achieved a good enough administrative efficiency that it doesn't need to be focused on- this action still helps with the rule of the empire and solving any problem that might crop up).
-[] The bounty of the ocean- the ocean and seas contain untold wealth both of food and of metal, by use of your new insight it is possible to now tap into that wealth with relative ease bringing great wealth to the empire.
-[] catch up (1/10)- you have just thrown most research disciplines upside down, a thousand years' worth of knowledge crammed in less than a decade and like your subjects you are also lost the information you so long relied upon now outdated and incorrect, you will attempt to rectify this when you can. Yet the burdens of running an empire and cultivation would make this a process of centuries so instead reserve some time to dedicated study and improve yourself. (OCC note: the benefit for this action are gained with every AP invested, you will naturally gain 1 AP worth every 3 turns)
[] The burdens of a teacher- you have come to enjoy teaching, but the very act gives you a certain obligation to those you teach.
-[] Haku- it has been some time since you have taken a student personally but some talents are worth it.
-[] Vakatu- it has been some time since you have taken a student personally but some talents are worth it.
-[] unforgotten- your new insight makes your lessons quite literally unforgettable, you have a lot of knowledge to impart many of it would normally go over most first steps head but now that they quit literally can't forget it you can impart upon them knowledge that will be supremely useful for their cultivation efforts.
-[] To teach the next generations- you're going to need many more cultivators to face the end that comes, and you have taught many, do so again and help train the defenders of the future. Your new pillar makes you even more suited to this task.
-[] The next step- you have many students pushing for the next step in their journey, take the time to share your wisdom and guide them in surviving the tribulation, with your new insights this is even more effective as your advice can be kept in mind at all times.
[] Listen to the earth- your new pillar allows you to understand the language of the earth all you must do is listen, you're not likely to get any useful information but practice makes perfect.
-[] attempt to pry the secrets of the noble's- somehow the nobles managed to get a third step, listen to the earth and try to ascertain how they did so.
-[] just listen- the earth has much to say and instead of directing it for a specific piece of information you can just listen, you wont get any useful information but it would make for very good practice.
-[] discover the secrets for its health- your new insight scales based on the health of the land you live on and who is better in showing you how to care for it then the land itself? Attempt to listen to the earth and ask for how you may care for it.
-[] purifying pattern- using fen shui you can start to slowly strengthen and purify the world soul, increasing it strength without a corresponding increase in its ability to channel Qi even if very slowly. (new)
-[] the surgeon tool- while outright crippling the world soul would not be benefital, using soul surgery o make slights cuts here and there could reduce its ability to channel Qi by a significant amount. It dos carry the risk of cutting something important though.
[] The burden of a god- whether it was a mistake you will perhaps never know but you are now a god or at least worshiped as one. and being divine -fake or not- comes with some benefits and no less reasonability.
-[] spend time with your daughter's- form the sacrifice of your pillar and the soul of your people has your new daughter been born and while she is far older then, she is also incredibly young and ignorant, you cannot teach her of her domain or her nature but you can certainly tach her about mortality. Besides that, just spending time with her Avatar would help her with the stress of the coming decade, kekita would also be happy to join the family time.
-[] to change realty- your experiments with divine Qi has shown you that its nature is to change the rules that govern realty at least when it comes to techniques attempt to see if it can be used more broadly.
-[] Edict formation- with the knowledge gained from Okertaku and a massive amount of divine Qi you may attempt to issue an edict, or to at least learn to do so. from your understanding Edicts are mainly a way for gods to automate some of their actions to not require direct attention and you aren't sure how useful they would be to you but you can attempt to learn.
-[] The seed of creation- you have realize that for a god to be born some sort of seed is needed, attempt to divine its nature.
-[] Divine infusement- with the new knowledge and a versatile power sources in divine Qi you may attempt to directly infuse divine Qi into an object or organism, the precise effects are not known but guaranteed to have some positive effect.
[] Research- there are many ways you can put your experiences and knowledge to help, invest the time and hope the results will be worth it.
-[] The experiences of age- with several new third steps perhaps it is time to pick up a project your daughter started? Much has changed since she first wrote the cultivation almanac and with your experience and knowledge as well as the help of the other elders even more conapts could be included as well as expending the concepts interactions to the fifth order.
