Forge of Destiny(Xianxia Quest)

[X][breakthrough] To ensure that her wings could carry as much weight as she wished
[X][Stat] Resolve

I don't really like the current plans so I'll opt out of that.
 
[X][breakthrough] To ensure that her wings could carry as much weight as she wished
[X][stat] Composure

[X] Plan: Break On Through to the Other Side
 
Question to all: In your plan your vote for breakthrough to silver but i thought you wanted to wait until you finished argent soul to reap all the benefit of the technique when going up a level in physical cultivation: can somebody explain it ?
 
[X] [breakthrough] To ensure that her wings could carry as much weight as she wished

[X][Stat]Manipulation

[X] Plan Bread and Butter.
Adhoc vote count started by Neshuakadal on May 24, 2017 at 7:35 AM, finished with 124 posts and 27 votes.

  • [X][breakthrough] To ensure that her wings could carry as much weight as she wished
    [X] Plan Bread and Butter.
    [X] Resources Used: 2 Red Stones, Buy an Argent Accumulation Pill (2 Red Stones) and Gushing Spring Pill (2 red Stones) and use them. Equip Hawk Talon Armguards
    -[X] Spend some time with Gu Xiulan, to celebrate your breakthrough, and see if she might be willing to tone things down in regards to Li Suyin
    --[X] Ask her about breakthroughs to Silver, and what kind of prior masteries, cultivation and strengthening exercise can maximise its effect.
    -[X] Help Suyin train and cultivate at the vent
    --[X] Argent Soul
    -[X] Go along with Meizhen to this meeting Cai Renxiang is calling.
    --[X] Ask Bai Meizhen about the requirements to take the test for Inner Sect disciple at the end of the year.
    -[X] Breakthrough to Silver
    -[X] Breakthrough to Silver x2
    --[X]If not at peak Gold, cultivate physical after buying and using an Elexir Argent.
    -[X] Train with Han Jian and his group
    --[X] FVM
    [X] Plan Bread and Butter.
    [X]Manipulation
    [X][Stat]Manipulation
    [X][breakthrough] To ensure that none would dare strike at her or her roots in the first place
    [X] Plan: Break On Through to the Other Side
    -[X] Resources Used: 2 Red Stones, Buy an Argent Accumulation Pill (2 Red Stones) and use it. Equip Hawk Talon Armguards
    -[X] Breakthrough to Silver
    --[X] Breakthrough Again if successful: Else, buy an Argent Elixir (10 stones) and Cultivate Physical
    -[X] Help Suyin train and cultivate at the vent
    --[X] Argent Soul
    -[X] Go along with Meizhen to this meeting Cai Renxiang is calling.
    -[X] Spend some time with Gu Xiulan, to celebrate your breakthrough, and see if she might be willing to tone things down in regards to Li Suyin
    -[X] If Breakthrough Fails, Cultivate Physical
    --[X]If Breakthrough Succeeds: Spend some time with Su Ling, perhaps you can learn a little bit of hunting tactics from her
    [X] Plan: Break On Through to the Other Side
    [X][breakthrough] To ensure that her wings could carry as much weight as she wished
    [X][Stat]Manipulation
    [X] Plan Bread and Butter.
    [x][breakthrough] To ensure that any who brought harm to her roots would be punished
    [X][Stat] Resolve
    [X][stat] Composure
    [X] Plan Clearing the backlog
    -[X] Resources Used: 2 Red Stones, Buy an Argent Accumulation Pill (2 Red Stones
    -[X] Go along with Meizhen to this meeting Cai Renxiang is calling.
    -[X] Try to puzzle out the tokens left from the test
    -[X] Breakthrough to Silver
    -[X] Breakthrough to Silver x2
    --[X] If failed buy an Argent Elixir (10 stones) and Cultivate Physical
    -[X] Help Suyin train and cultivate at the vent
    --[X] Argent Soul
    [X] Look into sending some money to mother
 
Question to all: In your plan your vote for breakthrough to silver but i thought you wanted to wait until you finished argent soul to reap all the benefit of the technique when going up a level in physical cultivation: can somebody explain it ?

We are pretty sure there isn't a benefit to getting AS 5 before going to silver.
There probably is a benefit of getting AS 5 before going to mid yellow/silver though.
 
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Level 4 in AS is where we won't miss out on anything if we advance. We want to reach AS5 before starting Eight Phase Ceremony in order to not waste our progress. Finishing AS5 in the Red/Gold stage would be nice but it's nothing we can't get later given that we were told we wouldn't lose out on certain benefits. Going up earlier is the smart choice. We'll be wasting weeks of just sitting at peak progress and that could still end up failing when we try.
 
