Thanks! Aaand corrected. It slipped me by somehow.
Forge of Destiny(Xianxia Quest)
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Thanks! Aaand corrected. It slipped me by somehow.
For a few more substantive critiques that I just thought of:
I like the idea that Fan Yu was damaged by all the rejection and abandonment and his self-loathing is interesting. But this
Felt a bit like it came out of nowhere. He had previously been going on in his head about how people liked him more because he was less abrasive. Maybe it would have been better to emphasize what he didn't like about his present self- aloofness, ambition, selfishness, earlier so there's more a buildup to that line.
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Absolutely excellent omake Horium, please keep on writing them!
I'll have to go over it tomorrow. You may very well be right that it's too sudden or didn't flow right.
Those rose-tinted glasses thoFan Yu omake said:
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Everyone is the hero of their own story.
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Has there been any statement or implication to the effect that we're supposed to keep Cai's offer under wraps? I notice we haven't had an option to talk it over with Gu Xiulan or Han Jian, both of whom have given us good advice in the past.
Also, I'm hoping that clearing out the Xiulan action this turn re-opens the girls' night out option with Xiulan and Meizhen.
Also, I'm hoping that clearing out the Xiulan action this turn re-opens the girls' night out option with Xiulan and Meizhen.
Argent Storm look's like good art for melee character.
But we aren't one, and we already have 2 defensive arts TRF and SCS.
I know that people were planning to upgrade it to level 3, but can we get something else?
Pay 20 points for FVM spiritual support art or another music art?
But we aren't one, and we already have 2 defensive arts TRF and SCS.
I know that people were planning to upgrade it to level 3, but can we get something else?
Pay 20 points for FVM spiritual support art or another music art?
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Well, we sorta are now. If only thanks to our music melee attacks.
Beside we have more melee art than either music or archery arts. (3 to 1 each).
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Well, at the moment we won't be able to level it up to level 3, as we need to know what the "special event" is that is required. In all likely hood, it is Han Jian getting to level 2 in Argent Mirror, but we can't know for sure.
However, as it stands, I believe most people want to get a spiritual offensive buff art so that we can get FVM hitting like a truck again as well as the other benefits that such an art could bring. I personally want to spend 50 points and get a nice level 3 art for such a purpose, but I don't know if everyone agrees with that sentiment. As the turns progress, we'll see what is in store for us, but I don't think spending a couple of actions on AS is in the cards right now. It would be much better to spend another action on AC and get that to level 3, should we have the time.
While we do have more melee arts due to the argent series, our archery dice far outweighs our melee dice. Which would be indicative of an archery focus over a melee focus. Either way, I would like to see our music dice skyrocket above both of those, but we will have to get the arts in order to do that.
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I don't really understand what the rules are for Instants. Despite being instant, is it one can only activate one each turn plus you also get your normal action? Or is it that you can only activate one instant in response to each enemy action?
I'm pretty sure it's just that we need to talk with Han Jian because we don't actually have the Jade Slip.
are you talking before breakthrough, or before the tournament?
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I don't particularly care, but I don't think we will have time before the breakthrough, especially if people want to do a week 37 breakthrough.
I believe that the rule for instants is that only one instant can be used per phase. For example, when it is turn one and we go first we are in an offensive phase and can use an instant then (Mists + Dissonance). Then, after the offensive phase, it is the defensive phase for us and the enemies offensive phase. At that point, we can use another instant (Cresent's Grace). That seems to be how instant's have been mechanically used.
It would be kind of funny if we accidentally turn into a melee terror by way of flute-driven counterattacks + dodge tanking.
OTOH it could turn into a disadvantage if missing counterattacks can provoke counterattacks of their own.
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Alectai
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Typically, one doesn't allow counterattack counterattacks or things get just silly.
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Anyway, while I had said the big issue of using only the Argent arts in yellow would be that there would be low p.defence and s.defence if Mirror and Storm art it, I kind of under-estimated both of them.
