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Style of the Gods: A Xianxia Style's Celestial Bureaucrat
- Thread starter Evenstar
- Start date
- Original Fantasy
- Location
- USA
Hope not I like this story
[X] Plan: Master must be reputable
-[X][Asuka] Focus on being a good Master to the students who follow you.
-[X][Domain] Encourage Master Reshi to begin teaching all his students Grey Rat Style.
-[X][Style] Grey Rat Claws In A Frenzy
-[X][Personal] Train to remove one of your personality faults and thereby improve the style you're responsible for. (Disreputable)
-[X][Asuka] Focus on being a good Master to the students who follow you.
-[X][Domain] Encourage Master Reshi to begin teaching all his students Grey Rat Style.
-[X][Style] Grey Rat Claws In A Frenzy
-[X][Personal] Train to remove one of your personality faults and thereby improve the style you're responsible for. (Disreputable)
[X] Plan: A Dozen Grey Rats is no Swarm.
1416 - Year of the Dragon
Evenstar
Triple Jump Unlocked
- Location
- Canada
- Pronouns
- She/Her
"So you're saying nobody at the Celestial Court will bargain with me?"
Aki scratches his side with a claw. "I'm afraid your name means worse than nothing to my superiors. They say I shouldn't be seen with you in public, much less make contracts with you in private."
"What if I work to improve my reputation?"
"Then maybe I can find someone who'll take you on as a charity case. Maybe."
"Please do your best, Aki."
"Always a pleasure, Adare."
Six months into your training for the new year, Master Reshi walks into your training grounds.
"Asuka, Taro."
You both walk over and kneel before him.
"No, stand. I've come because I would like you to meet someone."
He waves behind him, and a straw-haired young man with an easy smile and a heavyset man with mutton chops step forwards.
"Meshi and Oburo, meet Asuka and Taro. Asuka and Taro, meet Meshi and Oburo. You are all sixth-Dan students of Grey Rat Cheats The Heavens; four, from two hundred and forty."
You bow formally to Meshi and Oburo, and they bow back.
"Which one is Meshi?", asks Taro.
"Me," says the straw-haired one. "I'm Meshi."
"I've heard of you. Care to spar?"
"Sure."
Taro steps into one of the rings. "How about now?"
Meshi blurs forward, twists past Taro's block, and rests his daggerpoint on Taro's throat.
"Not that tough, huh?", Meshi taunts.
Taro growls under his breath.
"What's that? Did you want to try again?"
"No," says Taro, showing some sense for once. He bows. "Thank you for the lesson, Master."
"No problem," says Meshi. "It's always a pleasure."
Master Reshi smiles. "I'm glad to see you four are getting along well. I'll leave you to it."
"Master Reshi," you say before you can forget. "How many fifth-dan students of Grey Rat are there?"
"Six, from my two hundred. Two from your forty. Eight in total."
"I see. And intermediates?"
"A hundred or so."
"Thank you, Master."
"It's no trouble. Is there anything else?"
"No, Master."
Master Reshi turns, and walks away.
Oburo frowns at you. "Why did you want to know all that?"
"Because I care about the success of the sect, obviously."
"I see."
Oburo walks away and begins to survey the advanced students at their sparring.
Meshi tosses a wink over his shoulder, and follows.
"I hate them already," says Taro.
You just sigh.
"We got the contract?"
"We got the contract."
Adare Kaname, Bureaucrat of Grey Rat Style
Fisher King: You take on the properties of the Style you're responsible for reflexively. Your personality feeds the style, and vice versa.
