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Forge of Destiny(Xianxia Quest)

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vali said:
[X] 3 Wellspring pills, 3 Life Essence Salve
[X] Meizhen's thoughts on cultivation goals for the second realm

I'm glad we've got a dungeon crawl; we need a break from fretting over the Han Jian social link dying. Hopefully in a week or two we'll either have a better idea on how to handle that or be okay with letting it die.

Also, this confirms that archive passes can be taken, and that if we want to make it to the inner sect we'll need to break through to green. Because if Bai is on the verge of hitting green, I'm guessing Cai and the others won't be far behind.



We'll want to use our last Sable Light Pill for opening meridans. Getting 6 or so Qi expansion rolls for free is pretty amazing.

Man, I am getting all kinds of excited about our upcoming drug binge session.
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We'll use it for opening Meridians, but only once we're near the limit of what we can safely try and open without major worry about failing. So we aren't using it any time soon.
 
TheLastOne said:
Actually, several posters have committed to [] For Fuck's Sake, Let's Just Get One Bloody Attack Art next turn.
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Mmm... I'm not sold on getting an attacking art, myself, unless it's one involving knives. Not just because Ling Qi has picked up a few dots in them (and has an art that already applies to them), but also because knives are small and portable, making them more usable in the context of Ling Qi's flute techniques, and because they have versatility with both melee and range. Now, darkness and knives would seem to go together fairly well - an "assassin from the shadows" art could go very well with the mist, for example. I'd also prefer an art that has pretty decent passive bonuses - so it'd probably be spine/arm. Darkness, water and/or wind in alignment. Probably yin.
 
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Thinking about it I think if we were playing as Ji Rong I could see this happening to us. I mean with the social stigma the people who wanted to only cultivate would have a lot more support. And I could see people voting to act like a Xianxia protagonist since thats basically what his background was. Also a funny thing to note is that even though he has a social stigma doesn't actually mean he is bad at social stuff.
 
Like I said, a Spine/Head Art that could give us high speed perception and reactions might be worth getting if we can find something along those lines. Doubly so if it's Wind aligned so we get our natural buff too.
 
At this point, why would we bother with an attack art? If we want more raw 1-on-1 personal power, we can go spine, and get an extra 5 dice to cultivation.
 
Lacrimosa said:
Thinking about it I think if we were playing as Ji Rong I could see this happening to us. I mean with the social stigma the people who wanted to only cultivate would have a lot more support. And I could see people voting to act like a Xianxia protagonist since thats basically what his background was. Also a funny thing to note is that even though he has a social stigma doesn't actually mean he is bad at social stuff.
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Hah, yeah, basically, he got cocky because he broke through to the same realm as the monster students, plus whatever his good fortune was, and decided to flaunt the rules, thinking the penalty was just a slap on the wrist for him. As it turns out, the Rule of Law is very much a thing in this setting and doesn't tolerate 'Lol I benefit from being confined to quarters so it's fine' shit.
 
Look for wind-based head combat arts that boost perception or damage in archive? That'd get a bonus from the elixir, as well as still using talon's discount.

Cards! Expensive Art! Install!
 
Alectai said:
Mind you, Talent 7 is a hell of a drug, but Cai managed to show her authority, make an example of a disliked person, and did it all perfectly in the bounds of the rudimentary law that we put in, because he almost certainly brought it on himself (Given how Bai Meizhen wouldn't have commented on the other guy's lack of aggression if he was just pre-emptively made an example of).
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What's also interesting from my perspective is that Xuan seems to appreciate and respect Lady Cai a lot. Much more so than say, Meizhen or Liling. Which makes me wonder how firmly he is in Cai's camp and what side he would choose between two factions if push came to shove.

Interesting question politically. Not something we should worry about right now though because we have just dived into the big pool. We need to learn how to swim along with the big fishes before we start worrying about who's allied with who.
 
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vali said:
Because if Bai is on the verge of hitting green, I'm guessing Cai and the others won't be far behind.
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Possibly , but bai might be slightly ahead due to the vent access, tho I'm sure the other factions have had fortunes of their own on the mountain.

Cai probably has high talent as well as decent recourses due to only being 3 generations down from her OP as fuck clan head. Who is the youngest white cultivator in empire.

Same for others. Too early to predict really
 
Yeah, I wouldn't say that the real fucking monsters have much less Talent then we do--if not just as much. Probably 5 or 6 each, and with a whole pile of nasty Arts that they came in with that they've mastered to the limits of their Cultivation.