It certainly wouldn't be exceptional dice by itself, but for p.defence we can expect AS4 to give +4 phys def, and even dismissing the third tech Rumbling Squall can be expected to give +5def and +2armour by then. So while it wouldn't be great by itself, it should still give a high tier late yellow something like Attribute 6 + Mastery 6 + Armour 3 + AS 4 + RS 5 + Activation 2 = 26 p.defence in first turn, with maybe 4 armour. So, mediocre maybe but nothing terrible.
as for s.def, Mirror focus mostly on flat out dispelling most lesser spiritual effects less than dice, and that's not a horrible strategy early on given the rarity of s.focus yellows.
It certainly wouldn't be exceptional dice by itself, but for p.defence we can expect AS4 to give +4 phys def, and even dismissing the third tech Rumbling Squall can be expected to give +5def and +2armour by then. So while it wouldn't be great by itself, it should still give a high tier late yellow something like Attribute 6 + Mastery 6 + Armour 3 + AS 4 + RS 5 + Activation 2 = 26 p.defence in first turn, with maybe 4 armour. So, mediocre maybe but nothing terrible.
as for s.def, Mirror focus mostly on flat out dispelling most lesser spiritual effects less than dice, and that's not a horrible strategy early on given the rarity of s.focus yellows.
Ling Qi made like Adorjan. As the murderbuddha says, keep running ahead, keep running past, when they are behind you they aren't even a memory.
I'd note that Argent/Silver/Mercury is the traditional color/element of the Moon too in classical alchemy!
But I think they take a different emphasis:
-The Argent Qi is about taking opposites, balancing them, and then combining them into the Dao.
--Assuming it works entirely like the I Ching(which is a stretch because I doubt @yrsillar would do this to themselves) formations.
--First came the Dao. The Oneness of Yin and Yang is the beginning of all things. This is Argent Genesis.
--Second came the Trigrams. Eight permutations of Yin and Yang, each unique yet mirrored. Heaven and Earth, Wind and Thunder, Fire and Water, Mountain and Lake. In completing and reuniting the eight forms, you will once again achieve the Dao, enriched by your understanding of the eight great aspects of the world.
--After the Trigrams comes the Hexagrams. Sixty four permutations of the Eight Trigrams, representing ever finer understandings.
If it work like that well, I can understand why he says if you seek to be a Sage, you have to do nothing else! Because you would have to master 32 arts of 64 elements, of which only 4 are known from the previous circle!
-The Moon on the other hand is Change. Through reflection in the face of the moon, an element becomes something else. You can align the Moon faces to the eight elements too, at least in their themes, as each moon has themes matching an element of the Eight:
-Heaven - Guiding
-Fire - Dreaming
-Wind - Grinning
-Lake/Mountain - Reflective Moons
-Thunder - Bloody
-Water - Mother
-Earth - Hidden - Darkness
But really a big part of this is that Ling Qi doesn't know shit and nobody's going to tell her without some compensation for it.
An Argent Core modified by the faces of the moon would be pretty interesting.
Well, since the Argent Arts are 100% compatible with the flute direct music attacks, they do work with that to provide a close in threat.
The music gives us a medium ranged melee attack, which is kickass when the Arts seem to have been assuming close ranged melee.
Pressure Crack would be a lot scarier, I think, if you had an orchestra of FVM users applying it from range
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Doesn't need to be our way, just be useful as a formation and gap-closer.
Considering Ling Qi high Talent and therefor Meridian threshold, she can afford to have a few extra Arts around.
Also, it's useful for specific situations. Like Sun Liling shown, you want to have extra Arts mastered outside of your direct speciality, just in case you need them.
Considering Ling Qi high Talent and therefor Meridian threshold, she can afford to have a few extra Arts around.
Also, it's useful for specific situations. Like Sun Liling shown, you want to have extra Arts mastered outside of your direct speciality, just in case you need them.
If set's like the one we are currently building are the norm for argent, then they don't make good utility.
Utility arts should be something you can change in or out so that you can deal with a variety of situations. Argent arts are all conflicting/balanced elements, and so you cannot change them quickly unless the thing you are switching them out for is also conflicting/balanced and uses the same meridians.
In other words, in the kind of utility your describing, it only plays nice with other argent arts. Not really ideal for us.
