- Location
- Panama City
I'd be interested in this answer as well, as this would probably be the single best upgrade we can make, other than some sort of talisman that boosts expression.
Forge of Destiny(Xianxia Quest)
- Thread starter yrsillar
- Start date
- Original Fantasy
Yes and clearly, Ling Qi is only interested in scooping out the competition.
- Location
- Panama City
I'd rather keep our current flute, as it's an item of sentimental value
fictionfan
Please sir, may I have some Meows?
- Location
- Tempe, AZ
I would like a Talisman that makes our stuff harder to dispel. Or maybe allows us to recover the Qi when our stuff is dispelled.
- Location
- The Temple of the Winds
Changes to our Robe's description:
A many layered gown of water smooth black silk with prominent white hems and a dark blue mantle split down the center like a pair of wings and embroidered with patterns of white lotus flowers. It's train trails behind the wearer, never touching the base earth. A finely painted silk panel is affixed to the front, displaying curling vines and white petaled azalea flowers, spotted with red like drops of blood. Made by an apprentice of the Duchess Cai, and infused with a thread from the spirit Liming, it's craftsmanship is near unparalleled, though its potential still sleeps. Armor3 4. Reduces the cost of Darkness and Water and Wind arts by 3 to a minimum of one. Provides an additional four die to defense in low light and darkness, and two under normal light. Provides a four die bonus on intimidate and stealth tests. Self Repairs. Durability 10 15
-Wings in Shadow: At the cost of three qi per turn, provides flight at the user's speed, or negates any damage from a fall ofone two hundred meters or less
-Twilight Beauty: For one qi per turn, the user may reduce light levels to low within fifty meters.
A many layered gown of water smooth black silk with prominent white hems and a dark blue mantle split down the center like a pair of wings and embroidered with patterns of white lotus flowers. It's train trails behind the wearer, never touching the base earth. A finely painted silk panel is affixed to the front, displaying curling vines and white petaled azalea flowers, spotted with red like drops of blood. Made by an apprentice of the Duchess Cai, and infused with a thread from the spirit Liming, it's craftsmanship is near unparalleled, though its potential still sleeps. Armor
-Wings in Shadow: At the cost of three qi per turn, provides flight at the user's speed, or negates any damage from a fall of
-Twilight Beauty: For one qi per turn, the user may reduce light levels to low within fifty meters.
If it is possible, i'd rather we continue to actually use it, rather than switch to an other flute and just keep it as a momento.
You can, but it will mean being without your flute for a couple weeks.
Well, yeah, I was kind of assuming it would be something like reforging it in that case.
Alternatively, I just had the amusing idea of a drum mounted on ZhenGui's back and played by slapping the snake-head against it.
Actually ... it'd be pretty cute and possibly lead to useful power application mutations if we tried to teach ZhenGui to sing
fictionfan
Please sir, may I have some Meows?
- Location
- Tempe, AZ
Which equipment slots do we have filled?
- Location
- Panama City
That's to be expected, since that's how long a custokm item takes in any case, and how long the flute took to make. Still, who's up for making the flute add +DV and/or AP on all music-based techs?
- Location
- Panama City
Ok, so with flute a viable target to upgrade here's what I want if we choose to do this:
- Upgrade the dice on offensive clashes
- Upgrade the expression bonus
- add a straight +DV on all music-based techs.
- add +AP on all music-based techs if we don't go for +DV
- add -qi to music-based techs, and/or increase darkness reduction.(this part is optional since we get so much reduction already)
- Location
- Panama City
We can upgrade our flute with that.
- Location
- United States of America
Honestly, I would like to get something different than an upgrade to our flute.
Personally, I think that a talisman which reduces lung qi costs and has a bonus to attack for lung based techs would be extremely helpful to us. 2/3 of our most expensive techs (AE, PLR) are lung based, PLR has a clash mechanic that would be extremely powerful but is not benefited at all by our current equipment, AE could use a good buff to make it's first tech hit people.
FSS and FVM both would benefit from it and with our passives to increase the difficulty of getting rid of them, as long as they hit it will be expensive to get rid of.
It would effect FVM, FSS, AE, PLR all of which are powerful arts, and also encompass our music arts.
Meizhen said that getting our offense up is what we need to do, and this is a perfect way to get a solid boost in our offensive capability.
Personally, I think that a talisman which reduces lung qi costs and has a bonus to attack for lung based techs would be extremely helpful to us. 2/3 of our most expensive techs (AE, PLR) are lung based, PLR has a clash mechanic that would be extremely powerful but is not benefited at all by our current equipment, AE could use a good buff to make it's first tech hit people.
FSS and FVM both would benefit from it and with our passives to increase the difficulty of getting rid of them, as long as they hit it will be expensive to get rid of.
It would effect FVM, FSS, AE, PLR all of which are powerful arts, and also encompass our music arts.
Meizhen said that getting our offense up is what we need to do, and this is a perfect way to get a solid boost in our offensive capability.
- Location
- Panama City
...I don't think we have the option to wait actually. @yrsillar can we wait on the talisman until later?
- Location
- Panama City
I would point out lung qi reduction is something that would make sense on a flute, though of course we could get a new talisman entirely.
If we won't have time for that, consider also that we don't want to be without our flute until the moon quest is done.
fictionfan
Please sir, may I have some Meows?
- Location
- Tempe, AZ
Also would work for a necklace. Which is an empty slot.
- Location
- Panama City
I actually meant that the vote isn't structured in a way that implies we can save the talisman commission till later, not that we don't have time to commission one.
- Location
- United States of America
But that would require us getting an entirely new flute, as the old flute doesn't have it. Or modifying the old flute so much that I fear the efficacy of the Lung Qi reduction would be reduced. Our current flute already has multiple aspects (darkness reduction, expression bonus, music bonus, and a tech) to add another aspect to it would be exceeding the four aspect limit, and that could cause problems.
- Location
- Panama City
Huh, you're right, and @Yeangst's point of us not wanting to be without our flute for the Moon quest is well taken(since that two-dice expression bonus is pretty key).
Edit: but I DO want to have the flute improved in the future, maybe with increasing the dice it gives or something
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fictionfan
Please sir, may I have some Meows?
- Location
- Tempe, AZ
We could get mother's comb upgraded.
- Location
- Earth
Well this is amazing. Such a generous gift. Except for the whole part of a living spirit is now possessing your dress, and come visit me twice a week so my spy on you can report in thing. That's just swell. No more privacy for us, I guess. And we can't even take it off, because it's a gift from our liege. Just bloody perfect. Oh well, we knew Orvel was in effect, it just started a bit early.
EDIT: You know, I can just imagine all the tasty, tasty info she can get on Meizhen with this. On top of getting all our cultivation locations for free.
EDIT: You know, I can just imagine all the tasty, tasty info she can get on Meizhen with this. On top of getting all our cultivation locations for free.
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Overall, I'd prefer to commission a new talisman rather than upgrade our flute for three reasons. First, the flute is either our second or third best talisman. Since the quality of the talisman is capped, it would be more efficient to instead swap out our lowest quality talisman for larger overall upgrade. Second, we'll probably need our flute at least to finish the moon quest, and probably for some more difficult missions. Third, if we use our bow instead of our flute, I'd prefer if our new, swanky, full upgraded talisman would still apply.