Which isn't to say that we're weak of course, Talent 6 is sufficient to potentially reach White even without any Talent or Breakthrough bonuses, but our Talent is probably our own big edge, so I don't think they'll have superior Talent than we do.
 
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CircleTheSkies said:
Mmm... I'm not sold on getting an attacking art, myself, unless it's one involving knives. Not just because Ling Qi has picked up a few dots in them (and has an art that already applies to them), but also because knives are small and portable, making them more usable in the context of Ling Qi's flute techniques, and because they have versatility with both melee and range. Now, darkness and knives would seem to go together fairly well - an "assassin from the shadows" art could go very well with the mist, for example. I'd also prefer an art that has pretty decent passive bonuses - so it'd probably be spine/arm.
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Currently going for a Arm Head Spine art in the hopes that the head element will make it a precision based art that will be good at ignoring defense. We aren't spec'd for high damage, and the investment would be too long, so better to find ways of playing to our strengths.

We don't get to pick the weapons are arts are for, we get to pick the meridians, which nets us four to five arts to chose from, and we can also specify element, which reduces it down to three arts.

But yrsillar chooses what those arts are - it's always a mystery box past that point. We were going to choose metal for the cutting/cold cold precision aspect, but @yrsillar has stated that metal here is Yang even though it's traditionally Yin, so we'll probably drop specifying the element.

But if we wait for 'knife arts' we might wait forever, because we don't get to look for knife arts, we just have to hope we find them while rolling the dice. Well, knives are always temporary. They have relatively low ceilings for enchantment.
 
TheLastOne said:
Which we weren't going to vote for again while in Red or Gold. I know, I tried to get people interested in both.
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I was also interested in both. Especially when I managed to come up with the idea of asking QM (while the vote to breakthrough to yellow was still ongoing) if having a bigger base Qi pool can give missable benefits on breakthrough (as is staple in xianxia) and he replied that yes it would.

I hope that now that we know well enough in advance, we get a sizable Qi pool and meridians opened before doing next breakthrough
 
TheLastOne said:
Currently going for a Arm Head Spine art in the hopes that the head element will make it a precision based art that will be good at ignoring defense. We aren't spec'd for high damage, and the investment would be too long, so better to find ways of playing to our strengths.
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Also, the better we are at hitting things with knives and other ranged implements of death, the more chances we have at activating AtW which is always great.
 
Thor's Twin said:
Also, the better we are at hitting things with knives and other ranged implements of death, the more chances we have at activating AtW which is always great.
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Yeah. Hence why I liked metal - it's usually the element of cutting things and stabbing things. Knives are both. I don't want to pick wind - we need to pick up more elements because every element we master gives us more bonuses at breakthrough, so a traditionally Yin aligned element that's focus on stabby weapons seemed the best pick, but then we got told Metal is Yang, which is really weird.

Like, I still would go for it, but it probably wouldn't get a bonus from EPC so other people might not, so I'll probably drop it.
 
Hmm I think of of our biggest weaknesses right now are large blowback abilities that disperse our mist leaving us fucked. What's a good counter for that?
 
+paranoia mode+

"So, let me get this straight... You'll paralyze me, and left me in front of the Archive, while taking my pass, in front of an eyewitness? Will that even work?"
"As sure as the sun, moon, and stars make their way across the sky."
". . . Remember, if this doesn't pay off, I will do my best to ruin your lady's stuff."
"You have taken a gaze into the slip, you would know that the cultivation does work. This is a trade of equal value, heaven as my witness."
". . . Fine. Tomorrow morning. I will need to consume the pills first."
". . . Do not partake more than you can."
"Hah! I know my limits."

Shadows part in the middle of the night, as the winking moon watches...
 
Mr.rodent said:
Hmm I think of of our biggest weaknesses right now are large blowback abilities that disperse our mist leaving us fucked. What's a good counter for that?
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I don't think they auto succeed. Its magical mist. dispersing it requires an opposed control check, like during the battle we had with the twins and the fiance of Huang Da.
 
TheLastOne said:
Yin aligned element that's focus on stabby weapons seemed the best pick, but then we got told Metal is Yang, which is really weird.
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It was noted that Metal could be yin as well, it just depends on the art. Which means we could specify a yin art to choose from, which would certainly help with getting arts that I would be willing to choose from. So a Head, Spine, Arm Yin aligned combat focused art, would be a good specification for the type of art that we are looking for.
 
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