-[] To turn backwards (0/4)- even though you have advanced you wish to turn back and perfect your foundation even more, this is a difficult project and will probably not work for anyone but you as temporarily liftin your core form your foundation is all but impossible for lesser talents.
-[] write in- ping me with an idea and I'll tell you how much it will cost and if its viable.
[] The power of nature and life- your new core insight has given you power over the building blocks of life. Now you can do mor then heal you can force life to change, to evolve to become better. (base cost of 1 AP +1 AP per 2 mutations after the first done in the same turn).
-[] Small mutation- make minor change, with such a change very little can go wrong and the change is unlikely to be radical for good and Ill (low risk, low reward). 1% chaos.
-[] Medium mutation- make a medium change, a change big enough to have massive reprocations upon the body if things go wrong but can also drastically improve the subject (large risk, medium reward). 5% chaos.
-[] Heavy mutation- force life to change drastically at this point more of the life form is changed then remains. With drastic results to match (very large risk, large reward) 10% chaos.
--[] On yourself- mutations on the self are more likely to be positive but also carry more risk as even with your healing abilities something may go wrong.
--[] On another- mutations on another (willing) subject are less likely to be positive but do not carry the inherent risk of doing it on yourself.
---[] What kind of mutations do you want? (not guaranteed).
-[] Technique creation.
--[] inspiration has struck and you wish to design a new technique Describe what it is you want it to do (in general terms) and what resources your willing to pay for it (things like lifespan, Qi, divine Qi other forms of sacrifice and so on).
--[] Time reversion (2 AP)- inspired by the way the perpetual being is imposed upon reality you have found a way to revert time for a single moment, this technique is crude and expensive. You'll have to refine it if you wish to ever actually use it.
--[] soul implosion (1 Ap)- recently you have been inspired on the ways to make a soul turn upon itself and implode, you'll need to organize your thoughts and do some experimenting if you truly want this to be a technique. (new)
THE WAR IN THE WARP.
The four great chaos gods gather their strength to in time struck you down, to ravage your lands and wipe your name from history.
They are not yet ready to cross the boundary between the real and the unreal yet they need not.
For a new goddess has been born.
Kuvara, goddess of the wind patron deity of the Keku, a species the four has deemed a mortal enemy.
Did you think even for a second that they will let her gather her strength in peace? To accrue experience and allies?
The warp is the domain of the four and only theirs
To be a god in this land means to cower before their might and hope they never turn their eyes toward you to hind and flee at every opportunity, for to face even the slight attention of one means death to any but the mightiest.
And Kuvara has the attention of not one but all four.
For any other god this would have been a death sentence, yet your sacrifice has granted Kuvara an avatar in the mortal realm in which she can hide beyond the reach of the four.
Yet Kuvara is a creature of the warp and going too long without breathing its energy will kill her all the same.
And so war has come, a game of cat and mouse as your goddess gathers strength while the four chaos gods attempt to struck her down.
Thankfully, while the power the four posses is all but infinite, their abilty to channel it in specific areas is limited and their attention more so.
And in a true chaos fashion three of the four are content to watch from the sidelines to either swoop for the prize or to stab a knife in their brother side, in time they will unite but for now they stand divided.
On the one side we have Kurvara who possess the following traits and attributes.
Outer shell: 26/40
Inner shell: 10/10 (this is her HP, only inner shell damage actually hurts and penalizes her)
Attention 100: +100 (+1 per attention level).
deva (7 dots): +7 (+1 per dot). Oteka (II), shikatu (I).
Fortification (100 dots): +900 (+2 per dot of fortification, +1 per dot of deva).
Avatar: Kurvara may more directly intervene in affairs on the non-warp side of things, outer shell damage received cannot be higher than 2 per clash as Kurvara may retreat into it (note: using this function means abandoning all presence in the warp temporarily).
For the following turn Kuvara will attempt the following:
1. Create Deva.
Kuvara will attempt to create enough Deva to have a minuscule presence of them this isn't a contested roll as Kuvara gets enough souls to do this passively but she will roll to see if she manages to snag a good enough soul to create a greater Deva.
Oteka assigned to help in the gathering of souls.
2. protect the dreams of the keku.
Kuvara will attempt to shield the dreams of the keku form Salleenesh deamons.
The higher the roll the better she dos in this task.
Shiaktu assigned to help defend the dreams of the keku.
3. War with the four.
With Okertaku gone Kuvara is left to fend on her own.
