Style of the Gods: A Xianxia Style's Celestial Bureaucrat
- Thread starter Evenstar
- Start date
- Original Fantasy
[X] Plan Grey Rat Makes Talismans And Goes Fasting
1405 - Year of the Snake
Evenstar
Triple Jump Unlocked
- Location
- Canada
- Pronouns
- She/Her
After your hunt with Jiro, you find yourself lingering in your old Kami village, a Wyld place nestled deep within the Stonebreaker Mountains. You tell yourself it's just to shop, but really it's to sink into the atmosphere of the place and reclaim a little bit of what you were before your Celestial training to be a Bureaucrat.
While you're still a bit scraggly around the edges, this place makes you feel strong, tranquil and wild, much more your proper self. There are Kami here in the shape of hunting hounds that a part of you envies still. They, at least, have a simple existence.
Even now, you're stuck with this duty around your neck. And so you take your budget to Grandfather Wyldclaw, a old half-bear Kami who's famed for his prowess for hunting. His lodge lies deep in the mountain, almost one with the living rock. He's been here for centuries before you, and he'll probably be here for centuries after you.
"You want a Treasure, hmm? Hmmm. Hmnmmmm. Mnhmhmn. I think I have something you'd want."
He goes to his intimidatingly large closet, and sorts through the collection of beastskin robes inside. Finally, he pulls out one that shines like the sun, all green and golden.
"Took this off a demon beast a while back, but it doesn't match my wardrobe. You can have it for the price you asked."
You nod. "It's a deal, Grandfather."
Though your understanding of the style has improved by listening to nature and gathering more Chi to yourself, your imbalance persists, and even worsens. You find yourself wanting to sniff at the air and twitch a nonexistent tail, or to fall to all fours so as to be closer to the ground. Thinking complicated thoughts is a little harder; it feels as if you're fatigued all the time. You keep taking the grave-ash potion monthly; it's long since become a habit.
Then the package comes. Signed simply "K.", and with a note attached saying to open it in your private rooms.
You follow instructions, and are rewarded with a vast golden coat of shimmering fur. You can feel the Life Atma spilling from it from three paces; when you hug it to your face, your hunger stills away completely, the radiant Life Atma surpressing the physical imbalance, though not the mental.
Between this and the Dead Hand, you think, making a few more Charms ought to be trivial.
So you try it. With Death Atma from the Dead Hand and Life Atma from the Goldfur Robe, crafting anything related to either becomes massively easier. While you keep yourself to simple projects, you still manage to make one item of major importance; a training aid for cultivating breath-patterns in the form of a bone whistle. Breathe correctly, and the whistle does not sound. It only makes noise when the breath is out of phase with the Atma engraved on the bone. A simple enough tool, but still an invaluable one.
You smile, and pull your new robe closer. It's something soft in a hard world.
If only you knew who K was.
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 2
Legendary 2
Lunar 1
Wyld 2
Hunter 2
Artisan 1
Worldly 1
Prepared 4
Alert 1
Tranquil 1
Disreputable 2
Cowardly 2
Vicious 1
Ghoulish 1
Gluttonous 1
Animalistic 1
Style: Grey Rat Cheats The Heavens
Rigorous 2
Style of Legend 2
Yin Style 1
Chi Style 2
Beast-Killing 2
Artisanal 1
Strong Fundamentals 1
Survivalist 4
Rapid 1
Pacifist 1
Disreputable 2
Evasive 2
Dangerous 1
Taboo-Breaking 1
Voracious 1
Animalistic 1
Techniques:
Consuming Cultivation Focus
Grey Rat Persists On Corruption
10,000 Grey Rats Gather In Moonlight
Grey Rat Flees The Hawk
Grey Rat Is Kin To Thousands
Grey Rat Endures The Storm
Grey Rat Striking Method
Grey Rat Kicking Method
Hero: Asuka Veran
Grey Rat Cheats The Heavens 4
Good Seed: +20 to Cultivation rolls.
