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[X] Acquire Defining Tie, "The Lathe of Heaven"

Sounds hardcore.

[X] Infallible Messenger

Might let us contact Lealope, though she might be warded.

[X] Travel Without Distance - Teleports you up to [Essence x 10] miles. As a control spell, allows you to teleport [Essence + 1] willing passengers. Causes fatigue which wears off in [6 - Stamina] hours; the spell cannot be re-cast while fatigued.

Teleport is useful.

-[X] Beg The Lily for help

[X] The Temporal Blazon [Solar Circle, Ambition 2]

[X] The Knight of Jade [Solar Circle, Ambition 3]
-[X] Focus on Administration


Must take Knight with Blazon. It can remove the need to sleep in a city sped up to double time.
 
Remember guys, you can also write-in options! There were actually a lot more Working ideas I had, I just didn't want to overwhelm you guys with too many decisions this decision point (there are already a ton!). If an option gets really popular, I'll do a Working write-up for it (like, say, buffing Moon).
 
-[x] Acquire Defining Tie, "The Lathe of Heaven"
-[x] Infallible Messenger
-[X] Shadows of the Ancient Past
-[x] The Sundial Throne [Solar Circle, Ambition 3]

Ultron is a go!

Infallible Messenger opens up options for us to stay in communication with Luseng should we ever need to go off to look for Lea. Alternatively, we can use it to look for Lea.

Shadow of the ancient past allows us access to records without actually retaking the Library. Free Prophet of Seven Circle Spam.

As for time dilation, 3 is better than 2.
 
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cyberswordsmen said:
How much of a problem would this be for the current administration to deal with when Uly isn't spending actions holding the economy up?
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16k people starved already even though we ruled well x3
things are now worse than that because we killed off all the administrators and chose to go for sorcery instead of fixing our mess

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Shadow of the ancient past allows us access to records without actually retaining the Library. Free Prophet of Seven Circle Spam.
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Oh, clever!
... I still prefer teleportation
wait, how big is creation in this quest (I know we are off the rails in many ways)
 
-[X] Acquire Defining Tie, "The Lathe of Heaven" - Uly will seek to destroy and remake the world, as Odyssial did. Gives more information on the Lathe of Heaven. Uly will more heavily prioritize personal advancement over coalition-building, as the Lathe of Heaven requires a set locus of power: a quintillion mortals could not do it, only a single being of truly transcendent might can. [Behavioral Change: Minimal. Mental Strain: High]

Yeah I wanna to do the Lathe of heaven. ENDGAME
 
Begging The Lily for help is very useful with either of the time dilation options, because losing a single week on either of them is effectively losing either two or five weeks of precious time!

-[X] Beg The Lily for help
[X] The Sundial Throne [Solar Circle, Ambition 3
Maximum time dilation and no need for annoying explanations because we can just keep everyone out of our heavily warded laboratory

[X] Buff Moon [Solar Circle, Ambition 3]
I may switch this to something more practical, but I'm curious to see what our options are here.

-[X] Upgrade Sepulchral Pearl to "Defining"
Because I really, really, don't want to risk fragmenting Odyssial's mind with memories he can't handle. Also, this makes it much more likely that she'll come to Luseng. She could certainly help out with a number of things.
 
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-[X] Acquire Defining Tie, "The Lathe of Heaven"
I want to know what it actually is and the minimal behaviour change is good. Not too worried about the mental strain since we just Limit Broke (unless it's something like permanent limit, that would be nasty)
-[X] Mists of Eventide
Pretty hard choice, but the option to completely puppet an enemy after driving him into crash is pretty good. Also lets us remove people we don't want to hurt from a fight with minimal trouble.
-[X] Demon of the Second Circle
I think the Odyssian Horse is a variation of a travel spell, so getting teleport is a bit redundant and I'm not really a fan of Shadows of Ancient Past
-[X] Beg The Lily for help
Seems like a pretty good idea, we can afford the favor and deal with it by sending our legion to protect for her people and we should have a major intimacy towards our friends.
[X] The Sundial Throne [Solar Circle, Ambition 3]
Time dilation was the entire draw of Sorcery, so not getting max time dilation is pretty weird

Not sure if I want to buff Moon or make the Knight.
 
