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[Exalted, ?] Most High

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[x] [Limit Break] Slay Her - +175,000 XP - Though you have come to an understanding of a sort, it is by no means an accord, and she is far too dangerous an opponent to let live. Exploit now your position as the one still conscious and finish this deadliest of foes. Aside from her armor, you will gain her filigree rapier and iron gauntlet as well - a powerful twinned pair of Artifacts that can be used or bestowed upon a powerful follower. It is perhaps not the perfect moment to kill her, but only a fool allows the perfect to be the enemy of the sufficient. Discharges your Limit Break.
 
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Rihaku said:
I don't know how possible that will be.
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Not without some powerful magic to literally drill subtlety into her brain. Even then, knowing something is not the same as using it.

I mean, we had considered getting the Lore teaching charms to help Luseng, but this is the sort of thing that gets expensive, and quickly, unless we could somehow do it before the story ends. Even then we'd have to purchase a number of charms.

Still, this kind of thing could be a useful carrot to induce her to stay around for a bit if she is otherwise hesitant.
 
Rihaku said:
There is one very important thing to consider: What exactly would you have Lily do, and how would you convince her to do it? If you take in her refugees as you plan, do you just intend to tell her to keep guarding the Emerald Mountain? Will she venture around the now nearly-empty territory whose entire population is concentrated in your city? Or will she be placed where she can do the most good, within Luseng itself, where she can buff you and your allies and serve as a defensive bulwark against any invasion?

If the latter, that is sort of awkward to explain. On the other hand, if you won't take in her refugees, why would she ally with you? What benefits does it confer?

I mean, it's very possible that she could simply decide that, having convinced you to take in her refugees, her work in Luseng Province is done and it's time for the knight-errant to errant away, someplace where she's more needed. That's an issue you may have to contend with anyway.
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she did say guarding the mountain itself is a priority due to there being "something" there. we could push for investigating and containing whatever that something is together
As for refugees. We planned on conquering the mountain anyways. rather than just relocating them into lusang, we could have them settle the mountain and invest in their well being and construct a proper well managed mining town on top of it with them
 
Orm Embar said:
I doubt we can afford to purchase these Charms people are so intent on with our current experience total; there's also the opportunity costs of having to spend Charms on social defense, which is utterly useless against Anys Syn.
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I don't know how sure you should be of that...

Anasurimbor said:
Still, this kind of thing could be a useful carrot to induce her to stay around for a bit if she is otherwise hesitant.
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Hmm, it's not so much hesitancy as it is "I could be doing more good elsewhere!"

mrttao said:
As for refugees. We planned on conquering the mountain anyways. rather than just relocating them into lusang, we could have them settle the mountain and invest in their well being and construct a proper well managed mining town on top of it with them
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Braving the Mountain with just yourself and The Lily? How romantic incredibly reckless!
 
[X] Spend Moderate Amounts of Willpower to Only Accept a Minor Intimacy of [Friendship towards The Lily]

[X] Continued Dialogue

I want to slay her with my tendacy to choose maximum carnage choice but I choose this choice because I want E5,Let made the most use of it in this stituation.
 
Rihaku said:
I don't know how sure you should be of that...
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What, is she going to try and pull what Assassin did on Wu? Still, even if they're not utterly useless, I'd still rather have the Charms which prevent us from being horribly murdered via efficient application of kung fu.
Rihaku said:
Hmm, it's not so much hesitancy as it is "I could be doing more good elsewhere!"
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If she wants to leave, by all means, let her.
 
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skaro said:
I want to slay her with my tendacy to choose maximum carnage choice but I choose this choice because I want E5,Let made the most use of it in this stituation.
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We are perfectly capable of purchasing E5 in the future; it's just one action, and we haven't spend much of the minimum of ten days allotted to us yet. You can have your cake and eat it too with this option, it just requires a modicum of patience.
 
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Rihaku said:
Braving the Mountain with just yourself and The Lily? How romantic incredibly reckless!
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We only barely decided to not solo the mountain. And wasn't the outer layers fairly safe-ish to mine? and lilly currently holds the mountain itself alone. We could wait until we have some more forces before we crack its pure jade core and see what horror hides within
 
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Orm Embar said:
We are perfectly capable of purchasing E5 in the future; it's just one action, and we haven't spend much of the minimum of ten days allotted to us yet. You can have your cake and eat it too with this option, it just requires a modicum of patience.
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How's that work? I thought to Rank Up the Essence we had to do something Epic? I wasn't entirely sure how the training option allowed for Essence 5 actually.
 
