[x] Plan Wondrous Things
EVERYBODY WAS KUNGFU FIGHTING~
I wouldn't mind either plan winning tbh.
EVERYBODY WAS KUNGFU FIGHTING~
I wouldn't mind either plan winning tbh.
Yeah, almost every single fight Zhi's gotten into has seen him run out of anam or nearly do so. This cannot be overstated: Zhi runs out of anam quickly.A charm that would benefit us greatly is a battery to store a bunch of anam, that's the current "weakness" of KZ, all of his techs costs a bunch of anam and he only has about 30.
Not to mention if we hit zero anam we transform back into Raptor Zhi and have to spend an action to transform backYeah, almost every single fight Zhi's gotten into has seen him run out of anam or nearly do so. This cannot be overstated: Zhi runs out of anam quickly.
It just makes sense at every level to make ourselves a battery, and it's why people have been talking up making one for quite some time now. Gentlemen, please: even if you're not particularly drawn to crafting (somehow, despite that being Zhi's initial character concept), consider that a battery would be the best investment we could make right now.
- Zhi has a lot of techniques that don't fit his core.
- The techniques that do fit his core have high anam costs.
- His breathing technique makes all his combat techs a bit more expensive.
- The most recent technique we got, the Twilight Horizon, similarly costs 6 anam, more expensive even than Shatter the Mirror. Having expensive techniques means that if we whiff with them in a round, we've lost a huge chunk of our pool. The longer a fight goes on, the more likely it is that Zhi will need to fall back purely on the Hummingbird's Dance.
- It's not just our techniques but also our charms - the Dance costs a considerable amount of anam and completely running out of anam means that A Fractal View costs an action to reactivate.
- The trait we got from finishing An Elegant Plume explicitly mitigates a lot of damage from people at around our level as long as we're above 50% anam.
Fixed just because.Not to mention if we hit two anam we transform back into Raptor Zhi and have to spend an action to transform back
who was this guy again?Inform her of how we met and accidentally antagonized Dun Lihan
Missed the vote, but activities that I wanted are in the winning plan, so I'm not sad.
who was this guy again?
i wonder if we make a charme that can help refine thing into lesser qunatity but more concentrated anam (like a distilation system that can distile basic blood form a beast without much anam into a few drop of say blood but with higher blood anam) maybe with a creation anam int the use
More importantly, our mom is friends with her uncle. So she's probably not going to be thrilled we pissed Dun Lihan off.She was one of the Rose. We burned her by not telling her team about the unrest intel we had.
But that irritation will, if not outright disappear, be greatly lessesend when she learned that pissing off Dun Lihan was the result of our forging stronger ties with ZK.More importantly, our mom is friends with her uncle. So she's probably not going to be thrilled we pissed Dun Lihan off.
Feel the beat of your heart as it tells you when to breathe. Let that sound wash over you and-
You feel it?
Do you feel the anam?
Take it. Draw it into your lungs. Your sleeping mind already knows how.
"They are called the Flowers of the Forge, and each one came from the best anam battery diagram my clan could afford. Every time I fill one up and have no empties remaining, it is time for another flower to bloom."
I cannot help but raise my eyebrow at that. Another flood of prospects prevents me from asking my questions right there and then, but I still recall them the next time my workload is manageable. "How many reservoirs do you currently have?"
Flowing Feathers of the Camel Turkey (Wind 4), Desiccated Poison Sacs (Poison 15/Hunger 5), Ghastly Horns (Deception 18), Pale Glowing Blossoms (Moon 13)
While it is a cool concept, see the previous points of how we have a mitigation trait that only works if we have over half our anam pool, and how A Fractal View will deactivate if we ever go below 10% of our anam threshold. A battery is just all-around better.My preferred way to deal with anam expenditure is a charm that switches around on who has advantage in combat. Ideally we'd take away the 1.5 multiplier from an opponent and get it ourselves.
Deception/Steel using the Ghastly horns and deer skin.
Using the malleability of Steel and deception to confuse the opponent with regards to what kind of technique Zhi use in a round of combat.
Maybe an Armor to level that skill up? With Chui Dao the build phase should be completed quickly.
Could possibly just use the Ghastly horns, they're metal and this point Kong Zhi should know that Chui Dao will convert some of the Deception into Steel.
While it is a cool concept, see the previous points of how we have a mitigation trait that only works if we have over half our anam pool, and how A Fractal View will deactivate if we ever go below 10% of our anam threshold. A battery is just all-around better.
(Besides which, I imagine it'd take a pretty good concept/materials to take away the advantage an opponent's technique gets while giving it to you. It'd be more plausible to do a charm that lets you change certain categories of techniques to a different kind (i.e. something that would let us use the Stallion's Enclosed Garden as a Scholar technique that can deaden someone else's senses, and thus effective against Sage techs).)
Anyway a battery may not be the weirdest or coolest thing we can make, Zhi is still a Kong and thus we can probably a charm do something else (mundane or otherwise) in addition to primarily being a battery.
This is kinda my point. Ves prefers for us to give a concept and for him to figure out how that works mechanically so specifying that kind of mechanical effect ("takes away type advantage from the enemy") first feels like a misstep. Specifying a goal like that out of the charm feels like it's likely to either be a less impressive than we expected, or that we'll get drawbacks associated with it - high anam cost to activate, or maintenance, or both.