I am honestly curious what the school's next version of argent soul does and how it compares to eight phase ceremony. It might be better
 
Non-cultivation things to do. We are very close to the end of cultivation-things.

@yrsillar, I have questions about archive action. It seems that it's a full action for looking at the archive for Art. Does that mean it functions like the shop, where finding an art takes an action but once we know where it is we can take it whenever, or we need a full action each time we want a new art? Likewise, can we, say, take out all the Heart Art we have seen before as a free action (if they are free actions), or are we limited in the numbers of art we take out? As it seems this might slow us down a lot if we can only take out once a week or if we need a full action each time.

And her failing, and us buffing Gu Xuilan successfully. Your point?

Again, the whole point of what we did was we were told it would make us safe for a while. We might have been told a lie, but I see no reason to believe so.

Archive requires an action each time, but the choice gives a retroactive training roll in whatever you pick

I would have to argue strongly about Freedom being the lack of something. Freedom is the ability to choose the path you wish to take and the method by which you take that path. Tyranny is the lack of freedom, the restriction of the ability to choose, Freedom is not the lack of Tyranny.

Also, a note about the Yellow bonus for multiple die, @yrsillar did the automatic success for Argent vent just increase to 8, or is it just the other bonuses?

Its only dice bonuses, other modifiers are not effected

He has breakthrough once, but breakthrough is two actions. It adds up to seven once you count breakthrough twice. Unless he IS only doing it once, in which case it's bad because he isn't trying to break through this turn.

@yrsillar, when you said " the sixth action must be a personal training action", does only 'Cultivate on your own' qualify, or do any of the low social cultivation actions like breakthrough or cultivating on the vent with Suyin qualify? Because you've treated those as pretty low social commitment before.

Breakthrough is fine, otherwise stick to cultivate on your own. You'll still use the vent bonus regardless.

@yrsillar so the breakthrough choice is separate from the weekly plan vote.
can you clarify if the stat gain choice is also separate as well?

I hadn't intended it to be, but if people want to do that I suppose its fine.

@yrsillar, a couple questions. First, our charsheet has our base Qi at 16 when it should be 24. Second, the +1 to stealth from our Darkness mastery, is it 'beyond' our stealth ability in mundane skill (so 3+1) or is it +1 to mundane skill, so is included in our cap of 6.

Yes, yes it is.

Fixed, the stealth dot is just an extra dot, no over the cap shenanigans yet.

People like me - You're resorting to that? Fine.

@yrsillar - does breakthrough count as one of the five social actions that you were limiting us too? On another matter, does the Argent Soul Mastery 1.5 bonus apply to the automatic successes from the Argent Vent?

See above

We should at least confirm if it is the case here, though.

And given a Moon goddess is interested in us, I would prefer us to try and get a Moon spirit.

@yrsillar

Can we do the "Moon fill" mission next week?

Moon fill is time limited, but will be back next month

Also @Erebeal have your two points/successes
 
We are pretty sure there isn't a benefit to getting AS 5 before going to silver.
There probably is a benefit of getting AS 5 before going to mid yellow/silver though.

"Of course," Ling Qi hurried, keeping her head bowed. "I just wanted to know if there were any drawbacks to reaching the Yellow soul stage before fully mastering Argent Soul, or the reverse. The scroll does not really say anything about that, so I just wanted to make sure I was cultivating it properly."

Elder Su's smile grew slightly warmer, and Ling Qi thought she sensed more approval. "That is a good question," she responded immediately. "And an ambitious one," she added with a bit of wry humor. "Not that there is anything wrong with that," she continued musingly, still standing in front of Ling Qi with perfect poise. A brief glance toward the student seating was the only movement the older woman made. "It is advisable that you reach the late stage of the red soul before attempting to form the next layer of that art. If only so that you do not fall behind your peers. The Argent Soul and it's more advanced forms are one of the foundations of our Sect, but it is important not to forget practical things."

Ling Qi nodded in understanding. "So does that mean I should try to complete the next layer before breaking through?"

"It will improve such attempts," Elder Su concurred. "While even cultivators of extremely low talent can expect to break through to the Yellow stage in time, it still no easy thing. Certain benefits will be lost if you choose to break through first, but it is a matter of weighing your desires and needs. Going beyond the fourth layer will not provide any additional benefits at the Red Soul Stage though."
You were right that breaking through in physical now will only help us, but as we are now in yellow soul i suggest we raise AS to lvl 5 before another spiritual breakthrough.
Moreover i suggest finishing mastering our techniques soon and study the slip we were given in the exam.
 