With the local warp fortified to the fullest extent she will marshal her devas and attempt to war with the four, limiting their -and their minions- movements and attempt to get some of licks in as they attempt to snuff her out.
Actions:
Empire action (must replace other empire actions):
[] arrange mass prayers.
In the hopes of supplying more power toward Kuvara, your empire will organize massive prayers, day and night tens of thousands will be led in fervent prayer in the hopes that the extra power will help their goddess in her fight.
The more you invest the more people will be able to dedicate a large potion of their day for prayer.
Cultivator actions:
[] The cavalry- Kuvara has reached the threshold skill level to be able to safely draw willing people into the warp with some limited ritual help, the amount that can be sent over is limited and non-cultivators are all but useless within the warp. This posting is likely to be deadly and getting the keku who volunteered out of the warp will involve a dedicated ritual but it will not only help Kuvara but also give your forces some experience against the enemies they will face and give you the opportunity to gather some demonic essence for various purposes.
Personal actions:
[] Sacrifice 10 life span and 1 divine Qi to heal 1 outer shell level for Kuvara. (doesn't cost AP).
[] Attempt to contest Tzeentch divination (not as dangerous as it sounds as you mostly try to divine his action after his divination, while he dos the same to you) for every AP spent on this action lower the number of points Tzeentch gets to distribute to his rolls by 200.
Reminder there is a 4~ hour moratorium in place. vote in plan format.
Plan format example:
[] plan name.
-[] empire action with highest priority.
-[] empire action with lower priority.
-[] empire action with lowest priority.
-[] cultivators actions.
-[] personal action.
As a reminder maximum investment refers to putting the action the highest in the plan and minimal investment means putting it the lowest.
AN: Took me a bit longer then I would have liked (a lot actually) but its out so lets get things back on track.
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[] the price of war. (must be first priority).
[] To go beyond. (updated).
[] To rule the sky.
[] The roar of thunder.
[] Infantry equipment. (updated).
[] Keku claws. (updated).
[] To sharpen the sword. (must be in the lowest four priorities).
[] The titans. (must be lowest priory).
[] Improve the rate of advancement for the lower steps (and push the average of their cultivation stage). X2
[x] Cultivation boot camp (may be picked more then once)- its beyond clear that you're going to need many more cultivators, it is beyond clear that even shoddy cultivators possess unique and powerful advantages. you already started training less talented disciples in faster and less pure ways but you can always train more. The quality of the resulting cultivators wouldn't be great but you'll get a lot more of them.
[] To draw on the emperors might- the emperor soul is connected to those of his students, the connection is thin, almost nonexistent but it is there. the emperor has speculated that he could share at least some of his Qi through this connection and might even be able to, at great cost, express his insights thorough it but much experimentation must be conducted to see if any of the above are actually possible and this kind of experimentations would require hundreds of cultivators.
[] To perfect your taste- to eat immortal cooking is an experience out of this world but your chefs think they can do even better, that they can create something that tastes so good all other foods are ruined forever more…. You're kinda scared but also intrigued?
[] fang shui – your disciples have reached a good enough understanding of Fang Shui that they can move forward with purpose rather than throwing shit together and seeing what happens.
-[] refine heavens' shackles.
[] The eternal flame (doesn't cost AP)- from the black flames you have crafted a unique artifact which can either enhance your talent in divination or be used to allow another to divine the future.
—[] make sure you don't cut anything important in the world.
[] the power of sacrifice (no option under here takes AP)- either by way of insight or technique you have found a way to greatly empower yourself by sacrificing something. (current lifespan 581)
-[] sacrifice life- sacrifice 10 years of life span for 1 AP (current lifespan 450). X4 (use martyr formation to offload the cost).
[] Push higher- your power alone would not save you or your kind, but more power would certainly be useful, so push ahead on this path that you've created oh so long ago.
-[] insight of defiance (may be picked more then once)- your new false pillar must be inscribe with insights to give any benefit, do so. (new). X2
-[] Distal understanding (may be taken more than once)- you are standing on the cusp of enlightenment, push further and break the wall to understand a greater portion the Dao.
[] The burden of a god- whether it was a mistake you will perhaps never know but you are now a god or at least worshiped as one. and being divine -fake or not- comes with some benefits and no less reasonability.
-[] to change realty- your experiments with divine Qi has shown you that its nature is to change the rules that govern realty at least when it comes to techniques attempt to see if it can be used more broadly.