Given the hell that is in store for us? I vote for
[x] Buff Moon

That way when Anys Syn launches her assault, through whatever vector, Moon will be a valuable ally rather than a liability. Also, Buffing Moon to Solar Tier will also make it so that shoving the governance of Luseng off on her is actually DOABLE. She won't be forced to work like a dog immediately after seeing Ulyssian in Murder Mode. Thus Buffing Moon, helps her, Luseng, and Ulyssian's strategic position!
 
Jaw drops as tears start to form in his eyes.

This. This is just beautiful

-[X] Upgrade Sepulchral Pearl to "Defining"

I want more Pearl anyways. I like Lily too much to potentially have our hatred for the Primoridals bleed off on her and it makes asking for her help harder. Not looking forward to that mental strain either.

Sounds hardcore.

[X] Infallible Messenger

Useful to talk with our allies such as Zao, Lily if we can't go to her personally and if we leave Luseng it allows us to remain in contact with whoever we leave in charge there.

[X] Travel Without Distance - Teleports you up to [Essence x 10] miles. As a control spell, allows you to teleport [Essence + 1] willing passengers. Causes fatigue which wears off in [6 - Stamina] hours; the spell cannot be re-cast while fatigued.

Teleport is very useful.

-[X] Beg The Lily for help

I like Lily and don't mind doing a favor for someone who is both our friend and considers us a friend. Plus it means that if we do a temporal working it'll let us two workings in one month. Bueno

[X] The Sundial Throne [Solar Circle, Ambition 3]
[X] The Star-Crowned Dragon of Heaven [Solar Circle, Ambition 3]

Time Dilation that's actually faster than if we put it over all of Luseng and is less likely to get discovered.

SMA moon is great because it powers Moon up, gives us extra incentive to bring Ivory here, learn Star Crown to teach the girls, and it goes well with time dilation.
 
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[X] A Dragon of the West [Solar Circle, Ambition 3]

Once, Lung Feng Zao bound the winds of every Direction save for the West into a suit of jade and soulsteel to create his legendary Storm Armor. Though Ulyssian has set aside that Artifact in favor of the Sable Scales, he will now attempt to replicate that feat on a greater scale. By erecting pillars of intricately carved steel capped by stones of blue jade at geomantically calculated intervals in and around Luseng, set in the pattern of a hurricane, enormous amounts of air-aspected essence can be channeled into an Exalt of the same type located at the confluence of these energies, the 'eye of the storm'. At the conclusion of the process, the beneficiary's ability to wield the energies of Creation is magnified to an enormous degree, enabling swift development and feats of elemental manipulation that are apocalyptic in scale, as the Exalt in question metamorphoses into a (metaphorical) Dragon of the West.

* By empowering an ally, Ulyssian does not fully bind himself to Luseng in the future, allowing for greater mobility.
* Cooperating closely with Moon limits the amount of stress incurred by Ulyssian's Sorcerous labors.
* Moon herself has to remain within a certain area for the channeling to take effect, moderately decreasing the efficacy of her administration of Luseng, though bureaucrats may still attend her. Sitting in a maelstrom of wind and lightning is good for intimidating courtiers, but makes paperwork somewhat challenging.
 
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-[X] Acquire Defining Tie, "The Lathe of Heaven"
-[X] Invulnerable Skin of Bronze
-[X] Beg The Lily for help
[X] The Sundial Throne [Solar Circle, Ambition 3]

I don't intend to be joining the discussion quite yet, although the acquisition of Sorcery is quite amazing, but I'll see if argumentation is needed.
 
It seems like mental strain is acquired by gaining access to parts of the lord strategos' mindstate that are too complex for us to understand. The lathe was near the end of his life, when his thinking would have been the most incomprehensible to us. which is why it's 'high' to the 'moderate' of the other choices.