Cultivator 3
Legendary 3
Revolutionary 1
Celestial 2
Lunar 7
Wyld 3
Rattish 1
Hunter 4
Warrior 5
Assassin 4
Artisan 5
Alchemist 1
Rich 1
Worldly 4
Prepared 5
Alert 4
Tranquil 3
Cooperative 2
Disreputable 5
Cowardly 3
Vicious 3
Ghoulish 2
Style: Grey Rat Cheats The Heavens
Rigorous 3
Style of Legend 3
Hero-Killing 1
Zodiac 2
Yin Style 7
Chi Style 3
Rattish 1
Beast-Killing 4
Killing Intent 5
Assassination 4
Artisanal 5
Alchemic 1
Varied Techniques 1
Strong Fundamentals 4
Survivalist 5
Rapid 4
Pacifist 3
Teamwork 2
Disreputable 5
Evasive 3
Dangerous 3
Taboo-Breaking 2
Techniques:
Consuming Cultivation Focus
Grey Rat Persists On Corruption
10,000 Grey Rats Gather In Moonlight
Nimble Grey Rat Dances In Moonlight
Grey Rat Wields The Shadows
Grey Rat Scurries In Darkness
Grey Rat Is Kin To Thousands
Grey Rat Eats Behemoths' Corpses
Grey Rat Climbs Over Corpses
Grey Rats Swarm The Carcass
Grey Rat Flees The Hawk
Grey Rat Endures The Storm
Grey Rat Huddles In Darkness
Grey Rat's Black Claws
Grey Rat's Steel Claws
Grey Rat's Sheathed Claws
Grey Rat Claws In A Frenzy
Grey Rat Bites The Cat
Nimble Paws of the Grey Rat
Hero: Asuka Veran
Grey Rat Cheats The Heavens 6
Good Seed: +20 to Cultivation rolls.
Protagonist: +20 to Cultivation rolls.
Dead Hand: +10 to Atma rolls.
Bone Whistle: +10 to Cultivation rolls.
Bone Flute: Cultivation +10, Atma +10
Bone Hair-Comb: Cultivation +10, Atma +10
Goldfur Robe: +20 to Atma rolls, -1 Voracious
Whitefang: +1 Beast-Killing, Combat +20, Cultivation +20
[ ][Asuka] Continue to train in Grey Rat Cheats The Heavens and develop another Core. Cultivation Check against DC 100, failure = death.
[ ][Asuka] Work on developing Grey Rat Cheats The Heavens. Cultivation check at DC 100 gains an additional technique for the Style. Failure = injury or death.
[ ][Asuka] Try to make a twin for Whitefang from the remaining rib. Atma check at DC80. Failure = injury.
[ ][Asuka] Focus on being a good Master to the students who follow you.
[ ][Asuka] Bring Whitefang to Oji and Rei and see if they can push to 6th Dan using it.
[ ][Asuka] Try to kick-start the washouts among your students using Whitefang.
[ ][Asuka] Duel Meshi and Oburo and assert your dominance over them. DC 70 Combat Check.
[ ][Domain] Push Taro's limits and encourage him to continue striving for additional Cores.
[ ][Domain] Push Rei and Oji to continue striving for more.
[ ][Domain] Push Meshi and Oburo to keep trying for 7th Dan.
[ ][Domain] Have Master Reshi push for the Grey Rat sub-sect to begin taking missions from the outside world.
[ ][Domain] Encourage the new Grey Rat Sect to split from the Green Dragon Sect.
[ ][Domain] Encourage rumors about the new style to spread outside the Sect and attract new students.
[ ][Domain] Popularize the production of bone Charms among the students.
[ ][Domain] Encourage further hunting expeditions among the students.
[ ][Domain] Encourage the students to spar among one another.
[ ][Style] Grey Rat Scents The Kill
Develop the ability to heighten the sense of smell dramatically, allowing users to track prey like a bloodhound. Build Path: Beast-Killer
[ ][Style] Grey Rat's Stolen Claws
Develop the style's ability to improvise weapons from the environment, working with whatever is to hand. Build Path: Survivalist
[ ][Style] Grey Rat Consumes The Sun
Develop the "hard", Yang potential of the style, emphasizing its cultivation. Build Path: Yang Specialist
[ ][Style] Ox Carries The Rat
Develop paired-Breathing techniques that allow one fighter to Breathe while the other rests. Build Path: Hero-Killer
[ ][Personal] Go to see your friends in your Wyldfae village.
[ ][Personal] Attend to your responsibilities as a minor courtier of Luna.
[ ][Personal] Continue negotiations with King Death and his court.
[ ][Personal] Continue courting the court of the Zodiac Rat.
[ ][Personal] Train to remove one of your personality faults and thereby improve the style you're responsible for. (Write in a fault.)
[ ][Personal] Hunt Demon Beasts to craft a Treasure for Asuka.
[ ][Personal] Use your influence over Grey Rat style to encourage its discovery by a larger group of practitioners.
[ ][Personal] Continue cultivating and attempt to form a third Core. Cultivation DC60.