[] Listen to the earth- your new pillar allows you to understand the language of the earth all you must do is listen, you're not likely to get any useful information but practice makes perfect.
-[] the surgeon tool- while outright crippling the world soul would not be benefital, using soul surgery o make slights cuts here and there could reduce its ability to channel Qi by a significant amount. It dos carry the risk of cutting something important though.
[] Research- there are many ways you can put your experiences and knowledge to help, invest the time and hope the results will be worth it.
-[] Technique creation
--[] soul implosion (1 Ap)- recently you have been inspired on the ways to make a soul turn upon itself and implode, you'll need to organize your thoughts and do some experimenting if you truly want this to be a technique. (new)
—[] flight, kuvara has already shown ability to grant people the ability to dodge the undodgable in flight, develop a method to attempt and replicate at least lesser version pf it for mess use, with resources such as divine qi.
So there is a lot to do thus turn, we reach the point we already did most critical things and I am not sure what's most efficient to spend ap on, like, I am still leaving 3 aps on cuktiavtors and one on emperor in this plan, we could add mutations, but I am wary of spending chaos on it when we might need said chaos in the apocalypse.
We could add to rule well, for that final push to our resources, or we could try to develop anti demon technique.
Didn't add divine infusment yet, and we need to decide between higher quality and more cultivators if we want more boot camps or recruitment.
Feng shui to help the world will need to be long term thing, because we need results now, so it got left out.
And so I have a few questions @uri ,
We still have blood action, when we already spent the drip, there is damage of heaven, when we already know the damage is just lingering authority.
And is a technique to draw on the power of the world to fight invaders possible?
Or a technique to combine all our anti demons abilities (banishment ritual, the world pushing them out, taint cleansing, death keeping them dead longer) to make something specifically for them?
[] To go beyond. (updated).
[] To rule the sky.
[] The roar of thunder.
[] Infantry equipment. (updated).
[] Keku claws. (updated).
[] To sharpen the sword. (must be in the lowest four priorities).
[] The titans. (must be lowest priory).
[] Improve the rate of advancement for the lower steps (and push the average of their cultivation stage). X2
[x] Cultivation boot camp (may be picked more then once)- its beyond clear that you're going to need many more cultivators, it is beyond clear that even shoddy cultivators possess unique and powerful advantages. you already started training less talented disciples in faster and less pure ways but you can always train more. The quality of the resulting cultivators wouldn't be great but you'll get a lot more of them.
[] To draw on the emperors might- the emperor soul is connected to those of his students, the connection is thin, almost nonexistent but it is there. the emperor has speculated that he could share at least some of his Qi through this connection and might even be able to, at great cost, express his insights thorough it but much experimentation must be conducted to see if any of the above are actually possible and this kind of experimentations would require hundreds of cultivators.
[] To perfect your taste- to eat immortal cooking is an experience out of this world but your chefs think they can do even better, that they can create something that tastes so good all other foods are ruined forever more…. You're kinda scared but also intrigued?
[] fang shui – your disciples have reached a good enough understanding of Fang Shui that they can move forward with purpose rather than throwing shit together and seeing what happens.
-[] refine heavens' shackles.
[] The eternal flame (doesn't cost AP)- from the black flames you have crafted a unique artifact which can either enhance your talent in divination or be used to allow another to divine the future.
—[] make sure you don't cut anything important in the world.
[] the power of sacrifice (no option under here takes AP)- either by way of insight or technique you have found a way to greatly empower yourself by sacrificing something. (current lifespan 581)
-[] sacrifice life- sacrifice 10 years of life span for 1 AP (current lifespan 450). X4 (use martyr formation to offload the cost).
[] Push higher- your power alone would not save you or your kind, but more power would certainly be useful, so push ahead on this path that you've created oh so long ago.
-[] insight of defiance (may be picked more then once)- your new false pillar must be inscribe with insights to give any benefit, do so. (new). X2
-[] Distal understanding (may be taken more than once)- you are standing on the cusp of enlightenment, push further and break the wall to understand a greater portion the Dao.
[] The burden of a god- whether it was a mistake you will perhaps never know but you are now a god or at least worshiped as one. and being divine -fake or not- comes with some benefits and no less reasonability.