Protagonist: +20 to Cultivation rolls.
Dead Hand: +10 to Atma rolls.
Bone Whistle: +10 to Cultivation rolls.
Goldfur Robe: +20 to Atma rolls, -1 Voracious
[ ][Asuka] Continue to train in Grey Rat Cheats The Heavens and develop another Core. Cultivation Check against DC 60, failure = injury or death.
[ ][Asuka] Work on developing Grey Rat Style. Cultivation check at DC 60, success gains an additional technique for the Style. Failure = injury.
[ ][Asuka] Challenge another student to a duel and demonstrate your new style before the whole sect. Auto-success at a Combat check against DC30.
[ ][Asuka] Focus on making more Charms from the dead criminal's bones. Atma check at DC50.
[ ][Asuka] Try to focus on making less complex Charms. Autosuccess on a Atma check at DC30.
[ ][Asuka] Try to overcome your Master's hatred for the style. DC?? Cultivation check. Failure = thrown out of the Sect
[ ][Asuka] Try to correct the Atma imbalance that's making you constantly hungry. Atma check at DC50, success removes the Voracious trait.
[-][Domain] You have no domain, so there's nothing to do with it.
[ ][Style] Grey Rat Climbs Over Corpses
Train the style for increased ability to survive major calamities, whatever they may be. Build Path: Survivalist
[ ][Style] Grey Rat Claws In A Frenzy
Develop the style towards unlocking the animalistic fervor of the panicked rat in combat, boosting the style's potential. Build Path: Feral
[ ][Style] Grey Rat Consumes The Sun
Develop the "hard", Yang potential of the style, emphasizing its cultivation. Build Path: Yang Specialist
[ ][Style] Grey Rat Four-Limb Stance
Develop the style to incorporate movement on all fours like a rat. Build Path: Feral
[ ][Personal] Try to renegotiate your deal with King Death for gentler terms.
[ ][Personal] Train to remove one of your personality faults and thereby improve the style you're responsible for. (Write in a fault.)
[ ][Personal] Spend some time crafting a Treasure for Asuka using materials hunted from Demon Beasts.
[ ][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 second Core. Cultivation DC40.
While you're still a bit scraggly around the edges, this place makes you feel strong, tranquil and wild, much more your proper self. There are Kami here in the shape of hunting hounds that a part of you envies still. They, at least, have a simple existence.
Even now, you're stuck with this duty around your neck. And so you take your budget to Grandfather Wyldclaw, a old half-bear Kami who's famed for his prowess for hunting. His lodge lies deep in the mountain, almost one with the living rock. He's been here for centuries before you, and he'll probably be here for centuries after you.
"You want a Treasure, hmm? Hmmm. Hmnmmmm. Mnhmhmn. I think I have something you'd want."
He goes to his intimidatingly large closet, and sorts through the collection of beastskin robes inside. Finally, he pulls out one that shines like the sun, all green and golden.
"Took this off a demon beast a while back, but it doesn't match my wardrobe. You can have it for the price you asked."
You nod. "It's a deal, Grandfather."
Though your understanding of the style has improved by listening to nature and gathering more Chi to yourself, your imbalance persists, and even worsens. You find yourself wanting to sniff at the air and twitch a nonexistent tail, or to fall to all fours so as to be closer to the ground. Thinking complicated thoughts is a little harder; it feels as if you're fatigued all the time. You keep taking the grave-ash potion monthly; it's long since become a habit.
Then the package comes. Signed simply "K.", and with a note attached saying to open it in your private rooms.
You follow instructions, and are rewarded with a vast golden coat of shimmering fur. You can feel the Life Atma spilling from it from three paces; when you hug it to your face, your hunger stills away completely, the radiant Life Atma surpressing the physical imbalance, though not the mental.
Between this and the Dead Hand, you think, making a few more Charms ought to be trivial.