Aki scratches his side with a claw. "I'm afraid your name means worse than nothing to my superiors. They say I shouldn't be seen with you in public, much less make contracts with you in private."
"What if I work to improve my reputation?"
"Then maybe I can find someone who'll take you on as a charity case. Maybe."
"Please do your best, Aki."
"Always a pleasure, Adare."
Six months into your training for the new year, Master Reshi walks into your training grounds.
"Asuka, Taro."
You both walk over and kneel before him.
"No, stand. I've come because I would like you to meet someone."
He waves behind him, and a straw-haired young man with an easy smile and a heavyset man with mutton chops step forwards.
"Meshi and Oburo, meet Asuka and Taro. Asuka and Taro, meet Meshi and Oburo. You are all sixth-Dan students of Grey Rat Cheats The Heavens; four, from two hundred and forty."
You bow formally to Meshi and Oburo, and they bow back.
"Which one is Meshi?", asks Taro.
"Me," says the straw-haired one. "I'm Meshi."
"I've heard of you. Care to spar?"
"Sure."
Taro steps into one of the rings. "How about now?"
Meshi blurs forward, twists past Taro's block, and rests his daggerpoint on Taro's throat.
"Not that tough, huh?", Meshi taunts.
Taro growls under his breath.
"What's that? Did you want to try again?"
"No," says Taro, showing some sense for once. He bows. "Thank you for the lesson, Master."
"No problem," says Meshi. "It's always a pleasure."
Master Reshi smiles. "I'm glad to see you four are getting along well. I'll leave you to it."
"Master Reshi," you say before you can forget. "How many fifth-dan students of Grey Rat are there?"
"Six, from my two hundred. Two from your forty. Eight in total."
"I see. And intermediates?"
"A hundred or so."
"Thank you, Master."
"It's no trouble. Is there anything else?"
"No, Master."
Master Reshi turns, and walks away.
Oburo frowns at you. "Why did you want to know all that?"
"Because I care about the success of the sect, obviously."
"I see."
Oburo walks away and begins to survey the advanced students at their sparring.
Meshi tosses a wink over his shoulder, and follows.
"I hate them already," says Taro.
You just sigh.
"We got the contract?"
"We got the contract."
Adare Kaname, Bureaucrat of Grey Rat Style
Fisher King: You take on the properties of the Style you're responsible for reflexively. Your personality feeds the style, and vice versa.
Cultivator 3
Legendary 3
Revolutionary 1
Celestial 2
Lunar 7
Wyld 3
Rattish 1
Hunter 4
Warrior 5
Assassin 4
Artisan 5
Alchemist 1
Rich 1
Worldly 4
Prepared 5
Alert 4
Tranquil 3
Cooperative 2
Disreputable 5
Cowardly 3
Vicious 3
Ghoulish 2
Style: Grey Rat Cheats The Heavens
Rigorous 3
Style of Legend 3
Hero-Killing 1
Zodiac 2
Yin Style 7
Chi Style 3
Rattish 1
Beast-Killing 4
Killing Intent 5
Assassination 4
Artisanal 5
Alchemic 1
Varied Techniques 1
Strong Fundamentals 4
Survivalist 5
Rapid 4
Pacifist 3
Teamwork 2
Disreputable 5
Evasive 3
Dangerous 3
Taboo-Breaking 2
Techniques:
Consuming Cultivation Focus
Grey Rat Persists On Corruption
10,000 Grey Rats Gather In Moonlight
Nimble Grey Rat Dances In Moonlight
Grey Rat Wields The Shadows
Grey Rat Scurries In Darkness
Grey Rat Is Kin To Thousands
Grey Rat Eats Behemoths' Corpses
Grey Rat Climbs Over Corpses
Grey Rats Swarm The Carcass
Grey Rat Flees The Hawk
Grey Rat Endures The Storm
Grey Rat Huddles In Darkness
Grey Rat's Black Claws
Grey Rat's Steel Claws
Grey Rat's Sheathed Claws
Grey Rat Claws In A Frenzy
Grey Rat Bites The Cat
Nimble Paws of the Grey Rat
Hero: Asuka Veran
Grey Rat Cheats The Heavens 6
Good Seed: +20 to Cultivation rolls.
Protagonist: +20 to Cultivation rolls.
Dead Hand: +10 to Atma rolls.
Bone Whistle: +10 to Cultivation rolls.
