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Forge of Destiny(Xianxia Quest)

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I suspect the tunnel we pick will say something about our bonus. Down and dark is probably yin, up and sizzling (with blood of the creature?) is probably yang.

Which doesn't automatically mean we should go down - if the reward for this is an art for instance, a Yang art might help us diversify a little.

There's too little to go on here, honestly.

[X] Up through the sizzling tunnel
 
This may be a test, but if so I can't say that we can tell what the right answer is. Are we supposed to be cautious, or be courageous? I don't think we have a way to tell - and in fact, I think the very premise of a right answer may be flawed. I think a choice here will determine what types of challenges we face, and perhaps the degree of risk/reward we encounter, but there isn't a "right" choice except insofar as choosing a choice suitable to ourselves.

And in this particular case, our arts are pretty well designed to confuse and obstruct arbitrary numbers of weak opponents, and/or to quickly escape if the need for it arises. So I think we should give this things a try.

[X] Stay, loot the beast corpse
-[X] Continue on down
 
[X] Stay, loot the beast corpse
-[X] Continue on down
-[X] Use Dissonance in the Night to clear out the insects at minimal Qi expense.

Nothing ventured, nothing gained - the insects seem the obvious threat, with the reward being the corpse. We have a way of easily dealing with the challenge, why not go for it? Obviously we should be careful, but for all we know not going down there signifies cowardice or something. Remember, the whole point of these hidden places is that you get rewarded for going the extra mile by finding them. Why wouldn't that extend to here?
 
Honestly conflicted on which path we should go , up is probably atk art , or yang art or bonus to certain elements. While down maybe a perception art?
 
[X] Stay, loot the beast corpse
-[X] Continue back up

I'm a fan of the creepy-crawlies, but we can show them who the real scavenger is. The body is right there, might as well take advantage of it... I doubt that Meizhen is truly in trouble this early on when she's so strong, and if she is I don't see how Qi would be all that much helpful.

Afterwards, seek her out by heading deeper into the cavern by going up. I doubt that she was deposited on the outside, and anyway darkness and mystery fluid is what we're all gearing up to be about apparently.
 
[X] Stay, loot the beast corpse
-[X] Continue on down
-[X] Use Dissonance in the Night to clear out the insects at minimal Qi expense.
 
With further consideration, would the insects even realize we are up there? The sound should bounce around in the mists and then all of a sudden they are dying. If we were able to deal with the insects, the loot would probably be amazing. Alright, I have changed my opinion.

[X] Stay, loot the beast corpse
-[X] Continue on down
-[X] Use Dissonance in the Night to clear out the insects at minimal Qi expense.

I have a few concerns about the larger insects coming up to attack us, but in the mists, we should be able to easily outrun them. A measly two or three qi for the reward would be an amazing payoff.

I'm still not sold that going up will give us different arts or something. I think that the challenges will be different, but the rewards at the end are what makes me interested. For arguments regarding going down in light of elemental stuff, down is going to be darker and we might be able to get an earth dark art, which would be great.
 
[X] Stay, loot the beast corpse
-[X] Continue back up
-[X] Use Dissonance in the Night to clear out the insects at minimal Qi expense.
 
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[X] Stay, loot the beast corpse
-[X] Continue on down

Eh who cares about if its a trap. Of course we'll encounter traps in a dungeon type situation but our arts give us a huge advantage against all these weak enemies.
 
Mr.rodent said:
Honestly conflicted on which path we should go , up is probably atk art , or yang art or bonus to certain elements. While down maybe a perception art?
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It's a Earth/Muntain/Water site. I suspect Down is Earth/Mountain, and up is Water/Mountain. I say up we go.

[X] Stay, loot the beast corpse
-[X] Continue back up
-[X] Use Dissonance in the Night to clear out the insects at minimal Qi expense.
 
If going up leads to something bad we can escape with our arts. There is just to little to go on. Also we should start keeping track of where we have been.
[X] Up through the sizzling tunnel
-[X] make marks with our knife on the walls so that we don't get turned around.
 
[X] Stay, loot the beast corpse
-[X] Continue back up
-[X] Use Dissonance in the Night to clear out the insects at minimal Qi expense.
 
[X] Stay, loot the beast corpse
-[X] Continue back up
-[X] Use Dissonance in the Night to clear out the insects at minimal Qi expense.

Only worry is if the big bugs got strong enough exoskeleton that our art really cant damage it. Then we have to wade through, what maybe dozen or hundreds of bugs with our knives?
 
We have Trackless Movement anyway, which is like the ultimate get away technique, especially for something that's what 2 qi? It's not expensive. We should be getting into things and then getting back out. Our techniques are great for hit and run.

I have no real preference between going up or going down and everyone is staying to attempt to loot the beast core so cool. I think both earth and water would be a good pickup, especially since even though we have a water heart, we don't actually have a real water art, which would help diversify us. That is, if we actually get an art...
 
Vanguard_D said:
Only worry is if the big bugs got strong enough exoskeleton that our art really cant damage it. Then we have to wade through, what maybe dozen or hundreds of bugs with out knives?
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We do have knives though? We brought them with us. As for leaving marks with our knives, that is simple enough. Just scratch an arrow on the stone and move on.
 
D'aawww.

[X] Stay, loot the beast corpse
-[X] Continue back up
-[X] Use Dissonance in the Night to clear out the insects at minimal Qi expense.
 
Vanguard_D said:
what maybe dozen or hundreds of bugs with out knives?
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Oh you sweet sweet summer child ...

yrsillar said:
On the other hand.. Wading through tens of thousands of hungry biting insects didn't appeal. She might not be afraid of such things precisely, but well… who wanted to do that? She also wasn't sure she was comfortable passively waiting for Meizhen to find her. She had come to help after all, not to be rescued.
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You know... Despite Elder Su's warning, given Meizhen's perception art, she probably knows we had Sable Light pills though. There's no way she can miss we opened up a few meridians and also gained up a buttload of qi on the same week.

Gosh. We were so lucky to pick Meizhen as our housemate.
 
Katreus said:
You know... Despite Elder Su's warning, given Meizhen's perception art, she probably knows we had Sable Light pills though. There's no way she can miss we opened up a few meridians and also gained up a buttload of qi on the same week.

Gosh. We were so lucky to pick Meizhen as our housemate.
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I'm pretty sure Elder Su's warning was about how precious those are, not how Meizhen would betray us for them. And, yeah, Meizhen's the second third best. Behind Cai Renxiang and Li Suyin.
 
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