-[] to change realty- your experiments with divine Qi has shown you that its nature is to change the rules that govern realty at least when it comes to techniques attempt to see if it can be used more broadly.
[] Listen to the earth- your new pillar allows you to understand the language of the earth all you must do is listen, you're not likely to get any useful information but practice makes perfect.
-[] the surgeon tool- while outright crippling the world soul would not be benefital, using soul surgery o make slights cuts here and there could reduce its ability to channel Qi by a significant amount. It dos carry the risk of cutting something important though.
[] Research- there are many ways you can put your experiences and knowledge to help, invest the time and hope the results will be worth it.
-[] Technique creation
--[] soul implosion (1 Ap)- recently you have been inspired on the ways to make a soul turn upon itself and implode, you'll need to organize your thoughts and do some experimenting if you truly want this to be a technique. (new)
—[] flight, kuvara has already shown ability to grant people the ability to dodge the undodgable in flight, develop a method to attempt and replicate at least lesser version pf it for mess use, with resources such as divine qi.
So there is a lot to do thus turn, we reach the point we already did most critical things and I am not sure what's most efficient to spend ap on, like, I am still leaving 3 aps on cuktiavtors and one on emperor in this plan, we could add mutations, but I am wary of spending chaos on it when we might need said chaos in the apocalypse.
We could add to rule well, for that final push to our resources, or we could try to develop anti demon technique.
Didn't add divine infusment yet, and we need to decide between higher quality and more cultivators if we want more boot camps or recruitment.
Feng shui to help the world will need to be long term thing, because we need results now, so it got left out.
And so I have a few questions @uri ,
We still have blood action, when we already spent the drip, there is damage of heaven, when we already know the damage is just lingering authority.
And is a technique to draw on the power of the world to fight invaders possible?
Or a technique to combine all our anti demons abilities (banishment ritual, the world pushing them out, taint cleansing, death keeping them dead longer) to make something specifically for them?
Not all of them, but I suppose you could spend a cultivators ap to design a banishment ritual that calls upon the world soul for extra effectiveness.
I'll edit it out.
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understandable. There hasn't really been a large scale war with artillery yet, so the scale of the problem is easy to miss.
We really need MORE of it. Especially because Artillery is our main hope against Chaos Marines and the stronger daemons, other than far more limited cultivators.
well, this is the first turn where the war COULD start at any moment, so we need to keep that in mind.
mh... macro cannons could allow for orbital bombardment on daemon-held positions? That said there's a non-zero chance we might not HAVE the full decade.
Simple enough, mandated first priority.
Obviously fairly important
fair enough. half a titan does us no good after all.
At least this should make that third step pilot much more effective.
We obviously need more soldiers, BUT even more importantly we need an economy that can support them.
of course we don't have nine decades... but every little bit helps. If the militia can hold on for longer against, say, a siege, that's time our cultivators could use to reach them and save them, for example, or for our artillery to get in position.
maybe not max investment, our empire is already fairly strained... but this is a force multiplier we heavily need to invest in.
not as important as having the ammunition, but yeah, really important.
ok, tentative order...
1 [] the price of war. (must be first priority).
2 [] The roar of thunder.
those seem fairly obvious. more artillery pieces to go with more munitions.
3 [] To go beyond. (updated).
it's the highest I can justify, and probably a bit of a bet. If we get a full turn it will pay off.
4 [] To rule the sky.
aircraft is a force multiplier.
5 [] Infantry equipment. (updated).
6 [] To sharpen the sword. (must be in the lowest four priorities).
7 [] Keku claws. (updated).
more equipment for the actual soldiers, better trained militia, and equipment for the militia, in that order.
I'm not fully convinced of this order, but it is what it is.
8 [] The titans. (must be lowest priory).
and titans at the end, as we have to.
If so we could shift production from tribulation aids (like the lightning arrays) to something else...
@uri could we shift that production to Shield Arrays instead until the end of the war?
I'm leaning "improve the rate of advancement.
for more awakening we have the pills.
A core insight COULD be viable if we have a good idea for it though.
Generally speaking I'm tempted by 5 APs on Cultivation Boot Camp, really.
obviously as much as we can.
It might be viable, we do have some divine qi for it after all and we could get 10 points from blood sacrifice too
oh, right, if we haven't done this already we have to
Worth considering if we're doing core insight
didn't we already do those two? I thought we went for a special core insight for the blood, and we found out about the lingering energy's problems
somewhat tempting, but probably too risky... MAYBE if boosted by the flame? There could be some great secret there that might be worth the risk.
considering our main strategy is artillery spam, locating more breaches is a MASSIVE advantage and necessity.
