- Location
- iTALY
@Arcanestomper Can we infuse with Blood Qi?
One Ant Versus the Heavens (Ant Cultivation Quest)
- Thread starter Arcanestomper
- Start date
- Original
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- Tags
- original xianxia cultivation
[X] Plan: Once More Into the Breach
Not that you know of. You could try experimenting.
- Location
- Anchorage, Alaska
[X] Add 2 hour moratorium
[X] Plan: Once More Into the Breach
[X] Plan: Once More Into the Breach
SleepyCaterpilar
Just a Rapariga
[X] Add 2 hour moratorium
[X] Plan: Once More Into the Breach
[X] Plan: Once More Into the Breach
- Location
- Venezuela
[X] Add 2 hour moratorium
[X] Plan: Once More Into the Breach
-[X] Day 91: Defeat Enemy Myrmidons [28/50]
-[X] Day 92: Defeat Enemy Myrmidons [28/50]
-[X] Day 93: Defeat Enemy Myrmidons [28/50] (defaults to Cultivation if unused)
-[X] Day 94: Fight on the Frontline [11/20]
--[X] Vigorous Blood: Fight on the Frontline [11/20]
-[X] Day 95 [Automatic]: Steadfast Ant Kata [29/80 Late 2nd Stage Qi Gathering]
[X] Plan: Once More Into the Breach
-[X] Day 91: Defeat Enemy Myrmidons [28/50]
-[X] Day 92: Defeat Enemy Myrmidons [28/50]
-[X] Day 93: Defeat Enemy Myrmidons [28/50] (defaults to Cultivation if unused)
-[X] Day 94: Fight on the Frontline [11/20]
--[X] Vigorous Blood: Fight on the Frontline [11/20]
-[X] Day 95 [Automatic]: Steadfast Ant Kata [29/80 Late 2nd Stage Qi Gathering]
[X] Keep Current Schedule
[X] Add 2 hour moratorium
[X] Plan: Once More Into the Breach
[X] Add 2 hour moratorium
[X] Plan: Once More Into the Breach
You could try, but the Ant doesn't have much experience with altering her sisters.
[X] Add 2 hour moratorium
[X] Plan: Once More Into the Breach
[X] Plan: Once More Into the Breach
Vote closed
Day 95: The Phantom of Death
Day 90
[X] Plan: Once More Into the Breach-[X] Day 91: Defeat Enemy Myrmidons [28/50] 24
The Ant refuses to be directed by the whims of the Enemy. Whatever her rival can do she can counter. Of course getting rid of pheromones is something she has never considered. It is not only difficult, but nearly unthinkable to remove the scent of her sisters. Of her Mother.
But something an Ant must do dishonorable things in the service of the colony. The ant finds a small dew pond and thoroughly scrubs herself. When she emerges she feels wrong, alien. Knowing that her sisters would now regard her as an Enemy in turn the Ant does not use the ground, but rather travels from the top of blades of grass with her supernatural speed and grace.
Like a ghost she alights among the Enemy. They don't even notice her for a moment, but only for a moment. They might not smell her, but nothing can ignore a terrifying presence laying waste to their fellows. Once more they fall to her mandibles in their hundreds and thousands.
Myrmidon or regular soldier, it makes no difference. With no warning pheromones they can do nothing but die. At least until the death stench becomes so great that Enemy and Sister alike flee from that place. It has become forbidden. A zone of death in the middle of the sects territories where none but the bravest may enter.
Defeated Enemy Myrmidons: +2 Meters
Making a Push: +2 Meters
Forbidden Zone Created
Finding herself with no more targets to kill, and a distinct lack of pheromones to identify her to her sisters, the Ant retreats to a nearby shrub. Feeding on a berry she fills her stomach and then begins to perform her kata. She moves through the steps with resolution and grace in equal measure. She can feel that she is so close. So close to the next stage, but not quite.
By the end of the Shake she is left energized, but not more powerful. At least her pheromones have covered her again and she is able to return to her sisters without worry.
Cultivating: -3 Meters
Colony Improvement
Work Parties: +5 to non personal actions.
[ ] Scout for Food [6/50]
[ ] Tend Larva [0/50]
Exploration
[ ] Follow Pheromone Trails [0/10]
[ ] Explore the Fields of Death [??]
[ ] Clear the Fields of Death [???]
War
War Progress: 12/?? Meters
Rival: War Progress -1 per turn unless the Ant Fights on the Frontline
[ ] Fight on the Frontline [19/20]
Cultivation
[ ] Steadfast Ant Kata [71/80 Late 2nd Stage Qi Gathering]
Immune to ALL events when using the Kata
[ ] Infuse Larva with Energy [??/???] (Costs 5 Energy from Cultivation per attempt)
[ ] Gather Silk Qi [??] (?? Effect)
[ ] Infuse Larva with Silk Qi [1/20] (Costs 1 Silk Qi per attempt)
Work Parties: +5 to non personal actions.