So you try it. With Death Atma from the Dead Hand and Life Atma from the Goldfur Robe, crafting anything related to either becomes massively easier. While you keep yourself to simple projects, you still manage to make one item of major importance; a training aid for cultivating breath-patterns in the form of a bone whistle. Breathe correctly, and the whistle does not sound. It only makes noise when the breath is out of phase with the Atma engraved on the bone. A simple enough tool, but still an invaluable one.
You smile, and pull your new robe closer. It's something soft in a hard world.
If only you knew who K was.
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 2
Legendary 2
Lunar 1
Wyld 2
Hunter 2
Artisan 1
Worldly 1
Prepared 4
Alert 1
Tranquil 1
Disreputable 2
Cowardly 2
Vicious 1
Ghoulish 1
Gluttonous 1
Animalistic 1
Style: Grey Rat Cheats The Heavens
Rigorous 2
Style of Legend 2
Yin Style 1
Chi Style 2
Beast-Killing 2
Artisanal 1
Strong Fundamentals 1
Survivalist 4
Rapid 1
Pacifist 1
Disreputable 2
Evasive 2
Dangerous 1
Taboo-Breaking 1
Voracious 1
Animalistic 1
Techniques:
Consuming Cultivation Focus
Grey Rat Persists On Corruption
10,000 Grey Rats Gather In Moonlight
Grey Rat Flees The Hawk
Grey Rat Is Kin To Thousands
Grey Rat Endures The Storm
Grey Rat Striking Method
Grey Rat Kicking Method
Hero: Asuka Veran
Grey Rat Cheats The Heavens 4
Good Seed: +20 to Cultivation rolls.
Protagonist: +20 to Cultivation rolls.
Dead Hand: +10 to Atma rolls.
Bone Whistle: +10 to Cultivation rolls.
Goldfur Robe: +20 to Atma rolls, -1 Voracious
[ ][Asuka] Continue to train in Grey Rat Cheats The Heavens and develop another Core. Cultivation Check against DC 60, failure = injury or death.
[ ][Asuka] Work on developing Grey Rat Style. Cultivation check at DC 60, success gains an additional technique for the Style. Failure = injury.
[ ][Asuka] Challenge another student to a duel and demonstrate your new style before the whole sect. Auto-success at a Combat check against DC30.
[ ][Asuka] Focus on making more Charms from the dead criminal's bones. Atma check at DC50.
[ ][Asuka] Try to focus on making less complex Charms. Autosuccess on a Atma check at DC30.
[ ][Asuka] Try to overcome your Master's hatred for the style. DC?? Cultivation check. Failure = thrown out of the Sect
[ ][Asuka] Try to correct the Atma imbalance that's making you constantly hungry. Atma check at DC50, success removes the Voracious trait.
[-][Domain] You have no domain, so there's nothing to do with it.
[ ][Style] Grey Rat Climbs Over Corpses
Train the style for increased ability to survive major calamities, whatever they may be. Build Path: Survivalist
[ ][Style] Grey Rat Claws In A Frenzy
Develop the style towards unlocking the animalistic fervor of the panicked rat in combat, boosting the style's potential. Build Path: Feral
[ ][Style] Grey Rat Consumes The Sun
Develop the "hard", Yang potential of the style, emphasizing its cultivation. Build Path: Yang Specialist
[ ][Style] Grey Rat Four-Limb Stance
Develop the style to incorporate movement on all fours like a rat. Build Path: Feral
[ ][Personal] Try to renegotiate your deal with King Death for gentler terms.
[ ][Personal] Train to remove one of your personality faults and thereby improve the style you're responsible for. (Write in a fault.)
[ ][Personal] Spend some time crafting a Treasure for Asuka using materials hunted from Demon Beasts.
[ ][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 second Core. Cultivation DC40.
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[X] Plan Vital Rat
- [X] [Asuka] Try to correct the Atma imbalance that's making you constantly hungry. Atma check at DC50, success removes the Voracious trait.
- [X] [Style] Grey Rat Consumes The Sun
- [X] [Personal] Try to renegotiate your deal with King Death for gentler terms.