Tide might be worth it to better prepare our soldiers for what they'll be fighting against, if we can spare the AP.
Should we try to divine their weaknesses to make plans against them?
Our empire is straining. It MIGHT be worth taking, but we probably can't afford it.
Could we come up with a good enough Edict to support the war? Something targeting the Daeva or the Chaos Marines, maybe? Maybe something making their armor less durable, for example, making them more vulnerable, or strenghtening the Keku.
We're desperate enough that we might actually want to try some kind of "Heavy War Mutations" project on volunteers.
Oh, right, this one has potential against the Daeva and the Chaos Marines, we should do it!
... @uri I remember the Nobles don't believe in the coming apocalypse for the most part. What do they think of the dream assaults then? Do they think it's us?
mh... maybe Mass Prayers could replace the militia training... or the space ships, if we want to go without that one as it's too late?
I'm not sure if Kuvara currently NEEDS healing, but that's always an option.
Cavalry is not the worst idea. It would give our cultivators experience, and us intel.
As for counter-divinations... I don't remember if the penalties to Tzeentch are worth the effort, but wouldn't the flame help and make the action more effective?
mh... I think we need the artillery (roar of thunder) more, but I can see the argument for more space ships and aircraft instead.
is this actually worth it right now?
war mutations could definitely help a lot, so we might have to take it.
Rule well... we ARE doing a lot of risky and complex projects/choices, so extra focus on them could very well be worth it. Basically all of our empire projects are war-related, and making them better and reducing side-effects and problems on society and economy is definitely worth an AP if we think such problems are likely (and they probably are).
Sure, I was going to use all of the arrays for 1st step tribulations but you could switch (just note it in the plan won't cost actions).
The dream assaults are not really something that is known, you're doing a good job at defending against them and the nobles aren't being really targeted by it so they don't have an opinion one way or the other (if they even know its happening).
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We already have pretty high pressure on ammo, adding more canons will just mean spending it faster, I would rather aim for the sky tech instead.
Every modern army need aircrafts, and if we could have combat able spaceships, they are also great.
My thoughts are that a phoenix shard could both increase our harmony and our fire abilities, fire abilities mean stronger divination and combat abilities.
But it is far from critical by that point.
Mutations are best if you take a bunch of them, like three four aps, and we would like probably rather have medium mutations than minor ones.
Minor ones are cheap, but medium ones aren't.
Alternatives could be spending aps on making techniques, I picked flight to make our cultivators less vulnerable to anti air attack, but it could change, I also picked greater manipulation of techniques with divine qi.
Personally, I am currently most inclined for to rule well, that seems like the best use of our time.
Hopefully the defiance insights could also help.
What about a technique to draw on the world's help in general, have it power you, like naruto senjutsu or arcuied from fate.
And I asked about techniques because a ritual specifically seems like it would be had idea against armies, especially with heaven shackles.
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I suppose it's a possibly but it would fairly minor.
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Maybe when our world is stronger one day.
Is using our flames given free divination to aid the surgery of the world possible? Use it to foresee mistakes and not do them?
[] plan, expanding forces
-[] the price of war. (must be first priority).
-[] To go beyond. (updated).
-[] To rule the sky.
-[] The roar of thunder.
-[] Infantry equipment. (updated).
-[] Keku claws. (updated).
-[] To sharpen the sword. (must be in the lowest four priorities).
-[] The titans. (must be lowest priory).
-[] Improve the rate of advancement for the lower steps (and push the average of their cultivation stage). X2
-[] change alchemy production? (doesn't cost an action).
-[] to The awakening pill, put one herb per pill, two if you run out of space to keep herbs
-[] Body nourishment meal for first steps
-[] Body-mind energizing meal for third steps
-[] infuse soldiers twice for cost of 20 empire divine qi.
-[] change runic production for qi shield arrays
-[x] Cultivation boot camp (may be picked more then once)- its beyond clear that you're going to need many more cultivators, it is beyond clear that even shoddy cultivators possess unique and powerful advantages. you already started training less talented disciples in faster and less pure ways but you can always train more. The quality of the resulting cultivators wouldn't be great but you'll get a lot more of them. X2
-[] Recruiting- if you wish to have a hope of survival the current number of disciples is pitiful, your disciples would focus on going out and training potential cultivators in order to find new talents and increase their number. With a crude but passable way to determine talent you can now weed out the untalented. Increasing the power and quality of your new disciples.