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So...
We either take Moon fill now, or wait a month.
well... do we really need those points right now? we got unlimited access to 1st floor and can steal a lot of money.
You were right that breaking through in physical now will only help us, but as we are now in yellow soul i suggest we raise AS to lvl 5 before another spiritual breakthrough.
Why not both break to silver and work on AS5?
 
Breakthrough is fine, otherwise stick to cultivate on your own. You'll still use the vent bonus regardless.
Switching:
-[] Cultivate on your own
--[] FVM

To:
[] Train with Han Jian and his group
-[] FVM

Much better, especially as Iirc @yrsillar mentioned that now we don't have Elder actions training with Han Jian is both cultivation and stat training.
 
[X][breakthrough] To ensure that her wings could carry as much weight as she wished
[X][Stat] Resolve

[X] Plan Clearing the backlog
-[X] Resources Used: 2 Red Stones, Buy an Argent Accumulation Pill (2 Red Stones
-[X] Go along with Meizhen to this meeting Cai Renxiang is calling.
-[X] Try to puzzle out the tokens left from the test
-[X] Breakthrough to Silver
-[X] Breakthrough to Silver x2
--[X] If failed buy and use an Argent Elixir (10 stones) and a bear marrow elixir (3 stones) then train with Han Jian and his group
---[X]Physical any overflow should go Qi to the next point>Spiritual
-[X] Help Suyin train and cultivate at the vent
--[X]Argent Soul
-[X] Look into sending some money to mother


I don't like the current plans. We have a lot of backlog building up and we've just spent time with Xiulan last turn we can celebrate next turn, especially if we're lucky enought to get to silver.

This plan is aimed at clearing out some of the quests we've had pending for a while whilst keeping up with our current obligations. I want to do the Moon fill quest, and debated that instead of sending money to mother, but I think Suyin needs our help and I want to try and clear as much of our backlog as possible. If possible I'd like to take a Su Ling action before we go on hunting missions.

I do not want to go on the wolf mission at the moment. It is beyond our ability to bind and we don't even know how binding works apart from the fact we can do it to level one spirits. It seems to me we'd need to take an action to find out how to do so.

@yrsillar Is this plan ok for the number of social actions?

EDIT: Forgot the breakthrough and bonus stat.
EDIT 2. Changed failure action to work with Han Jian's group. Added a bear marrow elixir for an extra couple of average successes.
 
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I don't like the current plans. We have a lot of backlog building up and we've just spent time with Xiulan last turn we can celebrate next turn, especially if we're lucky enought to get to silver.
I honestly don't know why you consider "sending money to mom" backlog. Anyway, I'd suggest that if you fail breakthrough the physical cultivation be with Han Jian and co, because why not.
 
[X][breakthrough] To ensure that her wings could carry as much weight as she wished
[X][Stat] Manipulation

[X] Plan Clearing the backlog
-[X] Resources Used: 2 Red Stones, Buy an Argent Accumulation Pill (2 Red Stones
-[X] Go along with Meizhen to this meeting Cai Renxiang is calling.
-[X] Try to puzzle out the tokens left from the test
-[X] Breakthrough to Silver
-[X] Breakthrough to Silver x2
--[X] If failed buy an Argent Elixir (10 stones) and Cultivate Physical
-[X] Help Suyin train and cultivate at the vent
--[X]Argent Soul
[X] Look into sending some money to mother


I don't like the current plans. We have a lot of backlog building up and we've just spent time with Xiulan last turn we can celebrate next turn, especially if we're lucky enought to get to silver.

This plan is aimed at clearing out some of the quests we've had pending for a while whilst keeping up with our current obligations. I want to do the Moon fill quest, and debated that instead of sending money to mother, but I think Suyin needs our help and I want to try and clear as much of our backlog as possible. If possible I'd like to take a Su Ling action before we go on hunting missions.

I do not want to go on the wolf mission at the moment. It is beyond our ability to bind and we don't even know how binding works apart from the fact we can do it to level one spirits. It seems to me we'd need to take an action to find out how to do so.

@yrsillar Is this plan ok for the number of social actions?

EDIT: Forgot the breakthrough and bonus stat.

Yeah that is fine
 
[X][breakthrough] To ensure that her wings could carry as much weight as she wished
[X][stat] Resolve

[X] Plan Clearing the backlog
 
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[X][breakthrough] To ensure that her wings could carry as much weight as she wished
[X][Stat] Resolve

[X] Plan Clearing the backlog

 
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