Bone Flute: Cultivation +10, Atma +10
Bone Hair-Comb: Cultivation +10, Atma +10
Goldfur Robe: +20 to Atma rolls, -1 Voracious
Whitefang: +1 Beast-Killing, Combat +20, Cultivation +20
[ ][Asuka] Continue to train in Grey Rat Cheats The Heavens and develop another Core. Cultivation Check against DC 100, failure = death.
[ ][Asuka] Work on developing Grey Rat Cheats The Heavens. Cultivation check at DC 100 gains an additional technique for the Style. Failure = injury or death.
[ ][Asuka] Try to make a twin for Whitefang from the remaining rib. Atma check at DC80. Failure = injury.
[ ][Asuka] Focus on being a good Master to the students who follow you.
[ ][Asuka] Bring Whitefang to Oji and Rei and see if they can push to 6th Dan using it.
[ ][Asuka] Try to kick-start the washouts among your students using Whitefang.
[ ][Asuka] Duel Meshi and Oburo and assert your dominance over them. DC 70 Combat Check.
[ ][Domain] Push Taro's limits and encourage him to continue striving for additional Cores.
[ ][Domain] Push Rei and Oji to continue striving for more.
[ ][Domain] Push Meshi and Oburo to keep trying for 7th Dan.
[ ][Domain] Have Master Reshi push for the Grey Rat sub-sect to begin taking missions from the outside world.
[ ][Domain] Encourage the new Grey Rat Sect to split from the Green Dragon Sect.
[ ][Domain] Encourage rumors about the new style to spread outside the Sect and attract new students.
[ ][Domain] Popularize the production of bone Charms among the students.
[ ][Domain] Encourage further hunting expeditions among the students.
[ ][Domain] Encourage the students to spar among one another.
[ ][Style] Grey Rat Scents The Kill
Develop the ability to heighten the sense of smell dramatically, allowing users to track prey like a bloodhound. Build Path: Beast-Killer
[ ][Style] Grey Rat's Stolen Claws
Develop the style's ability to improvise weapons from the environment, working with whatever is to hand. Build Path: Survivalist
[ ][Style] Grey Rat Consumes The Sun
Develop the "hard", Yang potential of the style, emphasizing its cultivation. Build Path: Yang Specialist
[ ][Style] Ox Carries The Rat
Develop paired-Breathing techniques that allow one fighter to Breathe while the other rests. Build Path: Hero-Killer
[ ][Personal] Go to see your friends in your Wyldfae village.
[ ][Personal] Attend to your responsibilities as a minor courtier of Luna.
[ ][Personal] Continue negotiations with King Death and his court.
[ ][Personal] Continue courting the court of the Zodiac Rat.
[ ][Personal] Train to remove one of your personality faults and thereby improve the style you're responsible for. (Write in a fault.)
[ ][Personal] Hunt Demon Beasts to craft a Treasure for Asuka.
[ ][Personal] Use your influence over Grey Rat style to encourage its discovery by a larger group of practitioners.
[ ][Personal] Continue cultivating and attempt to form a third Core. Cultivation DC60.
[X] Plan Reputation Salvaging
- [X] [Asuka] Focus on being a good Master to the students who follow you.
- [X] [Domain] Have Master Reshi push for the Grey Rat sub-sect to begin taking missions from the outside world.
- [X] [Style] Grey Rat Consumes The Sun
- [X] [Personal] Train to remove one of your personality faults and thereby improve the style you're responsible for. (Disreputable.)
My hope is that we can work on promoting the more conventional parts of our style and work on being more pro-social and hopefully work on our reputation from two fronts.
- [X] [Asuka] Focus on being a good Master to the students who follow you.
- [X] [Domain] Have Master Reshi push for the Grey Rat sub-sect to begin taking missions from the outside world.
- [X] [Style] Grey Rat Consumes The Sun
- [X] [Personal] Train to remove one of your personality faults and thereby improve the style you're responsible for. (Disreputable.)
My hope is that we can work on promoting the more conventional parts of our style and work on being more pro-social and hopefully work on our reputation from two fronts.
- Location
- USA
[X] Plan: Strong and Reputable master
-[X][Asuka] Duel Meshi and Oburo and assert your dominance over them. DC 70 Combat Check.