-[] To draw on the emperors might- the emperor soul is connected to those of his students, the connection is thin, almost nonexistent but it is there. the emperor has speculated that he could share at least some of his Qi through this connection and might even be able to, at great cost, express his insights thorough it but much experimentation must be conducted to see if any of the above are actually possible and this kind of experimentations would require hundreds of cultivators.
-[] To perfect your taste- to eat immortal cooking is an experience out of this world but your chefs think they can do even better, that they can create something that tastes so good all other foods are ruined forever more…. You're kinda scared but also intrigued?
-[] fang shui – your disciples have reached a good enough understanding of Fang Shui that they can move forward with purpose rather than throwing shit together and seeing what happens.
--[] refine heavens' shackles.
-[] The eternal flame (doesn't cost AP)- from the black flames you have crafted a unique artifact which can either enhance your talent in divination or be used to allow another to divine the future.
--[] make sure you don't cut anything important in the world while acting as a surgeon.
-[] the power of sacrifice (no option under here takes AP)- either by way of insight or technique you have found a way to greatly empower yourself by sacrificing something. (current lifespan 581)
--[] sacrifice life- sacrifice 10 years of life span for 1 AP (current lifespan 450). X4 (use martyr formation to offload the cost).
-[] The burdens of an emperor- a farmer, son of a farmer turned into a sage, you never thought, nor wanted the burden of rule but here you are with a crown upon your head.
--[] To rule well- taking the time to listen to your subordinates and subjects as well as taking care of the small problems that arise would free your subordinates from the need to do it. (OOC: with the competent ruling action being removed from the empire action list -having achieved a good enough administrative efficiency that it doesn't need to be focused on- this action still helps with the rule of the empire and solving any problem that might crop up).
-[] Push higher- your power alone would not save you or your kind, but more power would certainly be useful, so push ahead on this path that you've created oh so long ago.
--[] insight of defiance (may be picked more then once)- your new false pillar must be inscribe with insights to give any benefit, do so. (new). X2
--[] Distal understanding (may be taken more than once)- you are standing on the cusp of enlightenment, push further and break the wall to understand a greater portion the Dao.
-[] The burden of a god- whether it was a mistake you will perhaps never know but you are now a god or at least worshiped as one. and being divine -fake or not- comes with some benefits and no less reasonability.
--[] to change realty- your experiments with divine Qi has shown you that its nature is to change the rules that govern realty at least when it comes to techniques attempt to see if it can be used more broadly.
--[] Divine infusement- with the new knowledge and a versatile power sources in divine Qi you may attempt to directly infuse divine Qi into an object or organism, the precise effects are not known but guaranteed to have some positive effect. (Check what's the deal with the expenditure on tree, complete the process).
-[] Listen to the earth- your new pillar allows you to understand the language of the earth all you must do is listen, you're not likely to get any useful information but practice makes perfect.
--[] the surgeon tool- while outright crippling the world soul would not be benefital, using soul surgery o make slights cuts here and there could reduce its ability to channel Qi by a significant amount. It dos carry the risk of cutting something important though.
-[] Research- there are many ways you can put your experiences and knowledge to help, invest the time and hope the results will be worth it.
--[] Technique creation
---[] soul implosion (1 Ap)- recently you have been inspired on the ways to make a soul turn upon itself and implode, you'll need to organize your thoughts and do some experimenting if you truly want this to be a technique. (new)
---[] flight, kuvara has already shown ability to grant people the ability to dodge the undodgable in flight, develop a method to attempt and replicate at least lesser version pf it for mess use, with resources such as divine qi, can add aspects of wind if kuvara's support can help with the technique.
That's my current plan, for our own action, we improve the survivability of units through dodging technique, add punch with the soul implosion, do surgery on the world, research the use of divine qi in techniques more and finish what started with tree, and finally, we rule well to give out empire actions a push.
Cultivators is a combination of recruitment and boot camp, giving the emperor a way to cast insights through them, making the super meal, and refining heavens shackles.
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Yeah, I don't see why not.
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And we can't expand divine qi to get divine defiance insights, right.