I suppose grappling with six dimensional glaciers makes sense now. Which means bad things for our mental state.


I'd actually prefer pearl. The yozi are going to be a major faction that we have to deal with and could do a lot to stabilize creation(they don't want it destroyed) if we can bargain, bribe, or intimidate them into being useful. Lily is adept enough to know that her new terrible friend hates her now, or is trying somewhat unsuccessfully not to hate her.

The lathe puts us at odds with anyone who doesn't want creation destroyed. We could potentially work with heaven since we're strong enough to defend and ourselves and the incarnae can't be bothered to go against us, unless we're threatening the world.

Mostly I just don't think pearl gets enough screen time after we put all those choices into her(and our awesome sword). I honestly think 'ambition' gets more screen time, which is pretty sad.
 
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[X] Upgrade Sepulchral Pearl to "Defining"
[X] Infallible Messenger
[X] Travel Without Distance
-[X] Beg The Lily for help
[X] The Temporal Blazon [Solar Circle, Ambition 2]
[X] The Knight of Jade [Solar Circle, Ambition 3]
-[X] Focus on Administration
 
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Now is the time. For what? To buff Moon, of course!

[X] Acquire Defining Tie, "The Lathe of Heaven"
[X] A Dragon of the West [Solar Circle, Ambition 3]
[X] Don't Beg The Lily for help

I kinda like the Titan stuff, but I don't really want to vote for Uly to hate me, so, uh, yeah. Going to go with this instead, even though I like Pearl. It just fits too well with his recent Limit Break revelations. I still don't like Lily, but the other stuff is mostly gravy.
 
[x] Upgrade Sepulchral Pearl to "Defining"

[x] Infallible Messenger

[x] Shadows of the Ancient Past

[x] Beg The Lily for help
-[x] write in: offer the legion to protect her people
[x] The Sundial Throne [Solar Circle, Ambition 3]

[X] A Dragon of the West [Solar Circle, Ambition 3]


I tried to choose our sorcery choices so they synergized with eachother and our non-sorcerous skills.

Shadows of the past lets us gather knowledge for prophecy without needing to buy them. It could also be quite helpful for investigating the emerald mountain. Infallible messenger let's us keep in touch with allies, enemies, or potential allies all over creation. This is important when we need to act quickly, it also lets us enhance the scale and effectiveness of prophecies because we can cause them to propagate from multiple vectors by telling people what they need to do or taunting them into the correct(for us) action. Can possibly be used to gather even more prophecy material through their spying. Even more if we can use 'shadow of the past' through the messenger spirits.

Sundial throne because it's more subtle than a city wide effect. It speeds up time by more than twice which shifts the benefit of staying in luseng.

Since we have time for a second working, I favor buffing moon over creating a 3cd. Both because she'd probally agree if it would help us, and because she'd retain the ability to grow stronger.
 
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[X] Upgrade Sepulchral Pearl to "Defining"
Let the waifu wars begin! maybe moon will finally confess when she sees some competition.
(I am joking, but I really do love pearl. and she is also super useful)
[X] Infallible Messenger
[X] Travel Without Distance
[X] Beg The Lily for help
waifu wars dialed up to 11!
(I am joking, but I really do like lily, we need to have our time dilation field on ASAP, the increased intimacy allows her to sway us a bit, and the favor can be used for doing some good)
[X] The Sundial Throne [Solar Circle, Ambition 3]
5x time dilation field for uly to work in. That can be boosted up to 10x as he rises up in essence? All the yeses!
 
mrttao said:
You are missing the spells vote
You need to vote for one celestial and one terrestial control spell
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I mentioned that I didn't really care what we picked there, but since you asked, why not.

[X] Acquire Defining Tie, "The Lathe of Heaven"
[X] A Dragon of the West [Solar Circle, Ambition 3]
[X] Don't Beg The Lily for help
[X] Infallible Messenger
[X] Travel Without Distance
 
How useful is teleportation going to be if we can summon the horse that draws the sun's chariot as a mount instead? Seems slightly redundant.
 
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