More physical optimization!
- [X] [Asuka] Try to correct the Atma imbalance that's making you constantly hungry. Atma check at DC50, success removes the Voracious trait.
- [X] [Style] Grey Rat Consumes The Sun
- [X] [Personal] Try to renegotiate your deal with King Death for gentler terms.
More physical optimization!
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Twisted Mind
ADHD Man!
- Location
- The Walled Commune (Florida)
- Pronouns
- He/Him
[X] Plan Sun-vital Rat
- Location
- USA
[X] The Rat prepares for winter
-[X][Asuka] Try to correct the Atma imbalance that's making you constantly hungry. Atma check at DC50, success removes the Voracious trait.
-[X][Style] Grey Rat Climbs Over Corpses
-[X][Personal] Train to remove one of your personality faults and thereby improve the style you're responsible for. (Gluttonous)
[X] The Rat will not flee
-[X][Asuka] Try to correct the Atma imbalance that's making you constantly hungry. Atma check at DC50, success removes the Voracious trait.
-[X][Style] Grey Rat Climbs Over Corpses
-[X][Personal] Train to remove one of your personality faults and thereby improve the style you're responsible for. (Cowardly)
[X] The Rat shall be civil
-[X][Asuka] Try to correct the Atma imbalance that's making you constantly hungry. Atma check at DC50, success removes the Voracious trait.
-[X][Style] Grey Rat Climbs Over Corpses
-[X][Personal] Train to remove one of your personality faults and thereby improve the style you're responsible for. (Animalistic)
-[X][Asuka] Try to correct the Atma imbalance that's making you constantly hungry. Atma check at DC50, success removes the Voracious trait.
-[X][Style] Grey Rat Climbs Over Corpses
-[X][Personal] Train to remove one of your personality faults and thereby improve the style you're responsible for. (Gluttonous)
[X] The Rat will not flee
-[X][Asuka] Try to correct the Atma imbalance that's making you constantly hungry. Atma check at DC50, success removes the Voracious trait.
-[X][Style] Grey Rat Climbs Over Corpses
-[X][Personal] Train to remove one of your personality faults and thereby improve the style you're responsible for. (Cowardly)
[X] The Rat shall be civil
-[X][Asuka] Try to correct the Atma imbalance that's making you constantly hungry. Atma check at DC50, success removes the Voracious trait.
-[X][Style] Grey Rat Climbs Over Corpses
-[X][Personal] Train to remove one of your personality faults and thereby improve the style you're responsible for. (Animalistic)
Cultivator 2
Legendary 2
Lunar 1
Wyld 2
Hunter 2
Artisan 1
Rich 1
Worldly 1
Prepared 4
Alert 1
Tranquil 1
Disreputable 2
Cowardly 2
Vicious 1
Ghoulish 1
Gluttonous 1
Animalistic 1
Legendary 2
Lunar 1
Wyld 2
Hunter 2
Artisan 1
Worldly 1
Prepared 4
Alert 1
Tranquil 1
Disreputable 2
Cowardly 2
Vicious 1
Ghoulish 1
Gluttonous 1
Animalistic 1
And I do not like animalistic.
Fortunately, since our Style does have Artisan, developing a tradition of practitioners making tools to handle the imbalances that come with the style should be an option - but that requires tool use being a thing Grey Rat Cheats the Heavens allows for.
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- Location
- Brazil
[X] Plan Grey Rat Swarms the World.
-[X][Asuka] Try to correct the Atma imbalance that's making you constantly hungry. Atma check at DC50, success removes the Voracious trait.
-[X][Style] Grey Rat Climbs Over Corpses
-[X][Personal] Use your influence over Grey Rat style to encourage its discovery by a larger group of practitioners.
Second verse same as the first, we will be much better able to manage our style if we have four actions a year instead of three, and be that I mean having more than a single living person practicing it stoping the inevitable descent into obscurity. So lets get some more people already, beyond that this also increases survivality so the practioners sufer less atrition.