Orm Embar said:
We are perfectly capable of purchasing E5 in the future; it's just one action, and we haven't spend much of the minimum of ten days allotted to us yet. You can have your cake and eat it too with this option, it just requires a modicum of patience.
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We can use that ten day to more productive activity,like prophecy spam after we gain E5,I don't want to waste time anymore.
 
ahah. ahahahahahahahah. Oh this is hilarious. If Zao knows about Syn there is no way in the Infinite Hells of the Abyss or the Seven Mounting Heavens he's going to let Moon leave his place of power where he can protect her, let alone join the greatest possible target of her ire. His protection of her is probably one of his defining ties.

Since we chose the option NOT to go to Seacrown, we'll probably get a letter about this! This is hilarious and also I point and laugh at the entire Lily contingent (in a respectful way). LOOK! Look what your constant search for power has wrought!

Seriously if that does happen I would be vastly entertained and only modestly disappointed at the lack of Moon. By the By @Rihaku, for the letters, would general write-ins of the style used in Dromon's A Dragon of the North quest be acceptable if other people wanted to do stuff? Those tend to be very generalized things that say what and how they'd write the letter rather than actually writing it, and I thought the option might be helpful to those who are having difficulty getting letters written but have expressed an interest.
 
Emerald Oracle said:
ahah. ahahahahahahahah. Oh this is hilarious. If Zao knows about Syn there is no way in the Infinite Hells of the Abyss or the Seven Mounting Heavens he's going to let Moon leave his place of power where he can protect her, let alone join the greatest possible target of her ire. His protection of her is probably one of his defining ties.

Since we chose the option NOT to go to Seacrown, we'll probably get a letter about this! This is hilarious and also I point and laugh at the entire Lily contingent (in a respectful way). LOOK! Look what your constant search for power has wrought!

Seriously if that does happen I would be vastly entertained and only modestly disappointed at the lack of Moon. By the By @Rihaku, for the letters, would general write-ins of the style used in Dromon's A Dragon of the North quest be acceptable if other people wanted to do stuff? Those tend to be very generalized things that say what and how they'd write the letter rather than actually writing it, and I thought the option might be helpful to those who are having difficulty getting letters written but have expressed an interest.
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BEHOLD what your folly has wrought!

It would count as a stunt but it would not be as good as a fully fleshed-out letter.
 
[X] Spend Moderate Amounts of Willpowerto Only Accept a Minor Intimacy of[Friendship towards The Lily]

[X] Continued Dialogue

Essence 5, and an ally Solaroid who had a fair chance of beating us? Sign me up
 
Was hesitating to actually post and vote since at the moment I'm very busy with finals art projects and can't do any illustrations atm to back up or, well, illustrate the outcomes I'm voting for since I'd like to at least make up for the XP we'd not be getting by me voting for the non-red options if they do win; but Orm caught me lurking (damn you, Orm! but thank you for the compliment on the stuff for the last quests) and now I feel an obligation to at least say hi, make a shaky promise that I will most definitely try to illustrate for this quest when school is over, and vote!


[X] Spend Moderate Amounts of Willpowerto Only Accept a Minor Intimacy of[Friendship towards The Lily]

[X] Continued Dialogue


I want to at least try at an alliance or some kind of pact of "I won't fuck with your shit if you don't fuck with mine" now that keeping Ambition/not dying is a thing we've overcome, for now.

While Seeds had an ideology that was more in line with ours, without the means to carry out his ideals in an agreeable manner, what Lily has is an ideology that can at least be somewhat bent over time if provided with evidence, AND the potential power to carry out these ideals without resorting to, well, turning everyone into zombies or ghosts.

As the foundation of her ideology is the history that her sister provided of power systems that failed and fell. In part, from what I understand at least of her, her insistence on having actions driven by what the heart believes is right (we'll call it "emotional bias") is also in part because of this foundation knowledge/understanding - in short, she may be able to be reasoned with. Remember, the whole theme of her character is opposites and contradictions in union, so it might be a waste to simply write her off as unreasonable due to her emotional bias - she may be reasonable because of her emotional bias, or vice-versa (unless Rihaku says otherwise).

If shown evidence (Luseng's growth despite all odds) that there is, indeed, a Way - that Uly/Ody's utopia/remaking of Creation and that his way of doing things is not always guaranteed to end in failure or corruption - she may be able to be convinced, or at least inclined not to fuck with your stuff for a while to further observe and evaluate your evidence, and may be open to an exchange of favors every now and then. Of course, if our evidence/example fails in the long term we may be looking at facing her as an opponent later, but with Anys on the horizon it might be a better investment to make an ally for now and not possibly draw the immediate attention of the Gardener.

As for Emerald Mountain, perhaps we can prod further about the nature of what lurks within, and perhaps offer assistance in defeating it?


That aside, -snorfle- maybe if Continued Dialogue doesn't appear to bear any fruit, could we THEN Limit Break on her?
 
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