How many heavenly conduits do you get a year?
0-4 for free, +1-6 for full price
Can you disown Tet?
You can charge him with a less severe crime (refusal to acknowledge your leadership) and formally disinherit and exile him. It's a reasonable step at this point but doesn't solve all your problems. Oku was not an heir but she could have taken power. It does absolve you of his future crimes but not the crimes he committed while he was a member of your clan.
How much to hire a merging cultivator?
Your price was $10 for some of your attention for one quarter. Merging Cultivators are qualified to run a clan or join a sect as an inner member, so when it's even possible to hire them they are expensive. A lot depends on their specialization, their politics, and your Prestige, but ballpark $15-40 a quarter for a full time contract or $3-15 for a task. Since you're interested in a century timeline the better and more common method is to adopt or marry in an unaligned perfect as soon as they complete merging, or pressure some of your own perfects to take the step.
Can we use the clone as a divination tool?
Yeah, sure. Better than a hair.
Can we claim this is all Abyssal Manipulation?
You can try, but you'd need to fess up to the authorities first and last time this issue came up your advisors were strongly against it. It may not help your case to tell the Emperor that members of your clan may be homonculous plants. He seems to take a 'clean the slate' approach to this issue over a more nuanced attempt at justice.
Was this a critical failure?
I don't reveal the rolls for a few reasons:
1. Sometimes I don't roll, I just follow my heart. Other times I do. I don't want to have to justify rolling or not rolling in a key moment, because I see the rolls as writing aids.
2. I don't want to focus on the mechanics over the narrative, which is complex and fiddly enough on its own. 'System Mastery' should be being creative and thinking about the implications of things in the world, not figuring out the quirks of a system designed to simulate the world
3. It's easier for me to just roll with a random roller on my phone when I think of it instead of using a formal app that preserves and displays them.
Fun fact though: this particular roll was a critical success. That's not to speak to earlier rolls that led to it. You could have missed the holes in his memory and declared Tet innocent, or missed the homonculous corruption.
How old is the clone?
You don't know, it doesn't have a rate of decay like the elixir clone would. Chachi doesn't think he managed to smuggle an Abyssal Heart into his cell and then kill a guy under watch without anyone noticing. He did it before he was captured.
Can we talk to our advisors?
Since they're no longer under suspicion you can. I can post their take later but it would be a real scene. If it helps you make a voting decision now:
Mom does have the family, she doesn't think they know anything except Tet had a lot of suspicion and resentment towards the Clan and didn't want them involved in Clan Shit. She believes Tet really does love them, and that's a weakness. If Tet thought they were in genuine danger or suffering he may risk himself to rescue them. She's in favor of exploit.
Teo is very disappointed in his brother. He's worried that Tet has more than one clone, and that Prime Tet is focused solely on Cultivation and will stick to the shadows, but thinks he wouldn't be able to resist experiencing a moment of triumph in person. He's in favor of trap.
0-4 for free, +1-6 for full price
Can you disown Tet?
You can charge him with a less severe crime (refusal to acknowledge your leadership) and formally disinherit and exile him. It's a reasonable step at this point but doesn't solve all your problems. Oku was not an heir but she could have taken power. It does absolve you of his future crimes but not the crimes he committed while he was a member of your clan.
How much to hire a merging cultivator?
Your price was $10 for some of your attention for one quarter. Merging Cultivators are qualified to run a clan or join a sect as an inner member, so when it's even possible to hire them they are expensive. A lot depends on their specialization, their politics, and your Prestige, but ballpark $15-40 a quarter for a full time contract or $3-15 for a task. Since you're interested in a century timeline the better and more common method is to adopt or marry in an unaligned perfect as soon as they complete merging, or pressure some of your own perfects to take the step.
Can we use the clone as a divination tool?
Yeah, sure. Better than a hair.
Can we claim this is all Abyssal Manipulation?
You can try, but you'd need to fess up to the authorities first and last time this issue came up your advisors were strongly against it. It may not help your case to tell the Emperor that members of your clan may be homonculous plants. He seems to take a 'clean the slate' approach to this issue over a more nuanced attempt at justice.
Was this a critical failure?
I don't reveal the rolls for a few reasons:
1. Sometimes I don't roll, I just follow my heart. Other times I do. I don't want to have to justify rolling or not rolling in a key moment, because I see the rolls as writing aids.
2. I don't want to focus on the mechanics over the narrative, which is complex and fiddly enough on its own. 'System Mastery' should be being creative and thinking about the implications of things in the world, not figuring out the quirks of a system designed to simulate the world
3. It's easier for me to just roll with a random roller on my phone when I think of it instead of using a formal app that preserves and displays them.
Fun fact though: this particular roll was a critical success. That's not to speak to earlier rolls that led to it. You could have missed the holes in his memory and declared Tet innocent, or missed the homonculous corruption.
How old is the clone?
You don't know, it doesn't have a rate of decay like the elixir clone would. Chachi doesn't think he managed to smuggle an Abyssal Heart into his cell and then kill a guy under watch without anyone noticing. He did it before he was captured.
Can we talk to our advisors?
Since they're no longer under suspicion you can. I can post their take later but it would be a real scene. If it helps you make a voting decision now:
Mom does have the family, she doesn't think they know anything except Tet had a lot of suspicion and resentment towards the Clan and didn't want them involved in Clan Shit. She believes Tet really does love them, and that's a weakness. If Tet thought they were in genuine danger or suffering he may risk himself to rescue them. She's in favor of exploit.
Teo is very disappointed in his brother. He's worried that Tet has more than one clone, and that Prime Tet is focused solely on Cultivation and will stick to the shadows, but thinks he wouldn't be able to resist experiencing a moment of triumph in person. He's in favor of trap.