[ ] Scout for Food [6/50]
[ ] Tend Larva [0/50]
Exploration
[ ] Follow Pheromone Trails [0/10]
[ ] Explore the Fields of Death [??]
[ ] Clear the Fields of Death [???]
War
War Progress: 12/?? Meters
Rival: War Progress -1 per turn unless the Ant Fights on the Frontline
[ ] Fight on the Frontline [19/20]
Cultivation
[ ] Steadfast Ant Kata [71/80 Late 2nd Stage Qi Gathering]
Immune to ALL events when using the Kata
[ ] Infuse Larva with Energy [??/???] (Costs 5 Energy from Cultivation per attempt)
[ ] Gather Silk Qi [??] (?? Effect)
[ ] Infuse Larva with Silk Qi [1/20] (Costs 1 Silk Qi per attempt)
Colony Health: 43
The Dance of Blood (93/100)
Blood Qi: 0
Silk Qi: 0
Mid 2nd Stage Qi Gathering
HP 80/80
Heal 8/Day
Combat Roll: 2d20+7
Trait: Vigorous Blood
Spend 1 Blood Qi to gain 1 Extra Action.
The Dance of Blood (93/100)
Blood Qi: 0
Silk Qi: 0
Mid 2nd Stage Qi Gathering
HP 80/80
Heal 8/Day
Combat Roll: 2d20+7
Trait: Vigorous Blood
Spend 1 Blood Qi to gain 1 Extra Action.
Moratorium on voting for 2 hours.
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CedeTheBees
Probably high right now
- Location
- Somewhere
- Pronouns
- They/Them
We're so close to the next stage that it might be worth it to do a bit of closed door cultivation and come back out swinging.
[] Plan: Breaking Through
-[] Day 101-102: Steadfast Ant Kata [71/80 Late 2nd Stage Qi Gathering]
-[] Days 103-104: Fight on the Frontline [4/20]
-[] Day 105: Steadfast Ant Kata [71/80 Late 2nd Stage Qi Gathering]
-[] Days 106-109: Fight on the Frontline [4/20]
-[] Day 110: Steadfast Ant Kata [71/80 Late 2nd Stage Qi Gathering]
[] Plan: Breaking Through
-[] Day 101-102: Steadfast Ant Kata [71/80 Late 2nd Stage Qi Gathering]
-[] Days 103-104: Fight on the Frontline [4/20]
-[] Day 105: Steadfast Ant Kata [71/80 Late 2nd Stage Qi Gathering]
-[] Days 106-109: Fight on the Frontline [4/20]
-[] Day 110: Steadfast Ant Kata [71/80 Late 2nd Stage Qi Gathering]
Resonant
Procrastinator Supreme
@Arcanestomper Did we not gain any Silk qi from the Myrmidons?
You don't get silk qi from the myrmidons normally. You have to specifically be extracting it.
Also opening the vote.
Resonant
Procrastinator Supreme
Was extracting Silk from Myrmidons an option last turn? I had thought killing them would've done the same thing since iirc you said it'd also be 0/50 progress.
Whew, yeah thank goodness for our cultivation negating bad event rolls.
[X] Plan: Breaking Through v2
-[X] Day 101-102: Steadfast Ant Kata [71/80 Late 2nd Stage Qi Gathering]
-[X] Days 103-104: Fight on the Frontline [10/20]
-[X] Day 105 [Automatic]: Steadfast Ant Kata [71/80 Late 2nd Stage Qi Gathering]
--[X] Vigorous Blood: Fight on the Frontline [10/20]
-[X] Days 106-109: Fight on the Frontline [10/20]
-[X] Day 110 [Automatic]: Steadfast Ant Kata [71/80 Late 2nd Stage Qi Gathering]
Tweaked the above plan slightly to use Blood Qi since we'll get one with the next Frontline action. This lets us fight non-stop for Day 103-109 while the enemy Myrmidons are gone.
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Extracting silk was an option with difficulty 50, but that doesn't mean it would have eliminated them. I didn't include it as a standard option because its hard. You have to focus on just a few myrmidons who are thrashing about trying to kill you at the time.
Resonant
Procrastinator Supreme
War progress should be 13 Meters I believe. We made 33 progress from the 2 Frontline actions last turn. 33+11 = 44/20 Progress.
+2 meters (Two completed Frontline actions)
+3 meters (Defeated enemy Myrmidons)
+2 meters (Making a push)
-5 meters (Rival over 5 days)
Net result: 11 meters (+2)