-[X][Domain] Have Master Reshi push for the Grey Rat sub-sect to begin taking mission
-[X][Style] Grey Rat Consumes The Sun
-[X][Personal] Train to remove one of your personality faults and thereby improve the style you're responsible for. (Disreputable)
Similar plan to Jirachi47 but more focusing on Asuka stating in charge or at lest proving she is strong
Also Evenstar can we get a description of what the kami looks like?
-[X][Asuka] Duel Meshi and Oburo and assert your dominance over them. DC 70 Combat Check.
-[X][Domain] Have Master Reshi push for the Grey Rat sub-sect to begin taking mission
-[X][Style] Grey Rat Consumes The Sun
-[X][Personal] Train to remove one of your personality faults and thereby improve the style you're responsible for. (Disreputable)
Similar plan to Jirachi47 but more focusing on Asuka stating in charge or at lest proving she is strong
Also Evenstar can we get a description of what the kami looks like?
ThatGazzer
Minds Eye Bind
- Location
- PNW
- Pronouns
- They/Them
[X] Plan Reputation Salvaging
Nando
they, them
[X] Plan Grey Rat Knows Its Strengths
-[X][Asuka] Continue to train in Grey Rat Cheats The Heavens and develop another Core. Cultivation Check against DC 100, failure = death.
-[X][Domain] Have Master Reshi push for the Grey Rat sub-sect to begin taking missions from the outside world.
-[X][Style] Ox Carries The Rat
-[X] [Personal] Train to remove one of your personality faults and thereby improve the style you're responsible for. (Disreputable.)
Also similar to the other proposed plans, but with two differences:
Asuka has +90 to cultivation, so improving there before challenging her fellow students should work out.
Not going for Yang-Style since we don't have that at all right now, and splitting our style even more doesn't look that appealing to me. Not going for the Survivalist option, since we use tools in our style, so improvised weapons are not that useful, I figure.
-[X][Asuka] Continue to train in Grey Rat Cheats The Heavens and develop another Core. Cultivation Check against DC 100, failure = death.
-[X][Domain] Have Master Reshi push for the Grey Rat sub-sect to begin taking missions from the outside world.
-[X][Style] Ox Carries The Rat
-[X] [Personal] Train to remove one of your personality faults and thereby improve the style you're responsible for. (Disreputable.)
Also similar to the other proposed plans, but with two differences:
Asuka has +90 to cultivation, so improving there before challenging her fellow students should work out.
Not going for Yang-Style since we don't have that at all right now, and splitting our style even more doesn't look that appealing to me. Not going for the Survivalist option, since we use tools in our style, so improvised weapons are not that useful, I figure.
Adare Kaname, Bureaucrat of Grey Rat Style
Fisher King: You take on the properties of the Style you're responsible for reflexively. Your personality feeds the style, and vice versa.
Cultivator 3
Legendary 3
Revolutionary 1
Celestial 2
Lunar 7
Wyld 3
Rattish 1
Hunter 4
Warrior 5
Assassin 4
Artisan 5
Alchemist 1
Rich 1
Worldly 4
Prepared 5
Alert 4
Tranquil 3
Cooperative 2
Disreputable 5
Cowardly 3
Vicious 3
Ghoulish 2
Fisher King: You take on the properties of the Style you're responsible for reflexively. Your personality feeds the style, and vice versa.
Cultivator 3
Legendary 3
Revolutionary 1
Celestial 2
Lunar 7
Wyld 3
Rattish 1
Hunter 4
Warrior 5
Assassin 4
Artisan 5
Alchemist 1
Rich 1
Worldly 4
Prepared 5
Alert 4
Tranquil 3
Cooperative 2
Disreputable 5
Cowardly 3
Vicious 3
Ghoulish 2
[X] Plan Reputation Salvaging
AHA! We have become Rattish! We must focus our attention on it. Soon we may even become Grey Rattish and reach the full potential of our style! We must be the rat, BECOME the rat!
- Location
- The Star Kingdom of Manticore
[X] Plan Grey Rat Knows Its Strengths
- Location
- Brazil
[X] Plan Grey Rat Knows Its Strengths
Nando
they, them
Could you elaborate on the why? 'Cause it came up before, with people wanting to have it in the style, but...since then we've even more Yin in it, and I'm still not seeing the benefit of having all the things in our style. If we'd started with Yin and Yang Style I'd understand the need for balance, but our style is not balanced, so...yeah.