-[X][Asuka] Try to correct the Atma imbalance that's making you constantly hungry. Atma check at DC50, success removes the Voracious trait.
-[X][Style] Grey Rat Climbs Over Corpses
-[X][Personal] Use your influence over Grey Rat style to encourage its discovery by a larger group of practitioners.
Second verse same as the first, we will be much better able to manage our style if we have four actions a year instead of three, and be that I mean having more than a single living person practicing it stoping the inevitable descent into obscurity. So lets get some more people already, beyond that this also increases survivality so the practioners sufer less atrition.
Ok, Animalistic is much worse than Gluttonous, as far as I'm concerned.
That means priority one is dealing with it - either by removing the trait directly, or by taking action to make the trait show up in our styles much less frequently.
[X] The Rat shall be civil
This plan handles the first, so the plan I'm making will try to do the second:
[x] To Stand On Two Legs
-[x][Personal] Try to renegotiate your deal with King Death for gentler terms.
-[x][Style] Grey Rat Climbs Over Corpses
-[x][Asuka] Try to correct the Atma imbalance that's making you constantly hungry. Atma check at DC50, success removes the Voracious trait.
"Emulate the manner of the carrion rat" is almost certainly part of why Animalistic is showing up, and without dealing with that we'll just get it again after removing it once.
I'm not touching the Yang specialty when it'll almost certainly get us more gluttonous, and we don't really have that under control, either.
That said, "correct the Atma imbalance" is more about establishing self-modification and tool use as practices of the Grey Rat than it is about actually removing Voracious.
That means priority one is dealing with it - either by removing the trait directly, or by taking action to make the trait show up in our styles much less frequently.
[X] The Rat shall be civil
This plan handles the first, so the plan I'm making will try to do the second:
[x] To Stand On Two Legs
-[x][Personal] Try to renegotiate your deal with King Death for gentler terms.
-[x][Style] Grey Rat Climbs Over Corpses
-[x][Asuka] Try to correct the Atma imbalance that's making you constantly hungry. Atma check at DC50, success removes the Voracious trait.
"Emulate the manner of the carrion rat" is almost certainly part of why Animalistic is showing up, and without dealing with that we'll just get it again after removing it once.
I'm not touching the Yang specialty when it'll almost certainly get us more gluttonous, and we don't really have that under control, either.
That said, "correct the Atma imbalance" is more about establishing self-modification and tool use as practices of the Grey Rat than it is about actually removing Voracious.
- Location
- Singapore
[X] Plan Solar Rat Balances All Things
-[X][Asuka] Try to focus on making less complex Charms. Autosuccess on a Atma check at DC30.
-[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. (Voracious)
-[X][Asuka] Try to focus on making less complex Charms. Autosuccess on a Atma check at DC30.
-[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. (Voracious)
- Location
- Brazil
Actualy is much more likely to be the fault of our style choice.
Is easy to see how becoming atuned to nature made the style more Animalistc, is it was part of the deal with King Death it would have apeared when we made the deal, the if you pay attention the key word on "Emulate the manner of the carrion rat" is not rat, because we are a grey rat to stat with but carrion that is what bring the whole eating and using corpses.
Beyond that did I miss something and is there some reason people are against getting a domain ? Because no one else seen interested in that even tought it would open an entire new dimension to manege our style.
I don't believe the style choices we get are unrelated to the narrative.
- Location
- Brazil
I mean fair but, what is the narrative conection between acting like and animal and King Death ? Because that is my point, we act like a rat because we are the Grey Rat Style and eat corpses because of the deal, if anything that keeps hapening would be the fault of the deal it would be voracious, that we got when the deal was made and is constantly described as an inbalance of life.
Our bargain with King Death:
If the practicioners of Green Dragon Style are emulating dragons, they're not doing it to this degree.
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- Location
- Domino City
[X] The Rat shall be civil
[X] The Rat shall be civil